Binary Domain Catch-All

If you liked shooting bunches and bunches of robots in Vanquish, well then, have I got a treat for you.
Won't be out til 2012, unfortunately. Sci-Fi Squad-Based Shooter from Sega's Yakuza team.

Recently released gameplay trailer
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/52686/binary-domain-gameplay-trailer/?quality=hd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2XEyYVtn0g

First Teaser that accompanied announcement
http://www.g4tv.com/videos/50128/binary-domain-teaser-trailer/?quality=hd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q5wPiJSCFes

If the sci-fi story part is good, I shall forgive absolutely every gameplay fault.

However I think I can post a spoiler at this point:

Spoiler:

that whole "Machines = bad; Humans = good" plotline won't last very long

Besides the bad VO and generic marines look, the new trailer very much impressed me. Other than Vanquish, and maybe Lost Planet, it looks like one of a very rare breed of quality 3rd person shooters from Japan. Looks like fun, so I'll keep my non-biotic eye on it.

Yeah, actually looking at that gameplay trailer got me kind of excited. I wasn't really into Vanquish (didn't have the time for it) but I definitely enjoy me a good action game-- especially one in settings I don't see very often. I'll be keeping my eye out.

E3 2011 coverage, this one seems the best expression

http://www.destructoid.com/e3-i-real...

Trailer:

Seems like they're downplaying the RPG/character trust angles of it, but I guess that's the type of trailer it is.

I've played the demo and it's pretty damn good. There are some overly common voice clips and my allies have the occasional tendency to run backwards and forwards between me and the enemy while the game threatens to punish me if I hit them with a stray bullet but, apart from that, it has tons of promise. Unfortunately the SEGA logo appears on the game which, sadly, means I will need a lot of evidence that the game isn't horribly broken in some way.

I've just seen some videos for it for the first time, today. Looks like Mass Effect and Deus Ex:HR had a baby together. The story content and setting seem very much like DX:HR, while the gameplay and level design feel very ME. Am I off the base here?

MoonDragon wrote:

I've just seen some videos for it for the first time, today. Looks like Mass Effect and Deus Ex:HR had a baby together. The story content and setting seem very much like DX:HR, while the gameplay and level design feel very ME. Am I off the base here?

That's pretty close. You are in a squad of three and the cover mechanic works very well. The destructibility of the robots is better done in this game than ME (the buggers just won't lie down) and there is some nice variety in the enemies. The fire fights get pretty intense in the second section of the demo. Well worth giving it a try.

Also just finished the demo. I REALLY LIKE IT. I was merely curious about this game before, and it's now slid into 'buy' territory. Maybe not 'buy right now' with Mass Effect 3 around the corner, but damn, it's pretty fun.

Moon: I'd say a better comparison is Gears of War + the original SOCOM: cover shooter with squad commands that you can issue through your microphone/headset. Was that Troy Baker I heard as the main protagonist?

*sigh* I had written this one off and now you enablers are all enabling again.

Can't one of you be a disabler?

Oh great. And now I've favorited the thread! Thanks a lot!

Buy! Buy! Buy!

I sort of want this more than Mass Effect 3.

gains wrote:

Can't one of you be a disabler?

No reviews available could mean something to hide. I really want to like this too but I'm afraid it is going to be terrible.

beeporama wrote:
gains wrote:

Can't one of you be a disabler?

No reviews available could mean something to hide. I really want to like this too but I'm afraid it is going to be terrible.

The reviews have been trickling in, I suspect because the US release date is a week later than the Japan release. So far it's squarely in that 7.5-8/10 range.

http://ps3.ign.com/articles/121/1219...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...

General consensus is that it's a great game with a few rough edges that could have used a bit more polish. I played the demo again this weekend to try out the other squadmates I hadn't used, and it's still really impressive. I may end up getting this sooner than I had planned as I have a bunch of Best Buy credit coming my way.

But I keep forgetting a major selling point: one of your squadmates is a robot with a French accent, complete with a tres kool scarf.

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/zlsry.jpg)

Oui Monsieur! I weel shoot ze robots!

Pretty sure I'm sold on this one.

Really? Really!? Another interesting new game coming out? I figured this was going to be another mediocre Japanese shooter with a nonsense name in the vein of Mindjack and Quantum Theory that I could safely ignore. I guess I'll give the demo a shot and see from...

Well, I would buy in but the robot isn't wearing a beret. Or carrying a mechanical baguette under his other arm.

Seriously though, this game is going on the "someday, when I have the time" list.

nel e nel wrote:

IMAGE(http://i.imgur.com/zlsry.jpg)

Oui Monsieur! I weel shoot ze robots!

I like that guy/artificial construct. He's in the later stages of the demo. I liked his comment when you shoot him.... not that I accidentally shot him or anything.

gains wrote:

Well, I would buy in but the robot isn't wearing a beret. Or carrying a mechanical baguette under his other arm.

Seriously though, this game is going on the "someday, when I have the time" list.

Oh, but his mots are tres tres bon!!!

The demo seemed pretty run of the mill to me. The robots blow up pretty good and I like the squad stuff but it didn't capture my imagination.

"Mechanical Baguette" is someone's next band name.

Yaknow, I kind of want to play this now.

Big Booooooo!

Sooo, picked this up on sale from newegg, and I have been really enjoying it. Gameplay wise, I'd agree with Certis: it's nothing we haven't seen before from other cover-based 3rd person shooters. But the way the robots essentially disintegrate when you mow them down is terribly satisfying.

There is a neat point/cash mechanic that goes along with that as well, the more parts you shoot off enemies, the more $$$ you earn. So you are actually rewarded for NOT taking them down quickly. But...if you perform headshots, you mess up their friend-or-foe programming and can get them to fight each other. Not unlike AI hack in Mass Effect.

The trust system is pretty cool, and apparently it will unlock different cut-scenes depending on how much your squadmates trust you. I've already seen an unique love scene because of my roguish charm. Being an asshat or accidentally shooting your team will lower their trust meter and cause them to refuse orders. I've been playing a Han Solo-ish lovable scamp so far, but I'm looking forward to doing a full-Asshat run and see how that changes things up. It's a pretty short game (I'm in the 2nd to last chapter and have maybe put in 10-12 hours) so I don't forsee any problems with replays to mess around with different squadmates and whatnot.

The story and dialogue are really well done, and the world they have envisioned is really fresh and unique, even if the robots-who-think-they-are-human theme is not terribly original. For $30 it's a great time!

This is currently $10 from Amazon for the PC Download version.

I think I got $10 worth of fun out of the demo. Happily paid that for the full version.

Thin_J wrote:

This is currently $10 from Amazon for the PC Download version.

I think I got $10 worth of fun out of the demo. Happily paid that for the full version.

I just now went to Steam and it was $10 but only for a daily special and I had literally two minutes to buy it and I did.
It was rather harrowing, I also had to add the dlc to my cart and my first card didn't work.

I got this cheap last weekend, and just finished up the first level with mouse and keyboard and it was okay, but didn't feel great. What are opinions on M/K versus a pad for this one? When given the option I usually hate shooting with a pad, but this feels like the gameplay is less tuned to require the fast accuracy a mouse gives you, and sniping isn't really a big gameplay feature (yet).

This game doesn't start out very good but I'm almost a bit ashamed to admit that I'm starting to like it, unironically (I'm in chapter 4). It has a weird charm. If you can get it for 10-15$ I would recommend it.

kyrieee wrote:

This game doesn't start out very good but I'm almost a bit ashamed to admit that I'm starting to like it, unironically (I'm in chapter 4). It has a weird charm. If you can get it for 10-15$ I would recommend it.

I agree, it starts poorly. Everything after chapter 3 was really interesting though, and after finishing the whole thing I am left with almost entirely fond memories.

I set it to casual, turned off the voice stuff, and had some good stupid fun blasting apart robots.

I thought the talking to your squad through the game really was a nice secondary aspect to the game, enough to be worthwhile, but not too much that it gets in the way of the meat of the game.

Speaking to NPCs during gameplay rather than standing around talking at each other is something I'd like to see more games adopt.

Yeah, except the correct response was always A: non-sarcastic agreement.