E3 2011: Payday: The Heist

@Branthog said:

The textures look flat and the edges all jaggy. Is this for the DS or is this an actual console game?!

Wow, I'd love to see the DS that you use... because I've never seen a DS game look this good.

The textures look flat and the edges all jaggy. Is this for the DS or is this an actual console game?!

"This ain't no bank robbery!" 

The textures look flat and the edges all jaggy. Is this for the DS or is this an actual console game?!

A pretty bad trailer for a fairly intriguing game. This gives no sense of the strategy/depth behind the shooting, and frankly the shooting itself doesn't look good at all. It's still on my radar, though, because of all of the interesting tactical elements at play

Man, this trailer doesn't do much of anything to explain what's going on. After reading a bit more about it, though, it sounds like Left 4 Heist in a really good way. Colour me intrigued.

Does this game have custom mask technology?

This game has been getting a lot of attention at E3 I've heard.

Saying "This looks terrible" only begings to describe it.

I HAD COFFEE WITH MCCAULEY, HALF AN HOUR AGO!

It does look rough, but this seems like Left 4 Dead, except no zombies and you're playing through Heat.
 
Which is pretty delightful!

Let the contreversy begin.

why not have versus??

I could eat a payday candy bar.

This rubbed a sweet spot for me. Oh man. I want this so hard.

This looks like a Half-life 2 mod based on Heat. Even the trailer looks like it was put together by some mod team and Grin isn't exactly a mark of quality. :-/
 
It's not insane to think that a Left 4 Dead-style game could be made around big heists though. The execution just looks really shaky here.

I seriously want the "Ex-Presidents" masks from Point Break. I'm surprised how good this trailer is, just simple bullet points and no sense of pretension. It's a downloadable FPS co op  heist. Man this is a breath of fresh air considering how bad most trailers are.

Seems like everyone from GRIN went and started their own studio.

Love the concept; hope this is good.

i'll probably get this on the cheap.

@Auswin said:

They talked about this quite a bit on the Epic Battle Axe E3 daily wrap-up. Brent Adams said he spent time with the game and it was an immense amount of fun. The key elements he discussed were the following: 1. You can choose when to put your masks on and basically initiate 'The Heist'. You can come in guns blazing, or choose to wait, set up, get in position and then surprising the bank etc. 2. There is a barter system with the police where you can trade captured allies for hostages you have bound. 3. There is one player who has an 'ammo bag'. This is the only viable way to reload your weapons and it needs to be placed strategically in order to have success. 4. The game changes dynamically based on your actions. He pointed out that taking out any and all security cameras would cause police to react more cautiously, whereas leaving them intact would cause an insertion through the roof, rushing through stairwells etc. 5. It is confirmed this will be a downloadable title of PS3 and PC, and as such carry a downloadable price tag- but no confirmation of what that would be. This game went from barely moving the needle for me, to really being on my radar. To hear someone whose opinion I respect give such effusive praise definitely makes it interesting to me.

If this is true then I'm going to buy the hell out of this game.

Meh, looks a little mediocre.

@zeemod155 said:

If they made this game 4 years ago it would STILL look pretty mediocre and stupid

Yup.

"Endless replayability" it claims. How? Very few games have "endless" anything, and six different heists sounds hardly replayable. 

@scarace360 said:

Is it on pc?

The video had parts where it said "press f to..." so I'm guessing its on PC as well.

reminds me of that GTA 4 mission...

The candy bar is better than this.

They talked about this quite a bit on the Epic Battle Axe E3 daily wrap-up. 
 
Brent Adams said he spent time with the game and it was an immense amount of fun. The key elements he discussed were the following:  
1. You can choose when to put your masks on and basically initiate 'The Heist'. You can come in guns blazing, or choose to wait, set up, get in position and then surprising the bank etc. 
2. There is a barter system with the police where you can trade captured allies for hostages you have bound. 
3. There is one player who has an 'ammo bag'. This is the only viable way to reload your weapons and it needs to be placed strategically in order to have success. 
4. The game changes dynamically based on your actions. He pointed out that taking out any and all security cameras would cause police to react more cautiously, whereas leaving them intact would cause an insertion through the roof, rushing through stairwells etc. 
5. It is confirmed this will be a downloadable title of PS3 and PC, and as such carry a downloadable price tag- but no confirmation of what that would be. 
 
This game went from barely moving the needle for me, to really being on my radar. To hear someone whose opinion I respect give such effusive praise definitely makes it interesting to me.

This game will be incredibly popular in Dorchester.

"Endless replayability" it claims. How? Very few games have "endless" anything, and six different heists sounds hardly replayable. 

Looks ROUGH but I think it's a way off. I hope it's a way off. It better be a way off.

"BANK ROBBING SIM" omg what terrible taste in a FPS scenario. News Media shit storm a brewin.

That looks terrible, as said before. That's just what came to mind though. Terrible.

high intensity FPS thrills!!!

Could have potential.  Not the prettiest game, but it's got some cool ideas, and co-op multiplayer is always good in my book.

This looks absolutely terrible. Interesting concept, though. I mean, I've played CS mods that play and look better than this.

I wonder if this game is basically parts of the cancelled game "the heist", I remember reading about that game years ago and thinking it had allot of promise, I am sure that game was more of a third person "gta" style game in which you had to recruit different members for a heist, plan the job,getaway etc then try to pull it off, They had some very interesting ideas and I was looking forward to playing that game but it got cancelled.
 
You would have been able to do lots of different types of robberys in that game from shops,bars,banks amoured cars to eventually attempting to rob the mint, It looked real ambitious, set in 1969 and with rpg elelments of gaining new tools etc to enable you to pull of bigger and better jobs, I think the game was being developed by exile games or something similar and published by codemasters so i assume this new game has nothing to do with that, was just wondering as i thought i seen the Heist spelt with $ like in the other cancelled game but after watching the video again it was not.

This Game looks really awful and bad

Looks fucking awsome

looks awful hehehe really

@Fripplebubby said:

"Endless replayability" it claims. How? Very few games have "endless" anything, and six different heists sounds hardly replayable.

I thought the same about the L4D franchise, but I still play L4D2 on a regular basis. Looks like this is going for the same thing.

Also, I cannot wait for the media to get a hold of this v.v

Looks like it could either be really cool or fucking terrible.

@Fripplebubby said:

"Endless replayability" it claims. How? Very few games have "endless" anything, and six different heists sounds hardly replayable.

And yeah, that sounds like bullshit.

The shooting looks terribleee

"Endless replayability" it claims. How? Very few games have "endless" anything, and six different heists sounds hardly replayable. 

We make games we like to watch!

Trailer looks a bit trashy, but the idea has promise.

Yet all I can really think about is how outraged FoxNews will be when they hear about this.

seems like it could be a pretty cool game.... in theory.