The Daikatana Arrives
by Steve Gibson, May 23, 2000 7:45pm PDTThe Daikatana has been showing up on store shelves in a few places amazingly enough and although I dont plan on linking the reviews, I figure the first one out the door is probably worth some attention. Get this:
Thankfully, the game does get much better the more you progress. The more I played, the more I didnt notice some of the garish colors. As I took less notice of how much the game's Quake 2 technology lagged UT and Quake 3, I began to better appreciate Daikatana's strengths. And of these there are many: a well-developed and well-executed story; four distinct game episodes (Athens is very cool!), all with different textures, music, weapons, and monsters; and two "sidekicks" you can boss around (or make your bitches, I guess), Mikiko and Superfly.
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WF for quake3 is awsome,wtf is Daikatana..J/k I'll probably pick it up in a few weeks..
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THASS BULLSHIT!
Steve, you need to check yo muthafuckin' server before it gets yo ass in some shit!
Yo fuck this shit, peeps, I am OUT! This punk-ass, attitude-havin' comments page done pissed me off and I don't even feel like talkin' shit about tha muthafuckin' Diak anymore.
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where are the news???
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How does that come out?
Boogieman@testing.com
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"If I sound too cynical, it's because I've had to play "Daikatana" for the past eight hours, and it is by far the worst game ever created."
That quote is right on the money. Friend brought it over before we LANned q3a and we played it for about 4 hours. What is with this POS, it is worse then the demo. You get all kinds of random lockups/crashes. It is the most unstable POS game I have ever seen. Glad I didn't fork out 1cent let alone whatever it cost.
Do not forget who made you what you are... me!
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that thread will never die
as long as i live
pass it on to your children, old friend
:)
Cartman: (sigh) God, I hate you, UT........
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that is (incase it doesnt format it corectly:
/_vti_pvt/.in/.here/.by/.overkongen
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Mo' convenience, mo' convenience, mo'
While it's nice to have Mikiko and Superfly along for the journey, theyÂ’ll annoy the hell out of you as much as theyÂ’ll help you. TheyÂ’ll do their best to follow your orders. However, theyÂ’ll likely kill you "accidentally" many times in heated battles and have trouble finding their way around obstacles (as do monsters).
Annoying sidekicks. Sidekicks don't obey. Sidekicks kill you. Sidekicks get lost. Monsters get lost. Sounds familiar -- just like the demo.
Then there are the other marks of amateurishness:
..several clipping problems ... video performance was a bit buggy...For some inane reason your sidekicks canÂ’t use plants or health-regeneration stations...canÂ’t tell them which weapon to use...the inability to save whenever you want...
Clipping problems, the newbie mapper's mistake! Sidekicks stand around dying instead of replenishing health! Whoops, gotta find me a save game thingamijig! (Design is law.)
And how stable is Daikatanna after all these years of "tweaking"?
And finally, there was the occasional unexplained and sudden crash to the desktop — or worse, complete system lock-up.
Scandisk is now checking your drive for errors. LOL!
What?! I missed myself!
GODDAMN NET CODE
Now the dark rider comes for me. Net lag, I smile at thee...
FYI My system is: (Old shit.. heh)
P2 500 *overclocked (4.5 x 112)
TNT2U *overclocked (195mhz/200memory)
256 Megs PC100 SDRAM
WD 7200 ATA/66 HDD
SB Live!
I use the optimized DLL's from Shugashack.com
Dopeman
A friend runs both a Q2 and Q3 server at same site, I ping 220 on Q2 and 350 on the Q3 one...makes no sense..
Heh ID told me that It was my isp..
go figure
yeah i bought it today
so far i really like it
its no half-life (does the catholic head, shoulder chest thing), but it certainly is fun regardless.
-TomServo-
http://www.the-man.de
for Daikatana : Frogs in Space !
Moo.
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"The Daikatana Arrives"
And no one cares.
I'm sorry but the demo just didn't get me pumped.
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Bottom line? Im back on DSL and I'm one happy camper...errrr, fragger.