This one is a gamble to be sure, but I'm a big fan of driving-based sandbox games, a la The Wheelman, so I'm keeping an eye on it.
There's also a 3DS entry in the series coming this year, which is an even larger gamble.
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This one is a gamble to be sure, but I'm a big fan of driving-based sandbox games, a la The Wheelman, so I'm keeping an eye on it.
There's also a 3DS entry in the series coming this year, which is an even larger gamble.
I hope that's a joke post.
I'd love to see this series go back to its roots of being completely car based, realistic, and super hard.
Wasn't the first game based on pseudo San Francisco? I have always enjoyed this series, except 3. I still have not beaten the very last level of 1. That shit was crazy with like 7 police cars gangbanging you at all times.
The first one was awesome for everything Frog said along with the movie maker. After that I only remember it trying to ape GTA and doing a shitty job of it.
Driver 2 was GTA3 before GTA3.
And running on the PlayStation. Yea it wasn't good.
Starts out in Miami, then San Fran later, IIRC. San Fran was sort of rough on the Driver 1 engine because I think it could only do straight roads and 90 degree intersection, and maybe not hills?Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
I think it has hills? I can't remember.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
You might be right, but I remember San Fran feeling more flat and square than real San Fran, which has some pretty wild roads in real life.
Driver 1 definitely had hills but they were low-poly videogame hills, which is to say very angular and sharp sloping.
That's awesome. I never saw anything that crazy though when I played it.
I used to have that happen all the time to me. Probably the easiest way to set it up was to do the survival mode with all the difficulty and cop sliders on whatever the highest selections were and just go at it, sooner or later you'll start flying over buildings.
I really liked the first driver. It was one of the few PSX games where the gritty style they were going for lined up with the Playstation's shitty 3D nicely.
If this comes out anything like the first I might grab it after it gets discounted a bit.
I played the shit out of Driver 2, it was phenomenal and ahead of it's time.
I just never really got into one after that, no specific reason why.
Probably because Driver 3 was bad and everyone hated it.
A lot of what I've heard indicates that this is trying to go back to Driver 1 in a lot of ways, but they've also introduced some goofy "this is all a dream, Tanner is in a coma" plotline and astral projection ability that just seem goofy and out of place, so I'm just not sure.
I never did play any games in this series. Which ones are worth trying?
Just stick with the first one, pretty much. PC version if you can, it's got some extra content and that nifty Carnage mode minigame.Quote:
Originally Posted by bVork
I guess the second one's alright too but it's where they started to mix in shitty on-foot stuff, which was the ultimate downfall of the series.
The last level in Driver 1 is fucking cruel. Kamikaze cops FTW.
So I don't hate this from a gameplay perspective. It looks like they are going back to being completely car based and not trying to be GTA about things.
But I just don't know if I can get over the stupid magic powers thing. It's just so out of place. It's an interesting mechanic to play with but from a story perspective it's just plain stupid. I'd almost prefer if they didn't address the mechanic and just left it as one of those game things you can do but never question like switching characters or respawning at a checkpoint.
I feel the same, the game seems alright but no need to force feed the magical aspect into the story.
I think it's an amazing mechanic and taking a huge risk like that is the only way they would ever get people interested in this piece of shit series.
Dude is in a coma and the whole thing is probably a dream, but being able to take over other cars to help your goals is pretty out there. I have heard some good things, anyone pick this up yet?
I finally popped this game in and put some time in. It's pretty awesome. Closest cousin is Midnight Club: Los Angeles, which was awesome but brutally hard and not accessible at all. This is, by contrast (and perhaps unexpectedly, given the series), not so.
The shift mechanic works - the developers went above and beyond by writing a lot of funny dialogue for the different people when you pop in their cars.
The story is also a lot of fun. Like the shift mechanic, it works. I'm glad they went out there with this, would anyone have cared otherwise? The driving is pretty similar to the original from what I vaguely remember, kind of heavy but with a good drift mechanic. And 60fps!
The story does not work. But you're right, the game is fun so who cares.
Went ahead and picked up a copy.
Can't go wrong for $20.
I was waiting for a price drop, then I forgot this existed. Definitely sounds like it's worth $20.
for 20 its awesome.
This is $7.49 on Steam today. I am incredibly tempted, despite the fact I was supposed to stop buying things this month like four games ago.
Its level of awesomeness only goes up the lower the price is.
ok. It was worth $7.50 to try out the "Remotely install my games now" feature of the Steam iPhone app.~ Valve ~
I hate you for pointing this out. I'm trying to spend more time with the games I already own instead of being reminded of yet more stuff I skipped over but wanted.
Fuck me that is so cheap whyyyyyy
You'll have from roughly March until September of next year to do that when nothing is coming out in preparation for the PS4/Xbucket launches.Quote:
Originally Posted by MechDeus
This game is incredible. That's all I'll say.
There will be plenty of good games like XCOM coming out next year for me to play, especially since I'll also be putting off a lot of those until price drops as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Yoshi
p.s. "Xbucket" is about as clever as "M$". Why do you keep using it?
I forget who came up with it, but I like it better than Xbox 720. Clearly you got what I meant, so who cares?
I only got what you meant because you paired it with the PS4. The term itself was originally used by the same unoriginal people for the original Xbox that paired it with "M$", so by itself it would sound like you're talking about 2004.
I don't remember that at all, but I'll take your word for it. I'm sorry my nomenclature is twisting your panties in multiple threads.
It's just weird because you're like the only one that's used it this generation and you keep making a point of awkwardly inserting it. It'd be like if I was typing PShit3 all the time.
Anyway, that nonsense aside, this game is pretty damn awesome. I've been playing way too many Criterion racers lately because it took me a while to get used to it, the cars felt like they cornered like bricks at first. Good ol' Reflections, I missed you.