Be Excellent To Each Other

We chattered about this in BnB but it doesn't have a thread yet. And it needs one, because that demo is enormous fun! I flew a plane and bombed some fuel things and stuff blew up. I jumped down a hill and fluffed the controls and tumbled and rolled for miles and miles down a steep hill. I was chased up a hill by men in jeeps whilst I was on a moped; I jumped from the moped to the jeep, headbutted the driver, and took his car.

Woo! This is on my buy list.

Shit voice acting though.

I played the demo and it didn't click, but I didn't do half the stuff you listed. Maybe I'll try it again.

This sounds like Mercs 2.

Is it Mercs 2?

The first one was quite a bit like Mercs 2. I hope this one is like Mercs 2 only better. Mercs 2.

It screamed of Mercs 2 when I had a go. I didn't like that. Mercs 2 was shit. Craster.

Was about to play the demo when I got invited to another game the other night, but looking forward to grappling things to other things.

Mercs 2 was, and is, awesome. I for one welcome any game that reprises its awesomeitude.

Just read some previews - this looks unutterably awesome. Will download the demo tonight.

Why are people only just noticing this - the gameplay videos on marketplace for the last six months have looked awesome. AWESOME I tell ya - I also pointed this out repeatedly to DoccyG.

To be fair, I loved the openness and premise of Mercs 2, just the controls were unbelievably shit and inconsistent and a massive barrier to any potential enjoyment.

Just Cause 2 doesn't seem to suffer the same horrendous flaw, so it's already a million times better. But like I said to Gaywood, I didn't even do half the stuff he did, instead choosing to wander around aimlessly, falling off cliffs and wondering exactly what I was supposed to be doing in the settlements. I will give it another go.

What? Do you have paws or something?



I guess you could fire up Civ 4 and just make your settlers walk around the map until they die.

Also a PC demo available at 1 gig (DX 10 only)

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/action/justca ... id=6253128

I played the demo of this yesterday and I am of the opinion that it's a lot of silly fun.

I said it in bits n bobs but I'll say it here too. After playing the demo I'm looking forward to this game far more than the rather gloomy looking Crackdown 2.

Did you like the controls?

All the vehicles had different, non-standardised controls; the tanks being a particular pain from what I remember, having to juggle movement and turret. And then the handling of each vehicle was either overly sensitive or like running through a swamp.

It was all a complete barrier for me. Controls should stay out of the way; I shouldn't have to retrain my mind to use them.

Fair enough, spakky hands.

This is true, but then it's also true of almost all games that let you drive various types of vehicles - the Battlefield series does it, from memory, as does Red Faction: Guerrilla, as does The Saboteur. It can be a little bit irritating, but then how else do you model a wheel and pedals onto the same set of controls as two sets of tracks and an independently rotating turret?

I've never had a problem with your turret dictating your turning in games with tanks. It reduces your freedom a bit, sure, but it massively reduces the awkwardness and complexity.

If you can't make the controls work and feel intuitive for a vehicle, you haven't designed your game properly and you shouldn't have included the vehicle at all.

It feels perfectly intuitive for people who don't have spam hands, loser.

Eat fuck

That sounds like something an enraged pubescent would blurt out in their fury and desperation to express it.

I know! So brilliantly evocative.

Either that or a nice, simple to-do list.

I never did get round to finishing the first Just Cause, despite enjoying it far more than other sandbox games. I might have to download the demo for the sequel now that I've actually got the hard drive space.

Indeed. I spend a great deal of time trying to come up with those types of retorts.

I prefer devilman's explanation, though.

See also: cock off, fagballs and 'fuck up', another almost psychotically angry combination of 'fuck off' and 'shut up'.

And ‘Shit you’.

I prefer GTFFFF or get to fucking fuck fuckface

cunt off cuntaloid cumtwatta cuntox.

Any way back to the game. This is how you do a demo. It's bloody great. Definitely going to buy this. The levels are enormous and beautiful, the fun looks like it could be never ending. Big bangs and ridiculous leaping around like a bellend. I love.

Oi'll repeat, I had supah boffo fun with the first one.

You said that about Mercs, though, and then went on to be unforgivably rude about Mercs 2.

Mercs was good for about one third of the map. Just Cause was just byowtiphul.

You maxed Two Worlds. Your sense of fun is not trustworthy.

Two Worlds wasn't fun though. I did that to prove that Bluce is a big wazzock. Which I did.

Didn't Mercs 2 get slagged off on here when it first came out? I seem to remember it being full of bugs - was that all fixed with updates?

Not all fixed, no. They fixed a few, most notably the one where the Australian bird wouldn't shut up through the entire game about going to visit her for missions.

No. Mypsy donkey wailed about it being full of bugs, even though he never played it. There were a few issues in there, one particularly annoying one being everyone deciding not to bother shooting at you anymore, but there was nothing game-breaking.

OK... but you do have a genetic immunity or enormous acquired tolerence to the main criticism I see levelled at Just Cause (grindy, repetitive missions).

But it were byowtiphul. A lovely sandbox to twat in.

It's actually pretty darn gorgeous. Definitely getting this.

When is this game coming out?

A couple of weeks - 23 March or something.

26/03 according to Play.

Guess no-one reads thread subtitles.

Did you guess? Did you?

Any cheap pre-orders anywhere?

Thiddy foive on thehut/zavvi, or thiddy sicks for ltd edition on shopto.

LtdEd has some free DLC (a few vehicles and guns) and a paper map of the island.

Should just add... Anywhere you can see you can go. So far I spent about 25 mins heading in one direction (all the way down the cliffs & shit) and never got to a point where it said I couldn't continue. I actually found that a bit hard to believe at first but you can actually run down that actual mountain like a complete loon.

Amazing.

The IGN preview said it's about 1000 square kilometres, every square inch of which you can get to. Which is pretty awesome.