The Agency: Are You Fucking Kidding Me?

Monday, January 07, 2008

I won't lie. I hit the Hatorade pretty hard in regards to SOE. But come on, they aren't even trying anymore!!! Evidence: The Agency gameplay video.

UPDATE: Please read the comments for speculation on when this video was from. I blame it all on Razor.



I'm not sure what's worse: John Smedley's Steve Jobs "I only wear comfortable clothes" impersonation or the actual gameplay footage. I could sit here and make a bunch of comparisons between fat chicks and the gameplay, but I won't. SOE, put this garbage back in the shed until you have something decent to show us.

10 comments

Pvthudson said...

I dont know man it looks better than the other stuff they are working on. I would give it a try. Looks like a desperation move and it will use microtransactions from what I remember, but I would give it a try. Of course I try about any game I even played Matrix Online for about....12 hours.

7:26 AM
Anonymous said...

Live Gameplay?!? Either that level plays out exactly the same (with headshot and heal) everytime or I've seen this exact video somewhere else...maybe gamestop's previous coverage?

9:27 AM
Sam said...

Are you sure that is from CES? I'm pretty damn sure that is from SOE's Fan Faire. I was there and the stage and screen, complete with Smed's outfit and what he said was exactly the same. This is from Fan Faire.

9:39 AM
Heartless_ said...

As far as I know, it is CES footage. If it is not, my apologies, but it does not excuse the piss-poor quality of what is shown.

10:30 AM
razor said...

I was under the impression it was CES related as well, but I was wrong. It was either Fan Faire or Gamer Day or something like that. Regardless, it doesn't look like anything special at all.

11:07 AM
Cheston said...

That boss looked completely retarded, like something that might amuse me when I was 13. Other than that, it looks okay-ish. Just please stop with the spy fiction comparisons. It really felt like more of a bland single player title, what was massive about that? I am certainly not on the hook with that display.

8:35 PM
Lucifrank said...

SOE reminds me of the "starving" artist who is in reality a trust fund baby living out of daddy's pocket and producing nothing of substance.

12:50 PM
Bildo said...

Wow... I'm surprised to see all the hate. Like Darren over at Comm Sense Gamer says, I get sort of a No One Lives Forever vibe from it, which to me is a good thing.

I'm looking forward to it as of right now. We'll see how it develops as it nears launch later this year.

2:53 PM
Heartless_ said...

I'll be honest Bilbo, I'm surprised anyone lived through that showing. It was that crappy to me.

8:49 PM
Anonymous said...

Even the audience looked like it needed pillows.

7:54 PM

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