Just to be clear: you are not the type of poster we are talking aboutI like your posts and respectful tone.
Oh yeah, I'd also like to state that I have no problem with you, Jezzah. You've always be the reasonable kind.
Just to be clear: you are not the type of poster we are talking aboutI like your posts and respectful tone.
Certainly, but there are different kinds of criticism.
Some are justified some are not.
The game has bugs, that's certainly true and a fair point. But with the same breath one has to add that BW have been awesome addressing the bugs. There are patches rolling out one after another.
You could asso criticise the relative lack of content after the main story ends, mainly low variety of gear and weapons and free play activities. That is a thing that will have to be judged again, six, eight months after release. There is definitely better variety of stuff than for example Destiny or Warframe had at launch (but nowhere near the Borderlands - nothing can top the procedurally generated weapons.), but it still gets samey after a while, especially in this kind of game, where play time measures in dozens and hundreds of hours.
Here I don't have a problem, personally. I've never been the "endgame" type of player. I rather create another character and play through the game from the start, than grind forth after better and better loot for its own sake.
But most criticism I've seen is the "This is not Bioware, screw you EA, I don't like it and will nitpick every detail to bash it" kind. It's highly discouraging when comes to any kind of meaningful discussion.
Well, anyway.
I think that if you wait a couple months and try it again (it's already 10x better than it was in the demo) you WILL like it, eventually. The core is there. The gameplay feels awesome, characters are interesting, story is decent as well. Well, I mean as far as Bioware stories go, of course. It's no Dostoevsky.![]()
You know it's the same with Battlefield V a bit of a trend with EA really I suppose. I've defended that game a lot and it gets better and more contentful with each update but naysayers will be naysaying and the worst for it are the online reviewers, not a single one of them will look at the game in 6 months yet their bile remains extant on the net for all to see.
Worth-a-buy Mack rubbished BFV as did Angry Joe and funnily enough they did the same with anthem
Yeah, it must be EA. Not saying they don't deserve it, but the developer houses certainly don't.
I've always enjoyed Battlefields mainly from singleplayer perspective (I suck at PvP somewhat in general)
And BFV is also one of those games that totally DOESN'T the flak it's (was) getting
True, but I don't get the modern trend of hating on things in general.Oh no don't get me wrong the game has it's flaws and none worse than the ones which they've fixed since release. It basically comes down to release cycles being too short in my opinion.
EA also handled the marketing very poorly, at one point telling people if you don't like it then don't buy it....so guess what people did.
The dev studios aren't blameless but they are certainly less blameless than EA.
In the old days games also came pretty much finished. I miss that too.
If you mean finished in a sense that you were stuck with what you've bought, then yes. They were finished.
I'm progressive in this regard in particular
Personally, for my 60 quid, I'd rather have 60GB of code that keeps getting updated, than 600MB of code that is dead as an Ursix.![]()
Oh yeah, I'd also like to state that I have no problem with you, Jezzah. You've always be the reasonable kind.
I wonder what started the trend of "launch incomplete broken game at retail price, fix it over the next year"
Yeah, it must be EA. Not saying they don't deserve it, but the developer houses certainly don't.
I've always enjoyed Battlefields mainly from singleplayer perspective (I suck at PvP somewhat in general)
And BFV is also one of those games that totally DOESN'T the flak it's (was) getting
Oh no don't get me wrong the game has it's flaws and none worse than the ones which they've fixed since release. It basically comes down to release cycles being too short in my opinion.
EA also handled the marketing very poorly, at one point telling people if you don't like it then don't buy it....so guess what people did.
The dev studios aren't blameless but they are certainly less blameless than EA.
I wonder what started the trend of "launch incomplete broken game at retail price, fix it over the next year"
Didn't BFV sell nearly or over 7 million copies and is a failure?
I wonder what started the trend of "launch incomplete broken game at retail price, fix it over the next year"
I wonder what started the trend of "launch incomplete broken game at retail price, fix it over the next year"
Digital distribution.