Quick Look: Twisted Metal

@kishinfoulux said:

@TheHBK said:

If they have a criticism of this game, David Jaffe will scream, "You didn't get it you stupid fuck!"

I for one think it is retarded they went to this gang theme and put characters into cars they don't belong in. Where is my homeless dude in Roadkill?

Agreed. SweetTooth should not be in anything other then a Ice Cream truck.

People still have the mentality of 1997? Get over yourselves.

Man, the music is awful.

Man, that Online UI is uh... yeah.

@murisan said:

How do you fuck up matchmaking so badly? Why is this a continuing problem with new games? I thought we had online matchmaking sorted 3 years ago.

@kollay said:

Man, that Online UI is uh... yeah.

There's a quick match option on the main menu, with options for free for all, team games, and nuke. You can actually see it in the thumbnail of the video. They just... got picky.

Jaffe says the Network Error pop up should say Room is Full a lot of times, which is par for the course with server browsing. The Quick Online Action option just eliminates a lot of those issues, and makes things far more enjoyable if you don't want to sift through menus.

Pretty disappointed there's only 3 characters.

@Napalm said:

@kishinfoulux said:

@TheHBK said:

If they have a criticism of this game, David Jaffe will scream, "You didn't get it you stupid fuck!"

I for one think it is retarded they went to this gang theme and put characters into cars they don't belong in. Where is my homeless dude in Roadkill?

Agreed. SweetTooth should not be in anything other then a Ice Cream truck.

People still have the mentality of 1997? Get over yourselves.

Explain yourself rookie.

I'm pretty disappointed by the lack of characters. I was never going to play it, since I don't have a PS3, but still.. c'mon.

I want to play as Specter, Axel, Darkside, Grim... man those were the days.

Crap, another awesome looking game added to the list of games I can't play because I dont have a ps3. The list is not that long, but it is reaching the point where I might have to cave soon.

The online looks fuckin crazy. I will buy this game.

This game looks INCREDIBLY underwhelming..... like what if COD was about car combat and didn't have a single player.

It's boring aesthetically, which is fucking nuts considering how many crazy things are going on.

Pass.

looks fun

Alright. Them getting hit by that fucking train redeemed fumbling through all those network errors.

Man.... 10 minutes of server browser

I think this looks fun.

@Styl3s said:

square to drive? that seems incredibly awkward, especially when you want to drive, manuvear and shoot at the same time.

can you change drive to R2?

It is actually really good once you get used to it. I am able to unload my machine guns, my special while boosting and driving backwards trying to kill some asshole who has been pursuing me. They are very tough to use at first, but after a few challenge games they are extremely intuitive.

Looking good...

Ehh, I think I'll just hang on and wait for the new SSX instead.

Man, the multiplayer looks like it has some problems. I may wait for it to get patched before picking this one up.

@SSully said:

@Styl3s said:

square to drive? that seems incredibly awkward, especially when you want to drive, manuvear and shoot at the same time.

can you change drive to R2?

It is actually really good once you get used to it. I am able to unload my machine guns, my special while boosting and driving backwards trying to kill some asshole who has been pursuing me. They are very tough to use at first, but after a few challenge games they are extremely intuitive.

It plays like the old games, so I can't really complain about the driving. But I CAN complain about L2 and R2 functionality being switched!! I played a bit of TM 2 recently to warm up, and I can't count how often I've wasted specials while trying to shoot a machine gun.

The single player AI is douchy and can turn people off from the game, hunt down health packs as your primary goal in order to survive.
 
Yeah this doesn't look like generic brodude shooter 13 out of 12, what a disaster. It also moves at 60 fps with more detail and geometry than freaking anything.

The network issue is a temporary problem.

What I'm more excited about is the fact that we actually get a server browser in a console game I give a shit about!

@jmood88 said:

Man, the music is awful.

What are you nuts? It's fucking great.

"The Cage is about to move ..."

Trains: Bringing joy to giantbomb quicklooks since 2008

bought this yesterday this game is fun it also comes with TM BLACK

You could have like... Skipped the server shit, you know. So boring. Game looks really fun, though, would've picked it up if it were more story-based. I know that isn't what Jaffe's about, but I associate the insanely big rosters of characters and impossible, illogic stories with this genre and the nostalgia than the gameplay itself, as weird as that may sound. It does not make much sense, but that is how I feel.

@CptBedlam said:

@jmood88 said:

Man, the music is awful.

What are you nuts? It's fucking great.

I second that, its frickin awesome

Looks kind of boring to me. Jaffe should have stayed working on God of War.

Actually God of War III turned out fine, I guess I don't get why people are such big fans of him.

Give me Vigilante 8 V3 and then we'll talk

Axel was an awesome character design.

Looks like a ten dollar downloadable game.

@AngelN7 said:

Give me Vigilante 8 V3 and then we'll talk

So many hours spent with a friend blowing eachother up in V8. One my all time favourite ps1 games.

@big_jon said:

Looks like a ten dollar downloadable game.

Nope.

Man this game is a mess of disjointed features and design choices.

a Twisted Metal game made in 2012 and not a 2012 game indeed. The fact that characters are no longer tied to specific cars seems completely counter-intuitive to the whole scheme of this franchise.

@Splodge said:

@big_jon said:

Looks like a ten dollar downloadable game.

Nope.

"DO NOT EXIT ALT-SPECIAL. TAP R1 BUTTON AND L1 BUTTON AT SAME TIME, THEN PUSH RIGHT STICK FORWARD"

I thought i wanted a new Twisted Metal, but after watching this i now know i don't

These guys could've learned a lot from the SSX reboot. I never cared about either franchise, but the new SSX looks genuinely good. It looks modern, colorful, and exciting. This game looks flat, grimdarkedgy, and super, super shallow.

This seems.... frustrating.

What game is Patrick and Ryan talking about at the 45:48 mark in the video? Total something, supposed to be first console game with 60 FPS?

Looks deep. Like fighting game deep.

Game graphically looks like ass also.

Maybe it's just my nostalgia, but I'm liking this.

Game looks fucking awesome, can't wait to get my copy.

Should be re-named "Twisted Metal Multiplayer Menus Quick Look"

This game is so fucking sick. It takes like an hour to warm up to (even if you've played the originals), but once you get the hang of it again it's an amazing amount of fun. Too bad the matchmaking is pretty much busted, but they're working on a fix.

Also, no harp on the guys, but once you get it down the game moves MUCH faster than this. You're turboing nearly the entire time, and running through nearly everything to make the map flat. The destruction in this game is great

Just the game in general is awesome. I'm glad they didn't "modernize" it (nice way to say dumb down) because Twisted Metal is still a ton of fun, but they've made some smart and cool additions that make it fit in 2012 as well. Oh and don't be fooled, there's a ton of depth here. More than the previous TMs, and more than most games these days.

@buckybit said:

"The Cage is about to move ..."

I heard Cage was a 150 year old vampire.

It's like 15 minutes before they started playing Twisted Metal in this Quick Look!!

I mean hey, I like Quick Looks, but 48 minutes is one BIG FAT VIDEO! I get that the controls are difficult, but you don't have to show the whole tutorial to say that y'know?

There's LITERALLY 20 minutes of menu navigation in here, guys! If you're doing Quick Looks instead of video reviews, I would feel TERRIBLE if I was a developer who liked GiantBomb. I'd come here to check out my game and you've got feature-length videos of all the least interesting parts!

You played 2 matches and showed the same map twice- this'll sound dramatic, but seriously: If half the video is server lists, title screen and tutorials then who is that for? Quick Looks are huge videos now and I think you've lost sight of what the real core point of them is. They're a GOOD PREMISE! Go back and watch the first quick look, for Burnout Paradise.

I know you guys are your own quality control and I'm just some fuckin dude in the comments, but I think Quick Looks are getting really thin, losing a lot of punch, and they don't have to.

Wow, how remarkably lame. Twisted Metal makes me feel embarrassed for Twisted Metal. I believe the term is "wahjah." The comparison to ICP is almost too easy and too obvious to bother making. Almost.