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why is no one talking about this game?
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Because it's a shit reboot that nobody asked for?
Why is it shit?
Fuck, why does gaming potential always get squandered?
>>340540532
Cause it sucks ass
>>340540532
Never understood why they decided to double down on the combat instead of removing it, when it was the worst part of the first game that everyone complained about. It's like they just wanted this game to fail. Oh well.
its garbage, watched a livestream and just imagine mirrors edge + shadow of mordor.
yeah, its very unappealing blend of free roam + fetch quest side quests and timed mission everything.
Because the heroine looks like a fucking monkey
>>340540532
DENUVO+EA Origins
That's like double rape in ass and vagina at the same time
>>340540532
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EziN3pYw9RE
shit game
Can you explore the city? Can you walk at street level? The world was pretty interesting in 1, I want to explore it.
>>340542243
What's so bad about EA's origins?It's called Origin dipshit
Because goobers review-bombed it based on a rumor that was debunked an entire fucking year ago.
As for the game itself, it's pretty good yeah. The open world takes away from the fast pace of the original, but at least it's an open world that actually works instead the usual asscreed bullshit.
>>340540532
>Origin
>supporting EA
That's my reason atleast. I'd love to play it, but fuck EA
>>340540797
People were asking for this for a long time, dumbass.
>>340542658
Don't know about street level, but the rooftops are open world design.
>>340542787
Because it's EA, a nortoriously evil company known for underhanded installation of DRM shit and spying on you. What do you think that makes the client?
Stick with the console version.
>Open world
>Upgrades
>More combat
Sounds like a worse game than the previous one, I don't see the point in playing, much less buying the new one.
>>340543306
why does neo-/v/ hate open world now?
>>340543290
The Monkey's Paw
I don't think anybody with half a brain wanted this.
>trusting modern day EA
>>340543464
open world means nothing today
Just look at Homefront.
>>340543557
The game is fine, though. The only criticism I see that isn't horseshit is the annoying runner vision, which is completely optional.
Just be thankful they didn't pull a Dead Space 3 and demand the devs do a co-op focus.
>Mirror's Edge is one of my favorite games
>want a sequel that's basically the same with better story, no combat, and great course design
>EA/DICE shits out the reboot
>story isn't just worse, it's more in your face about it - at least in the original you could ignore that
>combat is simply bad and there are still tons of forced combat sections
>courses are garbage thanks to open-world design, skill tree unlocks, and grappling hook
>to top it all off, they ruined the visual design that made the original so timeless
At least the parkour controls weren't dumbed down. That's the only solace I have amid this mediocrity.
PLAYING RIGHT NOW
FUCK YOU
>>340543850
The game is just a hollywood movie
>>340540532
Honestly, because I hate the bixnood face.
>>340544093
Thank you for your well thought out criticism.Now go ahead and call me a shill
>>340542349
>the enemies just pop in once the cutscene is over
BRAVO EA
>>340541882
No one said ever about Faith...
>>340544167
She doesn't even look black, she looks Asian.
Didn't even know it was out, still don't care about it now that I know
>>340540532
Because is not great and is not shit.
Is just meh.
>>340544324
>DICE made the original too, dumbass
>story was always shit outside of based merc
>the combat I agree with, but it's only for missions
>open world works for ME due to it's unique concept; the same reason open world worked for gravity rush
>the minimalist design is still in the game; try playing it
unoptimized mess on PC, straight up ugly mess on consoles
shorter story than 1
>>340542658
I only went to street level once so far, and it was only for about 10 seconds in a mission
you can explore the rooftops, kind of
there isn't much to see
>>340543004
I feel like the open world only takes away from the fast pace when you have to get between regions or you get lost
you can go pretty fast when you know where you're going and don't suddenly hit the edge of a region when following your beacon
>>340544686
The world design is horrible and the parkour is ruined by even more linear levels than the first game when this is supposed to be open world.
I didn't know I bought Watch Dogs 2.
>>340543464
open world can be done badly VERY EASILY
just look at this game: the original had great, tightly designed levels, while this has boring, repetitive shit.
>>340540532
I preordered the collectors edition at Gamestop, didn't pay it off though. I asked the guy how long will gamestop hold it for and he said 2 days but nobody will probably come and get it lol
>>340540532
>mfw they talked about the game on swedish cultural news some hours ago
>mfw they said it was a masterpiece compared to the first game
>they barely even mentioned the first game
It's not that bad.
Sure the focus on timed side missions and the combat and running do get a bit repetitive, but as a whole it really isn't a terrible game.
Not great but not bad. 7/10.
Ho my god, they improved the gameplay. It's awesome.
>>340544408
he's never left his basement so he probably thinks all Asians look like plastic enchanced k pop models
>>340544820
you're an idiot. That shows up for 5 seconds and all that shit disappears.
I've been playing it and i really haven't been liking it so far. The open world i think is what kills it the most. Mirror's Edge was designed as a level based game where each level was specifically designed and set up to go from point A to B with, sometimes with slightly different paths. Open world kills that aspect and makes it really boring.
>>340544686
Saying EA/DICE shit out the reboot wasn't an indictment, it's just a statement of what happened.
Yes, the story was always shit. I mentioned that. They made it worse and less avoidable.
Combat is agreed.
The open world doesn't really work to the game's favor. ME wasn't really about the city - it was a racing/time trial game, and the open world dilutes that experience.
Minimalism is definitely not part of the game's design. In ME almost every area was white + some bright, solid color. MEC environments have a lot more going on, plus the much more futuristic setting which I don't really like (though that's my personal taste).
>>340541676
What do you mean double down? i havent been following the game but I was planning on picking it up.
I hated the combat in the first game, its worse in this one?
>>340545245
you're the idiot
>>340545207
>$0.05 has been added to your account
>>340545527
No, I do it for free.
>>340540532
i bought mirror's edge 1 for 15 €, i loved the game but it didn't feel like it was worth more than that
this game looks worse than the original i'm not paying full price
this fucking thread again?
>>340545417
The game locks you into a cinematic fight scene when you finish a guy off.
>>340545629
I know right? Better make another Overwatch thread.
>>340540532
Mirror's Edge wasn't that great since it had garbage level design. The developers knew it was bad too but instead of fixing it, they added runner's vision and a dedicated where-do-I-go button. The sequel looks like its going to be even worse.
>>340540532
because /v/ was terrified that it would get good scores because "muh social justice boogeyman" but when it tanked due to being garbage and got low scores, /v/ had nothing to be triggered about.
>>340545647
That sounds pretty bad. Only it being open world is a huge turn off for me.
I dunno if I should cancel my order. Game sounds like ass but I really want the loli Faith figma.
Is it still a wallpaper factory? If it's a good looking game like the first one I'll grab it on sale
>>340546151
DELETE THIS
I think its pretty cool, the PC controls for combat are dodgy though. Not sure what i should bind to what, nothing works well
>>340540532
>didn't bother hyping it up
>Denuvo, so no pirates talking about it
>Origin, so take away the people that just don't like it
>8 years after the original one, so the ones asking for a sequel gave up long ago
>>340546394
it's okay, just get the combat upgrades that "do extra damage to enemy X" and you'll pretty much just one-hit everyone
>>340542349
Haven't played the game, so that's a bit out of context for me, but why is she content with her sister being the head of Kruger? Was that the plan?
Also, Faith's model doesn't look bad in-game/
>>340546470
>the ones asking for a sequel gave up long ago
We never gave up, we never lost Faith. And today she's there, we were right.
>>340546065
>calling the original mirror's edge garbage
>bitching about casual vision that nobody uses
>>340546573
Also, I'd just like to note the number of things that should have killed/seriously injured Faith.
>ziplining clear into a tower and hitting the ground like nothing happened
>landing on a smooth, round surface, and not slipping off, falling to her death
>sliding off said surface with enough forward momentum to reach another building from a complete stop
>landing on the edge of a window and immediately falling to the ground
This level design is weird, yo.
>>340546573
it's not bad at all
it's just the god-awful cover art that makes her look like some sort of proto-human
>>340546470
Cloudbuilt made the idea of a Mirror's Edge sequel unappealing as fuck to me. That game does almost everything ME wanted to do a million times better. Going back to the boring mechanics and simplistic levels of ME is hard at this point.
>>340546151
>>340546352
>>340543892
>and grappling hook
Oh what the fuck?
>>340540532
>talk about video games
>on /v/
Lurk more.
Also, when Mirror's Edge was first released it got shit on. But the speedrunning community kept posting videos on it, and lo-and-behold - suddenly people were really interested in this really cool looking racing game. Everybody stopped caring about the story, combat, empty world because it was just fun to play.
Exact same thing is happening to Catalyst. People are shitting on it because they're retarded, when in reality it's excellent. Once the speedrunning community gets going again though, people will suddenly start saying they liked it all along.
>>340546828
The fight at the beginning of the video was also strange. All that tumbling over was pretty funny, along with the jump kicks from the two attackers.
>>340546540
ehh i kinda like the combat in theory, i wish it were just a bit quicker and more brutal on both sides. There's no challenge, I got hit over and over by the stun-punch guys and the fight was awkwardly long
>>340546573
with as far as I've gotten in the game, Faith thinks her sister is dead since they were separated during a riot and she leaves her behind to get away
>>340543290
>People were asking for this for a long time, dumbass.
Incorrect. Nobody wanted a reboot. They wanted a sequel.
>>340546901
Now post the part where the entire thing got debunked a year ago, faGGot
>I like IGN when it appeals to my memes
>>340540532
Are you blind? There have been multiple threads the last couple days about it this is the 3rd thread I've seen claiming no one is talking about it.
To answer your question its because its not that good.
>>340547047
Why don't you post it
>>340547041
Because everybody cared about the story, right?
Quit lying out of your ass.
>>340547016
>Faith thinks her sister is dead since they were separated during a riot
Yeah, I got that much from the video. It just seemed like there wasn't any actual closure, yet people are laughing and seemingly content at the end of the game. I'd imagine that Faith wanted some kind of appropriate reunion with her sister.
The exact same thread was up yesterday.. with the exact same thread starter words.
>>340547174
need that for the sequelhehaHAHAHA[HAAAaaa/spoiler]
>>340547116
>http://www.gamepur.com/news/17364-ea-comments-fan-petition-demanding-anita-sarkeesian-sacking-mirrors-edge-2.html
>fucking 2014
You can go back to KiA now.
>>340546901
>SJW "influences" the game
>it's shit and called out for being shit
Those damn feminazis rigging the scores of reviews and taking our games!
>>340547267
cool beans, yo
good thing the thread police is here
>>340543892
Yeah this. I had friends playing the beta and I just couldn't justify the level up and unlock systems. They felt so plastered on and not part of the design.
For me, not buying a sequel to one of my favorite and long sought for games, is bad design. The game designer should be sacked.
This is what happens when you give a brilliant IP to the B team.
>>340547350
>Why don't you post it
He actually did it, the absolute madman
Today I finished watching the whole game on youtube and it was mostly a boring experience. Reviewers really weren't kidding when some of them said the characters aren't likable. The ending was really shitty and anticlimactic too.
For a guy that really wanted a Mirror's Edge sequel, this game was a mistake.
>>340547375
Sark is perhaps the Trojan horse or just the figurehead but through 'her', a whole slew of Marxists got in positions of power and influence.
>>340546901
>>340547350
Do you have to be on the same level of SJWs to actually support GG? I mean, do either groups bother to fucking fact check anything before screaming about their respective boogeymen?
>>340547741
>watching a game on youtube
>it was a boring experience
well, no shit
>>340547741
>watching someone else play a video game
>instead of just playing that game yourself
So watching other people play video games is boring, who would have fucking guessed? The only people who do that shit are underage kids.
>>340547785
Nope. Both are equally retarded by this point. GG has become more of a "safe space" than tumblr itself. It's no longer about fighting corrupt corporations and more /r9k/ than anything.
Just stay out of the shit flinging contest and keep playing video games, man.
Because like the first game, it had zero marketing. I didn't even know it came out already. Its like they wanted it to fail.
>make okay game
>has a lot of problems but the concept is good
>sells like shit
>remake the same game
>don't fix any of the problems, introduce a host of new problems, and shit on everything that made the first game good as a concept
>also bring in a feminist that has openly stated she hates games to act as a consultant
>sells like shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJxCdh1Ps48
>>340547989
>>340548112
Nope, most of the recent games I've seen have been enjoyable to some degree but this was just a bore.
Why would I play this game after watching it, let alone pay money for it? It wouldn't magically become fun because I'm controlling the character now.
>>340546261
Dat that girl could get the D, you know which one I'm talking about..
>>340548181
they have no faithheein the franchise
of course they're going to half-ass it
>>340542349
All these gameplay parts that were missed for the sake of cinematics. This is what's wrong with the games as of today.
When faith was pulled up an amazing escape sequence putting to test every parkour skill the player has learned could be used. Hell, literally every fighting sequence could have been done outside of cutscenes. Oh, it would be tedious? Fuck you, you're playing a game, not watching $60 movie. If it would be tedious maybe the developers should have put in effort in making the fights actually be good instead of shitty, with punches that reach 6ft and with teleporting enemies.
And of course they have to go with the cliffhanger ending. "we started something," way to make a cash-in. Even games like mirror's edge, which emphasized gameplay, have been reduced to this cinematic engaging emotional storydriven bullcrap. I hate it. I loved the first game, short as it was, but this is absolutely horrible.
>>340540797
>>340543290
It's a reboot? I was under the impression it was a prequel or some bullshit.
>>340548317
I just don't understand the concept of watching games
I hated watching people play video games when I was a kid, why the hell would I want to watch someone play them now?
>>340548679
they retconned the first game in favor of this uninspired open world shlock
>>340542349
>finals boss
>in a game about running
>it's a shitty combat sequence
They just don't get it
>>340548679
It is certainly some bullshit.
>>340548679
nope, it's a reboot
No interest in this game.
I don't understand why Faith is some amazing heroine to be idolized, either.
>>340548728
I think it's a beta mentality. My friend's brother wouldn't let him play because he hogged the control and my friend was forced to watch. When my brother tried that shit on me I just took the controller, said it was my turn and told him to go get dad if he had a problem with it. Dad never punished me because we literally owned every console that came out while growing up and my spoiled brother made a habit of hogging things.
>>340549046
Because video games are about gameplay and Mirror's Edge is the best gameplay in first person games. There is a before and an after ME.
>>340548728
Maybe he doesn't want to spend 60 dollars on a game he might not like.
>>340548834
As someone who beat the game, there's a TON of running and shit that was a really big lead up to the final boss section
I enjoyed it but I think it would have been better if it had been a linear game like the first.
>>340549294
then watch a gameplay demo video just long enough to make that decision
why would you watch someone play an entire game?
>>340548815
>>340548871
>>340548887
Did they give an official reason to why? The original isn't even that old of a game.
>>340546151
I would think /v/ would have celebrated how much it sucks.
>>340546278
I think it's definitely worse. With open setups, there's less ability to focus and make shit look super pretty from that angle.
>>340547785
The laugh riot that is the wikipedia arbcom on this topic shows. Everybody's shooting from the hip. The easily triggered crowd, angry neckbeards, and even credentialed journalists.
My standard is to trust no source, and to be pissed at people who are trying to keep me from videogames that I want, regardless of their political orientation.
>>340548461
I'm with you and the other anons. It's as if they didn't really understand what were the good parts of this game in the first place.
>>340549294
You have 24 hours after launching the game through Origin for a refund if you don't like it.
>>340545260
Dying Light says different.
>>340549451
It has been 8 years since the first one. That's a long fucking time to return for a chronological sequel. In that time, the entire Witcher/Mass Effect/Dragon Age trilogies have been completed
Mirror's Edge was supposed to be a trilogy.
>>340549451
Because no one played the first game I guess. It sold under 500k.
>>340549851
The only reason this got made is because DICE/the fans have been begging EA to do it and EA wanted Frostbite to be optimized for open world environments. EA knew this would be a loss for them, but it'd be a morale boost in the eyes of gamers and they'd get a better engine out of it.
Also, 500K is bullshit across PS3/360/Steam. It has to be more.
>>340550013
I think you overestimate the popularity of this game.
>>340546901
>Unlikable characters
Letting a nimrod with a degree in watching TV with no writing experience define guidelines(which she herself breaks in her example of a good one) on acceptable characters backfired? Very surprising.
>>340550267
2 million on Steam alone according to Steamspy
1.17 on 360
1.14 on PS3
Yeah, it did pretty well.
DICE has been shit tier since 2009.
Every project since has been a disappointment compared to previous titles in the series.
BF3/3.5 are worse than BF2, with shitty art direction, bad content quality, and unwanted excessive unlocks
Battlefront is worse than Pandemic's games, with good art though, but terrible content quantity, and unwanted excessive unlocks
And this is shittier than the old game, with worse art direction, horrific story, and unwanted unlocks
>>340550698
those 2 million sales on Steam aren't even counting the Humble Bundles because the EA Humble Pack was an origin key
>freerunning is mechanically identical to the first game
>fixed point grappling hook that slows everything down
>maximum sprint speed is a light jog
>combat is garbage and essentially patterned based
>replaced sick roundhouse out of a wallrun with a boring push kick
>poorly designed open world
>side missions are all time trials
>takes place in a horrible feminist future where women no longer have asses
>>340549718
>It has been 8 years since the first one. That's a long fucking time to return for a chronological sequel.
That was no problem for Metal Gear Solid.
>>340551348
MGS was marketed as one of the first "cinematic experiences" in gaming. It had something really unique going for it. Also, it didn't cost 30 million to make.
Also, MGS confused the hell out of a lot of people that didn't know about Metal Gear 1/2, especially in the US where we got Snake's Revenge and shit so that's hardly the greatest example.
>>340540532
Not on Steam.
>>340544820
gr8 meme you got there, faggot.
>>340540532
because u can't torrent it yet and 4chan is full of 12 year olds
>>340551658
Yet, somehow it's an issue to make a Mirror's Edge sequel set in the same continuity as the original, even though you could download the first game for peanuts on any digital downloading service. Hell, they even handed it out for free on PSN a year or two ago.
>>340545591
>I do it for free
Good grief, I didn't know that people were still riding the EA hype train AND be a complete retard/normie in the process.
>>340551978
Where do you go from Mirror's Edge 1? Faith stopped the bad guys, exposed the weird ninja runner program and destroyed the shard.
Also, they wanted to do the origin story and change the aesthetic to be a bit more futuristic since they were no longer limited by a small budget and Unreal Engine 3.
Rebooting the series solved all of their problems
>>340552223
>Also, they wanted to do the origin story
DICE should have learned by now they're shit at stories
>and change the aesthetic
From literally perfect to shit
Playing it right now and while the open world stuff certainly wasn`t necessary the game is still amazing.
Great artstyle/sound/atmosphere, fantastic gameplay ( they removed the shooting and while the combat still isn't perfect ist way better than before).
Don't listen to the retarded Gaming press or any 12 year old edgelords on 4chan, if you liked the first one you'll like this.
>>340552776
I liked the first one, and I think this is barely passable.
>>340552223
>Where do you go from Mirror's Edge 1? Faith stopped the bad guys, exposed the weird ninja runner program and destroyed the shard.
During the credits it's stated that Project Icarus is basically put into overdrive because of Faith's actions. Her and her sister are still wanted for the murder of Robert Pope as well. You could have made a great sequel with that stuff.
>>340552776
>if you liked the first one you'll like this
You know the drill. But I don't like the first one, I love the first one.
Don't be surprised when they don't make a third game because none of you faggots are buying the second.
They expected a loss, not a tanking failure.
>>340555036
I'm surprised they made a second game. And since when does EA ever expect a loss when they greenlight?
And that's still not enough of a reason for me to pay full price for garbage. Especially not from EA.
>>340555308
I agree with you.
