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Title: Volition's making a new game
Post by: FlamingCobra on June 11, 2016, 02:19:45 pm
It's called Agents of Mayhem, and I'm not sure what to think of it.


Official site (http://www.aomthegame.com)

The first thing I thought of when I saw it was Overwatch, but it's actually a single-player sandbox game. And it appears to be extremely goofy. Not serious at all.
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: manwiththemachinegun on June 11, 2016, 02:49:30 pm
It's also a Saints Row spinoff!
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: 0rph3u5 on June 11, 2016, 04:29:00 pm
I remember reading that the devs at :v: didn't want to quit making games in the ott-sandbox vein but that Saints Row had gone pretty much anywhere it could (it was around the release of Gat Out of Hell)... Looks like this what they stettled on
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: General Battuta on June 11, 2016, 04:39:29 pm
This owns. V has yet to make a bad game (I'll give SR1 and Red Faction Armageddon a pass because SR1 became SR2 and Armageddon was THQ ****ery) and I bet this will be lovingly written and fun as balls.

SR4 was one of the funniest, most compassionate games I've ever played. Just a friendly, goofy, self-indulgent celebration of the characters and the player all the way through.
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: General Battuta on June 11, 2016, 04:41:53 pm
and now that I've slobbed volition knob I'll actually watch the trailer
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: Mongoose on June 11, 2016, 04:44:39 pm
This owns. V has yet to make a bad game (I'll give SR1 and Red Faction Armageddon a pass because SR1 became SR2 and Armageddon was THQ ****ery) and I bet this will be lovingly written and fun as balls.

SR4 was one of the funniest, most compassionate games I've ever played. Just a friendly, goofy, self-indulgent celebration of the characters and the player all the way through.
Red Faction II was pretty damn heinous, but everything else they've done is good ****, and this looks intriguing.
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: Firesteel on June 11, 2016, 05:51:06 pm
Though I haven't played every single  :v-old: game released. I generally see a level of personality from their stuff that isn't always in other games, even if what exactly makes up that personality has changed over the years.
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: General Battuta on June 11, 2016, 05:55:34 pm
This owns. V has yet to make a bad game (I'll give SR1 and Red Faction Armageddon a pass because SR1 became SR2 and Armageddon was THQ ****ery) and I bet this will be lovingly written and fun as balls.

SR4 was one of the funniest, most compassionate games I've ever played. Just a friendly, goofy, self-indulgent celebration of the characters and the player all the way through.
Red Faction II was pretty damn heinous, but everything else they've done is good ****, and this looks intriguing.

Oh, that's true! I forgot about it. I talked to a V guy and he said "yeah I worked on the one nobody likes, Red Faction 2..."
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: Klaustrophobia on June 12, 2016, 07:41:23 am
I didn't think Red Faction 2 was any worse than 1.  I also quite liked Armageddon.  It wasn't epic like Guerilla, but a good shooter with fun mechanics.
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: Blue Lion on June 12, 2016, 09:23:48 am
There better be a FS3 reference in the game somewhere
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on June 13, 2016, 02:28:35 am
I also quite liked Armageddon.  It wasn't epic like Guerilla, but a good shooter with fun mechanics.
The plot was terrible, but I found the gameplay rather enjoyable myself.
Title: Re: Volition's making a new game
Post by: 0rph3u5 on June 13, 2016, 06:23:01 am
I also quite liked Armageddon.  It wasn't epic like Guerilla, but a good shooter with fun mechanics.
The plot was terrible, but I found the gameplay rather enjoyable myself.

The Characters were terrible and unlikeable -- the plot as a whole hinged too much on knowing every single plot thread from Red Faction 1 and never quite got around to performing proper exposition, but other than that it is passable...