@jdlok: Those days are about to end as the Wii-U is not getting the third party support these days. The NX looks like it too is not going to get these devs to make games for their console either. Plus there ARE a few games for the SNES namely the Final Fantasy games that had glitches in them that broke the game before EA and Madden did that as I know that for a fact with FFIII or VI if you live outside the US!
@_Silent_Jay_: Problem is that your still going to have the trolls and fanboys do crap like this to prove a point outside of the bug issues that post spam and crap as it's apart of their agendas or ax they have to grind post EA and in 2004 with their games they made for the PC at that time that has led to the PC vs. console wars as well.
Now you could try to stop these people from posting but they have so many ways to post spam with ghost accounts as they do this on Facebook and Twitter it's impossible to stop these guys from doing this sort of thing. I wish we had demos back but they are not coming back so RENT the game before buying it if you want the PC version.
@Faster_Bill: Hey GGer (as I know your BS you post on Twitter so don't even try me) POP QUIZ FOR YA! Did you even play the stupid game yet or steal it to play it? How is it by chance? Worth it? How many hours did you play in the game or are you here to spread your thinking as your one of my enemies in the far right hmm? I mean seriously what is your problem with me man?! I guess so! Have a nice day! NEXT! ;)
Man Ubisoft made this game right and it runs well! I for one am now really baffled by Ubisoft for not giving Watch_Dogs and AC Unity's development teams more time for delivering a finished product that they shown us back at E3 and Gamescom! This game along with GTA V are prime examples of quality AAA game worth the asking price! Maybe AAA game makers should stay away from any major gaming conventions from now on as we gamers get such high expectations and will trash any game that is not what was shown at E3 or any other game show convention. I know Van Ord is right about how bad this game is for the over the top Far Cry cliches, but this game is like the Rambo movies as it plays and looks like Rambo in it's cheesy 1980's 'Merican stereotyped hero and trying to take out a stereotyped crazy dictator/general like in those 1980's Cold War 'Merican movies.
I say 'Merican because it is/was really stupid beyond belief looking back to see such BAD or NO acting in those classic action movies I still watch from time to time for a laugh on bad those movies were and still are today in terms of actors needing some basic 3rd grade acting lessons in drama class, and needing more anabolic steroids while fighting those WWF "Russian" or (should I say German) body builder "Mr. Universe" bad guys to make them look like some elite USA and USSR ultra fighting machines that can not be beaten but are so immobile and you can just throw them out of a Hewy or down a cave compared to today's action movies. LOL
To Me this is not a negative for the Far Cry franchise Van Ord but a real positive for this type of over the top FPS game and it shows well. COD on the other hand is not supposed to be this kind of American stereotypical bad** hero type of game and was never meant to be that at first as MOH had this tag for real world wars as only you could play an American soldier in WWII. COD was supposed to be the "Anti American" stereotype meaning more nations to fight as (Britain, France, Russia, Canada, and Poland as choices in the SP game) and COD sold it's own soul out for more profits by adapting this "MOH America is always thew real heroes that won the wars" model once EA pulled out for a long time. I hate COD for this and will always hate turning their backs on this anti MOH model they once had.
My rating is 8/10 or an 8.5 out of 10 as this game is in my top 50 games I have ever played and just outside my top 25 (that's what gets my score up to a 9 for me.) Van Ord does point out some very nagging things that will annoy guys like him and those same thing to apply to me as well (really cut scenes when loading back up again? Fail). The Auto drive feature is buggy to say the least but those can be fixed by either a patch or if PC gamers can mod this problem out them it's not so much a bad thing to have but it's a new feature and need to be more ironed out in Far Cry 5 (if they want to make another game by 2020 keyword being 2020 here so do not rush it Ubisoft). As far as corny radio songs and the bad Kyrat government propaganda announcements while driving that just makes get me more into the game as Just Cause 2 had this stuff as well and these Rambo stereotyped games just adds to the overall fun when you get to the ending. Just look at GTA IV's radio station's on the PC port (if you know what I mean by over the top 'Merican stereotyping in games like these). Hey Van Ord do you ever watch those old 1980s and early 1990s action movies with Stallone or Arnold in them by any chance?? Then this game is an exact replica of those over the top cheesy movies where acting lessons were not part the job description in those Z rated movies. LOL
Halo and the Xbox brand were sold on Xbox Live abilities of easy match making for MP based gaming and sadly this the top selling feature for both long time Halo and Xbox owners and fans is not working at all and it needs fixing badly. Sony fans are not getting away with no blame on this either with the failure of both the PS3 and PS4 version of MLB 14 this year (I know I bought this game on day 1 too for both consoles). Like I said before if you want MP in the game and advertise it as one of the main selling points you had better be sure that it is working otherwise prepare for backlash as a AAA game maker as this is now a very big problem and it needs to be fixed with servers not working on launch date and games being tarnished for being "lemons" in longtime fans and gamers eyes (including me as a long time Halo/Assassin's Creed/MLB: The Show/NBA2K fan). I hate to see good games go down like this again and again due to the same exact problem with MP driving the AAA industry into the ground right now with such bad launches of these great games with servers not working at full speed.
If you just did an SP only based like in AC/TC Rouge then this would get that "9/10 10/10 1000/10" score than fans want to see as well as Microsoft for this is bad for their console as well for sales. There is more than enough here for to justify the price tag if you want a remaster of all the Halo games if you are a longtime fan of Halo's storyline and it's SP offerings unlike Rouge. Just make the MP portion of the game DLC at a price of $30.00 next time or just make it MP only like MMO games are like WoW, and people will pay for it as fans that like MP based gaming and release it later after the servers are stress tested and up and running for heavy traffic flow in and out. Also an Halo SP gamer (8/10 from me as only about 100 games ever made should be 9/10 and only about 5 games 10/10) will not have to worry about the MP side clouding the SP game they wanted to pay for in the first place and being turned off by a low score on review sites saying it's "bad" and save your money.
To conclude I for one have never ever seen such a bad year for botched AAA game launches than this year with so many AAA games having game breaking problems on both the PC and the 2 Consoles on day 1 and something has to change, because I am about to throw my hands up on this one saying "who is doing QC in the AAA game makers these days?" as it is a real "Shaking My Head" moment as a long time AAA gamer and I am starting to get more worried if the industry is truly going back into the bad old days of 1985 again like with the old Atari 2600 with such badly done QC games they are selling us right now for the consoles much less the PC for ports.
If this is ported to the Xbox One and the PS4 the game would get a better score from the reviewers if they are like those older SP driven PS3/360 games. Rogue is better is terms of story but the game is a "cookie cutter" game just like AC3 was and is not as good as BF was in terms of game play. I played this game when I rented it from GameFly and the game is not like Far Cry Instincts was as far as keeping the older consoles alive in terms of pushing the hardware or in the game itself which is big one to me as Ubisoft made the real Xbox one seem it had more potential for other makers to make games for those older gen consoles with Far Cry Instincts as Rouge is in that category of late last gen games to keep older consoles alive for an alternative if you can not afford the new consoles.
This is in the categories of both "too little, too late" and "overpriced Expansion Pack" at $60 and needs to be knocked down to $30 in order to sell well and get a better score from the reviewers after the AC Unity disaster did to this franchise and not just with the PC gamers before Patch 2 came out and made things a little better on the FPS front in Unity. I would not be surprised if Ubisoft made this game along with BF into a single game with the AC Unity's Anvil engine you can buy at $59.99 on the new consoles like they did with Far Cry Instincts Predator back on the Xbox 360 when the reviewers and the gaming fan base of Far Cry wanted a updated "console port" to the "Next Gen" 360 console back in 2006.
This game needs more of a price fix and a porting job to the newer consoles as the game does work well at 30fps at 720p on my PS3 so it has that going for it over AC Unity for a launch success as it has no MP at all. If game makers did this more by just making a SP game like in the days of old one the PS2 and the "Xbox One" they would not even have this problem anymore with messy launches going into death spirals like AC Unity, Watch_Dogs, Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare, NBA 2k15, MLB 14: The Show, and Halo: Master Chief Collection did this year.
I think it is truly time for the overall AAA industry to decide if they want the Bungie model of "SMP-MMO" (single-multi-player/MMO) gaming is the right way to make games like Destiny is, or what I want as a gamer and not just as a SP only gamer is to go back to what made these AAA games the monsters they were and that is making them an SP only game with no Internet connection needed for all the other stuff other then DRM checks (and that is bad enough). The bugs are all from the MP side of these new AAA games and they really need to make SP only games from now on until the server technology and the overall Internet capabilities for P2P gaming is fast and stable enough to handle massive amounts of traffic flow at once from DRM and MP based game play from everywhere in the world because as of right now the Internet infrastructure is just not capable of handling these massive requests all at once for these games at launch in big countries let alone countries with 20,000,000 people in them if they all have the game in hand trying to access the game servers at once and crashing the servers due to the overflow requests and the servers going into constant reboot for clearing out the BSODs they are suffering from when they crash from this sort of intake they get on day one.
I hate to say it but I will say it. These games are slaves to the servers right now and the server technology is too far behind the game makers in terms of capability when the gamers try to access the game the bought and need to be freed from the failed constant server SMP-MMO checking as they just can't handle it. Maybe in 10 years they can try this again but for now they need to pull the plug on this with SMP-MMO style gaming for combating game piracy and go back to doing just DRM checking like with AC2 as that bad system did not have the problems on the scale of this new combined DRM/SMP-MMO formula they now have after so many failed game launches in this year alone and something needs to change and quickly.
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