That's a great acheivement for Bungie.

For me, Halo or any of the other online shooters are not competition for DUST/EVE.

This is because they are games, entertainment products, but not a genuine war, which is what we have in New Eden. In fact, to call the war in New Eden 'persistent' is to trivialize it.

So far as I can tell, the opportunity to wage a real war against world-class opponents exists and will only exist in New Eden. But it is certainly not for everybody, there are logistical and orginisational aspects to being involved in a real war that some gamers will find a giant PITA, tbh. To me it's an acquired taste.

I think of DUST as scotch, and most of the other games as beer. Both good, all depends on what you're looking for in your favorite poison.

regnum also has poor choice in music and is a scrub.

Isn't regnum in the imperfects??

Again, you are comparing Halo which is a completed game that has been iterated multiple times since it's initial release back in 2004 and has been backed by a multi billion-dollar company like Microsoft (who is just as powerful as Apple) that has been around since the age of the FIRST WINDOWS OS in computer history to Dust 514 which has not even finished closed beta yet being created by CCP which is a small Icelandic company in a country whose total population is less than that of its subscriber base for Eve Online and doesn't have much money compared to the big boys.

Your point is MOOT!!!!!

You really think Dust is going to get great reviews compared to other big high profile shooters? Be realistic. I like Dust way more than these other games? Do you think the reviewers who are use to simple easy games like Halo and CoD are going to like something as complex and deep as Dust? They're going to take points off for the graphics, and for how hard things are to understand at first (this game is very confusing).
Yes the game is in open beta, but do you honestly think that this game is suddenly going to get Halo 4 level graphics, and get super dumbed down user friendly?

I think you're missing my point entirely. I'm not saying that Dust 514 has to get great reviews, in fact I don't care much about the reviews since the game will be free and have lots of players (like I already said). I know CCP is a company from a small company which doesn't have nearly as much money as "the big boys", and they're competing against old experienced shooter IPs, but that's precisely why Dust won't be able to beat them in the reviews, but like I said THATS OK, because Dust doesn't have to beat them in reviews (free game).
My point: Dust 514 can't compete with the big moneybag IPs when it comes to reviews, but that's OK because the game is free.

I Love how you say HALO and COD are easy, yet you have been playing this game for months. This game is so easy, and I don't even use vehicles.

Halo is the most player skilled game out there, but nice try ;)

I think of DUST as scotch, and most of the other games as beer. Both good, all depends on what you're looking for in your favourite poison.

Halo 4 is just a rehash of halo 1, 2 , 3, whatever the fk they called that other one and now they have Halo 4.... if you make that many replications of the same game with improvements on each after 10+ years you better score a 9.8 or quit your fkn job. That being said, Dust will not score high, but also not low. I project a 7- 7.5, which imo is an acceptable and well earned score for ccp. They have picked up some of the best awards for pc. Eve was fkn terrible on day 1, now look at it. Sure it has a few problems still, but some of those just really can't be fixed unless they redid everything ( something about complexity and problems with the orginal coding and guy who wrote it not being around ) It takes like 30 years to max skill on eve, it has been around for 10 years now.. what do you think dust will score in 10 years :) Halo, cod and the likes will be old news

I'll play Halo 4 and Black Ops 2, etc. However, I will be bored of these games fairly quickly and then end up waiting for Black Ops 3, CoD 26.8, Halo 9, etc. DUST, on the other hand, will remain my go-to game because it has a reason to play beyond running in circles killing peeps. It's a beta now, the gunplay is less refined, but in the end I could care less as long as the people I am shooting are dieing to protect a planet in the politically charged EVE universe.

if you take IGN or any "gaming journalism" seriously you might have something wrong with your perception of reality.

they are incredably biased toward the developer. they support day one DLC, they support the banishment of used games, they support selling out, they get their money from ad revenue from these developers. if they gave it a bad score the developer will stop giving them ad money.

just look at the IGN video of them telling that the gamers are entitled when EA failed to meet what they promised.

anyone that supports IGN or any of these backwater companies are not real. developers just see them as another way to push their product.

I don't really pay attention to ANY reviews, I play a demo or a friends version and if I like it I buy it. But I still stand by what I said that ccp will probably get a 7-7.5 and in a few years surpass anything halo or cod has achieved in thier 10 years

None of that persistent stuff exists yet. All we have right now is a lobby shooter.

You really think Dust is going to get great reviews compared to other big high profile shooters? Be realistic. I like Dust way more than these other games? Do you think the reviewers who are use to simple easy games like Halo and CoD are going to like something as complex and deep as Dust? They're going to take points off for the graphics, and for how hard things are to understand at first (this game is very confusing).
Yes the game is in open beta, but do you honestly think that this game is suddenly going to get Halo 4 level graphics, and get super dumbed down user friendly?

I think you're missing my point entirely. I'm not saying that Dust 514 has to get great reviews, in fact I don't care much about the reviews since the game will be free and have lots of players (like I already said). I know CCP is a company from a small company which doesn't have nearly as much money as "the big boys", and they're competing against old experienced shooter IPs, but that's precisely why Dust won't be able to beat them in the reviews, but like I said THATS OK, because Dust doesn't have to beat them in reviews (free game).
My point: Dust 514 can't compete with the big moneybag IPs when it comes to reviews, but that's OK because the game is free.

i don't own a Xbox nor will i ever so i couldn't give 2 ***** about halo 4

You mean the "Games that've done almost everything the same every single year on November and brainwashed almost everyone into thinking they're great games but they're not"?

Yeah I assume you mean those.

What IGN is to 360 games, is what MSNBC is to Obama.