This has nothing to do with the actual video, but I got an ad for a World of Tanks season finals thingy scheduled for August 17th & 18th. Now that's either some early advertising or your now unavoidable ads are like two months late, GameSpot...
I surely hope the DLC era will come to an end very soon. I'd rather wait for the game to be released later, pay $80 or so and be done with it. Nobody is going to boycott them for making the game more expensive, it's actually quite understandable, just don't do it this way.
Where are the days when additional content was called "expansion pack" and added some serious playtime to the game... Back when the additional content was announced months AFTER the game's release.
My opinion on DLC is that it belongs to Multiplayer games only, made so that the game doesn't get stale (i.e. not to the MPs that release annually).
Finally, even if you decide to add DLC to your game, reveal it AFTER it's release and be subtle about it, not like this...
It's become a franchise. Not a surprise, with the way Assassin's Creed is, it can go on for quite some time, 20+ main games wouldn't really be that surprising.
What is occurring among most people is fatigue. The games get released in a far too quick succession for people to take a break. I got AC Revelations soon after release, having played 2 and Brotherhood one after another not too long before that. Got through like 3 DNA Sequences on Revelations and I just couldn't go on. There was something about the game that felt "boring". So I uninstalled it and forgot about my ownership of that one for quite a while. Now, almost 2 years later, I re-installed it, not having played any AC game in-between and I'm having a blast.
The core mechanics of the games are solid, the settings are fairly interesting as well, it's just that some may grow tired of it since the underlying principles of the games remain the same. I'd get bored with ANY game (apart from open world custom character RPG like Skyrim etc.) if I had to play it several times in a year (first playthrough, one or two more after that, first sequel playthrough... you get the point).
Hardly true. The minimum requirements are just far too much IMO.
I've been able to play all the games that have been released on PC to this day on a smooth FPS on Medium or High setting and now I'm suddenly 256 MB of VRAM short when it comes to MINIMUM requirements for Watch Dogs. I call it BS.
Most likely was supposed to be Recommended, but they went to re-think it, hence taking the info down.
Does it mean that if I decided to make a visual novel about a guy who has only slept and played MMOs for the past 3 years and call it "Half-Life 3" before September 29, I could have done so? Daaaamn....
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