@Raeldor Well, back that up. EQ2 had faction PvP anywhere, it was just that you would need a LOT of people to raid the opposing faction's main locations because the city guards were beasts who could one-shot any player.
@Raeldor You can have open world PvP like WoW (Safe zones and contested zones), but if EVERY location is up for grabs it would make it impossible for players to complete quests, visit the broker/merchants, get to their player or guild housing, get to crafting locations, etc. If the game was only about fighting you could have PvP anywhere, but there is more to an MMO than combat.
@buccomatic MS might just open it's own game app store and sell games for this. They've had a hard on for some sort of closed system market since Apple beat them with iTunes. It's hard to believe they intend it to play fill blown XBox games but I could be wrong.
@jagcivtec I don't think they're trying to mimic CoD, they're trying to make the game more like the awful movies that people inexplicably keep going to see. What are there 5 of them now?
@Kniyghtmare @Tremblay343 This is based on expertise earned from tossing aside the family Nintendo and getting your very own XBox for Christmas when you became a man?
@The_Gump If that was true about the haters then no one would be watching. Is there anyone left on the planet South Park hasn't ridiculed?
Of course they make fun of themselves and their fans all the time, but the fans who think they're smarter than everyone else don't realize what's going on.
@masterdrat @Lord_Python1049 @cornbredx Being on camera with a Gamespot VP explaining exactly what happened is pretty much admitting it, don't you think? You should have read the entire Wikipedia article.
@moviequest14 They're not trying to sell it to "hardcore" gamers. They do that at E3 presentations and PR campaigns. The sole purpose of this commercial is to let the people who don't follow gaming know the new system exists.
@bpmike83 "At least a 9.5"? You can't give a perfect score to a game that is a sequel and does nothing significantly new. Scores of 10 have to be exceedingly rare or they become meaningless. A 10 indicates a game is one of the best of ALL TIME which on top of being technically solid and fun to play, also innovates and moves the art forward as a whole. There can be a many really good games that don't qualify as best of all time.
Some review sites either ignore that and/or they put too much weight on the top half of the scale. If anything below a 6 is junk, then scores of 1 or 2 are also meaningless compared to a score of 5. GS uses the whole scale and they don't hand out 10's like a department store Santa hands out mini candy canes.
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