So...'hardcore' is now synonymous with 'juvenile'?
Good on them for it but I don't think you need to tell people that you will be able to see digital tits and cocks to sell a game. If they said, "imagine that you are in a dank, dark, sewer and Brad Pitt from An Interview with a Vampire is chasing you through them. That is what we want you to feel when playing this game." I'd be like, "**** yeah! That sounds awesome! I'm totally following this game!!" It feels like they're just dropping to the lowest common denominator to sell the game before we even saw the first gameplay movie.
I give CCP credit for sticking with a single server (assuming they mean a single shard and not some sort of cop out). At least it appears that they didn't give in to the temptation to do what everyone else is doing by making a multi-shard game with regional servers.
WWII Online?? That's the only one that comes to mind.
This. :thumup:
My thoughts, too - it strikes me a bit, that I have to spend circa 300$ every year to upgrade some components of my PC to play great game worth of 30$. I really understand the joy of having gaming console... Mark my words, when Paradox will launch EU series on consoles, computer industry will hear my arrivederci, Brad Pitt style.This. :thumup:
Like I said above, I am really getting down on gaming. Just like TV/movies, game devs are purchasing the rights to popular franchises and putting them through the meat grinder so they can be comfortably packed into a familiar form, thereby destroying the original's genius. It's all about the money.
Not that that is a bad thing, per se. Money keeps the wheels of the industry grinding, after all. It's just that when you're a veteran gamer, you become sick and tired of playing the exact same game over and over again, just with a different name each time. Why even purchase the latest title for top dollar when you can just play an older game, often with the same exact mechanics, for tens of dollars less? I tell ya: the one good thing about the F2P craze is that modern games are finally priced right.
I have been thinking about starting the search for a new PC, but every time I begin to look around, I have to ask myself: why? What game out there justifies the considerable expense for a new PC? In years past I could justify it, but not this year, at least not for gaming alone. It is interesting that in the four years I have owned this PC, I have yet to fill the HD! What is more, I would say that there have only been about a dozen titles that proved to be "keepers" (and two of those are chess utilities). So...ten games over four years? That's 2.5 games a year that proved to be a memorable cut above the rest.
Does 2.5 games a year justify the price of a new PC?
Nudity is now juvenile? When did that happen? :crosseye:
Agreed - this was a well made point.