Battlefront III Revenge of the Ewoks
#16
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:48 AM
And Battlefront II... I didn't play it much at all either. It was just too damn difficult with the infinite enemy reinforcements, the endless objectives, the locked units you weren't able to access and the rest of it. Anyway, once I discovered how it had installed SecuRom on my computer, my mind was pretty well made up. I deleted the thing pronto and threw it in the bin. Yeah, I guess I could have sold it secondhand but I didn't want some other poor sod to have to deal with all its rubbish too.
Yep. If anyone's reading this and you're thinking of getting Battlefront II, don't. The original Battlefront however is an awesome game (annoyances and never-to-be-fixed-bugs notwithstanding).
#17
Posted 28 January 2009 - 06:07 PM
"Maybe artists shouldn't talk about their art."
"Well kids, I guess your father isn't a hermaphrodite."
"Izzy! enough with the rabid smootching!!"
#18
Posted 28 January 2009 - 08:15 PM
Just before Christmas I ran into a young kid drolling outside the Toy shop window. "What's that?" we asked him. "The Millenium Falcon!" he replied. He wasn't getting excited about roger-roger droids or PT dildo spaceships.
Someone here posted about a kid who grew a rat's tale a la Anakin when TPM came out. Sadly for this kid it didn't go down to well...
Yes, it is. The leaker of that video was supposedly an employee of the game company writing it.
#19
Posted 30 January 2009 - 04:21 AM
Ah, that's good to hear... and man! While, it's been a long time since I was a kid, I reckon that new Millenium Falcon toy looks out of this world! When I saw that over the Christmas break, I'd never wanted to be a kid so much in my life. And I'm not ashamed to admit that I did think, however briefly, about buying one for myself. I could picture myself at the cash register making some lame cover story... Er... I'm getting this for my son... In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if more than a few fellow adults did just that.
Regarding Battlefront III, yeah it does appear to be at a standstill. LucasArts certainly mucks developers around sometimes. I heard that was part of the reason why Jedi Academy was so crap. Apparently, LucasArts just told the developer that they had to release it by their deadline, ready or not. I'm inclined to believe this theory on the basis that the game is not particularly long, yet requires two installation discs. Uncompressed, methinks it was. Also there are more than a few elements that make no sense in the game that can only be leftovers of some bigger concept that was scrapped. Ah, Lucas and his affiliated companies... always looking for new ways to let us down.
This post has been edited by Just your average movie goer: 30 January 2009 - 04:23 AM
#20
Posted 03 February 2009 - 11:56 AM
Here are some vids that I made of that Mod some time ago:
Battle of Endor - Redemption
Endor
Podrace
K, guess thats enough for now. Dont want you to think Im trying to spam here. Just my recommandation.
#21
Posted 04 February 2009 - 05:16 AM
Actually, if you've got amateurs who are making things of this quality in their spare time, we may never need purchase something from an actual game developer again.
All glory to the modding community, I say.
#22
Posted 04 February 2009 - 11:34 AM
#23
Posted 08 May 2009 - 09:57 PM
Me neither, however some notes on BF1:
Scenarios in Battlefield 1:
Hoth is the only one with serious replay value. They should ditch all the other ones, and just call it Hoth. Sucked in BFII how they kept the same level design. Those guys were hugely lazy.
Wookie Docks is kind of fun. If you hijack a enemy vessel, park next to a repair droid. You can fire away, taking continuous damage with the repair droid always fixing it.
Genosis is the hardest. Best way to play is take a troop carrier very high up and cover your troopers by takeing out the enemy droids. At altitude only the odd missile can hurt you.
Endor has pretty incredible forest graphics. Grab a speeder and you can just run down rebels and ewoks, but otherwise it's a pretty boring level.
Absolute worst level: Kamino. Long passages mean heaps and heaps of running to get back to the action. The ocean surface looks like some Visual Basic programmer wrote it.
There's not much replay value in many of the levels and eventually the all bore the crap out of you. Many of them have ridiculous chokepoints and once you learn the spots they're just too easy to beat. Hoth I have the most patience for, but perhaps because it had the movie to back it up.
Classes in Battlefield 1:
Rebels: Boring.
Stormtrooper:
Their rifles fire at a very high rate, and they've got 4 grenades. Nice for lobbing around corners. The bad news is those rifles are inaccurate at range so you need to get in close to use them. Stormtroopers tend to die a lot.
Shock Trooper (Missile):
Useless. The missiles look pretty but they only seem to capable of taking out one soldier at a time. It takes so many to take out an enemy turret it's ridiculous. You have to pump so many of them to take out an ATAT it's not worth it; grab one of those dish guns instead. The only thing they're good at is taking out speeders in the Hoth scenario: two at close range will do it.
Scout Trooper (Sniper Rifle):
I used to think these were pretty lame since they have a low rate of fire and only 36 rounds, but the rifle's range means you can engage targets at safe distances. Great for taking out enemy gunners, Wookies and those annoying Rebel pilots. In Hoth as a sniper I lay back and cover the Stormtroopers. Very effective.
Pilot (Mortar):
These are kind of cool. The mortars fire on a ballistic trajectory, so you need to develop skill to aim them. The explosions can take out multiple enemies at once. I often use these guys outside of the walkers because it's the only remotely challenging but useful class. Plus get in the little AT and you can march up to the rebel bases, jump out and grab the control posts. I don't play the big ATAT - so powerful it's like cheating. Best way to take out a speeder wrapping your legs: Just walk backwards and diagonal. They'll fly into you.
Dark Trooper (Flies):
Has that absurdly powerful blaster used by the Rebel pilots too; fires five rounds at once, but low rate of fire quickly gets you killed. By far the easiest class to play, because you can just jump out of trouble. Jetting into the middle of a group of rebels and lobbing a grenade and jetting out is kind of fun. Can't really grab control points, because the low rate of fire makes it hard to hold the position. In Hoth you can jet over to the speed cave, hide up the back of the Millenium falcon (no one will see you) then grab a speeder when one appears and you can take out about 100 Rebels.
Dish Guns:
Effective. 20 or so shots will take out an ATAT. Has a quick rate of fire and doesn't overheat. You're exposed, but this doesn't seem to hurt your mortality much if at all.
Turret Guns:
Boring. Overheats too quickly. BTW if a bad guy (i.e. a rebel) is in a turret causing trouble, run up to it and press 'e' and it'll throw him out.
Targets in order of priority:
1. Rebel Pilots because of their absurdly powerful blasters.
2. Wookies because of their motars.
3. Scouts (Snipers) because they've shot me too many times.
4. All the others are lame.
Criticisms:
The AI in BF is pretty stupid. Besides a complete lack of cooperation between the troops, they ignore possible targets shooting at them. i.e. The ATATs walk past the gun turrets shooting at them which eventually take them down. Plus I hate whenever you press F2=Follow Me you can't get a group more than 2 or 3 together and they quickly wander off.
BF1 was the first in the series so I can forgive it's mistakes, but BF2 fell flat and it wouldn't surprise me if BF3 doesn't include *exactly the same* scenarios. So much potential so poorly executed. Plus Lucasfilm has been dumbing down their games year after year. I doubt we'll ever again see something as cool as their Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe, their adventures or original Tie Fighter etc. games. The space battles in BF2 is arcade at its worst.
This post has been edited by Toru-chan: 08 May 2009 - 10:04 PM
#25
Posted 14 May 2009 - 09:02 PM
Oops! Yes, but it won't let me edit the earlier comment.
Maybe I should check out Battlefield?
BTW love "Operation Flashpoint" - graphics a bit dated, but a "real" game. Combine Star Wars with this and it would be awesome.
#26
Posted 21 May 2009 - 06:08 AM
BTW there is also a single-player mod called GCX which has bot-support so you can play all the maps alone.
I am also not a graphics fetishist. Games which look good mostly lack of depth and get boring very soon. Especially if there's no cool community behind it.
#27
Posted 30 May 2009 - 09:44 PM
Got Battlefield 2. Graphics are awesome. It'd probably great multiplayer, but singleplayer is lame. Totally unrealistic, even less than Battlefront if that's possible.
Ahhh... interesting.
Operation Flashpoint remains king (although the tanks are so bad I skip the missions using them). Unfortunately there is no community behind it.