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prayformojo on 19 October 2014
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Pipedream24 said:
prayformojo said:
Pipedream24 said:
Way too many games are being released unfinished and unpolished. People paying full launch price for a game and not being able to enjoy many of it's features is just inexcusable. You are going to charge for a beta, fine let people no that up front. So yes, they should have dropped their review score and so should everyone else. The game is a mess.


Behold...THE FUTURE! Gotta love how people defend and celebrate the rise of online centric console gaming. Back in the PS2 days, games released fully tested and AAA were never totally broken. Now it's common place and people actually defend it. 

I think the hardest thing to deal with when you have a high IQ, is accepting that 90% of the population doesn't.

I love the fact that developers can fix small glitches and get input from players to improve the experience. Testers can't catch every glitch and being able to patch out the ones that are missed is great. Having to patch an entire game because it is broken is just ridiculous. Quite frankly, having to patch in weather effects is ridiculous as well. The game was not ready to be released. Plain and simple. Just like Battlefield 4, it is going to be months before the game is truly complete...and that is just sad. But like you stated, people keep defending it, keep buying broken crap, and the cycle continues.


But here's my point. Is having the ability to fix small glitches worth putting up with the Drive Clubs, Battlefields and the overall price gouging we've seen with games getting chopped in half and then released in DLC packages? I don't remember anyone complaining about any AAA games back in the day. No one complained about SMB or Super Metroid. No one bitched about Metal Gear Solid or OOT.

AAA games use to release IN FULL and for the most part, had nothing major wrong with them. If they did, they'd get panned and no one would buy them. But isn't that a GOOD thing? Shouldn't developers who lack skills and don't use testers get punished? 

That's my point. I honestly don't think it was worth it. I think it's caused more harm than good.