Live Arcade Wednesday (8/19) - Shadow Complex

[Rage187]

I call BS on being able to complete the game on Insane at 100% in under 2 hours. It took me 8 and I knew where I was going and skipped every cut scene. That challenge is impossible.

 

[Hadsus]

Game won't be coming to PC according to one fo the project heads (Gamespot).

I certainly wouldn't go overboard on this as far as getting a 360 to play the game. It is fun but it is pretty basic stuff......Apogee's Duke Nukem series polished up a bit. Just goes to show though that 20 year old ideas still work well today.

 

[Kabob]

Finished it 100% and am going for the 13%...on insane. I probably should do a playthrough on easy for the 13% or less but I guess I'm crazy. I've got the golden shotgun thing so here's to hoping...

Tons of fun the game is.

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: kabob983
Finished it 100% and am going for the 13%...on insane. I probably should do a playthrough on easy for the 13% or less but I guess I'm crazy. I've got the golden shotgun thing so here's to hoping...

Tons of fun the game is.

the 13% playthrough shouldn't be too hard once you get to level 50 as you will then have unlimited grenades, missiles and foam and can skip getting those packs.

 

[Kabob]

Yeah, but I'm lvl 27 or so in insane diff

 

[R Nilla]

So I beat this for the first time last night at 100% and in the cut scene at the end the main character's hair was white and purple instead of black. Did anyone else have this issue? It looked crazy.

 

[Rage187]

Originally posted by: R Nilla
So I beat this for the first time last night at 100% and in the cut scene at the end the main character's hair was white and purple instead of black. Did anyone else have this issue? It looked crazy.

yes, both times I beat it. Some site mentioned a end scene glitch if you got 100%, this may be it.

 

[R Nilla]

Originally posted by: Rage187

Originally posted by: R Nilla
So I beat this for the first time last night at 100% and in the cut scene at the end the main character's hair was white and purple instead of black. Did anyone else have this issue? It looked crazy.

yes, both times I beat it. Some site mentioned a end scene glitch if you got 100%, this may be it.

Yeah, I thought maybe it was trying to render my hair using my helmet.

 

[Kabob]

I beat it 100% and didn't have funky hair.

 

[ubercaffeinated]

wowww i had a hard time deciding between this and fat princess and... wow. i haven't had this much fun on a side scroller since.. castlevania portrait of ruin.

 

[BlueWeasel]

Just finished it for the first time on normal difficulty. Got 55% of the items but sure felt like more than that.

Can't believe this game was only $15. I would have easily paid double.

 

[ArmchairAthlete]

Definitely a good game but with some flaws like the weak story and aiming into the background wonkiness. But VERY well worth $15.

I'm excited to see what Chair does now that they have this basis though. They could do so much more with it and I'd happily buy it up. Give me a new setting, new powerups, maybe co-op or a deathmatch mode... so many possibilities. I do wonder if they'll realize they could spend more dev time on the next one and just sell it retail and probably still sell a ton of copies though. Though since used copies will get passed around so much for a single player game maybe digital only is the way to go on this one, even at a low price.

You guys should try for the Insurgent master challenge if you haven't (beat the game with only the flashlight, climbing gear, grenades, foam, and rocket). The tricks you have to do in order to get it are very interesting and puzzling to figure out.