I've spent nearly 5 Happy Hour(megaupload lol) nights trying to finish downloading this game. Though at times it seemed the world was out to get me and simply didn't want that to happen; corrupted RARs, delayed downloads, or terrible speed..But with great endurance and persistence all 15 parts last night were finally resting in my downloads directory, waiting to be extracted. It took 3 tries to do something so simple as exract an ISO from it's archives, which was mindblowingly frustrating at 2 A.M., if you can imagine. After the first try informed me I had run out of disk space on my hard drive, I immediately cleaned off about 80GB for good measure, then tried again, only to run into "Drag and Drop operation failed". Almost to the point of busting my LCD monitor to pieces, I tried one more time, extracting it from the file menu instead of via drag and drop...
Eureka!
Even after installing the game, though, I ran into problems. Some small performance issues, which to be honest, I was expecting with my terrible processor. After nudging a few of the graphics settings down, I got the game to run at about a constant 40FPS and still maintain a very enjoyable viewing experience. Right here, I'm shooting the shit out of some flying
bugs in the first mission, like a real American hero.
Anyway, as for some first impressions..literally my first impression of the gameplay was that it'd be better suited for a gamepad with some analog sticks. I didn't feel like setting it up on my PS2 controller, because I'd probably need to recalibrate anyway, but I get the feeling that it'd be more fun on controller. On to a little bit of the story, though. Humanity has ventured away from their homeplanet in order to find another planet suitable for human life, which led to the discovery of what is apparently called EDN III. Imagine an entire planet made out of Alaska, and you've got this new planet. Colonization of the planet was going okay for a while until they ran into the " Akrid ", an alien species of lifeforms that resemble insects. These insect aliens are quite obviously a little bigger than your typical bug, and inside them lies a thermal energy source, which humanity takes quite an interest in; The VS Suits, large mechanical suits resembling the robots from Armored Core, were put to use against the Akrid, and found to be quite successful in combatting them.
So yeah, keep in mind that down the line I'll be adding partial "additions" to this impression, maybe talking about some later gameplay mechanics, cool weapons or awesome American-esque boss fights. Most definitely some more screenshots and maybe even a video or two if I can ever get this cracked version of GameCam working properly. Konata out, bitches.
Eureka!
Even after installing the game, though, I ran into problems. Some small performance issues, which to be honest, I was expecting with my terrible processor. After nudging a few of the graphics settings down, I got the game to run at about a constant 40FPS and still maintain a very enjoyable viewing experience. Right here, I'm shooting the shit out of some flying
bugs in the first mission, like a real American hero.
Anyway, as for some first impressions..literally my first impression of the gameplay was that it'd be better suited for a gamepad with some analog sticks. I didn't feel like setting it up on my PS2 controller, because I'd probably need to recalibrate anyway, but I get the feeling that it'd be more fun on controller. On to a little bit of the story, though. Humanity has ventured away from their homeplanet in order to find another planet suitable for human life, which led to the discovery of what is apparently called EDN III. Imagine an entire planet made out of Alaska, and you've got this new planet. Colonization of the planet was going okay for a while until they ran into the " Akrid ", an alien species of lifeforms that resemble insects. These insect aliens are quite obviously a little bigger than your typical bug, and inside them lies a thermal energy source, which humanity takes quite an interest in; The VS Suits, large mechanical suits resembling the robots from Armored Core, were put to use against the Akrid, and found to be quite successful in combatting them.
So yeah, keep in mind that down the line I'll be adding partial "additions" to this impression, maybe talking about some later gameplay mechanics, cool weapons or awesome American-esque boss fights. Most definitely some more screenshots and maybe even a video or two if I can ever get this cracked version of GameCam working properly. Konata out, bitches.
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