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'Defiance' (Rockne S. O'Bannon/Syfy) -- speculation/discussion/spoilers
After about 3 days of downloading (it failed at least once), I finally got to play the MMO third person shooter for about 6 or so hours.
It's fun, IMHO.
It's not great or anything really new, but it's fun.
It has a good number of flaws: graphics and graphics settings could be better (rather limited options for a modern PC game, IMHO, but the game looks good for the most part. Not great, but good); the music's nice, but not when it's too repetitive; voice-acting and dialogue could've been much better (a bit cheesy and/or stiff. Not bad, but could be better); quest chain-ing could be handled better; the tutorial is lacking, and, as w/ the TV show, there's not much given about the setting in the game or show-proper and you'll have to look at stuff like the website for more info.
Structurally, it reminds me a bit of Guild Wars 2 (the arkfall events and some location-based quests are kinda like the "dynamic" events and group events in GW2), with about as much mobility for the character in terms of terrain (minus fall damage and jump puzzles, so far )
I hope it gets some more polish (same goes for the TV show). Hopefully both MMO and TV show prosper enough to have a decent lifespan, as both are quite good, but could better.
Anyone looking to get the game: I'd recommend either waiting for a sale down the road, hopefully after more patches have been implemented.
If you want to get it now, and don't mind digital download, I'd recommend greenmangaming.com because of the discount vouchers there, unless its on sale elsewhere.
I don't have the game. And I don't think I'll be getting the game.
Well I do know that here in the UK. We get the show the day after it's airs in the US...
My Sky+ box is now set to record th series.
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I finally got to watch the first episode. As has been said it wasn't bad. It had some fun scenes. And a couple of scenes had me chuckling to myself.
Looking forward to the next episode.
"What do you mean by 'Oopps'?" Team Starfist protects all. But having a fully loaded P-90 helps... Reality is an illusion... Created by those who cannot handle Stargate...! Jankowski's Rules: Rule 1: Check your Six! I'm not perfect. But parts of me are excellentI also cook...! To thy own self... Be true May the odds.... Be ever in your favour..!
Irisa and Tommy really screwed up in the last episode. Sure, the guy being tortured was unacceptable but they were supposed to be investigating who freed Ben.
Irisa and Tommy really screwed up in the last episode. Sure, the guy being tortured was unacceptable but they were supposed to be investigating who freed Ben.
Just young and impulsive.
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I hope they show a little more of the back story to this series. Even if it is in Flashback.
"What do you mean by 'Oopps'?" Team Starfist protects all. But having a fully loaded P-90 helps... Reality is an illusion... Created by those who cannot handle Stargate...! Jankowski's Rules: Rule 1: Check your Six! I'm not perfect. But parts of me are excellentI also cook...! To thy own self... Be true May the odds.... Be ever in your favour..!
Irisa and Tommy really screwed up in the last episode. Sure, the guy being tortured was unacceptable but they were supposed to be investigating who freed Ben.
Spoiler:
By the sounds of it Irisa has maybe been tortured or chained up at some point which may be why she reacted the way she did. She did have marks on her wrist. Be interesting to find out what happened.
Watched ep 2 the other day. Still not sure if I'm gonna like it. I'm kinda leaning towards like but still clinging on to the fence for the moment.
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