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This Is Outriders 101 trailer
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Other than co-developing some of the PvE stuff of Fortnite back in the day, they have never made a game with jumping.
This seems weird.
"Paying full price for a full game that is not a GAAS seems courageous."
Unless 60euros is higher than full price?
Alternatively you could just give demo a spin and get idea about what core gameplay is?
They play it a little too straight in the intro and most of the subsequent stuff for me to really think they're deliberately satirizing the genre.
If I remember right mission that you were referring to in original post that particular cutscene same time was very intentionally set up to have that dark humor moment with officer getting sniped. At least to me it came across as very intentional setup.
Also protagonist isn't particularly shooting it straight with the mood, a lot comedical quips etc. in face of what otherwise would be serious situations.
That moment being darkly comedic and it being satire are kind of different things, I feel.
Man theres just something about this game armor and guns that annoys me like my eyes doesnt know where to settle. Kinda like those ai created images that play with your brain.That third armor tho
I never had the impression they're doing satire, no, they try too hard with their story and the world building because they want you to take it seriously, and so far its the worst part of the game cause i sure dont care about any of all that
Borderlands this ain't
Borderlands this ain't
I feel like nuance is being completely loss in the conversation.
Yes, there are parts of the story they want you to take seriously. However there are plenty of moments that are meant to poke fun at it as well.
This isn't a zero sum game. You can have aspects of both.
Your MC saving a person and then getting annoyed that their one-liner they've been practicing in their head was ruined isn't the game trying to be serious.
Lord Seth explaining what he's trying to do is playing it straight and trying to be serious.
Same. The story and setting were my only downsides to the demo but never completely outweighed the positives. It's definitely not my cup of tea in that regard. I'm tempted but with no one I know to play with, its a hard sell for full price. Once it was all "wooo were all crazy now, mad max and football gear and leather baby, WOOOOOOO ANARCHY LIKE THAT CLOWN GUY!!! WOOOO" I almost instantly turned it off. I'm always down for a looter game, but ehhhhhhhhhh.
Really have not been more on the fence about a game in ages.
I dunno. Outriders reminds me most of something like Borderlands, which is quite a popular franchise (the third game sold like eight million copies in a few months) and that's definitely not a game as a service.
Obviously it will get few to no direct sales on Xbox, but I think it'll do fine on PC and Playstation. We haven't had a solid third person shooter for a while, the superpowers are legitimately fun and it has both co-op and crossplay.
It also helps that the protagonist is hilarious.
The third one is messing with my mind. The cut of the leg armor makes it look like the character has bowed knees, but then they don't. It's like an optical illusion and I legit can't sort it out hahaThat third armor tho
Finished the demo last night, had way more fun than I thought I would have. Definitely going to be there day 1 (of course, Gamepass makes this an easy decision).
Oh wait, yeah, Painkiller did.
Bulletstorm did not have any jumping.
Wild. It's one of those things looking back that sounds crazy.
I think the mystery is honestly legit interesting.
Also I think Lord Seth has potential. Dude is an asshole and has a god-complex but is seemingly aware enough of "bigger bads" to not go all crazy on the good guys. I'm interested to see where that goes.
Wherever it goes, my MC is gonna be all "Why do I even bother?" XD
The game's story isn't particularly a draw for me but that's fine. It tends to be hard to wrap a story in the context of looters games which really only need a small incentive to string together battlegrounds for nearly endless waves of enemies. Bulletstorm had a surprisingly fun and engaging story. But that same tone probably hews a little too close to Borderlands for them to have tried it here. The story here seems completely serviceable but didn't especially motivate me during the demo. I actually liked it a bit more pre-anamoly as it reminded me a little of mass effect andromeda or something.
But like I said, story is always secondary for me in this genre. I played the campaign of Destiny 2 when that initially came out and I hated it. (I'm generally not a fan of destiny period) I never knew what was going on or cared one lick about any of it. So I doubt it could be any worse than that.
But like I said, story is always secondary for me in this genre. I played the campaign of Destiny 2 when that initially came out and I hated it. (I'm generally not a fan of destiny period) I never knew what was going on or cared one lick about any of it. So I doubt it could be any worse than that.
I don't want to judge the game as a whole just with the demo but "hey its that guy who was polish" isn't amazing character development either
Mainly talking about the player, and anything is better than completely mute, and occasionally making a face when someone mentions the darkness is coming.
And vs borderlands, Shira and Jakub already consider the player more of an entity than any NPC considers a BL3 character to be one. In my eyes anyway.
This game has one of the worst cover systems I have ever come in contact with. There is a 50% chance that your character will just stand there like a dummy and not go into cover when pressing the cover button. I'm not shitting you.
I'm on PC with a controller (dual sense).
Unreal.
I'm on PC with a controller (dual sense).
Unreal.
You're not meant to be in cover tho.
I only ever used the cover in the tutorial, when you have to.
I've wondered that myself.
Obviously it's not great that there's the option and (as you say) it's not working consistently, but it's honestly not a cover shooter.
While it's best not to be in cover given the way you get health back, this is something the devs have said they aim to have fixed in the full release. We'll see if it's true in about a week.
We don't know that yet.
In the demo, the cover is basically useless, yeah. It's all about going in, and starting your dps cycle.
But we don't know yet how things will work in the highest tiers. If we need to cover during the hardest content, and that the cover stays really bad & clunky like it is right now... it will suck. Big time.
That could become an issue, but same time game is designed around being aggressive and in the face of the enemy at all times. All classes have healing mechanics build around aggression instead of passive concrete block hugging. That wont 180 on its head all of sudden in end game content.
There was also that "Pillars of Outriders" type of trailer that I saw few weeks ago which also underlined it hard that you are supposed to be get into enemies faces.
It is annoying how since TF2 no one has been able to come up with an "engineer" that isn't just some variant on having a turret
They don't own an Xbox sadly.
Hell, they even mock me cause i got one.
Aiming and firing felt just as bad to me honestly. Bounced off the demo real quick, especially after playing Destiny2 and Division 2 on my PS5.
Yes and i hope you're correct, but that doesn't change the fact that they added a mechanic that is clunky as fuck. If it's useless, they should remove it. But leaving something that bad in a game isn't a good idea at all. We'll see how it is at launch anyway.
Edit : And the game would be way better in terms of movement if the run/cover was just like in Gears, with cancels and wall bouncing. That's a real missed opportunity for a supposed "useless" mechanic.
This game has an awkward build up and intro but is a lot of fun. I enjoy the Trickster but I think the Pyro is probably better suited for my style.
The shooting is rough, but cool downs come up so fast I don't care.
It satisfies that Group Em and Nuke Em AoE feeling I enjoy from years of tanking and DPSing.
I enjoyed every class once I capped the demo and found some mods. I enjoyed seeing my power scale while farming the repeatable quests. Helped paint a picture of the full experience.
It satisfies that Group Em and Nuke Em AoE feeling I enjoy from years of tanking and DPSing.
I enjoyed every class once I capped the demo and found some mods. I enjoyed seeing my power scale while farming the repeatable quests. Helped paint a picture of the full experience.
The writing/characters in the demo for Outriders were laughably bad. I'm happy for you that you like the game, and I think generally the combat is pretty fun, but there was not a single character/quest/line of dialogue in the demo that was better than mediocre. The story set-up is also nothing to write home about. I get the feeling you haven't played Destiny in years because people who think Destiny doesn't have a good story/characters anymore are usually the ones who don't actually play it regularly. It has long since had great world building, lore, and characters. All of which Outriders does not have going for it so far if the demo is any indication.
I played the Destiny 2 campaign and thought it was awful. If the story improves that's cool but what I played gave me zero desire to further explore that universe or invest any thought in it. That's cool if others feel differently however.
Yeah Destiny 2 campaign was horseshit. To see it being held up as a shining example of good narrative is quite bizarre.