Information on The Conduit (videos and images included)

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MaxwellGT2000 said:

Other things with people not understanding why some others are really behind this game as it looks like "just another generic shooter".  The big deal with this game is people really like the controls being fully customizable from the button layout to the bounding box that controls how far off center you have to be to start turning and even the speed that you turn/aim/run/walk, the head's up display is also fully customizable, and the fact that it takes so much insparation from Half-Life that is far from a generic shooter. The controls that are so hyped on can can be summed up in this quote from Matt at IGN "You can see it in the way the reticule moves smoothly around the screen and you can see it when Corso makes a sharp turn and the screen flows quickly and fluidly to the right. The clunky, mechanical control that you endure in so many console-based first-person shooters is absent from The Conduit. Rather, it simulates the spectacular responsiveness found in Medal of Honor Heroes 2, a game that we celebrated almost entirely for its definable control setup." So basically what it's saying is you CAN NOT get those kind of controls with a normal two joystick controller, period.  Even DKII said himself that he really liked the game and wasn't that sure about it until he went hands on with it himself, and that's coming from someone who has nothing to gain from saying so.

Your whole topic is very informative, but the bolded is very iffy. A game that is inspired by Half-Life can be a generic shooter. Why? Because a lot of games have been inspired by Half-Life. It's a game that pioneered many imitators to the throne through it's many advances in first person shooting. A game that takes too much from it will seem generic. There was nothing like Half-Life before it, and that is why it did not feel generic, even though there were other great FPSes at the time. You logic that because Half-Life is not generic it concludes that a game inspired by Half-Life cannot be generic is completely backwards. That is exactly why some people think it seems so blah in the first place.