SiN: Episodes

[skdr]

Just purchased and now downloading Sin 1 and Sin 1 Multiplayer, oh joy!

[D3ads]

Is this going to be in the shops? I never played SIN 1 so it'll be cool to play that through

[Bluestrike]

I'll wait for the review in my favorite gameasmagazine for now,

Don't like the sound of episodic really.

Who cares is it looks like HL2 (or not) as long as its fun and makes a littlebit of sence.

Anyway I'm probebly not interested I wait for episode 1 even tough I wonder if its gonna be worth its money as well.

I expect some new things besides more story but I'm wandering off now .

[mikezilla]

i'm also sort of lol about them announcing 9 episodes at 20 bucks a piece.

Hello 180 dollar game.

[KungFuSquirrel]

Eh, 3 episodes is (supposedly) equivalent to 1 full game, then 3 'games' in the full series... Doesn't seem unreasonably out of the ballpark to me.

[Tequila]

I don't think cynical mathematics work here, Mike.

If £12 nets me 5-6 hours of quality gameplay, then I don't see the harm. Whether it delivers remains to be seen, however.

[mikezilla]

its not cynical mathematics.

if a normal studio can make a normal 10-15 hours game in a few years, a SMALLER studio can't churn out the same quality for 5 times the content.

What it is- is a scam. So much filler it'll make your eyeballs bleed.

But hey, it's your money.

[ginsengavenger]

That's the beauty of an episodic game - you buy one episode, get the gist and if it's not your cup of tea you don't have to buy the rest

Maybe they make significant engine improvements or redirect the course of the game later down the line, fine then it's your choice to opt back in and buy another episode or two. But the whole point is it benefits the consumer because you can choose to buy as much as you want.

[Skjalg]

the day sin is released, if everyone on #mapcore go "OMFG LOLOOLO THIS GAME IS SOOOO DAMN GOOOOOD!!!!!!" (in a non-sarcastic manner). And Mazy buys it, writes a review and gives it 3~5 out of 5 georfs, then i'll buy it.

[Tequila]

its not cynical mathematics.

if a normal studio can make a normal 10-15 hours game in a few years, a SMALLER studio can't churn out the same quality for 5 times the content.

What it is- is a scam. So much filler it'll make your eyeballs bleed.

But hey, it's your money.

So you're opposed to episodic content in general? Like, you feel the same about HL2: Episode One?

Fair enough.

[alexroyce]

If the reviewers say its good, I might get it. Otherwise ill just stick with my old copy of SiN

[PhilipK]

well can't preorder it anyway so meh...

why dont they just fix their site n stuff..

[ReNo]

There was a steam update the said it fixed an issue with some people not being able to preorder or something I think. Didn't really bother looking into it, as I didn't have any trouble preorder/preloading it myself. I'm not sure if its gonna be any good or not, but figure that for £12 or whatever it came out at, its worth a shot at least.

[PhilipK]

Yeah I read that too but it sure didn't fix it for me at least.

Can't visit their games section at the steam site at all and all I get on steam itself whichever "page" I try to view is "Page was not found blabla".

[Ginger Lord]

Episodic content just reeks of money gathering schemes.

It works for TV as its free, so you know your gonna get the next bit no matter what. Games...well..I'm not paying £12 every now and then to find out what comes along. I doubt I'll be getting Episode One for that matter either. Sure the HL2 universe is nice, but hey I'm not paying £2 for an hour of gameplay.