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hsrob on 20 January 2010

I never got around to getting the first game, but this is almost certainly going on my list. Now I just need to start saving a bit of money and time to play them all.



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Cheebee on 20 January 2010
Naraku_Diabolos said:
Cheebee said:
TWRoO said:
^How do you know it's saltwater?

There is a river diving section after all.

He's probably right, though. 'Cos that pic with the croc shows some kind of temple background, and that same temple can also be seen in quite a few other screens and vids where it's located in a sea. Or ocean, of course.

Plus, the river section features muddy water. I'm too lazy to look up the details right now, but if you look around a bit, you can find a list with the exact areas featured in the game.

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That 'temple' features what look like to be Amazon River Dolphins, and if so, that might not be a crocodile but a caiman, which is closely related but smaller in size. And those big tarpin that are swimming next to those dolphins clearly indicate that it's South America, including the temple walls. It looks exactly like this one hieroglyphic wallpaper I have of a South American temple.

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Hmmm... that's pretty cool, the plot thickens!

I've been searching around a bit for that list of areas featured in the game, but couldn't find it. I know I should've just added it to the OP when I had it, lol. I guess we'll find out soon anyway, only 15 more days.



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phisheep on 20 January 2010

Areas featured (from that Japanese Wiki again) are:

a South Pacific Atoll (which should be pretty familiar to players of the original)
Aegean Sea (Northeast Mediterranean)
Arctic, Northern Canada
Antarctic - Weddell Sea
a freshwater tributary of the Amazon
Red Sea



Cheebee on 21 January 2010

Thanks, phisheep, that's the list I meant.



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Gamerace on 21 January 2010
phisheep said:
Areas featured (from that Japanese Wiki again) are:

a South Pacific Atoll (which should be pretty familiar to players of the original)
Aegean Sea (Northeast Mediterranean)
Arctic, Northern Canada
Antarctic - Weddell Sea
a freshwater tributary of the Amazon
Red Sea

Why is it when ever there's a game set in Canada it's nothing but snow and ice?  First Mario and Sonic, now this.   

 I'm kidding here, but it is true in general, racing games, fighting games (Virtua), etc all put you in some winter scene.    At least Tiger Woods has the lovely Banff Springs course in the summer, or was it Fall?

Aside from the Arctic, Canada does have 1/3 of all the freshwater in the world, including the Great Lakes, shame a northern Freshwater area wasn't in the game.   Of course, why am I complaining?   I can dive in one of those right now!  If it wasn't such a winter wonderland here.

A certain lake in Scotland might've been interesting too...



 

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Cheebee on 21 January 2010
Gamerace said:
phisheep said:
Areas featured (from that Japanese Wiki again) are:

a South Pacific Atoll (which should be pretty familiar to players of the original)
Aegean Sea (Northeast Mediterranean)
Arctic, Northern Canada
Antarctic - Weddell Sea
a freshwater tributary of the Amazon
Red Sea

Why is it when ever there's a game set in Canada it's nothing but snow and ice?  First Mario and Sonic, now this.   

 I'm kidding here, but it is true in general, racing games, fighting games (Virtua), etc all put you in some winter scene.    At least Tiger Woods has the lovely Banff Springs course in the summer, or was it Fall?

Aside from the Arctic, Canada does have 1/3 of all the freshwater in the world, including the Great Lakes, shame a northern Freshwater area wasn't in the game.   Of course, why am I complaining?   I can dive in one of those right now!  If it wasn't such a winter wonderland here.

A certain lake in Scotland might've been interesting too...

Well, what kind of a silly question is that, it's because Canada is made of snow and ice, and so are Canadians, everybody knows that!

lol j/k of course.

Also, that Loch Ness idea, awesome! I hadn't even thought of that, how cool would it be to have that in EO3? I approve, haha, though I doubt anything like that'll happen, EO seems to focus mainly on realism when it comes to creatures. Still, it would be nice to have some fantasy influences... like prehistoric fish and such.

Only 2 more weeks, btw!



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pots555 on 21 January 2010

I was a HUGE fan of the first game and I'm very happy about this sequel. First day buy for me!



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Skorpion on 21 January 2010
phisheep said:
Skorpion said:

I love the first one to bits, bought it right when it came out, but full price turns me off a great deal. I'll pick it up eventually when it drops, I've got a lot to do still in the first one.

The price doesn't turn me off at all. It is clear that the first game was something of an experiment and was priced accordingly (and still some people complained , saying that BECAUSE of the price it must be shovelware - there is no pleasing some).

For me, Endless Ocean represents the best value for money I have ever got out of a game. Even measuring objectively in money per hour it is way ahead of anything else, and it would still be if it had been full price. Heck, it would still have been my best ever value game ifI had bought a Wii specially to play it on.

There is no way I'll begrudge them a fair return for all the work that has clearly been put in for what is - whatever happens - still going to be a niche title.

 

 

800+ hours is astonishing. I only put in about 30 and thought I got a lot of value out of it. My highest played is Zelda at like 90 hours which is split between me and my brother. The bigger problem though is that I bought a PS2 at the end of the summer and a PS3 a month ago. I've got too many games to play and not enough time so there's no justification for me to pay $50 for it. (Thankfully it's only $30, and I ended up preordering because of the wii speak deal, couldn't resist at that price). I wish I was younger and games could keep my attention like they once did. I'd love to see the amount of time we spent playing goldeneye and mario kart 64 back in the day. It would be quite high up there too. At 800 hours though I imagine you know Manoa Lai like the back of your hand :)



phisheep on 22 January 2010
Skorpion said:

 At 800 hours though I imagine you know Manoa Lai like the back of your hand :)

The astonishing thing is that, even after all that, there are still people discovering new things in the game that I hadn't found! It really is quite remarkable how much detail they managed to get into it.



Gamerace on 22 January 2010
Cheebee said:
Gamerace said:
phisheep said:
Areas featured (from that Japanese Wiki again) are:

a South Pacific Atoll (which should be pretty familiar to players of the original)
Aegean Sea (Northeast Mediterranean)
Arctic, Northern Canada
Antarctic - Weddell Sea
a freshwater tributary of the Amazon
Red Sea

Why is it when ever there's a game set in Canada it's nothing but snow and ice?  First Mario and Sonic, now this.   

 I'm kidding here, but it is true in general, racing games, fighting games (Virtua), etc all put you in some winter scene.    At least Tiger Woods has the lovely Banff Springs course in the summer, or was it Fall?

Aside from the Arctic, Canada does have 1/3 of all the freshwater in the world, including the Great Lakes, shame a northern Freshwater area wasn't in the game.   Of course, why am I complaining?   I can dive in one of those right now!  If it wasn't such a winter wonderland here.

A certain lake in Scotland might've been interesting too...

Well, what kind of a silly question is that, it's because Canada is made of snow and ice, and so are Canadians, everybody knows that!

lol j/k of course.

Also, that Loch Ness idea, awesome! I hadn't even thought of that, how cool would it be to have that in EO3? I approve, haha, though I doubt anything like that'll happen, EO seems to focus mainly on realism when it comes to creatures. Still, it would be nice to have some fantasy influences... like prehistoric fish and such.

Only 2 more weeks, btw!

There was a prehistoric fish in the original in the Whale Bones Chasm in the abyss behind the hot water guysers.    Not sure if it was a fish still in existence or if you were just discovering that, holy s--- it's still in existence.   The later I think but someone feel free to correct me.

At any rate, EO did dabble in a little fantasy so I wouldn't rule it out completely.   I think everyone would get goosebump if they suddenly found themselves diving into Loch Ness.   We'd all be like, 'Oh no they didn't, did they?  I got to see this!'    Remember to bring your pulsar gun....