That’s funny..I thought I was the only person who said “Weak Sauce”. Lol

Just frustrating with the types of problems we are seeing from these “nextgen” games when last gen seemed to have most the kinks worked out.

Whether games are being released incomplete, or with major glitches and bugs, or with major online issues, it just seems to be one thing after another lately.

I like patches as much as anyone to correct gameplay issues, but some of these things never should have been in the retail copy to begin with.

Just frustrating. . .[/quote]

I understand your frustration, but I don’t really think things are different now than they were then. It was just that people accepted things more, as games progressed and the technology improved people became more demanding of them. I guarantee the games you played 10 years ago had as many damaging problems if not more than we have now. It was just you had to live with them because no fix was coming.

Now that is not an excuse to have non-functioning features around release time. I’ve written harsh articles on EA numerous times for that (Tiger Game face, NCAA online dynasties, NCAA online performance, Madden online performance) and 2K (MLB 2K8 online performance), and SCEA (The Show online performance).

It’s one thing to have aspects of a game people don’t like or glitches, every game will. But when you advertise a feature and don’t deliver you deserve to hear from the community about it, unfortunately the media doesn’t seem to care. They review a game, don’t even test online play as we see time and time again, and move on to promoting the next game to come out. Until they make these companies be accountable there is no end to this in sight.[/quote]

Yes companys should hear from the community when they advertise a feature & don’t deliver, but just because the online play of the game isn’t as smooth as offline play doesn’t mean reviewers should give the game a significantly lower score. A game can still be good without online play. People shouldn’t expect so much out of online play in my opinion.

Just frustrating with the types of problems we are seeing from these “nextgen” games when last gen seemed to have most the kinks worked out.

Whether games are being released incomplete, or with major glitches and bugs, or with major online issues, it just seems to be one thing after another lately.

I like patches as much as anyone to correct gameplay issues, but some of these things never should have been in the retail copy to begin with.

Just frustrating. . .[/quote]

I understand your frustration, but I don’t really think things are different now than they were then. It was just that people accepted things more, as games progressed and the technology improved people became more demanding of them. I guarantee the games you played 10 years ago had as many damaging problems if not more than we have now. It was just you had to live with them because no fix was coming.

Now that is not an excuse to have non-functioning features around release time. I’ve written harsh articles on EA numerous times for that (Tiger Game face, NCAA online dynasties, NCAA online performance, Madden online performance) and 2K (MLB 2K8 online performance), and SCEA (The Show online performance).

It’s one thing to have aspects of a game people don’t like or glitches, every game will. But when you advertise a feature and don’t deliver you deserve to hear from the community about it, unfortunately the media doesn’t seem to care. They review a game, don’t even test online play as we see time and time again, and move on to promoting the next game to come out. Until they make these companies be accountable there is no end to this in sight.

2day was a good day

Just frustrating with the types of problems we are seeing from these “nextgen” games when last gen seemed to have most the kinks worked out.

Whether games are being released incomplete, or with major glitches and bugs, or with major online issues, it just seems to be one thing after another lately.

I like patches as much as anyone to correct gameplay issues, but some of these things never should have been in the retail copy to begin with.

Just frustrating. . .