Quick Look: EX: Infinity Blade II

The combat looks a bit boring.

Go!

I met Donald Mustard once. He is sort of an awkward guy.

Ooh, the first one is responsible for many of my battery shortages. Interested!

Content!

Ring of Ice and Fire? George Martin reference?

Love the enemy design, wish this was a full fledged game. Hopefully they make a game with full controls on Vita.

I might get this now, it looks more fleshed out.

Looks like some good improvements were made.

Demon's/Dark Souls + Point & Click = Infinity Blade

I love having that brutal difficulty on the go!

the first game got old after a few hours but dual wielding, twohanding and the whole multiplayer should mix things up nicely

@Inks: It looks slow sorta like how Demon's/ Dark Souls look like a plain hack and slack game. There is more to it then what you see on the surface. If you never tried the first one, you should! I believe it is fairly cheap now.

This game need blood and gore!!! and a metal soundtrack!!!! \m/

Haahahahah, I didn't know you could stab someone with a mace.

all of the designs are pretty awesome. I really wouldn't mind an XBLA version with more control.

Looking awesome! I still can't beat Zero Mech :(

@Inks said:

The combat looks a bit boring.

He did skillfully parry that question about changes to the combat system saying they added a lot more customization - which basically meant the combat is still left, right guard break, swipe like crazy.

prices increase each bloodline.

Realistic Economics in an iphone game. Pretty rad!

I would love to hear more about the art direction. How did they come up with all of those amazing weapon, shield, and HELMET designs?

@jorbear said:

I met Donald Mustard once. He is sort of an awkward guy.

He sounds like it.

I got so much into parrying in the last game that I forgot entirely about shield blocking, so the dual-wielding is a nice addition.

I'll get this right away when it comes out. Even if it's good for about 1 week of obsession and then nothing, like the last one, I'm down for that. Either way I'm probably funding Shadow Complex 2 somehow, or at least I like to think so.

Oh well, quick looks always fun

@spineofsnow said:

I would love to hear more about the art direction. How did they come up with all of those amazing weapon, shield, and HELMET designs?

some are very similar to what you see in Gears of War, imagine they shared some of the same team.

Couldn't care less about this tbh. When will we get Shadow Complex 2?

Did they ever address their political controversy? Or at least why they were deleting board threads calling them out about it?? No?

I'll just continue to ignore these guys, then.

This looks great. Pity, I'll probably never play it :( Maybe some kind of 3DS version?

Hand helds....

At least there's some Will Smith!

10:10

Excellent kick to the genital region.

@Psyael said:

Did they ever address their political controversy? Or at least why they were deleting board threads calling them out about it?? No?

I'll just continue to ignore these guys, then.

What happened?

Yes, Chair-guy, slot machines are fun.

This Donald guy is one of the better devs to come on the EX format of QL's. He may be awkward but voice wise he does his job pretty well. I like the atmosphere of this game, but I do not know if I will ever play it, we'll see.

Will prob pick this up for my 4S.

Yay! QTE's.... on a phone... exciting.

If this was on PC or Consoles I would be ALLL UP in it!

Kind of a bad QL if you ask me. I've not played the first game, so them not explaining a single thing about what the actual game is in this one didn't help very much.

I just bought an iphone 4s, so I'm totally buying this when it comes out.

Looks like a very serious Dragon's Lair

@Crixaliz: I'd like to know too.

Yes yes, very nice, lovely stuff, NOW GO AND MAKE SHADOW COMPLEX 2!! :)

But seriously, I beat the God King on bloodline 3, so I was pretty much done with the game after about 2 hours. People forget to mention, that after you beat the God King, there are several other bosses but to reach them, you needed to buy the Infinity Blade which required lots and lots of the same repetitive battles against the same creatures to accumulate enough money. Realistically the devs wanted you to buy the gold through IAP which was a cheap shot by them. They lost a lot of respect by me for this.

For 6.99 I'll probably get it.

The future of handheld gaming...

The excessive lens flare bothers me, it makes this whole thing seem very cheap. Looks nice other than that, though.

Horse boy confirmed.

i skipped the first one simply because it looked like a shallow game and was too expensive, but this one looks like its going to be fairly deep, and the icloud stuff makes it even better, this might be the first iOS game i pay full price for!

This actually looks pretty great. Graphics are super impressive, art looks great, lots and lots of loot, and there seems to be actual strategy involved in the combat.

Sold.

Does the framerate look a bit off or is it just me? A lot of stutters, maybe for gameplay purposes.

Ugggh. I don't have an iPad 2, and I absolutely will not get one. IB2 looks awesome, but not awesome enough for me to waste that much money.

I hope Chair port IB2 to XBL or PSN, or make Shadow Complex 2, or make something new for multiplatform.

Rebirths are way less cool than Bloodlines.

A father's son coming back in eighteen years to try and kill the immortal God-King is far better than "oops I died but then I came back to life now to try again"

It's way more video game-y.

@Crixaliz said:

@Psyael said:

Did they ever address their political controversy? Or at least why they were deleting board threads calling them out about it?? No?

I'll just continue to ignore these guys, then.

What happened?

It's better not to even know. Honestly Cliff Bleszinski could announce that they all worship Satan at Epic and sacrifice goats on a regular basis but as long as the games are still fun I couldn't care less.

@bybeach said:

This Donald guy is one of the better devs to come on the EX format of QL's. He may be awkward but voice wise he does his job pretty well. I like the atmosphere of this game, but I do not know if I will ever play it, we'll see.

I don't see how he was awkward in this. I felt like he did a great job on this describing the game and going along with the jokes.