Reddington said:
SonOfVoorhees said:
This is gaming i expect from a few gens ago, not on next gen. No real excuse for it.
People see the awesome graphics and assume the developer put the same effort into the rest of the game. This being in spite of the number of games we've already seen with breathtaking graphics and mediocre gameplay.
The excuse is that these types of games sell despite numerous releases in the past that have awesome graphics and mediocre gameplay. This will continue until people stop supporting this type of development, until that day you can be sure we'll be seeing more games like this.
Actually...well, you better just adapt, cuz this is and will be the current trend for any game with "action" in the title. Talking about an action game of any sorts in this day and age having any type of decent plot/storyline is tantamount to talking about a normal person who lost the bronze in the special olympics because he saw a shiny nickel.
The only genre's that are pretty much guaranteed to have some semblance of a story, whether or not it is palatable, are sci-fi, adventure, and rpg's. And those genre's have been slowly shrinking, or are being blended into the action category, for nearly a decade. So either go into, or start, an indy game group, or just chalk it up to an emerging fact of life and go get your good stories from a book(s).
deacon said:
so basically instead of playing it for yourselves, the bulk of you opt to line up and join whatever the other guy is saying? lol sounds about right for this generation of gamers.
the game isn't close to being the worst launch game out there nor is the combat. unless you think Assassin's Creed 4 and a variety of other games all have repetitive gameplay that takes away from the experience because guess what .. nearly ALL games run you through the same function repeatedly.
how about this concept .. try the game and see if you agree with what this guy is saying. i've read hundreds of favorable opinions to contrast the uninformed rants people throw at this game.
it's not the greatest .. but it's not the worst either. it's a very good launch game .. one that you won't find many that look as good as .. the gameplay won't be for everyone but it's not unlike many others in its genre.
like i said, try it before you decide to bandwagon and have someone form your opinion for you.
"Try the game and see if you agree"? By that logic, every time I open up a Game Informer I should go out and buy every game they review and try it for my own opinion...or how about this: Go fuck yourself. I'm glad your daddy and mommy have the money to buy you whatever your little pre-pubescent heart desires, but for the majority of us that is not option as we work for a living, and have bills to pay.
Game reviewers exist, and receive a paycheck (or most of them do), for a reason. Their opinions, and yes we know it is an opinion, help us gamers to decide whether or not a game sparks our varied interests (and/or looks like fun) before we go out and spend our hard earned money on it. Granted, a lot of game companies probably do not care for this as it allows us to exercise a little thing called purchasing power, but hey! A free market is dandy ain't it?
So continuing on your path of genius, game reviewers shouldn't exist. Riiiight...First off, this is Yahtzee we're talking about. He is a cynic, sarcastic bastard, and that's why we love him. But you have to take 90% of his reviews with a grain of salt. If you go through all his reviews, you can probably count the number of games he has given a thumbs up to on one hand. I know for damn sure you won't be needing to take off your shoes to count your toes. However some of the games he has stomped into a prostitute's crabby cavern I have personally enjoyed, both the story as well as the game mechanics.
Yahtzee is funny, and he does speak some truths that a lot of us have realized or are beginning to, but there are multiple reviews for the same game out there so go read something. I know that's a shocking revelation for you, even though most of us learned that fact, and nearly everything mentioned in this wall of text, by the time we were ten-frikkin'-years-old.
Yahtzee...funny, as usual. Although, as the barbarians were also burly white men, at least in Central and Western Europe, and had hounded the Roman Empire multiple times and even sacked the city of Rome on occasion, I don't think they had logistics issues. Think of it like this, a crossbow bolt...that is a inch thick wooden dowel with a metal point...could pierce roman (and even some medieval) plate armor. Who knew a stick can be such a wonderful tool, right?
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