Considering how it was in the recent Humble Bundle, I figure most of you've probably played Mirror's Edge, if not now, then when it came out. I just had the desire to rant about it a bit.

I WAS REALLY REALLY REALLY REALLY frustrated with this game. I appreciate a good story, and anyone I spoke to said the same, "I played Mirror's Edge for the story", but damn, the game was frustrating.

  • I appreciate attempting new and novel gameplay mechanics, but requiring almost pixel perfect positioning to make a proper jump and to be able to catch a ledge or pipe, resulted in me doing the same bit over and over and over again. It got so that if I missed a jump and landed below, instead of having to climb back all the way to where I was, I just jumped off the building so I would reload. Needed walkthroughs to make sure I wasn't doing something wrong, and SURPRISE, can't ALT-TAB out!
  • Speaking of reloading, STUPID GAAAH IDIOTIC checkpoint system. A checkpoint after 2 seconds when you've jumped down a pipe, but no checkpoint after running across the street, dodging police, dodging a train, and jumping down a rope, so if you missed any of those bits, start it ALL OVER AGAIN from the previous checkpoint.
  • Again, I appreciate novel art style and all, but bright white against bright white doesn't work well, especially when then indoors it is dark against dark. I have a CRT monitor, so everything is always darker on my screen, and unfortunately, for some idiotic reason, you can't change brightness and contrast without exiting from in-game, and then having to reload from the last checkpoint

Finally finished it, and it had a nice enough story (doesn't seem complete, though, I guess they wanted a sequel which didn't show up when everyone hated the game so much), but I'm not sure it was worth it to go through all that frustrating gameplay. Sorry for the rant!

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I only had trouble on one jump in the whole game, the spot where she was in the boat climbing to the surface and you had to do a wall jump.

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I couldn't find any cool moves to beat polices. Same combos all over again, because the game didn't teach me those (there wasn't any combo list as i remember).

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I was kinda annoyed when you came in contact with the enemy runners, and they had all these weird cool moves like round-house kicking and stuff, and I couldn't do those things! Kinda unfair.

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Youre just a bad player. Buy a new monitor, please.

No offence.

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But I have an excellent monitor. Why would I buy a new one? And I've been playing games for the last 25 years. I don't think I'm that bad, especially considering so many people here seem to agree with me!

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Yeah, just kidding. Those are the reasons, i never finished mirrors edge ;)

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Hah! Sneaky.

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Didn't have the issues you had. Only one place I had to do over and over. Other than that played without red markers and enjoyed the awesome flow of the game.

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Try to aim with your hand and not your nose.

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For everyone who is saying that the gameplay was "perfect" (there seem to be a surprisingly large number of you), I am truly baffled. You must be like robots or something, or actually expect and tolerate constant and repeated falling to death, restarting and retrying.

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but I didn't constantly fall to death. Then again I've played a lot of games and Mirror's Edge wasn't all that hard. If you successfully run the maps it feels wonderful. Just flowing from one jump to another. Though I don't know what you expect from todays games - cover shooters and fast health regen? Easy mode on everything? I for one like a challenge in a game.

Have you ever tried Binding of Isaac? Some games actually work on the basis of restarting over and over.

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But...you didn't constantly fall to your death, but you classify Mirror's Edge as one of those games that are based off trial and error?
I've played Binding of Isaac, and Dungeons of Dredmor. Both of them have very quick, almost immediate restarts.

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Didn't classify it as such. If anything the difficulty lies in reacting on time. Also I specially loved the color work. On my CRT and LCD. Now should you make a topic about every game that in general isn't bad, but you were frustrated for some personal reasons?

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Yeah, a chinese lady killed my entire family when I was a kid, and now I hate them :P. Seriously though, I suppose what got me to this level of a rant mode was that the game had so much potential, and I appreciate innovation (anything is better than just another grey-brown corridor FPS war shooter), but was so broken. People are talking about how the story and set-up were bleh, but aside from my own personal stubbornness, that was the only reason I held out till the end, only to get an incomplete ending, where they want to have a sequel.

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Boring game with a boring story and terrible flash level cutscenes. So much buyers remorse.

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The Steam overlay offers a Web browser, you don't need to Alt-Tab to read a walkthrough.

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Loved the game and finished it using a CRT Monitor only on Pentium IV when the game released 4 years ago. Used KBM to play.

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The game in general was fine but I do agree that some parts were frustating as hell, especially the battles.

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Played it a few years back on a console and didn't like it. The game is too hard and boring. The main bad thing about this game is that it's in first person. Not going to buy the second one.

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Yeah the getting around is sometimes annoying... but even more annoying is the combat.

I've finished it on normal, not going back to finish it on hard because I find the combat stupid and annoying.

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The story doesn't seem to complete, yes. You know why?
Cause Rhianna Pratchett (daughther of Sir Terry, who also wrote the story for the game) said the studio just randomly deleted half of the story.

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I really wanted to play this game... I won a giveaway with it aaand i didnt receive the game :( sad

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His mother probably took away his internet because school started.

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I played it about an year ago, enjoyed even if it could've been better, really interested in the sequel.

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not yet

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You can change it ingame, just move the bars left and right with arrow keys.

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I think... I never actually changed it though.

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First: playing Mirror's Edge for the story is kinda wrong. Probably is the weak point overall, although if it have a very good premise/setting.
Second: Pixel perfect positioning? I never had the feeling that I need to do something particular precise or so... I even played all the game without using the key to slow down time so really don't see that problem... and I'm pretty bad on timing/precise movements...

You are not the only one to tell me that the game was frustrating, but I really don't get it where is that much difficulty :|

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I hate the point Alt+Tab crashes the game most of the times.

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I completed the game without shooting a single person. That last level took me days to complete, but I loved every minute of it.

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I did the same thing and agree with you completely.

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high five

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Really? I just went "FUCK YOU ALL, I CAN USE WEAPONS TOO" after the 9,000th time replaying the level.

Killing those guards felt so... GOOD.

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Mirror's Edge is one of my top 3 games ever.

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i liked it, steam says i needed 6 hrs to complete the campain. i played parts with controller and parts with keyboard+mouse, i could not feel a difference in the handling both where equaly good. you don't need to position in pixel anywhere?! have you tried running throuh? just run and jump you can take any way there are no dead ends, at least i met no as such. In the sewers where one particiular situation which i had to look up in a walkthrouh and thats fairly a good thing other games do worth! i would rather need a walkthrouh for half life then for this game. i think it's great even if 6 hrs playtime are not much

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I believe it was frustrating sometimes but is was still avery good game... although it only took me 5 hours to beat. I didnt like on how short the game was

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I got it as a gift recently and I loved almost everything about it. the way the melee was handled was amazing. It made me beat the game without using a gun on my first play-through. course It took me close to nine hours to finish this way I still had fun. I like the setting and story as well.(I'm actually kinda miffed that we are getting a reboot rather than a sequel. I wanted to see the how the runners and their clients would have dealt with the

SPOILERS:

Pirandello Kruger manufactured runners and the back stabbing Celeste

/END SPOLIERS

but that wont happen with the reboot) The only thing that ticked me of was that one red pipe in the first level. You know the one.

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Closed 11 years ago by babloyi.