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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
Yeah, Beatdown was flawed as hell. The frequent and obscenely long loading times kicked my ass more often than the bad guys.  |
Ugh yes. The long load times and the small areas... just pure evil. I had a lot of tolerance for that kind of thing back then. Not at all now
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Originally Posted by Oriphiel
Joking aside, now that I think about it, it was actually pretty damn ambitious for it's time. Lots of content and interesting risks. Not many beat-em-ups had multiple characters with unique stories and so many customization options, an open world to roam in, dozens of characters to recruit to your gang, a faction and infamy system, side missions, hidden characters/weapons depending on how you progressed through the story, etc. I mean, it wasn't as ambitious as something like Steambot Chronicles (which I still don't know how Atlas managed to fit all that **** on just one PS2 disc), but still pretty cool.
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A lot of interesting ideas, but sadly not carried out very well. Plus I always suspected it was supposed to have a much bigger city. Also kind of odd how there was functionally two figthing systems, since one-on-one fights played very differently (and really much better).
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I've gotta ask, though. What was your experience with God Hand like?  |
Terrible, sadly. I hated it. But I also had high fever at the time, so I probably wasn't in a mood to be fair to anything new. Generally, I haven't been a fan of games from neither Grasshopper og Clover studio.