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The inevitable happened (APB shuts down)

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    Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    but you were terrible at L4D 2, Ed.

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    Dr.FunkensteinDr.Funkenstein Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    well to be fair he's bad at every game

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    You can only say that when you're talking about games that are supposed to require lots of skill and practice :P

    If they're making an MMO to be hard to play, well, good luck with that.

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Damn right

    In my defence though L4D is the least involving of all the Valve games I've ever played

    It is not for me

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2010
    Edcrab wrote: »
    The best feedback is when you're told you just suck at the game; there's nothing wrong with it, you're just bad at it

    It's not even an opinion, it's just patently false because you're so terrible at the game that you don't know what you're talking about

    well, I think that's valid in some cases.
    like in World of Tanks some people will just make the most absurd complaints.
    my favorite is when people will complain that artillery ruins the game and doesn't belong. why? because it's called world of tanks.

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Druhim wrote: »
    Edcrab wrote: »
    The best feedback is when you're told you just suck at the game; there's nothing wrong with it, you're just bad at it

    It's not even an opinion, it's just patently false because you're so terrible at the game that you don't know what you're talking about

    well, I think that's valid in some cases.
    like in World of Tanks some people will just make the most absurd complaints.
    my favorite is when people will complain that artillery ruins the game and doesn't belong. why? because it's called world of tanks.

    True

    But I was thinking of a specific instance where I was informed that there's nothing wrong with needing more than an entire assault rifle clip to kill a guy in an FPS, it's just that my aim sucks

    The fact that the devs tweaked the damage mulitpliers to a more generous level with a patch obviously meant nothing

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    Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    If I had tried this game I might have liked it.

    I sometimes like absolutely terrible games.

    Like auto assault. I liked that game. Too bad the servers are shut down now.

    The game was super fun for about a day with a solid group of 4 people. But that's it, it got stale fast, which isn't a good thing for an mmo. And it sounds like it turned into high lvl ppl stomping the hell out of noobs pretty quick

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    tsplittertsplitter Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I logged on for old time's sake yesterday, and then proceeded to get dominated by three guys with fully upgraded everything, so this game is no longer on my computer.

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    MichaelLCMichaelLC In what furnace was thy brain? ChicagoRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    FirmSkater wrote: »

    It's like, the suits, man! Being "corporate" doesn't mean turning stupid, being stupid means turning stupid.

    The best quote for me was, "Developers might not be experts on money, but they’re incredibly smart people, and the parallel between spending in an organisation and optimising code is obvious."

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    RankenphileRankenphile Passersby were amazed by the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited September 2010
    I feel really, really bad for a lot of the folks who spent years working on this game that they had to know wasn't going to work, but were powerless to change it.

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Weaver wrote: »
    Shit subscription model. Shit character advancement. Shit controls. Areas weren't very large. Horrible mission system.

    that's very shitty

    does it also give you giardia when you log on?

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    PhantPhant Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    MichaelLC wrote: »
    FirmSkater wrote: »

    It's like, the suits, man! Being "corporate" doesn't mean turning stupid, being stupid means turning stupid.

    The best quote for me was, "Developers might not be experts on money, but they’re incredibly smart people, and the parallel between spending in an organisation and optimising code is obvious."

    To be fair, I don't think he was saying the problem was the 'suits' so much as that someone decided that suddenly they needed this whole huge internal infrastructure and just went ahead and implemented it without any regard as to if it actually made sense or did anything helpful.

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    BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Apparently Epic are sniffing around this.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
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    FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    maybe you shouldn't think of it as a shooter
    maybe you shouldn't think of it as an mmorpg

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2010
    didn't global agenda end up being pretty meh?

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    Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yup.

    Me and a buddy convinced a friend to buy it cos we didn't have any money and wanted to know what it was like.

    Turns out it sucked.

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    Kuribo's ShoeKuribo's Shoe Kuribo's Stocking North PoleRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    yeah

    hey, all you fans of this mediocre game, come try our mediocre game instead!

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Never played Global Agenda

    But I hear the balance between fresh arrivals and vet players makes things unfun for new starters

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    Beef AvengerBeef Avenger Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Fuga wrote: »
    maybe you shouldn't think of it as a shooter
    maybe you shouldn't think of it as an mmorpg

    well you certainly shouldn't think of it as a driving game

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    Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    And then theres still world of crimecraft of whatever which according to Giantbomb dudes is pretty much like Global Agenda.

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    BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I hope Brink is the one that gets it right.

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    DruhimDruhim Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited September 2010
    yeah

    hey, all you fans of this mediocre game, come try our mediocre game instead!

    well, it makes sense from a marketing perspective
    hey, let's market to people that like mediocre games already!

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    Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Fuck yes I am so stoked for Brink.

    I was stoked for this and GA too though, but Brink is actually looking pretty good.

    I was almost going to preorder it until I noticed it still a ways away.

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Also Brink is being done by Bethesda, who I am a big fan of

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    MrMonroeMrMonroe passed out on the floor nowRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    MichaelLC wrote: »
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    game woulda been easy to fix if they'd just listened to the beta testers. i still had a lot of fun, though.

    If only there was some way to broadcast a message to everyone at once.

    if only there was some way to broadcast the message "beta testers only show up in the office after all primary design and programming is finished. You are here to find bugs, not to say "you know what would be cool is if ________"

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Yeah, if a game is entering beta with major design flaws, chances are they will still be there when the game is released.

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    FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    i heard brink is like WOLFET which owns
    i liked et:quake wars too, does it still have any players?

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    here's an economic protip for you guys

    don't preorder games

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    unless it's civ5.

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    EdcrabEdcrab Actually a hack Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Or something that Valve are gonna let you preload

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    it's a given that civilization will be good. it's from a proven studio who has made four really excellent versions of the same game before

    a multiplayer-based fps from a studio who has made exclusively singleplayer rpgs? yeah, they're not getting my money until i can read a less-than-scathing eurogamer review

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    FugaFuga Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    at least apb didnt have a lifetime membership

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    TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    $10 says bungie will eventually make a Halo MMO.

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    Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    Snowbeat wrote: »
    it's a given that civilization will be good. it's from a proven studio who has made four really excellent versions of the same game before

    a multiplayer-based fps from a studio who has made exclusively singleplayer rpgs? yeah, they're not getting my money until i can read a less-than-scathing eurogamer review

    http://www.splashdamage.com/games/


    Uhhhh.....


    I guess.... They made games with single player, but not exclusively single player games.

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    SnowbeatSnowbeat i need something to kick this thing's ass over the lineRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    oh right, splash damage is making it

    alright, it might be good. still going to hold off. quake wars was pretty balls

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    BigDesBigDes Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    TheStig wrote: »
    $10 says bungie will eventually make a Halo MMO.

    Bungie are done with Halo forever.

    Reach was their last one.

    343i are the ones making Halos now.

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    ArtreusArtreus I'm a wizard And that looks fucked upRegistered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I really liked what I played of the quake wars beta.

    Didn't have the money for it though and it didn't seem like it took off or anything

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    ZzuluZzulu Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    APB was pretty bad. I played the beta for a day, realized there wasn't much of a game there and never played it again

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    Burning OrganBurning Organ Registered User regular
    edited September 2010
    I really liked the QW beta as well. Even tried to get my friends to buy it.

    I have no idea why people didn't like it.

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