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Message started by Archminion on 04/17/10 at 14:09:02

Title: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Archminion on 04/17/10 at 14:09:02
I'v checked back through all the posts on here and I can't find one that directly wants to talk about SP only.

So what do you want to see in the new game?
I only mean how should the single player be structured?
Forget DM or Endurance or any of that stuff.

Just the core single player mode.

Should it stay EXACTLY as it's been?
8 or so levels with 6 or so cars in each to fight followed by 2 or 3 boss battles then an ending movie?

Mission objectives?
As shallow as old V8 stuff (blow up/protect building etc)?
or detailed missions more like an FPS?

Or even have some kind of action/adventure mode like Harbor City was suppossed to have?

What do you think??
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by XIZOR on 04/17/10 at 19:58:46
Just straight up old school TM SP structure. No need to fix what ain't broken. Not that I'm ever opposed to anything new being introduced in any game as long as it isn't on foot action as Sweet Tooth bullshit. I wouldn't mind something like that being separate but not as the main SP experience in the next TM.

And having missions or objectives within the levels themselves is a crappy idea. I never liked it in V8. If its still just a contest about winning and getting your prize then there should be no other objective other than to kill everything and everyone else.

I just want a beginning cinematic telling the characters story, around 8 levels, a couple bosses, maybe another cinema or two mixed in, and then the end cinematic. And also co-op.

I somehow think they will do something different but I don't know. Its rare that a new version of a game comes out and there aren't some changes, but TM has always stayed pretty much the same as far as the single player structure and has been fine because of it. I don't know if this is how the series will continue to be but most of the additions and upgrades seem to mostly happen in the online/MP side of things which is where I'd rather them put most of their efforts anyways.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by ThumperMan3000 on 04/17/10 at 22:58:03

Archminion wrote on 04/17/10 at 14:09:02:
I'v checked back through all the posts on here and I can't find one that directly wants to talk about SP only.

So what do you want to see in the new game?
I only mean how should the single player be structured?
Forget DM or Endurance or any of that stuff.

Just the core single player mode.

Should it stay EXACTLY as it's been?
8 or so levels with 6 or so cars in each to fight followed by 2 or 3 boss battles then an ending movie?

Mission objectives?
As shallow as old V8 stuff (blow up/protect building etc)?
or detailed missions more like an FPS?

Or even have some kind of action/adventure mode like Harbor City was suppossed to have?

What do you think??


For the single player mode: Keep the core modes in:  Story, Deathmatch/Challenge, and Endurance. The latter two  can be used as a training method for local and online multiplayer battles.

As for the Harbor City on-foot, it should be a seperate mode, probaly set before the game's Story Mode.  There, it can have missions where Swet Tooth can get money upon succesfully fuilfilling them, and can use money to upgrade his ice cream truck's stats (the upgraded stats should only be in this mode), and an extras shop to use said money to unlock hidden vehicles and concept art and promo videos.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Dark Mortimer on 04/18/10 at 01:10:56
how about two single player modes, the original car combat mode, and the on foot mode with four levels.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Dizaster Child on 04/18/10 at 03:37:52
I dont want to see the on-foot bullshit at all. it was dumb as hell in Head-On. I only did it to find all the factoids
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by NapalmSanctuary on 04/18/10 at 07:04:33
single player should be pretty much the same as always but i think the order of the boards should be dependent on the character you pick , and they should provide some incentive to beat single player with all characters such as gameplay relavent unlockables

EDIT: and there should tons of boards (each character going through about 8) so youd have to beat it with several characters just to see em all to keep single player from becoming redundant
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by XIZOR on 04/18/10 at 17:31:39
Unlocks are fine but just seeing all the endings and getting the inevitable trophies will probably be enough incentive to play through with each character for me.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Dizaster Child on 04/18/10 at 21:57:12
gotta agree here. I've always loved the ending movies, and to see how each character panned out. altho I do like the idea of each character taking a different route thru the stages to get to the end.. kinda gives each character more of a personal interest
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Archminion on 04/18/10 at 22:25:31
yeah i like the idea of character specific levels- one of grimms levels could be a cemetary or something.

tbh I'd love to just see the old style that we're so used of but when jaffe talks about trying to broaden the appeal I get the impression we're in for something very different.

I love the formula.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by eskuAdradit0 on 04/19/10 at 07:00:48
Just the same formula. It's a classic, it'll work. I love the ending movies and storylines.

As for the on-foot thingy: it's ok with me as long as it's just an extra where you'll get a bit more info, fan art or something like that. I'd hate to fight Minion on-foot after destroyin' his car.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Archminion on 04/19/10 at 07:36:46
He's just confirmed that the game they're making is NOT Harbor City.

So that probably scraps the idea of foot missions or wandering around.

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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Dizaster Child on 04/19/10 at 07:41:27
THANK GOD
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Riddler on 04/23/10 at 01:22:21
Where did he confirm this? Just wondering..
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Archminion on 04/23/10 at 09:24:35
in one of his tweets he replied that the game they were making is not HC and is very different from it.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Riddler on 04/24/10 at 06:15:28
I swear to god I'll fucking cry if it ends up not being a TM game..
FUCKING TELL US ALREADY JAFFE!!!
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by magnum on 04/24/10 at 15:19:43
::::::::facepalm::::::::

It is a TM game dammit. Sony just has a real tight leash on Jaffe that he can't say anything. I've never known any other game to be so tight lipped about.......well......anything, and still know that it's what we speculate.

I swear to God. Can we put up on the site somewhere that there is a new TM comming out? Just because Sony should just fucking get it over with and announce the damn thing already.  
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Riddler on 04/25/10 at 02:39:27
I know, but I just want him to tell us already and stop fucking hiding it..
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by XIZOR on 04/25/10 at 03:05:05
I don't need to be told "officially" that he's making it as we all know he is. I just want to see some gameplay footage all-fucking-ready.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by BizarroKing on 04/25/10 at 03:47:59
I'm just hoping we get lots of characters, meaning lots of potential endings.

And the return of...MINION!
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Dizaster Child on 04/25/10 at 05:49:48

Sling wrote on 04/25/10 at 02:39:27:
I know, but I just want him to tell us already and stop fucking hiding it..


settle down, dude.. its not his decision, its Sony keeping the lid sealed tight
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by NapalmSanctuary on 04/25/10 at 10:20:12

BizarroKing wrote on 04/25/10 at 03:47:59:
I'm just hoping we get lots of characters, meaning lots of potential endings.

And the return of...MINION!

atleast all the characters from 1, 2, black, and HC ( i was really diggin 12-pac) and some new characters. it would also be cool if you could play the different variations of the character's vehicles i.e. hummer warthog and tank tread warthog. i say this cuz i love certain versions and hate others but i wouldnt want to deny other players of their favorite versions, considering how divided the TM crowd is over what version is best i say give every player all options so we can blow the shit out of each other in perfect harmony
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Dizaster Child on 04/25/10 at 11:55:00
that sounds good to me. I dont like Black's Warthog, but I know alot of other ppl did
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Archminion on 04/25/10 at 12:20:50

Just itching to see a bit footage, maybe next week?

?

the only thing that slightly concerns me is that this game is the ONLY ps3 first party release EVER to be supposedly coming out this year but isn't announced yet.

A 6 month 'hype' period is pretty shit to me.

Unless it aint out till mid 2011 now...
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by magnum on 04/25/10 at 16:03:13
A 6 month 'hype' period is pretty shit to me.

Unless it aint out till mid 2011 now...

That's what's so aggrivating. We all know what it is. (those of us here who follow TM) We just want to get SOMETHING. It been so long, I just don't get why there has to be such secrecy.

It's not really building hype IMO. It's frustration than anything else.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Cosmo Kramer on 04/25/10 at 16:19:40

NapalmSanctuary wrote on 04/25/10 at 10:20:12:
atleast all the characters from 1, 2, black, and HC ( i was really diggin 12-pac) and some new characters. it would also be cool if you could play the different variations of the character's vehicles i.e. hummer warthog and tank tread warthog. i say this cuz i love certain versions and hate others but i wouldnt want to deny other players of their favorite versions, considering how divided the TM crowd is over what version is best i say give every player all options so we can blow the shit out of each other in perfect harmony



That's a hefty expectation ya got there. Not saying it wouldn't be fun, because this could be the last Twisted Metal we see for a long time, possibly the last.

And on a side note, TM: Black Warthog sucks. I'll always dig the Patriot Missiles over some dumb flamethrower.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Dizaster Child on 04/25/10 at 21:05:01
it wasnt even the Patriot Missiles. hell, it wasnt even the car design.. it was the fact that after so many games, they changed out the Humvee for a station wagon with tank treads. had that car been called something else, I'd have been fine with it... even the fact that it ripped off Thumper's flamethrower, but to call him Warthog never sat right with me

yea, I'm not quite getting all the hype around this game. I mean, does Sony feel they NEED to build the hype for this game? or do they feel like it's such a good franchise that it DESERVES this kind of hype? cause Sony has never seemed to take much stock into this series, so its weird that they'd make such a big deal about this one release
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by BizarroKing on 04/25/10 at 21:42:35
I actually heard that the TM:Black Warthog wasn't even supposed to be called Warthog. The original name was White Knight.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Dizaster Child on 04/25/10 at 22:14:56
I heard the same thing, and even that cornball name woulda been better than simply replacing Warthog with that car
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by NapalmSanctuary on 04/25/10 at 23:30:56

Cosmo Kramer wrote on 04/25/10 at 16:19:40:
That's a hefty expectation ya got there. Not saying it wouldn't be fun, because this could be the last Twisted Metal we see for a long time, possibly the last.

And on a side note, TM: Black Warthog sucks. I'll always dig the Patriot Missiles over some dumb flamethrower.

i dont necessarily expect all that but it would be nice, my main hope is that roadkill is more sport than muscle like TM2, never dug the black version, of course i didnt like black anyway
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by XIZOR on 04/26/10 at 00:10:55

BizarroKing wrote on 04/25/10 at 21:42:35:
I actually heard that the TM:Black Warthog wasn't even supposed to be called Warthog. The original name was White Knight.


That is correct.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Archminion on 04/26/10 at 19:34:57
And now it looks set in stone that Jaffe isn't at E3, he said so on his twitter.
that doesn't mean the game won't be at E3 though I guess?

But can you really see Jaffe's biggest title since GOW at E3 w/o him present??




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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Cosmo Kramer on 04/26/10 at 19:42:45

Archminion wrote on 04/26/10 at 19:34:57:
And now it looks set in stone that Jaffe isn't at E3, he said so on his twitter.
that doesn't mean the game won't be at E3 though I guess?

But can you really see Jaffe's biggest title since GOW at E3 w/o him present??


Where are you reading that? I'm looking at his Twitter right now and he doesn't even mention E3.

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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Archminion on 04/26/10 at 21:46:51
you'd need to go through his older tweets 9this guy tweets a lot)
it is there though.

Its not necessarily bad news since the game might still be announced in the next few weeks but its not going to do it any favours either by not been at the biggest vg trade show.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by Cosmo Kramer on 04/27/10 at 02:05:32
I could have sworn I saw a tweet from him saying he'll be at E3 for a day. Anyway, I guess we'll find out in the near future. Hope he ends up going.
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by The Dizaster Child on 04/27/10 at 04:01:15
I think its been mentioned several times already that he wont be there.. ?

and I dont see a new TM being announced at E3 and him not being there. based on what we've heard about the progress with his "new game", I dont forsee it being at E3 at all. I wouldnt count on seeing or hearing anything til the fall at least
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Title: Re: Single Player - What do you want?
Post by BizarroKing on 04/27/10 at 13:24:15
So, is it possible for a game to be announced and not be at E3?
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