Just been playing the Dreams Beta. I'm blown away by the community levels. Day 1 buy for me.
This reminds me I haven't posted about the Dreams Beta!
Just been playing the Dreams Beta. I'm not blown away by the community levels. Not a day 1 buy for me.
Well I'll explain further. Some levels are awesome but really, really short. I don't doubt that there'll be some longer ones in the final release, but everything right now is still a demo or test or whatever. A lot of levels are struggling with performance as well.
I really liked the guitar hero style level, but it wasn't as smooth as an actual guitar hero game and it only has two songs. So why would I play this instead of guitar hero?
Some of the platformer levels are fun, but they are very short and lack the creativity and tightness of proper platforming games. Which leads to me again to say why don't I just play a proper platformer?
There's a working portal gun demo and I thought ooh portal guns. But its only just barely working and they haven't done anything else with it. Portal has its own level creator, so why bother?
Some levels are just bad. I tried a couple of the top rated FPS levels and wowee were they horrible (mainly due to terrible controls). I tried a couple of driving levels and the driving physics/ controls were terrible, but I guess they might be improved over time.
I was hoping to play the beta, see the incredible potential of dreams and get really excited. Yet all I can see now are the limitations. Its a shame, hopefully some truly amazing stuff gets made once the game launches which will convince me to buy it.