Comments on: First-person shooty: Huxley In-Game Footage

By: FRIENDLYUNIT

FRIENDLYUNIT — Thu, 15 Jan 2009 02:18:48 +0000

Disappointing.

Yeah, it looks like they have just added areas you can walk around in to buy your new gun, instead of a UI that does the same thing. Tedious!

Sorry, but deathmatch IS a dirty word. We’ve already played this game a thousand times.

By: Stromko

Stromko — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:57:30 +0000

I thought they might go with a more down-to-earth, maybe tactical system where death actually mattered, and the overall metagame (the whole MMORPG thing) would add weight and tension to it. Instead it looks like pure mindless deathmatch. In my opinion the two modes will not complement eachother, so they’ll just be haphazardly fusing an MMORPG and an FPS together, neither of which by itself achieves anything new or worthwhile.

The tiniest bit of latency will mean combat makes zero sense at all. When things are that agile and that explosive, not to mention people are bunnyhopping every second, there’s really no way to avoid the feeling that everything important (hit detection) is completely desynced.

By: Eschatos

Eschatos — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:18:00 +0000

It’s too bad this isn’t a true MMO. If it was in a persistent online world I would happily pay.

By: Erlam

Erlam — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:04:25 +0000

“i wonder who this game is being marketed to.”

The Republic of Korea?

I personally would love a twitchy shooter style MMO myself. But this is so ripping off Unreal gameplay I’m thinking… no. Plus, anyone see the PvE Video? The guy dies to the same four people what, 12, 13 times?

By: Legandir

Legandir — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 03:03:19 +0000

The mute button was invented for this game

By: Lavitz

Lavitz — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 02:07:40 +0000

i wonder who this game is being marketed to. I don’t think anyone wants a face paced point and click (shoot) game anymore. You need avg running speed, with more gameplay in shooting – iron sights, cover, leaning.I been down on this game since i seen the gamplay vid awhile back.

By: Cigol

Cigol — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 22:07:38 +0000

…are we sure this isn’t EPIC doing a number on us behind the scenes?

By: terry

terry — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:57:18 +0000

Every time I read “Huxley” I picture a first person butler sim.

edit: And am constantly disappointed.

By: Gap Gen

Gap Gen — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:51:31 +0000

Didn’t they know that the lightning gun wasn’t as good as a big ol’ sniper rifle, anyways?

By: Erlam

Erlam — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:53:25 +0000

My first impression was that I was actually watching UT3. Honestly, if I didn’t see that Huxley name on there, I never would have known. They use the same lightning gun shot/explosives markers/giant health kit for God’s sake.

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 20:34:31 +0000

so… what happened to the Huxley game that looked like fun? the one with the swarms of monsters and all that jazz? This… well… this looks shite

By: Steven Hutton

Steven Hutton — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 18:40:34 +0000

even if this fails it should at least spark the interest so we can get something more than fantasy WoW clones (God I hate trusting reviews which said it’s so different and new and buying Conan).”

On the subject of Age of Conan when is the RPS hivemind going to tell me what to think about it? Tell me what to think!