Comments on: PCG: White Gold Preview

By: Duoae

Duoae — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 15:05:15 +0000

“The bugs are entertaining (floating cars) and frustrating (disappearing cars) at the same time. It also crashes so much you might not see the funny before the frustrating. Patched..hmm..I’ve got to try the proper patched up game sometime! ”

Not to mention you could drive around without using any fuel. That saved a little money… though the patch sorted that problem out.

By: Chaz

Chaz — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:44:08 +0000

I loved Boiling Point, so I’m really looking forward to this and Precursors. In my mind Boiling Point was the kind of open free roaming RPG style game that Stalker should have been.

By: CitizenLand

CitizenLand — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:09:01 +0000

Don’t forget the other game they’re doing called “The Precursors”. Its essentially the same open world style game except its a sci-fi title in which you can planet hop, engage in space combat and FPS combat on the planet surface.

http://www.deep-shadows.com/en/gallery.php?pr=5

By: EyeMessiah

EyeMessiah — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 22:17:05 +0000

Haha, I love that the “strong RPG” element is ends with him holding a grenade. Certainly the menu system in many an RPG has left me wishing for a grenade.

By: Bullwinkle

Bullwinkle — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 21:12:28 +0000

You know, I could have played through BP’s bugs. What I couldn’t play through was BP’s “head bob” which was actually closer to “tilt the screen back and forth like the planet is on the other end of God’s seesaw”. An unbelievably bizarre, unmodifiable choice that fans of the game insisted was one of its most important features.

Just Cause sucked, too. Hey, look, here’s another platoon of enemies popping out of an empty room I just cleared! Guess I shouldn’t have turned my back, eh? Those crazy dimensional portals.

By: Jonelo

Jonelo — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:39:49 +0000

Actually the game works perfectly with 1.5 GB of memory, hardly consumes more than 1000 mb with Windows XP. The game run very well today in the PCs .

The problems not are the bugs, the problem is that the programers are two people, lack the 70 % of the programation of the gameplay ;), the missions are quite bads many times.

By: Kanakotka

Kanakotka — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:51:21 +0000

A bit buggy? A bit? A supercomputer couldn’t have ran boiling point for more than an hour due to it’s massive memory leak :P It was more resource sucking than crysis ever was.

By: Mr. Brand

Mr. Brand — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:12:25 +0000

Just Cause was a third person freeroamer about taking control points/bases to win. Crackdown was sorta like that. Boiling Point is a first person freeroaming shooty-thing with an end goal (save your daughter) and no specific steps to take between. “Here’s some money, there’s the small town with various factions. Join any or none, get some weapons, figure out how to finish.”

Plus, Arnold Vosloo.

By: PaulMorel

PaulMorel — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:40:24 +0000

Yeah, this game does look a lot like Just Cause. Don’t get me wrong, Just Cause was beautiful, as long as you were just floating along in your parachute, looking at the scenery. The second you actually tried playing the game .. well, that was a mistake. Hopefully this doesn’t play like Just Cause.

By: 18Rabbit

18Rabbit — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:07:51 +0000

It reminds me of Just Cause too but more in the scenery than the gameplay. Which isn’t bad, Just Cause was a very pretty game. I never played Boiling Point but being able to ride sharks is both ridiculous and AWESOME at the same time.

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 13:39:02 +0000

It’s perfectly acceptable to emphasise the buggyness of 1.0 Boiling Point. People who are genuinely interested in a preview are people who buy on release day. They should know if a dev. has a record for releasing unfinished/buggy games. Troika was one, Bohemia Interactive another. A dev.’s commitment to solving problems is something a review should worry about. I read something recently about previews being generally too positive and how Edge isn’t. Now PC Gamer isn’t as well. I’m pleased, keep it up. :-)
Now I’m tuppence poorer.

By: Dante

Dante — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:57:57 +0000

I for one hope they don’t get it working right at all. If Boiling Point had been fixed it would have been an exceptional open world shooter with a terrible writing and sunk without a trace. As it was it was hilarious, broken fun.

Why bother patching it? The bugs are what make it unique, in what other game can people swap stories about flying jaguars taking down helicopters?

No, I hope they mess it up again, because it’s way more fun that way.