Comments on: F.E.A.R. 2 Design Trailer

By: amoe

amoe — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 10:31:24 +0000

@radiant
farcry 1, half life (all of them), clive barkers undying, thief III(not really a shooter but at least first person ;) ), bioshock, condemned
i borrowed a copy from my brother in law and i was really happy that i didn t buy it.

By: Radiant

Radiant — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:09:35 +0000

and did you really not like any of it?
Did you buy it?

By: Radiant

Radiant — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:08:34 +0000

@The people who hate Fear; what FPS games did you like?

By: Jetsetlemming

Jetsetlemming — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:36:24 +0000

Am I the only one bothered that every single piece of footage for FEAR 2 appears to be from a console, judging by the movement? FEAR 1 was a PC game from the ground up, then ported later. Not so with FEAR 2 it seems…

By: amoe

amoe — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:13:24 +0000

the original F.E.A.R. is one of the most uninspired and repetitive FPS i’ve ever played.
the enemies look like stock characters, the environments are all boring and blocky, the horror elements didn t work at all.
it s not a horror game it s a horrible game. i have no idea why it became so popular.
i guess i should skip F.E.A.R. 2 :)

By: Funky Badger

Funky Badger — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:39:03 +0000

What’s to like?

Bullet time shattering glass panels, bullet time fire, shotgunning someone’s head off, nailgunning ragdolls to the wall. These things are best in life.

Also, the final level and especially the laptops was one of the only few genuinely horrifying bits of gaming I’ve played.

By: megaman

megaman — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:54:08 +0000

Affirmative. I also had a lot of fun without overusing the bullet time. Looking forward for testing the second one, too.

By: unclelou

unclelou — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 08:31:20 +0000

“Can’t be arsed to watch the video, but I certainly hope the level design (and art design) is better in this game – the bland and boring levels were the biggest weakness of FEAR.”

Everytime someone says Fear had bad level design, an office building burns down.

Fear’s level design was fantastic. It was just that the environments were dull.

Still one of the best FPS games I’ve ever played. The most convincing AI in any FPS to date yet, fantastic level design, and perfect guns. Not a game to make your jaw drop because of gorgeous setpieces, but to date the FPS with the best core elements (AI, guns) in the genre.

By: Bhlaab

Bhlaab — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:36:24 +0000

I didn’t care for FEAR. The little girl wasn’t scary, and the fact that the designers clearly thought she so totally was just made it even more obvious how not-scary and done-before she was.

The combat… I dunno, they made the AI very good, but the actual shooting was arcadey and the guns were awful, save for the two or three that they never ever gave you ammo for.

Just, make no one lives forever 3. come on, just make it.

By: Deuteronomy

Deuteronomy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:02:04 +0000

FEAR was not awesome but good. After the debacle of Far Cry 2 we definitely could use more good.

By: TooNu

TooNu — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:16:45 +0000

This looked scary as F**K, part of my hates the other part that wants to play this, it just looks too scary

By: subedii

subedii — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:05:10 +0000

Yeah the plot exposition could definitely have used a lot of work in the original. It was almost exclusively told through those freaking phone messages. They really need to take on the lesson “show, don’t tell” for this iteration.

That said, Norton Mapes is one of my all time favourite FPS characters to date. There have been few game characters that got me so irritated with them right from the start, you just want to chuck the guy out the nearest window. He’s probably the best “guy everyone loves to hate” I’ve seen in a game. I hope they bring that jerk back for the sequel.