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Nine-gear crow Aug 10, 2013red birdMark ye! The old dynasty of Killzones hath been swept away!, its reign inept and fraught, died ignobly. Marched valiantly, though none flocked to its cause because it was on the PlayStation Portable. Brought about the golden age, but its reign came crashing down once its successor, assumed the throne. With the fall of the PlayStation 3 dynasty, a new order has risen to take its place as ruler over yonder realm: The PlayStation 4 dynasty and the first monarch of our grand new age, Killzone the Fallen Shadow, and its servant Killzone the Mercenary!Oh my god, we’re back again! Second Fifth verse, same as the first.
This time around, we're playing the Other Killzone games, namely Killzone: Shadow Fall, the distant sort-of sequel to the original Killzone Trilogy, and Killzone: Mercenary, the midquel that sets up Shadow Fall and takes place concurrent with Killzone 2. Unlike the previous LPs, we're gonna try not to do too much with MLG multiplayer videos or fighting game fever dream hallucinations and stick to a straight up LP of Shadow Fall. The operative word here is 'try'.The earlier LPs are as follows:.S P O I L E R! P O L I C Y!I know Blind Sally doesn't believe in spoiler policies, but I'm not like that. I'm not going to be heavily enforcing a no spoiler rule on everyone, but that doesn't give you free reign to just casually drop poo poo that just breaks the game open and ruins what meager mystery there might be going on here.So, perhaps maybe just try to avoid talking about any of the really big reveals that might be coming in either game until the appropriate time to do so. I mean, we got through the entirety of Killzone 3 without anyone spoiling that Sev and Rico literally blow up Helghan at the end of the game, I'd like to at least get through Shadow Fall without anyone letting slip that Lucas Kellan is actually just a gun on a stick.gently caress.NOTE: This edict applies to Shadow Fall only.
Violence: Players wield a variety of real-world and futuristic military weapons to kill enemies.There is a fair amount of blood, particularly upon violent impact. Killzone: Shadow Fall includes.
Feel free to spoil the poo poo out of Mercenary as per Sally’s directive, because we’ve basically already jumped over it by like 30 years as far as the series’ timeline is concerned, so literally everything it brings to the table is a retcon of some sort.As mentioned before, the LP style was influenced by a couple of enjoyable Cinema Discusso threads that utilized a running commentary style of reviewing. Specifically, Kyle Hyde's thread and Terry van Feleday's. It's in that vein that Blind Sally, CJacobs and myself have decided to Continue To Needlessly Complicate The Killzone Franchise.To quote earlier threads:I pray we never truly find out.nine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Oct 30, 2019Jan 26, 2018 09:16.AdbotADBOT LOVES YOU. Apr 23, 2020 11:02.nine-gear crow Aug 10, 2013red birdnine-gear crow fucked around with this message at 06:05 on Jul 3, 2018Jan 26, 2018 09:17.nine-gear crow Aug 10, 2013red birdAt last, the end begins. As is tradition for the Killzone LPs, we’re starting things off with a quick intro and no gameplay. It’s a little harder to justify this time around, because Guerrilla Games did its best to try and make Shadow Fall a mostly seamless experience from start to finish, so bear with us.
The intro is covered in the video for Chapter 1 in the post directly below, so if you just want the video experience and don’t care about all the heady analysis we’re doing, just scroll down to the next post or click the Next Update button if you’re reading this on the LP Archive.Shadow Fall begins in the literal closing seconds of Killzone 3. While we don’t ever see Sev or Rico or any of their surviving cohorts from the PS3 era in Shadow Fall, we do open with their climactic, history-altering final act: the Helghan Terracide.In lieu of Brian Cox as Visari, Shadow Fall’s opening is narrated by Jamie Gray Hyder as Echo. Unlike Scolar Visari, whose game-opening speeches were bombastic propaganda screeds about how loving great it was to be a Helghast, Echo's monologue is a sombre low-key exposition dump meant to catch up anyone who has never played a Killzone game with what is happening at the start of Shadow Fall and to lament about how lovely everyone in this series—Helghast and Vektans alike—generally is.In the music department, our perennial maestro Joris de Man and his orchestral score are tagged out for a more synth and bass guitar-centered one helmed jointly by Lorn (Marcos Ortega) and Tyler Bates. I just wanted to say.I love you.Is it sad to say that I've been looking forward to this?
'Cause I've been looking forward to this.I very nearly picked this up a few months ago on account of how drat pretty it is, but I then remembered how I played and wasn't quite thrilled with how KZ3 played. Something about coming basically hot off the heels of one CoD game or another and not being prepared for how clunky and slow Killzone games were apparently designed to be. After the original trilogy LPs, I gave it another look and then promptly. Forgot about it? I'm not sure, but either way, can't wait to see what shenanigans Kellan gets up to here.Jan 26, 2018 14:14.Klaus88 Jan 23, 2011Violence has its own economy, therefore be thoughtful and precise in your investmentThey managed to make the ISA regulars look even dumber in this game, somehow.Also, lets finish this series with a loving bang.Jan 26, 2018 15:48.Lazy Bear Feb 1, 2013Never too lazy to dance with the angelsWoo! I am super stoked for this.
It looks like it's gonna be a sweet game, and I'm genuinely happy with how Guerrilla's handled the narrative thusfar. Perhaps in this instalment we will finally learn the mysterious truth, and find out what the gently caress is a Shakespeare.Jan 26, 2018 17:21.thetruegentleman Feb 5, 2011You call that potato a Trump avatar?THIS is a Trump Avatar!I still love how Earth was just like, 'the Helghast built a bomb capable of destroying worlds, and accidentally blew up their own during a fight in space?
Don't care, they own half your planet now!' Jan 26, 2018 18:53.koolkevz666 Aug 21, 2015I loved the look of Shadow Fall when it came out even if I couldn't play it due to never getting a PS 4 and I look forward to watching you all play it. Also thank you for all the background info and such, I never looked into the background of Shadow Fall for some reason and just thought the Vektan's felt bad after the end of 3 and made a very stupid decision. Now that I know Earth made it for them I see it actually makes sense.Jan 26, 2018 19:29.Dash Rendar Jan 9, 2007.
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Han Solo, ha! If I'm around, you don't need that guy.I'm going to miss you old spoiler rule. You were my favourite.can't say exactly when Mercenary stuff emwill be up but as it becomes relevant to Shadow Fall i will be doing lore dumps of the amazing Aaron Danner, Earthman Supreme.Jan 27, 2018 00:05.White Coke May 29, 2015I hope we'll get to find out more about why the Helghast tried to integrate some Vektans for the first decade, then changed policy and went full space-racist. Spacist.Also did anyone else see the part of the Fatshake add where it says it's for people with coughs?Jan 27, 2018 02:54.nine-gear crow Aug 10, 2013red bird. I hope we'll get to find out more about why the Helghast tried to integrate some Vektans for the first decade, then changed policy and went full space-racist. Spacist.Also did anyone else see the part of the Fatshake add where it says it's for people with coughs?Close, it's actually a C, not a G.
'The #1 instant shake for real couching.' It's a real weird term, and I've never heard it used to describe, I'm assuming, just laying about on the couch all day, but then again, Dutch developer, they probably don't care too much if their graphics department doesn't get the English 100% perfect. I mean, look at all the weirdass ads in Killzone 1.There's full-rez versions of all the ads in Chapter 1 that I spotted from the raw footage. I didn't include the N-Work One ads because we're going to be seeing it a lot anyway because it's Vekta's CNN.
There's one that's cut off and I never got a good angle on it, so you can't see the front half of the logo, and the last one is for a puzzling company Robionica.Jan 27, 2018 03:37.painedforever Sep 12, 2017. Han Solo, ha! If I'm around, you don't need that guy.I love the hybrid model LP for these games. For the videos, it's nice to be able just chat over and discuss what's going on. However, Guerrilla Games packed so much of the lore off-screen that there winds up being loads to discuss that wouldn't possibly fit in each video-not without making the commentary drat near unlistenable.The Killzone 1 LP is a bit rough.
Crow and I were still experimenting with our video LPs and it shows early on, but I felt we found our feet near the end of it. I feel the Killzone 2 LP is one of the best we've ever done as a group (Dead Space 3 is also up there). Not only is a great game, but we somehow worked up the energy and motivation to do a bunch of weird extras as well as jam in an LP of the PSP Killzone. I enjoyed Killzone 3 as well, but it was a more inconsistent game and I think the LP reflected that. Some great moments, but just not as tight as the second one.This one's going to be really weird for me, to be honest. For the first game, I kinda roped crow into doing it by promising him that we'd have the whole trilogy done and forgotten within a summer, even though he wasn't even that into the games.
(It wound up taking us two years to do the whole trilogy). We recorded the first game in a single hellish night, with me just trying to blast through the levels as quickly as possible. Same for Killzone 2-though that game was more fun to play. With Liberation, we played the entire campaign co-op, and we did partial co-op for Killzone 3. This is going to be the first Killzone LP where I'm not doing ANY of the gameplay at all. I'm still not entirely sure if crow is a fan of the series or if it's just Stockholm Syndrome at this point. I mean, we didn't start out with plans to do Killzone: Shadow Fall, but dammit, here we are and I'm not sure how we got here.Jan 27, 2018 04:22.Fish Noise Jul 25, 2012.
I'm still not entirely sure if crow is a fan of the series or if it's just Stockholm Syndrome at this point. I mean, we didn't start out with plans to do Killzone: Shadow Fall, but dammit, here we are and I'm not sure how we got here.I wanted to like Killzone 1 when I first played it, but I wound up hating it because it was just a bad game, at least to play.
LPing it did not turn my opinion around on it one bit, and in fact made me hate it all the more. A lot of things kind of fell apart for me personally and professionally around the time we were LPing it too, especially with experimenting with guest commentators to see who worked and who didn't.
There was a time there were I legitimately did not know if we were even going to finish the first game, let alone the whole trilogy.Killzone 2 and Liberation turned me around on the series. I really enjoyed both those games, both watching them and playing them, and I actually started paying attention to and caring about what was happening instead of just purely mocking it. Helming the Liberation LP myself actually made me give a drat about the series in all honesty. So when I bought a PS4 the other year, one of the first games I picked up for it was Shadow Fall in large part because I actually wanted to play it as a game in and of itself as much as because I was going to LP it eventually.Shadow Fall has its flaws, I'm not going to lie, but over all I really enjoyed it and I'm kind of distressed how it kind of flew under the radar and quickly became a $20 bargain bin game compared to other PS4 titles.Jan 27, 2018 04:53.CJacobs Apr 17, 2011. Close, it's actually a C, not a G. 'The #1 instant shake for real couching.'
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It's a real weird term, and I've never heard it used to describe, I'm assuming, just laying about on the couch all day, but then again, Dutch developer, they probably don't care too much if their graphics department doesn't get the English 100% perfect. I mean, look at all the weirdass ads in Killzone 1.Maybe the G I saw was a C and the C a G, which would make it say 'The #1 instant shake for real ' which is an actual thing, but rather odd for a food product to advertise, although it proves Guerrilla were also prescient about the opioid epidemic.Jan 27, 2018 07:27.Night10194 Feb 13, 2012.
Han Solo, ha! If I'm around, you don't need that guy.Well, it DID sell well. It was a PS2 greatest hits and everything. For the time, it was also ridiculously cinematic and it looked great graphically-on of the beat looking games on the console (well still shots looked good. It didnt look so hot in motion). It also got a ton of hype and advertising about being 'The Halo Killer'. (It was not the Halo Killer).
I remember follow game magazines and getting sucked right inot the hype.if anyone plans to play, for the love of Rico, make sure you play the PS3 trilogy version. It's the most stable.
The graphics are uncompressed and the game runs with stuttering and draw distabce issues.Jan 27, 2018 16:46.Cathode Raymond Dec 30, 2015. My antenna is telling me that you're probably wrong about this.Soiled MeatWell I’m going to engage in some serious couching while I catch up on this.Also, Mercenary is far and away the best FPS to come out for mobile anything and will probably stay that way until something serious comes out for the Switch.Jan 27, 2018 17:00.el dorito Dec 13, 2016Fun ShoeWoo! Ground floor!
Haven’t actually seen any of the killzone games actually and it turns out that it’s a shame. The writing and worldbuilding sound really spectacular. Gonna have to go watch the other LPs now. I have a PSP, so maybe I should try to pick up the other killzone game for a song.I still don’t have a PS4 (or xbox one, aka the 3rd xbox or xbox 3 (not the 360, which I have)) so it feels like it was released yesterday and thus it is mind boggling that it has AAA games for $20. Ground floor! Haven’t actually seen any of the killzone games actually and it turns out that it’s a shame. The writing and worldbuilding sound really spectacular.
Gonna have to go watch the other LPs now. I have a PSP, so maybe I should try to pick up the other killzone game for a song.I still don’t have a PS4 (or xbox one, aka the 3rd xbox or xbox 3 (not the 360, which I have)) so it feels like it was released yesterday and thus it is mind boggling that it has AAA games for $20.hahahahaEl Dorito Seal of LP QualityJan 27, 2018 18:11.nine-gear crow Aug 10, 2013red bird. Just gonna drag this out from my memories.Seems like it would fit in with the analysis.Ooh. I’ll add that to the Chapter 1 post and maybe throw in a few lines near the end too. Thanks.Jan 27, 2018 19:59.bman in 2288 Apr 21, 2010I just want to say right now that after having gone through and read all the old LPs, I really appreciate your write-ups for each video.
It helps me get a better idea as to how the dynamics of a scene are playing out, and this series does an excellent (or at least fun) job of playing with them, I think.Jan 27, 2018 20:25.HardDiskD May 6, 2009. Quem Deus Vult Perdere, Prius Dementat.So, I'm about halfway through the Killzone 2 LP. I'm watching some of the videos, and skipping over some, but I'm taking my time with it. And I've realized something.Nine-Gear Crow and Blind Sally need to have CJacobs in their videos. It's true, it's true.Crow is all cynical and angry.
Blind Sally is sardonic and sarcastic. But CJacobs is a loveable ball of goofy fun. And that works.Crow gets to point out the absurdity of the gameworld. Blind Sally pokes fun at it. But CJacobs shows how absurd everything really is. And then Blind Sally escalates it, and Crow (being the straight man) shouts at them for being utter goofballs.It's brilliant.
You realize that I have no interest in Killzone (it being a console FPS), but I have a massive interest in what you three are going to get up to next. I'd say that y'all are better than cable TV, but that's sortof a low bar to clear. So I'll stick with, 'Y'all are a damned good LP team'.Jan 30, 2018 03:18.White Coke May 29, 2015.