Remember Me

GT review out, 6.8:http://www.gametrailers.com/reviews/...mber-me-review

Sounds fairly short, 8 hours long. They didn't mention anything about extras or collectible stuff either. Bad dialogue, a dull and troubled combat system, and the cool parts with the Memory stuff are few and far between.

IGN gave it a 5.9, and yeah that combat looks extremely boring.

Dandai_sl said:

The worst part about high visibility flops like this is it just cements publisher's beliefs that taking gameplay risks never pays off so we get Battlefield 4 and Call of Duty 13.

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Well, from the sounds of it, they didn'treallytake any gameplay risks. Reports are that it's mostly filled with dull/boring Action-Game combat that doesn't really work out and that the really cool stuff that they show cased initially is rare (when it should be the main focus of the game). If that were swapped, I imagine it would be reviewed higher.

It's also the first game of some small french developer (Dontnod Entertainment) and published by Capcom who publishes tons of weird shit.

Totally bummed this might be a flop. Was a cool premise and an interesting idea. Maybe it would have made a better movie.

Zodiac_sl said:

Totally bummed this might be a flop. Was a cool premise and an interesting idea. Maybe it would have made a better movie.

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I think if it was 20+ hours, even padded, I'd have picked it up right off. I buy mid-score games all the time as long as they've got a decent amount of content. A super linear straight 8 hours that isn't a A++ experience is pretty off putting though. Maybe I'll pick it up on Amazon when it drops to $20-25 in 2-3 months.

Bummer, I was hoping this would be good since the premise looked interesting enough. Guess it'll turn into a steam sale buy for me now instead of an immediate purchase.

If the combat had not looked so god dam lame i'd have picked it up.

Combat is ok, plays just like the latest batman minus all the gadget combos, the memory thing is revolutionary and could be its own game via a spin off. I was left wanting to see more so they are doing something right.

Cant help but feel if they spent less time making stuff shiny and more time in peoples brains it would be a far superior experience.

Give it a go but wait for the sale.

Combat is ok, plays just like the latest batman minus all the gadget combos, the memory thing is revolutionary and could be its own game via a spin off. I was left wanting to see more so they are doing something right.

Cant help but feel if they spent less time making stuff shiny and more time in peoples brains it would be a far superior experience.

Give it a go but wait for the sale.

My main concern is that it won't sell well due to being mediocre game and Capcom will take that as a sign they were right when they tried to push for a male lead, that the bad sales show people don't want to play as a female in games and we lose out in the future on devs using the best gender to push the story (or are just gender neutral)

I'll grab it today, thank god for EB 7 day return policy.

Knytestorme_sl said:

My main concern is that it won't sell well due to being mediocre game and Capcom will take that as a sign they were right when they tried to push for a male lead, that the bad sales show people don't want to play as a female in games and we lose out in the future on devs using the best gender to push the story (or are just gender neutral)

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Not sure if serious.

was just having a conversation today on gender parity in games. and was discussing a tally of sales figures for male protagonists vs female should be made.

DeLLy_sl said:

Not sure if serious.

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http://www.polygon.com/2013/3/18/412...lead-character

"We had some [companies] that said, 'Well, we don't want to publish it because that's not going to succeed. You can't have a female character in games. It has to be a male character, simple as that,'" said Moris.

I mis-remembered that it was Capcom that had an issue with the female lead but the point still stands that those that turned it down for that reason could use it's sales data to push their point when future devs bring them new games to try and get published.

Well it would help if the game was getting decent reviews. Watching my buddy play is hard enough but at least we can share some laughs. Glad to see in that same article Naughty Dog didn't push Ellie to the back cover of The Last Of Us.

I don't see how sales have anything to do with it anyways, publishers could use that excuse, but a shitty game with either gender will fail and a great game with either gender will not. Some settings are better than others for genders, like I'd prefer a male role in a comedic type game (like I would at a comedy club, sorry ladies), but maybe that is just me. Unless of course it was the Queen of Mean, she is still damn funny in a guy like way.

Yeah, wasn't Capcom. Capcom has female leads now and then, hell they just put out Resident Evil Revelations in which Jill is the main character again. Also I think that's more of an American concern than a Japanese one, as there's plenty of Japanese games with female leads. Hell, there's ones with nothing but female characters in them.

Sean_sl said:

as there's plenty of Japanese games with female leads. Hell, there's ones with nothing but female characters in them.

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I don't think we should count dating sims.

Pretty much agree with Hatorade. Combat feels like a not as polished version of Batman, though the combo system is kind of interesting. The jumping/climbing is a not as good version of Tomb Raider. I would love to punch the Frenchie who decided to add QTEs to the boss fights though. I do wish they did more with the memory thing in game though, that seems like their one big thing and they've barely made use of it so far. I'm not too unhappy about buying it at full price, I'm more of a story and environment kind of game player though so the not so polished game play mechanics don't bother me nearly as much as it could some people.

I need to not have a life for a week so I can actually go to E3 weekend...