kelbear

Got in yesterday. The game is freaking amazing. I cannot wait for this game to go live so I can play with my friends. I am so freaking in.

Didn't play MNC, had no interest in MOBAs, loving SMNC.

At least with this franchise, the death of my favorite character doesn't mean he can't be in the sequel...

They could easily reverse that zombification if they wanted to.

I feel like the first 2 games put more emphasis on the side characters. With all of the crazy shit in Saints Row games, it's easy to forget that there's some insane story tying it at all together, but even with all the madness, it still mattered.

Part of why I enjoy SR games so much is that there's a logic to that universe. The internal logic of that universe diffuses the madness so that important events can still happen in that world. You still had camaraderie and loyalty (I enjoyed the impromptu singing in the car in SR3 at least), and it really sucked when your named characters died in SR1 and SR2.

They kind of hollowed out Shaundi's personality without replacing it in SR3, and aside from her, what's left to connect the protagonist to prior events? Seeing the character's friends on the billboards is nice but it just emphasizes how little they matter now compared to the earlier games.

It stands out to me because there's nothing else I could fault them on in this game. Everything else was just dynamite and better than before.

(SPOILERS)

And I was so pissed that the main character's best friend actually died in the intro. I played through the whole game expecting him to come swimming naked out of the sea with a necklace of morningstar ears dangling from his chest and a head on a spear. I could hardly believe that was the way they chose to send off the most iconic character of the franchise.

I had 1 occassion where I landed on a helipad with a VTOL and spawned a different VTOL and I blew up. No biggie, just reloaded.

Twice, I died but I didn't ragdoll properly, just got stuck in the standing animation instead.

I have a weird run of luck here, SR 1-3 were effectively bug free for me even though I heard the first 2 had plenty.

1. Deep Space Nine - Because I enjoy multiple episode plot arcs.

2. TNG - Because duh, it's awesome. It's only #2 because it had very few plot arcs.

3. TOS - Because it's so campy and /optimistic/. I love the "bright future" that the star trek universe paints for the human race as opposed to modern cynicism. TOS was just so...innocent (relatively speaking of course).

@Veektarius said:

The expression is 'with bated breath' with bated meaning held, as in, to abate. BF3's a good game. Carry on.

I did not know this. I learned something here, thanks!

Batman would easily beat Superman with his power of retroactive continuity. Anytime Batman needs to do anything, ever, he has /already/ done everything needed to do that thing.

Need to translate ancient mayan script? Batman already learned that shit in his spare time while fighting crime all night, and being Bruce wayne all day. He has magic time in between day and night during which he does everything and anything.

By the time Batman fights Superman, Batman is holding the infinity gauntlet on one hand, a rainbow of lantern rings on the other hand, and has mastered all forms of magic (and remember, superman has no protection against magic). Superman is toast before he even shows up, because Batman has /already won/. Tony stark also cheats like this too. Making a goddamn anti-Spiderman device "just in case". Come on.

@Herocide said:

Let me go to the menu during killcams.

This. This. This. A million times this.

No, I haven't seen any abuse of dolphin diving or bunnyhopping. Diving is still helpful as a defensive manuever when fired on from a distance, but only as a defensive manuever while you get your bearings.

I'm mostly enjoying this game. Good graphics, great sound, interface is a pile of shit, same gameplay I expected from Battlefield games, but with a little more survivability from the abundance of and uneven terrain in the game.

The interface issues:

1) Can't do anything when you're dead but stare uselessly behind the guy that killed you. Can't change squads. Can't look at the map for team progress. Can't choose spawns. Can't change loadout. Basically, you can't do any of the things that you'd normally be doing while you're dead. Instead it just wastes your time.

2) Terrible display of information. Objective marker and capture progress look the same, so when you're moving around at the edge of the capture zone to find the ideal cover, the game makes it as hard as possible to tell if you're in the capture zone or not. Just use a damn bar like every other game.

3) No interaction with multiplayer interfaces inside the game. You need to alt-tab out which unloads the game from your memory and then tab back in. It's idiotic. The battlelog should be launched from the in-game browser, not the other way around. This is designed to maximize loading time and it's asinine.

4) Terrible map. The useful map is located on the escape key which locks you in place so that you can't travel while checking the map. The minimap and the map key don't give enough information. You need to go to the ESC map or just spin around in 360 to find the closest objective

5) Poor objective labeling on the maps.

6) No voice chat. On PC? You've got to be kidding me. It's 2011 FFS.

They burned out their budget on pretty graphics and great sound. Great maps. Same gameplay design they've always had. But they've even chopped out polish elements they've already implemented in BF2, and they've sacrificed too much utility in pursuit of having a "pretty" interface with less information. But it's to be expected, battlefield games have always been flawed gems, and BF3 is keeping up with this tradition.

Single player is alright. Not what I came for, but it's nice that it's there.