So... Spent about 8 hours total over the last few days playing Exanima...
The story experience is unplayable. Zero direction... Awesome atmosphere and great combat mechanics. I was able to beat a ghoul or whatever with that metal spike and i finally got a decent weapon... but 4-5 fights in, my health is just gone... I understand that it's because I'm bad at the game but I can't really bring myself to replaying a very difficult first 30 minutes over and over again because the game doesn't pass a single opportunity to kick you in the nuts...
Arena was a lot of fun for a while.. After having to start over from scratch a half dozen times, I found myself on a good run. I figured out that I could fight pugilist matches to regain my health and I had a squad of 3 to do skirms... Lots of really fun moments pushing towards expert level... Went for a NOVICE elimination and I'm doing good, a few guys down and I've still got at least 4/5th of my health left... Up against a girl who's spazzing out with a shield and battleax... no biggie, I've beaten 100 of these...
But... She managed to get a hit on me that dropped me... dead... 0 health left.
Now my save game was deleted.
It was actually a conscious design decision to almost randomly delete people's save games?
I only put a few hours into it and was already pretty committed to my character... I don't think I can play this game knowing that regardless of how much time, skill, and energy I've put into a save game it can be ziltched by one mistake or one physics glitch...
I consider myself lucky that I've learned this lesson after only dedicating a few hours to my arena game...
The story experience is unplayable. Zero direction... Awesome atmosphere and great combat mechanics. I was able to beat a ghoul or whatever with that metal spike and i finally got a decent weapon... but 4-5 fights in, my health is just gone... I understand that it's because I'm bad at the game but I can't really bring myself to replaying a very difficult first 30 minutes over and over again because the game doesn't pass a single opportunity to kick you in the nuts...
Arena was a lot of fun for a while.. After having to start over from scratch a half dozen times, I found myself on a good run. I figured out that I could fight pugilist matches to regain my health and I had a squad of 3 to do skirms... Lots of really fun moments pushing towards expert level... Went for a NOVICE elimination and I'm doing good, a few guys down and I've still got at least 4/5th of my health left... Up against a girl who's spazzing out with a shield and battleax... no biggie, I've beaten 100 of these...
But... She managed to get a hit on me that dropped me... dead... 0 health left.
Now my save game was deleted.
It was actually a conscious design decision to almost randomly delete people's save games?
I only put a few hours into it and was already pretty committed to my character... I don't think I can play this game knowing that regardless of how much time, skill, and energy I've put into a save game it can be ziltched by one mistake or one physics glitch...
I consider myself lucky that I've learned this lesson after only dedicating a few hours to my arena game...