Quick Look: Hard Reset

Awesome I love the look and style of this game I wonder how long it is to bad there's no MP.

What a good looking game... I need to get a better gaming PC

Look pretty fun. Classic pc shooter from the looks of it. 

I love the look of this game. Definitely getting a Blade Runner vibe from the art style.

Looks good.

But what's up with all these cyberpunk games coming out now? Is it because of the new Deus Ex?

Looks visually interesting, but if the finesse of the gameplay begins and ends with "shoot the panel" its about as deep as the "hey a barrel next to the guy, shoot it" mechanics of the last decade. And seriously, circle strafing as something mindlessly lumbers your way in 2011. Cmon. Is the shooter mechanics bar that low? Have a little respect for your fanbase, some people can see through the shiny shit and notice this game is mechanically on par with any given shooter from 2004. But hey, it is a demo. Maybe it gets interesting later.

Looks great, this and Serious Sam 3 will hopefully revive the old-school FPS.

These days it seems that "PC game" and "Polish Developer" is something that goes hand in hand

@ryanwho said:

Looks visually interesting, but if the finesse of the gameplay begins and ends with "shoot the panel" its about as deep as the "hey a barrel next to the guy, shoot it" mechanics of the last decade. And seriously, circle strafing as something mindlessly lumbers your way in 2011. Cmon. Is the shooter mechanics bar that low? Have a little respect for your fanbase, some people can see through the shiny shit and notice this game is mechanically on par with any given shooter from 2004. But hey, it is a demo. Maybe it gets interesting later.

I really don't recall the developers ever touting this game to be the greatest thing to happen to shooters, in fact they were quite frank about the fact that 'Hard Reset' is all about paying homage to old-school school shooters thus rendering the implementation of any antiquated shooters mechanics totally justifiable. Also, I'm kind of excited about the circle strafing, takes away the stale aftertaste of sticking to cover and waiting for the healthbar to get automatically refilled.

Looks pretty sweet. Like they said, the menus and guns look sweet! I imagine Jeff and Vinny would really appreciate those kinds of touches too. Wouldn't be surprised if a GOTY category or two was made to recognise the game, even if it's only for a nomination.

Haha, I wonder how many man hours went into the menu system? Man I bet the people over at Valve are kicking themselves for their half life 2 menus, the chumps!

@ryanwho
They are trying to imitate the FPS of yesteryear where circle-strafing, blazing guns and health bars were pillars of the genre. There seems to be an audience who wants to go back to that old style shooter and this game is giving it to them.

So dated mechanics are chique now? You could just reinstall Quake 1 if you just wanna circle around some melee dude running at you. It won't be as pretty but still. "Classic gameplay" is the impetus JRPG developers have been using to not innovate for the last decade or so. When I get tired of a modern shooter, I'm not looking for a shooter "throwback". I'm looking for something that's not a shooter. 

@Hangnail said:

@ryanwho said:

Looks visually interesting, but if the finesse of the gameplay begins and ends with "shoot the panel" its about as deep as the "hey a barrel next to the guy, shoot it" mechanics of the last decade. And seriously, circle strafing as something mindlessly lumbers your way in 2011. Cmon. Is the shooter mechanics bar that low? Have a little respect for your fanbase, some people can see through the shiny shit and notice this game is mechanically on par with any given shooter from 2004. But hey, it is a demo. Maybe it gets interesting later.

I really don't recall the developers ever touting this game to be the greatest thing to happen to shooters, in fact they were quite frank about the fact that 'Hard Reset' is all about paying homage to old-school school shooters thus rendering the implementation of any antiquated shooters mechanics totally justifiable. Also, I'm kind of excited about the circle strafing, takes away the stale aftertaste of sticking to cover and waiting for the healthbar to get automatically refilled.

So dated mechanics are chique now? You could just reinstall Quake 1 if you just wanna circle around some melee dude running at you. It won't be as pretty but still. "Classic gameplay" is the impetus JRPG developers have been using to not innovate for the last decade or so. When I get tired of a modern shooter, I'm not looking for a shooter "throwback". I'm looking for something that's not a shooter.

Freakin' beautiful looking game.  I'm impressed.

I think this is the first game that makes me want a PC that can run games at this quality.

These days it seems that "PC game" and "Polish Developer" is something that goes hand in hand

Something someone pointed out to me is the UI on the left acts the player is holding it with his life hand, you just can't see the hand.

Goddamn is that view bob on the HUD annoying.

*Full disclosure: I haven't watched the QL, but I just noticed that in another video.

I get that people like Brad can't handle themselves in a modern shooter like Left 4 Dead and this kinda thing is great for them. I'm just speaking from my own interest.  I can't speak for what other people are looking for. It just seems wasteful to me to build such an archaic shooter with such nice looking assets. Also, "old school shooters" were about twice as fast as this. Seems like they just picked random old school tropes to keep like mindless AI and got rid of things like how quickly you had to move. The sheer speed of older games is what made their shortcomings more tolerable, and this is just those old mechanics but now you're moving slow as hell. 

I'm laughing at this title.

Oh man, that city design is beautiful. This feeds my "dystopian Blade Runner-esque city aesthetic" hunger perfectly. 

I want this game to come to the 360 so much.

PcPc!!GO play Jerry Rice Doggy Futball on your console Buahahahahaha!!! Well no real rudness mean't I noted what Brad said about their card, so maybe it could be on consoles. That all said, I really liked what I saw aaannnnnnd it's going to be available very soon. They were smart in not 'hyping' this because I really wonder if all it offers is really just building on and extensions of what this demo has. Sure more intense weapons, hopefully some change-up in enviroment, because the same exact corridor crawl is all I've seen here or in the trailer. PPl. won't be happy about that though if done well I could float.

@radar5 said:

Since I looked them up anyway

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws) :

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Dang. I thought they were:

1. "Serve the public trust"
2. "Protect the innocent"
3. "Uphold the law"
4. (Classified)

I loved every single thing i've just seen of this game

@OracleXIII: I know eh. That's why I've avoided most of the preview coverage for Deus Ex. I want it to feel new when I play it and see things I've never seen before. For me, it's like take as much time as you need to make the game good just don't tell me about it years before it's done and don't show so much of the game in trailers and developer walkthroughs and shit.

Default windows background on their computer??

I really don't think the solution to the monotony of modern day shooters is to regress back into the gameplay of Doom or Quake. It's not as if we're restricted to one or the other anyway.  
 
I am amazed people are so enamoured by the game as it appears in this quick look. Almost every encounter consists of shooting conveniently placed items to quickly wipe out a group of enemies. The game doesn't improve on the gameplay of ancient First Person Shooters in any way, really. In fact, I'd say the level design (maybe geography is a better word) is a little worse. The extremely linear paths is a design choice more often seen in "The Modern Shooter" rather than those of the 90s and early 00s.  
 
I just don't get it. I don't even see how this is even considered a breath of fresh air. This genre, when not married to another, is extremely lacking.

House and Movies? Smells like piracy to me, but it could be anything really.

It seems beautiful and retro but as Brad said, it could maybe use a little more substance, craziness or story, or else it could get old quick.

It looks nice, I kinda want to use that menu design for my computer's GUI, but otherwise I'm unimpressed. Every encounter began and ended with Brad shooting a panel and the weapons do not seem at all satisfying. I loved Painkiller, but this video leaves me wanting.

Awesome, I was looking forward to this... kind of bummed it is only 24 minutes long though.

@chilibean_3 said:

@radar5 said:

Since I looked them up anyway

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws) :

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Dang. I thought they were:

1. "Serve the public trust"
2. "Protect the innocent"
3. "Uphold the law"
4. (Classified)

Those are the updated (and awesomer) laws. Think of them as the New testament of Robotics

I want this, anything that People Can Fly creates deserves a look at.

Wow this looks really impressive. I wasn't really keen on this game up until now, but this QL has totally changed my mind.

As good a reason as any to start gaming on a PC again. This looks fantastic. I might pick it up.

Looks UH-MAZING.

This is amazing. Painkiller and Blade Runner had a child and I'm going to lure that child into a white van by way of empty candy promises! AHAHAHAH

Love the way this game looks, but not sure if it'd hold up without a lot of voice work or new innovative things to play with as level s progress.

This is a really sweet looking shooter. It looks great, seems to play great, and has good menus. Plus it has a good pedigree this will be an interesting game to check out when it arrives.

THIS GAME LOOKS AMAZING. I hope the finished product is crazy awesome like this demo seems

So it's like that scene in a gameplay demo where the guy says "Hey, you can approach any encounter how you want," and then he electrocutes some water to kill the dudes, but then you just electrocute every encounter.

I would be pretty disappointed if there's not some sort of cool story in this game. judging from the first part it seems more painkiller than witcher by far.

also, it looks gorgeous. very blade runner-y. only without all the people.

edit:

"I AM DEAD"

hahahahaha :]

Looks really good.  

Since I looked them up anyway

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws) :

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

@Plasma said:

@radar5 said:

Since I looked them up anyway

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws) :

1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
2. A robot must obey any orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Does that mean if you tell a robot to destroy itself it has to obey?

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