I didn't skip out on a LOT of games, but I'm finished with every big title I currently own, besides a few straggling backlogs that should be done any day now all my free time will be spent in X!
So your pretty standard molehill here then? Game dips a few frames every now and then like console games have in the past decade, but folks react that a slight drop in frames is practically their consoles exploding.
You're completely selling the situation short, these are not slight drops or a 'few frames now and then', that would be mostly acceptable, this however is constant intolerable jank.
What I hate is how a lot of developers won't even acknowledge this stuff, I'd be fine with picking this up if someone would come out and say "yeah we see the issue and are working on it" like the dudes over at CDProjekt RED, but instead we'll probably have nothing but silence until the next patch is out and someone does another analysis, or worse it could never get addressed.
I just can't see myself enjoying it in this state.
Honestly think Halo 5 looks 'okay', it just looks like Halo 4 again with a higher resolution, it definitely doesn't look like a new gen Halo, some of the textures even look worse in places.
The one thing that really irks me is when the framerate on enemy animations gets cut in half when they're far away, it looks so bad and effects gameplay when you're trying to hit someone in the head from far away but they're too jittery to get a bead, if this is one of the things they had to sacrifice to get a solid 60fps it just isn't worth it.
If you get a Wii U now it'll set you back as low as $200 for a refurbished system vs whatever price the new system will be, rumors have it that it might be pretty high end, perhaps ahead of the PS4 (don't quote me on this), so it might be fairly expensive.
A new console has next to no major titles worth playing for the first year or so unless there's one super special one in particular they announce, while you already have a backlog of games you want to play on the U.
There's no guarantee the next system will have backwards compatibility so you might still be missing out on the ones you want to play right now.
For online games, Splatoon in particular, there's a chance the community will have moved on by the time you get to it.
Really it depends on if the games you'd want to play justify the price point, and if you have the patience to wait.
@boboblaw: I was in the same boat, I've only played 3 of the previous titles, 1, 2, and Black Flag, so coming back into a city based one 8 years since the last one of this style that I've played is kind of refreshing, I have nit picks but I've been thoroughly enjoying it enough to not regret my purchase.
@sudo_melon: A single game can't fix a bad reputation, regardless of quality, it can make up for it a little by not succumbing to the same issues, but you can't mend bad faith that easily.
I'm willing to bet this game will get unfairly treated just because people will be looking at it through a much harsher critical lens after Unity.
I really don't understand all the high praise this game is getting from critics. I haven't played past Brotherhood, and I just watched the Syndicate quick look. Syndicate looks exactly the same as the others. Assassin's Creed hasn't changed in years! Except if you count the few times you could steer a boat, I guess. And it's not just this game. I feel like all of Ubisoft's open world games are created by some factory at this point; the only difference being the color of paint used.
I don't understand why that matters, why does it need to change to be considered good?
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