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Could Enslaved: Odyssey to the West be game of the year?

Guardian: Enslaved is a single player action/platform game, a genre seemingly lost in the modern gaming world of multiplayer and user generation. So you can expect plenty of leaping and jumping as well as some staff-based combat against the numerous enemy mechs. Controlling the aptly named Monkey your aim is to help your fellow slave, but now female captor, Trip return home. Any thoughts of solo adventure are thwarted by a security headband that Trip uses to control Monkey. The upshot? If she dies, he dies. The tension caused by this dynamic creates a bubbling narrative that will keep you going even in the game's trickier moments.

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The-Tentacle4962d ago

Maybe if Ninja theory had stayed PS3 exclusive and stopped making excuses why their games aren't selling.

Dramscus4962d ago

I think the gameplay in the demo was too easy. If it's a bit more difficult in the real game it could actually be decent.
As it was it was so easy it was boring. To do the jumping parts you could basically hold it in any direction and go where your neede.
Also the guys were pathetically simple to destroy. They weren't even a danger.

MrMccormo4962d ago (Edited 4962d ago )

Wow, the hype for this game is being blown WAY out of proportion. This game is a 8/10 tops. It is far too flawed to be GotY.

Honestly, is Enslaved better than ME2? God of War 3? What about Heavy Rain or Alan Wake? What about GT5? Super Mario Galaxy 2? Red Dead Redemption? There are more, but I'm forgetting them.

Is Enslaved better than any of those games? No way.

SilentNegotiator4962d ago (Edited 4962d ago )

Typical "flashing ledges" platforming, typical combat, bad audio, average graphics...
...GOTY? Not even close.

@FanboysWillHateMe
"the platforming was refreshing"
I hope that you're kidding. The game did all the thinking for you, lighting up platforms like a Christmas tree. Nothing refreshing there.

Game-ur4962d ago

In the demo, very often I was pointing in the wrong direction yet Monkey makes the correct jump. Its more like FF13 "platforming".

And the combat was more like using the wrench from Ratchet & Clank than a true hake and slash.

I would just call this an adventure game and skip the "action" part.

Keith Olbermann4962d ago

Have you played through Enslaved? No way.

badz1494962d ago

although there were some gorgeous visuals in the game but overall, it's kinda meh! GoTY is too far fetch but if the full game is any good, it might be a contender but a winner? sorry can't see that happening!

ReservoirDog3164962d ago

Yeah I'm pretty sure it'll get harder as the game goes on seeing as you were playing the first level.

I'm buying it. Day 1? Probably not (just bought Dead Rising 2) but I will buy it very soon.

fear884962d ago

In a shiny coat of paint. The fact is that I felt I was playing not a game, but a blatant ripoff of Jak and Daxter.

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Apotheosize4962d ago

I doubt that could have helped Enslaved

number474962d ago

It has way too few guns/action to tempt the cod fanbase over. The game seems ok, but there are too many polished GOTY candidates multiplat/exclusive out there.

FanboysWillHateMe4962d ago

I just played the demo and thought it was a blast! The animations were nice, and the platforming was refreshing, especially when you were jumping on different parts of the airplane from the outside.

As soon as I finished the demo I got on my gamefly account and added it to my list. I'm excited for this one now.

@Dramcus
Maybe the guys were pathetically simple to destroy because you were at the beginning of the game?

MisterNiwa4962d ago

LOL. The demo sucked, and I won't be touching the game ever again.

This game won't even be a contender.

hazeblaze4962d ago

This game wouldn't be worth the hype it's getting even IF it was PS3 exclusive. All of the excitement from the demo seems to be from people that haven't played Uncharted 2 or GOW... both of which nail the type of action better. The animation was alright but it didn't feel as fluid as Uncharted 2, particularly for the platforming. I really just wasn't blown away. I do think that they should have followed up with a HS2 though... still, this will be worth renting.

MadMax4962d ago

hmm, how can say that? I own U2 and GOW3, enjoyed both those games and from the look and feel of the enslaved demo, i can see myself enjoying enslaved just as much! U2 and GOW3 were even pretty short games. This could even be a longer length game, who knows. I like the world and the atmosphere especially. The gameplay felt great too. I have a friend out here that just tried out enslaved demo and you shouldve heard his reaction to the game. Never played or saw a PS3 demo look so awesome. He was blown away by the graphics just alone! He didnt even seem that all impressed with Uncharted 2 graphics and gameplay. Go figure, so everyone has their own tastes. Personally, i liked the demo more than Halo Reach and look at what people are sayin about that game. I just listed mine up on ebay, as i was very disappointed with that.

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Chaostar4962d ago (Edited 4962d ago )

It may not be GOTY material but the story is pretty decent. It's loosely based on an ancient chinese novel called 'Journey to the west' http://static.gamesradar.co... and, with it being directed by Andy Serkis, I can see it being decent. Probably should have just made a movie :|

MrMacabre4962d ago

Going up against Castlevania in the same month probably wasn't smart either, they should have delayed until next year to fix the graphical issues and polish the generic gameplay aspects up a little.

hazeblaze4962d ago

Agreed, I'm more interested in the story than I was in the gameplay... And Heavenly Sword proved that they can craft a beautiful story if nothing else!

KingItachi4962d ago

Why is this topic popping up soo much and I don't see it being game of the year.

AllroundGamer4962d ago

maybe some Ninja theory employee started such topic, cause they probably need to boost their ego... btw. i don't see it being game of the year either

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15 PS3 Games That Would Absolutely Shine as PS5 Remakes

GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."

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kenpachi20d ago

You left out The Darkness games bring those back

fan_of_gaming19d ago

The head of Nightdive Studios has posted that The Darkness is on their list of games they want to do, so hopefully something comes from that

Yi-Long19d ago

Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.

Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.

A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.

Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.

fan_of_gaming19d ago

Good suggestions, I'd be in for
LittleBigPlanet
LittleBigPlanet 2
Motorstorm: Pacific Rift
Motorstorm: RC

purple10119d ago

God damn I love motorstorm so much

At the time I had a low-mid range sony 40” tv, The latency to the controller was waaaay too high, would to play a modern version

In saying that later I got a 3d lg tv and playing the 3d motorstorm in my bedroom with the environment crumbling around the track, was something special, specially compared to what others were playing at the time, will always remember that

Skuletor19d ago

Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.

CrimsonWing6919d ago

I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.

Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.

fan_of_gaming19d ago

Yeah for sure, sequels would be ideal. But in the current market environment where many big publishers are risk-averse, I'd rather get a remaster or remake that a developer can do on a budget that will be approved, rather than nothing for an IP.

Inverno19d ago

I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.

fan_of_gaming19d ago

Yeah I'd be fine with remasters of PS3 games too, they don't have to be remakes.

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The 10 worst PC ports that ruined otherwise great video games

From Xfire: "It's not unusual to see the occasional bad PC port, but these ones make the bad PC ports look great in comparison."

Kados1026d ago

To be fair with GTAIV, it was a very CPU bound game, released at a time when the vast majority of PC gamers still believed that the CPU was nearly irrelevant, and that you only needed a good GPU. 95% of "gaming" builds back then were using turds for CPUs.

Giblet_Head1026d ago (Edited 1026d ago )

Ya, 2005-2010 was an interesting period. Entry/mid level CPUs have come a long way since then.

RonsonPL1025d ago (Edited 1025d ago )

The "majority" is still just as dumb as before.The game was simply f...d.
It had micro-stutters and never ever ran properly. People who say otherwise simply couldn't see the microstutter because of their LCD display's blurry motion. It should fly in 85fps or 100fps on fastest CPU back then, but it didn't. It was a buggy, awful port. I had a CPU over twice as fast as what x360 had. A GPU 5x as fast. And I couldn't do anything to make it run perfectly.
I don't know who's fault was this. Maybe it was not the developers alone. Maybe it was because of the drivers and the fact nobody gave a flying f..k about stable, high framerate on a PC game. We've had two different OSes then, and as I pointed out, microstutters were not that obvious on an LCD. There was no Digital Foundry to point such problems out and not many people still played on CRT monitors to be able to notice the problem (in like 2 seconds of playing, seriously, you don't need any tools. It just hits your eyes like a speeding truck)

GTA V continued the tradition. It manages the CPU resources so badly, it basically cannot run at locked 144fps till this day, or even 60fps in stereoscopic 3D mode (so 2x 60fps per second) because it's so dependant on single core performance and because it's so messed up by either port devs or Nvidia (who said they will fix it, then 3 years of promises led to shutting the forums down, which solved the problem in their eyes - no one complains anymore ;)

GTA III port was never optimized for even 60fps, not to mention 100 or 120.
The port of GTA V was hidden in their cabinet for almost 3 years, during which PC gamers were bein lied to about it.

See the pattern yet?
Yeah. They don't give a shit about PC gaming or assume a buggy, stuttery mess is good enough, as long as people keep buying the games.

Actually... to think of it. They didn't make a proper Lemmings game for PC either. There was Amiga version and that's it. Only later on they mercifully released Lemmings: Tribes sequel. Until then PC gamers could only dream about digitized (real recorded audio) sounds and music. So this tradition of shitting onto PC gamers is now 30 years old ;)

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Active Quest Episode 117: Star Wars: KOTOR Is Likely Returning, Atelier Firis DX Is Addictive

Joseph, Josh, and Chris go over a striking Sony decision, a Star Wars: Knights of the Republic remake seems to be happening, and local JRPG lover Chris talks about Atelier Firis DX.

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