It's funny how the smaller studios get criticized heavily for repeating the same formula, meanwhile others that milk the same crap over and over don't get the same level of treatment.
When an AAA title does this, no one dares to go question it. I just find it confusing how certain games (CoD) continue to get great reviews when they've reduced SP to very short and have very similar MP Mechanics as their predecessor. Same run and gun style of MP, same repetitive aspects.
Thats what I don't understand...
I wouldn't disagree with the review based solely on the logic that a sequel should do more than just the same to merit a good review, but way too many times I find it hypocritical that certain games get praised and other blasted....
I think the Optimum recommended settings on Ultra with a 690 or Titan is referring to the extreme enthusiast and minority PC gamer, who tend to be playing in surround or multi-monitor setups or resolutions higher than 1080p.
Pretty sure you could run this game comfortably on High and near Ultra Settings at 1080p or less with the Recommended specs.
@EpicHats That is still a rumor as well about the two variants.
In Microsoft's press release, they simply said no comment. They did not deny or acknowledge any truth or claim that the next xbox required always online. With the amount of bad PR this caused, I believe that the silence likely means their is truth to the rumor as I see Always online like a way to circumvent the used game industry (another rumor).
I don't think CDPR will do either of the first 2, I think they will become a dominant player in the industry.
They are an honest group and will earn the trust of a much larger crowd when everyone else continues to do poorly. EA and Activision and their IP has a lot of disgruntled gamers, very possible to add Sega/Gearbox for the Colonial Marines false adverstising they did.
CDPR owns GOG, which I suspect will continue to pick up steam/momentum in in the push to digital distribution with their DRM free access ;)
There were still obstacles for developers porting games this generation. All three major platforms had different hardware architecture. The PC was x86, the 360 was an IBM PowerPC based architecture and the PS3 was the Cell Processor.
Adding support and mappings for peripheral devices (controllers) is not that hard.
TES and Fallout are complex games, and now that the next-gen of consoles look to all be x86 based (pending 720 confirmation), this will make development much easier and developers can focus on a single architecture and put more time and effort into optimizing RPG's menu systems - hopefully they got some ideas from Skyrim modders :).
@PSYCHOV3N0M @Which also doesnt take into account digital sales either...
Tomb Raider had been among the top sellers on Steam for a while, not to mention free copies with select video cards...digital sales must should push it above 4.5M, i would assume...not bad for 20 days on sale.
"This is a growing concern with games forcing always-online that the servers simply cant handle the demand."
From this I was implying the whole issue where people were still getting Server errors in Diablo 3 even though they wanted to play single player. Sim City was much worse and hence when I singled them out more in my post.
I was mostly speaking from the aspect of SimCity. I'm not a fan of Diablo but did hear complaints about it (but don't know all the detials).
My point still stands that customers have the right to have a voice and complain and speak out if a product or service is not as advertised.
From my understanding of the complaints with Diablo is that they made a few changes that diehard fans didn't like and people were also complaining about the infamous Error 37 :)
Completely disagree with McGee's comment regarding the whole Diablo 3 and SimCity issues.
As a paying customer, you have every right to complain about how bad a service you were given. There is no reason not to include an offline mode to play single player (especially for SimCity, where 90% of people probably just wanted to use their imagination and build cities and frankly didn't care for the social aspect of the game).
This is a growing concern with games forcing always-online that the servers simply cant handle the demand.
If the consumers were silent on any of these issues, then no real change will every get implemented and will just keep getting the same issues over and over...
@eduardvictor They never said the Season Pass will give you all future content. It clearly stated it would get you all the "campaign" DLC (ie the expansions and nothing more)
Colonial Marines is another subject on its own. Randy clearly hyped the game and seeing how the demo and real game footage vary drastically...its yet another reason why I never pre-order any games.
Don't pay money for an unreleased product until you know what to expect. If few paid for the game, you can expect the game to tank and be found in the bargain bin very quickly...
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