Funny you should mention that fight, that's the fight that really put me off of the combat in Downpour when I played it at Eurogamer. It was that fight where I found out that if you don't equip a weapon and just flail your fists wildly at the monster it goes stuck in it's own 'hit' animation because you can hit with your fists faster than other weapons. So I just stood there for like a minute punching the thing until it was dead, laughing maniacally the entire time. I think I was actually meant to run away from it as well.clips wrote:This....the latest vids i've seen with Murphy fighting this creature looked extremely cheap. Like the bat creature was hitting Murphy with quick strikes then fly up into the ceiling, come down behind him, hit him then fly back up into ceiling...irritating combat gameplay.
Also something of note about that fight was that if you swung an axe at the monster it just bounced off and made sparks against its skin. Maybe that was just for the demo I don't know.
Hopefully all that has been fixed now though.
Edit: Also at the time I didn't know the monsters name or anything and it was extremely hard not to facepalm when the creature just flew up to the roof like magic... It almost looked cartoony. It being called a Weeping Bat makes it feel like it makes more sense... until you actually look at the design and realise there doesn't seem to be any reason as to why it should be able to just jump around a room like that.
Once again, I hope the meaning behind the monster becomes more apparent than: "We're in a mine!.... Mines' have bats, right?"
In fact... I think I preferred it when we didn't have any names for anything and I was just oblivious to the monsters in each game and I didn't know anything to do with Silent Hill, but unfortunately I can't get that back. It would be amazing if they could just release a 'secret' Silent Hill game and catch us all off guard so we don't know anything about the game until we play it, but that's never going to happen.
I do realise that once again I sound ridiculously cynical about this game, but I am actually looking forward to it, just not for the same reasons as I used to look forward to Silent Hill games.
TL;DR
Weeping Bat combat was broken.
"We're in a mine!... Mines have bats, right?".
Knowing monster names/designs ruins the surprise.
I wish I didn't know anything about the game but I do.
Cynical for cynicals sake.