@iempire68 @danielmbg @BuldozerX Meanwhile there are still millions of gamers that STILL play games dating back to the nintendo and atari era. Clearly it's really not all about you, is it?
@Mighty_Ori I don't agree, I think these are pretty awesome mods and I'm glad to have learned about them. Not everything has to remake the game in order to be worth using, and some of these mods may not get the attention they deserve without writers like the above and elsewhere pointing others in the right direction.
Yeah, bit of wasted money there. I think it's a good idea, but it would have been better served many years ago when the rating system first debuted. This isn't a new thing, it's old news. If parents haven't figured out the rating system by now, it's self-imposed ignorance. There's little anyone else can do about that.
@AnimeFreaks Erm, I'm a casual player and played entirely solo until I got a guild. By the time I found a guild, I already had a level 80 Mesmer, completed storyline and decked out in crafted level 80 Exotic gear. That literally took me 2 weeks at the most to get. If anything, GW2 was far too easy. I only started doing dungeons to have something to do with my guild mates and friends, I've never actually needed anything in there. Up until Fractals, 'high end' was perfectly attainable solo, and after Fractals the stronger 'ascended' gear you can get in FoTM is only useful ~while you are in FoTM~, so if you never go in, that gear is useless to you. It's there for those interested in the difficult, group content, but is otherwise entirely skippable.
GW1, by the way, is far higher in terms of difficulty than 2 is, even with heroes. How you can enjoy GW1 but find 2 too hard to solo in is sort of mind-boggling.
@Sardinar Blizzard got nothing right over a decade ago, a point emphasized by all the MMOs that try to emulate its extremely formulaic gameplay and never become as possible. WoW was born into a world with far less competition at the time, and was good compared to the other games on the market. It was far more user friendly and easy to understand, far more mainstream, than other games of its generation like EQ2 and DAoC. If WoW were born into the current market instead, it never would have survived. As it is, it lives off of a couple million in the West that maintain their subscriptions not because they play regularly, but because they don't want to walk away from accounts they've put years into, and the many millions of gold bot farmers in the East.
It's so completely the exact same thing as the PS3 controller that they may as well just let us use PS3 controllers for it and save ourselves some money. Not that that's going to happen. Headphone jacks are cute, but generally speaking when I'm gaming, the people around me either don't care, don't matter or aren't around to complain, so that doesn't justify the cost of new controllers that otherwise are perfectly similar.
SEGA keeps its best games in the East, especially when it comes to RPGs. They refuse to localize and completely ignore the West's interest in their games, then wonder why they have no presence here. People are talking about it being a 'good' thing SEGA wasn't bought, as it would have been destroyed; how do you destroy something that's not there? That's what the guy meant about no "muscle", it wasn't worthwhile. It may as well no longer exist for as important as it is anymore, and they did that to themselves.
@Regression Mistakes imply an accident. If you really think that's all it was, you should do some reading into the facts about it all. They knew precisely what they were doing, the ending was not a creative decision, it was a business one. People who are still bitching about the ending, admittedly, need to get over it. It's old news now. But there's nothing stupid about recognizing that a specific man's style, which pervades a game, is not 'for you' and thus that is not a game you should bother with. Otherwise that would be like complaining that a particular chef makes food you don't like, but you keep going back anyway.
@SolidSnakeTPF Dear God, every time someone brings this up I want to slap some sense into them. How are you so completely blind to things right in front of you? Steam is not the same thing. I can install Steam on all the computers in the house plus my laptop and STILL go to a friend's house, log into my account on his computer, and play my game ANYWHERE. Even those terrible services like Origin and Windows Live let me do this. It's nowhere near the same thing console devs are proposing by saying a game will only work for the initial system it's activated on.
I swear if people took two seconds to think about what they're typing before they do it, the internet would be a 10th of its size and a hell of a lot better.
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