@SipahSalar @max-hit Max difficulty is a joke, NPCs just have a slightly wider field of view (and hearing). They are still dumb as hell. Since the hardest difficulty looked so easy I tried normal for a couple of minutes and hardly found any difference.
Most of the powers are useless extras, you can finish Dishonored with everything "perfect" with just "improved teleport".
I agree with max-hit, Mark of the Ninja stealth-wise is way more interesting than Dishonored... and people used to call Thief: Deadly Shadows a failure.
Another "X thinks that since Y is not A, by stating Z, meant K... wich means PS4 and 720, if those will be their names (but it's somehow likely since W is bigger than S), will be released somehow, someday in a certain order.
@Ayato_Kamina_1 @angubaranar123 Playstation 1 (1995 for EU and US); Playstation 2 (2000 worldwide). Super Nintendo (1991 US, 1992 EU); Nintendo 64 (1996 US, 1997 EU). And I'm not counting many other consoles that came out, like Neo Geo, Neo Geo CD, PC Engine and so on. So let's say that 7+ year old consoles aren't exactly the standard in the videogame history. Consoles also had way higher prices in the past decades (except for Game Boy). So I don't really see how can nowadays gamers can complain about the release of new consoles after 7+ years. Are 2013's 1000$ really that much for a top performance console? PS1 in Europe costed like 1300$ in 1995, a Neo Geo game used to cost 300+$.
Since the dawn of times videogame-wise, consoles bloomed and strived for better performances. This trend ended in the PS2/PS 3 era. There was so little competitors for Microsoft and Sony that they could stop making new (non handheld) platforms and still sell millions of consoles and games.
You can chose to buy or not to buy Valve's or Razer's new hardware. Microsoft and Sony will still make new games for their old consoles, like Nintendo did with Super Nintendo after N64 was released. They just won't be able to pretend their consoles are the top hardware-wise.
In the near future (hopefully) we'll be back to the old custom, you can either buy a new console and enjoy top-notch performances, or play with older ones, saving money. Where's the problem?
If Valve is capable of making hardware like it makes software, count me as customer. Valve and others are quite right about entering the hardware business, right now we have a load of crap stuff (7+ year old consoles) that wouldn't sell much if there was something better available. Other companies are just trying to fill the "high performance" spot left vacant by the 2 dormant colossi.
Good graphics is clearly an advantage, but good graphics alone doesn't automatically make a good game.
Anyway... Before talking about high-end graphics, please devs stop talking about 7+ year old consoles as optimal platforms. 360 and PS3 are far from being high-end for anything but sales. Let's talk about a true high-end graphics game, like Farcry 1 when it came out. Games optimized for 680GTX or equivalent (optimized, not a PS3 game with more shadows and light effects).
Simple graphics games nowaydays need great gameplay, so they actually have something great. "High-end" graphics games aren't high-end at all, they got nothing great but advertising.
So my answer is: Gameplay over graphics for sure, if by "graphics" you mean a 7+ year old console.
3D sucks cos you need to wear glasses. 3DS sucks cos you don't need to wear glasses, but it's not a Vita. Vita sucks cos it's just a PS3 portable. Razer Fiona sucks because it's just a tablet that costs too much.
Pong is pretty much enough for every player, most of the people just don't realize that.
The only downside this thing is that 360 has dated graphics... so making such a device is like playing Pong in 3D. Microsoft, please make a new console first (and if possible make that thing available for PC).
Regarding making better games, not gonna happen, casual gamers are the present and the future of videogaming industry. They don't play cracked games and just need advertising to buy and enjoy something. The dream client.
I think most of the people posting here don't realize what this "thing" is. It's a full fledged PC, not a handheld or a tablet. Check prices for similar items (Asus Eee Slate and such), 1000$ is not that much considering what it is.
A laptop with that stuff inside costs 40% less, but this thing is truly "handheld", with touchscreen, force feedback and so on.
The specs are fine cos the display is small. The base model would surely suck with a Dell2711, but we are talking about a 10.1'' monitor and not a 27'' one.
2 doubts, the first is about how comfortable is to play for hours with this thing, since it surely weights more than a 3DS or a Vita. The second... battery life, those things (tablet-like PCs) never shone for being fit for long sessions.
Rest assured that it's a joke to compare this ""tablet"" to Ipad or Galaxy tab, price wise and performance wise.
I really like this game (PC version, since GS reviewed only the 360 version I'm posting here). Dialogues and characters are fun, shooting is kinda easy, but it's really hard to find a challenging game nowadays. Loads of weapons, shields and whatever. It might get repetitive... but what FPS/Action game doesn't? Diablo III? CoD?
Too bad, years ago I played CoH/V for months.The customization is awesome and it's still the best superheroes MMO (CO and DCUO completely sucked).Making it partially f2p (in reality you'd miss a lot of content with the free subscription) was the first sign of CoH/V being let down. I'm wondering from where Blizzard will copy "new" WoW's features after CoH/V closes.
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