maelstromb

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This article is laughably absurd, as is the trolling website by which it is published. The logical answer here is a resounding NO. As others have stated, there are a litany of AAA games released in MUCH, MUCH worse states than that of TW3... In fact, I experienced nearly no bugs during my 237hr playthrough! And by the author's measure, what about Skyrim? Oh, that's right! It was GOTY, despite being a nearly non-playable bug-fest for many 6+ months after release (to this day many bugs ...

3682d ago 2 agree1 disagreeView comment

Zombies At My Neighbors meets Gauntlet? Looks promising!

3689d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

I've been keeping this game in my periphery for the better part of two years or so, patiently waiting to see the end result. Now that it's out and on sale, I'm SO freaking tempted to purchase it, but... with so many other games in my backlog (Wasteland 2 & Pillars of Eternity -- I"m looking at you!) and on the horizon, I'm not sure it'd be worth it right now. In other words, I'm asking if someone would be kind enough to offer a little convincing! The original ...

3690d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Those who missed out on this might want to check out another game available on Steam called Layers of Fear. Creepy as hell and very similar in style.

3693d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

Bethesda has managed to strip the very soul from Fallout by removing the most important aspects which made it stand out -- such as the deep RPG elements like the traits and skills system, quality writing, decisions that matter, etc. I'm all for adapting a franchise to make it more relevant to the times, but instead in its place, Bethesda has created a game centered around garbage-collecting, settlement design (implemented in the clunkiest way possible), and only the most simplistic of RPG...

3702d ago 4 agree5 disagreeView comment

This is excellent news considering how badly he fumbled up BioShock: Infinite. Some may consider it to have been a great game, but I liken it to Star Wars: Episode 1 in that it's the game that I'd like to forget ever happened. And it could even be inferred that his team, under his direction, in fact acknowledged they had crafted a world inferior to Rapture which is why the best part about the game was the DLC which returned to Rapture.

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Still remains one of my most beloved games of all time, and only superseded by its fine-tuned successor, Fallout 2. I will admit that upon first play in '97, I was less than impressed by the slow-pacing of the combat and the stiff difficulty. I revisited the game a year later after having gained massive interest in turn-based RPGs following an incredible experience I found in another legendary game called Final Fantasy VII. This time, there was an immediate attraction and fascination in F...

3716d ago 2 agree0 disagreeView comment

This comes as absolutely no surprise. I found the beta to be a shallow, unbalanced and repetitious exercise in tedium. Were it not for the huge Star Wars fan in me, I would have never given this a second look. Unfortunately, the lack of meaty content and the aforementioned issues, caused my interest to fade very quickly. Sadly, the long-term end goal here was always to appeal to the masses, and that approach has unequivocally been this game's undoing since the beginning -- as it included ...

3724d ago 14 agree4 disagreeView comment

lol... fanboy much?? Either that, or your comment is a joke.

3732d ago 3 agree4 disagreeView comment

Ohhh, I see! Definitely an oddly disjointed release on CDPR's part... not sure what happened there.

3743d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

What are you talking about? It's been for sale on Gamestop's site for a couple of weeks now.

http://www.gamestop.com/xbo...

The really perplexing part about it is that I never saw it once listed for PC despite what others have said. Only PS4 and Xbone. Even still, the physical Gwent bundle is a standalone package. Meaning ...

3743d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

Why does Microsoft continually do this? They parade forth with the "We love PC gamers!" and "We're committed to PC gaming!" and then we get this tired, disingenuous backwards BS about how one of their published games will never make it into the hands of PC gamers... Instead, it's new focus is said to be on the metrics of Xbox Live! usership as opposed to hardware sales, yet something stinks here when combined with the argument above. If Xbox Live! usership was impo...

3748d ago 1 agree5 disagreeView comment

Tried it for the first time last night. The good: game looks beautiful and it felt incredible (at first) to be back in a star wars fps (missing the Jedi Knight series immensely!).

The bad: frustrating, imbalanced, and overtly-chaotic gameplay creates an environment where aggravating insta-kills on spawn are frequent and far too common... this because the incredibly basic objectives aside, there's not much to do but run around the entire map like a maniac shooting at any ...

3760d ago 5 agree3 disagreeView comment

Can't wait for this, but it's a week away and still can't find the physical edition with the Gwent cards for retail purchase/preorder... Kind of strange. Anyone know where this can be preordered (other than importing a UK copy from Game)??

3765d ago 0 agree0 disagreeView comment

I think this has become a perpetual problem throughout the industry, but it's not specific to the games industry either... it happens in nearly every other entertainment market. We consumers hold out (for the best or worst), but we often give in to the hype because of marketing or opinions or gullibility or blind curiosity or all of the above. The blame also lies on entitled gamers though, too, because they have come to equate value with excess length/excess content over a well written st...

3771d ago 1 agree1 disagreeView comment

Oddly enough, I managed to beat these guys on my first try. Took me a while and it was an incredibly tense battle, but alas, I survived. Took out Ornstein first which made things much, much easier. I think the most difficult boss battle throughout the entire game for me was actually Knight Artorias (even though he was part of the DLC content). Holy hell... took me probably a solid hour to put him down.

3789d ago 2 agree3 disagreeView comment

That absolutely seems to be the case. Why can't these companies JUST.BE.BETTER.(?) and stop trying to gouge consumers for every red cent. Take CD ProjektRED for example -- A dev/publisher not without room for improvement, but one leading the pack and revolutionizing the industry simply because they still recognize the value in rewarding their consumer-base with a polished product, free quality content and frequent updates to their products; all the while maintaining an-ear-to-the-ground-a...

3794d ago 1 agree0 disagreeView comment

Square/Enix is quickly positioning itself as a dev/publisher consumers should be wary about... first this announcement and then the 'Augment Your Preorder' bollocks with Deus Ex: MD. These guys are quickly turning into the next EA Games ... AND because of this, they're ultimately ruining the excitement/anticipation I'm feeling (and many others) for two beloved franchises. Just when we thought micro-transactions were bad...

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It's a massive open world game... there are bound to be bugs, especially as new content as added. I suppose nobody called Skyrim "Patchrim" ... but maybe that's because of the utter lack of patched support the game received after its release, and instead the modding community had to address what the developers could not or didn't want to fix. The same can't be said here, at least.

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If that is in fact the reasoning, it certainly does not at all explain why she is then wearing a black leather arm-covering glove... If that were the case, I think a simple leather shooting glove would have sufficed.

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