So after picking up fallout new vegas when I was only half way through another game, and now wanted to get assassins creed when I am only a few hours through fallout I have decided that I will now finish my current games before starting a new one. I went through my collection and have picked out the following for me to complete.
Borderlands Resistance (1&2) Modnation Call of Duty (world at war) GTA4 Rockband3 New vegas
(these games I haven't beaten but I dont think im going to try) Demon Souls (played about 15 hours of it, had a great time but I am unable to finish, though I loved my experience with it, and content with how far I got) Sacred 3 (starting playing this with the wife, just to similar to an MMO without anything thats good about an MMO, will no finish)
Any of you have some games you would like to knock off before buying some of the holiday releases?
Valve, for being such an amazing company, they really blow my mind sometimes. In 2007, valve released one of the best gaming packs ever to hit this planet, the orange box, the next year they follow up with an amazing shooter, right on the leading edge of the start of the huge gaming zombie craze. It seemed like valve really couldnt go wrong.
Then they release left 4 dead 2, only 10 months after the first, it left a huge majority of the community pissed. A company whos known for supporting games for years after release, superceded there own game not after 10 months, not to mention with full price. Valve was left with the weird situation where a chunk of the community didnt buy the new game, the community was split in two, neither grew to near the hieght they could have, and today only a year after left 4 dead, you would be suprised to see more then 5 or 6 games online.
Ok, company's can make mistakes that's fine, I supported valve and bought both, twice (for me and my wife). But now with this latest move I am dumbfounded again. After 3 years after the release of TF2, they introduce an addon, which allows you to buy every upgrade in the game, followed by 5 new class updates.
They make the new gear sets, the strongest yet, introducing set bonuses that give some very hefty rewards. Every new item in the game you can find or craft in the game, but theres a few exceptions to note. Each set requires a few weapons, and a then a hat. The weapons arnt bad, with the new trading system, and with some decent luck you could get 3 or 4 new weapons in about 10 hours or so. But the hat... now thats a differnt story.
Rewarding players with time invested is a great idea, gives me a reason to sink as many hours as I do, but with the option of paying $17!!!! for a hat... that gives my scout an extra 20% health, drives me crazy!
So is it worth it? no... $17 for a hat is insane, I would rather earn it, but with some quick math you will see how insane it is.
it takes 2 guns to make a scrap metal, 3 scrap metal to make a reclamed metal, and 3 reclamed metal to make a refined. It takes 4 refined metal and a class token for a chance (1 in 9) to produce the new hat. So lets add that up.
thats 72 guns for the metal, and an extra 3 for the class token, then do that 9 times for the hat, and factor in anywhere fromm 25 minutes to an hour to get a gun that comes to a grand total of!!!!!
225 hours - 675 hours......!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now, before this update that was fine, hats were fun, they were rare, and they were 100% cosmetic. Now its unfair and overpriced.
Valves excuse was they needed money, thats fine. It is understandable that they would cash in on there biggest game right now, but why not make a TF3? or an expansion? or a classic DLC that cost $20?, or make the prices low enough so people will spend the money, not $50 for a game that costs $10.
Is no one else noticing Valves decisions these last few years have been questionable?
I defended this decision for the last few days, but with my entire friends list vacant since this last update, I am quite sad...
Of course there aplications for PCs what I mean is Apps in the sense of the word that apple has created. Why is there no itunes store or android marketplace for PCs? PC software falls into 3 categories.
1. Insanley expensive so only buniseness can afford it, and consumers steal it. (photoshop, microsfot word etc..)
2. Cheap software to do a specific task, but who the hell would put there credit card number in these shady looking websites. (Format converters, file viewers etc...)
3. Software thats free, but is either unsupported, crappy, or filled with advertising. (open office, free antivirus, VLC player etc..)
So, why is there no market for cheap, very task specific applications for PC? I would totally buy a $5 app for a gif creater, or $5 for a pc temp viewer, or $5 for a gmail application that runs on my desktop, not my browser.
A few weeks ago, I picked up both MAG and mod nation racers, (which are both great games btw), but now today I find that both are soon to be greatest hits and get a price drop. I dont have any anger or resentment toward cheaper games, I am just mad at my self for not thinking ahead. The whole greatest hits thing still confuses me, as some games like MW2 are obviously huge hits, but still full price. Maybe ill just try to live in a year in the past, not only will I get games cheaper, but the community driven games that still have a community after a year are the type of games I am interested in.
Oh well, both the games are extremely community driven and the influx of more players will be very welcoming for both those games.
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