ReCore (Xbox One/Win10) - Definitive Edition out now for £15!!!, free upgrade for current owners

Photek wrote:Maybe it plays great and will be fun but it looks bang average tbh.

KjGarly wrote:

Photek wrote:Maybe it plays great and will be fun but it looks bang average tbh.

True but for less than £30 on Shopto I'll take a chance with this one.

Discussing ReCore with Joseph Staten and Keiji Inafune: Crafting, combat, story and more

Staten: So when you're playing the game, you probably saw that you're picking up parts, materials, spider optics and beast knuckles and all of these parts that fall off the Corebots. The system is a blueprint system. So you'll have a recipe, ingredients, parts, and as you travel around the world, you're able to collect them and then make these blueprints into frame pieces for your Corebots.

You can upgrade the look of your dog, the look of the spider, the look of your beast. It's not just the look either, they have combat properties as well, stat changes. So Mack is a good example, you can find an armor set that will turn the normal Mack dog into a wolfish, pointed-snout type, or a big, heavy bulldog, and some other more exotic things too.

Staten: I'll just say without ruining the surprise that if you're a fan of Metroid and the idea that there are places in the world that you just can't get to right away. They're teasing you, tantalizing you. "If I just had the right thing to get up high to get to that door I could go and explore it." Recore is the exact same way. There are absolutely places in the world that you'll see early, that you won't be able to get to, that you'll be able to come back to later.

Inafune: So the price point was decided very early on in collaboration with Microsoft. The reason they did that strategic price point was to try to appeal to a much wider audience. Microsoft already has a wide library of mature rated games that are for the super-hardcore and the older target audience. But with ReCore, what we're trying to do is make something a little lighter, it has a teen rating, but it still has a lot to offer fans from all sorts of audiences.

Inafune: So the game takes around eight to ten hours for our playtesters who know the direct path, start to finish. That doesn't include exploring, finding the extras, easter eggs and so on.

So I would certainly say in terms of how everything is oriented, ReCore leans much more heavily towards action – but that doesn't mean to say puzzling and story takes a back seat. I would probably place it at around two-thirds action, with puzzling and storytelling taking up around one-third. A lot of those gameplay aspects are integrated seamlessly, story elements will show up through segments even in combat, with voice overs.

OrangeRakoon wrote:ugggh I literally want an xbone just for this and Sunset Overdrive

Trelliz wrote:

OrangeRakoon wrote:ugggh I literally want an xbone just for this and Sunset Overdrive

Sunset Overdrive isn't good at all, so you can temper your want in that regard.

Trelliz wrote:

OrangeRakoon wrote:ugggh I literally want an xbone just for this and Sunset Overdrive

Sunset Overdrive isn't good at all, so you can temper your want in that regard.

I'm curious about this, the price point is a welcome one but i'll wait for more gameplay vids/reviews, even then given my backlog I'm in no hurry.

Trelliz wrote:Sunset Overdrive isn't good at all, so you can temper your want in that regard.

more heat than light wrote:Absolute horseshit.

Pedz wrote:Best game on Xbone, so everything else must be dire.

Trelliz wrote:

Monkey Man wrote:First 50mins of the game - https://www.twitch.tv/xbox/v/87930402

I wanted to like it more, and had it not overstayed its welcome, I would have. But in the end, like its robots, ReCore is a game with a bright soul encased in parts that are used well past their prime.

Recore isn’t a disaster, as much as the bizarre structure and hoops it made me jump through left a bad taste in my mouth. At its heart, there’s a game with some good ideas and great spins on action-game conceits that don’t see a lot of play this console generation. When it’s working, Recore is a game that feels evocative of a different era of action games. But in its final half, Comcept and Armature let collect-a-thon structure and a poorly realized open world drag the whole thing back down to earth.

When I first sat down with ReCore there was one burning question that I wanted to answer. Was it a budget game? Was the $49.95AU price point indicative of the game’s quality? For the most part, I’m inclined to answer no. The actual gameplay mechanics and underlying systems on offer here – from the crafting, to the tight platforming, to the combat – are all solid. This is a game built with a love of games like Banjo-Kazooie, Zelda and Metroid Prime in mind, taking the best bits and throwing them into an entirely new adventure.

But the sum is lesser than its parts and nothing ever quite reaches the high highs that these games that came before it did. Everything is still enjoyable, mind you, but there’s just something missing. Some extra polish, the little details, that keep ReCore from being an instant masterpiece of guaranteed success. To come back to my question, it’s obvious that most of ReCore’s budget went into perfecting the gameplay. But with that came a sacrifice. And that sacrifice was visual presentation and polish. ReCore is a game for those who yearn for an experience reminiscent of games from the fifth and sixth generation of console gaming – and in today’s gaming climate, I think that’s incredibly brave.

Wearing its influences so proudly is one of ReCore’s greatest strengths. It borrows unashamedly, but with such respect and ingenuity that it still manages to feel unique to itself. While the core mechanics will be familiar to any gamer with enough experience, there’s enough here to ensure that ReCore feels like something fresh and fun.

ReCore is one of the biggest surprises out this year. The quiet marketing is puzzling to me but the game is a smaller title which lacks the polish of a proper AAA release. For those looking for a true successor to games like Mega Man with hints of Metroid Prime, be sure to check out the game. Despite its technical shortcomings, ReCore’s story, combat and upgrade systems make it a thrilling and enjoyable experience. You won’t want to put the controller down once you start playing and will be a core-grabbing expert by the end. I know many gamers had concerns about this title due to the lack of awareness but it’s amazing. You shouldn’t have any doubts when picking this one up. Hopefully the title will get a sequel with an increased budget because I think Microsoft has a unique and nostalgia-evoking franchise on their hands which brings us a proper modern platformer.

ReCore isn't a perfect game, but its setting, concept and characters are compelling enough in their own right. The core gameplay is sound, the combat is mesmerizingly addictive, and ReCore's aerial dashing, leaping, platforming gameplay is technically sound.

ReCore falls prey to heavy amounts of copy and paste, a couple of design quirks and technical issues, such as occasional frame rate dips and hefty load times, but Armature and Comcept are already working to fix some of these basic technical problems already.

Despite some issues, I have thoroughly enjoyed my time with Recore, thanks to its engaging gameplay experience, not counting the repetitive combat, and well done story, featuring some very interesting lore. The game developed by Comcept and Armature Studio isn’t perfect by any means, but it has so many interesting twists that it’s difficult not to like it, if one can overlook some glaring issues that ultimately bring the experience down a bit.

Overall the game starts off great, but towards the end you feel that more work can be done. Armature proved they can make great games for Xbox with ReCore and they can make an older style game in a more modern world. If you are someone who enjoys single player campaigns and exploring the world alone with no multiplayer than this game is for you. What a great way to kick off this season and the Xbox Play Anywhere program!

It's all a shame because ReCore shows so much promise in its opening hours. It's easy to envision a way in which all those ideas could manifest into something great. They don't, though. Instead, it's just a jumble of mechanics that never jell, gameplay that grows stale far too quick, and insulting design. System failure.

If it wasn't for the extreme bugs and flaws that shroud ReCore this would be one of the best games I've played so far this generation. The good outweighs the bad. I hope for its success because this new IP deserves to be an ongoing franchise for everything new it brought to the table.
Read more at http://gamingbolt.com/recore-review#ke5Jxrs6BYmS24yo.99

A smart action game with bags of personality and a few unique twists of its own, ReCore is most definitely worth investing in. It's big, sometimes difficult, fairly engrossing, and fun while it lasts.

ReCore could have been a scrappy little shooter, but towards the end of the game it gates progress behind a door that demands you collect 20 Prismatic Cores. Then there's another door requiring 25. Then another asking for 30. And then two more doors beyond that. These Cores are peppered around the vast desert outside, tucked away in mountain crevices or placed atop impossibly high industrial towers. They're marked on a map, but their locations are still maddeningly vague.

magicmilner wrote:Sounds like Microsofts 'Ratchet and Clank'