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| Iggy 3230th Post
 
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|  "Re(2):Hey Iggy: Gamespot has no love for Sire"
, posted Thu 29 Apr 22:54
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like excessively trial-and-error oriented gameplay and excessive repetition of certain areas?
Yes, that's the point. The game is difficult. You die often. You must find your own pattern to finish a mission, and some patterns are more difficult than others. Some maps are re-used up to (gasp) 3 times, and thank god they are, since you need to know a map well to be effective in it.
But the biggest thing is that the game is hard, and I guess most low level gamers don't like to die, they want a game to take them from the start to the conclusion without them making any efforts. Or a different kind of effort I guess, like jumping 200 times to evade a thunder blow. I prefer Siren, if you ask me.
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Well, that and Shiro simply breathing.
Shir... Oh, you mean Miyatan.(laughs)
本当にしつこい女だなぁ...
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| Iggy 3233th Post
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| "Re(4):Hey Iggy: Gamespot has no love for Sire" , posted Fri 30 Apr 08:18
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On the topic of Siren, EGM didn't like it either. I've heard lots of complaints about cheap sniper zombie deaths which sounds kinda bad. I don't mind difficulty, but I don't like it when it's out of your hands because enemies have unfair advantages. I'll probably get the game when the price drops a little.
There are a lot of complains that can be made to the game, but snipers are definitely NOT an issue. They can kill you in 1 hit, but so do you when you have their weapon(and sometimes they can even need 2 hits to kill you, so the advantage is on your side). The snipers kill you ? You are a bad player. There are several ways to evade them, depending on the mission, your characters, or your own capacities as a player. It is possible, even easy when you get used to the game mechanics, to go and kill a sniper with the stupid metal pole you get in Kyôya's first mission. Do you have to do it ? Not necessarely, it depends on your play style. Mostly, you won't. When you will really NEED to kill a sniper, you will either have a sniper riffle or a gun, so you are roughtly on par with them. And it's still difficult, you still need a little practice, but it's definitely NOT the hardest part of the game. Blaming the game because you have poor skills is an interesting way to write a review.
Oh, I forgot. The snipers are undead, so they wake up after one or two minutes. Oh, yes, that must be the unfair thing they were talking about.
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| Radish 2436th Post
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| "Re(5):Hey Iggy: Gamespot has no love for Sire" , posted Fri 30 Apr 10:31:
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On the topic of Siren, EGM didn't like it either. I've heard lots of complaints about cheap sniper zombie deaths which sounds kinda bad. I don't mind difficulty, but I don't like it when it's out of your hands because enemies have unfair advantages. I'll probably get the game when the price drops a little.
There are a lot of complains that can be made to the game, but snipers are definitely NOT an issue. They can kill you in 1 hit, but so do you when you have their weapon(and sometimes they can even need 2 hits to kill you, so the advantage is on your side). The snipers kill you ? You are a bad player. There are several ways to evade them, depending on the mission, your characters, or your own capacities as a player. It is possible, even easy when you get used to the game mechanics, to go and kill a sniper with the stupid metal pole you get in Kyôya's first mission. Do you have to do it ? Not necessarely, it depends on your play style. Mostly, you won't. When you will really NEED to kill a sniper, you will either have a sniper riffle or a gun, so you are roughtly on par with them. And it's still difficult, you still need a little practice, but it's definitely NOT the hardest part of the game. Blaming the game because you have poor skills is an interesting way to write a review.
Oh, I forgot. The snipers are undead, so they wake up after one or two minutes. Oh, yes, that must be the unfair thing they were talking about.
Hmm ok. I reread the article and one guy didn't like the game since he had to go back and replay the leves 15 times since the map didn't have you or the monsters on it (which I thought was intentional according to developer interviews), the second guy liked it except for some unmentioned problems he hopes will be fixed in Siren 2, and the third guy hated all the red herring items and "nonsensical" puzzles.
The sniper complaint is a combination of the first guy (who I think didn't really understand the game) and people who I've heard who've played the game. It sounds like they didn't have the correct mindset to get into it.
I'm still going to wait on it a bit though. It sounds neat, but I'm trying to save some cash right now.
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| Spoon 299th Post
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| "Re(5):Hey Iggy: Gamespot has no love for Sire" , posted Fri 30 Apr 14:04
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Blaming the game because you have poor skills is an interesting way to write a review.
Personally, I seldom read reviews these days to find out if games are "good" or "bad"; I mainly read them to find out if there are glaring problems that will serve to really tick me off (e.g. showstopper bugs, severe memory leaks, massively exploitable game mechanics, monstrously poorly designed areas, etc.), or for some personal amusement (e.g. IC...).
I remember shooter reviews written by people who have no taste for shooters: blah blah about it being too hard and you dying in one hit. It's not unfair, it's that it's meant to be hard. That said, there is such a thing as poor design, and that's the kind of thing I like to be wary of.
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