Wow, I completely agree yet you got a bunch of disagrees. Apparently the idiots have no retort but they'd rather cover their eyes and ears and continue buying into the graphics over gameplay crap.
I fear that while some devs want to make truly remarkable games it's the idiots who disagreed with you that will continue to keep gaming in the proverbial stone age.
I kind of agree.
But it's not the consumers fault we get 101 FPS games every year and when they tank publishers blame consumers for not buying them. This is especially considering that most of the games we get nowadays are technically inferior to what we were playing back in 1999.
The industry is in the gutter not because of consumers but because of fanboys and casual gamers who buy whatever is shoved in their face (i.e., angry birds, call of duty, etc.,)...
Fanboys on this site are idiots.
When you can crash a car through a physically destructible wall in Forza then your argument will stand.
Forza just has to worry about vehicle physics, not bullet drop, HDR, environmental destruction or 24 players.
Do any of you fanboys ever think before you post? It would do a world of good of how you're perceived among the rest of the level-headed community.
It's true. All the disagrees are from people who never played any other game from 1999 except for Call of Duty.
Destructibility,
Environmental interactivity,
Multiple branching storylines (i.e,. True Crime Streets of L.A. style)
Missions that alter based on whether teammates live or die,
Advanced A.I.
Hunting missions (finding a particular A.I. in a crowd of civilians)
Weapon building (i.e., Operation 7)
Mutilation (i.e., Soldier of Fortune)
Multiple factions fighting each other (i.e,. Halo)
There's a ton of stuff the...
Yeah because Crysis is obviously the same experience as an XBLA/PSN title as it is on a high-end PC? Keep dreaming. The optimization for consoles turned one of the highest rated benchmarking games into just another skybox-oriented, near-linear shooter.
For people who enjoy Super Mario Bros. 2 on the NES you can play it and enjoy it. That's fine. No gripes here.
However, some of us would like to see what developers can do with 8gig of RAM, a 2ghz GPU and 4...
Mario is a classic, and has been on the cusp of platform innovation since the early days of the NES and Gameboy. He revolutionized the genre in 1996 on the N64 and did so again on the Wii with Super Mario Galaxy.
I got no beef with Mario because without him and his numerous games the platform genre wouldn't have been as rich as it is (despite the fact that it's also very lacking of competition as well).
CoD is just another generic shooter, and Soldie...
Doesn't matter. Activision can keep selling a game at $60 with 6 year old graphics and 10 year old gameplay mechanics and people will defend it to their death.
Even if BF3 was 60fps, 128 players with full destructibility and vehicles on consoles people would still justify CoD being the way it is.
Heck, two years from now people will still be playing CoD on the Xbox 720/PS4 while it looks like an Xbox 360 game and I bet people will still be justifying it...
This ad will bring in an extra $100 million to Activision's sales for MW3.
Dude, reviewers get the game weeks before the embargo. They usually get to play the game two weeks before it ships so that the review will be done in time.
Only an idiot would spend two weeks on a game and not finish it and the review in time. That, or he's missing of both his thumbs.
Sorry to say, ace, but here in the US of A it costs and arm and a leg just to get internet service fast enough to play OnLive (3MBPs or higher is required) and then we have all sorts of ridiculous bandwidth caps that sees service providers hiking up the price even higher if the cap is exceeded and then your service speed is bottlenecked.
I don't know about you but I would prefer just paying $60 for a game and being done with it as opposed to counting every single GB for ...
Dude, no one resents Crysis coming to consoles, PC gamers are pissed that Crytek is pissing on the platform that chiseled out their legacy as a triple-A game developer.
You don't downplay the importance of a platform central to the audience that made you famous.
To be fair...they did mention that Crysis WAS possible for consoles but everything that made it what it was would be dumbed down (ala Crysis 2).
It's true, though, Crysis as it was on PC WAS/IS impossible to replicate on consoles but a lesser, performance-optimized, no-brainer version of the game is possible.
I agree with your comment and SuspendedSphere.
The screenshots and trailers of Crysis 1 are still gasp-worthy. There was nothing remarkable, visually, about Crysis 2 at all.
Dude, under-bragging about the 560 Ti...anything in the 5xx series of GTX Nvidia cards is not mid-ranged. Mid-ranged is my passable 5770 ATI card...now that's mid-ranged.
Anything 5xx is still beast but it's also somewhat affordable. With that said, I can run just about any game on the absolute highest settings with a framerate between 47 and 52 frames per second and the 5770 is freaking cheap.
Multiply bubbles times six from 2006 and you get 12...it was easy figuring out your age. ;)
Anyway, the reason PC fanboys are up in arms is because this stupid quote about "Crysis looks better on consoles" is plain and simple BS, which gives publishers more of an excuse to keep de-evolving the games (why the heck was Crysis 2 less intuitive than Crysis 1 in every aspect?)
This is more PR jargon that makes me sad for future iterations of any big budget...
I'd rather play Duke Nukem Reloaded...it just looks authentic.
I think a lot of big devs these days have completely lost sight of what made gaming fun back in the day and they're too worried about content that pushes the bottom line.
I agree that they should leave DNF to its fate and let Interceptor do their thing with Duke Nukem Reloaded.
From the Devil's Advocate point of view, I understand your sentiment.
However, games back in the day were sort of designed like this...stuff like Perfect Dark, which had more challenging AI and additional objectives on the harder settings, or games like Codename: Eagle, Hidden and Dangerous and Rainbow Six.
What CloseSecond mentions USED to exist in gaming but it doesn't now. You're right insofar that the gaming industry is closer to drug pushing...
I don't know if there's something for everyone....
There's still a great lack of open-world games, especially ones not made by Rockstar.
There's also a huge lack of variaty when it comes to racing games, boxing games, fighting games, aerial simulators...the list goes on.
I like Battlefield as much as the next guy over, but it feels like if you're not into casual-Timmy FPS games, you have to search over and beyond to find...
Any idiot who believed that next-gen middleware can run on six year old technology isn't just an idiot but a blind fool, too.
How on earth can software tech requiring high-end PC hardware run on ancient home console tech?
I just find it baffling that so many people even think that consoles can still compete when iPhones can now render graphics equivalent to what's on home consoles. And what's worse is that Flash Players can now run UT3 at 60fps ...