SIREN Blood Curse - Coming July 24th - Discussion Topic

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Looks like a PS2 port? In what way does it look like a PS2 game? If you mean in terms of story/gameplay then you are right, it's a new game based on an old PS2 title. If you mean in terms of graphics, models etc you really need to pay a visit to Specsavers ;)

I'm sorry, I forgot this was a PS3 title. I shouldn't criticize...

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The demo is up for public download, draw your own conclusions.

I love when people say things look like a PS2 game when they clearly do not.

Do me a favor, go watch a youtube video of Slient Hill on the PS2. Or Resident Evil on the PS2, or better yet, Siren on the PS2.

Then watch a video of and/or play this game.

Then come back and tell me it looks like a PS2 game.

And FTR, I played the demo, and just purchased it, so that is my own conclusion. It does not look like a PS2 game.

So anyway, I did indeed buy the first 4 episodes (I just know my time is limited for gaming so that is why I did it, plus my wife suggested I should LOL). Just never got a chance to get to deep into it all, the Pixel Junk Eden demo completely distracted me for 1.5 hours, that is a definite must have.

I have to warn people, the controls are a bit clunky, but once you get pass them, it is a pretty damn enjoyable game, and definitely has a very classic horror survival feel to me, and since I always loved this genre, it made sense to me.

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I love when people say things look like a PS2 game when they clearly do not.

Do me a favor, go watch a youtube video of Slient Hill on the PS2. Or Resident Evil on the PS2, or better yet, Siren on the PS2.

Then watch a video of and/or play this game.

Then come back and tell me it looks like a PS2 game.

And FTR, I played the demo, and just purchased it, so that is my own conclusion. It does not look like a PS2 game.

So anyway, I did indeed buy the first 4 episodes (I just know my time is limited for gaming so that is why I did it, plus my wife suggested I should LOL). Just never got a chance to get to deep into it all, the Pixel Junk Eden demo completely distracted me for 1.5 hours, that is a definite must have.

I have to warn people, the controls are a bit clunky, but once you get pass them, it is a pretty damn enjoyable game, and definitely has a very classic horror survival feel to me, and since I always loved this genre, it made sense to me.

Seems this goes hand in hand with classic survival horror games :laugh:

Looking forward to more impressions/mini review. I'm pretty skint just now, but I do plan on ending up buying this.

I gotta check out PixelJunk Eden as well, it's been getting rave reviews (Y)

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I love when people say things look like a PS2 game when they clearly do not.

Do me a favor, go watch a youtube video of Slient Hill on the PS2. Or Resident Evil on the PS2, or better yet, Siren on the PS2.

Then watch a video of and/or play this game.

Then come back and tell me it looks like a PS2 game.

And FTR, I played the demo, and just purchased it, so that is my own conclusion. It does not look like a PS2 game.

So anyway, I did indeed buy the first 4 episodes (I just know my time is limited for gaming so that is why I did it, plus my wife suggested I should LOL). Just never got a chance to get to deep into it all, the Pixel Junk Eden demo completely distracted me for 1.5 hours, that is a definite must have.

I have to warn people, the controls are a bit clunky, but once you get pass them, it is a pretty damn enjoyable game, and definitely has a very classic horror survival feel to me, and since I always loved this genre, it made sense to me.

DL, I didn't say it looked like a PS2 game, I said it looked like a PS2 port, and I even asked if it was, because I had never played this game before.

After playing the demo, my personal feeling was "This wasn't designed for the PS3 from the ground up". Clunky animations, muddy textures, etc. It could be so much better when it comes to feeling the environment around you.

The background music helps the ambiance a lot, although a bit overused is some parts.

As for the controls, I didn't understand why we had to press the dpad once to be able to use the dpad's function... I mean, I want to turn the flash light off, I should just press up once, and not twice, but besides that controls were fine.

So, to sum it up again, like I did in my first post, I liked the game, it's definitely my genre, but I still feel it's a port, not a true PS3 game from the ground up.

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Fair enough. :yes:

I misinterpreted what you said as it looked like a PS2 game, so now I hear what you are saying. I don't necessarily agree, but all valid points.

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I'm playing it now, I'm confused as to what are chapters and episodes so if someone can explain it I'll be grateful. :)

The game is starting to freak me out, monsters coming out of nowhere etc but it does a good job of explaining how to do everything.

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Siren Blood Curse: Adding People On MSN?

It seems if you bought the recent PSN game, Siren: Blood curse, and are using your hotmail account as your PSN email, a Siren bot adds you on MSN not long after purchase, and tells you your dead along with other eery messages, it seems not even blocking works.

The Bots address is [email protected]

:|

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I'm playing it now, I'm confused as to what are chapters and episodes so if someone can explain it I'll be grateful. :)

The game is starting to freak me out, monsters coming out of nowhere etc but it does a good job of explaining how to do everything.

I think I know why you are confused, but I am a bit confused myself. LOL

Okay, from my understanding, they sold the game in 3 chapters, Chapter 1 containing Episodes 1-4, Chapter 2 containing Episodes 5-8, and Chapter 3 containing Episodes 9-12. Or you could just buy the entire game with all Twelve Episodes.

Now to confuse things even more, the Episodes also have their Own Chapters. LOL I just played Episode 1 and it had Chapter 1 in it?

So I think maybe something was lost in translation, because they use the term Chapter twice for two pretty different things. Chapter 1 contains Episode 1, and Episode 1 contains Chapter 1. :wacko:

So I have two things to say after just completing Episode 1.

This game is incredibly scary, and I do not scare easy (Horror movies, etc., are my favorite).

It was slightly past midnight when I started playing it, my wife was upstairs sleeping, all lights were out, and I was extremely creeped out. Seriously. They did an excellent job with the scare factor. My thumbs up there.

I also hope further Episodes are longer in length. I got through the first episode in 22 minutes. Actually though I did the demo and that was longer and I believe that is Episode 2, so hopefully this was the shortest Episode.

So I think I am going to go scare the **** out of myself again and play Episode 02.

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Gah DL, I want to be playing it now. It's just sat there installed on my PS3 knowing I have no way of getting to it!

One thing I've now decided is that the PS3 should have a 'Multiple Install' option, like it has Multiple Copy. Being honest, if I'm installing about 9 gig of programs I'd rather set and forget, rather than have to sit around waiting for each of the 12 parts to install.

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Gah DL, I want to be playing it now. It's just sat there installed on my PS3 knowing I have no way of getting to it!

One thing I've now decided is that the PS3 should have a 'Multiple Install' option, like it has Multiple Copy. Being honest, if I'm installing about 9 gig of programs I'd rather set and forget, rather than have to sit around waiting for each of the 12 parts to install.

Sorry to hear about your monitor. Hope it all gets sorted out, and quickly.

That would be an absolutely fantastic option. No question about it. What I did for the First 4 Episodes is downloaded Episode 01, Installed it, but Episode 02 was in the background. I get great speeds with my downloads so by the time one Epsiode was finished installing, the next one was already downloaded, so I just did them all in a row. Truth is though I did have to sit there doing nothing while it installed.

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