Painkiller... 1st Impressions...

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wow... so good! the graphics are great! and run smooth on my system! the level design is awesome.. the bosses are big, the physics are amazing, the enemies are cool... well, what do you have to say?

EDIT: WTF!?!?!? i just noticed that the bullet time feature found in the trailer isn't there! where is it! i recall people saying u press a button and u can use it all u want! where did it go???
 
Wtf There Is A Demo?!
ARG THERE IS ONE!!...........You guys are just sick for not telling me!
 
I have a question:

Is the game like Serious Sam? Like you fight 100 skeletons/devils etc. and so on? And are the gore-level like SS, I mean like when you blow a enemy with explosives just gibs fly around or is it like Quake III were a giant cloud of blood (I hate that) is floating in the air?
 
i played it thought it was ok....kinda confusing where u go to
 
Pauly said:
kinda confusing where u go to
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sigh.. i hate games like that. they try and make it clever but all it is some crappy little hole some were and you end up walking aroudn the same bit for an hour trying to find were to go.

well ill seeon see 82% and counting !
 
Its a total gorefest, but dang if it isn't a fun one. The stake gun is great to use where you can pin them to the walls. :D
And the bullet time thing is there. Don't know how you do it, but I did it twice.
 
HOLY FNARK!!!!!!! ANOTHER MUST BUY 04 FPS IN GONNA BE BROKE w00t THIS IS SERIOUSLY PWNAGE I got the limit break thing with the one hit kill when your screen goes all red with a white crosshair and you burn things with one click and it OWNED!! pinning shit with spike launcher OWNZ!!!! physics = OWN

WOW GREAT GAME!!!... its serious sam if it dropped acid and started warshipping satan! :naughty: :smoking:
 
ok.... this game is INSANELY DIFFICULT!!!! i have no idea how to hurt the boss, then he kills me... i keep dying in that one part in the town where the dead people get resurected... AND, in the second level... there are too many enemies and i can't get out of a pack alive
 
This sounds like my kind of game :) Just 9 more min to go. I like games that take lots of work to complete. It gives you a great sense of accomplishment when you finish.
 
i had some slowdown on my p4 dell rig (imagine that slowdown on a delL!!!!) anyways less slowdown and chops (cpu hits?, acessing c drive??) whatever the case idk fun none of the ness and playable..
 
Pendragon said:
Oh, one problem I had: even on my pretty powerful, although not top-of-the-line rig (P4 2.26, GF4 Ti4600, 512 RAM), I had pretty frequent slow-downs. Anyone else have this?
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No, I noticed I can run EAX sound faster in this game, than in CoD.
But, alas, it's still like a Slide-show. Too bad Creative EAX is a CPU hog. :(
 
Pauly said:
i played it thought it was ok....kinda confusing where u go to
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are you directionaly challenged...??

not being offensive seriously, I get mixed up but that demo made it pretty clear were to go it even had an arrow at the top of the screen saying were to go
 
In the bit where people keep getting resurrected, there are two witches to kill

In that same area, where you meet the goat-like wizards, i al cap0wned one of them with a stake to the head just before he launched his staff into me

I kinda liked the stuck-in-one-bit-until-you-kill-everything idea, but i can see that getting boring, unless the areas you are stuck in are huge.

In my opinion, it's fun, but will probably have little depth to it, so it could make for a classic MP game....

Edit - forgot the pics!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.phillipson1/murray/pictures/Shot0000.jpg

Goat-man owned

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.phillipson1/murray/pictures/Shot0001.jpg

My stats - what does the card give you (see the FAILED bit lol)?

Edit 2 - It runs like shit on my pc, literally 10-15 fps all the way through
 
It looks like it could have a good storyline to it, but have a poor gaming experience to back it up... I've checked out the trailer and I want this game to be good, so just giving my opinions, not my hopes...
 
It played well yet its not my kind of game. I liked serious sam, and will rock, but this just was't as fun for some reason. Nice graphics, cool enemies.. just not somthing I would buy...
 
Oh my god, I wait 2 hours, and it finishs. I double click it and a black box opens then closes. That's all it does. GAR!!!!!
 
Murray_H said:
In the bit where people keep getting resurrected, there are two witches to kill

In that same area, where you meet the goat-like wizards, i al cap0wned one of them with a stake to the head just before he launched his staff into me

I kinda liked the stuck-in-one-bit-until-you-kill-everything idea, but i can see that getting boring, unless the areas you are stuck in are huge.

In my opinion, it's fun, but will probably have little depth to it, so it could make for a classic MP game....

Edit - forgot the pics!

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.phillipson1/murray/pictures/Shot0000.jpg

Goat-man owned

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/john.phillipson1/murray/pictures/Shot0001.jpg

My stats - what does the card give you (see the FAILED bit lol)?

Edit 2 - It runs like shit on my pc, literally 10-15 fps all the way through
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Oh my!
I really don't mean to be rude, but; First off - Those are the worste screens I have ever seen.
Second - 10-15 FPS, my God! What are you running this game on?
I'll have some pics up, soon. Show you what this game is made of. :)
 
Where are you guys downloading from?
I tried bit torrent and its going hella slow and all other servers seem bogged down..
 
P3 1ghz, 32MB GF2 MX 440, 512MB RAM

Yes!!!!!11111111111

Upgrade to a 2800XP, 9800 Pro and 512 ram in 10 weeks :)
 
Only use your stake gun, don't use the grenades or the spinny-round thing (its like the ______ from perfect dark - please someone fill in the blank, it's doing my nut in!)
 
Wow, this is really stupid... I run around killing a bunch of zombies (and witches!) to endlessly repeating, stupid music. But most importantly... I can't ****ing duck! Why the HELL can't I duck?! Sure I could get past the fact that I can die insanely easy and can't save... but no ****ing duck? What crap.

The most fun I've had so far was making fun of the zombie trying to protect his crotch during the Nvidia start-up logo-movie thing.
 
I thought I could handle the 'recommended' difficulty... apparently, I'm a wuss and need to turn it down.

Also... what's up with the 'version 0.93a' thing... do developers just pull these numbers out of their ass or what?
 
Pendragon said:
How do you manage to die easily? I had to work to die.
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It's this berserk type power-up. I know it happens everytime I turn this one corner, or it's the soul of the monster, I collect, as I turn the corner. Anyway, it beats the hell out of the enemy, blows 'em into pieces. BAM!
 
A couple little things about this game that will probably make it irritating,

First off the AI as somebody mentioned is wonderfully bad. I found myself many times standing behind a pile of rubble and secondary fired my "pain blade thing" so that an orange "fire beam" links to the blades that i shot. I would then wait about 5 minutes as I watched the swordmen run into the beam for a few seconds and die. *Not very fun...amusing for the first time but then it just gets lame*

The levels are linear but i can understand why. After all its an old run and gun, old school, so don't expect any open ended levels. But I have to say that the design of the levels are pretty good and the graphics are awsome.

Its pretty hard even on the normal setting. I don't know if I'm just bad at video games but did anyone else die and find themselves begining at the start of the level? I was suprised that there was no quicksaves or even autosaves for that matter. Wouldn't those anarcists stars be a good place for an autosave?

I don't know if this rings true for anybody else, but after you died a couple times, did you not want to play anymore? I almost beat the 3rd level twice but I kept dying when masses of enemies spawned at these "gold" points and seriously slowed down my computer *note to self, lower settings from high to normal....Eli turns his head from the moniter and fights back from crying* And in conclusion, I quit the game and I am here telling you what I think about the demo

But for the many positives about the game, It has great physics, awsome graphics, nice atmosphere, and cool effects such as the enemies sticking to the wall if you shoot them with a stake. I think this would be a great game to play over the weekend but I don't think it wil hitch a ride on your hard drive for very long, maybe 2 or 3 weeks tops.

The problem with run an gun games is that they don't have a lot of replay value.

Oh well, thats what I think about it, I may have been to harsh and the final build of the game may be alot better, but for me...I'll wait for the reviews :cheers:
 
I tried to dload the demo but I couldn't find a good enough mirror, all were slow.
 
That's their build version, basically the latest stage of the game engine up to the point the demo was released. Notice how there was a big "work in progress" logo in the top right of the screen, meaning they will probably add in some more stuff before release.

I liked the game overall... very fun and pretty tough. This is the first game i've actually died in after a long time.... a lot of FPS shooters are just way too easy. Another thing i noticed is that you can bunnyhop... bhop incredibly fast. In fact, that's one of the only ways to kill the enemies sometimes because they are just overwhelming. Killing people is incredibly satisfying even if they're dumb. Nothing better than killing a group of 6 guys with a single grenade... awesome.

The levels are hard... after playing for like an hour or more i still haven't beat the 2nd level. Of course i play on the hardest difficulty because i love a good challenge.

Quite a good game... if the MP is good it might just be worth buying.
 
YAY!!! I killed the giant beast. Apparently it's called the "Guardian".
Interesting.
Anyway, it was really cool. Too bad I didn't earn a Tarot Card.
It said I had to kill it in under 1:30 minutes. :(
That's a little challanging, seeing as it too me 3:00 minutes to do it. Meh.
I'm sure I'll get there, eventually.
 
Everytime I try to install-it goes up to all the way and then, when it's trying to install,
"D:\Program Files\DreamCatcher\Painkiller SP Demo\Data\Movies\nvidia.bik
It takes like 5 minutes just to say unable to install this file.

This is why I spazzed out in my earlier post and Chris_D did a good job of cleaning up all the swears!
:D:D:D
 
14 mi nleft..downloading @ 245 kb\s...from NordicGamers.com
 
i think its pritty cool.. like the physics and gfx.. was wonding if there is ne way to say it ... i keep getting to the gient goat thing and dying and have to start all over again :/
 
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