Posts by FMPONE

  • Battlefield Hardline

    Honestly that trailer is, for me, a mixture of impressive, intimidating, and a bit boring. It's like one million action montages glued together in high-tech glory and seemingly mindless particle effects. I'm kind of intrigued. Gotta say one thing, that's high tech stuff.

  • Wolfenstein Returns?

    It feels as if I'm nearly complete with my first run through. So much quality everywhere, so many strange decisions, so much I would change, so much I love. It's a great game, but such a mixed bag. Very uneven but very well made at the same time.


    It's like I want to point out all these things that bug me, but I don't want to be a hater, because it's really a solid quality experience also. This game is a good example of doing the fundamentals right concept art-wise, design-wise, mechanics-wise, and how far that can take you when other things get messy.

  • Xbox One

    Quote from blackdog

    PS2 came out first with an almost 2 years lead in availability. Also is written nowhere that Sony does things better as a general rule. Is not like they had that fierce competition back then - that's how I always saw the console state of the game (but I never really got interested in consoles before last gen).


    I would find a new Sony-dominated future pretty scary, they appear quite a lazy and monolithic company to me, with little interest in change. Meanwhile MS have been trying to do things competitors weren't doing, like serious digital distribution, serious motion, serious media center/hub; they might have fucked up, but they've been trying, (involuntarily) giving hints to others in the process - which results in better products for everyone.


    My point is that the industry is a lot more familiar with Sony, and I think MS trying new and different things is more of a symptom of them not knowing what they're doing, throwing shit at the wall, not focusing on core things gamers actually care about (i.e. games). Sony has been in the business so much longer, and I think the trust with MS is still not there with developers, why do I get the sense that people are still unsure that MS isn't about to just drop their console division entirely, or try to gobble up the market in a really gross way like they were at one point with indie devs/charging exorbitant rates for updates. The trust level with MS is just low perennially, I feel like its still an issue and thats ridiculous this many years in. Gamers don't seem to trust MS, developers seem wary of them (especially indies), it's a bad situation.


    Take a look at the number of titles each system has to offer right now. If you care about GAMES, MS is getting absolutely slaughtered.


    You saw it around the time of the XBONE reveal, Sony was just pounding them over the head by repeating what gamers want to hear, instead of MS who were struggling to market features that literally no one cares about (always on kinect for example). The point is that Sony has had a monopoly for a lot longer than MS ever has, and I'm beginning to think the 360 was pretty much a fluke. Sony seems just to get it, substantially more than MS. Obviously they're both big companies capable of making adjustments, but the ball is firmly in Sony's court right now.


    I will probably be buying a PS4 when it makes sense to do so. I will not purchase a bone, probably ever. The 360 was a solid console, but I regret siding with it instead of the PS3, especially because later in life it got amazing titles like TLOU exclusively, whereas the 360 just turned into a COD-mobile. Not to mention the 360 was a piece of shit in terms of build quality, and I burned through like 3 of them. If that isn't enough to lose a customer for life, nothing is.


    Also the idea that Sony is somehow more monolithic than Microsoft is pretty strange and confusing to me, honestly

  • Xbox One


    It's just the industry resetting to default. Remember how dominant the PS2 was?