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07/11/09
07/10/09
It's just like in Bambi: If you don't have anything nice to say, just give us the title and release date.
At least that's how I remember the movie....
07/10/09
Regardless, the bolt gun and flamethrower... I wonder if they're ONLY in these maps, or if you're paying to use them everywhere as a part of the class system. If it's the latter, I'm a little annoyed, and don't feel it's a good direction to take. Granted, not unprecidented, and not nearly as appalling as some examples, but certainly a step backwards. I remember back in the day when multiplayer maps tended to be included with free patches. - Games like Outlaws, for instance, and the Unreal Tournament series has ALWAYS been good for that, even now with the recent level pack and massive update it got, much akin to the ECE pack UT2004 got.
There are good sized and well produced expansions still - The Lost And Damned (which, bravo to Rockstar for making a srtandalone pack of the exclusive DLC for those of us who prefer the PS3), and, Horse Armor aside, most of the stuff Bethesda has put out for their flagship RPGs, have been excellent. I just wonder if we'll be slowly moving towards those examples, or if maps, missions n' other stuff will continue to thrive. At the very least, steady progress is being made - While The Godfather 2's DLC is bullshit, it's not nearly as much as the first game, which included such gems as ingame money.
Only time will tell, it seems.
As a mild aside, if this seems really off topic, it's mostly because my original post got eaten, and I ended up trying to retread, and I had gotten a bit sidetracked on the DLC rant in the original post. And apologies for the stupid length, I didn't intend for it to get this long.
07/11/09
Nowadays, as you begin to make the game you have to factor in DLC content as a potential revenue source. Once you do that, you are given a bit more money by the publisher to make your game, and in turn, you put more into your game and spend more time on it.
Epic can afford to give DLC free nowadays (well, unless MS published their title as in the case of the Gears of War series) because they created their own engine and sell that to recoup development costs. Games like Gears of War cost them only $10 million to make, and I'd wager UT3 cost a similar amount.
But games like Halo 3 and Killzone 2 must have had spectacular budgets, and DLC was kept in mind throughout development to help the publishers get the most out of their investment.
DLC can be done right, and done wrong. I don't think any blanket judgment could be applied to all DLC. There are some games that I wish had more DLC...games like Wip3out: HD.
07/11/09
07/11/09
It would be nice if they made the Titan Pack for 360 though, make it so all versions are even as far as Epic content goes. As it stands, it seems anyone who got the 360 version is kinda screwed with not only less official content, but no unofficial content as well.
07/13/09
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07/10/09
05/28/09
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05/27/09
05/27/09
For that matter, why can't developers give us the option to use m/kb in a FPS game that doesn't even have multiplayer...like Bioshock.
05/27/09
"Weight" is one thing, having a deadzone that takes up almost the entire right stick is quite another. If you push the stick to an edge, your view won't move until a fraction of a second after it's hit that edge, as in, won't move AT ALL until then. Adjusting sensitivity in the options does nothing for this, all that does is make the view move faster once it starts.
There are better ways to add a sense of weight. Don't kid yourself, Killzone 2's aiming was just plain clunky and unresponsive.
A gun should not be easy to control, but unless you're looking at the game through Fanboy-Vision Goggles, it's pretty evident that it's not "realistic", it's just plain frustrating.
05/27/09
When I played the Demo for Infamous, I had a few problems sticking to things I didn't want to stick to but I adapted and it worked just fine, just like I did with Sly Cooper.And what makes it worse is that these same people claim Gears of War is a perfect game but ignore the fact that game was tedious,no innovation, crappy story and dialogue with characters who ran and moved like they had sticks up their asses.Sorry for the rant but this trend of whiny gamers is getting on my nerves
05/27/09
05/27/09
Mhm. The argument seems to be "I paid $60 for the game, therefore it should've been a harrowing life- changing religious experience, and make me popular with the girls. And the only way I'm going to be happy now is if you ruin the experience for everyone else as well, because I can't stand to hear about other people who like the game when I don't".
Funny thing. When I was little, I just didn't play with people like that. And now I apparently have to anyway. It's like.. inverse karma, or something.
05/27/09
@Bii Nii Wii Nii Politely Replaces You're Your with Your You're: Agreed. I couldn't have said it better myself. These developers are delusional if they think expectations aren't going to be through the roof with the prices for consoles and games and accessories being what they are.
With that being said, what is it in this generation that developers seem to have forgotten what "options" means? I agree that someone in Q&A had to say "these controls suck" so why not give the option to not have the weighty, drag ass, effect before the game hit retail?
05/27/09
Even an assault rifle shouldn't weigh too much and hinder you that much. An M4 only weighs about 10 lbs, so I don't know why these soldiers are slowed down so much by them. Plus, in the future, shouldn't guns and stuff get lighter, and not bigger and heavier?
05/27/09
It seems that too many ps3 developers just can't seem to get the basic things right when they need it most.
05/27/09
05/27/09
Don't you think that's a little arrogant?
05/27/09
I'm just saying I think it's really ignorant to say "This game isn't conforming to the conventions set forth by every other shooter on the market therefor it's broken."
This has nothing to do with people not agreeing with me. If you don't like the games controls don't play it. But there's no sense to bitch about a game that tries to take a different approach to something just because you want it to handle like every other game on the market.
So yes, I say those people are morons. Not because they don't they don't agree with me but because their reasons for not liking the games controls are ignorant.
05/27/09
There. See. All better now.
05/27/09
The pre-patch controller sensitivity settings had no effect on the size of the deadzone of the Right analog stick... which was way too big before this patch.
So yeah, fixing the problem with the pre-patch controller sensitivity settings IS too hard for some people... because it has no effect whatsoever.
05/27/09
I finished Killzone2 and the heavy weighted feel of the controls could get used to but that's the goddamn problem, why should we have to get used to a bad design choice? GG is still trying to hold on to this bullshit logic that the heavy feel of the controls is a great idea. It's not. All it does is show how desperately they tried to make dual analog controls work in a FPS and failed by making the controls worse in too many firefight situations. I tried to support it, but it's a practice in frustration.
If I'm a soldier, there's no excuse as to why I'm turning so slow that it feels like even my pistol, (PISTOL!)weights 80lbs. Give me a break. If a enemy is strafing me, why can't I turn fast enough to shoot them with smaller weapons? I don't care how much gear these meatheads are supposed to be wearing. It's nonsense that quicker turns can't be made with smaller weapons, especially when on the higher difficulty settings the AI seems to turn faster than we ever could and shoot with accuracy we'll never have. Adjusting the sensitivity didn't help at all because even the highest settings don't allow you to turn as fast as you think you should.
Face it. GG blew it. I love the recoil of the weapons when they're fired. That's awesome but all they did was take the flaws of dual analog controls and made them far worse.
If this patch actually addresses the issue, then I'll go back to killzone2...maybe, but after playing UT3's Titan pack, I'm harshly reminded of why FPS developers on PS3 not called Epic, suck.
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05/28/09
05/27/09
05/27/09
Well, except what they actually did was.. change the aiming quite a bit. Which exacerbated several game- balance issues, made it very effective to run around and fire on full auto, and all but ruined the feel of the original control scheme and the pacing it encouraged. All to please a bunch of morons who generally couldn't spell, string a coherent sentence together, and condemned GG as a "shitty little developer" - before they went back to play COD4 without trying to actually play KZ2 first. Apparently in an effort to generate positive and incoherent press- coverage on N4G.
GG's only response should've been: we're doing it the way we want, it is brilliant, shut up.
But instead they foolishly started to give their "fans" a few concessions, which of course will never be enough. And now we're getting twitch- controls, while GG is denying they've ever changed the scheme very much at all. Really, isn't corporate bullshit just the best thing there is? Oh, I know - what's better is that people actually want things to be this way: make every game the same way, because if it sells, then that's proof it's the best thing ever made, and no one would ever want anything different!
Bastards.. allbastards.
05/27/09
"I don't know why people complain about the aiming and movement in this game your are not suppose to turn on a dime or shoot over 9000 bullets with little to no recoil messing with your aim.People just need to STFU and play the DAMN game"
05/27/09
05/27/09
He just doesn't get why people wants,expect for every game to play in same way.
05/27/09
05/27/09
05/27/09
Keep the recoil for the weapons, change that dumbass weighty feel when trying to turn and look up and down.
05/27/09