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Mirror's Edge; or, are you serious?
Topic Started: Nov 21 2008, 07:41 AM (139 Views)
Scion238
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This game came up over in the thread where I announced I'd gotten my PS3, so I figured I'd start a thread about it.

First off, let me just say I've only played the demo. Was going to buy it new this week, but then Jo realized her best friend Doris had a friend who worked at EA Games (as a programmer, yes) who could bring us a copy for $20 when he comes home this weekend. So we decided to hold off on that.

That aside, the game is, as Dual said... the complete shit. It's awesome. It is probably the most visceral first-person experience I've ever had in a game. The premise is that you're a free-running courier trying to deliver messages from point A to point B, across rooftops in some unnamed metropolitan landscape. And it. Is. Hard.

I've never liked first-person shooters on the console, and playing Mirror's Edge, I finally figured out why. It's the dual-stick move/look combo. Yes, I know it's standard. I don't care. The problem is, 90% of the time, you're holding up with your left hand to keep moving... while navigating with your right. This is a complete inversion of the control scheme I spent my childhood and teens mastering with various racing games: holding down an acceleration button with my right hand and steering with my left.

So I swapped out the sticks to see if that helped. It didn't. I just suck at FPS'es. But I like Mirror's Edge enough that I'm gonna keep at it. It's not an FPS, but the control scheme is pretty similar.

Anyway, whoever designed the physics engine for this game deserves an award. There's this one bit in the intro where Faith, the protagonist, is sliding down a gutter on the side of a high-rise, runs from there to an adjoining rooftop, up onto the railing of a billboard, and jumps from there two stories down to a freaking crane arm... and all the while you're watching this through her eyes! I swear vertigo set in more than once.

I'm still trying to master the combat part of the game, because they really just want you to disarm and move on. And that's all about timing, timing, timing. Never mind that every time I have to make a long jump off an edge, I find myself having to point the camera at my feet just so I can know where the roof's edge is and time my jump right.

I'm gonna master this demo before I play the game for real. This is awesome.
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sotenga
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I tried to download the demo of this for the X360, but the Internet was seriously gimped at the time. I've got to give it another shot. Everything I'm seeing about this game is laced with praise, and it looks flat-out GORGEOUS. Plus, I've been on some seriously gut-turning rollercoasters to prove my iron constitution, so I don't think I'll get all dizzy while playing it. :smug
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Dual
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If you liked the demo, the first actual chapter (you only play training and the prologue in the demo) is going to blow you away. I played the demo quite a bit before I touched it and it amazed me.

http://hg101.proboards92.com/index.cgi?boa...lay&thread=4096

I gush about it a lot in that thread, on either the second or third page I ramble about it for a while. There aren't any spoilers (aside from game length), so it's cool to check. I'm really glad you like it, it seemed like something up your alley.

There were a few frustrating points I had during the game, but they surprisingly weren't because of difficulty, but simply because I overlooked something obvious. Since I'm still on an SDTV, I sometimes can't actually tell where grating is on a fence, so I assume everywhere, and for around fifteen minutes I was stuck looking for an opening in the fence I didn't know was there, at one point :p
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Grey Fox
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I'll have to check this out then. I didn't get a good first impression of this when I first became aware of it, mostly didn't bite because I hadn't heard anything of it until it was just about to release. Was sent some spam mail about it from GAME.co.uk, saying about a deal I was entitled to for it. Heh-heh-heh, I probably could of picked it up dirt cheap when I went and bought Fallout 3. Oh well...
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sotenga
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DAMN fun. I actually shouted "wheeee!" at several points during the demo alone... and then there was this one jump that I whiffed which totally reminded me of The Matrix. I will definitely get this one for certain! :)

Random tangent: Am I the only one who's tempted to cry LAWSUIT over the title of this game's main song (Still Alive)? At least pay Jonathan Coulton some royalties.
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Dual
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sotenga,Nov 24 2008
02:23 PM
Random tangent: Am I the only one who's tempted to cry LAWSUIT over the title of this game's main song (Still Alive)? At least pay Jonathan Coulton some royalties.

Yes :p Just because the names are the same doesn't mean they resemble each other in any other way. Plenty of songs have the same names, really.
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Scion238
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I once made a mixtape of songs named "One".

Anyway, I'm finally getting the hang of the disarms and combat part of ME. It's taking me longer than I thought it would. Grabbing pipes is still tricky. I just have to keep telling myself to hold up to keep moving and maneuver with the right stick. *L*
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Dire 51
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Scion238,Nov 25 2008
11:00 AM
I once made a mixtape of songs named "One".

Okay, I've got Metallica and U2, who else did you come up with?
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