JohnstonThistle

The Walking Dead, not only did I encounter the PC save-erasing bug 4 separate times, but I couldn't bring myself to enjoy a moment of that experience thanks to technical issues and shambolic writing. Not to mention the whole lack of gameplay and illusion of choice nonsense, try playing it again making the opposite choices... it makes no difference to anything. TWD takes my award for most over-rated, disappointing turd of the year, a fine achievement considering the year also contained Mass Effect 3.

Not played Planetside yet but I totally agree with you in general, I'm seeing lens flare and high contrast BS so much these days, sure it looks pretty but when I'm playing a god damn competitive mp match I want to be able to see my enemies clearly and not be put-off by the frickin' sun exploding in my face any time I glance slightly upwards. Playing a lot of Halo 4 atm and it annoys me to no end on several maps and the campaign, and just... ugh... yeah I'm really tired of it.

@CornBREDX said:

Bioshock 2 was an unnecessary follow up to a great game. It was also made by a different developer, so the fans didn't really care. This one is a prequel, not that that really means much but it's being made by the original BioShock developer and they are trying something new with it. I don't know, can never tell with these things anymore, but it might be fine. Can only wait and see.

I have to disagree on "the fans didn't really care". BioShock 2 was made by a different dev and hardly a necessary sequel (especially considering they set it in Rapture all over again and very little changed) but frankly I enjoyed that game more than the first and have replayed it several times. In fact I'd challenge anyone to mount a definitive argument against it being a far better game than the original. It played better, looked better, had a fantastic story and I know I'm not the only one who loved to wander around Rapture again and see another of its stories. Not to mention the MP was pretty darn fun if a bit silly and the DLC support for that game was outstanding too. I hate seeing BioShock 2 get a bad rap just because it was "more of the same" and "unnecessary", it was still brilliant and had it been released alone would've been seen in a far more positive light. At least that's what I think.

On the topic, nah course not, nobody buys good video games these days.

@EpicSteve said:

The type of people you're talking about don't really think of things like that. They have a beloved franchise and see a new entry (in their mind) all jacked up, it pisses them off. A lot of gamers that aren't as in-tuned with the industry as you and I are get really ticked over really weird and specific changes in shooters.

Wow, sound more pretentious please.

It's nothing to do with being in-tune with the industry, in fact some of the people who get annoyed over specific changes are more "in-tune" (whatever the F*** that means) than you can even imagine, it's just like with a new fighting game. People who play these games obsessively and care deeply about them notice the little things that those more unobservant like you simply don't. Little things change the entire game and if you care about it enough to notice and feel these changes then I'd say you're more in-tune than anyone. People like that aren't ignorant or obtuse, they simply (in this case) adored the way the earlier Halo games played and are sad to see changes that they feel reduce the enjoyment of the franchise. Go look on the MLG forums or Waypoint, people know that Halo 4 inevitably had to be more like CoD and we had to have killstreaks and unlimited sprint and nonsense like that, these people know that that's how the industry works, but they still have every right to complain and spout their grievances to anyone who will listen and discuss.

I liked the mechanic in TWD of not actually playing or doing anything and still classing the thing as a video game. It's super.

@Video_Game_King said:

@Marcelloz said:

To go back to the original posters' frustration and the topic title: Why o why doesn't anybody from the staff just give an answer, even if it is one we don't like?

Because there's a new site coming, and it doesn't make a lot of sense to make fixes for something you're going to replace, anyway.

Wow... There's pathetic excuses and then there's this.

First of all, read the post you're replying to. The guy isn't asking "Why don't they fix this?" He's asking "Why doesn't someone just give us a reply and take two seconds out of their day to post on the forums about this issue." Thus, your argument is already rendered invalid but let's continue...

If something is broken, something that people are paying for, the people running this little something are responsible to maintain it, not only for their paying customers but for themselves, general decency and their own pride in their work. This is a video game site so let's use a video game analogy, say a company releases a console that is broken; they refuse to make any sort of comment on the matter aside from "Well we're making a Console 2 so who cares about fixing that thing you all paid for." Yes, I'm exaggerating to reduce your argument to fallacy but even a much smaller example would have the same effect, do you see how ridiculous you sound? Oh they released a broken thing and have the capability to fix it or at least apologise or deliver a simple reply to the sizeable amount of people complaining but nah who cares... they're making a new thing soon and this one won't matter then so obviously it doesn't matter now and we all have to make do and pay for broken stuff.