Comments on: Mirror’s Edge

By: Alex

Alex — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 18:32:44 +0000

Then you go back to the game, and you’re a floating camera which can move down if you press Ctrl or fly up in the air if you press Space. It feels nothing like a real viewpoint.

Thing is, I never really find myself thinking something like “Oh, this is ridiculous, nothing like a real viewpoint, nothing like it AT ALL!”. It has never bothered me, really.

That said, sometimes you need to be shown how things can be done differently before you realise what you’ve potentially been missing.

By: Kast

Kast — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:56:59 +0000

“I’m surprised no one’s noticed the obvious connection between the lead character name and the promised gameplay- yet.

Leap of Faith. ”

Karthik – Not on here, maybe, but it’s practically a meme on the OnMirror’sEdge forums. Along you “you just gotta have Faith” which is in no way perverted, I swear :P

By: Seth Tipps

Seth Tipps — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:29:55 +0000

I rather doubt that’s a muzzle flash, but if it was, it could be a result of the filters they’re using to create the movement effects. That would seem strange though: I’d have guessed for more of a doppelar-effect distortion. (not that you’d be moving fast enough for that to happen in real life, but most games wind up doing something like that for high speed, and it seemed to work okay in ep2)

By: Flint

Flint — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 07:06:56 +0000

I don’t really like playing as a female character in general. Only a few have got me really on their side: Samus, April Ryan, Jade and Cate Archer. I guess the reason in all of those (except Samus) is that they’re all well written and feel like real people, instead of just lightly clothed boob machines. Hell, it even extends to me trying to build my pokémon teams as all-male.

Oh, and I prefer playing as a draenei female in WoW because the draenei male looks so… icky, but even then the trend of female armour being damn revealing really annoys me.

I guess there’s a hidden chauvinist in me trying to break out, or me being a poof shows in virtual discrimination.

Erm, offtopic?

By: James T

James T — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 05:36:19 +0000

I don’t like female main characters in fps. I mean I do like the games (think PORTAL) and I may like the character per se, I just dislike the idea of adept female characters -urm no I mean I hate having to identify with female characters

I, conversely, dislike having to identify with female characters because they smell.

By: Phil H

Phil H — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 22:24:52 +0000

Do. Want. Now!

By: Max

Max — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:51:40 +0000

Never played Metroid then? Gotta love Samus. :)

By: Jim Rossignol

Jim Rossignol — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 21:04:38 +0000

Hmm.

By: The man who doesn't need names

The man who doesn't need names — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:59:43 +0000

I don’t like female main characters in fps. I mean I do like the games (think PORTAL) and I may like the character per se, I just dislike the idea of adept female characters -urm no I mean I hate having to identify with female characters ;)

By: Sum0

Sum0 — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:42:42 +0000

I’m interested in this concept of getting movement right in an FPS. Remember the first cutscene in Crysis, where you lose control of your character as he ducks beneath a tree branch and steps through to the other side? The camera in that cutscene moves in such a realistic fashion, as if you really were ducking a little, shifting your weight, tilting your head underneath, grabbing something for balance…

Then you go back to the game, and you’re a floating camera which can move down if you press Ctrl or fly up in the air if you press Space. It feels nothing like a real viewpoint.

I’m not sure if you could make a whole game about it, but making the camera in an FPS move like it’s a real-life set of eyeballs would be much appreciated.

By: Ghiest

Ghiest — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 20:00:42 +0000

Someone played too much Crack down on the 360 and thought that jumping could be made into a game …

By: Theory

Theory — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:14:28 +0000

Does anyone have a link to a video of this game online?

There is no such thing.