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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Nice story? Are you serious? No, you can´t be, Mirror´s Edge barely has any story, and the few "story" it has is terrible, and that is a fact, not an opinion.

I can´t agree more with Yahtzee on this one: Mirro´s Edge Zero Punctuation

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I looked up that video after beating the game and raging at the "story." First time I fully agree with Yahtzee.

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Oh, boy, you should see the last level. It's pretty much just a shitty run and gun section that doesn't test any of the skills that you had to use during the game.

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no offence thats the diff between a bad player vs a good player. Please go back to play COD it is easier! /thread.

besides get a new monitor, a CRT monitor in 2013? and worst u have a CRT monitor that cant change brightness/contrast on the monitor itself? wow.... oh wow. LOL

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i absolutely love it and hope that i can somewhere in the future Play this with oculus rift :)

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A CRT monitor says it all.

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I like its story very much, but the gameplay is too short that I it took me only 4 hours to finish it.

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Yeah.

It seems to me the game is popular for being different. Gameplay, story, everything about it sucks. But people like it because it was mildly different.

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And If you even DARE to say it sucked, they will jump at you saying you are a CoD fanboy who doesn't like innovation...

This game isn't innovative. Is it too much to ask they implemented these first-person platform ideas well?

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Same here, it was frustrating... and the story just couldn't be more stupid and make less sense.

And gawdh, those irritating fights and these even worse combat scenarios with guards armed with GUNS!

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Closed 11 years ago by babloyi.