Sure, but, out of curiosity, do you feel the same way about other games with MTs? Overwatch, PUBG, Shadow of War?
Because fine, if so, but I think for many the issue here is the pay to win aspect, the unfair progression system and the gambling aspect of crates. If they could fix that system so it was cosmetic only, wouldn't that just make it on a par with other games?
The squad system is the big thing for me. I actual like that they've experimented with taking out the ability to spawn on your squad, as it often led to immersion breaking cluster fuck situations around objectives in BF1 and the other games. It felt unfair. However, there must be a halfway house like officer placed spawn beacons. At the very least, they should allow you to opt to queue with your 'group' as a squad, and wait to spawn with them instead of randoms.
Honestly, I would sign this, but I can't imagine anyone but DICE making a really excellent Battlefront game. To be fair, they haven't done it yet! Which is worrying. All I, and I think many people, want, is a Battlefront game as good if not better than the latest entry in their Battlefield franchise. I enjoy Battlefront II, for arcade fun and they've got the look down amazingly well (Frostbite is an amazing engine), but the depth, scale and team-focus of the Battlefield games is l...
I completely agree that we should , in most cases, feel comfortable allowing classification systems to do their job to protect constituents. To be honest, I'm generally pro regulation/ oversight on consumer/ trading standards and don't believe that political power is necessarily corrupt. But I do think that anger and hate turn very quickly into frenzy, creating knee-jerk reactions and unbalanced pressure on the system.
Unfortunately, and ironically, we've seen ...
I'm not opposed to regulations to trading standards. But media censorship is a different thing entirely and I'm just pointing out that gamers should be careful that populist movements such as the anti-MT movement doesn't accidentally allow itself to get hijacked by the crowd that wants to control the content of creative media for socal reasons.
Good to read some interesting perspectives coming out on this topic. Hate is useful, to a point. But we do have to engage in conversation at some point about want we do want, rather than simply stating what we don't want.
With the turn to populism that we have seen in politics recently, it's quite right we should be worried about governments with agendas exercising powers over entertainment media. Remember how people like to blame violence on videogames? Watch games...
I don't like the way they've handled the MTs. It should have just been cosmetic. Was going to buy straight away, but instead I opted to drop less than 5 dollars on a single month of EA access so I could play the 10 hour trial and see how the game truly is to play and how bad the progression system actually feels.
In short, I've really enjoyed the 5 hours I've played. It's the best Star Wars shooter ever made on a technical and gameplay level and it'...
It's as if no one read the original article or could understand the point. No one. No one ever said there was too much violence in TLOU 2 or that it was blanket offensive. It was actually a well thought out critique of how publishers try and sell games using out of context violence, and, in this case, very gendered violence. Violence is great, but like jokes, you gotta THINK about it or you risk unwittingly reinforcing damaging social ideas that certain people get off on.
Discrimination is also stupid. Inequality is also stupid. Affirmative action, which is what many people see as the MO of SJWs (a 'stupid' name - as if 'social justice' is a bad thing?), is artificially pushing the scale in the opposite direction in the present, in order to achieve actual balance in the future. It's quite clever, really. While some feel the purpose is to punish the majority, it's goal is to naturally even out and expose more people to diversity over tim...
Just for reference this tweak guide for bf3 on pc can show you comparisons between LOW MEDIUM HIGH and ULTRA settings.
http://www.geforce.co.uk/wh...
As a PC gamer who spent months fiddling with BF3 to get the best image quality, gfx vs performance I can tell you the settings that really visibly matter are resolution, textures, AA and SSAO/HBAO. The lighting, effe...
I think it's one of those things that, seen out of context, looks pretty shaky right now. But when you read in to the development, they're making so many important infrastructure changes and adding 10x the depth to the basic gameplay. IMO, when it all comes together it's going to to be something very special. Very hardcore. Not as action focused. Maybe not what people who play a lot of the 'mod' and it's various iterations want. But it will deliver on the original sens...
not sure man. I hope so.
Very pleased to hear MS saw sense and realised the console market just isn't ready or willing for digital only sales like steam. There are potential benefits to a DRM, digital distribution system like steam, however, there is no evidence, none, that MS would have adopted that model. Actually, PSN looks A LOT more like steam given the open publishing for indie devs and support for all payment models. A fully digital Xbox Live would probably have been more like Origin, which is far more exp...
I was about to ask 'what's with the Spielberg/Lucas hate?' Then I looked up the stories.
Looks like people didn't see the full conversation with those two. Very few directors have actually been as positive about the future of videogames as entertainment than Lucas and Spielberg. For heavens sake, LucasArts adventure games pretty much popularised the story-based gaming genre!
You have to take their comments in context. They were trying to inspi...
Hmm. Possibly. Don't know what you mean by ugly looking exactly. But the light is quite harsh overhead... I'm still leaning towards yes... look at the eyes, hairline, etc. I mean, Abrams said he would put him on a bridge. Here is a bridge...?
Frankly, it's not really important, but I just thought it'd be cool if it was him.
1366x768 or 1600x900 at 40/45 FPS? Surely that'd be a fair compromise for some games - FPS title that need faster response. I play a lot of PC games and spend ages trying to find the best play-ability, gfx fidelity balance and most of the time I prefer to compromise between lower res, a very good AA solution, some sharpening and a decent 40+ framerate. I actually think in terms of responsiveness there is a bigger difference between 30 and 40 than 40 and 60. Also, the difference in AA qual...
As far as I can see, and this has been said many times here, the news that the PS4 and probably the next Xbox will be using modern PC tech is good for everyone. It means developers can finally start building games and engines that take advantage of hardware that exists in current gaming PCs. So potentially PC gamers get better quality games that take advantage of their hardware. PS4 gamers get to experience, to a greater or lesser extent, what all the PC guys have been going on about for year...
What's interesting is that violence sells so well in the first place. There's been a lot of good stuff written on it. The idea that it plays to part of human nature that is scarcely exercised in the modern, comfortable, western world. The idea of fighting for your life is instinctive. Evolutionary. We just don't need to do it for real that much any more. Games are one of the few places we can scratch that adrenaline itch safely and without doing harm to others - people enjoy it in...
Holy crap this looks amazing. Installing now. So glad I have a PC right now. The video has me laughing out loud, literally.
Need to put together a team.
Oh for goodness sake. Yes, large corporations oversee business dealings with other partners. Some of this will be creative, some business strategy.
Honestly, I'm starting to lose faith that many of the complaints about this game actually had anything to do with legitimate poor customer relations and consumer unfriendly design.
This is becoming a hate train. All aboard! What about George Lucas himself!? Even though he sold the company 5 years ago isn&#...