Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Fri Aug 03, 2012 12:07 pm  

Gandy wrote:

Tbh I wasn't expecting you to mention the positive things the "community" have said about the demo. Only the negatives about PES, as usual!

You've clearly not read what I put as none of it is negative. A minor improvement on 12 is the general opinion, where is the negativity in saying that? As a one line summary it's accurate.

You are of course entitled to a preference of PES over FIFA (It's something I've suggested Roddy does to prevent his annual rant about how horrible FIFA is), but there is no foundation to the suggestion that Pro Evo is better than FIFA currently. As has been mentioned recently on here, PES has been lacking since PES6 on the PS2. It's never stepped up to this generation, the majority of it's fans will admit that and the developers recently admitted it as well, stating that they see the adoption of the 'Fox Engine' for the next PES game, which will apparently be for next-gen consoles, as being key. They themselves view the old engine used in this generation of games as the reason they fell so far behind.

They have recently changed the lead developer and the new guy said ""What we are trying to do is we are going to win back the crown when it comes to the next generation, that's what we want to do, and to do this we need to have a new engine. That's what we think.". Having played the demo it's clear PES13 is not significantly better than 12 and it would appear that their focus is further down the track and that they intend to get back into the race by launching with a better game than EA do when the new consoles come out.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Mon Aug 13, 2012 12:58 pm  

We got the Olympics game last week despite some ropey review scores. We've had an absolute riot on it. It's good because it's not just button mashing, you have to time it as well. In the 100m for example, rather than just mashing the buttons, you have to keep a speed bar between two lines, go below and it it goes yellow and you slow down, go above and it goes red and your athlete's timing is off and they stumble etc. It sounds easy, but maintaining the perfect pace over the 200m is just so, so challenging.

The other events are varied, the likes of javelin, shot put, long jump are your usual speed then angle based affairs and are great. Archery is really good, swimming is too, done with the sticks as your arms and all about timing. There is only really diving that is a mess on it. It's one of those games that would be really, really dull in single player and will have a short life span, but in multiplayer with your mates or family, it's a fantastic laugh. Most of our games end up with the winner standing up, pointing at the screen and reading out their time/score and the others collapsing back into the couch in disappointment.

Graphically it's fantastic as well, and credit to them for capturing the atmosphere and look of the games, despite them obviously having to develop it months in advance.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Mon Aug 13, 2012 7:12 pm  

Your house sounds perfect for a Wii Saddened, why the hate?

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Mon Aug 13, 2012 8:46 pm  

Roddy B wrote:

Your house sounds perfect for a Wii Saddened, why the hate?

The Olympics game is similar to the Wii in that no doubt it will be short lived, now the games are over it'll no doubt drift away and not return until the kids see athletics on the TV sometime in the future, or a post-pub game when everyone is bored of FIFA. Well worth the £25 we paid for it though, when you consider it's been played more than our Wii was and that cost £150+.

I just think the Wii was the most cynical marketing coup since the iphone. It's a device that was technologically inferior to the other consoles, it's games were vastly inferior, they had no depth at all just a gimmick that lasted as long as the adverts Nintendo spammed TV with, and yet almost every household in the world were roped into buying one. Superb from a business perspective, but utterly terrible as the gaming device it was meant to be. I waited years for someone to show me a game genuinely worth owning, but they never managed it.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Thu Aug 16, 2012 11:53 am  

Anyone who likes 3rd person shooters, or shooters in general should give Binary Domain a try. One of the best games I've played this year. It's by the guy behind the Yakuza games and Sega.

Great Blade Runner inspired story, great boss fights, great cut scenes and solid gameplay.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Thu Aug 16, 2012 4:37 pm  

The Olympics game is alright for an hour. It has the most annoying commentator

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Fri Aug 17, 2012 8:32 pm  

FIFA is for kids with no skill. Pes is for pros. Speaking of kids, I decided to take a break from proper gaming (eve online) and play some kiddy gaming (Xbox). I read the reviews for dead space 2 and they were fantastic. I'm on chapter 3 and all I have done so far is enter a room, kill a monster, rinse and repeat. I know console games are dumbed down for the 99% of the player base (cretins) but dear god this is just terrible. Even wow is more interesting than this

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:51 pm  

Saint77777 wrote:

FIFA is for kids with no skill. Pes is for pros. Speaking of kids, I decided to take a break from proper gaming (eve online) and play some kiddy gaming (Xbox). I read the reviews for dead space 2 and they were fantastic. I'm on chapter 3 and all I have done so far is enter a room, kill a monster, rinse and repeat. I know console games are dumbed down for the 99% of the player base (cretins) but dear god this is just terrible. Even wow is more interesting than this

What did you set out to achieve with this post exactly? Just to insult as many people as you possibly could?

FIFA has far more depth than the current PES, your point was valid in 2005 though no doubt. Your point about console gamers is very last century as well, PC gaming is just very geeky now. You might want to reassess your opinion as the near future will see cross platform gaming on Xbox Live as the main way to play on PC.

But you know what I agree with you on Dead Space, it's one of those franchises that just didn't grab me at all. I played through the first one and found it horrible to play.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:53 pm  

Seen a couple of videos of the FIFA 13 demo. Looks terrible and samey, the person that uploaded the video was blabbing on about the first touch being different, the defending being different and the producers alleging that the fitness will now actually have an effect on the match. I've heard this drivel every year and it always plays the same, the only thing that ever changes is the speed/strength balancing.

Re: PS, Xbox, Wii, PC and other Gaming #10 : Fri Aug 17, 2012 9:59 pm  

Played the PES demo, really don't see what Saddened was on about - it blows FIFA out of the water in just about every important area for a Football game.