Of course everyone is entitled to their opinion but perspective also needs to be applied. The only way this could have been launched without problems would have been a staggered rollout across months, in which the whining would then have centered around the fact that Europe/America/Russia got it first and people couldn't have accessed it.
The problems were also always going to be fixed with time. The diagnosis and repair of a project like this is beyond huge, so the hyper...
I agree with you n4rc, that's why people claiming the Xbox One will be a failure are wildly off target. I still can't help but feel that Microsoft have made a decision to target the teenage/young adult market and the family integration market, leaving people like me and my friends behind.
As I said in the article I don't think that is really a wrong decision per se, but it is a strange feeling to be cast aside so readily.
Yeah i think that's a really valid point. The majority of people I know who are in a comparable situation to me (i.e. not still at university etc) aren't really the 'social' gamer types. They come in from work, maybe play an hour of Dishonoured before being called away to eat/excercise/do something manly. Mos tmultiplayer gaming is done on the PC.
If you've got a list of 50 people you play different games with then that is going to be a powerful motivator ...
Don't even go there iamnsuperman - My single friends are slowly dropping like flies picked off one by one by the marriage monster!
That's...pretty damn cool
I'll have to disagree with you there I think. I'm in software myself and beta testing performs a significant function, especially with software that requires hefty hardware optimisation.
Having said that, often these days the 'beta test' is simply an advert and your playing more or less the finished product, minor some slight tweakage.
LOST is a great example to compare it to I think.
it is very difficult to take it seriously when you know it is being so blatantly milked as a franchise. I'm all for being able to treat a game as a game and judge it on its own merits, but the dull mechanics really enforce that sense of lethargy.
Oh I'm sorry if you got the impression that I was taking the piss out of older gamers. Quite the opposite, I was just musing on how I feel my gaming habits ave changed as I've got older!