Starship troopers demo, what do u think?

[bunnyfubbles]

It wasn't the movie that was great, it was the concept of survival against such a siege of endless enemies that made it interesting. It provides for an excellent game type, which is why there were so many games made to honor it on games such as StarCraft; I remember playing some of those maps where you have to build bunkers and try and outlast the onslaught.

This type of game could be INCREDIBLY fun in a MMOFPS (thats right, FPS, not RPG). Where you get together with hundreds of players on a world (while you're fighting alongside only a couple dozen at a time) to defend strategic locations against long waves of bugs, and the MMO part comes into play when the bugs decide to focus their numbers on a different location so that you need to move troops to reinforce that position.

Originally posted by: apoppin
QUICK - name ONE sci-fi/fantasy movie [besides LOTR] that was 'as good as' the classic book it adapted?

While the LOTR movies were good and well accepted, I doubt you'll find many fans who read the book first who liked the movies as good if not better than the book. The movies were good if only because they weren't a complete let-down.

Personally I did enjoy the book more, some of the sequences in the movies just weren't as potent or fun as they were in the book.

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
It wasn't the movie that was great, it was the concept of survival against such a siege of endless enemies that made it interesting. It provides for an excellent game type, which is why there were so many games made to honor it on games such as StarCraft; I remember playing some of those maps where you have to build bunkers and try and outlast the onslaught.

This type of game could be INCREDIBLY fun in a MMOFPS (thats right, FPS, not RPG). Where you get together with hundreds of players on a world (while you're fighting alongside only a couple dozen at a time) to defend strategic locations against long waves of bugs, and the MMO part comes into play when the bugs decide to focus their numbers on a different location so that you need to move troops to reinforce that position.

Originally posted by: apoppin
QUICK - name ONE sci-fi/fantasy movie [besides LOTR] that was 'as good as' the classic book it adapted?

While the LOTR movies were good and well accepted, I doubt you'll find many fans who read the book first who liked the movies as good if not better than the book. The movies were good if only because they weren't a complete let-down.

Personally I did enjoy the book more, some of the sequences in the movies just weren't as potent or fun as they were in the book.

i see you couldn't . . .

:roll:

so ST is 'par' for the course [Great book, poor movie "adaptation", weak game]

 

[StevenYoo]

Dune was an awesome movie if you read the book, in my opinion

 

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: StevenYoo
Dune was an awesome movie if you read the book, in my opinion

not compared in mine

How were the video games? i never played any of the Dune series

 

[bunnyfubbles]

Originally posted by: apoppin
so ST is 'par' for the course [Great book, poor movie "adaptation", weak game]

Well the game runs well @ 800x600 with details turned down

When you get that, the game play isn't any worse than Doom3, and it definately feels like the movie, except for the fact that bugs don't kill you instantly if you let them close to you...

I don't like the automatic weapons tho, that weak machine pistol (I call it a pistol because its weak as hell) is nice due to unlimmited ammo, but its only effective against the weaker bugs, and they usually show up in mass numbers of which you'll overheat and thus be screwed if you rely on that weapon. Its alternate fire is a buggy grenade, at least I think thats what it is because it doesn't seem to work properly (thus my calling it buggy). Where are the cool weapons? Give me the vulcan from the A10 and I'll be happy...the alt fire on the assault rifle is nice, as its a powerful shotgun so you get range, accuracy, high ROF, AND a high stopping power close quarters weapon. Obviously the best weapon they give you in the demo is the heavy shotgun (or whatever they call it) as it brings bugs down with ease, just point and cause death, far less frustrating. However if they consider this demo close to be final product, they're definately kidding themselves. If they do find a way to polish it up, and they do offer some sort of co-op multiplayer then things could get interesting...

I guess the biggest let down with the game is the fact that your teammates are blow ass AI units...now if you could have a multiplayer where you could man some high power gun emplacements and have guys deploying mines between waves...something to really bring out the team work, that'd be hella cool.