Well, they have Gears 3.
Versus Gran Turismo 5, Little Big Planet 2, Killzone 3, Motorstorm: Apocalypse, Last Guardian, inFamous 2, ICO collection, Resistance 3, and Uncharted 3.
Think of all the money that 360 owners get to save next year compared to PS3 owners.
First of all, not everybody has their console connected the web. People who for whatever reason are offline are getting the shaft when developers release broken games with the idea of patching it later.
More importantly, though, why should those of us who buy the game on Day One have to serve as beta testers for the first couple of weeks? Fans who guy a game on release should be able to put the game in their console and have it work properly. Obviously in a gigantic game...
Exactly. Bubbles.
"Best Games of this Generation" don't stutter and freeze, they don't corrupt your save files, and they don't have game-breaking glitches.
I don't mind little bugs and glitches here and there. Those are to be expected in any big, open-world game. What I do mind is when my console freezes up for no apparent reason. No excuse for that.
This game doesn't deserve better than a 7.5. It's a technical mess right now, and any reviewer who doesn't adjust the score accordingly is just being irresponsible.
If I could rack up a bunch of 8s and 9s for a buggy, freezy game using a four year old engine, I'd be delighted too.
Maybe that's how you would like games to be scored, but that's not what most reviewers actually do. Most of them hand out scores like
10 = A. Excellent
9 = A-/B+. Very good.
8 = B-/C+. A little above average.
7 = C-/D+. A little below average.
6 = D-/F+. Not good.
Below 6 = total failure.
There a few outliers there who don't score this way and who use more of the 10-point scale (like Edge, fo...
I'm more than happy with the current generation of games. Improved graphics would be okay obviously, but not a pressing matter for me. I'd rather get a few more years out of this cycle first.
I moved on from Bad Company 2 a long time ago, but $15 is a really good deal for this. If those 4 new maps are anywhere near as good as Arica Harbor, Port Valdez, etc., then Dice deserves a lot of praise for releasing a good expansion pack at such a low price point.
Edit: LOL @ the author calling it a "skin" of Bad Company 2. Since when do new maps qualify as a skin?
Even worse, imagine if this was a PS3 exclusive. Like, let's say Resistance 3 comes out and looks identical to RFOM, except that it freezes your console every couple of hours and occasionally corrupts your save data. Oh, and it constantly hiccups whenever you're walking around in an open area.
I'll bet we wouldn't be seeing many reviews talking about how awesome the story is and handing out 9s.
I agree that Kinect is going to sell pretty well. Among casuals, not core gamers.
Kinect is targeted at the Oprah demographic.
Wouldn't surprise me. It's hard to come up with any innocent explanations for why this game got any scores above an 8 anywhere. It's semi-broken and looks like it was made in 2006.
A better analogy would be like a Ferrari that only starts half the time, randomly turns itself off sometimes when you're stopped at an intersection, and with brakes that sometimes fail at speeds above 25 mph.
I guarantee you that Obsidian did not spend six months looking for bugs in this game. People are reporting freezes, hiccups, and framerate drops right within the first hours of playing. These kinds of problems are impossible to miss.
Of course, it's also possible that Bethsda/Obsidian knew that its game was slightly broken and decided to release it anyway. (See Fallout 3, GOTY Edition).
Stuff like this doesn't bother me that much. What I'd like to see fixed are the hitches, the random framerate drops, and the freezes.
So far, I've found New Vegas actually to be WORSE than Fallout 3, which I didn't think was possible. I had a few freezes in FO3, but NV is already laggy as hell and I'm barely 3 hours in.
A few glitches are fine. RDR had its share, and they didn't stop it from being a great game.
But that's not what we're talking about here. F:NV suffers from choppy gameplay, random dropped framerates, and freezes/crashes. That's inexcusable.
Demon's Souls 2, please.