Grow a thicker skin.
I dont know…with how things turned out with the recent Sim City, I cant even believe this anymore. Storm has settled down and EA can progress as usual.
Also during development they ensured that the game would be moddable and wouldnt have any always online DRM features. None of which did happen. yet a few seemed to care.
just have a little patience.
I’m not going to ‘disagree’ with you, but I do a little bit, especially the bold part.
Typical Blu-ray set $20-30, time spent watching it for ‘myself’ once every two years or something, so I’ll say 6 hours.
Going to the movies $12 for 3 hours.
Music album $10 for one hour for mediocre to bad albums and upwards of 50 hours for good stuff
That’s typical entertainment. Video games, which on top of requiring the cost of the system clock in at 2-3 times the cost of a Blu-ray ‘set’ new. As such, I expect at least 2-3 times that length in entertainment - or it was a waste of money. Now, where the lines blur is ‘hours to complete’ verse ‘hours of entertainment’, but it is a VERY relevent criticism. The beauty of say MvC2 was that with the sheer volume of characters, the number of broken things in the game to learn, and the complexity long term of the engine due to both factors - as someone who used to compete in it, I played it ridiculous hours. Then there are games like God of War. It’s fun for a single play-thru, I’ll never do a second play thru. So that would be 60 bones for lets say 8 hours of play time ‘ick’. that’s better than a movie so its not ‘bad’, but its not a great investment either. On the flip, when I was a kid, I remember my save file for FF3/6 being 36+ hours, so if it cost me $50 that’s GREAT.
Another way to look at it?
Take what you make, take out what’s budgeted for everything but entertainment and see how much you have left. If you can only throw $30 a week at entertainment, then if you buy a $60 game, it needs to last you two weeks. Plain simple dry and cut. IF it doesn’t, then it wasn’t a great game. It is a fair criticism to weight cost vs time. There are games I bought used for $20, played for a little and they were ‘OK’, but since it was ony 20 - its all good! But there are games that I buy at 60 that I get 5 hours out of and its a huge let down. I knew AW had a short campaign, as such there was no way in HELL I was evne entertaining buying it until the price dropped. I saw it for like $20 at Target a couple weeks ago and still put it down.
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Honestly, from where I sit.
Fine.
There are SOOOOOOOOO many games out right now, new and old of worthwhile quality, that its super duper shooper grouper rare that I get excited. The last game I bought on launch was CoD:BO. Never again. I mean I scooped SF4 on launch day shrug, but unless its a competitive game, there shouldn’t be some huge rush. Don’t GET sucked into hype…let things marinate and you’ll see what’s worth spending money on. Why get excited for something - unless you’re a media member - won’t be playing for another ‘X’ months? If you got free time, play a slightly older game or series, I know most gamers don’t have a backlog like mine, but I’m sure everyone here has games they’ve never finished, series they were interested in but took a ‘pass’ at the time and never came back to. Money and time are both too valuable to waste. Don’t get overly hyped and waste both. Just chillax and enjoy something cheaper that has rave reviews.
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I think thats my problem. Wanting to get the hot new game because they all sound so good only to be bamboozled at the end.
Even Metal Gear Rising. That was supposed to be the second coming of the hack n slash genre.
Yeah for what we are shelling out these days its just such a gamble being a gamer. I recently got into this Dance Central Xbox Kinect thing, I feel like this is the best gaming investment I have made this gaming generation.
Who put MGR on that pedal? From I recall, fans of the genre flocked to that game since DmC wasn’t giving them what they wanted.
MGR is awesome.
Man I’m confused. Is this thread about game companies slowly disseminating information and/or flat out lying about their products, or about you personally being disappointed because your expectations where too fucking high? If it’s about the former then your arguments make no sense. If it’s about the later then I’m not sure why this thread exists. If feels like you’ve lost the script Yah Yah.
^RSG v.3.0 post gets liked for MGR love.
I thought that this thread was about the way companies just bamboozle the idiotic masses with fabricated ‘hype’ and ‘immersive’ storytelling BS, not one guy’s anger at Asura’s Wrath for being a $60 interactive anime rather than a video game…
But hey, that’s the way the industry is headed anyway, so I guess there’s no sense in getting angry over it anymore. Just buy games from companies that don’t bullshit you and support actual video games rather than QTE-heavy cutscene fests.
It’s about all you can really do at this point, because that’s all these companies listen to-- the jingle of that spare change in your pocket.
stick to open world games for your single player games, if the whole time vs money is your problem, red dead gta, farcry, borderlans 1 and 2 with all dlc will keep ya going for a long ass time,yakuza series. sometimes i want a short game, becuase i dont wanna invest time or need a break from fighting games or a break from the game im in the middle of,right now its borderlands 2 and im takin a break to learn a bit of injustice… i agree with you on the whole they need to stop the whole 80z 90z secret bullshit, its made me cancel pre orders and wait for price drops,i think alot have ,as so many games have come out and backlog of games. there so many 20 15 $ jewels you can play in the mean time ,an wait for reviews then having to pre order
i mean op in my delerious stat from playing borderlands 2 all night, i cancled my last of us pre order, becuase they did not show enough of it, i just figure its gonna be a epic great game, but have not even played my uncharted 3 yet, and figure the multiplayer will be something of a uncharted tps survival thing, for 60 bucks i can get a bunch of games i wanted to play but had no time for the same amount, dishonored, maxpain 3, dragons dogma, far cry.
even tonight i wanted to grab grid 2, but realize i still got dirt 2 an need for speed on the shelf not played, wait for reveiws and dont let the pre order dlc fool ya into the i got to have it day 1 right now, i dont expect the multiplayer to be amazing thing in the last of us, but i never understood how uncharted mp became a craze
So you’re idiotic if you get a game day 1 even though its being hyped up is what youre saying?
Because I usually get games the week they come out, even though I dont know too much about them just riding off the hype its created around the net.
The industry has proven time and time again that it is foolish for anyone who wishes to make a wise consumer decision to just buy a game because of hype.
For example, I bought MGR day one not because of hype. RULES OF NATURE not withstanding, but because P* released a playable demo that showcased how awesome the game was. That, plus good word of mouth(I trust the reviews of most SRK GDers far more than the so-called ‘game journalists’) helped me to make my choice.
I stayed away from DmC because right from the initial trailer I knew something was wrong(and it wasn’t new Dante’s hair)… Capcom and Ninja Theory’s PR guys did nothing to calm my concerns(their antics only worsened my anxiety).
The demo was the final nail in the coffin when I saw how they dumbed down one of the greatest action game franchises of all time so it would be more appealing to COD dudebro fanbase(which ultimately still failed).
So here are two games, one that had barely any hype or ad space outside of small niche group, and another that you couldn’t ignore even if you tried due to a million-dollar ad campaign that ultimately told you nothing about said game and was only riding on hype and controversy. What sold me to one over the other was not what the makers were saying, but rather what they delivered in said games.
Well it makes more sense what you say now, that MGR didnt have any hype. I guess you made it relative to other games, since I considered hype everything be it a niche group on the corner of the internet to even to tv commericals during 8:00 programming. I thought MGR had a pretty good hype train for what it was.
Amazing games tend to have the right kind of hype trains.