EvaUnit02 on 24/11/2016 at 03:02
Quote Posted by Jason Moyer
Everyone knows the greatest time to be a gamer was a 3 month period in 1998.
Oh wow, Zelda: OoT and MGS1 were in fact released around the same time as Thief and HL1. I thought that they came out earlier in the year.
We also live in a Dark Age of shitty consumer practices.
* "AAA Early Access" Multi-million dollar games are launched unfinished on a semi-regular basis and publishers are okay with this because they've already made a lot of money up-front because of pre-order culture. Eg Street Fighter 5, Star Wars: Battlefront, Rainbow Six: Siege.
* More and more publishers are not supplying review code to the press prior to release. Leading to even more rushed, poorer quality, less thorough reviews than before because several publications' survival depend on getting articles out ASAP.
Also letting publishers hide games in a semi-broken state at launch. Eg Arkham Knight PC, Dishonored 2, Mafia 3.
* Content being purposely cut out of a finished game to sell you later and/or entice you to pre-order (else miss out on getting the content for free). Eg Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, DX: Human Revolution, Tomb Raider 2013, most Ubisoft games since 2009.
* Micro-transactions in premium retail games, negatively impacting the entire in-game progression. Eg Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare series, CoD: Infinite Warfare.
Malf on 24/11/2016 at 08:31
Quote Posted by EvaUnit02
* Content being purposely cut out of a finished game to sell you later and/or entice you to pre-order (else miss out on getting the content for free). Eg Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, DX: Human Revolution, Tomb Raider 2013, most Ubisoft games since 2009.
(
http://www.pcgamesn.com/ubisoft-dlc-changes-rainbow-six-siege) Looks like Ubi may have learned their lesson there. Of course, the proof will very much be in the pudding, but it's a good sign. Especially seeing as Respawn are also following the same tack with Titanfall 2.
icemann on 24/11/2016 at 08:33
Annoying that you can't get Titanfall 2 from Steam, only from Origin. Grrr.
TannisRoot on 26/11/2016 at 17:43
Not to mention the shitty anti-consumer practices Hitman is pioneering where content is time locked and progression is tied to online only drm in a single player game.
Sulphur on 26/11/2016 at 18:16
I've played Hitman 2016 levels offline and completed them successfully, so it depends on what you're expecting. If you want mastery unlocks to replay a level or leaderboards or elusive targets, that's stuff you're not going to get without an internet connection, but then, none of it is essential to the core experience AFAIC.
The one thing that concerns me is the game booting you out of the session if your connection drops, which puzzles me as it's a legitimately unwise decision. There's generous checkpointing so you can reload as and when, but it's still not great that the end user has to contend with that.
