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Hey Drgnryder. Welcome! Nice to see a balanced perspective on what this game means to you re: availability to simply enjoy playing a mutually interesting game with friends and like-minded folks. Like most long-time gamers, we've all seen the "clan builders", the power mongers, and the wildly-out-of-perspective-players. Sounds like you've got it screwed on right, so keep on enjoying it. I'm sure I'll see you and yours around in game. Good hunting!
i sincerly hope you have a better experience with the game than i haveQuote:
Originally Posted by drgnryder
I'd say some people are just massively unlucky, I for one have had very minimal issues with the game sense beta. Yeah lag was bad day one with 100+ people driving circles around my first arkfall, but not 3 hours later the dev's fixed that issue on my platform of choice [PS3]. I played at a pretty rushed pace and it took me 2 weeks to complete the main story arc, didn't even touch the challenges or coop or pvp. Just started on that front barring the mic failure issue and the ever so rare hard freeze, the random graphical glitch my issues have been minimal. Even got my preorder goodies without hassle. People spouting this game is so broken worse thing evar!@111!1! Have never played games prior to this one hell.
Let me point out the all too praised game that reviewers and haters have compared this too and rather poorly: Borderlands. That game was worse off than this and I mean both of them were mics never worked screen tearing, terrible graphical glitches, horrid AI, and that notorious loot table [that by the way are present in every rpg ever created] was nothing but a random small stat counter. Did I mention the other game that was recently released in such a poor state BECAUSE of borderlands existance? Aliens colonial Marines... such a sad peice of hardware.. talk about BROKEN I'll show you that game and that was because through fraud the studio behind it stole from another company in order to finance BL1/2. I was one of the unfortunates to get the CE of ACM... Defiance I also did thinking I must be a glutton for punishment but so far I have had more enjoyment and gametime out of this game than the highly polished Bioshock Infinite, 10/10 game of the century right? lol
this game may be broken but dont group it with that hot salty garbage Borderlands - that game was nothing more than the cheapest Fallout knockoff with a terrible storyline and all around terrible execution.Quote:
Originally Posted by mnemiki
Bioshock Infinite is a 2K game - more than enough said
Good point. I have had little trouble that wasn't chalked up to "new game-itis", and as my expectations weren't for a finely tuned and polished product on release day (and in fact for a couple of months or so after) I can say that my expectations for a good game concept and game play have been easily met.Quote:
Originally Posted by mnemiki
For anyone who has played more than 3 or 4 large-scale games (and at least one from lauchday forward) there should be very little in the way of condemnation. Is the lag still a periodic issue? Absolutely. Are there hiccups and lockups? Yep. That said, if there is any thought that state the game was released in would be similar in a month, much less a year or more... well, please allow me to welcome you to the wide world of gaming with a bit of advice. If you are dissatisfied to the point that your displeasure is obstructing your enjoyment, then please move along to the next game with all blessings. If you can be a bit more patient then you'll see what happens when a game goes through its birthing pains, is allowed to address its issues with due responsibility to the game's subscribers (us), and then progresses to levels of polish and refinement that make the game special (cite: WoW, EvE, EQ2, etc).
Amen. I bought into the hype/hope of ACM as well, and it does seem that I'm not the only one who sensed that game was in far deeper trouble. Sometimes a game simply doesn't have the foundations or direction to give the players a sense that it can overcome its considerable faults. Such was the case with ACM. My gut feel (followed up with a bit of research) is that while we're still in the infancy of Defiance, all the hallmarks are there to suggest that we'll see pretty regular efforts to insure that the game is not only playable but provides ongoing enjoyment for day 1 players and ongoing new subscribers alike.Quote:
Originally Posted by mnemiki
Just my .02 creds. Again, if you don't have the patience then move along. I know some find a huge amount of validation and a sense that vocalizing lends you some sort of gaming credibility if you run to forums and spout your vitriol. Fine - you are as free to do that as I am not to read it. Spend your time doing that if it helps vend pent up frustration.
If you are patient and when necessary can go through the bug report steps as a responsible participant in the ongoing development of a pretty cool game, well, I'm sure we'll be knocking down mutants side-by-side in game soon enough. :)