Daikatana didnt get a fair shake.

[spaceman]

Yes I am one of them, one of the daikatana fans from the 1st demo.
its a solid game, that took too long...but the intention was there..
brilliant paintings have flaws in composition...it is only human.
the romero is only human.
I suggest you hustle down to your eb..or yard sale...and get daikatana.
multi is alot of fun, co op is too.

 

[PricklyPete]

I think I just saw a tumbleweed...

 

[Canai]

oh god here come the nightmares about flying bugs.....

 

[spaceman]

Someone, somewhere has to take a stand for Daikatana.
Its been panned for far too long.
the butt of jokes.
but no one bothered to actually play it..they just brought the bastard down before it hit the shelves.

it isnt right and it has to stop...in the name of all that is Killcreek.

 

[waggy]

get over it. it sucked.

it was very dated when it came out. it was at least 3 years behind everything else.

 

[mordantmonkey]

Originally posted by: PricklyPete
I think I just saw a tumbleweed...

lol. I never played it, but i remember seeing an ad on the back of my quake(2?) case and thinking it looked like it could be good. Then i heard the reviews...

 

[Pepsi90919]

no.

 

[adairusmc]

One of the worst games ever made.

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: waggy
get over it. it sucked.

it was very dated when it came out. it was at least 3 years behind everything else.

in retrospect how much better was quake 3, and unreal tournament its contemporaries.
yes the engine was dated ...but the multi was lightning fast and a hell of alot of fun.
im not saying daikatana was superior to them..but if you play the multi of all of em now..how much different are they?
lets not even get into the single player of any of these three.

 

[amish]

it was TERRIBLE. that was the first, and only, game that i actually returned to EB. i even own wreckless: the yakuza missions for xbox.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: ncircle
Someone, somewhere has to take a stand for Daikatana.
Its been panned for far too long.
the butt of jokes.
but no one bothered to actually play it..they just brought the bastard down before it hit the shelves.

it isnt right and it has to stop...in the name of all that is Killcreek.

I played it... and then promptly fell over dead, only to be resurrected but a good game a short time later.

 

[ultimatebob]

No offence, but Daikatana deserved to die from all the hype.

I think that putting Stevie Case on the cover of PC Gamer with a "Future Game Gods" headline was the kicker for me. Hell, her team hadn't even released a single game at that point! From then on, I wanted to see Ion Storm go down, and go down HARD.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Awful graphics for the time, boring and stupid robot frog first level.

That's as far as I got with it, but the Computer Gaming World reviewer was forced to play through the rest and described poor AI, uneven level design, and more problems.

Soemone could find the right issue and link to the PDFs (on 1up?) of the full review, but why bother.

 

[spaceman]

ive played terrible games.
bubsy 3d is a terrible game.
daikatana is far better than bubsy 3d.

 

[spaceman]

did ANYONE in this thread bother to try the multi?

 

[spaceman]

lets face it.
most of you are slamming it due to some bitter fvcking reviewer with an axe to grind.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: ncircle
lets face it.
most of you are slamming it due to some bitter fvcking reviewer with an axe to grind.

I'm slamming it from playing about halfway thru and realizing chasing my cat with a stick was far more entertaining. I didn't try the multi because I was busy playing quake2 multi.

 

[amish]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob
No offence, but Daikatana deserved to die from all the hype.

I think that putting Stevie Case on the cover of PC Gamer with a "Future Game Gods" headline was the kicker for me. Hell, her team hadn't even released a single game at that point! From then on, I wanted to see Ion Storm go down, and go down HARD.

i remember that issue. wasn't she dressed up as a teacher with a little red sweater and glasses?

 

[Coquito]

I'm going to have to ask you to turn in your frosty avatar. You sully our reputation.

 

[waggy]

Originally posted by: ncircle
did ANYONE in this thread bother to try the multi?

Multi is not the whole game.

it sucked. single player sucked. graphics sucked. gamplay sucked. it was dated. if they would have released it years before they did it would be diffrent.


IT ****** SUCKED. waste of $39

 

[ultimatebob]

Originally posted by: ncircle
did ANYONE in this thread bother to try the multi?

Yep! I was REQUIRED to test the co-op mode as part of my beta testing duties back when I worked for mplayer.com. Mplayer had the misfortune of being an Eidos launch partner, which means that we had to host all of Ion Storm's multi-player crap. It wasn't any more fun than the single player mode, trust me.

Deathmatch was a bit better, but Quake 3 was already out at that point and it just couldn't compare.

 

[spaceman]

the multi is so unappreciated.
its BETTER than quake 2s multi.. and i played the hell out of that as well.
its on par with ut,and q3 and people just go give a damn.

 

[Danman]

It was like Duke Nukem Forever. Daikatana came out and it sucked. You think DNF is going to live up to all of its hype, if it ever comes out?

 

[spaceman]

Originally posted by: ultimatebob

Originally posted by: ncircle
did ANYONE in this thread bother to try the multi?

Yep! I was REQUIRED to test the co-op mode as part of my beta testing duties back when I worked for mplayer.com. Mplayer had the misfortune of being an Eidos launch partner, which means that we had to host all of Ion Storm's multi-player crap. It wasn't any more fun than the single player mode, trust me.

i used to play that demo 24/7 on mplayer with h9.
the co op was so so but the vs ruled..especially the original demo released on mplayer.

 

[Canai]

Originally posted by: ncircle
the multi is so unappreciated.
its BETTER than quake 2s multi.. and i played the hell out of that as well.
its on par with ut,and q3 and people just go give a damn.

q2 multi was better than q3 and ut. sorry but true. ok maybe not ut but q3 for sure.