Yeah. But the problem is the reviews are often overrating the games. I seem to have much higher standards than most of the reviewers, because most of the games in the 80%-90% get a "doesn't suck" from me, some get a "sucks" (Oblivion comes to mind, so does Neverwinter Nights; and yes i do like RPG-s). My recent encounter is with Mass Effect. It didn't suck, but all the things the reviews promised: open ended gameplay, ethical decisions, clever writing, just wasn't there. All I got was a story and game structure which didn't seem more complex than that which i saw in Baldur's Gate 2, even the story followed some of the same paths(a Bioware game also). The only thing what they seem to have improved is graphics and it doesn't even seem to have a point.
At least to me, graphics don't matter. Id rather they used a similar system to WoW. The graphics don't have to be top-notch but they should be distinctive and easy on the eyes.
So, please, game developers. More development of gameplay and story and less focusing on graphics. Eye-candy is worthless without a reason to watch( unless it's less than five minutes). It's unfair to your customers that a 10 year old game like Fallout 2 has more depth than games nowadays.
Or if they insist on having latest and greatest graphics, why not develop a solid engine and tools and start making an episodic game. Seems to me that if the game clicks with the gamers then the few times a person plays it is not enough and he/she wants to see the story develop a bit(or a lot) more.
Maybe I could explain this with a Mass Effect analogy.
Let's imagine that the Russian media is the Fox Network. Like the Fox Network it has its target demographic which in this case are the Russians, but in Estonia the ethnic Russians follow the Russian media to and almost (i said almost) exclusively. So when someone in Russian media makes a false statement (like the one made by the Fox Network against Mass Effect) the ethnic Russians are more likely to listen to that information. For instance, the protesting began because someone made a claim that Estonian authorities are trying to move the statue without proper ceremonies and they are doing it right now, which was completely false(the decision to move the statue quickly came later when the riots had already started). Now when the Russian media claims that this was the plan all along Russian people who felt that their national pride had been insulted took action, which didn't require any interference from the secret service or Kreml (but it doesn't rule their involvement out, especially in publishing the false information in the first place).
The idea was to distribute enough FUD for people to act, which was like the with the Mass Effect discussion. Even though this was for different reasons, and it is likely that the Fox Network made the false claims unknowingly and for the sake of having a news article.
If you still think that I need my tinfoil hat, then please tell me so.
...perhaps as many as one million slave computers in places as far away as North America and the Far East -- to amplify the impact of their assault. In a sign of their financial resources, there is evidence that they rented time from trans-national criminal syndicates on Botnets. Even more, the Russian secret service didn't need to be involved in it, all they needed to do is accuse the Estonians in a major newspaper and the people who had the knowledge and resources would act themselves.
Maybe if you would knew a bit of that situation you wouldn't say that. Because the one who got caught was also an ethnic Russian. Born in Estonia to Russian parents. And he said he got the idea from various blogs and forum posts which called people to attack Estonian servers. These blogs and forums were in Russian servers. Besides the IP addresses showed the majority of the attacks to be from Russia. The guy in Estonia was just easier to arrest.
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Yeah. But the problem is the reviews are often overrating the games. I seem to have much higher standards than most of the reviewers, because most of the games in the 80%-90% get a "doesn't suck" from me, some get a "sucks" (Oblivion comes to mind, so does Neverwinter Nights; and yes i do like RPG-s). My recent encounter is with Mass Effect. It didn't suck, but all the things the reviews promised: open ended gameplay, ethical decisions, clever writing, just wasn't there. All I got was a story and game structure which didn't seem more complex than that which i saw in Baldur's Gate 2, even the story followed some of the same paths(a Bioware game also). The only thing what they seem to have improved is graphics and it doesn't even seem to have a point.
At least to me, graphics don't matter. Id rather they used a similar system to WoW. The graphics don't have to be top-notch but they should be distinctive and easy on the eyes.
So, please, game developers. More development of gameplay and story and less focusing on graphics. Eye-candy is worthless without a reason to watch( unless it's less than five minutes). It's unfair to your customers that a 10 year old game like Fallout 2 has more depth than games nowadays.
Or if they insist on having latest and greatest graphics, why not develop a solid engine and tools and start making an episodic game. Seems to me that if the game clicks with the gamers then the few times a person plays it is not enough and he/she wants to see the story develop a bit(or a lot) more.
And there is a fatal flaw in your pointing out that he has a fatal flaw in his last argument, namely - Wine is not an emulator
Maybe I could explain this with a Mass Effect analogy. Let's imagine that the Russian media is the Fox Network. Like the Fox Network it has its target demographic which in this case are the Russians, but in Estonia the ethnic Russians follow the Russian media to and almost (i said almost) exclusively. So when someone in Russian media makes a false statement (like the one made by the Fox Network against Mass Effect) the ethnic Russians are more likely to listen to that information. For instance, the protesting began because someone made a claim that Estonian authorities are trying to move the statue without proper ceremonies and they are doing it right now, which was completely false(the decision to move the statue quickly came later when the riots had already started). Now when the Russian media claims that this was the plan all along Russian people who felt that their national pride had been insulted took action, which didn't require any interference from the secret service or Kreml (but it doesn't rule their involvement out, especially in publishing the false information in the first place).
The idea was to distribute enough FUD for people to act, which was like the with the Mass Effect discussion. Even though this was for different reasons, and it is likely that the Fox Network made the false claims unknowingly and for the sake of having a news article.
If you still think that I need my tinfoil hat, then please tell me so.
Yes, I know, this analogy needs more cars.
...perhaps as many as one million slave computers in places as far away as North America and the Far East -- to amplify the impact of their assault. In a sign of their financial resources, there is evidence that they rented time from trans-national criminal syndicates on Botnets. Even more, the Russian secret service didn't need to be involved in it, all they needed to do is accuse the Estonians in a major newspaper and the people who had the knowledge and resources would act themselves.Maybe if you would knew a bit of that situation you wouldn't say that. Because the one who got caught was also an ethnic Russian. Born in Estonia to Russian parents. And he said he got the idea from various blogs and forum posts which called people to attack Estonian servers. These blogs and forums were in Russian servers. Besides the IP addresses showed the majority of the attacks to be from Russia. The guy in Estonia was just easier to arrest.