Precisely. If you went for stealth there's about an 80% chance you didn't have the EMP shielding upgrade because you didn't need Armour if no one was ever shooting at you.
Boy did that suddenly change in a boss fight.
Much better game than people usually give it credit for. Only one bugfix patch on pc from being an easy AAA and even with the bugs it was hell of a lot of fun.
So agree with this. I chucked the game away after I spent a few hours doing side-quests and then SUDDENLY had to return to the base in 5 minutes from across the map. I didn't get there it decided the world ended because of this and offered me a new game plus..........I promptly gave the game the place in the recycle bin it deserved. Time limits + numerous side quests and no checkpoints/outside base saving = more fail than most could imagine.
Only if it's easy to lan and not the modernly retarded "must be online to play with person in same room as you!" system. The big lans I go to (2000+ people) STILL play COD4 and earlier because of the utter pain in the ass getting MW2 to genuinely lan. (I've done it but it really is such an annoyance to do that you'll never fill a server on it)
If only the PR team would give us more release date information. At this point I horrifyingly have a better idea of when D3 will be out than T2, not mention admitting that the 360 port is delaying the pc release was a poor move and likely cause much unneeded flaming. (That's where you usually lie and tell us you're "polishing" the game)
True but also the only long lasting developer with not a single non-AAA game to their name. AAA in result not production cost mind you. Say what you will about their slowness or anal drm, but there is no developer with a perfect track record like theirs.
@Majie
Still the way it is. Look Starcraft 2 or WoW. Blizz are pretty set on the expansion model. They might have made some unpleasant decisions lately but understand that the developers at Blizzard are very different than the CEO board at the Activision/Publishing end and because Blizzard brings in the "big bucks" they essentially get to set their own time lines and terms.
Everyone keeps asking for another Underground or Most Wanted but they don't listen. It's almost amazing how blatantly they can ignore what their entire fanbase is after and simply make each nfs worse and worse.
The complete lack of upgrades or car customization in recent versions is just one example, and now they're almost proud of that major mistake.
I have a 3 year old GTX 285 and can play most new releases on the highest settings so I don't quite buy what you're saying.
Good cheap trick to learn though? ALWAYS turn off Ambient Occlusion. It does nearly nothing for visual quality but more than halves your frame rate and is a complete waste of resources unless you're running an overpowered rig.
Are they insane? Reloaded proved that the 3D titles are garbage and we just wanted more 2D worms, but then a year later suddenly they're bragging about rereleasing the worst games in the series? Uggggh..........
Have you not seen FF13? It looks amazing on PS3.
Amazing to the point it took me a good 2 hours into the game to figure out how to tell the fmvs from in-game cutscenes.
If optimized in the same way I doubt it will look bad at all.
Hey hey guys now maybe....just maybe....let's keep going chunkier and like....like I dunno I'm talking crazy here....but release something that's a whole new campaign. And we can call it a.....err.....ex.....expansion waffle? No no....expansion pack.......that's right!
I'm forever torn that 15 years ago we were getting the right decisions that they don't have the brains to make today.
I would rather pay $20 for a whole new campaign, hi...
As so many have said, Avatar isn't even rendered in real-time. Each frame is rendered by dozens of systems in unison and each of those would have taken hours or possibly more for a SINGLE FRAME.
Also to whoever thought cinema resolution is higher than 1080p.........Size IS NOT EQUAL to resolution. Resolution is a completely independant variable and with simple use of your eyes you should be able to tell raw cinema film does not match 1080p resolutions by any means.
Depends entirely on how the engine is built to handle models and animation. If they designed it with cloth in mind (as most MMOs will do if they're smart) then they can use a "one model fits all approach" as they should have hanging, stretching and fitting dynamics in place at an engine level. (And I know large ears and things can cause issues but most devs ignore that as I know well from playing a Blood Elf in WoW whose ears almost always poke out of invisible holes in any give...
Raids are too exclusive. I want to do a quest? Great I can do that. I want to run a dungeon? Great I'll use the dungeon finder. I want to raid? Better join a popular guild, show up every week, sometimes not get a spot, sometimes get a spot but get no rewards, and wipe wipe wipe.
I can't say the difficulty is the main problem (I've gotten through some intensely difficult MMO fights by working as a cohesive team) but the fact that you cannot just raid when you feel ...
Heck, I'd even settle for a crouch button! Ezio, learn to duck one of these years eh?
As much as I adore the games I cannot stress how laughable it is that an "Assassin" completely lacks the ability to SNEAK or HIDE IN SHADOWS. A simple implementation of a sneak button would do logical wonders, and perhaps stop me from being spotted a mile away by a guard that shares Ezio's rooftop fetish.
*Sigh* Sony have repeatidly stated they intend for the ps3 to have a 10 year life-cycle, so you're still looking a few years into the future for the announcement/hyping/releasetit ledevelopment and a year after that for the actual release.
And really I couldn't be happier. I am an avid pc gamer and I actually thank consoles for making it so that games have kept the bar from raising too far and me requiring upgrades as often as I had to in the past. I also recently pur...
Learn the definition of a hoax man.
IT IS NOT A HOAX. The site ACTUALLY REDIRECTS. The only false part is that it is not EA/BF3 teams doing. It would be a hoax if nothing at all happened. This is not the case.
<puts down internet correctyness wand>
Man you're like a broken record saying that everywhere.
It's not about weapons, it's about PLAYSTYLE. Try the second boss with stealth and no, armour augs or emp shielding and you'll be crying like I did. I had to bunny hop and painkiller pop just to stay alive.
There needed to be multiple dispatch options for each style. There weren't.