Comments on: Hot Fuss: Robokill 2

By: sleepygamer

sleepygamer — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:07:30 +0000

True. I see the points, however, when I see an Apple advertisement, I don’t immediately rag on the baby xylophone music. I’ve seen a few games trailers for games with a whole load of hip hop rap blasting out, and yet I manage to conceal the bile and rage I get when I hear the ruination of perfectly good hip hop with today’s musicians, and concentrate on the game at hand.

Of course, occasionally something catchy comes on, and I turn it up and completely ignore the trailer.

I just get ever so slightly cross when people start going on about “noise” when there is some incredibly skilled and interesting music playing. Even if it’s not to my taste, I’m won’t just call it noise.

Now, grindcore and noisecore. THAT’S noise. Very hilarious noise.

By: Rane2k

Rane2k — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 23:50:20 +0000

PheMoX (Hope this time it gets appended to the post, this reply function is … interesting ^^):

My reasoning was this: I have already spent $10 on the first game, tested out the free chapter of the second one and my conclusion was this: I am not going to spend money for the same game twice. New things that I saw: 1 new weapon type (Cluster Grenade, did not enjoy it because it does not function well in a game where you usually just hold the fire button), new enemies, usable items.
Not much has changed.

What I can do: I can recommend the game to people who have not played the first one, because to them everything will be fresh.

I´m not sure on the indie vs AAA topic, I´m not even sure what an “indie” game is anymore. Robokill does qualify, but what about games like Braid, Trine, Torchlight? If these still count as indie then yes, I hope everyone buys their products instead of Activisions. :-)

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:50:46 +0000

@ Pod:
???

By: PHeMoX

PHeMoX — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:43:48 +0000

“I don´t think I will shell out the 10 bucks for the full version of Robokill 2, it is far too similar to the first game to warrant the price tag.”

True, but I would still rather support an indie company like this, than for example the folks behind Modern Warfare 2 for the exact same reason. For some reason people either fall for it a lot when it comes to AAA titles, but with indie games, people are more careful. How’ come?

By: Pod

Pod — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:18:02 +0000

I am king of metal. I like metal. Metal am I; I’m metal as fuck, etc.

Anyway: The music annoyed me. Music on any game video annoyed me. Esepcially when I watcha TF2 “frag” video. Why can’t they just shut up and play the ingame sounds? Are they trying to sell me this game or Imperial Sledge Fists’ latest album?

By: Rane2k

Rane2k — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:07:50 +0000

jsutcliffe said:
Oh dear — it’s Amon Amarth? I have no problem with them musically, but ever since I saw a YouTube vid with subtitles I cringe whenever I pay attention to the lyrics. It’s poetry written by a Viking-obsessed ten-year-old.

Yeah, their lyrics are _really_ cheesy. :-)
As are their riffs, for at least 3 albums now, but it´s still fun.

I don´t think I will shell out the 10 bucks for the full version of Robokill 2, it is far too similar to the first game to warrant the price tag.

By: Mad Doc MacRae

Mad Doc MacRae — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:56:30 +0000

They might be a rock solid arcade, but they certainly don’t have a rock solid server. This is ridiculous.

By: Lorc

Lorc — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:07:47 +0000

My favourite thing about robokill was the RPS comments thread on it filled up with people asking for the full version for free.

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:06:34 +0000

In passing to everyone – I’ve been informed they aren’t official trailers, so the music is nowt to do with the developer.

By: Stark

Stark — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:46:25 +0000

I swear they stole some of the sound effects from Alien Breed

By: disperse

disperse — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 17:41:15 +0000

How are the controls? For some reason, I have a really hard time with top down mouse aiming games. It just feels… wrong.

By: Mal

Mal — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:09:06 +0000

Just to point out, the game saves your progress, money and weapons, so you can safely exit and resume later. Hello, shotguns!

Overall, this seems a definite improvement over the first game, which I enjoyed a lot (indeed, enough to convince me to buy the full thing). I’d buy this one too if I had some spare monies.

Definitely worth playing, ignore the trailer music!