Well you are sort of right. People made an illegimate criticism of the game (that there are women in it) and EA properly treated them with scorn. The problem is that, when other people made other, legitimate critcisms of the game, EA tried to paint them with the same brush and just said "no, you're really just sexist."
That said, I'm enjoying it as much as the best entries in the series (I've played each entry some other than 2142 and Hardline), and I...
Lol I love how the Eurogamer article feels the need to say "it's no Mario Kart." When people say things like that, I generally assume they've never owned a console that launched prior to 2005.
There's no world where this game is a 9+, just like it's ridiculous to say it's a 3. It's clearly a mediocre game. And I get that opinions are subjective, but there is a reasonable range in any given case.
The guy I play with pays no attention to games media, etc, and couldn't believe it when I commented that there was so much negative hype about the game.
It's a 6.3 that people are treating as a 2.5 because they expect a 9+.
@Gemmol
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Where are you looking? BTW when I define years one and two, I'm starting from March, when the switch launched. It wouldn't make sense to compare 2017 to 2018 directly, since it has been out all of 2018 but only part of 2017.
As much as I'd love to see it (Switch is fantastic, Wii was terrible), I don't see it if the sales pace keeps dropping off as it has for its second year compared to its first. And the first year had a mainline 3D Mario and a huge Zelda game (Nintendo fans have always acted like Zelda sells consoles to the mainstream, but this time it was actually true).
I honestly think it has largely become like a sports game. As in, "hardcore" people on here and other sites are almost totally distinct from the COD crowd, just like the Madden crowd is its own thing.
How many comments do we think are going to ignore the fact that this only measures sales during October, not overall, and that COD came out two weeks earlier in October?
You do realize COD came out significantly earlier in the month, right?
Because they dumbed the series down to capture the mass market. 2 has a significant cult-like following of people who hate all the overpowered skills and hand-holding 3-5 added.
Play Far Cry 2. Unlike 3-5 (which have the shoehorned rpg systems), it is just an open world shooter that you progress with by actually improving at the game, rather than getting a bunch of cheap, overpowered skills. Plus the AI is way better in 2.
Lol next we are going to get a DayZ release date. This is the definition of missing your window of opportunity.
Out of curiosity, what was your issue with 4? I found the base-building stuff to be terrible, but other than that it ran much better than 3, and unlike 3 it didn't feel like everywhere I turned my path was blocked by a mountain of debris.
Somehow they are failing to learn from TV. While one more centralized platform (Netflix) helped curtail piracy, the proliferation of TV streaming services has led to a rebound in piracy. While I can't say if piracy will be the result in the games industry, it is true that a single, strong subscription service (I.e. Game Pass) is a good thing, while a number of subscriptions specific to each publisher would be terrible.
Lol nice to see that the "call anyone you don't like 'entitled'" fad is returning for another go around.
@Strafe
That awkward moment when you care enough to try to actively convince people you don't care.
You might as well just ask the real question: do you own a PS4 or only an Xbox? The people who can't play the exclusive are obviously going to say the multiplat is better. This would have been like asking COD4 vs Halo 3 in 2007; obviously PS3 owners were all going to answer COD4, because that's the one they could play.
Preload wins again.
This series has gone downhill since 2, particularly after 3.