Regardless of this trials outcome, Activision are the real losers in this. They've lost their two most talented developers, the fact so many IW members jumped ship with them speaks louder than any words about just how talented West and Zampella are. Activision can only keep churning out mediocre sequels based on the engine they created for so long and it's clearly obvious they haven't got anyone working on it who is talented enough to take the series forward.
Mate if it was a true collection they'd be giving away like 30 different street fighter games.. milking ftl.
It's a LOT better than the GRAW games. Tom Clancy brand was destroyed though a long time ago. Long gone are the real tactical days of games like the original ghost recon and raven shield.
They'll talk next gen maybe even have a few tech demos if we're lucky but we won't actually get to see the consoles or live demonstrations until next E3. Fall 2013 sounds about right for the next gen consoles imho.
Why is it nobody actually mentions the fact the game is just garbage? It's not SF, it's not Tekken, it's the bastard love child of both and neither at the same time. Many street fighter players have no love for the high combo strings other games have.. I for one never expect to have something ridiculous like people keeping combos going by bouncing me off the ground with their elbow in a street fighter game.
Also the game is the worst spectator game in the fightin...
I blame the voice actor, they could have given him a decent sounding voice as opposed to making him sound like someone who is just going through puberty.
They made a sequel, the intro made it look like it was aimed at 10 year old girls.. can't comment on the rest of the game, it immediately got taken back to the game store after the intro ended.
Surprised Microsoft didn't want to save this for a surprise unveiling at E3.. could potentially be a big game if it's given the appropriate attention.
Almost certainly will be selling Dante alternative looks to appease the emo bashers.
Let this be a warning sign to all those shitty MMO developers or investors who are deluded into thinking they can create a WoW clone and share it's success.. if a game with the Star Wars IP fails, what chance do other games have?
Bioware should have stopped looking at what made WoW successful and instead making a unique MMO designed to be different. Instead we get a decent story driven game with a poor man's WoW clone for endgame.
The old republic feels like an online version of KOTOR tbh. Bad MMO but a great sp game with mp functionality.
They certainly need a few aces up their sleeve tbh if they want to make their next console take off. Seeing as it's people like on n4g who are the likely early adopters of the next gen console, Microsoft has a lot of convincing to do to regain a lot of their former fanboy's faith.
Ironic really, my biggest complaint with xbox 360 online is that there wasn't dedicated servers.. now that companies have started bringing them into the console experience, people are whinging that players have too much control.. you can't win.
It wouldn't surprise me tbh if idiots were abusing them but this is why PC gaming offers a superior mp experience.. many server admins build communities around their servers so they do their best to be the best admins they can be.. you just don't get that community spirit usually on xbox live at least.
Really liked the xbox version of "If I ran" but you really wouldn't announce the PS4? I think it's almost essential for both Sony and Microsoft to talk next gen and what new things we can expect.
With the amount of hype this is getting, Arena Net are going to be kicking themselves for going with the f2p formula. No game has came even remotely close to generating as much hype for this game since WoW's release and honestly, the hype reminds me of what WoW was like leading up to it's release.
The MMO genre has grown stagnant because every developer is not only trying to copy WoW's success, but WoW itself and they all fail.. those new MMOs offer "that new, dynamic, feature-rich worlds and characters" are simply put, WoW clones and poor WoW clones at that.
As my friend said.. "why bother playing SWTOR endgame when I can play WoW which offers exactly the same but much more better, polished and varied".
What I would like to see...
Is FF Versus really all that anticipated? With Square Enix's current run of form, I have little faith it'll be up to the standard set by former FF games.
Thank us by using the beta to improve the actual game as opposed to using it as free advertising as many companies do. Connection issues to games, dropping out of games and even had a spawning issue.. thank us by resolving them.
Lol Hogs of War was AMAZING though.. Rik Mayall was fantastic in it. If Matt Berry can come even remotely close to doing voice overs as good as him, then I'd consider Worms a success.