No, Vae, FF13 is shit. Dishonored is "decent but not game of the year good." There IS a difference, you know. Gamers have a very strange, skewed sense of what is shit and what is merely suffering the crime of not being perfect. Dishonored operates perfectly fine, has replayability, decent graphics, an interesting art design, variety, and depth. Nothing in that damns it to being shit. The execution of the game, however, came up a bit short and seemed to promise more than it delivered, though it ultimately delivered enough to be entertaining.
So, no, it's not shit. You know what is shit by virtue of not being perfect, though? Skyrim. The dragon AI in that game is fucking terrible. What should have been epic encounters that should've had me on the edge of my seat ultimately ended up involving me just holding the right trigger down to power attack with my warhammer until the dragon fall over dead. Even with the difficulty cranked up, the challenge felt lackluster and I shouldn't need to crank the difficulty up to hard or higher to START feeling like I'm fighting, well, a fucking dragon, and not a giant soft-scaled lizard that can warm me up in the middle of a cold winter night or cool me off in a summer heat and occasionally nibbles too hard. Also those trees. Until the HD patch, those trees were baaad.
And actually I loved the atmospherics of Fallout 3. Not QUITE so much with New Vegas though NV definitely had its areas where the environments were really fuckin' good. I don't think FO1 or 2 are better games than 3 or NV, though, and I REALLY don't think Tactics or Brotherhood of Steel were better than any of the others. People seem to be under the misapprehension that graphics are the only things that have been improving in games. They're not. Stories are getting better, too. I defy someone to look back at Final Fantasy 7 and really try to maintain that it was a good story compared to some of the better works of modern gaming with a straight face. Good luck, you'll need it. Compared to modern storytelling, the characters are stale, dull, lifeless, and bland, the story is nonsensical and contradictory and flat-out just poorly-written, and the gameplay is slow, grinding, and tedious, lacking subtlety and all around not quite as fun as I remember it being when it was the best that gaming had to offer me in terms of all that I just mentioned. There's more improving in the medium than just graphics. Always remember that. Aesthetics alone do not change in culture.
I wouldn't even call it a graphical update. I would call it a graphical update and a massive step backwards in the franchise. You went from controlling entire complex megalopoli regions interconnected with one another through complex commuting networks and infrastructures...to a city that at its biggest will spike 200,000 if you REALLY fuck everything else off in exchange for that alone. Fucking BOOOOO.
So, no, it's not shit. You know what is shit by virtue of not being perfect, though? Skyrim. The dragon AI in that game is fucking terrible. What should have been epic encounters that should've had me on the edge of my seat ultimately ended up involving me just holding the right trigger down to power attack with my warhammer until the dragon fall over dead. Even with the difficulty cranked up, the challenge felt lackluster and I shouldn't need to crank the difficulty up to hard or higher to START feeling like I'm fighting, well, a fucking dragon, and not a giant soft-scaled lizard that can warm me up in the middle of a cold winter night or cool me off in a summer heat and occasionally nibbles too hard. Also those trees. Until the HD patch, those trees were baaad.
And actually I loved the atmospherics of Fallout 3. Not QUITE so much with New Vegas though NV definitely had its areas where the environments were really fuckin' good. I don't think FO1 or 2 are better games than 3 or NV, though, and I REALLY don't think Tactics or Brotherhood of Steel were better than any of the others. People seem to be under the misapprehension that graphics are the only things that have been improving in games. They're not. Stories are getting better, too. I defy someone to look back at Final Fantasy 7 and really try to maintain that it was a good story compared to some of the better works of modern gaming with a straight face. Good luck, you'll need it. Compared to modern storytelling, the characters are stale, dull, lifeless, and bland, the story is nonsensical and contradictory and flat-out just poorly-written, and the gameplay is slow, grinding, and tedious, lacking subtlety and all around not quite as fun as I remember it being when it was the best that gaming had to offer me in terms of all that I just mentioned. There's more improving in the medium than just graphics. Always remember that. Aesthetics alone do not change in culture.
I wouldn't even call it a graphical update. I would call it a graphical update and a massive step backwards in the franchise. You went from controlling entire complex megalopoli regions interconnected with one another through complex commuting networks and infrastructures...to a city that at its biggest will spike 200,000 if you REALLY fuck everything else off in exchange for that alone. Fucking BOOOOO.
