Adding high res textures and playing games in some super high resolutions is kind of like putting a sports car spoiler on your Prius: it just looks ridiculous.
I honestly do not understand the obsession with super high resolution textures and sharp edges on everything. Look around. Reality does not look like that. Even with perfect 20/20 eyesight things aren't this sharp. Textures, shapes, patterns don't burn into your retinae when you look at them as if they were m...
From what I've seen so far, some of the weapons wouldn't exactly fit in a deathmatch environment. Crossbows, sniper rifles and the like work best in games for preteens and fairies, like COD or BF. Then again, they did have some kind of sniper rifle in UT and the stake gun in PK was kind of like a crossbow. Random spread, reload and ironsights would have to be dealt with, though, as they have no place in a true DM game. On a brighter note, strafe jumping works fine.
Sure. Just like they're currently avoiding multiplayer-heavy PC games without dedicated server support.
I'm judging DICE's skills based on the entire Battlefield franchise, starting with BF1942 which I played competitively for a period of 2 years. Their games always play like betas, they never fix the most important issues - just move onto developing another BF game, the physics are always crap, there are always problems like being able plant things through walls / see through solid objects, the net code is always seriously borked and there are always huge issues with hit detection. So ...
It was the only game from DICE that didn't play / feel like an early beta exactly because it used the Unreal engine instead of their shoddily designed, buggy, proprietary engine.
Oh, probably just testing the waters. Checking what the PC players' reaction is going to be to a game that doesn't let them modify the graphics settings. Since they've announced a patch, it's safe to assume that it doesn't look pretty. For now.
Eventually, though, people will learn to accept it, just like they've learned to accept the lack of dedicated servers which they are now thankful for, whenever they're included, as if they were something s...
WOW isn't F2P. I don't play the game, but from what I remember, you should be able to hit the "F2P" level cap in one evening. It's just an extended trial. Talk to me when they actually do make it F2P, which they won't.
Online FPSes are not a very good comparison; you play the same game, you play the same maps etc., sure, but opponents, their tactics and behavior change and adapt constantly and that's what keeps people playing. In WOW you're...
lodossrage, what exactly do you base your assumptions on? Wouldn't it be more plausible to think that the reason people are leaving WOW is that, you know, maybe, after 7 years of playing the same thing they're finally getting bored?
What F2P MMOs are out there that offer a similar level of polish, amount of content to a game like, say, RIFT, WOW, EVE? Sure, there's LOTRO and there's EQII. LOTRO is actually really good and if you grind hard enough you could p...
"Pardon that imprudent question, but when a man is drowning in a sea of *identical* first-person shooters, may he question the next bucket?"
I'm not sure about anybody else, but having a lot of options when choosing a product, a game, a movie never really bothered me that much. Quite the opposite, in fact. I do like to have as many options as possible and I don't really understand why anybody would consider it a bad thing.
The problem is...
You mean people are getting bored with playing WOW clones over and over again because, save for some indie devs, no one has the balls to release a product that's even remotely innovative? Unbelievable.
"Battlefield 3 however has had a complete revamp of its game engine"
No it hasn't. What kind of bullshit is this? Yes, the game is prettier than ever - nobody can deny that. No, the engine hasn't undergone a COMPLETE revamp in the span of 1.5 year.
It should be apparent to anybody with a shred of a clue about FPS gaming that just like the newest CODs are still based on bits and pieces of idTech 3 from over a decade ago, BF uses pieces of...
So? I don't know when you bought these games. For the record, they both came out in 2008, which makes them 3 years old now. A game that came out 3 years ago is old, so is a game that came out one year ago. You bought two old games, one of them really bad, so it was even cheaper than the other one. Give yourself a pat on the back there. Guess what - normal game stores run sales too when they want to get rid of games no one buys anymore. And shit like this has been going on for centuries to...
What? Save for indies, semi-indies (games that aren't exactly AAA titles) and old games, everything on Steam is priced at 50, sometimes even 60 euros. How exactly is that "cheaper than ever?" Do explain.
That's exactly what they cost in actual, physical game stores, where I get them on DVDs (saves me the time needed to download them), with manuals, printed maps, posters etc.
Digital downloadable services were supposed to make games chea...
Where's the "who gives a crap?" button so I can vote too?
Get back in the kitchen.
So sexeh. Finally we get something that doesn't feature "modern warfare," a breath of fresh air.
Some people have no sense of humor whatsoever. Some *cough*Kotaku*cough* want to make themselves look so sophisticated they pretend no kind of toilet humor would make them laugh, which usually backfires and makes them look like humorless douches. Only srsbsns here, move along.
It looks depressingly anemic when played using a pad.
I hear that "other video game franchises" is not the only thing that the COD brand is actively sucking.
You assume wrong; haven't had anything to do with consoles since SNES. High res textures in so-so looking games have been around for ages and they're not progressing anything. It's just that I seem to be one of the very few gamers who prefer well designed and thought-out art coupled with fluidity of movement / animations over platicky-looking, lube-covered environments filled with high-poly lifeless mannequins.