I honestly think snipers like the AWP are fine. If a player is standing around an obviously clear chokepoint, they're using it wrong. It's not really the gun's fault in my opinion. You should try telling those players to keep up with the team. Although some other games have awful sniper rifles.
I find the AWP really useful. I use it to clear bombsite B from tunnels in Dust2, or for clearing the people at A from long quite a bit. It's also great for defending. But it is easily countered with a flash and/or multiple people.
But steam regularly gives out practically-free-almost-99%-off games.
Not to mention they give you a like 3-5 day trail on random games like every week.
I'm just talking about how a bunch of people on other sites are hating on this because it's EA, but then move on to another thread to praise Valve and Sony for doing the exact same thing.
Although I have to agree Valve and Sony are doing it better. Microsoft's free game program is getting slightly better, but still lackluster compared to Sony's. And Valve just has way better sales.
I'm cautious on this one. On one hand, this can be extremely beneficial for the team with all the money. But on the other hand, it doesn't seem like they have total control like Palmer was saying on reddit, and some things may change for for the worse for gamers.. Some of his posts reek of PR by Facebook. But I'm not going to jump the gun and say this is the end of Oculus.
Facebook is run in an open way that’s aligned with Oculus’ culture. Over the last decade, Mark and Facebook have been champions of open software and hardware, pushing the envelope of innovation for the entire tech industry. As Facebook has grown, they’ve continued to invest in efforts like with the Open Compute Project, their initiative that aims to drive innovation and reduce the cost of computing infrastructure across the industry. This is a team that’s used to making bold bets on the future.
But the problem is, All the Genres I like, such as exploration, like Skyrim, and, MMOs, such as STO, There is only a handful that fit my taste. Which, is probably part of my generalization. There is still quite a few types I haven't explored yet, so there is still hope.
I also feel things get "rushed and fancy graphics" When a good series goes on for too long. Just like Halo. 3 and reach were the bombshell compared to 4. Battlefield 3 was rock star compared to 4. Perhaps 4 just isn't my number...
I get your point. Sometimes later games are worse because of a lost vision, or important members left from previous games. Or they're getting milked, and things that sell are fancy graphics. I think you may just need to expand your horizon a bit to see all the great games that don't get as much coverage as the worse ones.
I believe their feelings are warranted. Take a game from now, and 1 from 4-5 years ago. The older game will have more content, better storyline, better feel. The only things modern games have is rushed launches, and fancy graphics.
I think your generalizing quite a bit. Rushed launches are becoming more rampant it seems, but I've played tons of modern games with adequate content. Borderlands, Spec Ops: The Line, Brothers, Dark Souls, Sleeping Dogs, Counter Strike Global Offensive, Batman Arkham City, both Metro games, Just Cause 2, Bastion, Torchlight 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Guacamelee!, Mark of the Ninja, Spelunky, Mirror's Edge, Tomb Raider are all examples that I can think of off the top of my head. Only a few of these are from early 2010.
But my point is, you seem to be paying attention to the more popular games like the new Simcity, Aliens CM, BF4, and your CoDs. There are plenty of great games today.
Yeah, it seems like the only thing that is going for Unity is that it's easy with no upfront cost(for the free version). And then it has the one-time payment.
But I'm thinking about switching to UE4 from Unity. I don't really plan on selling my games, so the 5% gross revenue cut doesn't really matter to me. I'm fine with paying $20 every couple/few months to get a good update. It's better than buying plugins off the Asset Store in my case. If I wanted visual scripting, it'd cost an additional $95, if I wanted a better GUI system, that's about $65, and if I wanted better level creation tools, that's another $95.
Definitely buying this. One of the things that looks great is Blueprint, which should be pretty awesome for prototyping.
And now Crytek has announced there $10/month plan for their engine. I wonder if Unity will do anything, since this just happened after the version 5 announcement.
I like Unity3D. Rapid development and relatively easy to use. It has quite the community, so it doesn't take long to figure out the mistake in my code.
I don't really have a favorite engine for playing games, though. I guess Unreal Engine?
Play defensive. If I'm with a good team, we'll usually hold up in a building, with some at a door, and some in the windows. It really works in CoD since everybody loves to run and gun mindlessly.
But when I play like that I usually get like two deaths. And sometimes I just lurk around spots people don't usually look in. There always seem to be a certain "battle area" in the map where everyone goes to. I just hide around the outskirts of it and sneak kills.
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There are a bunch of posts on facepunch. Here's a thread
Apparently there's a fix in there.
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I find the AWP really useful. I use it to clear bombsite B from tunnels in Dust2, or for clearing the people at A from long quite a bit. It's also great for defending. But it is easily countered with a flash and/or multiple people.
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I'm just talking about how a bunch of people on other sites are hating on this because it's EA, but then move on to another thread to praise Valve and Sony for doing the exact same thing.
Although I have to agree Valve and Sony are doing it better. Microsoft's free game program is getting slightly better, but still lackluster compared to Sony's. And Valve just has way better sales.
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Note that I'm not targeting this at the above comment. I just see crap like this everywhere.
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I get your point. Sometimes later games are worse because of a lost vision, or important members left from previous games. Or they're getting milked, and things that sell are fancy graphics. I think you may just need to expand your horizon a bit to see all the great games that don't get as much coverage as the worse ones.
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I think your generalizing quite a bit. Rushed launches are becoming more rampant it seems, but I've played tons of modern games with adequate content. Borderlands, Spec Ops: The Line, Brothers, Dark Souls, Sleeping Dogs, Counter Strike Global Offensive, Batman Arkham City, both Metro games, Just Cause 2, Bastion, Torchlight 2, Deus Ex: Human Revolution, Guacamelee!, Mark of the Ninja, Spelunky, Mirror's Edge, Tomb Raider are all examples that I can think of off the top of my head. Only a few of these are from early 2010.
But my point is, you seem to be paying attention to the more popular games like the new Simcity, Aliens CM, BF4, and your CoDs. There are plenty of great games today.
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But I'm thinking about switching to UE4 from Unity. I don't really plan on selling my games, so the 5% gross revenue cut doesn't really matter to me. I'm fine with paying $20 every couple/few months to get a good update. It's better than buying plugins off the Asset Store in my case. If I wanted visual scripting, it'd cost an additional $95, if I wanted a better GUI system, that's about $65, and if I wanted better level creation tools, that's another $95.
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And now Crytek has announced there $10/month plan for their engine. I wonder if Unity will do anything, since this just happened after the version 5 announcement.
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I don't really have a favorite engine for playing games, though. I guess Unreal Engine?
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There are a plethora of other games on sale, too. I picked up Planescape and Baldur's Gate 2 for about $11.
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But when I play like that I usually get like two deaths. And sometimes I just lurk around spots people don't usually look in. There always seem to be a certain "battle area" in the map where everyone goes to. I just hide around the outskirts of it and sneak kills.