Lets not forget that alongside a new character, 2 new maps, and an Arcade mode, they are also saying they are going to make some major changes to Symetra hero as well, to make her more powerful on Attack rather than purely used as Defensive. They have not said what changes yet as they are still trying to figure out how to do it, but have hinted they may completely change her weapon/abilities to something new if that is what is needed to make her more involved in attacking games.
Its not just on the timing of the release........ its also on the BETA that they launched. A lot of people are basing their spending on that and were let down. It is the single player (that the BETA didnt show) that is getting rave reviews, but people use the BETA as a demo to get an idea of a game and felt that it didnt live up to what they wanted.
At the end of the day putting it into direct competition with BF1 was not a great idea, and to then effectively sell the game...
New IP's are being craved by gamers all the time, but they want IP's that are polished, worthy of the price and has longevity.
What Evolve was, was an attempt to create a new Left4Dead franchise, with co-op players taking on a Monster rather than mutant Zombies. And it could have worked as it was (and is) a good concept that had some great ideas.
Unfortunately, there were also some niggling issues, it felt too "samey" in every level design and overall the...
The Beta guaranteed poor sales. People rated the Beta as poor or average at best, and that doesn't make people fork out top price AAA game money.
If the Beta was like Battlefield 1 and made people say "Actually, its pretty cool" or "Its a lot better than I thought!" then they would buy it and word of mouth would spread to more people buying it. But when people that try a Beta before launch think its nothing more than average or frustrating, and they tell peop...
Its going to be COD, set in WW2, with exo suits that allow the Nazi's to scale 10 meter high buildings, and if you manage to kill a Nazi with their own Luger, you unlock a Messerschmitt equipped with laser cannons and a Plasma bomb as a Killstreak!
Kevin Spacey plays a general who can time travel...... and Justin Bieber is being digitized into the game and will play as the team-mate that runs around holding nothing but a grenade launcher, but apparently his role in the game is g...
I feel its 5 years too late! Its pretty clear its going to lag in performance with X1/PS4 stakes, its going to be right there with X360 in terms of gameplay quality so using it on the big screen as a traditional games console is going to blow for most current generation console owners, because they will feel like they are buying an Xbox360/PS3 mini with cheap add-on joysticks.
And as a handheld device, it doesnt look any different to an iPad, only with less options that an iPad has....
To be fair, I do get where you are coming from and I am an addicted Overwatch player, and I will tell you why.....
When I bought it, I thought it was an okay sort of game, a bit of throwaway fun for a couple of hours. By the time I got to level 15 I was getting a bit bored of it and thinking maybe it wouldnt hold me that much longer. But then I read online how if you get to Level 25 you unlock Season Mode for the Season 1 tournament and curiosity more than anything made me ...
For those clearly not reading and claim they are being investigated for the game crashing..... they are not, they are being investigated for advertising. This means they are looking at whether the studio claimed in advertising material/box art/official gameplay footage on their own Youtube channel, etc, shows features that were not in the final game, whether graphics were artificially improved for the trailers/footage only, whether creatures were shown to be more advanced with their AI and gr...
Real life gets in the way as you get older and spending a fortune on a nice rig and then updating it regularly is just time consuming and costly when you got mortgages to play and kids who turn into teens who want to play their own games.
Its easier to buy a ready made, all in once console and then play loads of games quick and easy when you want to, without worrying about specs, and then when your 13 year old wants to play minecraft and stuff with his mates, he can go straight on a...
There is a very good reason cross-play between PS4 and XB1 has not happened before and it comes down to one console owner looking crap against another. If XB1 connects every time, smooth to run, etc but PS4 has issues, glitches and gamers are getting spanked by the opposing console gamers, it is a public relations mess for the company with the faults, especially with media sites like this.
Minecraft is different. Minecraft is a massive, console selling franchise and it is ...
You could announce you are giving every person in the comments section a $50 XBL/PSN gift card and you would still get several disagrees!
To be honest, Overwatch is just a modern update of Shadowrun mixed with Team Fortress! In fact there are so many similarities to Team Fortress in most of their character traits that I am half expecting a "Scout" character in enemy camouflage to turn up in the next update!
But having said all that...... some of the best ideas are copies of older ideas and updated and tweaked to be better, and we were long overdue a Team Fortress successor for nearly 10 years now. ...
What a lot of fuss about nothing...... a crap game in 4K is still a crap game whether it has a better resolution or not!
Modern gamers are so stupid when they argue over the number of dots on a TV screen rather than whether a game is actually worth playing or not! Take NO MANS SKY for example...... everyone prattling on about resolutions and 60 fps, exclusivity, and so on..... then when it comes out its like "Oh my god, the game is nothing like as good as I thought it ...
When you want to find examples of moronic stupidity for your dissertation, are you allowed to quote N4G comments as viable sources? Asking for a friend!
"most of those games are free to play and not even full games just episodes." -- A typically moronic, argue-for-the-sake-of-it N4G commentator.
I owned that joystick!!!! And it wasnt that good, it would get too floppy with overuse and struggle to make the contact points touch! a smaller one was far better and stiffer for swerving in Sensible Soccer goals or playing Geoff Crammonds GP!
ZX Spectrum +2 was the big games machine of the day, everyone I knew had one but when I bought it the damn tape deck was faulty and you had to keep your finger pushing down the PLAY button on the tape machine, It was 8-10 mins of loading hell ...
Take everything fan-based out, and if this early preview is a reflection of what media reviews are going to be like, then it will flop massively commercially and the extensive time taken to develop and constantly push it back will not be well liked when the sales figures show it bombed. Someone is gonna get fired from this!
That is in no reflection on the fact that some gamers may love the game, but games these days cant cost millions to develop for years and years and onl...
I remember a time when people got hyped about the game more than they cared about the number of pixels, textures and framerates of it.
Gamers have it so fixated on the tiniest irrelevant stuff while console manufacturers laugh in your face and pay out $15 Billion for Minecraft because the MAJORITY of people go for gameplay over smoke particle effects!
PS4 Pro is all about one thing and one thing only, giving a better VR performance for when Morphious launches, because anyo...
How about £30 ($50ish) for the game, all DLC included as free, no more Premium Season Passes and we stick a 30 second Youtube style advert on the loading screens so A) we have something to watch rather than sit staring at the same background screen for the best part of 30 seconds between each match, and B) it helps pay the developers to keep costs down and make big revenue from long term gameplay and high gamer numbers?
Didn't think I would enjoy this game but I have so far. It actually feels more realistic. It is also incredibly easy to play as a newbie as I have been getting 20:2 K/D ratios with it and I wouldn't consider myself a AAA-star gamer nor do I camp and kill with a sniper, I get in there with a Medic or Assault. My point is that as long as you are careful and not rush into open areas, you can pick up several kills without dying and is forgiving to new players who have never played FPS muc...
A PS4/X1 version of L4D3 with 6-8 player co-op (instead of 4) and plenty of varied campaigns, characters and weapons would be a huge win for the studio. Even better if the characters had unique but subtle abilities, like one has more health, another has slightly faster sprint, another can move faster with heavy weapons, another has slightly better accuracy with sub-machine guns, etc, subtle but similar to real life where everyone is slightly better at differing things.