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That takedown gif was all I needed to see. Pre-ordered. Also it's not a True Crime game unless it has kung-fu grannies in it. Kung-Fu Grannies who I can throw into a woodchipper, it seems.
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Any UK PC Gamers want in on this, Shopto.net have it for £22.85 http://www.shopto.net/DOWNLOAD/VIDEO%20GAMES/DWNLD29560-Sleeping%20Dogs.html I think I'll be laying down some cash for the 360 version. I've never played a TC game before, but the initial clips I've seen kinda paint it as a 'The Warriors' and 'Saints Row' kinda game. And I'm perfectly OK with that. :|
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Can get it for £20.82 via GMG UK for today only using the code on the main page.
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Lasher posted:That takedown gif was all I needed to see. Pre-ordered. I'm not familiar with the True Crime series myself. Kung Fu grannies is a thing?
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Revitalized posted:Placed my order on GMG Wow i can see why activsion dropped it that looks absolutely horrid. although it's looking pretty drat spiffy right about now. 
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Revitalized posted:I'm not familiar with the True Crime series myself. Kung Fu grannies is a thing?
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Revitalized posted:I'm not familiar with the True Crime series myself. Kung Fu grannies is a thing? rizuhbull posted:That's about as tame and realistic as True Crime gets... Isn't that the loving truth. It's quite hilarious because True Crime was touted as just that. Real L.A. real crimes and real police protocol. When you're out on the beat you can frisk people and sometime you find contraband on them so you can either arrest them (which involved a million button presses) or just straight up execute them Judge Dredd style. Hilariously though this was all randomised, as was the chance of the perp attacking you and everyone had the same fighting style. KUNG-FU. So you'd frisk a granny hobbling along, find copious amounts of crack on her and all of a sudden she's doing backflips and round-house kicks. Then there's the zombies, demons, gimps and dragons too. I better get those in this game too.
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Lasher posted:Isn't that the loving truth. You forgot "and Christopher Walken". 
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Lasher posted:Isn't that the loving truth. Haha holy poo poo. Don't think there's much frisking in this game though but then what do we know. About a month till release? trailers for the preorder packs. It's missing the Steam preorder bonus of the Triad Enforcer pack though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIGLu3dFRxI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFMYPBpxs6w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uyItJJCYq8 Revitalized fucked around with this message at 22:23 on Jul 10, 2012 |
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Dunno if this has been mentioned yet, but apparently this game is influenced heavily by the Infernal Affairs trilogy. In any case, this is the closest I will ever get to a Shenmue III so I'm getting it.
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Himuro posted:Dunno if this has been mentioned yet, but apparently this game is influenced heavily by the Infernal Affairs trilogy. Yeah apparently the Sleeping Dogs team did a showing of Infernal Affairs I and II at the New York Asian Festival or something like that. I actually never got around to watching them, so I dug them up and I'm gonna watch them tonight. There are playable demos at ComicCon. Anyone there got impressions?
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And for those playing at home, the Infernal Affairs films were the basis for The Departed, mostly the first.
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I'm actually interested in this game after seeing footage of the playable demo shown at Comic Con. The fighting system looks fun.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYXOANLzuJw It's a cast of voice actors!
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Was just coming to post that, Tom Wilkinson and Emma Stone are both impressive names to have as billing here. Lucy Liu, yeah, okay, let's do this.
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Not in the video is James Hong voicing Uncle Po. James Hong owns bones! (That's Covetous Shen from Diablo 3, Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China, and the goose dad from Kung Fu Panda)
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Dan Didio posted:Lucy Liu, yeah, okay, let's do this. Oh, Wei Shen! You've done a wonderful job at code:SamBishop fucked around with this message at 20:44 on Jul 18, 2012 |
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Jul 18, 2012 11:42
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Man, I never preorder games, but this one did it for me. That sweet release date shipping from Amazon was calling to me.
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Some footage from Comic-Con Also a bit of developer Q&A? I skimmed through it, but at the end of the video 25:00, there's some sweet carjacking sort of like JC2. Revitalized fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Jul 20, 2012 |
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Jacking vehicles in motion was done for the first time, to my knowledge, in "The Wheelman" game starring Vin Diesel. They also had the "vehicle melee" system which Sleeping Dogs apparently also has some version of, allowing you to ignore certain physical laws in order to ram vehicles off the road more easily. I'm really excited for Sleeping Dogs. An open-world game set in a Hong Kong Action Movie universe? Sign me up! I've been seeing a lot of supportive comments for Sleeping Dogs online, though I wonder how much of that is genuine enthusiasm for the game and how much is people hoping the game is successful so they can point and laugh at Activision for dropping it.
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Quiet Python posted:Jacking vehicles in motion was done for the first time, to my knowledge, in "The Wheelman" game starring Vin Diesel. They also had the "vehicle melee" system which Sleeping Dogs apparently also has some version of, allowing you to ignore certain physical laws in order to ram vehicles off the road more easily. While I'm sure something else has done it before, I know the in-motion vehicle jacking was in the original Just Cause, and that came out back in the days when it still made sense to have your game have a PS2 port come out at the same time. Also glad to see some more actual footage of the game come out, because for something that's coming out in less than a month, it's drat hard to find actual gameplay to show people.
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There's another video that's like the first 40 minutes of the game, but it's an awful video because the two commentators WON'T SHUT THE gently caress UP about random stuff related or not. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzDxttuq5fY Despite the annoying commentators, I'm pretty sure this is the start of the game and not just generic gameplay so uh... SPOILERS maybe sort of I guess? I skimmed the thing.
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Quiet Python posted:I've been seeing a lot of supportive comments for Sleeping Dogs online, though I wonder how much of that is genuine enthusiasm for the game and how much is people hoping the game is successful so they can point and laugh at Activision for dropping it. To be honest, I preordered this half because this looks awesome, half because I wanted Bobby Kotick and the Activision suits to eat poo poo.
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DivisionPost posted:To be honest, I preordered this half because this looks awesome, half because I wanted Bobby Kotick and the Activision suits to eat poo poo. It was pretty low the way Activision treated the team. "Yeah, we want you to make all these changes to your game or we're pulling the plug. Oh, you made all the changes? Well, we're pulling the plug anyway." I was going to describe this as a Western version of the Yakuza games, but then I remembered how much it hurt Yakuza to be called a "Japanese GTA". I hope this game can stand on its own as something new, and find an audience of its own. I never played the first Just Cause, but I'm always in favor of any system a game has that lets you get behind the wheel in a hurry. Driver:San Francisco's body-jumping, Saints Row the Third's Bo-Duken, Just Cause's grapple, Wheelman's airjack, it's all good. Quiet Python fucked around with this message at 02:53 on Jul 21, 2012 |
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Quiet Python posted:Jacking vehicles in motion was done for the first time, to my knowledge, in "The Wheelman" game starring Vin Diesel. They also had the "vehicle melee" system which Sleeping Dogs apparently also has some version of, allowing you to ignore certain physical laws in order to ram vehicles off the road more easily. Pursuit Force on the PSP came out in 2005, 4 years before the Wheelman, and was comprised almost entirely of jacking vehicles in motion.
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Wandle Cax posted:Pursuit Force on the PSP came out in 2005, 4 years before the Wheelman, and was comprised almost entirely of jacking vehicles in motion. Oh man, I totally forgot about that. Now I remember seeing the trailers, and you're absolutely right. Was the game fun? I never owned a PSP. Now I'm wondering how old the idea is. Is there a silent film somewhere of a guy jumping from one Model T to another? Maybe a mosaic of an ancient Greek airjacking an enemy chariot?
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First hour of gameplay from a German reviewer. (360 version) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvmD-0VrpEw&hd=1 Here are a couple early review scores:  (image from Eurogamer) edit: PS3 version gameplay from a Hong Kong reviewer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qG7DHoQZT-U&hd=1 Gyoru fucked around with this message at 16:38 on Jul 21, 2012 |
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Jul 21, 2012 16:12
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Wow. The fact it's being reviewed so early seems like a good sign.
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Looks like that german reviewer really digs it. Glad to see a ton of good reviews for it. I remember the fighting seeming a little clunky back in that gamespot preview a while ago, but it definitely doesn't look that way now. And man, those streets just feel alive.
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That's it. I'm preordering this Monday.
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Quiet Python posted:Oh man, I totally forgot about that. Now I remember seeing the trailers, and you're absolutely right. Was the game fun? I never owned a PSP. Pursuit Force is like every 80s action movie rolled into one. It's just mindless, pure car-to-car jumping, and yeah, it's a blast. It's not terribly deep or anything, but grabbing Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice is probably a better idea since it has a bit more variety and built on the foundations of the first game.
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SamBishop posted:Pursuit Force is like every 80s action movie rolled into one. It's just mindless, pure car-to-car jumping, and yeah, it's a blast. It's not terribly deep or anything, but grabbing Pursuit Force: Extreme Justice is probably a better idea since it has a bit more variety and built on the foundations of the first game. Yeah the sequel is better if only because it's not as teeth grindingly difficult as the first one.
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Another 10 minutes of gameplay on the 360. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWDWS8jyTic&hd=1 Interview with the producer of Sleeping Dogs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YbNBLYMxAY&hd=1
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Incidentally, this could be all just baseless rumors with absolutely nothing to go on, but I've been hearing rumors of a demo release on Tuesday. But nothing from any sources more trustworthy than "my dad's cousin works at Nintendo". EDIT: It bothers me the way everybody says "Sleeping Dogs" with the emphasis on the Sleeping, as though no one's ever heard of the phrase. Crappy Jack fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Jul 22, 2012 |
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Gotta differentiate it from your Watch Dogs, Nintendogs and Imagine Party Dogz. This is looking fun. The only question is: will the skinny childhood friend die in act 2 or act 3?
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I saw this pop up on Steam a few months ago and looking into it got me real excited just for the sheer amount of STUFF you could do during action scenes. The action mechanics are derivative to be sure, but they're taking from largely linear games and putting all that in a sandbox. So yeah, mechanics-wise it looks very interesting and now I'm hoping the actual design of it comes through in the same way.
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Mechanigma posted:This is looking fun. The only question is: will the skinny childhood friend die in act 2 or act 3? You forgot the other questions: Will he betray the protagonist before his death? If he does, will he go out through a redeeming self-sacrifice or will he be a traitor to the end?
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