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memedumpster - 2014-05-15

Lacks the player tracking skills of standard NPC characters from any other game ever.


Prickly Pete - 2014-05-15

Tedius my ass! I love this game! One of THE greatest single player expierences to be had! Then again, I have particular tastes. I don't play that queer Elder Scroll's bullshit!


Caminante Nocturno - 2014-05-15

Not too high on replay value, though.


infinite zest - 2014-05-15

I picked this game up for I think 4.99 a while ago thinking "well, eventually I'll have a moment where I'm pissed enough that I just want to fuck up motherfuckers in cool ways" just to get the rage out, kinda like GTAIII with the cheat codes.

It was a lot more than that. I liked it. One of the better five dollars I ever spent but I never beat it.


infinite zest - 2014-05-15

I think this was before "grainy surveillance camera" thing started getting way overplayed too. For some reason, the only horror movie that I occasionally have a nightmare about is the original Texas Chainsaw Massacre, despite the fact that there's like no blood and you never really see any of the massacre. Maybe that made it more scary. Also appropriate submitter name. I'm assuming Jay Reatard?


Change - 2014-05-15

I was under the impression that this was less about the plot and more about exposing murderous sociopaths who you didn't want to be friends with.


EvilHomer - 2014-05-15

I thought about playing it, but apparently you can only kill dudes, and not hookers or children. So what's the point?

Just stick with Postal 2.


oddeye - 2014-05-15

You aren't really a mass murder kind of guy, more of a regular murderer forced into a running-man/warriors style gauntlet while Brian Cox talks at you.


EvilHomer - 2014-05-15

Yeah, that's another thing. Manhunt was far too "moral" (in a Dexter sort of way) to be a satisfying murder simulator. You're just killing gang members and rapists, bad guys who "deserve it", you know, like you do in every other video game.

That, to me, makes the hook both less interesting - can't take the 3dgy premise seriously with a "good guy" copout - and, ironically, makes it even more sociopathic - because we're encouraged to root FOR the snuff film killer, like he's some kind of twisted agent of justice, rather than making your character into an amusingly ghoulish cartoon, like Freddy Kreuger or Godzilla. Self-righteous fascism is much more evil than self-aware sadism.


infinite zest - 2014-05-15

Oh yeah. I had to look up the synopsis but it's about a guy on death row whose lethal injection was only a sedative and wakes up having to do everything this "director guy" says, which is kill people, many of which are Neo Nazis and other "bad guys".. like the "bad guy" he is whose crime I don't think was ever explained. Call me old school but I don't really play video games for the story unless it's a role playing game, so with Rockstar Games I just skip the cutscenes and go straight to the cutting. And mutilating. Doesn't help that the stories themselves are fairly uninteresting ripoffs of movies (GTA: Scarface/Boys in the Hood/Godfather, Manhunt 8mm/Surviving the Game)


EvilHomer - 2014-05-16

Oh god, don't even get me started on plot! I just finished Bioshock Infinite, and I am so pissed at the "games should have plot" meme right now that I can barely think straight.

I get railroaded into ten tedious hours of walking down linear hallways, listening to some angsty girl spout exposition, no stealth no puzzles no roleplaying and like one easy fight every twenty minutes if I'm lucky, just so some asshat game designer with a film degree could BLOW MY MIND with that stupidass ending?!?! NO. NO. FUCK YOU, BIOSHOCK, AND FUCK YOU, PLOT.

Plot is for Ponies, not for games!!!!


infinite zest - 2014-05-15

I remember when I saw Surviving the Game with Rutger Hauer and Ice T back in high school how cool it'd be if they made a video game out of it. This is probably as close as they'll get.


misterbuns - 2014-05-15

Fapfapfap


Simillion - 2014-05-16

2:08: pig men are apparently retarded and blind


Caminante Nocturno - 2014-05-16

You try wearing a severed pig head as a mask and see how easy it is to spot a death row inmate.


Caminante Nocturno - 2014-05-16

The actual final boss is a fat man who can't really defend himself.


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