It's been a few hours since I put the final touches on my impromptu review of Lost Planet 2. I'm never in the habit of editing my stuff when I finish it, I just post it. Everytime I try to edit something before posting it, I find that I always overlook small things that I just have to mention. But regardless, I finished it and I like it the way it is now. I want to write this blog so people can comment on the review, and so I can complain more.
I mean, I was so hyped. And who wouldn't be? With a trailer like this, and please watch every second of it, how could you not be fascinated with this game? it features squad combat, grappling hooks, tons of weapons, and bugs and warmongering human enemies. The first game was a solo job, but now it's the battle of the many. How could this be so ruined?!
I don't know why I kept closing my eyes to it. I'm supposed to be better than this, but Lost Planet 2 really bites. I can't stand it anymore. I want it to be a good game, it can-- No, it COULD have been a good game. With so many missteps in design choices, I doubt any of these problems can be rectified, even if Capcom is an awesome company. I sat in front of my TV and just stared at my Lost Planet 2 case on the shelf for five minutes. I facepalmed and put RE5 in for a little bit to quell my emo behavior.
Why is it that every time our graphics get prettier, our games get shorter and shorter? That may be an improper figure of speech to use on Lost Planet 2, but it DID place quite the effort into it's physics and it's overall detail. The game looks impressive, and very beautiful in some parts, but it's just so terrible at the same time. It's just gutter trash now that I look at it. I can't force myself anymore.
Looking at brainless idiots like this, I just hit my head on my desk. I can't stress it enough, this game is solid, it has potential, but it has been wasted. I don't think it's coming back from it. But they demand backwards compatibility, they want it to be easier. For god's sake the hardest difficulty in this game is a huge joke. The enemy AI just stands around more than half the time, and some Akrid bosses are just rehashes of the first game's like the big ice-breath Akrid and the Gulp Worms.
And yet, in spite of the fact of how much the Campaign desperately needs an overhaul, they constantly demand more multi-player maps, and they still complain about how people are playing Femmes Fatales even though it doesn't matter what faction you play since you can wear anything on anybody anyway. They're constantly tearing each other up over this boring, monotonous mode that means nothing to the overall experience.
What also pisses me off is they constantly make up all this drivel and lies and say it needs to be fixed. For crying out loud I throw more than that sometimes and I never get slowed down. They just fail at technology, but it doesn't surprise me. The grenade is powerful because it's an end-game item. Or rather, an end-slot-machine-game item. It doesn't need to be fixed. The more you fix something, the more fragile to breaking it will be come.
Not only that, I'm so sick and tired of it by now. There is no reason to keep playing this game, and all of the losers inhabiting it now are just going to drive it into the dirt. Maybe it's not such a bad thing, but boy is it extremely disappointing to me. I think the only thing that will drag me out of this rut this game put me in is Hunted: Demon's Forge with my friend. But watch, it will suck too. This market is becoming so saturated with utter crap, I wonder if a game crash isn't too far off..?
The first thing on people's minds on release day was getting that lame ass skin that they even signed up for Hong Kong PSN accounts to get their hands on it earlier. How pathetic can you get? One word on Monster Hunter, concerning the Wii release of Tri: If an American localization of a game needs to remove the pay to play feature just to attract players, then you know it's doomed. They didn't think it'd succeed here, so they removed that pay-2-play thing. Sounds awfully familiar doesn't it?
I just needed to get some weight off my shoulders. GG, Lost Planet 2!