COD single player mode has been disappointing in recent releases. The mode is so damn short at around 4 hours that it is hardly worth it. You can beat it in a single sitting. I got burned once by buying a COD game only to beat it is a few hours. A rental is in order unless you are really into the MP. I am not sure why they still bother with their SP.
Sales matter unless it is MS you are talking about. They are a money printing machine, with Win 10 coming they will be drowning in cash. Whatever disadvantage they may be in sales they can make up for with lots of moneyhatting to "convince" devs and studios.
And does it matter? If x1 doesn't "win" they will still be fine, it isn't doing Wii-U bad, it is still selling allot. MS has infinite money too so they aren't going anywhere. I prefer the PS4 personally but still both are selling enough to get dev support.
It was given a bad rap because there was not much gameplay there (too many QTEs, re-used QTE boss "fights")and was really short. Those things are facts. I guess some could enjoy it but the flaws are still there.
The game was bad because the graphics were good? No the game was bad because it had too many QTEs, and was too short.
They said the PS4 is the only console that could do it at *that level of graphics fidelity*. The xbone could do it but would need some downgrades. The GPU is weaker in the xbone so it wouldn't look as good. There is no magic code including DX12 that can make up for the lack of shaders, ROPs, and compute units in the xbone GPU, it is just math.
@zidane1341
DX12 is a software upgrade, not a hardware upgrade. It will improve some things but the X1 GPU is still weaker. No amount of software is going to magically add ROPs, shaders or compute units to x1 GPU.
ANY game can run at 1080p given enough downgrades in other areas. Yes this could run on X1 but it wouldn't look quite as good, even with DX 12 as it is GPU intensive.
@babadivad
No it ran at 1920*800 which ...
I wonder if this will be worth it? I had a 360 last gen and switched to primarily PS4 this one so I never played uncharted. Are these any good or are they real short? Honestly the graphics look like "last gen+" and not a real PS4 game. The Tomb raider DE was a big improvement over last gen but this just looks slightly crisper.
Isn't it 1080p at least? The Wii U one was only 720p.
The cloud. So it looks like MS is slowly implementing their plans of "always online, deal with it" after all.
I still would like to be able to play things offline too though.
@dreadz : "Ya really why bother make and bring the api to XB1 then?"
Even if it didn't do much they would bring it as it makes game porting easier from PC etc. A unified API across platforms is easier to program for than all kinds of different ones.
@beans
A software API isn't going to make the weaker GPU in the x1 magically more powerful than a stronger one in the PS4.
It should improve the X1 somewhat but software can't upgrade hardware but only make better use of what is there.
As for the "cloud" that is great but not everyone wants games to be always online only.
And when it is a real game with real requirements the code could all come crashing down like those buildings. A demo in a set closed tightly tuned environment is one thing real games with real players all playing at once with differing connections etc. will be another.
If they pull it off good for them, we will see.
@beans
So you are admitting that always online is the future? Then why did xbox fans freak out when MS announced x1 would be always online? Then it was bad and now that it can be used to wreck some cartoon buildings it is good?
Oh now I get it, it is good now because x1 has a "cloud" compute game and Sony doesn't. It is just ammo in a console war.
And when the servers are eventually closed for that game (or any online only ga...
I guess you can only have one or the other then? The graphics must be crap in order for it to play well? That is not a good excuse really.
I just hope it won't be a nuclear bug bomb, but I am sure it will, it is Bethesda.
Now just add the option to play single player, offline, and I will bite on the disc version...
They say MP encounters will be rare anyway there is no reason for not having an offline option.
EA buys them out, puts the game on mobile, adds tons of in app purchases, then abandons it and doesn't update for newer Android/Ios versions rendering your purchase useless.
Actually eventually servers for these games will be down, FOREVER.
Once EA removes servers for these titles, and they will, your game is now useless forever.
When interest dies down and you can't find anyone online to play, the game is now useless.
Want to go back and play any online only game in a few years? good luck.
If it had a SP campaign you at least still could re-play that.
@WellyUK
That is wrong. People who want MP will stop playing a SP campaign in a week because it is BF or COD (for COD they stop playing in a day because 4 hours is all the campaign lasts). People who buy those know the campaigns are usually bad so they buy them for MP in the first place.
There are and were lots of FPS games that were bought for the campaigns when the time to make them right was put into them.
Because QTEs aren't fun. It isn't gameplay, a trained chimp can press a button when it's icon is flashed on the screen. They are even immersion breaking because you stop looking at the environment and just watch for that icon to pop up. I don't care what system they are on but QTEs suck. They are a lazy substitute for real AI and gameplay.