{"id":839,"date":"2011-02-25T20:22:10","date_gmt":"2011-02-25T10:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=839"},"modified":"2011-02-25T20:29:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-25T10:29:19","slug":"hopes-for-bulletstorm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2011\/02\/hopes-for-bulletstorm\/","title":{"rendered":"Hopes for BulletStorm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still alive, honest, and still playing games. Yes, it&#8217;s still mostly <em>LOTRO<\/em>, but I&#8217;ve also added <em>Minecraft <\/em>to the mix. I&#8217;ll eventually do something worthwhile with that and post a YouTube video like everyone else or something.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, though, I would like to talk about <em>BulletStorm<\/em>. One thing I do between gaming and work is try to stay up to date with what the next distraction will be (at least once they come close to release date). I saw an ad for <em>BulletStorm <\/em>(shall I call it BS?) on TV and thought it was right up my alley. You see, I&#8217;m from the <em>Unreal Tournament<\/em> school of FPS. I like fast-paced, bouncing off the walls games with ridiculous guns. And colour! Glorious colour! Like many commentators, I am bewildered by the trend of the last decade towards a palette of desaturated browns. <em>Gears of War<\/em> might have been a good game if not for their drab choice of games.<\/p>\n<p>Back in the 1990s, there was plenty of choice: <em>Doom<\/em>, <em>Marathon<\/em>, <em>Unreal<\/em>, <em>Halflife<\/em>. And then <em>CounterStrike <\/em>came along, was stupidly popular (to be fair, it was a good game), and all of a sudden there was only <em>Unreal Tournament<\/em>&#8230; which got worse and worse with every release.<\/p>\n<p>Where was I? Oh yeah, the TV ad:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_Eookz_9BRI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Much more up my alley. Today, I caught this quick review on Facebook:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear epic games, Bulletstorm sucks. Way to fail.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My friend goes on to complain that it&#8217;s too repetitive, but I think that he may not have examined FPSs lately. Over at Giant Bomb, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giantbomb.com\/bulletstorm\/61-30088\/reviews\/\">they&#8217;re saying something different<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In some weird alternate universe,\u00c2\u00a0John Romero is still a part of\u00c2\u00a0id Software and every first-person shooter out there is filled with new iterations on the old &#8220;riding the rocket&#8221; or &#8220;sucking it down&#8221; death messages found in the original\u00c2\u00a0Quake. Games went in a different direction in that universe, eschewing the petty grasps at realism found here in our dimension in favor of seeking out new&#8211;but still<em>totally<\/em> juvenile&#8211;ways to tell someone that they suck. On top of that, they&#8217;re all finding bigger ways to blow things up and new ways to have guns rip polygonal bodies apart, often while making as many &#8220;edgy&#8221; references to\u00c2\u00a0Satan as they possibly can. In that universe,\u00c2\u00a0Bulletstorm gets two stars for being too colorful, wholly repetitive, and a shameless bite of the ideas found in the Grudgehumper series, namely Grudgehumper VI: The Devil&#8217;s Warehouse. Back here in the real world, however, Bulletstorm is a refreshing shooter that challenges you to do more than just hide behind a burning car and shoot soldiers in the face.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s a game I want to play. I think I&#8217;ll get it tomorrow. I&#8217;m not expecting much because it&#8217;s been way too long since an FPS was fun for more than a couple hours, but I think it&#8217;s a worthwhile gamble. Besides, it&#8217;s made by the team who brought us the gun that shoots <a href=\"http:\/\/www.escapistmagazine.com\/videos\/view\/zero-punctuation\/57-Painkiller\">lightning and shuriken<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m still alive, honest, and still playing games. Yes, it&#8217;s still mostly LOTRO, but I&#8217;ve also added Minecraft to the mix. I&#8217;ll eventually do something worthwhile with that and post a YouTube video like everyone else or something. In the meantime, though, I would like to talk about BulletStorm. 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