Am I the only one annoyed at the fact that Dan is super pissy and dismissive during the entire thing, even before he tried the game for the first time? Just comes off elitist as fuck.
It's a Terminator game from a studio that's never made a good game. I think it's fair to go in with low expectations.
As awesome as that Collection of Mana thing is, $40 for a 3 game re-release, especially when one of them is a GB classic game, is maybe a bit too much.
Two of them are just simple emulation jobs. I assume they are thinking some people will be willing to pay $40 for the Trials of Mana translation. I liked Secret of Mana a lot back in the 90s, but it's really difficult to justify paying $40 for a SNES game today.
The multi-part release for FFVII is killing my excitement for the game. I don't want to pay $200+ for a game. Unless they greatly expand each part so it feels like a complete story, it seems like a very weird way to release a game. Even if they tried that, I don't trust modern Square to do a good job with the story. FFXV was just embarrassing.
Honest question: Other than the insane and amazing way this game looks, if I hate/am horrible at "bullet hell" type shooters, is there anything more to this game that would justify a full price purchase for me?
No. I bought it on sale a while ago and didn't love it. It looks amazing, but it really is just a difficult shooter. If you don't like that kind of game, it will probably just be frustrating having to play the same level over and over.
I think it's stupid people get to play this a full week early, and I'm even one of them, with an Origin Premier membership on PC. Whatever is going on with xbox is even stupidier, 10 hours to play a game a week before launch? What if you actually like it? lol. Seems like something that will turn people away more than bring them in.
Also, this game is TOUGH to get a running at a steady 4k60fps on my RTX 2080ti. Have done a ton of tweaking. I'm guessing it's just 30fps on consoles.
It targets 30fps on consoles, but it's not particularly stable. I played a bit earlier tonight on the One X and it's better than the demo a few weeks ago, but it still drops frames pretty often, and runs at less than 30 in town pretty much all the time. There's a scene early on where you have to shut down a glowing portal thing and it drops into what looks like the low 20s there.
Early reports out of the PC version don't sound great either. I have a R7 1700 and a GTX1070 and it sounds like I'll be lucky to hit 1080p/60. I'm still debating paying $20 to get a month of Origin Access to try it out.
I thought this looked cool in a dumb kind of way, but then I saw they wanted $60 for it. From looking at it, I was thinking more like $20. It's fine to made a budget game, but price it accordingly.
When I saw this listed on the Xbox store I turned to my wife and said "I feel bad for the poor bastards who had to spend some portion of their lives working on this." I'm sure no one got into game development to make bad licensed kart racers.
I apparently bought this game in December 2015 and it's been sitting in my 'Early Access' category on Steam ever since. I assume it was part of some bundle, as I usually don't buy games directly unless I'm going to play them soon. It's good to see a long-time early access game actually come out and not have to be moved to my 'Dead Early Access' category.
As a Canadian, tariff charges are fucking insane now, it sucks.
Thanks for the heads up. I've almost ordered shirts a few times, but the price of shipping always makes me back out. It feels bad to pay almost as much for shipping as the item costs. Knowing that I'd probably have to pay even more to customs makes me happier about my decision. I love Giant Bomb, but my premium membership will have to do for support.
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