@planetxpisces: For me, I notice the repetition far less than the "arena" rooms. Where you enter a room and it turns into a big survival wave before you can move on.
It's part of why I liked Doom 3 better in a few ways. Like how it was really claustrophobic and enemies would frequently spawn behind you, so you had to move forward and constantly glance back with that crappy flashlight everytime you hear a strange noise.
Love this game, but it's not really "scary." I guess they're going for a pure homage to the original Doom games, while Doom 3 was meant to be more survival horror than a twitch shooter. As far as paying respects to oldschool Doom, this game is a homerun. I actually kinda want to play Doom 3 again when I'm done with this, lol.
@stannisrez: I hope they're going back to WWI and moving forward from there, maybe get a 1942 remake next year. That would be awesome. And eventually get around to making Battlefield Vietnam but as a full game instead of an expansion.
Please, no more futuristic FPS games. If that's the path they take, I'm skipping Battlefield this year. I'm hoping they just reboot 1942. I just want a WWII game that reminds me of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
@ewjiml: Companies don't replace game testers. Game testers are still paid to test games.
Beta testers are a completely separate entity. Who are not paid, who are not really meant to give feedback, who are honestly only meant to run around in a game so the developer can tweak network code because they don't have enough game testers to adequately test that particular stage of game development. It's why these kind of games have problems on day one, they have to pretty much guess how many people are going to buy it and hit their servers all at once.
This is a new IP, so there's kinks to work out. But for a lot of games, paid testers don't catch these kind of things because they're given less and less time to do their jobs in this day and age. When Battlefield 4 came out, there were a few paid testers that admitted that EA told them they'd be given far less time than they were expecting to test the game because EA mandated that the game would be released a full week before Call of Duty no matter what. So they could enjoy a week of meaningless sales numbers that were probably crushed within the first 24 hours of Call of Duty hitting the street. The problem is these publishers release their games on a timeframe to make financial quarter reports look better for stockholders.
Ubisoft is doing a better job than most developers when it comes to fixing things. I think it was just an issue of the game being delayed so many times they had to release it and "fix it later." Which is sadly starting to be a trend where a game goes gold, gets released, and has multi-gigabyte day one patches.
@dexda: That's a risky move for HBO. They have the chance to finish the story with the ending George told the producers before George can finish the books, but what good is that if they just rush to it?
The only complaint I have about the books was the plot dragged in books 4 and 5 (just didn't "move" at the same pace books 1-3 did) to get to the point where the show just reached as well. And George had one book (since increased to two) at 1000+ pages in order to tell a final act. Doing the math, HBO would have to throw away a LOT of potential plot they have to work with. My biggest thing is the show (at least until the last season) really followed the books amazingly well. Prior to that, they were little differences, but now it's huge rewrites that leave me having no real clue what HBO is planning.
If they're doing shorter seasons, I would hope they would at least pace it well with at least two 8 episode seasons after this one, with a short wait between them to make up for the shorter length. Which would be great for the cast, if they knew they could get free of their contracts quicker and start actually capitalizing off the exposure they got from the show. I just feel like the show would suffer if they didn't take their time getting to the final battle or whatever is going to happen.
@Attitude2000: True, I bought the One port you're speaking of consisting of the full game and DLC a while back, when both that and a combo pack of both Metro games were both available for under $8 each. That's what I call a deal.
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