Topic: Red Steel 2 Megathread!

[Caterkiller]

Played it for about an hour. Still getting used to the control, I set it too atheletic and found myself being too soft because of past games.

The style is so freakin cool, and when I look at this game I marvel at it like I do Galaxy. It does not look like some old Gamecube game, and I love it! As much as I love and missed games with big presentations like this one, I don't think every game needs it like NSMBW. Just thought i'd throw that out there.

Still just trying to learn the controls, can comment on it more when I have a better handle on things. But when I get into a fight I do get pretty excited and want to stand up and move around. Though I did find sitting down to be just as fun.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Be sure to relax, and resist the urge to Flying Dragon Kick your TV.

[ShyGuy]

I keep getting tangled in my nunchuk cord.

Also, the Eagle is really hard to do.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

Is that some sort of COMMA SOOTRAH?

I've heard of "The Dog" before.

[ShyGuy]

Mexican Halloween.

[Peachylala]

How many units did The Conduit sell during its first month? Wasn't it around 70,000? That's my guess for first month sales for this.

**** sales are deserving for **** games.
 
I died five or more times on the first boss. God I hate his fucking mooks with guns.[/spoilers]
 
I'm really digging the art design for this one.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

MAN, WHAT A **** GAME

21K, tops.

[KDR_11k]

So far I'm unsure, I really think they should've left out the breaking **** for money aspect since that makes me feel like I should wreck everything before moving on and that hurts the pacing. There are some parts of the graphical style that don't work well and I think the prerendered intro really moved your expectations too high by the time you actually see the game. Some of the doors look really ugly and since you'll stare at them during loads that's amplified. Doesn't help that the prerendered scenes with Tamiko look weird because of the strong lighting that uses regular falloff, makes her look like she doesn't have the game's style going for her.


Also the store I bought it at charged 40€ for the version with Motion Plus and 50€ without so I have a third Motion Plus now. I picked it over Pokemon HeartGold (25€ instead of 40€) and Metro 2033 (29€ instead of 50€) so I hope it's worth it.

[Caterkiller]

Very much enjoying this game, as I under stand the controls better.

Hey when exactly does the game save?

[Peachylala]

Auto Saves when you do certain events or enter certain areas.

[ShyGuy]

Yeah the autosave is a little odd. It shows the white cube with the red arrow in the upper left corner when it saves. I've usually quit a game after I am in a safe house then buy some stuff and exit. It usually saves when I go back on the street.

I personally like the money collection thing but I wish the kept track of the other things you collect as well. Is there anywhere it says how many sheriff stars or tokens you have collected?

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

PixlBit is competing for worst review of this game yet; it's an FPS, and a bad one.

While the NEW GENERATION consensus is it's not an FPS, it's a beat'em-up with shooting.

[ShyGuy]

That review makes me Arrrgh. http://pixlbit.com/reviews?action=showReview&reviewId=120

[Nemo]

I heard that Red Steel 2 is the worst flight simulator game yet.

[Mop it up]

I really don't see what the big deal is. 3 out of 5 stars doesn't mean it's bad, just average, or maybe slightly above.

It's a first-person game with shooting elements, so logically it is going to be compared to other first-person games with shooting elements. Metroid Prime wasn't exempt to such comparisons, nor should it be.

[Spinnzilla]

I give this game a holy **** awesome/10.

[Caterkiller]

I havn't been so satisfied with a 3rd party games since Zak and Wiki. I really am having a good time.

But man, I'm having a hard time remembering ways to kill enemies. I die and die and die, then I just figure out, oh, bum rush em then stab on the ground. Oh swing this way or that way then stab em.

Played a boss who killed me 5 times befor I hit the ground, then I realised, whip around him and hit em in the back.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Wow, 1 up gave it a 56. That seems absurd to me from what I've heard about the game.

[BranDonk Kong]

I like how every review starts off by saying how horrible Red Steel was, but it really wasn't all that bad. Sure it could have looked a little better, and the controls weren't perfect, but it was a launch title, and it was actually a lot of fun to play.

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

It was pretty bad, from the standpoint that the FPS controls were a natural hindrance to my progress in the game (then sold it after playing 3 stages).  It's was NOT something I intended to "get used to"; I figured that enduring it wasn't something that would pay off, like having the control (muscle memory) experience in this game be helpful for future FPS games.  Sword controls were fine for its time, I thought.

Last night, I played some Banana Blitz: Monkey Wars to get some video evidence.

Holy ****, it may be a shareware-level minigame, but the aiming blows Red Steel out of the water.  Sega sent out a game that got First Person controls right 9 months before Metroid Prime 3 appeared.

[ShyGuy]

To be fair, Metacritic translated 1up's C+ for RS2 into a 56, while Game Rankings translated the C+ into a 70.

THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN

[NinGurl69 *huggles]

INDUSTRY CRASH

[Spinnzilla]

Guys, I ran into a glitch.  A really bad one.  After I completed the water garden mission I had to decscend into the lower part of the city and now I just keep getting sent through the map into a bottomless abyss.

Anybody know how to get around this?

[ShyGuy]

Hmm, haven't heard of that one. Does restarting from the checkpoint fix it?

[Spinnzilla]

Hmm, haven't heard of that one. Does restarting from the checkpoint fix it?

Nope.  I've restarting the check point, didn't work.  Tried resetting the level just to find out it was the same as the check point. 

christ.