The One Reason Too Human failed To Work

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The One Reason Too Human failed To Work

August 25th 2008 03:17

Too Human. You know how you feel about it by now. Even if you haven't played it, you probably have an opinion. And even those that had experienced the demo have come to the same realisation that the optimistic buyers have also come to: there is something wrong with the game. Strangely, it was while giving The Outfit the thirty seconds of gameplay it deserved that led to the answer as to just what it was that held Too Human back.

Really, all of the mechanics are there for a great game. Leveling, fast paced combat, elaborate sets, an amazingly cheezy storyline.... Everything we have been indoctrinated to know and love. But back to The Outfit. Strangely, it drew a parallel between the old and new, and it was there that I found the problem.
Too Human looks and feels like it should have been released years ago.
We gamers are spoiled for choice now. Have a look at the incredible detail in Mass Effect, the phenomenal physics of GTA IV, the storyline of MGS4, the artistry of Braid even. Too Human has none of these. And we had hoped and expected it would.

Too Human, for the ten years of development that went into bringing the game too us, somewhere along the line it was held up and released after its time. What would have been a launch hit today looks old and unpolished. And as much as we feel for it, the titles keep coming out, buying it in the gaming past.

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Comment by Caid

August 25th 2008 06:19

I think this game would be a lot better with some balancing. Perhaps the greatest disjoy of this game is how tedious and inconvenient it is to die. A bit of a challenge is one thing, the absolute certainty that you're going to die everytime a couple larger enemies hit the screen is another. Perhaps an auto health restore, or more health drops would have balanced the game.

I have the game, I want to love it... But I just hate dying again and again...

Caid.

Comment by deez

August 25th 2008 09:31

Mass Effect? You mean mass defect the slide show? Game was fun as hell, but I guess you can show off some detail when FPS is 10. with NO enemies on the screen.

Comment by Ikaro

August 25th 2008 12:13

??? My Mass effect run perfect in my PC with ati x1950 and AMD64x2 5200 ! This is a old PC!

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 12:24

You wanna know what I think now that you've had your chance, I think your an ignornant a-hole, who has little to no appreciation for games, the time, the hard work and sweat the that goes into making them, if you think you know what's so great maybe you should make it yourself, due to the that fact that you have no consideration to the man power and time that goes into these games or a clear respect, you're man of a little to no inetelligene and your opinion means little to us and just comes across as annoying. In regards to Mass Effect was an awesome game that had tons of replay value has better graphics then heavy rain and was fun, your un-appreciative and I hope you live in your mom's basement condoned to playing Mass Effect for the rest of your life you ungrateful teenager.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 13:34

You cry ignorance, but I can count on one hand the number of punctuations you used. Too Human is just awful, just awful. An incredible disappointment to everyone looking forward to it, I hope designers realize that spouting off development time is not a positive thing. Instead of telling us your game is good (COUGH Molyneux COUGH) actually make it good. The silly controls and vacant story (and those dreadful death sequences) ruin this game, breathing a breath of foul air into the "action" "rpg" domain.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 14:01

I knew from the trailres that the game would suck, and i didn't mistake. The game realy sucks.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 14:47

Mmmmm i Smell Fan Boys!!!

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 14:55

the camera angles are the only thing that seems poor in this game. but i guess PS3 moaners don't realise what a fantastic original game looks like these days. why not go and play another one of ur Great games that have had 15 sequels. wow that's Imaginative, you can tell your getting ur money when ur so Single minded that u don't realise how hard and long it takes to Actually make a good game and make it work.......And Get some sun light u fucking Basement dwelling Virgins.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 16:36

This is why blogs should not be allowed to be misconstrued as a genuine news source. They are someones OPINION and as everyone knows, opinions are like A holes.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 16:43

In a lot of ways Too Human reminded me a lot like Mass Effect. They both have there share of glitches (lots of graphical glitches in Mass Effect) and framerate problems. The way the games play out are very similar and then your inventory which both games feature a lot of items. Too Human story isn't all that bad that reviews make it out to be. Its got a great twist at the end but I thought they could have added more story during the game, there isn't that much in the game.
Biggest problem about Too Human is it does need to be polished up. You can tell they rushed a lot of things since they had build up there own engine after dropping the UE3 engin.
Even with the flaws they could have fixed up I'm still having a great time with the game. A lot of stuff that reviews pick on is easy to look past, you just gotta take the game for what it is.Yeah you do a lot at the start but by the time to reach a higher level (I'm at lvl38) you die far less.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 17:19

I agree with this article. The game seemed to be sort of last generationish

I played Too Human for about an hour or two and there were two big things that bothered me:

1) I was going up a huge flight of stairs. The stairs were moving and my guy's legs were moving, but they weren't moving together and it didn't look like he was actually walking up the stairs. This is forgivable, but I was never ripped out of the game in Gears of War, Halo 3 or GTA IV like that.

2) I was fighting this big mech guy. I needed some health so I went over to some canister things to get some. Suddenly a cut scene started. I figured later that my troops must have killed the mech guy which kicked off the cut scene. It just wasn't smooth.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 18:38

it is obvious that most of you commenting on Too Human don't play on a quality Television..... Insane amount of detail... Could it have been more polished, sure.. I think everyone is whining about the controls because everyone is used to one style of play, after you get used to the controls, it is very easy to control.... Great game!!!!

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 21:04

Some of you people say, "You don't know what it takes to make a game, all the hard work, blah blah blah." Well, I do. I've made games before, granted, they're 2D platformers, but I get the gist of it. I understand it's not the same, but still, Too Human did NOT take ten years to make. It went like this- it started 10 years ago, was put on hold a few years, started again a few months, hold a few years, started a few years later, hold a year or two, then started till finish. The point is, nobody worked on it for ten years straight, altogether, maybe 3 or 4 years or work. In other words, don't be sympathetic just because you're told it took forever, that's just because of their incompetence at making 360 games or they had better things to do. This isn't an amazing game- do you really think that WOW or Diablo are less amazing games than this? No. But they didn't take "ten years." Don't be so sympathetic, Too Human has a bunch of problems, don't ignore them, this game is only like a 6 or 7.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 21:24

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 21:37

Comment by Sanzee the Mediator

August 25th 2008 22:04

Oh come on fanboys, stop arguing.

You're not going to prove your points to each other. You know the other side won't listen. Have some balls and quit whining. Even if you are right - and you know it and I know it, just let it go. Some xbox fans won't like it. Some sony fans will cry. But both sides have equally fanboys, and both sides will complain too much, and no comment is going to change that. Both sides will say their rival whines too much but that comment in itself is whining. To those who aren't down with conflict, know that you have my respect.

Debate good and debate fine, but conflict brings no love.

Comment by Anonymous

August 25th 2008 22:59

dude are u stupid?? this isn't a fanboy fight, its a fight about whether this is a good game or a crap game.

Comment by Caid

August 26th 2008 04:08

dude are u stupid?? this isn't a fanboy fight, its a fight about whether this is a good game or a crap game.

I think the other guy is right, this is more of a fanboy fight than anything. Seems a lot of "other" system owners are feeling joy that one of the 360's flagship games is hitting poor reviews.

I've played a lot more since my first post. Dying in this game still pisses me right off, but I'm loving the game a lot more.

This is truly a solid game, and aside from dying (God damnit!!! I died again!!!!!) it's been worth the wait.

I play it on a 42" LCD, through VGA. Everything looks smoother on that I guess, but it looks excellent none the less. As for being a gamecube game, I think not, nice try... but no.

This IS a good game, lt's just hope for an update which makes it a GREAT game.

Caid.

Comment by Caid

August 26th 2008 04:08

Comment by Anonymous

August 26th 2008 06:35

dude im a diehard ps3 fanboy and im in no way dissing the 360 because they only made an OK game for a CRAP CONSOLE!

Comment by Anonymous

August 26th 2008 22:10

dude i own a 360 and i could tell this game wouldn't be worth my money or time. i knew from before i even played the demo, which felt awkward and just plain weak.

i mean seriously, there's no need to flame and call people virgins, it's a videogame guys. people do have their opinions and they're entitled to them.

but yea as a final note, i was never excited for this game, from reading about it, to seeing videos, to playing the demo. sometimes you can sort of see these things coming you know?

Comment by Anonymous

August 27th 2008 03:03

I think the game is fun. If you take the time to play and get up to a high level, you don't die as often. It's also a great game to take online and start playing with your friends. The main problem I have about your article is that you say its a bad game because there "isn't enough choice." (So what if I paraphrased, I got the gist of it.) Gamers these days are so obsessed with graphics and music that they've lost track of why video games are made. They are made to be entertaining, and if I can sit down with my friends and have a good laugh playing a game, I think the game did its job well. However, that's just my opinion.

P.s. Whats with all the double posts?

Comment by Anonymous

August 27th 2008 06:09

dude i havent even played this game before. in fact ive never even read a review about it. im just saying that its not a fanboy fight... actually u know what? why not? faggot xbox is so lame it cant even play this crappy game cuz it sucks and stupid and doesnt even have blu-ray, oh my goshhh

Comment by Anonymous

March 3rd 2009 15:56

youre all retarded.
i'm speaking to every one of you when i say get a life

Comment by Anonymous

March 3rd 2009 15:58

lol that's for sure

Comment by Anonymous

March 31st 2009 11:17

it seems to me that what a lot of people haven't taken into account is the fact that this is part of a trilogy... game number one isn't going to be the best and I'm sure they are going to work out some of or a lot of the bugs for the next game and the third game.

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