I appreciated that they had to be more creative, using found weapons or whatever; they felt like they weren't able to lend a hand.
Yeah. It's more true to the series, but I can understand it being annoying to always have to come up with something clever when one character can just unleash the beatdown without much thought.
And it being BtVS, there are a fair amount of combat scenes, ya know?
True.
That is pretty goofy with the video game. Unless they are using Soldier!Xander, he's not a fighter. Also, he should get a lot more hurt, a lot faster, than Buffy, Spike, or Faith.
It's one of the many things about the game where it felt like they weren't trying very hard. Another big lack-of-detail annoyance is that according to the video game, stabbing a sword through a vampire's heart works just as well as staking them. Oh, and stabbing them in the leg with a stake is just as lethal as stabbing them in the heart.
In the first game, barring the occaisional glitch, if you weren't close enough to reach a vamp's heart, you couldn't stake him. (Well, you'd stab him with the stake in the ankle or whatever, but it wouldn't really do anything.) And if you were using a bladed weapon, you'd decapitate a vamp with it instead of impaling them.
I'm actually thinking of writing up a list of everything the designers of the first game did right that the designers of the second game threw out the window. Sadly, it's going to be a very, very long list.
In comparison, the things that the designers of the second game did better than first game is a rather short list: the ability to play characters other than Buffy, the addition of a multiplayer mode (in which you can play as Joss, which is actually quite fun as he has amusing comments when he beats up on the different characters), the interviews and other extras, the Quick Stake button (which is a wonderful addition, something I would have loved to have in the first game) and the ability to fall much longer distances without getting hurt. (That was my only real complaint about the first game. Buffy took damage after much shorter falls than I've seen her take without ill-effect in the series. Of course, with how crappy the camera is in the second game, if you took damage from falling off of things, you'd die a whole damn lot so it mostly saved them from the game being practically unplayable.)
stabbing them in the leg with a stake is just as lethal as stabbing them in the heart
Maybe they were just confused by the "stake the vamp anywhere near the torso and he's dust" choreography of the TV show.
Playing as Joss sounds very fun...and what other game based on a series or movie lets you play as the creator? Maybe the third game will have an easter-egg setting where you can play as Marti Noxon, Jane Espenson, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, David Fury, Tim Minear, and the Drews. A writer-creator smackdown. They could each have their own style or speciality. It could work!
imagining what it would be like to play as Tim...
Wow.
You know that Endless thing that ita linked to in Bitches?
Is that out now? Or just coming out sometime this month?
It's coming out soon, but I don't know the exact date.
September 17, in comics stores; probably a little later in bookstores.
Is it a graphic novel?
It's a collection of short stories featuring each of the Endless, in hardback format with a suggested retail price of $24.99. Last Thursday, there was a single issue
Sandman: Endless Nights Incentive Special
that came out and had one of the stories collected in the book (it was Dream's story). I thought it was pretty cool, and it really whetted my appetite for the book. It also had the unfortunate (in that I have no time) side effect of causing me to want to re-read the entire
Sandman
series.
imagining what it would be like to play as Tim...
Wouldn't this work out more like a multi-player verstion of Doom, with the Tim player engineering the grisly deaths of the other players' characters?
Maybe they were just confused by the "stake the vamp anywhere near the torso and he's dust" choreography of the TV show.
Maybe, but it takes things a little too far, I think. My cousin was watching me play for awhile and got great amusement out of Buffy taking out one vamp by staking him in the crotch. The game literally has you stake the nearest available body part--the vamp in question was jumping at me, to clarify before the porny minds around here get going. ;)
Playing as Joss sounds very fun...and what other game based on a series or movie lets you play as the creator? Maybe the third game will have an easter-egg setting where you can play as Marti Noxon, Jane Espenson, Rebecca Rand Kirshner, David Fury, Tim Minear, and the Drews. A writer-creator smackdown. They could each have their own style or speciality. It could work!
It is fun. He also makes very wussy "Ow!" noises when he gets hit. No other writers or directors are available, though you can also play as Chris Buchanan(sp?) of all people, who has some amusing things to say when you beat up on Joss with him. (I haven't tried him versus any of the other characters.) What's kind of disappointing is the characters don't make any quips about beating on their creator. Though as disappointing aspects of the game go, it's kind of low on the list.
(ETA some neccessary nouns and verbs)
