Too Human Demo Today
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If anyone is interested the demo should be going up today at 2 am PDT for those with Gold member accounts.
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/marketplace/t/toohuman/demo.htm
http://www.xbox.com/en-US/live/marketplace/t/toohuman/demo.htm
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A few nice looking environment stuffs though
first impressions were very poor, however the game got a lot more fun/interesting towards the end of the demo, supposivly the game gets better as it goes along too.
The skill tree for the Champion looks very uninteresting, and honestly, what's the point of multiple 'branches' when you are forced into putting your first point into a set place? and if the other branches suck?
the combat got fun after a little, it's great to keep busy and shoot stuff.
the camera is god awful. fixing this alone would make the game a thousand times more playable.
I'll still give it a rent because it has a fun item system from what I could tell, and I loves me some uber lewts.
on the whole I am disappointed , we'll see when the final game comes out though.
The camera = facepalm. I understand that it is supposed to be a presentation tool to lend in the grandiose story telling and epic staging, but it just doesn't work in those regards. It takes away an element of control that I personally feel hinders the game more than helping it. At times it works decently and at other times it can really just go nuts. I came back from a cutscene to find that the camera had somehow gotten outside of the ceiling or something. Sometimes it wants you to look at something you don't want to look at making navigation difficult. Additionally if you want to check out the in game art work it's too difficult to be bothered as the free look option only works when it deems it neccesary.
I'm enjoying a lot of the combat, sliding about can feel good sometimes when you really get some combo speed going. I do feel like the skill trees and such were tailored for the 4 player co-op in many regards and come off a bit meh in single player.
I will say I've played through it a number of times and keep going back. There are ways to play more than just the champion class as well. (Google it or look on you tube to find out how.) I went through as a commando (ranged class) but I didn't like it as well as the champion. I think I'm going to go as the defender next.
It does have that sense of suffering from a long dev cycle, but who knows. It's not the second coming of Christ that Mr. Dyack would lead you to believe, but it's not worthy of the hate it has amassed across the web. It's certainly not perfect, but IMO it is fun if you dig these types of loot gathering/character building games. It's one of those games that had potential to be a gaming milestone, but missed the mark. I'm not really sure what went wrong or where it went wrong.
Edit*- I figured since I sound like I'm negatively preaching about it I would add a blurb. I'm having fun playing this game, it's just not what I was hoping for. Despite the negatives I may still pick this up since I'm enjoying the demo. I would definitely recommend a play before buy on this one though.
/googles
I agree, I just finished the berserker and I'd have to say it's been the funnest class so far. I'll have to give the bio engineer a shot soon.
For me, the biggest negative was the menu screens. When you're constantly picking up loot, you want a snappy inventory screen to pop up so you can try out your new stuff. Having to go into a main menu, scroll through a radial menu (which takes about a second to pop up) to access the inventory, and wait about a second for that to pop up, is very aggravating. Sounds like splitting hairs but when the big thing about your game is loot, you need to make it accessible.
Err... Press the back button... ?
I actually quite liked the demo. Really like the mix of norse and sci-fi. Love the idea of the right stick for combat, though it is a bit awkward getting used to the camera system because of it, seems something a bit better could've been worked out with that.
But yea, overall I like.
[edit]Oh, and what in the fuck is up with the lack of rumble?[/edit]
What that man said. Some time ago I remember thinking the games development might be worth following. Unfortunately however, the gameplay feels about as tired as the visual concepts. Seriously, enough fucking bald space marines already. It's all done well enough graphically (apart from some pretty nasty cut scenes and dodgy looking faces. WTF is up with the eye shape morph targets?) but it all feels so deja vu that there's just not enough to keep you gripped for long.
i can easily see this being a blast with a beer and a friend on co-op.
Except it's missing the all important nostalgia factor.