The Ryse: Son of Rome (Xbox One) Thread - £5 download code

Cabela's Adventure Camp

Not as good as Cabela's Dangerous banana splits on PS2.

Entirely off topic but Amazon Trade-in were offering over a tenner for Cabela's Adventure Camp earlier this week.

This screen shot may have sold me on an Xbone:

Man, Zoo Tycoon looks more violent than I thought.

more heat than light wrote:Man, Zoo Tycoon looks more violent than I thought.

Edge 6.

http://www.edge-online.com/review/ryse- ... me-review/

That'll do for me. Looking forward to this now.

So it's a step backwards from Shadow of Rome, a game two generations removed? And here I was thinking that Beyond was bad.

Glowy, earlier today

http://instagram.com/p/g-03AsuRQA/

What have I done to you spindash.

Seen the review scores, I think they have been too generous. I told you this sack of horse slash should be avoided.

For everybody that pre-ordered Ryse

Colt wrote:So it's a step backwards from Shadow of Rome, a game two generations removed? And here I was thinking that Beyond was bad.

That's pretty ridiculous, Shadow of Rome was amazing (well apart from the stealth bits) and new generations are hardly ever about gameplay innovations, at least not since the 16-32bit jump.

HSH28 wrote:
Colt wrote:So it's a step backwards from Shadow of Rome, a game two generations removed? And here I was thinking that Beyond was bad.

That's pretty ridiculous, Shadow of Rome was amazing (well apart from the stealth bits) and new generations are hardly ever about gameplay innovations, at least not since the 16-32bit jump.

HSH28 wrote:
Colt wrote:So it's a step backwards from Shadow of Rome, a game two generations removed? And here I was thinking that Beyond was bad.

That's pretty ridiculous, Shadow of Rome was amazing (well apart from the stealth bits) and new generations are hardly ever about gameplay innovations, at least not since the 16-32bit jump.

Yeah, but to regress from a game nearly a decade old? That's laughable.

Colt wrote:
HSH28 wrote:
Colt wrote:So it's a step backwards from Shadow of Rome, a game two generations removed? And here I was thinking that Beyond was bad.

That's pretty ridiculous, Shadow of Rome was amazing (well apart from the stealth bits) and new generations are hardly ever about gameplay innovations, at least not since the 16-32bit jump.

Yeah, but to regress from a game nearly a decade old? That's laughable.

Its a completely different game, made by a completely different team with completely different goals.

Seeing simplification as regression isn't right either, I don't think this game is ever trying to be what Shadow of Rome was. What's more taking a step backwards is sometimes what needs to happen for progress to be made in a different direction, it might not happen in this game, but in sequels or whatever Crytek make next you might see the fruits of this 'regression' as you put it.

It doesn't matter how you try and spin. It's a next-generation game that is shallower in gameplay than one that came out two generations prior. It doesn't matter what Crytek do in future with it, what matters is that this is a new IP that isn't as developed as a title that was also a new IP years beforehand. I can't believe you're trying to excuse simplification because that is regression, Shadow of Rome was template to be built on (because it wasn't perfect) but Crytek haven't even tried to replicate what it did do right.

Yeah yeah why should they replicate it? Shadow of Rome wasn't their property and they have no obligation to emulate it. But to not deliver an experience that surpasses what has been done with the sub-sub-genre in the past is wasteful. So much could be done with the concept and when the best we can hope for is that 'oh the sequel should sort it out', that's just a pitiful argument.

Colt wrote:It doesn't matter how you try and spin. It's a next-generation game that is shallower in gameplay than one that came out two generations prior.

I'm sorry but you can say exactly the same thing about Killzone (compared to say Halo) and any number of other launch titles throughout the years.

Expecting every game in a new generation to bring deeper gameplay systems just seems completely unrealistic and not a little naïve.

I was expecting the reviews to be worse tbh. Not that they are good but it sounds like typical mediocre launch fodder rather than the shiny turd on a disc it could have been.

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