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 Post subject: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
Unread postPosted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 12:08 pm 
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I know that some of you guys that have been here a while are really hoping that I would come out with the final for Last Remnant but every time I think of playing that game I think that sticking my dick in a live electrical socket would be more fun. And really the 360 is not that great of machine that I must play all my games on so I have been taking a break from it for a while.

Lately I have been playing a first person shooter online with my friends and that got me thinking about my old days at counterstrike where I use to be pretty good so I decided to go out and get a few games that might help my thirst for pixel blood. I ended up getting a few things at best buy: a gaming mouse, the Orange box (I thought CS was in there :( ), and X3. I saw one of my bosses go out and get this when it first came out and I thought it would be great to get since it looked like an updated Freelancer (if you haven’t played that game btw, go pick it up. It is a great space game with the ability to play with your friends). Little did I know that this game was written by retards, no seriously retards. I think they could have paid me to at least crap out better code for game play. I will get that to a second.

Really my game time is small. 5 to 10 hours the most and I have not been following too much of the story line. This is just a first look at the game and I plan on seeing if this game will improve with more game time. So if you have this game please PM me and let me know what I am screwing up since it is challenging just to fly the damn ship.

every chance I get I step out of story line to go exploring new sectors of space and see what pretty things are there. And every now and then pick up a mission or two. They have done a wonderful job with the graphics that I found out that my gamming machine that would run most of the games out there is now obsolete. I bought it 7 years ago from Alienware (yes I paid too much for my t-shirt) and will never buy from them again. Even with the lowest graphical settings for that computer I was not able to run it decently so I loaded the game on my work laptop and man, it is such a pretty game. Not like smoking hot pretty like Jessica Biel but pretty like Pam Anderson. She hot and she probably has some surprise that might make your dick fall off. So wrap your tool before playing this game. You don’t know where the programmer has been!

This game is also a hog. If you are not running at least a duo core proc: put the game back on the shelf and save for a new computer. I had one of the better and faster p4's before they went to the duo core and this game kicks my computers ass. It’s like he went into a fight thinking he could take Bruce lee. It was not a pretty sight. I have been complaining to my wife for a new computer since I have gotten this game. So I hope that I can get a new machine here soon.

Game play sucks. I don’t think there are enough negative words to put together in the English language to describe how much the game play sucks. It’s like they have taken all the normal mouse moves and mixed them all up! And it’s not like you can pause the game and fix it. No, if it is on pause and you click any button the game becomes un-paused and the ship keeps flying without anyone steering the damn thing! And even if you think you have the buttons where you want them, they will fail on you when you need them. I was in the middle of a dog fight when my shooting button refused to work. I had to reset to default button settings to get it to work again.

There is no auto save. Some one find the programmer that purposely left out that function and bitch slap him into the next decade. How the F*** do you not have an auto save in a game that every time you go through a jump gate you could die?! Really, the only time you get to save is when you dock at a station. And even then you must manually save so if you are in a hurry for a mission and forget to save: too bad, you are now boned. The sensor on your ship is broken half the time. You would think that every time you get into open space (no space clouds, or asteroids cluttering the screen) that you could scan that sector and find everything. Nope. You basically have to run your ship into space stations that will take up the whole screen just to keep it on your map so you can look at it later.

http://pic.ipicture.ru/uploads/081021/Ll9lpy14Ro.jpg *caption* you must kiss my ass to add me to your map. It’s on the far side of you and will take you 20 mins. Get to work!

Travel is slow. Even at max speed it’s like watching someone run in pudding. And thanks to the broken button settings your boost button doesn’t work. You actually have to find the small button and click it on the main screen for it to work. And what’s worse is that it actually speeds up time in the game so if you have 5 mins to finish a mission and want to get there quick, don’t touch that button. The boost drive is broken.

You would also think that a game that would look that pretty would also be able to be up all night with you. I played for almost 3 hours last night and the reason why I quit was that the game STOPED WORKING! The graphics plainly gave up. So almost all three hours of playing were a complete waste. Thanks you effing cock suckers.

Well, I really haven’t put enough time in this game to give up yet so I am hoping that with more game time I will be able to get better stuff. the buy/sell menu is so broken that it is almost impossible to tell if you can A) buy anything, B) I still don’t know how to sell items, C) if the items you want to purchase are available for you, D) or buy anything off of the merchant ships (like if the are selling 10k of one items, you cant buy 100 if you need them for a quest).

And forget picking out what you want to be or how you want them to look. You get to pick out pre-created classes with even the sex picked out for you. They couldn’t even make them pretty to look at either. The chick I am playing looks like she fell out of the ugly tree, hit every branch on the way, bounced off a trampoline at the bottom to go back up and hit the ones she missed on her way down.

This has the potential to be a really fun game. It looks like you will be able to get capital ships, wings of fighters, build space stations and mining facilities. You just have to pass the beginning of the game.

Overview:
So far this is a colorful piece of crap but, since I like space games I'm still trying to get into it. If I would have known that you have to read a book (so not kidding) just to know HOW to play the game I probably would not have bought this.

Graphics: at this time 9.8 it is soo pretty but there still could be some work done to it and you needs lots of power to run this game.

Sound: music was annoying and I can tell that the ships automated voice is eventually going to get on my nerves. 5.0

Game play: can I give a score of an explosive diarrheic crap? No? Must be a number? Ok 3. I actually fell asleep playing the game.

Story: I really can’t give an honest score here since I have tried to ditch the story line to explore. So far so good and the intro make sense so I will give it an average score. It’s not enough for me to insanely follow it but its not boring either 7

Replay value: haven’t completed it to tell you. If it is like I think it will be then you will have fun for some time. I just hope that they made this multi player. So it could be a 9 but, right now it’s a 5

Overall: 5.96 if you like space games and want to spend a lot of time getting to know how to play the game this could be fun for you.


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 Post subject: Re: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
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ZIMES IS BACK!!!!!!! REJOICE BROTHERS!!!

Better than ever, Zimes. By far my favorite review from you. Very coincise, well analysed, and very very funny.

... But you still need to finish Last Remnant, even if it does hurt ;) haha

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 Post subject: Re: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
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crap you guys have done a lot of work on this site. i am impressed.
your reviews have also gotten a ton better and lots funnier with the pictures and crude comments. i will have to stop by more often now.

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 Post subject: Re: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
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yeah Zimes totally ACED this review. friggin sweet.

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 Post subject: Re: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
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Terrific review Zimes!! This made my weekend :D

Keep them coming!

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 Post subject: Re: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
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So far my favorite review from you Zimes! So how is Raving Rabbids or Mark of the Kri coming? :?:

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 Post subject: Re: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
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um. . . yeah. well I started on Raving Rabbids. does that count?

I still want to go off some more on X3 though. they did a poor job with the missions and story line now that I have tried to do some. I am stuck on a mission at the moment and trying to get more money but just getting my ass handed to me. Only God knows why they left out the multiplayer function out of this game since you need a wing man half the time. I really need to lower the score. I guess I can do a finished review later about it though.

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I am thinking that since Zimes' reviews are usually two-parters, they should divided up ala my Devil May Cry reviews, except instead of from game to game it would be more like "Initial Impression" and "Completion".

What do you think, Zimes?

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 Post subject: Re: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
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that would be cool if I did it before I knew anything about the game or completing it. MotK and Raving Rabbids are going to be skewed since I have already completed them.

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 Post subject: Re: X3: Terran Conflict (PC) First look
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I meant more like:

Part 1 - Initial thoughts, half-way through.
Part 2 - Final thoughts, finished.

Then you can let people know whether the 'first impression' was consistent with the final. Be like a way to judge whether or not the game actually got better in the end, or if it was still garbage.

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