Comments on: Rumour: Heavenly Sword 2 canned

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:44:36 +0000

Top man.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:27:48 +0000

Someone from NT comments here:

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=11612633&postcount=78

By: phatb0y

phatb0y — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:50:02 +0000

No great loss. The original was a crock of shit.

I never understood the whole ‘flawed genius’ comments attributed to it. I used my head (for once) on this one and rented a copy, and while it had some nice touches (mainly the character design and dialogue) the tearing was so jarring it just destroyed whatever atmosphere the game was trying to conjour up. If it was a ‘What the butler saw’ sim then maybe it would have got away with it. The fact that it was so criminally short as well didn’t do it any favours.

Spunk the money into something more worthwhile Sony.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:55:03 +0000

I don’t just play good games. Now and again I like to play the really bad ones just to balance things out. And I’ve played some corkingly bad stuff over the last few weeks. There’s actually something quite satisfying about reviewing really shitty games.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:46:38 +0000

I just kinda miss the dialogue complexity of old style Black Isle / Bioware RPGs. Now it really just boils down to four default choices: good, neutral, bad, or more info.

Apparently Obsidian’s Alpha Protocol is going a similar direction, which upsets me no end.

By: Tiger Walts

Tiger Walts — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:46:17 +0000

The spirit of Dreamcast has a new home.

By: klanger13

klanger13 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:32:58 +0000

I liked it. So officially its an ok game.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:23:10 +0000

Actually I was replying to you, not Psycho, TJ.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:21:07 +0000

Congratulations. Maybe start a blog to keep us updated?

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:18:17 +0000

Yep, common mistake. If you only play the good ones, what do you have to compare them to?

Look at me, I’m playing Mass Effect right now – it’s killing me, but at least the next time I play a decent RPG I’ll know about it.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:14:12 +0000

Where’s the fun in that?

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:14:01 +0000

TJ: Only the good ones.

By: TJ

TJ — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:12:00 +0000

Does anyone actually *play* games here?

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:09:50 +0000

typo in the first line of the story btw. Yes I know, I really am that picky.

By: ecu

ecu — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:09:28 +0000

Ah well, I haven’t played it myself, although I thought the demo was alright. The main complaint seemed to be about the length of the game.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:07:27 +0000

Oh. I got the impression it *was* really shit in the way that Lair and Haze are.

By: ecu

ecu — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:05:16 +0000

“@morriss: what? Everyone thought it was shit, surely? I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say they thought it was good. Well.. nobody who isn’t an obvious fanboy, anyway.”

I thought it was reasonably well received? Most people said it was good, but not as good as GoW, and way too short. It wasn’t really shit in the way that Lair and Haze are.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:04:37 +0000

Original was too short and even though it was it somehow managed to become repetitive. More than that it was technically shonky with tearing and framerate drops.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:04:31 +0000

Nah Moz is right, a couple of staunch EG PS3 apologists apparently thought the heady mix of busted-ass two pass animation, tearing and fucking hat throwing was “sublime”

For me, the only good bit was Kai – oh and Andy Serkis’ over the top acting as Bohan. The rest sucked donkey biscuits through a glass of rancid milk

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:03:14 +0000

blerk: read the thread: disc, Charm et al really liked it iirc.

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:02:39 +0000

Ninja Theory had a bit of a scuffle with Sony over the brand, I think. IIRC GamesIndustry did some “proper” reporting on this a few months back.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:02:14 +0000

@morriss: what? Everyone thought it was shit, surely? I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say they thought it was good. Well.. nobody who isn’t an obvious fanboy, anyway.

By: pjmaybe

pjmaybe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:01:44 +0000

The EG massive are talking out of their arseholes. It was one of the worst games of last year.

By: scuz

scuz — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:00:29 +0000

sighs

By: morriss

morriss — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:00:17 +0000

According to the EG massive, HS was great. Demo put me right off, tbh.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:00:11 +0000

Is this another one of your filthy whore deepthroat sources Pat?

By: patlike

patlike — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:56:27 +0000

It was someone else working on it, innit.

By: Killerbee

Killerbee — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:52:17 +0000

Hang on, I though Ninja Theory poured water on the flames of any Heavenly Sword rumour as long time ago….?

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:46:29 +0000

I thought this was cancelled ages ago. I know NT moved on to working on a multi platform release and figured that Sony weren’t going to bother with it.

By: Blerk

Blerk — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:45:51 +0000

Heh heh – beat you by two minutes.

I doubt anyone will care too much about no more Heavenly Sword, tbh.