CreepyPirate wrote:
Well you sorta shot yourself in the foot. It's a third person shooter and you just called the combat dull and AI ****. XD
That's what tends to make a good third person shooter and those where the flaws it faced. Cover system was crappy, AI was bad, aiming was bad and in the demo i played the dialog consisted mostly of **** this and **** that.
It was average, not bad..what tipped it over the line of "maybe buy when I'm bored" to "don't touch with a 10 foot poll" was Eidos trying to buy good reviews, some poor guy lost his job for giving them an honest review.
Other companies pay for reviews, it isn't unheard of. What's unheard of is some ******* taking the money and then not giving a good review. Although I do think that's pretty cheap on Eidos' part.
Yeah, I guess you're right about how key gameplay is, but we clearly aren't seeing the same thing here. I didn't think the cover system was crap, it felt exactly like Gears of War to me. It was really useful on Morphine difficulty, although maybe it just seemed like a waste of time on normal (which I'm guessing the demo was set to). Also, the dialogue, characters, and stories were really good for me. It played out like a movie. Kane and Lynch are always bickering back and forth but when something happens they get the job done.
Oh well, we always did have different tastes in games, I still don't see how you find Oblivion's combat "dull". But we'll leave that for another day. 
