I agree its not as bad as they are making it out to be.. but its not a triple A move either.. the biggest draw back is the cast.. they just didnt fit the roles very well. probably the biggest draw back is going to be those who never played the games just wont get the movie..

Noticed that theirs no gameplay at all. The world is broken, the loot is broken, and leveling is not an endgame activity.. unless they change the game substantially.. it will remain a game dismissed by the majority of diablo players.. i am sure it has its fans... i loved d1-3 ... but d4 ugh.. horrible

Try owning ice cream trucks.....grumble grumble... winter just refuses to let go.. 70+ one day.. and 48 the next.. (Georgia)

I dont think it will be to much longer before wow goes free play.. i think if they did and got their money from the shop/store they woud get a large surge of the population back and potentially make more money (depending on how many people rejoin) .. most people didnt quit wow because they hate the game, it just updates so slowly that the value of a monthly subscription doesn't hold the weight it did when the game was new or at its height.

headshot wrote on Jan 31, 2022, 07:05:

McTurbo wrote on Jan 30, 2022, 11:32:
whats a blizzard survival game like?

collect 2 rocks, run them halfway across the world. pick up 4 sticks make camp fire, fight 3 rabbits that dont spawn in that zone, then take rabbit meat back to base, turn in. Reward for 4 hours of hassle :2 rocks.

have you ever actually played WoW?

TBC had a few quests which often led to points not in the current vicinity but seldom outside the zones you'd quest in.
since WotLK the questing always was more hub-y and you'd be pointed toward a location via breadcrumb quest and then questing around that hub.

nowadays you almost always have your main quests and most of the time can only do those, but some NPCs want to take advantage of a hero nearby and offer their stuff.
those are often simple kill / collect quests mixed with "use vehicle", "use ability" or "solve puzzle" and culminate in a bigger threat / story part. questing through their zones is always a breeze and works without thinking too much, though reading the story from various indiviuals or teams behind them is great too.

questing in WoW is my go to way to level toons and i wish more games had such a good questing experience.

I was exaggerating a bit, but there are several quests like that throughout wow back in the vanilla days the trek from ironforge to hillsbrad area or eastern/western plaguelands was pretty brutal before you got mounts.

whats a blizzard survival game like?

collect 2 rocks, run them halfway across the world. pick up 4 sticks make camp fire, fight 3 rabbits that dont spawn in that zone, then take rabbit meat back to base, turn in. Reward for 4 hours of hassle :2 rocks.

Verno wrote on Jan 18, 2022, 11:57:
One company throwing this much capital around and obtaining a dominant market position through mergers/acquisitions is never a good thing for consumers in the long run. Sony is going to get slowly squeezed when this deal completes in 2023 and Microsoft makes CoD and etc exclusive to their platforms. Microsoft has been playing nice under Phil Spencer but eventually they will turn the screws on consumers in the name of shareholder profits. I wonder when we'll start hearing antitrust noise, I guess politicians don't care much about the gaming industry unless someone puts a naked woman in a game.

well said.. but sony has been doing it to xbox for a while with the exclusives across multiple playstations... turn about is fair play.

windows 10 was a hot mess its first 90 days too.. unless your computer literate, i would just wait till the bugs get ironed out first.

Its 2021, no VR Support = NO BUY. these games scream VR and are almost tailor made for it.

playing road racing games can be fun, but its less you vs the other player, its mostly you vs the road.

Playing a NASCAR game with a force feedback steering wheel, going 3-4 wide into turns while in a pack is unlike anything you will experience in a road track. with a good group of players and mix of AI that challenges you without blatantly cheating.. you can get into some major battles on the OVAL that just cant be captured from memorizing when/where to brake to hit your turn speed on a road course..but to each their own, both have challenges and its all personal taste.

Throw in a good VR Headset with the IN CAR view.. and you might just throw those road courses in the trash (heres looking to what we hope you can do with Unreal Engine 5!)

so far its plagued with issues, they swear up and down its not beta.. but it sure feels like it.

opie wrote on Nov 7, 2020, 12:59:
"reports" are not official. The fires will be immense if Trump pulls out his legal challenges. Glad I am safely in a red state now.

oh good lord help us if this becomes another Al Gore scenario. Democrats would lose their minds after all the euphoria they been going through on the thought of winning this.

MrBone wrote on Sep 3, 2020, 16:19:
Considering the massive installation required for this game (100 GB I believe), that is pretty nuts. Looks incredible on a 2080TI.

cant wait till that technology moves to traditional RPG's and MMO's .. can you imagine if world of warcraft looked like that flying on a dragon as you crossed the continent.

no mans sky was very poorly received after all the hype, a lot of players felt they were lied to.. but i will say that NMS stuck to its guns and the game is much better for it today. I was one of those day 1 players who uninstalled the game after 2-3 days was how poorly it was received. but after a while i heard good things about it and re-installed and it was actually entertaining, if you like exploring and a sandbox experience.. there is a general quest line now but not quite on the level of most RPG's... lot of stuff is left up to you to figure out..

For those of us who have seen these stages of gaming .. you can see the future coming and its coming fast...while some of the technologies are still in early stages.. you can see where all this is going..

Imagine cloud computing with 8k resolution and nearly instant loading in a Virtual Reality setting via 5g (or future 6g)...we are not quite there for full haptics yet.. but damn what a ride...The next big jump in gaming isn't going to be graphics.. its going to be how we play the game.

Just imagine when RPG's / MMO's are built on this scale, run by AI, and in VR

Ouch.. just the sound of this makes the game seem years off. especially at blizzard speed.

I understand the desire to play a new half life game. but play it in VR like its meant to be played.. otherwise some of the stuff just does not make sense.. the whole setup and perspectives are designed for VR.. its just not going to be near as enjoyable trying to play it on keyboard and mouse.

bought day before launch. still cant play it. crashes/freezes within 30 second to 2 minutes of launching the game. (hard locks the computer forced to reboot)

(game stalled for Xbox series x and PlayStation 5 release this fall)