re: Don’t buy SW: Battlefront 2

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I trust your gaming advice

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yeah, you shouldn't do that

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...mostly.

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step in the right direction

Have played neither, but I really want to try out Origins. Heard it's a good story but slow starting. Plays well but seems almost more hack and slash than an assassin game. Not sure how to feel about that but combat was never anything that drew me to the AC games.

And all I've read on Shadow of War is more of the same, which is a good thing, but it can really drag on. Lord of the Rings stuff is really tacked on with no real purpose, and of course, the loot box stuff drove people mad.

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I saw I got downvoted for my previous comment, but that wasn't me wishing that they cost that much. We're just fortunate that games are still the price tha they are. If you read all the horror stories about development times and grueling work schedules for some of these people, I'm really surprised we haven't seen a price hike in some time.

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Agree and disagree. The market should find an equilibrium where the producers are making games/content that is profitable where consumers are happy to pay whatever cost that may be and value it appropriately.

If there is this much contention, on average, things will shift somehow. This was part of the price of chasing HD before it was cost effective to create it. Budgets have been accelerating since the Xbox/PS2 gen, and ballooned over the last two gens.

I actually do think the hesitancy of a cost raise is that games will be priced out of the target audience market. Once you get to that $100 consumer buying patterns change, even if it doesn't seem like it is that much. You know they'd be doing it if they thought they could make money that way.

I wouldn't say people are "fortunate" at all, but companies have decided that profits are better keeping core games prices at $60. Let's not act that the $60 is altruistic.

I mean I like killing people but I thought Creed games were supposed to be somewhat stealthy

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Damnit. I already bought Creed thinking it would be more like Spinter Cell with a blade in Egypt. I bought LOTR for mass killing spree venting in case I got pissed at Creed.

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It isn't mass killing unless you want it to be.

Not an AC fan. But this might be the best AC. The story, setting and game play have all improved. Basically they made AC play like the Witcher 3.

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Yea, Creed has always been how you want to play it. I kill everyone in site. Nobody can alert the authorities if there are no authorities

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I do enjoy killing sometimes. Then other times, if the area is designed for stealth play well, i'll sneak around.

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Talked about the campaign

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Gameinformer mentioned it briefly.

***Slight Spoilers ahead***

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I can also say I didn’t enjoy the single-player campaign. Iden Versio’s story starts on a strong note, but quickly falls apart. For the sake of spoilers, you may want to stop reading here. EA doesn’t follow through on the promise of seeing Star Wars from a different perspective. Iden has a big change of heart that completely sucks the soul out of the experience. It ends up becoming a cookie-cutter Star Wars story that is upended even further by lengthy, player-controlled hero cameos.

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LINK

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Don't you ever mention those two franchises in the same sentence ever again. You hear me bud?

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It is a want to be Witcher 3.

Better?

Take all the good things with traveling on Rouche, waypoints, discovering items on the map etc and put it into AC.

AC sucks. But they didn't do too bad with this one. Thankfully by stealing ideas from CD Project Red.

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It’s because of idiots like you I won’t be able to enjoy playing a game without having to pay for microtransactions. Stupid sheep

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Well, I plan on enjoying it, and Im not going over that paywall beyond my inital purchase of the game. So, have pouting while I have fun pew, pew, pewing.