Comments on: Mirror’s Edge Third Person Hack

By: Lilo

Lilo — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:51:15 +0000

looks like Tomb Raider game ??

By: Your mom

Your mom — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:43:04 +0000

Y’all are gay and mirror’s edge sucks noobs. Suck my dick and screw your fancypants intellectual retorts. Gay.

By: greg

greg — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 16:32:01 +0000

fucked up

By: The Shed

The Shed — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:40:49 +0000

The only animation that doesn’t look vaguely ridiculous is the tightrope walk

By: Jason Moyer

Jason Moyer — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:02:40 +0000

Time trials and speedrunning in Mirror’s Edge are approximately 80000 times more entertaining and rewarding than some crap arcade racer (like Grid or Dirt or whatever everyone’s gushing over now).

By: Pantsman

Pantsman — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:30:18 +0000

Mirror’s Edge is a better platformer than Prince of Persia because in Mirror’s Edge my performance actually depends on how well I’m playing the game, whereas in PoP I just press a button and watch the prince do something cool. Mirror’s Edge is therefore more challenging than PoP, but also much more rewarding when you get it right. ME is an actual game rather than a movie that you have to keep pressing Play to watch.

Most of the criticism of ME seems to stem from the critic in question being bad at it, and assuming that it is impossible for anyone to be good at it. This is clearly not true, since I’m pretty good at stopping Faith from flinging herself off ledges, as are many others if the comments are any indication.

@Muzman: Spot on, I think that’s exactly it. FPP just works for some people and not for others.

By: Jante

Jante — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:17:12 +0000

@Angel Dust: People with epilepsy don’t play Geometry Wars, why should people who get motion sickness from FPP games play Mirror’s Edge?

By: VD-Doom

VD-Doom — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:09:59 +0000

I think we already understood that rps pretty much hates mirror’s edge…although it has many fans and it’s a briliant and well executed game. Maybe it’s time to move on and rant about something else, no? How about the lack of candy shops in the half life series? that was a major issue…….

By: Angel Dust

Angel Dust — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:01:08 +0000

I know plenty of people who can’t play FPP games at all due to motion sickness. Should we also ban those because not everyone can play them? Of course not and “a large proportion” is a gross exaggeration.

By: daysocks

daysocks — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:37:29 +0000

Silly it may look, but maybe it means I can play the thing instead of getting sick after two minutes. First person may look better but what’s the point if a large proportion of people can’t even play it?

By: Magos

Magos — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 01:08:47 +0000

I don’t like to be a killjoy, what with all the commentertainment happening above, but the ‘Faith Walk’ is clearly in place to add extra emphasis to the bits of her you can see from the FP view. Hence the crazy person limb waving and all but static torso.

It looks a bit like some of the speakers at a marketing conference I once attended TBH.

By: Logo

Logo — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:50:15 +0000

Playing Mirror’s Edge in third person is like hacking Momento to be watched in chronological order. You totally defeat the emotions and feelings that the devs were trying to create. None of the problems of ME (other than motion sickness if it affected you) are solved by having a 3rd person camera. Combat doesn’t suddenly become less frustrating because you’re viewing faith from the 3rd person. The story doesn’t suddenly become better told and less predictable/cliche because you can see faith at all times. It’s fun to hack and kudos for them but this doesn’t make the game better (it does the opposite in fact).