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| News Comments > Guild Wars 2 Stress Test Today |
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Re: Guild Wars 2 Stress Test Today |
Aug 2, 2012, 12:43 |
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| While I fully agree with Axis on his points, I still ended up buying the game because WvW felt pretty damn good and combined with Greenmangaming and their 20% voucher it was a really good offer. Wouldn't have touched it for full price. |
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| News Comments > Risen 2 DLC Already on Disc? |
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Re: Risen 2 DLC Already on Disc? |
May 7, 2012, 07:48 |
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No. It only means the game is too hard for frustrated casualfag reviewers and that no one paid them to inflate the score. Why the fuck are you listening to anything reviewers have to say anymore anyway?
It's a solid RPG. Unmeasurable quantities better than the much fawned over Skyrim. |
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| News Comments > Guild Wars 2 Beta Event Next Weekend |
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Re: Guild Wars 2 Beta Event Next Weekend |
Apr 19, 2012, 10:29 |
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AnointedSword wrote on Apr 19, 2012, 09:34:
Hey anyone play the beta yet? I hope it is not instanced like the first one. The personal story stuff is mostly instanced, a bit like SWTOR, nothing as bad as GW1. The normal PvE stuff is exactly like public quests in Warhammer Online. Not sure about the particulars regarding dungeons. |
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| News Comments > Beamdog on Possible Baldur's Gate III Kickstart |
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Re: Beamdog on Possible Baldur's Gate III Kickstart |
Mar 19, 2012, 18:31 |
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I wouldn't even pay up if it was Bioware asking for kickstarter money at this point, much less some randoms I've never heard of before. They'll have to seriously earn some trust first, and repackaging BG1/2 doesn't cut it. I guess it can't fail more than that tactical console shooter nonsense though. 
BRING ON WASTELAND 2!
This comment was edited on Mar 19, 2012, 18:36. |
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| News Comments > Romero on Making an Old School FPS: "I Have Plans" |
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Re: Romero on Making an Old School FPS: |
Mar 11, 2012, 22:00 |
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Dev wrote on Mar 11, 2012, 21:33:
vrok wrote on Mar 11, 2012, 20:50:
You're using singleplayer story as the indicator of whether an FPS is mediocre, good or spectacular? Or did you just forget that the S in FPS actually stands for shooter? You can "shooter" AI monsters, or "shooter" other players, in either case its a "shooter." The point was obviously that story has little relevance to shooting, the namesake of the genre. It wasn't about singleplayer vs multiplayer.
Singleplayer is just something that id doesn't do very well, at least since Doom 2 (a Romero game), so I brought up the multiplayer. It so happens that multiplayer also makes it easier and far more obvious to judge quality of gameplay mechanics and design in an FPS.
And yes, longevity of a shooter is definitely multiplayer reliant. Without good multiplayer, or mods that provide it for you, your shooter will probably die a quick death regardless of how 'AAA-mazing' your singleplayer story is. That however is what excessive marketing is for I guess.
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| News Comments > Romero on Making an Old School FPS: "I Have Plans" |
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Re: Romero on Making an Old School FPS: |
Mar 11, 2012, 20:50 |
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Bhruic wrote on Mar 11, 2012, 15:27:
a big part of what made ID great was missing...
You know, I was thinking about this a bit, and what it comes down to is that I don't think id was ever great. It was a lack of comparison. There was nothing spectacular about Doom beyond the novelty of it. There was nothing spectacular about Quake beyond the technical innovation.
An easy example is Half Life (I know id didn't make it, but irrelevant to the example). What made Half Life stand out was its comparisons - FPS at the time didn't have storylines - or, not compelling ones like HL. It stood out from the games of its time based on its uniqueness. But imagine if the original HL wasn't made, some other game did the "storyline FPS", and HL was released today - modern graphics, but otherwise the same story. It might be considered "good", but that'd be the extent of it.
The same is true of what id did. They pioneered a genre, and the lack of competition made their products really stand out. But it was that lack of competition that made them appear great - not their actual products. Now that there is plenty of competition, id no longer has anything to make it shine over the rest. But that just points out the fact that it wasn't game excellence that they were recognized for - it was that no one else was doing what they did.
And that's why Rage was a disappointment, like Doom 3 was a disappointment, like Doom 4 will likely be a disappointment. They relied on the pioneering edge to make their games stand out, and now that they've lost that, they have nothing to fall back on. And I can't see Romero changing that, even if they were to get back together. You're using singleplayer story as the indicator of whether an FPS is mediocre, good or spectacular? Or did you just forget that the S in FPS actually stands for shooter?
id did what they were best at, good gameplay, and especially good level design. If you wanted a story you'd go read a book or play an adventure game. As a result they did multiplayer better than anyone. HL, Unreal, or whatever else you can think of never even came close. Tribes was the only one that was even passable and that was partly because of a bug and partly because they took CTF/TF from Quake and expanded upon it.
It was only when CS started growing that the Quake franchise got sidelined and eventually overshadowed completely by modern warfare style team based shooters. To this day the Quake franchise remains as the only truly competitive 1on1 FPSs.
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| News Comments > Mass Effect 3 Ships; Review Roundup |
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Re: Mass Effect 3 Ships; Review Roundup |
Mar 6, 2012, 18:52 |
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If you like long meaningless cutscenes and a bland story, with bad but extremely brief console cover shooter segments in between, get ME3. Otherwise, don't.
Haven't finished it yet but so far I'd say it's overall the worst ME. |
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| News Comments > Syndicate Solicits Pirates |
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Re: Syndicate Solicits Pirates |
Feb 25, 2012, 03:28 |
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Worst shooter I've played in a long time and it has exactly nothing to do with Syndicate except the name of the corporation. It's just a generic sci-fi shooter with the same lame motives in the end that most every other shooter uses. The Riddick games were really good and enjoyable but this is just a turd through and through.
Bad movement, blinding bloom effects, bad textures, lack of weapons, barely 5 hours long, lack of graphics and keybind options, invulnerability during the cutscene-ish melee moves, too easy even with self imposed restrictions on using the ridiculously overpowered bullet time... I could go on but it's not worth it.
If you want a sci-fi shooter just go play Deus Ex 3 again. It's better in every single way.
This comment was edited on Feb 25, 2012, 05:35. |
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| News Comments > Star Wars: The Old Republic Trailer; Launch Events |
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Re: My Impression |
Dec 10, 2011, 15:01 |
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ColoradoHoudini wrote on Dec 10, 2011, 13:33:
Okay.. well, I don't know if that helps anyone at all.. but yeah, I went in with disgust on my mind.. I was ready to bash the game, I fully admit that. I was thrown for a loop, and look forward to playing early and often. Yep. Same here. At least a couple of the class stories started out as some of the best work Bioware has ever done IMO. Just the story parts of the game are easily worth my money and everything else is a really big bonus.
I ended up streaming my playthroughs for my friends and most of them had their opinions of the game completely turned around as well with the rest at least going as far as buying the game to try it out themselves. |
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| News Comments > id On RAGE "Cluster!@#$" and Lead Platforms |
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Re: id On RAGE |
Oct 8, 2011, 02:04 |
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A game built with a tenth the resources on a platform 10 times as powerful would be an inferior product in almost all cases. Not in this case though since Rage is the worst id game ever. And id hasn't made good games in a long long time.
Frankly, I don't even care about the graphics even though they're far below BF3/Witcher 2 in quality. Rage is just plain and simple a really bad game. The gameplay is terrible, the animations are very bad, and the horrible sounds make me want to rip my ears out. |
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