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#1 Slannmage
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I also think people love to make stuff up, like how you get people who claim some old classic game is their favourite, even though they never played it. I remember Majoras Mask not selling much at all, everyone hated it, yet it became fashionable to like it all of a sudden, then you have loads of people saying how it's their favourite Zelda... like **** off, stop lying. People love to moan about a game they never bought, just claim they have problems even though they didn't buy it. Maybe they now buy it knowing they can get a refund, just bitch about it because they were going to find a problem any ways...

I also notice most people who complain have AMD CPUs or GPUs... who is buying AMD any more? They suck, just like how Crossfire/SLI sucks, don't buy two cards people, the drivers are never good.

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#2 Slannmage
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I never had a problem with Unity

I never had a Problem with Arkham Knight apart from the obvious effects that were patched in shortly after release.

I'm not having a problem with Just Cause 3

I swear people just don't know how to use a PC or something, I've got a 4770K, 16GB DDR3, 480GB SSD and a 750TI, not the most amazing system but I can run everything on mid to high at 1080p no problem with a smooth framerate, usually at 60. Are people turning MSAA to x8 when they only have a 2GB GPU or something? Do people not understand what settings mean? Are they trying to run the game at 4K????

I just don't get why every game seems to have this PC backlash now, they never used to, people used to be smart about what their PC could do, I just think people don't know how to use them and Steam made everything too accessible.

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Every frigging game is broken, requires patches to work out of the gate and struggles to get 1080/30. Meanwhile on Digital Foundry a Core i3 PC with a 750ti that you can build for the price of these consoles, out performs them. On top of that they put in a slow arse 2.5 HDD and everything takes all year to load, I swear they have problems streaming content in, they cannot even do two things at once without bogging down because of that crap HDD.

How the hell did we get to this point where the consoles launched way behind the PC and are so dated that we're already thinking about new ones?

It's not just the hardware either, the UIs are so bad on both consoles, the download speeds are so slow, I can get 35MBps on Steam and download 50GB games so fast. With the PS4 and Xbox One if you buy anything digitally, you know you're not playing it until the next day, that's if the download hasn't stopped for whatever reason when the console is in rest mode.

Then you have the price of the digital games, I got Fallout 4 for £30 on PC, on the PS4 it's £50 and that is a generous price, usually you can go on there and the prices are £60 odd and £20 more than retail. On top of that retail prices drop very fast, digital prices stay the same all year, then they give you a sale where they're still more expensive than retail and act like it's a good deal. Meanwhile over on Steam there are sales galore and I'm buying everything for a fraction of the price of the consoles. People say PC gaming is so expensive... my PC cost me £500 to make in 2012 and it's still maxing everything out at 1080p 60 and beating the consoles by miles. I haven't had to pay a subscription to play online, games are cheap, I've probably saved more money than my PC cost on games and no sub alone...

I just think these consoles are dated in more ways than just the hardware and games are increasingly more and more broken. On top of that we're still not given the freedom we should expect like what we get on the PC or even phones and tablets. Why don't we have apps yet? Why can't we choose third party software that does a better job than the crap Microsoft and Sony give us? Why can't I do simple things like use an SD card to save games in real time on the PS4? Why can't I change FoV or remap the controls to what I want exactly?

People were worried about Nintendo, I think they'll outlive both Sony and Microsoft int he console space. I look at the PS4 and the Xbox One and I'm done with them already, they're so dated I'm just using my PC 100%. That never used to be the case, in the old days consoles would be 2/3 years ahead, they launched 2/3 years behind this time and it shows.

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#4 Slannmage
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I just don't see the appeal, there is nothing new to offer from Halo 5, it is basically just COD where you're rebuying the same game. With Mario games you're constantly having new gamepaly ideas thrown at you, people say Nintendo are just Mario all the time, but man they know how to change things up from 64, to Sunshine to Galaxy and then 3D World. With Halo you're playing on the same ideas that haven't been changed at all..

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#5 Slannmage
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FF7
MGS
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Goldeneye
Tomb Raider (Mario 64 came out a year later here in Europe, where Tomb Raider came out a year later for the US)
Gran Turismo
Tony Hawk Pro Skater
GTA
Mario Kart 64
Half-Life

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I just don't understand the hype, I've watched so much gameplay from it and all you do is move from point a to b and shoot. There is no variation in the gameplay, it plays exactly the same as every Halo before it, it's like the same boring FPS everyone has played for years. I just don't get why people want more of that? Aren't people tired of the same old yet? It's like Gears of War or Uncharted, I've played it already, I don't need another one, please no more boring cover based TPS unless they're going to reinvent them.

To me the pinnacle of the single player shooter was Half-Life 2 and there hasn't been another one that has excited me since. The genius of that game was to constantly change up the gameplay like what Mario does, you're always given new tools and new things to do, every area changes it up. It's not just what might as well all be the same level, because all you're doing is killing with the same gun and nothing else. Even COD 4 did more to change things up between the sinking boat, your standard shooting levels, then the UAV, the Chernobyl level and the Nuke scene.

The greatest shooters do this, but every time I see Halo, moving around a dull lifeless level with no interactivity, shooting aliens, rinse and repeat. Maybe you'll have a vehicle level, but you're still just doing the same thing but just in a vehicle instead, you're not doing anything unique with it. In Half-Life 2 you were doing puzzles to get the vehicle through the level... ok they were basic puzzles, but physics were new to games, you even had parts where you couldn't walk on the ground or enemies would pop out, I had fun messing with the physics there.

With Halo every level might as well be in the Skybox, you wont be interacting with it at all.

I just do not get that game.

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#7 Slannmage
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Drippy is amazing, I cannot believe they wrote for him like that, the Welsh voice actor had to have added all that in as he sounds so natural. He's the best character in a JRPG, I'm from England and all his slang and lingo are spot on, you can tell he was just told to speak normally or something.

So good and I love how they weren't afraid to mix text and voice together, don't fill the game with lots of crap voice acting, focus on making what is there good.

I don't get why people hate the combat though, to me it just feels like a better JRPG combat system, I'm only about 10 hours in, but I love how it gives you freedom to move and mixes it with Pokemon like combat. As for the story not being interesting, so far at least it's the most interesting I've play since the opening hours of FF7.

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#8 Slannmage
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I played it, I just thought it was shit.

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#9 Slannmage
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Well because the story makes sense, it's easy to follow and it feels like it could be a real movie.

Where as games like Final Fantasy in the modern age at least just never make any sense and I hate how pervy they are and how the characters are all emo in their look and personality.

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#10 Slannmage
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The art is normal, there are no emos or frigging half naked women everywhere, the writing is amazing and funny, it's got the best voice acting I've ever heard in a Japanese game.. Seriously if you said to me that a Japanese developer would attempt a Welsh accent, I'd assume it would be a mess. However they have all the slang, amazing witty jokes and it's all effortless.

I love the characters and want to follow the story, it's quite grounded and not bat shit crazy like most JRPGs.

I wish more JRPGs were like this, it reminds me of the old days.