I didn't have an XBox but I played the PC version of Halo. I didn't know it was popular back then, and I would never have guessed considering how mediocre it was. I suppose PC gamers were spoiled by recent games like Deus Ex (for singleplayer) and Quake 3 (for multiplayer) at that point.
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Almost all your points are about the past, and those that aren't are either stupid or biased.
On topic: What does "biggest" game even mean? If it's sales it might be the biggest, but then I must ask two things:
- Who we care about sales? (Rhetorical)
- What other exclusives can 360 owners buy this fall?
I don't get what's so great about having a physical disc. They can get damaged, destroyed or simply go missing. Digital ownership has none of those problems.
That "you don't really own anything" argument is just being paranoid. I'm in no way afraid of losing anything I've bought on Steam. Fact is, I've lost many more physical games than digital games. I've lost zero digital games.
According to recent studies most people already prefer music online over CDs. Not saying it is so for games yet, but it might be sooner than we think.
Personally, I prefer owning games digitally as long as I can redownload as many times as I want. Like Steam.
That's because bandwidth and latency are two different things. Even if the entire world gets 100/100 broadband tomorrow cloud gaming will still suck because of the latency. Latency is the time it takes for signals to travel from client to server and back to client again. It can never be zero unless client and server is the same machine.
Please stop with this ancient myth. There's no problem to see the difference between 30 and 60 fps.
I only have one objection. You say you prefer one input device over another, but surely that depends on what kind of game you're playing?
Some games are better off with analog sticks. RPGs like Final Fantasy are in this category. Other games are better with the fast and accurate mouse along with the many keys on the keyboard. Shooters are games like Starcraft are in this category.
I am of the opinion that there's only two reasons why someone can p...
I will buy it if it gets an exclusive I can't miss. I don't think that's going to happen though. The relatively small upgrade in graphical power isn't enough to make me want a new system.
You already get games for cheap in the US. I hear complaining about 60$ all the time, but I've never heard complaining about 60€ which is considerably more. Where I live they cost 600 NOK which is 110 of your US dollars. I'm not complaining either.
I'm not disagreeing with the article though. Most people think games cost too much, and it would be interesting to see how would affect sales if they cut the price in half.
You must have misunderstood the battle system. Everything in the game could be beaten in less than 15 minutes, and even that much was rare. Most battles took 2-3 minutes or less.
The battles also had a rating system. Basically, if you got anything less than 5 stars you could have played better.
You are entitled to do whatever you want with it, but so are the developers that create it. If they want to reward the consumers who actually dump money into the gaming industry (read: those who buy it new) then that's their choice. The only thing you can do is boycott, but that doesn't hurt them any more than you buying it used anyway.
What are you talking about. Critics didn't hate FF12. It got 92 on metacritic. They didn't hate FF13 either. 83 is far from hating. You are simply one of the sheep in the herd known as the vocal minority.
That's what the disagree button is for. Disagreeing with opinions. What's stupid is disagreeing with facts, like what I just wrote.
Problem is vanilla WoW doesn't exist anymore after the Cataclysm. It changed the whole world for everyone, even for those without any expansions.
That was closer to the truth in 2006. Now it's not even close. The current startup zones (after the Cataclysm) are better than most singleplayer games. If you don't believe me, you can try it yourself for free soon apparently.
Yes, nostalgia is a very powerful thing. It makes people believe that their favourite games from 10 years ago are still incredible games by todays standards. The feeling is genuine and true, but our own brain fools us. Nostalgia is a psychological effect which we cannot willingly prevent.
FF7 is a good example. It was a revolutionary game for its time, but it is by no means an incredible game in 2011, and that's even when ignoring the outdated graphics. Many will surely...
The internet is only partly to blame. It's perfectly possible to have realistic expectations even though we get bombarded with hype from all over the place. Simply don't be weakminded. Don't let yourself get hyped up over nothing.
A good example is FFvs13. Practically no info at all has been revealed, but people are going crazy about it.
Why would get rid of the best combat system since FFX-2?
I disliked Halo before it even came out on XBox. (It came to PC first.) It was a very mediocre game imo. I didn't finish it.
If it hadn't been for the XBox release, the franchise would have gotten nowhere.
It was revolutionary for its time, but by today's standards it's nowhere near great imo. The combat in particular is way too simple and slow, not to mention extremely easy for the most part of the game. 'Attack' is the best option pretty much 100% of the time. The haters of FF13's 'Auto Attack' must also hate FF7.