So should we assume covering Gaming and Gaming News is no longer profitable enough for Gamespot?
Seriously, what is this crap, and why is it here? Aren't there sites out there just for this type of info already?
Is Gamespot owned by the same Parent Company as Netflix or something now? Honestly, between this and the Game of Thrones stuff, I really don't get what's happening to this site? They used to have so many in-depth Video Game related shows and subjects. But it's like they decided to cut almost ALL of that and start replacing it with just generic "Entertainment" news. We like "interactive Entertainment", that's why we play video games and come to a site like this.
(Mild rant done... I've just been coming here for many years for info and reviews. And this new changing format is depressing.)
So not video games? Why is this here? So is Gamespot going the useless Pop-Culture Entertainment News way?
The main reason I have favored Gamespot over something IGN is because GS didn't get into all this type of crap.
Bring back your gaming programming: The Point, House of Horrors, ANYTHING related to games, gaming industry, gaming culture... ANYTHING other than this type of stuff. I literally have all of the internet to find out this stuff. Besides YT is slathered in Video Posters who just sit and speculate about movies and Tv. We don't need it here. You are our source for VideoGame stuff. Stay that way.
Please don't start trying to be like IGN or whomever by doing tons of movie and tv related stuff as video game info slides to the side. Please be our Gaming Site! The internet is full of ALL the other media info any one person could ever want. We come here for Games of a Video Nature! Please don't start filling your pages with other stuff. Let your awesome staff focus on games! PLEASE.
@hystavito: Sry man, I don't mean to discourage you from enjoying it. My own frustration is based on having a lot of fun in the first week. Meeting some good new battle buddies to do missions with and getting into some cool squad tactics and a lot of laughs. Then after doing ALL the missions, and realizing the "Daily MIssions" are nothing more than harder settings of the "Game Missions" with minimal reward I just got super bored. Even the AI spawn location, numbers and initial rush tactics are the same by the AI every play through. So our missions became set-ups to ambush every predictable wave. Then the whole patch issues which made loot crafting and acquisition WAY more tedious. Most of the game is spent deconstruction your loot to use materials to craft High End Blueprints you have over and over until you Roll a Perk/Talent set for the weapon you want.
It's fun, but play it casually and unless you REALLY want to get into the trollfest of the DarkZone there's little to rush to. Not to mention the ONLY reason to create additional characters is: A) to play with a friend just starting out, or B) to farm the "Dailys" multiple times in a day for Phoenix Credits (currency used to buy Blueprints) as the option to play them is only Once Per Day per Character but the character inventory is ALL shared.
Oh and when you're done, like 95% of the non-DarkZone map seems to go completely unused. Literally just empty streets with the most minimal, under-leveled AI in repeated predictable scripted situations to run across. Oh and 300+ meaningless hidden items that provide NO real reward when a full set is found.
(I just picked up Dying Light used for 15$. WAY better investment for me, lol. I'll stick with the Zeds.)
I will admit I had high hopes for this game, lots of fun for the 1st week or two. Then it became painfully apparent it was going to be just a "rinse & repeat" mission based game (literally). Once you rush through the forgettable story and are over-geared for the "final" missions you just repeat some of the main missions on "harder" settings so you can farm loot so you can play the same missions "better". And it all leads to the realization that you're doing it so everyone can just troll each other in the DarkZone for loot that everyone would have a chance of getting anyway if player just didn't kill each other for forgettable loot items.
I really really was hoping for more. It's good looking theme, interesting concepts in regards to the partial-MMO style and the city can be pretty (aside from texture load-in issues half the time); but it's empty. The only thing you end up doing is playing the same 6-8 missions over and over and over and over and over... then players get bored and troll people in the DZ or they troll you. There was such an opportunity here for some great Co-op game play and fun adventure. But it becomes tedious, repetitious and VERY predictable since the AI ALWAYS spawn from the same spots: ALWAYS. (And this coming from a gamer that excitedly and mistakenly bought a Season Pass -one of the only times ever- and immediately regretted it. I had High Hopes.)
So looks like Striker and Sentry's will be the two people will settle into as they appear most suited for PvP. Which, inevitably is the only End Game for the Division.
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