RE: We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.
10-30-2013, 06:47 AM
So anyways Sega sneakily released a sequel to the greatest typing game of all time, and it is disappointing.
Like, you can clearly tell they just replaced the shooting with typing and declared it good but there's just no creativity in it. I haven't completed the game yet but so far none of the bosses have any gimmicks. I can tell so often that 'Oh this is probably kinda neat in the original thing' but then of course in the game that translates to the same old 'type the words that appear there' and there's nothing different to it than what you normally do.
Also they still hold guns in cutscenes and while I understand it would be a hard change to make, what with how often they're actually USING the guns in House of the Dead: Overkill cutscenes, but it would still be pretty funny even if they just replaced all the gun models with keyboards, with no regard for context, having them reload keyboards and hands clipping through them and just kinda ridiculous or something, I'unno. It kinda feels like they were just like, making a PC version of House of the Dead: Overkill, noticed that Typing of the Dead was getting a bit of a resurgence in popularity, and threw a typing version in there. And then for some reason made it Typing of the Dead: Overkill featuring House of the Dead: Overkill and not the other way around.
It's also hella easy but I haven't unlocked hardcore mode, which I hope is like, mistyping loses you health. There are health packs all over the place and you've got 10 HP and I don't know what happens when you run out because it's never been an issue, and I'm on hard mode so I'unno.
Like, you can clearly tell they just replaced the shooting with typing and declared it good but there's just no creativity in it. I haven't completed the game yet but so far none of the bosses have any gimmicks. I can tell so often that 'Oh this is probably kinda neat in the original thing' but then of course in the game that translates to the same old 'type the words that appear there' and there's nothing different to it than what you normally do.
Also they still hold guns in cutscenes and while I understand it would be a hard change to make, what with how often they're actually USING the guns in House of the Dead: Overkill cutscenes, but it would still be pretty funny even if they just replaced all the gun models with keyboards, with no regard for context, having them reload keyboards and hands clipping through them and just kinda ridiculous or something, I'unno. It kinda feels like they were just like, making a PC version of House of the Dead: Overkill, noticed that Typing of the Dead was getting a bit of a resurgence in popularity, and threw a typing version in there. And then for some reason made it Typing of the Dead: Overkill featuring House of the Dead: Overkill and not the other way around.
It's also hella easy but I haven't unlocked hardcore mode, which I hope is like, mistyping loses you health. There are health packs all over the place and you've got 10 HP and I don't know what happens when you run out because it's never been an issue, and I'm on hard mode so I'unno.