Evilmetal

59.99 ?? or 69.99 if you want some "battlepacks"

In the earlier years they gave you a CD, a box, and manuals for 49.99. Now they are charging 59.99 as the baseline for a digital purchase. What the hell is that?

Anyway.

The game is not worth it. If there were mod tools available, I'm sure the community would make something much better.

The BF:H doesn't make any sense to me. The gameplay is all over the place.

The heist mode had potential, but it's stupid. I have no idea what's going on. They allow full access to all parts of the map so you can circle behind the enemy spawn and get them from behind. This cuts off the steady stream of players to the 'front'. It's a wrench in the gameplay.

It doesn't make any sense. It's like the mayor of the town says "Criminals, you amass over there behind THIS particular bank. Cops, you amass over there in front of THIS particular bank. On the count of three, have at it." WTF!? so stupid.

Robbing a bank should have the criminals on site first, breaking into the safe and collecting the loot. It's by the time they are going to make an exit that the cops should be arriving. Did I mention it's stupid, and it costs $60? or $70?

Hotwire... no clue. Get into a marked car, and drive... Basically you need to drive in order to be target practice for the other player. There is no other reason. Pointless gameplay. You drive... you get shot out of the car... then you get pissed... you go on foot and camp to shoot others out of their car.

Conquest map.... the dust storm, in the beta map, doesn't make any sense. "If you thought the first 15 minutes of gameplay were boring, wait until the last 5 when the............. storm begins. Teehee" . Stupid.

I don't understand the buying of weapon addons. It doesn't make sense. If you're a cop in the game, and you have money.... why can't you buy an AKM? Free market. That doesn't even make sense either. You're part of the police force, don't they supply you for free? Stupid.

This game is weak. It should have a starting price of 29.99, and then in a few months they should make it go on sale for 19.99. That's the level of this game. And there are no mod tools. If this game were different, in that it had mod tools where BF3, and BF4 didn't have mod tools... THEN BF:H would be looked at differently. Even though BF:H gameplay is weak, if there were mod tools for this game then it would be something to pick up.

No mod tools, weak gameplay, and high entry cost ($60/$70) ---- avoid.

PC--Beta

I have no idea wtf I just played. There is no thinking involved at all. It's just muscle memory. I think my IQ dropped after playing the game. I think I forgot my name after playing a session of this game.

It's too fast of gameplay. It doesn't make any sense. Mindless responses. I don't really recall any interesting moment that stands out about a match. If you were to ask me about, for example, BF2, even now I can fondly recall nice matches, interesting moments that occurred years ago. But for Titanfall, the gameplay is just a blur. I double-jump... I shoot... I eject... rinse wash repeat, in essence.

The gameplay style can be defined by a single term: Hyperventilating .

@Demoskinos:

I did, you're correct. It's a new challenge; old tricks may not work the same on the harder difficulties. I thought the game was worth the purchase after playing through it. The positives outweigh the negatives.

I thought Hitman Absolution was going to really suck, but it turned out well. I thought the instinct would have over simplified the game, but it seems okay after all. Could use some fine tuning. But the instinct system to see enemies through walls, seems okay. It's a system, however, that is too forgiving. I think only people that make foot-step noise, or speak, should be displayed on the instinct view; you know, people who make noise. It should be a 'fog of war' type of logic found in RTS games.

The disguise mechanics are messed up, by how sometimes a guy across the map is suspicious of you; that's stupid.

Also they should have included a custom difficulty setting. This way you can fine tune everything from disabling instinct, but having difficulty on normal; etc, etc... It would be interesting if in a custom difficulty setting one could modify the AI route timings, to altering.... for example: If the AI usually waits at a position for 20 seconds, apply a modifier of -5 seconds or so. To change it up. Also, with a setting, objects that need to be acquired (an ex: fuses) could be put into other parts of map on each play.

I don't like being 'assessed' every moment of the game, by a score system. If anything, show me at the end of the mission only. Isn't there a setting to remove the score from the interface?

While playing the game, it felt too guided. It's a story driven game. I thought to myself "seems like the new Max Payne, without the slo-mo". There are 'sandbox' type of levels but they are mixed in with linear maps.

I liked the cover system. Fist-fighting was interesting, but the button icons seemed too small (or unclear).

It was a lengthy game. Seemed overall like a nice game.

They should let Remedy, remedy the franchise with Max Payne 4.

doesn't this 'episodic' game model seem "played out" ?  
 
Initially wasn't the logic that Telltale develop games episodically, for funding reasons?  They've got money now. They've expanded from Sam and Max and developed other games. Was it not the case that Telltale couldn't get the original Sam and Max voices because they couldn't sign a deal with the original voice actors to do episodes? that Telltale didn't have the funding for all at once payment; but only on a per-episode basis?
 
Why continue with episodes? 
 
With the Walking Dead, they sold the game at full cost but only gave their customers the first of five parts. You give your money up front for an incomplete product? or did they complete it? does anyone know what state it's even in? People are giving money to a black hole?
 
It's a sneaky trick/tactic on their part to extend the marketing for their game. If they released the entire game in one fell swoop, it would initially sell well and then taper off within the first few months. Episodically the hype of the game is extended, unwarranted, and whenever they release an episode [months apart] they 'breathe new life' into the game with 'new' content.  But it's not new content. It's content they are indebted to release, but they use it as a way to reinvigorate sales.   

Maybe if they release a complete game people will think it's of low value, as a whole?  Players would critique it as any other game and would say "It was a short one play through type of game" ?  This is the only way these types of games [no multiplayer, little replayability] can exist in today's market?

@Getz said:

Put that money in the bank and by the time fall rolls around you'll have enough interest to pay for all of it a la carte if you really wanted to. Season passes are kind of a rip-off designed to get you to shell out for something before you know if it's good or not.

Amen

if your motherboard supports 16GB of RAM, you should aim for that amount.
 
Why?
 
Look, don't think that because you'll have a lot of extra RAM that it will go to waste. There are ways that it can be used.
 
Consider a RAM disk.
 
A RAM disk software application takes a user specified amount of RAM and makes it visible to the system as a 'hard drive'.   RAM is very fast, faster than an SSD. So if you can isolate some RAM space for a game (or software application) installation...... it's something to consider.  
 
RAM disk software can 'backup' the RAM's contents on the hdd when you want to shutdown; and load it into RAM when you boot up.
 
RAM is volatile. So when the system loses power, the content of RAM are lost. It may be of interest to exploit this feature of RAM for your own privacy.