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Title: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Nemesis6 on August 12, 2010, 06:25:29 pm
So, FEAR 3 is coming out soon, or at some point... I tried the demo for FEAR 2, and it was so painfully obvious that this game was no longer FEAR; The gameplay was boring, aiming was crap, all that good console stuff. So, knowing what FEAR 2 was like, I see no reason whatsoever to even give FEAR 3 a chance. So what about you guys, any of you feeling delusional enough to give it a chance?  :D
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Klaustrophobia on August 12, 2010, 07:26:02 pm
i thought the game mechanics were a bit better in 2 than the original.  it was the atmosphere (or lack thereof) and the soft-focus, grainy graphics that made 2 suck.

i'm not going to completely shut out 3, but the trailers and previews i've seen don't inspire a lot of hope.  (the point man has a face now, and he looks like a hobo.  fettel looks NOTHING like in fear 1, and the monsters were frankly laughable).
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: QuantumDelta on August 12, 2010, 08:46:28 pm
I really didn't mind FEAR2, a lot of the **** things from FEAR 1 were gone, the story wasn't quite as good but the presentation was decent(better), and with a good PC the higher difficulties were quite fun.

If I could have FEAR with FEAR2s gameplay I would be very happy.

FEAR is all about the multi anyway these days ;P
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Mars on August 12, 2010, 09:32:40 pm
I liked them both, and I look forward to this one.
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Gortef on August 13, 2010, 02:07:31 am
Same as above.

I didn't see F2 that much of a let down, I enjoyed the game quite a lot. Only thing that bothered was the games inability to recognize the extra buttons on my mouse, but it was nothing an exclusive F2 mouse profile couldn't solve.
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: starbug on August 13, 2010, 05:29:01 pm
I loved FEAR, scared the living day lights out of me the first time i played it with Alma just appearing out of nowhere esp in the liftshaft scene, and the bit where she is walking along and everything is exploding and you get blown out the window. Fear 2 for me lack similar scenes, even though it had more supernatural in it i felt it lacked in the supernatural if that makes sense. While fear 2 story wasn't as good as fear 1 it did have good elements in it such as the tragic character Keegan. I felt sorry for him as in the game he is a good person and becomes lost to Alma. I also like stokes as well, she is prob dead in the next game.

Fear 3 i am not sure about. I have just seen the new trailer and i did nothing to raise my interests. The point man looks like a scruffy drunk, and fettel dosen't look like fettel from the first game. Also the 3rd game i believe isn't being done by Monolith which is a big minus for me. So i might pass this one buy and go for Deadspace 2 for horror, but if i do get it they had better put on the box that it requires internet connection/Steam (that's if it requires it) as Fear 2 didn't have that requirement on the box!
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Klaustrophobia on August 13, 2010, 08:16:52 pm
Quote from: Gortef on August 13, 2010, 02:07:31 am
Same as above.

I didn't see F2 that much of a let down, I enjoyed the game quite a lot. Only thing that bothered was the games inability to recognize the extra buttons on my mouse, but it was nothing an exclusive F2 mouse profile couldn't solve.

yeah that irritates me too.  sure sign of simple console port.
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Mars on August 13, 2010, 11:31:25 pm
I've never had a game register all of my mouse buttons out of the box XD
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Klaustrophobia on August 14, 2010, 02:20:19 pm
o.0  really?  FEAR 2 is the ONLY one that hasn't recognized the side buttons for me.
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Unknown Target on August 19, 2010, 02:58:10 am
FEAR 2 was meh IMO...it was prettier and it was still as creepy (from the demo I played), but the combat was dull - it got toned down from the "**** FLYING EVERYWHERE OFF THE WALLS OFF THE CEILING OH MY GOD I CAN'T EVEN SEE BULLETS LIGHTS GUNS BANG BANG" to more traditional "bad guy pops up, aim, fire, sparks fly off (wtf?)".
Not really interested in F3
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: newman on August 19, 2010, 04:03:27 am
Never tried Fear 2 but I found the first Fear extremely boring. After some introductory short level in some warehouse, you spend most of the game getting from the basement of an office building to the roof. During that time you keep going through same looking offices all the time and apart from a few scripted scares, just keep getting bored more and more. Once you finally reach the roof and think you're done sneaking between the damn cubicles, the game requires you to go back to the basement. Great :)
Fear was one of the most boring supposedly horror games I ever played. Just my opinion of course, some people seemed to like it, I never got what was so interesting as I was too busy getting bored out of my skull..
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: SpardaSon21 on August 19, 2010, 11:41:06 am
The FEAR series has a crapload of unanswered questions, especially about the meaning of the sentence "You shall be a God among men.", and I really want to know what kind of **** is going down after the events of Extraction Point where
Spoiler:
Your extraction heli is blown up, you fight off the Replicas, and then gaze out over the panorama of burning Seattle where Fettel makes his creepy monologue about fire in the skies, cities turned to ash, bodies in the streets, and retaliation.
Title: Re: FEAR 3... yeah
Post by: Klaustrophobia on August 19, 2010, 07:43:24 pm
Quote from: SpardaSon21 on August 19, 2010, 11:41:06 am
The FEAR series has a crapload of unanswered questions, especially about the meaning of the sentence "You shall be a God among men.", and I really want to know what kind of **** is going down after the events of Extraction Point where
Spoiler:
Your extraction heli is blown up, you fight off the Replicas, and then gaze out over the panorama of burning Seattle where Fettel makes his creepy monologue about fire in the skies, cities turned to ash, bodies in the streets, and retaliation.

the two FEAR expansions were declared non-canon.

"You shall be a god among men"  was answered.

Spoiler:
the point man was the first prototype, posessing the ultra-reflexes and psychic ... sensitivity i guess is the best way to describe that.  the ability to resist alma basically.  that's all it really meant