Massiveterra Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 So I did not think this deserved it's own topic, even though this thread is almost a year old (from March 2009) but since no one has really been talking about this game I did not bother to make a new thread and figured I would just post in this one... <b>So has anyone else actually checked this game out?</b> Myself an massiveterra actually both rented it through Gamefly, and we had every intention of actually playing it, but last night we decided it was not worth the effort, thanks to one of the worst checkpoint systems I have possibly ever seen in gaming history, and I have definitely seen some awful ones. What truly makes their checkpoint system disastrous is the fact that for whatever god forsaken reason, some cut scenes cannot be skipped no matter what. So imagine you come across a boss in the game. The checkpoint before this boss first has you battle a little set of guys. Once you get through this little set of guys, you come across a boss, who then has about a 20-30 second cut scene before you can fight him that cannot be skipped. Usually not that big of a deal, but this boss also takes numerous attempts, lots of trial and error, to beat him. So because we could not figure out what we needed to do the first few times around, what wound up being maybe 10 minutes of actual game-play wound up being upwards of 45 minutes of absolute frustration thanks to the checkpoint system and cut scene that could not be skipped. We never beat the boss, and we both decided since it was still fairly early on in the game, that we had seen enough, and it was time to send the game back. Sure, perhaps we are just old men who suck at games and that is our own fault. But lets take a game like Gears Of War, which Army Of Two is obviously trying to mimic, I never once felt in Gears something was to challenging or frustrating that I was just going to give up on it. Thing is they definitely made a better game than the first one. It actually is one of the better looking console games out there, at times it looks really damn good, and they refined practically every mechanic in the game and improved upon the original game in pretty much every way. Thanks to an archaic checkpoint and cut scene system, we decided it was not even worth our time. So just wanted to say it is a shame, as this game had some potential. Oh well here is looking forward to clearing a queue spot by sending it back, might even get No More Heroes 2 for the Wii now since I have an open slot. I really wanted to give this game a chance. And the beginning parts of the game were really awesome and creative. While we played through the first or so hour of the game, I really didn't know why it received so many bad reviews because it was fun. I enjoyed the customizations, mechanics, and coop play, as well as the visuals. The checkpoint system really disappointed me. I cannot believe someone would put that in the design of their game. I have no clue why they would even choose to do that. I was really looking forward to completing the game, but right now all I can think about is sending the game back. Bring on Mass Effect 2! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cupcakes Posted January 22, 2010 Share Posted January 22, 2010 I started to play it with my boyfriend but haven't gone back to it yet. It's hard to get me to play other games as it is for just campaign but this was.. okay. I've never been huge on 3rd person in the first place so that's always an adjustment coming from 1st person playing. I've only gone through maybe 45 minutes worth of gameplay thus far and it's already boring to me... I'm going to try to stick through it though because I wanted to at least get some achievements for it completed. I doubt I'll bother with it once he returns it though, since we just rented two copies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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