Saturday!
EA claims to have learned its lesson (granted, it is doing this for the umpteenth time) and, thus, has created a void. Ubisoft has decided that it is more than happy enough to step up. After one of Ubi’s yearly Assassin’s Creed games came out, screenshots started showing up demonstrating that, hey, maybe they should have spent a little more time making the game actually work.
Here’s the openers from a recent blogpost: “In this blog post, we wanted to touch on the fixes to the game that we’re working on right now.”
That, right there, is a sign that you screwed up. Perhaps even royally screwed up.
I’m beginning to suspect that the yearly release schedule for AAA franchises is messing up the industry.
As such, I’m looking forward to Shadows of Mordor (for 360) next week and will wait for the reviews of Rogue to settle before picking that up… because, seriously guys. You need to stop putting out games that you later need to apologize for.
So… what are you playing?
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I decided to hold off on Shadows of Mordor for Xbox, and wait until I got around to getting a PS4. (PS4 won me this go-around over Xbox One. And I really didn’t want to switch).
The nemesis system is supposedly gone, which is 90% of why I wanted to play it.Report
I like how the first problem they totally know they’ve got to get on is “Arno falling through the ground.”
I tried playing Assassin’s Creed once and found the interface too complex and difficult to do more than run and jump. But at least I didn’t fall through the ground.Report
In Thief Gold you could fall to infinity, if you were enough of a playtester to find the open bit. It was beautiful,and hilarious,Report
There was a glitch in the PC version of Grand Theft Auto San Andreas that almost made me destroy my computer. If you had used any GTA:SA mods whatsoever, you had to fish with a couple of the files. The result was that, if you were playing the regular game, and came to one of the last missions, Saint Mark’s Bistro, which involved flying to Liberty City. You’d fly there, get picked up, taken to the Bistro, and when you walked in you’d fall through the floor (along with several wise guys). After a long free fall (minutes!), you’d end up in the ocean impossibly far from any land (the map would show no land, and no amount of swimming would take you to land). Mission: not completed.Report
Then there was that one game, that was rendered unplayable when Windows fixed the bug (undocumented feature!) they were exploiting to make their code run faster…Report
What game was that?Report
Dungeonkeeper.
Way back when, folks pretty much found every exploit they could, simply to make their games work well.Report
” fish with a couple of the files….you’d fall through the floor (along with several wise guys)….end up in the ocean”
You sure this was a glitch? Sounds like a mob-appropriate ending, sleeping with the fishes and all.Report
Having finally beaten Dragon Age: Awakenings and Witch Hunt, I’m playing my way through all of the origin stories. Gur Qjneira pbzzbare bevtva fgbel jnf…abg gur qrcerffvat gentrql gung V rkcrpgrq vg gb or. Nf n znggre bs snpg, vg jnf qnza arne n unccl raqvat (can you really spoil a five-year-old game? Dunno, but just in case…). Just the Dwarven Royalty story to go, and then I’ll move on to Dragon Age II just to witness the train wreck for myself.Report
At least one of the “bugs” is just a developer’s prank (meant for inhouse laffs).
You think devs like releasing buggy code? Thing is, folks still pay oodles of money
for things that are buggy — and thus EA thinks they can wring every last hour
from their devs day during crunch time, and things fall through the cracks.Report
Civilization Beyond Earth. I need to step up the difficulty level. It’s pretty odd that in 3 playthroughs, only one time has war been declared on me through all of the playthroughs combines (okay two, but it was the same Civilization, trying and failing to recapture his old lost cities).Report