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Idiotic Game Developers

edited 2011-08-07 05:38:02 in General
CRIMINAL SCUM!
You know. The ones who NEVER seem to have EVER played their own games?

Here I am playing Mercenaries 2. And I notice a few things.

Helicopters? FUCKING UNCONTROLLABLE. Even a twitch to the joystick makes them fly in loopdieloops. And they're slower as fuck from the last game.

Boats? Have fun trying to shoot down helicopters. When you pan up the camera goes underwater. WHO THE FUCK THOUGHT THAT WAS A GOOD IDEA? You can't see ANYTHING.

Oh, and I love how the controls are all fucked up now. Like, you USED to be able to get out of a car and leave your gunner in it, or vise versa. Nope. Took that shit out, when you get out of the car EVERYONE gets out. Plus, you can't access support options on the move, nope, you have to STAND STILL! 'Caus your character lost 25 IQ points and can't multitask anymore.

Christ is the AI the everfuckingloveofit stupid. Now enemies will shoot you with rockets and kill themselves to kill you. Oh, and civillians will constantly scream and run into the street to throw themselves onto your car's speeding bumper trying to decorate it like fuckin hood ornaments.

Oh, and sniping is impossible, because enemies disappear at a certain range. WHY? The 360 is plenty enough capable of handling enemies in full line of sight.

Plus, you STILL can't reassign controls. Now I remember why I love PCs and consoles suck. Because PCs are inherently superior.

Would it KILL these morons to TRY THEIR OWN GAME. And be like, all, "Ohshit! You know I just realized, but it seems pretty stupid to have the AIs with RPGs to shoot the ground five feet in front of themselves!"

Nope.

Comments

  • I am Dr. Ned who is totally not Dr. Zed in disguise.
    Eh, Helicopters aren't really that hard to control :s
    They are only difficult if they have the winch out.

    If you hijack/buy an enemy helicopter (VNC + whatever faction you hate) you basically have free destructive reign, picking up and dropping fuel supplies on targets with no consequence as it isn't an attack, attacking outposts and then just flying upwards to get your disguise back etc etc.
  • Likes cheesecake unironically.
    Helicopters? FUCKING UNCONTROLLABLE.

    Reading that, I had to think of Ballad of Gay Tony.

    Seriously, is it even supposed to be possible to control a helicopter in GTAIV and it's "Tales"?
  • Oyeah. I played GTAIV once and tried out their helicopters.

    Moar like LOLERCOPTERS AMIRITE?

    Yeah, seriously, how the fuck are people expected to use them? My brother was amazed that I could fly through the sky scrapers without crashing every five minutes.
  • I had no trouble with the GTA IV helicopters...
  • Glaives are better.

    GTA: Where your character handles like a car, and your car handles like a pregnant eighteen wheeler.

    It can't be that hard to program good controls.

  • BeeBee
    edited 2011-08-07 21:15:54
    It's actually extremely difficult to program good controls for anything in 3D that's dependent on camera orientation.  Especially when understaffed and under unreasonable deadlines like usually happen.

    Not sure how much that applies to a high-budget title like Mercs 2, but suffice to say the programmers usually know exactly how awkward their product is, and it was still the best option they had given the circumstances.
  • "Not sure how much that applies to a high-budget title like Mercs 2, but
    suffice to say the programmers usually know exactly how awkward their
    product is, and it was still the best option they had given the
    circumstances."

    This was a sequel. They already HAD good vehicle physics. And then they fucked it up! I mean, seriously, all the vehicles in Mercs 2 handle like friggen RC cars.
  • Do you know what was at the end of Mercs 2?

    Do ya?

    Do ya?

    Oh, this is the fucking CAKE man. And this cake ain't no lie.

    The end of the game...is a bunch of fucking


    QUICKTIME EVENTS!!!



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