RA demo

I remember the days when I would spend an entire day holding up the phone line for a 35MB demo....
 
... which was probably much better then 90 % of the crap that the usual games-interested peon heats through his broadband pipe nowadays.

In this case though, i'm 100 % sure that you will bite a toe of your foot out of sheer horror when you realise what *junk* you have spent 350 megs of traffic on (and yes, I'm counting in all the flatrate-users as well).

I tryed it's final version and forced me to do so for a couple of hours - if i had a pc, enough energy and nothing but this game with me on a really lone island, i would rather go and chew on the dvd (case included) rather then installing or even playing it again.

Really, don't touch it ... it has NOTHING in common with Fallout or anything "cool" and tastey, unless all you've dreamed of and wished for for the last 4-8 years was a game that works like an exact sci-fi copy of diablo 2 without the possible fun and anything deserving the name "story" mixed with the worst parts of crusader.

You can
- collect items and use them
- kill roughly 6-12 different Monsters a map, about a couple ten thousand each, on a mission that would have to be called "pretty generic" even in MMORPG-Terms
- repeat
or
- take 2 sheets of kitchen paper, put the RA dvd in between, then insert this sandwhich for about 2 seconds into a 700 Watt's and above Microwave (caution, this may smell, produce lighteffects and ultimatly frie your ass if your microwave utilises more then a thousand "watt") and then look what happens

Only the last part of the list inherents the ability to be at least some fun. You get the idea...
 
I remember downloading anime soundtracks one mp3 a day. Heh, the joy of downloading several gigabytes of junk just because I can. :D
 
...unless all you've dreamed of and wished for for the last 4-8 years was a game that works like an exact sci-fi copy of diablo 2 without the possible fun and anything deserving the name "story" mixed with the worst parts of crusader. ...
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That sounds exactly like Harbinger,
The game with the diablo gameplay and fallout atmosphere and dialogues...
In case you haven't played Harbinger,
pathetic and boring...
 
My thoughts

Talamos & Bloodlust are spot on. This thing is a bitter disappointment.

To add to the list of gripes...

  • The player character appears to be a running square.
  • The levels are very dark, which is fine if you want atmosphere but not if you actually want to know where you're going. There is NO GAMMA ADJUST to fix this! This makes Doom3 look like psychedelic.
  • No ammo for guns... they just keep goin and goin.
 
It sucks. First off, it's not PA, it's more like cyberpunk
Ablity to rip a dead mutants leg off and then somehow "attach" it instead of your own leg is pretty hardcore (read: retarded).
As has been said the levels are very dark, and also the mouse for me is clunky.
Avoid!
 
Talamos said:
- take 2 sheets of kitchen paper
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I don't mean to drift terribly off topic, but what is "kitchen paper?" I do not believe I have heard the term before.

Well, I doubt anyone was caught terribly off guard by how this game plays. The signs have been rather obvious for a while now (such as what the German players had to say).
 
Paper Towel maybe? Maybe he's German, we use that term. It's well, what it says. A roll of paper sheets generally used in the kitchen.


Also, no surprises indeed. Noone should be surprised that the game is more cyberpunk than PA either.
Actually, there is a surprise. The number of people who either just registered or rarely post but now speak up to condemn RA. Does any regular have an opinion on the demo?
 
Claw said:
Paper Towel maybe? Maybe he's German, we use that term. It's well, what it says. A roll of paper sheets generally used in the kitchen.
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Kitchen paper. That's just another name of kitchen roll. Uh... like this. I'm English & knew exactly what he meant so I don't see why he should be German :shock:

Anyway following on from that (before Odin throws rocks at me)... I'm not sure why this has been described as post-apocalyptic, the trailer shows a huge busy city. Looks OK to me!
 
You mean, like a roll of paper for the kitchen. Thanks for umm, clarifying.

And well, do I really have to explain my assumption after doing so in my previous post already? Germans sometimes translate a German expression literally, which may confuse others because it's not generally the correct way to say it in English. So that could have explained why I could understand it better than Kotario.
 
This game is so NOT post-apocalyptic, as if you read the backstory on their site, no apocalypse occurred, the world simply just got polluted and controled by corporations.

This is a "Sci-fi action CRPG", unless it a crappy Diablo 2 clone, in which case it becomes a “Sci-fi action third-person-shooter-adventure-game-clusterfuck”

EDIT: Now that I just finished the demo, that is literally the worst game I have ever played. There is no feature about this game that I can say something good about.
 
calculon00 said:
This game is so NOT post-apocalyptic, as if you read the backstory on their site, no apocalypse occurred, the world simply just got polluted and controled by corporations.
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Yes indeed. But that doesn't stop people like IGN getting it completely wrong;
http://pc.ign.com/articles/602/602892p1.html?fromint=1

We recently had the chance to play through a fair bit of the game ourselves thanks to a recent build.

I'm amazed that these post-apocalyptic games don't shock us into some sort of grassroots action as gamers.
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calculon00 said:
This game is so NOT post-apocalyptic, as if you read the backstory on their site, no apocalypse occurred, the world simply just got polluted and controled by corporations.
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That's just another kind of apocalypse... Paid in installments.

Sometimes there's a thin line between cyberpunk and postapocalptic settings.

However, seeing as
Steve Butts said:
Restricted Area should seem familiar to most gamers. Taking the best parts of games like Diablo and Fallout
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makes me wonder.

More like the worst parts.

Huh-uh-huh-uh-huh-huh, he said "butts".
 
Claw said:
You mean, like a roll of paper for the kitchen. Thanks for umm, clarifying.

And well, do I really have to explain my assumption after doing so in my previous post already? Germans sometimes translate a German expression literally, which may confuse others because it's not generally the correct way to say it in English. So that could have explained why I could understand it better than Kotario.
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If Germanlanders overhoped ever set over correctly.
 
This 'game' is more like a MOD for Diablo2 than retail product.
Crappy AI...the menu option 'borrow' from Diablo2....and a guy who looks like Deus Ex 's protagonist JC de(I forgot the full name)...Ammo doesn't exist in the game...AND THEY EVEN BORROW the image of Pulse RIFLE (from ALIENS) and rename it Plasma rifle :shock: .....
 
Let me put it this way:

The game is SO unoriginal that it even has the "ALT to see all the items on the ground" button.

Not to mention that they might as well have used prerendered sprites because the game would have looked exactly the same.
 
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