Most online games like Destiny have a much, much larger, more varied amount of content to start off with.
I'm enjoying the game too, but the amount of content and way loot is distributed doesn't justify playing much beyond the main story to me.
It's not an MMO. MMO's have quests, actual npc's with dialog, more that one city, multiple story lines, etc, etc...
I agree with the article 100%. When Destiny was first announced, I imagined an FPS elder scrolls type of game. Open world, various towns or settlements to help portray and elaborate on the lore, and characters to drive home the emotions of inhabitants in the world.
Upon playing the beta, while I really enjoyed the gun play, I found that the game offered none of what I was hoping it would be. Oh well.
Story and world was the whole draw for me. Pass.
I have to believe it's an easy win for Uncharted. I enjoyed Tomb Raider, and it had more variety in the gameplay, but imo Uncharted has much more interesting stories, much better dialog and more likeable characters. Nobody beats Naughty Dog technically either.
Of course the parents can't control everything. What they can control is their child's access to potentially harmful activities. Parents need to use some common sense, which is not at all common.
Before they allow a child to play online a parent needs to ask, what is the content like? Who is likely to be playing? How old is their child? What's their maturity level? Do they know how to recognize inappropriate behavior and how to deal with it? Etc etc.
I couldn't care less about an EA subscription service. I plan to buy Dragon Age: Inquisition. I'll pay full price for it. I will own it. I don't need to pay $30 dollars a year to rent games when I buy less than one game a year from EA in the first place.
What I would have liked to see is more of what I feel the game was made out to be. A game with a large expansive world, which would include multiple cities, interesting npc's with histories and quests, a strong story, etc. None of that seems too likely now.
Ubisoft always manages to make AC games look good, but after Black Flag I kind of made a decision not to buy any more of these games. Ubisoft hasn't fixed the extreme repetitiveness, Black Flag didn't have a very good story, and despite Edward's life of stealing and murdering merchants, they kept trying to tell us what a good man he was. ACII:Brotherhood was the last one I actually liked.
I don't think the comparisons are valid. He picks one scene, day and light streaming through the trees, and the other is night, with wide open sky and nothing to stream light through. Then compares two bosses, one with puddles and glowing eyes, the other a iron knight 5 times the size. Not every boss is going to be glowing with magic.
Both games look on the same caliber to me, DSII is supposed to have improved lighting and that's good enough for me.
It's funny that Alethian gets so many uninformed disagrees despite the fact that he's obviously well read, states his opinions clearly and concisely with facts to back them up, and that he is absolutely correct.
In the USA, with few exceptions, Republicans = corporate interests, Democrats = unions & other special interests, and neither care about the health or interests of the American people.
They use these groups as a means to get elected and ...
Good call.
A conservative has nothing to do with religion, though it's largely considered "conservative" when you're religious because I suppose some general values are similar.
However, a true conservative is somebody that wants to conserve The Constitution, what it represents, and what it does for this country. We conservatives know that the strongest force for liberty and freedom, is The Constitution, and that's why when our own government seeks to undermine an...
Yes, a State Convention is our only hope to retain any liberty at this point. Once power has been seized by a central power, it will never relinquish it, and the tyranny of this federal government is becoming more evident every week which is why Article V is so tremendously important. It allows us to take back power and place it in the hands of the states and closer to the people where it belongs, and most importantly out of Washington and those power hungry career do-nothings.
He's wrong. Most of the people buying an expensive new console this early in the cycle know what they're buying and why they're buying, the PS4 is winning because it has the more powerful hardware and MS turned off a lot of gamers earlier this year.
Even parents don't just walk into a store and go "I'm looking for a new gaming console... wow, the PS4 is $100 dollars cheaper? I'll take that!" That has to be a very small percentage of people. ...
1 - 14 seem like no brainers because many were already on the PS3. Things like the ability to have a more detailed profile are also a great idea.
Nothing Cerny said was even remotely immature or low. He simply stated a fact as he sees it, and it wasn't even a bias, Microsoft HAS spent much more time pushing the TV and third party aspects than Sony has.
If Microsoft hadn't been so focused on those things, spending hundreds of millions for NFL contracts etc., maybe they could have spent more on their GPU so that it was closer to the PS4. That isn't Cerny's fault but it shows that Microsoft's focus is ...
...and not even 1/6th of owners will buy a COD game, what's your point?
Sony exclusives are a big draw for a lot of people, just like MS exclusives are popular among other people.
Just because a game doesn't sell to a majority of owners doesn't mean it doesn't sell well or move units.
It sounds like the author needs to start being more selective in the games that he chooses to buy and play, rather than just picking up anything he sees.
I'm for quality over quantity, and I won't buy a game at full price that I can't get at least 40 hours out of on the first play through. If the game can't keep me interested for that long, then I assume it was me that made the bad choice. I'm really good about buying only games I know I'll like thoug...
Dragon's Dogma was one of the best games of last generation, but even so, did it qualify as AAA? There was basically no marketing for it, and I don't think it had a very big budget.
Even so, VGchartz has it at over 2 million copies sold so I'm very hopeful :)