HoSpanky wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 18:25:
What puts people off of Arkham Origins is that it feels...lazy. I've found two locations that I had to reload from checkpoint on, and there's a fast travel tower that bugs permanently (until it hopefully gets patched) if you solve it slightly differently than they expected you to. There's a combat maneuver that counters two enemy attacks at the same time, and while I see batman going through the motions, he always, ALWAYS fails to grab one of the goons and I get knocked out of my combo. The combat managed to get broken when all they did was copy Rocksteady's game.
But what bothers me the most is that they recycled Arkham City quite a bit. No, it's not the same map exactly, but like Crackdown and its sequel, it's too familiar. If it were polished to perfection, I could look past the recycling, but it's not.
It's not a terrible game. Really, I don't hate it. But it doesn't feel like a new game, where AC did, even tho it was "still Batman", and it's buggier than a NYC basement apartment.
Wolfox wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 16:26:After looking at some footage as well as screenies from it's Steam page, the game looks beautiful.
For the record, I'm playing it and it's awesome. The way the graphics work is mesmerizing - it's all fully 3D, but it feels 2D - I've never seen anything quite like this before.
Jerykk wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 16:21:
The Mass Effect Trilogy is actually missing most of the DLC. Not sure why EA even put the bundle together. The only way to get the DLC on PC is to use Bioware points, which never go on sale. If you want to buy all the DLC for ME3, you'll probably end up spending around $50, which is ludicrous considering that you can often find the base game for $5.
Jerykk wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 16:21:
As for the lack of controller support, I imagine that has to do with the revamped UI in the PC versions of ME. They'd have to switch between UIs based on your active controller and apparently that's too much effort for them.
Clever Caviar wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 15:34:
I've played Mass Effect 1, twice, loved it both times: the music, the story, the atmosphere - brilliant. My tastes nowadays are to play 3rd person games with the controller: age, proximity to a couch, something else. Due to this lack of controller on the PC versions, I've yet to get around to Mass Effects 2 & 3. I think Gamefly currently has the trilogy with all the DLC etc for £20, Origin has done a similar deal before as well. Very tempting, but the stubborn refusal of BioWare to add in controller support, when by all accounts the games have about 90% of the code already in, just really rankles me.
That a company the size of EA, or Bioware can't assign an intern or junior developer to do the, at a max, weeks worth of work to wire in the remaining code to have full controller support on the PC is unbelievable to the point that the only logical reason is that neither *wants* to, for whatever arrogant reason or other. That kind of attitude, on one of their flagship brands no less, I find hard to pay for, so for now I'm not.
Mass Effect 1 PC Gaming Wiki
Mass Effect 3 PC Gaming Wiki
Eurogamer Article on Bioware and (lack of) PC Controller support
Quinn wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 13:55:
Batman: Arkham Origins is awesome. Just like the first and second game. People who love the first two but complain about this one probably have a hard time dealing with the fact there's not much innovation. Other than that, it's just more of the same awesomeness.
Slashman wrote on Oct 27, 2013, 12:54:
Wow. Naruto at number 3. Unexpected...