@TheGreyArea I don't think they expect to keep up. COD does its thing, which is almost an entirely different market. And everybody else sort of works around the occasional mega franchise releases like GTA and Elder Scrolls.
My big problem is I have an Xbox, but I don't use it and don't want to. I play on PC, and don't plan to branch out back into consoles until next gen is underway. Why buy a game that you could replay for years for a console that's outdated now?
Same problem with Dark Souls 2, but at least it is being released on PC. So the question with GTA is...can I wait? Or will I just end up buying it twice (pretty sure that's Rockstar's plan for PC and next gen, make us buy it twice).
@GreenBlazin @TheGreyArea @plaintomato Yeah. Naughty Dog makes sense. I was thinking Valve - but it almost hurts Valve because the end result is that they freeze up and have trouble getting a sequel out the door.
Bethesda...they have some great franchises, but you can't actually count on every game being great.
There are very few developers that you can count on to expect legit effort to improve on each release. Actually I can only think of two, but Rockstar is one of them.
@amaneuvering Yep. Somebody's upset about it being a short time. When an artist puts a tree "where they think it looks good", that's considering the placement of every tree. Just because that artist had autonomy instead of there being a middle-management Jr. VP of Trees doesn't make it less true.
I think the point was that they didn't just generate a bunch of land mass to save time and make the game big. If it's there, somebody thought about it and put it there. That's a good thing.
The only bad thing about COD is the idea that it has spawned so many copy cats that there are fewer new ideas coming into the genre with everyone playing follow the leader.
But I'm not sure that's a legit problem. If those imitators are willing to give up real creativity and innovation in the name of chasing a piece of the COD pie, chances are they didn't have creative integrity anyway and would just be copying some other thing if there was no COD.
@unreal101 Give it time. Gamespot seems to task Eddie with taking tiny tidbits of one-sentence news and turning them into clickable headlines with multi-paragraph commentary and connected links.
Man, that's hard work. You'll get more, it just takes time.
@noandno It's boring. I know cardio-monster elite athletes that get chubby in the off-season because jogging doesn't offer as much motivation as chasing a ball.
What's wrong with jogging in the park? It's not very fun.
I'd like to see part of the online component integrated into the single player game - maybe hit-man or vigilante missions that have you going into another player's city to take them out.
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