Everyday Shooter Heading for PSP

200$ is a little steep for me D;

The game is certainly not for everyone, I bought it and played it twice, then never came back to it.

Yeah, a PSP-1000 user here… I guess PSP-2000 users soon will find out what it is to be left out with the latest stuff. :p

I’m not going to buy a new PSP every 1 and a half year. Damn.

Have you even played the game?

I have, made the mistake of buying the hype and getting it via Steam “we don’t do demos or refunds” – wow Steam is great, really is the future.

Game was fun for 5mins, then I died and had to start again. Wait, it’s ok, you can permanently unlock levels to stop you redoing them. Except you need to play the same level over and over again to earn the right. Oh dear.

p.s. eternity’s child – no demo. Outcry! 2min demo appears. What?

p.p.s now “direct 2 drive” are getting in on it. Bionic Commando Rearmed – no demo. Hmmm, is this a conspiracy :)

*getting it via Steam “we don’t do demos or refunds” – wow Steam is great, really is the future.*

Last time I had to deal with Steam and it’s customer service, they do give both refunds and also often have demos of the games you can buy there…

Jonathan Blow and Jon Mak should kiss and make a baby, which is an abstract musical shooter where you can rewind time and learn new things about your feelings.

His only aim was to make fun of the random abstract shapes ethnic minority in the most blunt way possible!

Is it just me or with audiences based around the everyday (ahem) gamer and critics alike, the only type of people who don’t seem to like Everyday Shooter are those who suck at shooter games. Isn’t this a bit of a misnomer? I think they should’ve expected that they wouldn’t like a game where they didn’t have the appropriate skill-set to actually achieve anything within the game.

I saw the same kind of backlash around The Internet with Bionic Commando: Rearmed though. Same problem, too! It was bought by people who just didn’t have the mental capacity for figuring out its puzzle mechanics on the fly, so they whined about how bad it was.

Is this going to be the fate of anything that’s not completely casual these days? If so, what do I have to look forward to tomorrow? Will I have my games played for me? I suspect I’ll just sit in front of the TV screen, waggle a thumbstick aimlessly and then be greeted with a huge, feel good “GREAT JOB!!! :D” message at the end.

Oy vey.

I should’ve seen that coming, to be honest.

As for my personal experiences with Everyday Shooter, they were interesting to be sure. When I first played it, I have to admit I wasn’t sure about it. Then, however, I took a moment to sit back and think “Instead of trying to enforce upon it the game that I want it to be, let’s try and find out what it actually is.” I spent the first level or two just experimenting, and learning what kinds of tactics work in Everyday Shooter.

That worked very well.

It’s amazing these days how I can point out to people that not shooting in Everyday Shooter allows the player to move around faster, and the amount of people who’ve played Everyday Shooter and actually don’t know this is absolutely absurd.

But that’s today’s game audience; don’t read, don’t experiment, don’t explore, don’t think, waggle dem stickz!

/sigh

I still love you, Mak, even if some mentally undernourished children don’t.

@Esha: You’re kidding. This has -nothing- to do with the difficulty of the game. Difficult games are fun. Making a player replay the all the same levels from the beginning to unlock more starting lives and the ability to play them whenever you want to… a good game, does NOT make. The dude that made this seems to have wanted to add replayability to this, but the way he did it is the cheapest way to artificially extend a game imaginable. It’s throwing a player into a vanilla world and promising more fun the more you grind through it, like in MMORPG’s. If a game is fun, explorable, and a bit procedual from the very beginning to the end, it’s pretty much infinitely replayable. This game is barely playable.

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skofo – perhaps you did suck at it,. I found that each time I played I got new stuff open,. and besides you are able to play throught the whole game on one go, there is no limitation that requires grinding! the unlockables are just bonus stuff,.

“random abstract shapes killing each other”,. really? if you didn’t like the art direction why would you buy the game? There where loads of videos avalible when it came out on steam,. although a demo could have forstalled some of these babys crying out loudly at their own purchesing choices. Personally I quite enjoy that game, it is well designed, has great art that I dig, and is fun to play.

It seems like people aren’t getting the point of the more lives unlockable. From my reading the purpose is to make it possible for anyone to eventually complete the game NOT as a big flashy reward. If you get stuck on a level you can always play it until you either get skilled enough, or get enough lives to get through it. I’m not really seeing how this is bad design.

Regarding being able to unlock the ability to play a specific level. I think that if you fall into the camp that finds the game play (and play generated music) inherently pleasing, this is a decent unlockable. I’ve certainly found there are specific levels I like to play again and again over others.

“Is it just me or with audiences based around the everyday (ahem) gamer and critics alike, the only type of people who don’t seem to like Everyday Shooter are those who suck at shooter games. Isn’t this a bit of a misnomer?”

Whut?

I saw the same kind of backlash around The Internet with Bionic Commando: Rearmed though. Same problem, too! It was bought by people who just didn’t have the mental capacity for figuring out its puzzle mechanics on the fly, so they whined about how bad it was.

Also whut?

Why do faggots keep counterarguing with “you’re not good enough?” You’re missing the point. I’m great at video games. I could probably wipe the floor with half of you in a shooter like this. The point is, even IF you’re “skilled enough” to unlock these achievements, you shouldn’t have to play the same eight levels over and over again! It’s just lazyness – the developer could have just as well made more levels or added variety. Why, is he not “skilled enough” for it?

tl;dr Making your customers play through the same levels over and over with the promise of unlocking things, no matter the individual customer’s skill level, is *horrible* game design.

@jph: Buy? What?

I don’t think sugercoat means what you think it means.

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