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This thread has been linked to the game 'Body Harvest'.
I just re-bought it for £7. You should all do the exact same, unless you were clever enough not to sell it in the first place:
"Some tasks are pure genius: a harvesting wave attacks an elementary school in America 1966. Your goal is to lead the children to the nearby church, but they're not getting on the school bus you hop into. Hop into an ice cream truck named Mr. Lolly, and watch the children follow. Mr. Lolly's "weapon" is a hilarious ice cream jingle. Imagine slowly driving an ice cream truck down the street, jingling a happy tune, aliens are beaming down and attacking all around you, and you have about 20 children following after you that you need to lead to the church. It's moments like this that make you realize the brilliance of Body Harvest's gameplay."
"Some tasks are pure genius: a harvesting wave attacks an elementary school in America 1966. Your goal is to lead the children to the nearby church, but they're not getting on the school bus you hop into. Hop into an ice cream truck named Mr. Lolly, and watch the children follow. Mr. Lolly's "weapon" is a hilarious ice cream jingle. Imagine slowly driving an ice cream truck down the street, jingling a happy tune, aliens are beaming down and attacking all around you, and you have about 20 children following after you that you need to lead to the church. It's moments like this that make you realize the brilliance of Body Harvest's gameplay."
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But to be fair if you analyse the combat in any turn based RPG type game it is completely unrealistic... How many sword slashes does it usually take to kill someone in reality...?
The monsters were disgusting at times. They were ll very inventive, but then you fight them and all they can do is punch, kick and do piledrivers. It was so odd.
Sibs wrote:
> But to be fair if you analyse the combat in any turn based RPG type
> game it is completely unrealistic... How many sword slashes does it
> usually take to kill someone in reality...?
Depends how well armoured they are and how good they can dodge, if they get in close with a dagger then you my sword-wielding friend are stuffed.
> But to be fair if you analyse the combat in any turn based RPG type
> game it is completely unrealistic... How many sword slashes does it
> usually take to kill someone in reality...?
Depends how well armoured they are and how good they can dodge, if they get in close with a dagger then you my sword-wielding friend are stuffed.
Hedfix wrote:
> Depends how well armoured they are and how good they can dodge, if
> they get in close with a dagger then you my sword-wielding friend are
> stuffed.
Ah, but in RPGs pretty much every attack connects, just does little damage. In reality if a hit connects an armoured person it will either bounce off the armour and do no damage (apart from maybe knocking the person back a little) or it will break the armour / go through a gap in the armour and pierce the flesh, likely causing a pretty severe wound. But in most RPGs enemies can take quite a few hits, as can your characters...
Anyway, this is rather a ridiculous debate... Videogames aren't generally meant to be realistic... In all the alien invasion, cloning, etc. world of Hybrid Heaven the one unrealistic thing picked up on was a bloke beating up a machine with his fists... :-|
> Depends how well armoured they are and how good they can dodge, if
> they get in close with a dagger then you my sword-wielding friend are
> stuffed.
Ah, but in RPGs pretty much every attack connects, just does little damage. In reality if a hit connects an armoured person it will either bounce off the armour and do no damage (apart from maybe knocking the person back a little) or it will break the armour / go through a gap in the armour and pierce the flesh, likely causing a pretty severe wound. But in most RPGs enemies can take quite a few hits, as can your characters...
Anyway, this is rather a ridiculous debate... Videogames aren't generally meant to be realistic... In all the alien invasion, cloning, etc. world of Hybrid Heaven the one unrealistic thing picked up on was a bloke beating up a machine with his fists... :-|
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