Yes, but critics are split on the new meta-direction the series takes as players spend most in-game time playing a mini-game on Gordon Freeman's PC, shopping for insane deals on last year's best AAA games. Another mini-game sees the player going onto virtual game forums and telling people they should "hurry up and get the deals now while they can" while reminding them to "never buy games for full price."
@georgeenoob
The differences between 720p and 1080p are not subjective. There is over 1 millon more pixels represented in 1080p, it is the whole concept of "Full HD."
Buy whatever console you like, play what games you like, but please stop trying to warp facts to support your preferences. It's absurd.
Saying that it's subjective is like saying that 1 millon is only subjectively less than 2.2 million. It is not at all logical...
Of the unreleased AAA titles you mentioned, only one is due out in 2014.
But yeah, the trolling is pointless, just buy all the machines with games you like. If a machine comes along you don't like, don't buy it. It's so simple.
This is cool and all but....what about that rumour that despite the strong game engine, this game's content has barely been started?
The argument isn't that sales are weak, they aren't. The issue is how many of us were skeptical about claims made by Microsoft that implied "sold through" numbers when we all kept seeing so much stock in stores and the individual country sales numbers added together fell like a million short.
This is all just speculation a lot of us do out of interest in the industry (not to mention corporate honesty. The ultimate oxymoron I know.)Then on forums like this w...
I am expecting a late spring 2015 release for UC4.
If essential: no. If not: yes.
The problem I have is that it extends way beyond 1080 vs 720 or 60 fps vs 30 fps.
In each case we are talking about an enormous difference in represented power. (To be honest, though quite a bit more powerful on paper the PS4 is seeing a disproportionate performance edge in most recent games, probably due to ease of programming.)
The frustrating thing is that sure, the games will be fine at 720 or 30 fps (though NOTICEABLY less good), but people act like tha...
@fanboybeatdown
Not so simple. The $500 units available are not strictly "retail." The come from profiteering resellers and only slightly more savy consumers even know they exist. Those same savy consumers are also experienced enough to be wary of retailers that sell over mrsp, a warning sign people have, rightly, come to associate with not only bad value, but also bad customer service and non-existent post-purchase support.
Also, you are assuming t...
Nooooooooooo!!!!!
Please stop this madness! FTP sucks. Period. I despise it.
This game is more like 4.5/5 except I had sound bugs during the last 20 mins that really sucked...even still it's hard to go lower than 4/5, the game is pretty amazing.
Yeah, the 3DS is actually selling really well, but their forecasts were too high.
I think part of what's happened is the window has opened for this game to be big. Before the pressure to go head to head with Forza was an issue, then the delay and Forza kinda fizzled for lack of content and IAP. Then came Gran Turismo 6, also kind of a fizzle... Last gen, IAPs.
Suddenly the delay seems a great Gambit, not releasing a broken game, but also releasing it during a quiet window and being this year's racing sim "saviour." It could entrench the g...
LMAO...that was special.
The question is more about the ability to produce them, for the time being. Production is definitely the bottleneck right now. The rest is pure speculation.
I think part of the problem is that when people read 30 fps they think about "30 fps" games that dip to like 15. Locked 30 is alright.
Yeah, I agree, they both are admirable creations and works of art, but I also felt the puzzles were kind of more puzzle-ish in Dev 6, no doubt in response to complaints about the supposedly vague goals of Year Walk. Yet, I found that my initial feeling that YW's puzzles were a bit too murky melted away and I started to realize *I* was on the Year Walk. A sort of stunning achievement. Immersiveness to the extreme. I do love Dev 6 though and it's an easier recommendation to those who wa...
I loved Device 6 but feel it's overrated. To me, Simogo's Year Walk had more impact. Both are like 9+/10 games, yet Device 6 which mechanically stunning and definitely gripping, lacked the gut churning impact of Year Walk. Especially going through the Companion "mission" after beating the main story...it had the great cinematic immersion element for me.
I dunno, both are amazing, but when I hear people calling for Device 6 as 2013 game of the year I just s...
Bit trip Runner 2 is better than TLOU?...
That's the well past the line that says that GOTY is subjective.
TLOU obviously deserved the wins it received, despite there being other contenders worthy of consideration.
That said, I'm growing a deep hatred for "gaming journalism" and have come to expect that more than 50% of articles are absolutely devoid of journalistic merit and are rather clickbait editorial pieces featuring o...
Exactly my thought. This is only about *when* it's launching on Sony platforms, not *if*.