I feel like I need to play this. Whenever a game is a stinker of such proportions, I need to play that.
Pro Tip: Don't buy video games new, buy them from two years ago at severely reduced prices and in complete form.
Pro Tip: Don't buy video games new, buy them from two years ago at severely reduced prices and in complete form.
so many games nowadays seem to release with the idea that we (the consumer) are willing to pay $60.00 to beta test their game, then wait on patches... and finally (often 6 months down the road) have a playable game worth the $60.00 we spent on it.
It's a twisted and stupid system. Skyrim... they KNEW about the PS3 memory issues but apparently it was the release now, we'll fix it later mentality. Battlefield 3 was even worst with a travesty of a beta (that wasn't an actual beta) only to release a game that barely could be graded as a beta version. SOCOM, MAG... so many games that seem to figure that it's perfectly ok to release a buggy piece of crap and fix it later.
In rare circumstances this is acceptable (bugs they couldn't have possibly known about, etc)... but in general this is becoming "business as usual" in the industry and I hate it.
In fact, much as I wanted to like Battlefield 3, I'll be damned if I'll beta test their crap for them when even the voice chat didn't work half the time. I skipped the game. Maybe next time they'll have a REAL beta test and release something closer to finished.
It's a twisted and stupid system. Skyrim... they KNEW about the PS3 memory issues but apparently it was the release now, we'll fix it later mentality. Battlefield 3 was even worst with a travesty of a beta (that wasn't an actual beta) only to release a game that barely could be graded as a beta version. SOCOM, MAG... so many games that seem to figure that it's perfectly ok to release a buggy piece of crap and fix it later.
In rare circumstances this is acceptable (bugs they couldn't have possibly known about, etc)... but in general this is becoming "business as usual" in the industry and I hate it.
In fact, much as I wanted to like Battlefield 3, I'll be damned if I'll beta test their crap for them when even the voice chat didn't work half the time. I skipped the game. Maybe next time they'll have a REAL beta test and release something closer to finished.
"I've been playing games since I was 4, I'm 28 right now."
I'm about the same! Also, this game is fairly garbage in terms of a product, but for some reason I'm having fun with it. Call it a guilty pleasure -- maybe I just really like the character designs.
But yes, as far as having us beta test the product, as I said in my news story, that's pretty inexcusable. I'm really surprised Capcom went to Slant Six in the first place, unless they knew it would just be a rush-job cash-in. If you bought it from Amazon they should take it back.
I'm about the same! Also, this game is fairly garbage in terms of a product, but for some reason I'm having fun with it. Call it a guilty pleasure -- maybe I just really like the character designs.
But yes, as far as having us beta test the product, as I said in my news story, that's pretty inexcusable. I'm really surprised Capcom went to Slant Six in the first place, unless they knew it would just be a rush-job cash-in. If you bought it from Amazon they should take it back.
Nice write up. I can really see where you're coming from, and I've ran into some of these issues myself. The game locked up on me after playing for only 15 minutes, and I ran into a whole team of people with shotguns in my first match of hero mode. All that aside I'm still having a good time with the game, and I'm looking forward to the military side DLC as long as it's free.
@ Jonathan Holmes: I think every system has their share of games with bad net coding, including Nintendo :P
@ Jonathan Holmes: I think every system has their share of games with bad net coding, including Nintendo :P
Im totally behind you on this. When I pay 60 cunting bucks on a brand new product I expect perfection. Sure a few coding errors are bound to get over looked but it should never be something that is detrimental to the game mechanics at play.
2011 really hammered home the message that most publishers are perfectly complacent in skipping Q&A all together and just dumping the burden on the early adopters. Fucking disgusting, I feel a migraine coming on now just thinking about it.
In any other industry this kind of negligence would result in a mass recall and rightfully so. Unfortunately the vidya game industry seems to be the most ass backwards, consumer hating, circle jerk outside of the Tijuana donkey porn industry.
I wont stand for it. Zenimax and Bethesda robed me of my honest 60 bucks and got off scott free by hiding behind vague PR statements and the piss poor patch community that XBL and PSN have brought upon us. Im never buying a new game for full MRSP. I trust Rockstar with Max Payne 3 but even then im not gonna take the chance. This industry and its publishers have proven to me how worthless they really are.
What makes it even worse is these bastards actually have the gull to turn around and blame the paying customers for the used games market and piracy. I could go on for hours about how both piracy and used games have a direct correlation with increasingly lazy, DLC fragmented, overpriced products but I really need to shut up and take a breather.
2011 really hammered home the message that most publishers are perfectly complacent in skipping Q&A all together and just dumping the burden on the early adopters. Fucking disgusting, I feel a migraine coming on now just thinking about it.
In any other industry this kind of negligence would result in a mass recall and rightfully so. Unfortunately the vidya game industry seems to be the most ass backwards, consumer hating, circle jerk outside of the Tijuana donkey porn industry.
I wont stand for it. Zenimax and Bethesda robed me of my honest 60 bucks and got off scott free by hiding behind vague PR statements and the piss poor patch community that XBL and PSN have brought upon us. Im never buying a new game for full MRSP. I trust Rockstar with Max Payne 3 but even then im not gonna take the chance. This industry and its publishers have proven to me how worthless they really are.
What makes it even worse is these bastards actually have the gull to turn around and blame the paying customers for the used games market and piracy. I could go on for hours about how both piracy and used games have a direct correlation with increasingly lazy, DLC fragmented, overpriced products but I really need to shut up and take a breather.
@holmes
Skyward Sword glitch; Other M glitch; plus most Wii games I yet to play online have net code issues.
Skyward Sword glitch; Other M glitch; plus most Wii games I yet to play online have net code issues.
@Chris - All of these glitches in ORC could have been fixed had the developer bothered to test the game before releasing it and they've been rather upfront that they didn't bother. Metroid and SS's glitches were things that were missed in testing likely because no one anticipated the combination of things a player would have to do to trigger them.
SS glitch got fixed fast, too.
SS glitch got fixed fast, too.
@Silent
Right, but it still *happens* on Nintendo consoles/portables :D. It's software -- it's designed by humans, so it's by definition imperfect.
But yea, Slant Six is no Project Sora of course. :D
Right, but it still *happens* on Nintendo consoles/portables :D. It's software -- it's designed by humans, so it's by definition imperfect.
But yea, Slant Six is no Project Sora of course. :D

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