I hope they get themselves a better engine, so they can boost the quality of their visuals and animation which is sorely needed at this point. With their successes in recent years, they can afford it.
"Actually, BioWare already severely limits your options in character creation- you can't pick a body type other than default, all you can alter is skin color/scars/face. This also doesn't apply to NPCs, which are premade models."
Dwarves and Qunari have very different body types, which is what I'm talking about, and every NPC has to be designed for that variable in mind. Armors and equipment also add to the variables. As far as real-time WRPGs, the only ...
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Most of what you're describing is extremely typical of the RPG genre. Character models and animations have to be lower in quality, as that technical compromise is the opportunity cost for the character creator and player character variations. You'll notice that the only RPGs much higher in quality in this aspect are where the main character and NPCs aren't based on a character creator (especially with different body types) and have highly diverse and interchange...
An actual SJW article would be calling the The Boss' outfit too slutty and how she's only powerful because she conforms to the patriarchy, or something. There's nothing wrong with pointing out that gaming has some awesome female characters.
I'd more attribute it to their clockwork schedule with the Assassin's Creed IP. There's only so much a Day 1 patch can do and I'm sure even Ubisoft realizes that.
They have the choice either to delay the game and polish it up, which means breaking their annualized schedule and missing out on optimal holiday-season sales. Or release the game as a mess, not provide any forewarning about it to ensure most consumers will buy it blindly, and fix the game as time go...
An embargo that lifts a few weeks before release shows confidence, to me, and games that have earlier embargo lifts are usually received well from my recollection. Evidently Ubisoft didn't have any confidence in Unity whatsoever, and didn't want reviewers to criticize the prevalent symptoms of rushed development too early.
Rather than spend the extra necessary time and costs to polish the game up so its technical quality meets basic standards, Ubisoft apparently would...
If a game is built around online multiplayer like Titanfall or Destiny, it's not ruined or spoiled by the very core concepts it set out to do. It's judged by how well it executed what it was made for, which is the online experience.
I think the camera pans out far enough most of the time, but I hope they include an option in an update so the camera doesn't automatically re-center on a party member when switching between them in the tactical view. That's the most annoying part, particularly when the battlefield is big.
I like the better status and positioning transparency of the tactical camera over Origins, so hopefully they can update in some usability improvements and make it better than Origi...
It's nothing less than a solid game. And it's a blast to play if you ask me.
Toxicity is inevitable in a medium where everyone has access to everything, and can say anything they want unfiltered without consequence or substantial social context. I try to ignore all the drama queens and trolls, because that's really all you can do.
I hope you're right. But I'm not getting my hopes up, since this is getting to the point where government is being appealed to.
I really just can't see this ending anytime soon, at any rate. People are obsessed with any sort of social statements they can perceive. I remember Bioshock Infinite getting criticized for Elizabeth being "naive" despite that it fits the character and pretentious drivel about how Elizabeth serving the "patriarchy" by g...
These writers and sites know very well what they're doing when they create articles like that. I'm less inclined to blame them and instead all the people who fall for it every time. The console wars are like a broken record.
I realize that common ground is not going to happen, as I said.
Anita and Friends are too indignant and biased to escape their narrow viewpoint that gaming is a sexist culture that diminishes and pushes out females. They're outright looking for reasons to be upset, from what I've seen of Anita's character analyses; it seems that any female character that shows a little skin or has character flaws is unfairly labelled a sexist trope. I realize how unreasonable and ...
"Do you know what happens when you listen to people who say "GEEZ, you all need to stop talking about people like Anita Sarkeesian and stop giving her attention. They'll just go away and this will all be over if you do"?"
So idiots and trolls making threats and then Anita and that whole crowd going to the government is the product of people ignoring them? Unrelated at best, and just the opposite at worst. The only thing this goes to show is that the ti...
It's been an upswing for the Wii U library at least, which I didn't see coming. Bayonetta 2, Shovel Knight, and Donkey Kong are GotY candidates for me and there's numerous other good games that have come out for the system this year. (I hope Fatal Frame V gets localized.)
I also really like Sunset Overdrive, Titanfall, Dead Rising 3, Transistor, D4, Killer Instinct, Shadow of Mordor, InFamous: SS, etc. Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is also actually pretty good, i...
It's in a blurry area. Many visual asset are completely remade, the lighting system is completely different, the UI is completely overhauled and is redesigned for dual-screens, and there are also new animations. Those things actually are remade, and not ported. Enhanced ports aren't characterized by remaking assets, especially to this extent.
Other areas like music, are the old versions with touched-up quality. There's also most of the character models and charact...
Korra looked like a cheap Activision game to begin with, though. The graphics aren't very lovely at all and look like the quality of a typical licensed game.
I'm not really surprised the game turned out the way it did, even though it's Platinum. The development cycle of the game was very short and I'm sure the budget was less than stellar.
Can't disagree with facts. It's not entirely remade in the exact same way OoT3D was. It is the exact same treatment.
It's new textures, smoother character models, and some special touch-ups in particular areas. MM3D is undoubtedly using many of the same assets from OoT3D, as did the original version of MM with OoT since Termina is an alternate world.
"but OOT was remade entirely & i think this shouldve been too.. What a shame.."
You're disappointed in the graphics compared to OoT3D? The new coat of paint in MM3D is the exact same treatment.
If you don't like the experiences that Telltale games offer, don't buy them. The gameplay is what matters the least, and people play these games for the same reasons people play visual novels.
Many people like these games and they know exactly what to expect from them. Consequently, they praise them and Telltale for filling the niche. That doesn't make them "overrated" or other conceited nonsense.
"Sorry but if you strip away the bi...