So there's a Mad Max game coming out accompanying the reboot of the series and it actually looks kinda cool.

MORE OPEN WORLD FOR THE OPEN WORLD!

To be fair a Mad Max game kind of needs to be open world. I'm not sure about that AssCreed melee combat but the vehicle combat looks cool at least. I'll definitely be checking that out. The graphics look cool as shit for sure.

I don't know how you'd do a game in the Australian outback that wasn't open world, unless you just had invisiwalls fucking everywhere.

The vehicle stuff does look cool, some straight up Twisted Metal right there.

Easy: if you stray too much from your path the fauna murders you.

Immersion stays intact (more or less) and you could implement a whole variety of hilarious death scenes.

(obviously I'm taking this out of context here since none of this works in a Mad Max scenario)

Nice to see the Bloodborne patch. I hope that they also fixed the bosses being stupid if you left the system on to long, maybe this time cleric beast will actually attack me and not the edge of the bridge.

For the other Jrpg fans today at 11am PST There is a Nintendo Direct and treehouse for Xenoblade Chronicles X so hopefully we will finally get the release date.

http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-direct/04-24-2015/

Haha, just a few weeks ago I was wondering why the hell there wasn't yet an open-world game based on Mad Max because the concept would work perfectly for the format. Guess that void has been filled. This looks pretty damn cool, all things considered, though it looks a little too overproduced and compulsive-action-fest for its own good. Shit like fancy rotating menus doesn't fit in the Mad Max atmosphere. And I had a bit of a laugh at "the wasteland is no place for a conscience" while the group of psychos politely stand in a circle and wait their turn to be killed.

Sure...


Aaaaaand I'm out.

Fuck off nowadays modern games.

It's annoying that they'd try to force a bunch of hand-to-hand combat into a Mad Max game since the films never focused on that at all. Sort of like turning a game based on John Woo films into a kung fu brawler or something.

And yeah, there's no real reason a Mad Max game would necessarily have to be open-world, but the landscape and the societal fabric of that fictional reality would seem to work well with it, provided the game was designed sensibly and well.

I wonder if the melee combat is there just so they can say it's there, and the game doesn't revolve around it at all.

I hope it's the equivalent of fighting bare handed in Bloodborne. Hope melee is some kind of last resort mechanic.

The new Mad Max movie looks dope but I'd never expect a video game adaptation to be much good. Even when video games adapted from films turn out to be decent, they're usually purely on-the-rails and offer practically no replay value.

After typing that, the cumulative months of playing GoldenEye as a kid flashed through my mind's eye.

The memory leak issue with leaving the system on too long has been fixed in the new patch:

http://www.pushsquare.com/news/2015/04/ ... d_prettier

I think that, if you're gonna include melee combat in a Mad Max game at all, it should probably be something like what you see in The Last of Us; very short, brutal beatdowns. Keep the emphasis on the shootin' and the drivin'.

Don't forget the sabotagin'.

Reminder that the game doesn't release until Sept 1st, so hopefully Avalanche will take time to better refine the melee combat. Hopefully it's more like how Naughty Dog does it in The Last of Us and the Uncharted games; simple, yet brutal and satisfying.

I'm pretty sure there are less than a dozen shots fired across the entire trilogy.

Yeah, they bring that up in the video linked above: ammo is super scarce so there can't really be that much shootin'. Though there seemed to be one part where if you do a mission for that guy, he'll provide you with all the ammo you could ever want, so maybe it gets shootier later in the game.

I know everyone loves to hate AssCreed/Batman combat these days but I kinda like it. "But these guys are just standing around in a circle waiting to be killed!" So what! That's how all the fight scenes go down in so many movies that are just awesome, so playing a game version of that kind of thing seems A-OK by me. I just don't think it really ought to be a major part of the gameplay of a Mad Max game, though. I hope it's a pretty small part of the gameplay and that the vehicle combat is the main focus.

No, you mean that's how the fight scenes go down in movies that are lame.

Plus it's brain-dead gameplay wise. Mash square to win, sometimes tap triangle to dodge.

I think this is a common misconception people have about the Arkham games. Thing is, if you only mash the attack button and dodge, you may not die, but the fights end up taking forever because the default attacks do very little damage. The incentive for learning combos and gitting gud is finishing fights quickly. Trying to chain advanced combos also means risking taking damage and dying, but it still never occured to me to play it safe because that was obviously the wrong way to play. So that particular criticism is somewhat misled, at least when it comes to Batman. Sure, they could have nuked the safe route completely, but we're talking about a western AAA game here after all, so noobs need a way to get through the game.

Ninja Turtles >>> Morrigan.

I fear that you're basing your opinion of Arkham combat purely on Shadow of Mordor. This is a serious misrepresentation. Now while I'm no fan of Batman or Rocksteady I still have to admit that it's a solid combat system and having a variable difficulty setting in this day and age is a dream. I wish more AAA games would follow suit (apparently Watch Dogs has one? might actually have to give it a look-see now).

However, AssCreed combat can go suck a fuck. Awful, awful, completely boring combat that's all flash, zero substance. 100% challenge-free and games of its ilk can all go die in a fire.

They feel like they're based on the same blueprints, but yes the Arkham combat is about 100x better than any of the AssCreed combat. You at least have to get a few combos in, instead of the winning one button input for AssCreed as the enemies stand around casually taking turns to die. It really is amazing, the combat is the equivalent to a one button input QTE. Deeeeeeeeep.

So apparently P.T is getting removed from the PS Store at the end of the month. RIP Silent Hills.

Well, fuck Konami in its legal person's face. Del Toro has shitty luck working on videogames. Real shame, because I'm very curious to see what he has to offer to the medium and a Silent Hill game was a great opportunity.

Yeah I'm pretty positive Silent Hills is not even happening at this point. Konami clearly doesn't give a fuck.

Get the demo while you can, probably won't be obtainable ever again.

Looks like Del Toro says it's not happening.
https://twitter.com/tvsmatthackney/stat ... 7427447808

Not surprising. RIP Silent Hill. It's baffling because the marketing hype behind it was insane, it was destined to be a success. Good job Konami.

http://i.imgur.com/qXwdlJ1.gif

Looks like Guy Chii is in another game though:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEeevL4239I

Seriously, the heads of Konami, Capcom, and Square-Enix need to be abducted by aliens and replaced with people who actually WANT to make money.

Hahaha,

It's just amazing to me how little they seem to care about what has historically been a pretty profitable franchise. For years now they've been dumping it on rookie developers and not giving them enough of a budget/timetable to do much of a good job, and not giving them a chance to try again either. I really think the guys who did Downpour could've made a really great Silent Hill game if they'd had another shot (and learned from their numerous mistakes the first time around, of course). It honestly just felt like a first draft of a game, but a really good game.

Oh well, we'll probably end up waiting another 5 years for a mildly disappointing game.

The recent Silent Hill installments were lame, but my curiosity was piqued. I think it's stupid as shit that they'd waste all that time and money making that trailer, only to pull the plug on the game some months later.

Silent Hill 1 sold less than 800k (Looking at NPD + Japan), and that was (sales-wise) the franchise's high point. Silent Hill 4 less than 300k. Granted, I don't know the budgets of these games, but it's hardly surprising that the franchise isn't given a ton of money.

The only classic horror franchise I really bother with these days is Fatal Frame. There are some gems like the original Amnesia, ZombiU, and FNaF (don't hate), but for the most part I really don't expect anything anymore.

The PT hype machine was insane though, it was pretty much one of the biggest things on the PS4 to this day. With Kojima and Del Toro behind it, it was guaranteed to be a blockbuster.

Too much logic for Konami though.

I was talking more about the franchise in general, but yeah, you're right. It's almost amusing to see the most successful viral marketing campaign in recent memory result in nothing more than a cancelled project.

I was very impressed the first time I saw the game, very compelling mechanics and honestly kind of creepy (assuming, of course, you went in blind) and memorable (likeable?) enemies. It does wear off extremely fast, but the lore and back story propel it back into relevance. Honestly, I think Cawthon is a genius, not for creating an amazing game (because it isn't) but he made all the right moves to get people interested. It was basically the (very successful, if ultimately disappointing) approach Lost took a decade back, put into a videogame. Clever fella.

I like it because my favorite thing about old horror games is that they put a heavy emphasis on resource conservation, and FNaF is about nothing but resource conservation. I'm probably one of the few people who liked the franchise more for the gameplay than the lore.

Five Nights at Freddy's had gameplay?

If anyone wants MK9, it's down to $5 on GetGames atm.