Re: Games Discussion Thread
Recently DID NOT PIRATE, E.Y.E divine cybermancy. And... hrm I definately don't like this game.
First thing is you ABSOLUTLEY MUST PATCH IT, or a ton of places are going to be too dark for you to see what is happening/where you are, and of course the flashlight is shit. Now, I normall wouldn't take points off for this, I'd just go to the menu and up the brightness/gamma, but THAT'S NOT ALLOWED. Following a seeming trend of some recent games, you are completely unable to adjust the brightness, there's just no option in the menu. Bullshit I say.
I guess the main reason why I don't like this game is that it is constructed like a psuedo MMORPG shooter. Most of the RPG part is not unforgiveably bad, the system works and that's all you need really. However, the MMO part really hurts what I felt could have been a decent cyberpunk game. And of course it killed the FPS part.
I'll give you an example of one of my play sessions to illustrate the things I dislike.
I start out in the 'home base' area, and go out on a story mission. Get to the area and I'm told my objectives, and that I should try to go unnoticed. So I look around a little bit and find the only path that isn't covered by snipers is through the sewers. I drop down there and CANT SEE ANYTHING, so after fumbling around in the dark for 10-15 minutes to find the way out I re-load the damned mission. This time I just go kill all the snipers. As for the mission itself, it's you standard kill this, find that deal. No big, everythings easy to find with the quest arrow. Oh, did I mention that enemies re-spawn almost infinately? I've only ever gotten a map down to a small (relatively) mob of enemies that respawn over and over.
Upon completing the mission I'm awarded with XP and money. So I go to the Stats screen and use up my leveling points, nothing too problematic. Untill I get looking around and click on the research button, where I find that I've picked up some kind of object that needs to be researched to gain benefit from it. And the research costs money to make it go faster using a slide bar to denote how much you spend, I've got the option of going for the minimum amount of money which will take a couple of days in game time, or the maximum which will take a single day. As I don't have that much money I take the minimum. So I decide to waste some time taking a side mission.
Load up the side mission and I'm given 3 objectives, kill _____, Find____, and close all the doors. Not too bad, kill___ is marked on my map so I go do that. And have no idea what to do after that, after about 10 minutes I figured out that the kind of garage door things around the level that have turrets in front of them are what I'm supposed to be closing. Got that one done, now onto Find. And that's where I was stuck for an hour, god knows where that thing was because, even though the objective marker will highlight when you're 10 ft away, the levels are too big and the objects hidden in such obscure places you're never going to get within 10 ft.
Okay, so I've wasted an hour and a half and ended up with a half-completed mission that I quit out of, time to check on my research... 55% done. And that was one of the research's that took relatively little time. Granted, I chose the minimum amount of money. But you'll find that unless you're willing to spend days upon days doing side missions over and over, you're not going to have anywhere near enough cash to research items at their quickest. Oh and another little thing, I was able to find a bug later on to get researches done at the fastest for free, however some of them took up to and over 5 hours IRL time. NOT COOL.
Which nets this game a whopping 3/10, the game gets a 1 for running without crashing, another 1 for model design (some of the weapons look pretty cool, along with a couple environments and enemies), and a last 1 for making the placement of ammo in your limited inventory easy, instead of the drag-and-drop for weapons once you do so with ammo you can simply right-click and it will place another in the spot you clicked on. Once they've fixed the darkenss problem, and some objective bugs it'll be a 4/10.
I could go into further detail, (I'm not even gong to mention the WTF story-line) but this is a big enough post already. To sum things up, E.Y.E. suffers greatly from being tailored to MMO players. And while I don't have anything against MMO players, I do have something against aspects of games that take up a large amount of time, just for the sake of taking up large amounts of time. So if you've got lots of time and enjoy MMORPGs this game could be for you (Seriously go play WoW or Ragnarok), or similarly if you are a masochist (as I must be, I actually finished this damn game).
Playstation stuff is okey, but I prefer the old school playstation stuff. Like Growlancer 
