While I think it's important to keep an open mind when it comes to new technology, I agree with you.
It worries me even more that even DESPITE the circumstances under which they're giving their impressions, some of them still manage to sneak some honesty into their descriptions:
"The haptic feedback was going crazy, but I'm sure they'll address that. The controllers we were using were literally fresh off the 3D press."
I'm not saying NOT to be optimistic about this controller, but as we learn almost every generation, it is almost always unwise to take the word of early adopting developers seriously when it comes to new technology.
Haptic feedback has been attempted in MANY different applications over the years (including smart phones), and despite claims from almost ALL of its proponents that it provides a tactile response similar to a physical switch...it never really has. Technology h...
Yeah, it's like having two trackpads on a controller...you know...those things on laptops that people don't want to use so they buy USB mice?
Obviously we're all still going to TRY it, but right now, I can't say I have high hopes.
Of course we have a right not to buy it. That's what makes it exploitation. It's a business tactic that preys on consumer superficiality to make sales.
It probably is, honestly, but I think that's the point...
ALL the characters are some of the worst American stereotypes imaginable.
You can concede that something is exploitative AND agree that it should still be allowed to exist.
Censorship is almost universally immoral, but it's also important to acknowledge when something exists solely to finagle a few shallow bucks out of the masses.
The texture upgrades are beautiful, but the more "realistic" lighting effects belie the game's cartoonish aesthetic. It gives Link and the rest of the cast too much dimension and roundness, making them look less like cartoons and more like little clay models.
It looked much more natural and coherent in the original, in my opinion. If they had left out the bloom effect (I mean, it completely OBSCURES FACES at some points in the game) and that god-awful SSAO, it w...
Now that I've put a few hours into it, I have to say that I much prefer the art style of the original.
The bloom is absolutely obnoxious, the SSAO is handled very, very poorly (shadow "auras" all over the place), and everything just seems to be a bit more...three dimensional and plastic looking.
Still, all the other little tweaks are great, the touch screen features are actually very useful, and the core game is still one of the best in the seri...
I gotta agree with MestreRothN4G.
There have been a COUPLE of good F2P (and keep in mind, that's a couple out of hundreds), but the fact that this is Capcom leads me to the assumption that the decision to go F2P was one of exploitation, not of accessibility.
We're most likely going to see monetized character progression, barebone weapons and equipment, locked dungeons etc. etc.
F2P almost always means that a game has been hacked to d...
I don't think anyone is saying the game is UNBEATABLE without resorting to the auction house...only that not using it made the game ridiculously grindy and unfun.
I've been replaying it on consoles with a couple of my buddies, and I'm having a much better time, honestly.
You would enslave her in a ball, and use her for violent, wanton battling for the rest of her natural life?
It's true. But "misogyny" has become such a hot-button issue that no one really pays any attention to anything else...
Yeah, that's what really sealed it for me. In the interview he said it would only be "fun stuff" that will come in the form of microtransactions.
No thank you. That "fun stuff" should be unlockable through gameplay if I'm paying fifteen bucks a month already.
There is a backlash over this for the simple fact that people have, over time, been conditioned to look at reviews as a form of "cheerleading," when in reality, they exist solely to present perspective.
A woman playing a game that contains violence towards women may very well be more sensitive to that sort of thing than a man. While we, as men, don't necessarily have to agree with or relate to that sentiment, it still presents us with a perspective that we would...
"Everyone I have ever talked too who has played it (forums and work/former school) ALWAYS had a problem with it."
...I find that very, very hard to believe. Even if by some weird coincidence it WAS true, though, it doesn't change the fact that the overall consensus is overwhelmingly positive when it comes to this game.
It's true that it's pretty standard MMO fare as far as structure and combat goes. Ability-based timed battles are nothing new to MMO's, and questing is going to be the same "kill X amount of Y" or "collect X amount of Y" that has been in...I think literally every MMORPG ever made...
If you're going to buy it, it will pretty much be because you want to play an MMO with all the polish and bells and whistles of a classic Final Fantasy game. Yo...
People were complaining about what a ridiculous beefcake character Marcus Phoenix is all the time. I remember it vividly....
The simple fact of the matter is that the femanazis have become so obnoxious, that it's just second nature for gamers to react to their accusations and ironically ignore what the real issue is.
Women are oversexualized in video games to the point that it stifles creativity and artistic design. The actual "sexualization of women...
...I am a real man. I like looking at female sexiness just like any other heterosexual man.
But I DON'T necessarily want that when I'm playing a game designed to sell me on an artistic vision. If something seems like it was shoehorned in for the sake of shallowly appealing to a specific demographic (as sexuality so often is), then yes, it offends me not as a man, but as a consumer.
All that being said though, this particular example isn't as ridic...
It's NOT sexist. It pisses me off to no end that overtly sexualized women in video games are so often looked upon as a form of sexism.
It is, however, an indication that developers would rather sell sex than preserve their artistic integrity. That's the real issue here...
I have always found it funny how socially acceptable it is to get hopelessly obsessive over sports, and yet gamers STILL have to put up with negative stigma's for pretty much the same behavior...just towards video games instead of sports.
And then what's REALLY funny is that sports games magically do not fall under the same stigmas.
At my work, people will literally talk about Madden 25 ALL day...and that is not an exaggeration. They talk about the ga...