“Lair”

[KC]

loll lair edge score of 9/10 is fake,edge issue is out no lair score yet.
blue dragon gets another 6/10 tho' massive bomb

[OceansAndEarth]

^^ I still wants Blue Dragon!

[carboncore]

LAIR Officially delayed

From PS blog...
Wow, even I didn’t see this one coming! Due to an extra step in QA testing to enhance the community features in the game, the release of LAIR, originally set for August 14th, has changed to September 4, 2007. Natural challenges that arose while finalizing the offline game to include key online features - such as leaderboards and medal systems - have led to the difficult choice of pushing back the release date. We appreciate everyone’s excitement and patience for the game and look forward to its release on September 4.


Now both LAIR and HS are coming out on same day.

[KC]

dont tell me they are adding analog controls after some negative feedbacks they got

[carboncore]

Hell no. They certainly won't change control scheme 'cause some fanboy Mag gave it low score. They are adding some community features, may be Sony gave them new SDK for HOME with added features.

[KC]

maybe in the meantime they can get a patch for analog controls ready maybe.
infact the delay is good since now warhawk on aug 28,lair and HS on sep 4 so you can order it in one package only

[carboncore]

krapchap said:

maybe in the meantime they can get a patch for analog controls ready maybe.
infact the delay is good since now warhawk on aug 28,lair and HS on sep 4 so you can order it in one package only

Yeah, and Stranglehold on 27th Aug (screw PS3 version ) . But removing motion control is big job imo since they'll have to remake all screen prompts for context sensitive action that's now connected with MC. Besides, its a bad trend setter.

[OceansAndEarth]

The rumours are that they are patching up the control scheme by adding the analog controls though the official word is that they are fixing up the leaderboard options.

This is something I have always believed in (even for the Wii), "Give us an alternate form of playability other than motion control". Thank God for that. Because if any chance the MC scheme in Lair does not work out there is always the analog scheme to fall back upon.

[OceansAndEarth]

carboncore said:

But removing motion control is big job imo since they'll have to remake all screen prompts for context sensitive action that's now connected with MC. Besides, its a bad trend setter.

They are NOT removing MC, that's for sure.

[KC]

i dont think they will have to remove motion controls completely ,maybe a second option like steering the dragon with the analog sticks ,the context sensitive buttons can stay

[carboncore]

My bad, by removing I meant a gameplay option to play it without any MC at all. If it was like Blazing Angels, it would've been easy. But if you see the gameplay videos, you'll see motion control weaved so 'badly' in it that removing it will be like removing MC from Wii Sports. Factor 5 must be surprised to see so much criticism over it.

[carboncore]

Few quotes ...

"Disappointed by the cinematic feel"
EGM is always filled with funny articles, but this is by far the funniest comment imo

"Buy it if you want to justify thousands you've spent on your 1080p HDTV and ps3"
I guess thats a good thing

"Lair is trapped in a cave"

[KC]

insomniac's podcast the full moon show invited lair producer julian and he discusses the early reviews

just started litsening and the first line is killer ,in captain quirk's voice " get your ipods or .........zune or any other cheap knockoff u got for the holiday when you clearly said wanted an ipod"