22nd March 2013, 7:13 PM
Very good stuff. I've upped my ante to $50 tier. I'm trying to stay all digital to cut down their costs in fulfilling tier rewards.
This should be a very fun game. So many games are trying to tack on multiplayer where none is really needed lately. Resident Evil 5 just didn't stack up to Resident Evil 4. Sure the coop was fun, but the game lacked the "horror" aspect. If I want to kill zombies with friends, there are plenty of games I can do that with that aren't intended to be true horror. In the same way Dead Space 3 seemed to have cooperative play mandated by higher ups. Bless them, Visceral tried very hard to get it to work. They even introduced some interesting asynchronous hallucinations to really mix things up a bit between both sides of a coop game. The game is overall well done, but it lacks a lot of the tense horror in favor of raw run and gun action. Further, a single player game is "locked away" from a lot of content that was designed exclusively for the coop mode.
Torment is having every last bit of attention payed entirely to a solo experience, and that solo experience will be better for it.
This should be a very fun game. So many games are trying to tack on multiplayer where none is really needed lately. Resident Evil 5 just didn't stack up to Resident Evil 4. Sure the coop was fun, but the game lacked the "horror" aspect. If I want to kill zombies with friends, there are plenty of games I can do that with that aren't intended to be true horror. In the same way Dead Space 3 seemed to have cooperative play mandated by higher ups. Bless them, Visceral tried very hard to get it to work. They even introduced some interesting asynchronous hallucinations to really mix things up a bit between both sides of a coop game. The game is overall well done, but it lacks a lot of the tense horror in favor of raw run and gun action. Further, a single player game is "locked away" from a lot of content that was designed exclusively for the coop mode.
Torment is having every last bit of attention payed entirely to a solo experience, and that solo experience will be better for it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)