X-Men: Destiny Thread

[Roughneck]

While I, too, am upset that we don't get to create our own character, I think most folks here (here being the entire internet) Seem to have missed that these three characters each have a different story going for them. I assume that this means, while some of the gameplay and levels will be repeated, we will get a new story unfolding for each character. Add to that the light/dark (x-men/brotherhood) paths that we get to follow, I think i'll be playing this game six times through. At least.

Probably not all at once. But I am looking forward to this game and I am getting sick and tired of hearing the same complaints about either, not getting to make your own character or not getting to play as an x-man. (which are two really different complaints, that seem to be the same one)

I like the idea of a new character, it makes customization more acceptable to me, but at the same time I like that they will have a set path or two for story. If I were to make my own character I know that there would only be the one main story for however many characters I make.

They've hired real actors......well kinda, for the voices of the newbies, which tells me that they are trying to make a great story here. I for one am looking forward to it.

And I've played as wolverine far too many times in my life now, I'm just fine taking controll of someone new and having familiar faces fighting alongside of me.

Bring on X-men Destiny (As I am the only one loooking forward to it) and let the Naysayers stop whining and don't play it.

 

[socool]

Ignoring the fact that you can't create your own mutant, (something I would have liked, but does not detract from the game as whole, in my opinion) the game just doesn't look good. Like some have said, the graphics are...sub-par at best, and the combat looks fairly uninteresting aside from those shadow moves which look pretty cool. The fact that each character has their own story is very cool, though, something I'm glad they threw in.

I was never gonna get this game from the get-go unless it was the next Mass Effect, anyway, so I guess this isn't much of a loss for me... If the reviews somehow win me over, I don't think I'm EVER getting this game, mostly out of the lack of interest and not that it just doesn't look good.

 

[Nathan]

Honestly, it looks like DC Universe Online to me. Only with better hit-detection. Sub-par graphics, button-smashy gameplay, playable characters that I have no real interest in. If it weren't for the fact that the game has X-MEN in the title, I would've probably stopped following this game a long time ago.

 

[Alchemyst]

I believe this game is more like a spiritual successor to X-Men Legends, just leaving out the team based gameplay in favor for a more straight forward approach. Graphics are subpar, and the gameplay to me just seems very repetitive, I agree with socool, the shadow effects do look cool, but its gonna take more than that to win me over, which sux because I'm a big fan of the X-Men

 

[Alchemyst]

I was never gonna get this game from the get-go unless it was the next Mass Effect, anyway, so I guess this isn't much of a loss for me... If the reviews somehow win me over, I don't think I'm EVER getting this game, mostly out of the lack of interest and not that it just doesn't look good.

I think even Slactivision knows their limits, I doubt they would ever deliver an X-Men game along the lines of Mass Effect. As much as I love X-Men Legends, I still think Mass Effect has them on so many levels, but that's some pretty wishful thinking though

 

[El Bastardo]

WTF is "the next Mass Effect" even supposed to mean?

And if you intended it to mean a specific thing, why not just use those words?

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Well obviously he means another immersive, narrative based RPG, like Mass Effect. I understood what he meant, without the need to be hostile and abbrasive.

 

[Alchemyst]

WTF is "the next Mass Effect" even supposed to mean?

And if you intended it to mean a specific thing, why not just use those words?

I would assume he means the "next" in terms of gameplay, story, level design, character design, and everything else that made Mass Effect such a great and successful game.

 

[Acro]

I would assume he means the "next" in terms of gameplay, story, level design, character design, and everything else that made Mass Effect such a great and successful game.

Didn't they just improve on what Knights of the Old Republic did?
That's the first thought that went through my head when I played the first one. I liked it all the same, though.

 

[Acro]

It was one of the most shallow movies I've ever seen, which is why I found it kind of ludicrous that you held it up as an example of a movie that strives for artistic value over pure entertainment.

Also, if success in attaining art doesn't matter in your statement, then why say American History X was an example of one that wasn't? I don't think American History X is a very successful film, but I'd say it certainly tried to be an artistic film, more than 300 did at least. Saying 300 is an example of a movie striving for artistic heights is like saying Transformers 2 is striving to be the Godfather Part 2.

I think he meant that 300 was trying the artsy thing purely visually. The story, even though based on a kick-ass legend, was **** just like any other crap made by Frank Miller, or whatever his name is.

 

[socool]

WTF is "the next Mass Effect" even supposed to mean?

And if you intended it to mean a specific thing, why not just use those words?

"The next Mass Effect" means a game just as good as Mass Effect.

 

[Acro]

"The next Mass Effect" means a game just as good as Mass Effect.

Well, even though I liked Mass Effect it had some obvious flaws. The movement of the characters is one thing that comes to mind. Why does every character run like a girl? It looks really homo when you're running around with your back all stiff and your arms tightly locked to your sides. It bothers me.
And why can't you use every weapon available just because you're a certain class? Does using Biotics mean you're automatically incapable of learning how to use a sniper rifle?
And I really hated the fact that you can't seduce any of the male characters unless you're playing as a woman. This makes no difference in Fable or Dragon Age.

 

[El Bastardo]

Well obviously he means another immersive, narrative based RPG, like Mass Effect. I understood what he meant, without the need to be hostile and abbrasive.

So we should infer, from that statement, that he purchases no games unless they are the "next Mass Effect?" And when he deems one the "next Mass Effect," does the next game thus become the "next next Mass Effect," and so on?

I would assume he means the "next" in terms of gameplay, story, level design, character design, and everything else that made Mass Effect such a great and successful game.

Then this should be articulated, if this is what is meant.

"The next Mass Effect" means a game just as good as Mass Effect.

This still means nothing. No other game since the release of Mass Effect has been as good as Mass Effect? Boy, I love Mass Effect, but apparently you've placed it on a higher pedestal than I have.

 

[Alchemyst]

So we should infer, from that statement, that he purchases no games unless they are the "next Mass Effect?" And when he deems one the "next Mass Effect," does the next game thus become the "next next Mass Effect," and so on?


Then this should be articulated, if this is what is meant.


This still means nothing. No other game since the release of Mass Effect has been as good as Mass Effect? Boy, I love Mass Effect, but apparently you've placed it on a higher pedestal than I have.

It's funny how everyone else knows what he was getting at, but you on the other hand wants to blow it out of proportion, anyways, moving on, so yeah....I want this game to be good, but it's giving me more of a feeling that it'll be mediocre

 

[BoredGuy]

The Mediocre X-Men...

yeah, not surprising that never caught on as a comic title

 

[socool]

This still means nothing. No other game since the release of Mass Effect has been as good as Mass Effect? Boy, I love Mass Effect, but apparently you've placed it on a higher pedestal than I have.

Mass Effect is a 3rd person action adventure RPG. So is X-Men Destiny. The difference? Mass Effect is great, X-Men: Destiny doesn't look like it will. Just because you use a game as an example doesn't mean it's the greatest. Just one of the greatest.

It's a figure of speech. I thought it was simple. Mass Effect is a symbolism for greatness in the sentence. So I actually meant "The next great RPG."

 

[Roughneck]

I could not get into Mass Effect despite all the amazing things I've heard.. I just couldn't get into the gameplay

 

[Wolvieboy17]

So we should infer, from that statement, that he purchases no games unless they are the "next Mass Effect?" And when he deems one the "next Mass Effect," does the next game thus become the "next next Mass Effect," and so on?

Sure you can infer that.... if you want to look like an idiot.

 

[El Bastardo]

Mass Effect is a 3rd person action adventure RPG. So is X-Men Destiny. The difference? Mass Effect is great, X-Men: Destiny doesn't look like it will. Just because you use a game as an example doesn't mean it's the greatest. Just one of the greatest.

It's a figure of speech. I thought it was simple. Mass Effect is a symbolism for greatness in the sentence. So I actually meant "The next great RPG."

Right, so you wanted X-Men: Destiny to be a great action-adventure game and to have all the right hits coming from the RPG genre to make you feel warm and loved. This still doesn't mean much of anything in true meaning, but at least we've progressed somewhat.

If what you wanted of X-Men: Destiny, though, was to have an immersive narrative, a winning storyline, well-written dialogue, etc., well, in this day and age it doesn't need to be an RPG - or Mass Effect - to accomplish that, now does it?

I could not get into Mass Effect despite all the amazing things I've heard.. I just couldn't get into the gameplay

Because it plays like ****, all herky-jerky where Shepard turns like a boat and where you have a big "whoa ****" power wheel that pauses combat and makes the camera pan even worse - and is most decidedly a gameplay no game should ever seek to emulate.

If you can get past that, though, or you just learn to have low gameplay expectations like we old-time RPGers, it's wonderful.

 

[socool]

Right, so you wanted X-Men: Destiny to be a great action-adventure game and to have all the right hits coming from the RPG genre to make you feel warm and loved. This still doesn't mean much of anything in true meaning, but at least we've progressed somewhat.

If what you wanted of X-Men: Destiny, though, was to have an immersive narrative, a winning storyline, well-written dialogue, etc., well, in this day and age it doesn't need to be an RPG - or Mass Effect - to accomplish that, now does it?

I think your over analyzing this. I never said Mass Effect was the ONLY game to have this. Fallout 3 did this for me, Deus Ex did it for me, and Mass Effect did it. I was hoping X-Men: Destiny would be on that list. I could have said "the next Fallout 3" or "the next Deus Ex" but I just choose Mass Effect.

Are we on the same level here?

 

[Wolvieboy17]

No, you're not socool, but don't worry, that's a good thing...for you.

 

[Acro]

Jesus Christ almighty! I thought I'd seen the worst nitpicking, but this has brought it up to a whole new level.

It's as simple as this: We can specualte all we want and complain about every little thing we expected from this game when we first heard about it, but wasn't put in effect, but ultimately we'll have to wait until we can play the game ourselves and then see whether or not it is 'The next Mass Effect' or not. Sure the graphics look a little simple and we can't create our own character, but that doesn't mean that these characters won't be fun as hell to play once we get the story going.
For all we know, the writers have written a really good story and have stayed true to every known character. And if that's the case, then who the **** really cares if you couldn't create your own mutant from scratch? You'll be fighting alongside your favourite mutants anyway!
And hopefully, if this game turns out to be good and sells as good, the creators are bound to hear all the complaints that some of us have been sitting here *****ing about and change all of that in any possible sequels; the objective of a sequel is to improve from its predecessor, isn't it?

So stop whining about graphics as the only reason you won't buy this game and ****ing support the efforts being made so they actually have a chance to improve a good idea in the future. If you hadn't heard anything about this game until its very release day then I'm pretty sure you'd be standing in line to get yourself a copy, if you truly are an X-Men fan.
The only reason you're dissapointed now is that you, like many of us, thought that when they released the first few details and the teaser trailer that the gameplay would be different then what it is. But if they'd said "Play as one of three new aspiring mutants in the world of the X-Men" then you'd still think it was a cool idea, because the whole Create Your Own Mutant idea wouldn't have popped in your head and you'd accept these three characters with little *****ing.

 

[Havok83]

Mass Effect is a 3rd person action adventure RPG. So is X-Men Destiny. The difference? Mass Effect is great, X-Men: Destiny doesn't look like it will. Just because you use a game as an example doesn't mean it's the greatest. Just one of the greatest.

It's a figure of speech. I thought it was simple. Mass Effect is a symbolism for greatness in the sentence. So I actually meant "The next great RPG."

I wouldnt put Mass Effect and Xmen Destiny in the same genre at all. ME is a shooter RPG. The mechanics are inherently different than what this game is setting out to achieve and it should be. I wouldnt even try to compare the two.

 

[Nathan]

If you hadn't heard anything about this game until its very release day then I'm pretty sure you'd be standing in line to get yourself a copy, if you truly are an X-Men fan.

That sounds more like stupid drone behavior to me. I don't buy every game because it's based on something I'm a fan of.

The only reason you're dissapointed now is that you, like many of us, thought that when they released the first few details and the teaser trailer that the gameplay would be different then what it is. But if they'd said "Play as one of three new aspiring mutants in the world of the X-Men" then you'd still think it was a cool idea, because the whole Create Your Own Mutant idea wouldn't have popped in your head and you'd accept these three characters with little *****ing.

I don't know about you, but when I hear of a game I might like, I tend to research it first. Since 60 bucks is a lot to spend on something that might end up sucking.

And as for accepting the 3 new characters, I doubt that would have ever happened. Because whenever I see people discussing possible X-Men games, they either want to play someone they know, Wolverine and co. or be able to create their own character. Playing 3 stereotypical characters that no one has ever heard of, is not something many want.

 

[El Bastardo]

I think your over analyzing this. I never said Mass Effect was the ONLY game to have this. Fallout 3 did this for me, Deus Ex did it for me, and Mass Effect did it. I was hoping X-Men: Destiny would be on that list. I could have said "the next Fallout 3" or "the next Deus Ex" but I just choose Mass Effect.

Are we on the same level here?

No, clearly rather not, since you're still producing examples of non-meaning.

I wouldnt put Mass Effect and Xmen Destiny in the same genre at all. ME is a shooter RPG. The mechanics are inherently different than what this game is setting out to achieve and it should be. I wouldnt even try to compare the two.

Yeah, this too.

I don't know about you, but when I hear of a game I might like, I tend to research it first. Since 60 bucks is a lot to spend on something that might end up sucking.

Yeah. I'm a huge fan of Warhammer Fantasy and Warhammer 40K, but Space Marine isn't an insta-buy despite it being made by Relic.