That's a 40% increase for Canadian PSN members. That's a lot just to play Destiny on line. With the jacked up price of games to $80 (before taxes - and no, that's not justified only by the exchange rate to USD), it's nice as a PS4 gamer to feel like the cash cow for the Sony PS4 division to shore up their other underperforming divisions.
Gotta love the Sony marketing BS statement that we should enjoy paying more for what? Bad indie games on PS plus?
Would give it a 7 out of 10. Played hundreds of hours of DS and DS II, and this is the weakest entry. The combat is more fluid and somewhere between DS and Bloodborne. Faster enemies mean more trouble for sorcerers and pyromancers who get killed because of slow cast times. The game feels like it's build on top of a bloodborne template for gameplay that favors fast, high dex characters over the tanks and casters of DS.
The game is also still full of technical glitches, like a bad camera that spins out on you in corners at the worst moments, enemy weapons going through walls, frame rate drops, etc. Enemy placement is predictable, and relies too much on setting traps around loot points. The game tries to capture nostalgia moments by imitating locales from past games, but it feels cold, linear and empty. Graphics are a small improvement on PS4 over DS II, even though the DS II remaster looks better at times.
Worst is ridiculously big hit boxes and overly accurate chain attacks of certain enemies, that went from difficult but challenging in DS, DS II and bloodborne to fake hard and frustrating.to create an artificial challenge. Boss fights are meh, and much better skipped in 30s by summoning Sunbros. Overall it fails to capture the spell of the first games. Good thing that this is the last game in the series.
Wow. A review. What took so look? Is it a form of cautious journalism, or were gaming sites bought or bullied by Ubisoft to conveniently delay reviews till after the week 1 impulse buy curve was over? Journalism or a week long informercial? All the best if the game is good, but Ubisoft should not be rewarded for underhanded marketing tactics.
Seriously, where's the #%$$?$ review? How many games has Gamespot reviewed that took 50 hours of gameplay to post a review with a score? How is that not collusion with Ubisoft?
Maybe gamers should ask the FCC to investigate gaming news sites to have to disclose up front money they receive to participate in the pre-launch hype, withhold reviews until the big wave of disoriented first adopters have paid full price for a potentially bad game (this is Ubisoft after all), and give inflated review score. If the FCC did it for youtube personalities to be up front about their payola arrangements with Microsoft, there's probably grounds for the FCC to look at gaming "news" sites. Gamers are consumers, and withholding objective day one reviews leaves consumers without the knowledge to make a purchase with adequate information.
That said, gamers have a big collective action problem that goes against our common best interest. We should all stop pre-ordering and buying day one copies of a game until some kind of independent review process and community feedback have happened. It would discourage publishers to plan to make money off a crap game from strident pre-launch marketing to lock in pre-orders and first week impulse buyers. The only way to get developers and publishers to listen is to hit them where it hurts in their earning calls to shareholders. It would also ease gamers' troubled conscience with buyer's remorse who make positive comments about a game to not feel bad about payout full price for something that's just meh. We have only ourselves to blame.
Looking forward to play it, but at $80 canadian for the launch price, this is a disgusting exercise in price gouging for non-US customers on Steam and Amazon.
Will play it in 6 months+ when the price drops in the bargain bin. And then you wonder why piracy is rampant. Nicely done 2K.
This movie could have been so much better if the Evil Mouse hadn't forced a script by focus group to maximize $$$. The Rey plotline was the most interesting, and the X-wing, Tie fighters CGI rocked. Oscar Isaacs acted circles around everyone else, and the movie could have done with just Rey, Paul and BB-8, and ok, Chewie. Everything else dragged down the movie. The Leia-Han presence was just paying backward to the nostalgia crowd. Ky-Lo Ren is a bargain bin Darth Vader full of angst and mood swings that made him more annoying than scary, not to mention getting beat up by a one minute new padawan. The rest of the script was recycled episode 3 (another death star! planets blowing up! X-wing fight at the end! countdown to the weapon charging to destroy the rebel, uh, resistance! Stormtroopers who still can't hit the broadside of a planet! The new Death Star still gets blown up by a pipe bomb! Pointless action sequences with tentacle monsters!). JJ did another recycled episode 3 like he ravaged Star Trek II. Let's hope the next movie will focus on Rey the new Jedi to beat up her sourly brother even more. oh, and everytime Fin was onscreen I couldn't help but think that Mel Brooks was directing Blazing Speeders (he would have done a better job at giving this thing a soul, not just the heart of a cash register). Let's hope for next year.
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