X-Men RPG featuring a branching storyline which puts you in the shoes of a rookie X-Man, written by Mike Carey, who also wrote the X-Men: Legacy comic books.
Allegedly this game comes out at the end of the month yet I have heard and seen very little about the actual game. You would think people would be excited about an action-rpg based on the X-Men from Silicon Knights. Too Human debacle aside, Silicon Knights has had a pretty solid track record. As a comic book license, the X-Men franchise has had a better track record then a lot of other comics and the series seems to work well with the action-rpg genre. I had completely forgotten of this games existence if not for another website's forum pointing out the awesome pre-order deal with Amazon. Is this a case of being over shadowed by what seems to be a crazy amount of high profile games coming out this holiday season? Or is this Activision just trying to release what they think is a turd of a game with as little fanfare and hype as possible? I love X-Men, action-rpgs, like Silicon Knights games not named Too Human, and think Activision has surprisingly done a decent job with the Marvel license. Yet somehow I have heard almost nothing about this game since a trailer popped up around E3 of this year.
Everything about X Men Destiny looks terrible. It has visuals on par with a PS2 game, and for some reason the developers thought it would be fine to play as three incredibly generic looking characters, rather than giving you the freedom to create your own custom mutant. I really don't know what they were thinking with the game. I'd bet it'll be massively delayed at the last minute though.
@WinterSnowblind: I'll be honest I didn't hate Too Human but I didn't love it either. There were some great concepts and gameplay decisions buried in a mediocre package at best. If the video game review scale didn't equate anything below an 8 as complete garbage, I would say Too Human is a solid 6 or better yet 2 Stars on the verge of being 3.
Everything about X Men Destiny looks terrible. It has visuals on par with a PS2 game, and for some reason the developers thought it would be fine to play as three incredibly generic looking characters, rather than giving you the freedom to create your own custom mutant.
pretty much this, hard to get excited about such a shitty looking game
I saw a bit of gameplay at PAX, it looked intriguing at best but with so many high profile games launching in the next few months and too many great games already sitting in my library waiting to get finished (ME2, Infamous 2, Dirt 3, AC:B, etc) I'm sure it'll fall by the wayside. At least for me.
I think Denis Dyack learned his lesson about hyping up a game and making promises about it before it comes out.
Too Human was supposed to be a 4 player co-op game where the right stick was used for melee (which was fun IMO) and the camera was being polished to where you wouldn't even need a camera button. The problem was that the camera was only ok most of the time so you wouldn't always be able to see the enemies, and with some of the classes being ones where you fly across the level meleeing robots, thats a problem and it can easily break your combo chain. The 4 player co-op, which was the biggest thing the game had going since there wasn't a lot of 4 player co-op games at the time, was hyped that the game was being built from the ground up specifically for it. Then right when the game went gold, they announced 4 player co-op was dropped down to just 2, redubbing the game "Two Human"
tl:dr Denis Dyack is like Peter Molyneueuuoueeux, he needs to not hype up his games with promises that aren't for sure implemented yet.
And yeah, I also haven't heard anything about this game, and noticed it was suppose to come out this month. I agree that a huge delay is more than likely to happen.
For me, the game will be awesome! we have to think that this is not a game where we can play as our favorite characters. But play with them. The only thing i still find lacking is there are only a few characters or x-genes in the game compared to x-men legends 2. But they haven't revealed everything yet.So i think more x-genes will be unlocked as you play along.
here's a video that i've found that you may want to check.
They say the game will end between 5-8 hours per character depending on how you play it like if you don't want to explore. So that's like let's just say 15 hours of gameplay which is good. I didn't really expect this to last 10 hours . So more than 10 hours, i'm satisfied. : )
I have this on order. I'm not excited for it. It will probably be entirely mediocre. But I am going to play it and maybe even enjoy it. But if not, I'm selling it for the superior comics based video game out next month.
Why did you have to mention something that has good games based on it? (At least recently.)
Because good is better than bad? I'd say Marvel has had better games overall over DC like the vs stuff and some of the Spider-Man games and even some of the X-men games. And Ultimate Alliance was awesome. Arkham Asylum probably outshines all the Marvel stuff even though Marvel's stuff is usually decent to good. The Batman stuff is like the only thing DC has in terms of video games and possibly DC online when it goes free to play (which also has Batman in it.)
@SethPhotopoulos: So far as I'm concerned, there are only two games that are based on comic bookjs: Batman Arkham Asylum, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There will be a third releasing later this year.
@SethPhotopoulos: So far as I'm concerned, there are only two games that are based on comic bookjs: Batman Arkham Asylum, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There will be a third releasing later this year.
@SethPhotopoulos: So far as I'm concerned, there are only two games that are based on comic bookjs: Batman Arkham Asylum, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There will be a third releasing later this year.
@SethPhotopoulos: So far as I'm concerned, there are only two games that are based on comic bookjs: Batman Arkham Asylum, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There will be a third releasing later this year.
@SethPhotopoulos: So far as I'm concerned, there are only two games that are based on comic bookjs: Batman Arkham Asylum, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There will be a third releasing later this year.
Nah, I'm just kidding. Also, BATMAN.
I still play Spider-man 2 sometimes.
I never played Spider-Man 2, because I always hated those movies, and thus never wanted to play the accompanying game(s).
@SethPhotopoulos: So far as I'm concerned, there are only two games that are based on comic bookjs: Batman Arkham Asylum, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There will be a third releasing later this year.
Nah, I'm just kidding. Also, BATMAN.
I still play Spider-man 2 sometimes.
I never played Spider-Man 2, because I always hated those movies, and thus never wanted to play the accompanying game(s).
@SethPhotopoulos: So far as I'm concerned, there are only two games that are based on comic bookjs: Batman Arkham Asylum, and Marvel vs. Capcom 3. There will be a third releasing later this year.
Nah, I'm just kidding. Also, BATMAN.
I still play Spider-man 2 sometimes.
I never played Spider-Man 2, because I always hated those movies, and thus never wanted to play the accompanying game(s).
MAn I loved Spider-Man 2 game and film.
I never played the game, so I can't disagree with that, but the movie...I'll just say the only kind words I have for it was that it's better than Spider-Man 1.
I wonder if the next Spider-Man movie will have a game based on it that plays like Mirror's Edge, because the trailer turns into Mirror's Edge. Which displeases me, because aside from that bit, that new Spider-Man movie looks pretty cool.
I heard from people that got early copies that the game tend to be a little short (trolls)... hopefully the campaign has a variety so there's something to comeback to
I heard from people that got early copies that the game tend to be a little short (trolls)... hopefully the campaign has a variety so there's something to comeback to
I watched a let's play of the whole game on youtube. It's four hours of punching dudes. They are not trolls, your just in denial.
I just found out on the I Love Mondays that this was being developed by Silicon Knights. This is their first game in... 3 years? Didn't Too Human tank? How are they still in business?
After Too Human, which I hated, I have no hope for Silicon Knights. And I just replayed X-Men Legends, so there's no way in hell Destiny is going to stack up. The lack of news is usually because a dev knows the game will fail. And Spiderman Edge of time is getting more press than destiny, so marvel will be riding on that game.
I hate the fact that this game is looking terrible though, as I love X-men with an almost creepy passion, but silicon knights and I have an uneasy relationship, and Too Human had that fucking combat control mapping to the left thumbstick that pissed me off so much I refused to finish the game...so I'm heavily biased in both directions on this...I'm sad and happy at the same time...this can only get worse before it gets better...
I wouldn't dismiss it just now. I actually love X-Men Legends series. Even though it's a different developer, I still believe a superhero RPG is pretty cool. So let's just wait and see.
Ever noticed that sometimes Activision sends games out to die? With no hype, no ads, and no hands on previews. I'm getting that feeling with X-men Destiny.
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