I did my laundry this morning so I didn\'t get the chance to play it. I have nothing to do when I get off tomorrow so expect my verdict then.
Unfortunately, they aren\'t the only ones I\'ve heard say the game is flat out terrible, so moral is going to be low when I do play it. Like I said before, I wasn\'t expecting a good story, I just want it to play well, which sadly I keep hearing it doesn\'t.
But, I\'ll see for myself tomorrow.
Alright, here\'s my verdict on AMY so far.
It\'s not that bad. The game looks good for what it is, but one thing sticks out as good, the sound. They but a lot of effort into the sounds in the game. From glass cracking under your feet as you step on it, to the eerie sounds the zombies make. It all sounds great. But the voice acting is a bit awkward at times.
I completed the trial, purchased it and cut my 360 off, so I don\'t have much experience with it, but the controls are really hit and miss. moving around by yourself is painless for the most part. Amy\'s caretaker (I forgot her name already) gets really blocky when she runs. She can\'t make sharp turns, and it only gets worse if you\'re holding Amy\'s hand.
Combat is just a head scratcher. I know they could have come up with something better than what\'s there. I hate to say it, but it\'s horrible. You attack in an awkward fashion and maybe you\'ll hit what you\'re swinging at, it\'s a 50/50 chance most times. Dodging is just as bad as you can only do a quick step back, and so far combat has been in fairly close spaces, so I found myself with my back against a wall hoping I kill this zombie before it kills me.
Health regenerates very slowly when Amy isn\'t near you. I actually find that to be a plus, since it adds to the sense of panic that the game tries to setup. I\'m not too familiar with the survivor horror genre, so I\'m not the best judge at what game gets the panic right or not, but I was uneasy more often than not while I was playing the trial. I imagine I\'ll get used to it soon though.
The game doesn\'t do you any favors by pointing you in the right direction. It points you in the general direction, but it kills the mode when you\'re running around trying to figure out what to do next. And the one puzzle I came across in the trial was just random and unnecessary.
Having Amy follow you around isn\'t as much of a hassle as I thought it was going to be, I just wish you could change how you hold Amy\'s hand. Instead of constantly holding the RB, I wish you could hit it once to hold her hand, and again to let it go. Which you very well could do, I didn\'t poke around the settings too much.
To add to the control problems, there are unused buttons on the controller, but button combinations that require you to hold one button and press one of the unused buttons. I don\'t get why they didn\'t just assign that command to the unused button. But again, you may be able to customize the controls. I\'ll get back to you on that sometime soon.
I know it sounds mostly bad, but there are some good things about it. Right now the story is a more interesting than I thought it would be. The game sounds great. It looks good for a budget download title. You get alot for the asking price, 5 Chapters totaling 1.55GB worth of game, for $10.
It\'s not a great game. I just barely find it good. But it\'s something different and it does enough right to make you forget a bit about what\'s wrong. So far, I give it a 6/10.
Since I just started, that number could go up, or it could go down. \'ll chime back in once I beat the game, and give you an update.
ChaosRandom
Member
Well thanks for the mini review. I think I will pass however. I just dont have the space for games that arent kick ass. And I\'m not deleting stuff for Amy. I\'m dissappoionted though. I thought it was gonna be awesome. Sounds like that guy from IGN may have been a little too harsh?
He really was. I will say at the worst, AMY scores a 4/10. And that\'s if you refuse to even acknowledge the game gets anything right. Anything less than that I really feel is done out of spite. AMY has so much potential, that the developers just couldn\'t make the most of, so I guess I can understand that pissing a few people off.
Freelance
Member
One of my online friends got it for me for Christmas and I got the DLC. It\'s actually labelled under the term \'Roguelike\' which are known for having ASCII characters for graphics and being very hard. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon games are also Roguelikes with graphics. Usually these games are very confusing to understand but DoD is very simplified and even has a skill tree.
Anyway it\'s pretty fun.
It essentially is. Based on reviews, it\'s more impressive visually than technically. But it still plays well enough to warrant it being stuck in the good game pile.
Hopefully it gets stuck in my good game pile.
I remember the demo being decent, it just wasn\'t decent enough to keep it on my radar at the time.
I really feel bad for VectorCell. They went from having one of of the most anticipated downloadable titles ever, to the world bashing them. I stay far far away from Facebook, but after seeing all the hate for AMY in various places online, I had to check out AMY\'s Facebook page to see what was being said.
They are taking it hard in a place you don\'t want to take it, you take your pick where that is. It\'s one thing when large groups of people hate large developers like Square Enix, EA, etc, but it\'s a different thing when they hate small developers. Something like this could ruin those guys.
I wouldn\'t care enough to even feel bad for them if the game was really as bad as most are claiming, but it isn\'t. It\'s not great and it\'s not all that good either. But that doesn\'t stop Madden or CoD from selling millions of copies. I guess that\'s why this flak seems so ridiculous to me. A game so not special, is being treated like the black plague.
ChaosRandom
Member
Well I picked up a copy of Tactics Ogre for 10 bucks. Around here its very hard to find new. If yall see any, you should grab them up and get them rice matched at Walmart or somewhere. I\'m not gonna open mine. I\'ll pick it up digitally when the price hits 10 bucks on PSN though. Now if Gods Eater would just hit 10 bucks, me and O would be set.
I remember talking about Tony Hawk games in another thread but I can\'t remember which one. But anyway... For those who don\'t know by now and liked the pre skateboard controller thingy Tony Hawk games, they are rebooting the series with Tony Hawk\'s Pro Skater HD.
It\'s going to be a download title (wish it had a physical release too), and is a HD redo of levels from the first 2 games. They used the actual game codes from the original games, so everything is exactly where is was in the old games. The only difference is all the gameplay mechanics before Ride remain. So manuals and what not are all there. Not sure about Nail The Trick from Project 8 though.
I\'m pretty excited to get to play some ol\' school Tony Hawk. I was a beast at H.O.R.S.E. because I would just string together random sh*t that I couldn\'t even do again, let alone whoever I was playing against!
Here\'s the VGA trailer for it.
I just beat it. I haven\'t been able to blow a day beating a game in a long time, and I\'m glad it was this one. The ending was typical of the type of story the game told, but it was so well done. I\'m glad I made the decision to buy it.
I think I\'ll pick up the DLC. I owe Pigsy one.
Also apparently in Uncharted 3 while playing Split-screen with 3D you can only see your own screen. The end of screen watching/cheating is nigh! ;)
confuletlyf
Member
that\\\'s a special tv Balrog, the playstation 3D display. It\'s called SimulView.
The official playstation blog has a list. I don\'t trust wiki anymore. The assassin\'s creed one almost bricked my last laptop, some kinda scam windows security update. I didn\'t accept it but couldn\'t remove it.
I\'ve started a 3D thread by the way.
@confultyf
Thanks for the clarification. If I was going to get a 3D TV that would be the one I get.
What genre? I have a few suggestions...
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