Avallo Kantor
DUST University
Ivy League
18
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Posted - 2013.06.11 03:01:00 -
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For all of those shouting the doom of Dust, or trumpeting the announcement of new games,
I urge you not to get too invested in things that are only being shown quick clips of well constructed demos of.
These items are designed by marketing whose exact purpose is to make people want to buy their game,
and they are quite good at their job. This kind of hype happens every year, every time, and will continue to happen
for as many years as humans keep using marketing. They are specifically targeted to show you what you want to
see, and do all the work of making huge promises.
Remember not to be too swept up in the hype, cut scenes are never indicative of game play, and most
demos are custom made, sometimes completely independent of actual production of the game. Much of what is shown at E3 can be changed, backed up on, or removed, and many games being announced are not even slated for release before the next E3.
I'm mostly saying this to try to make sure people don't get burned by shiny cut scenes, or cool features. Remember games like Colonial Marines, or Walking dead (the one that sucked, not the good one) or any of the number of big name disappointments that came in the past. Also recall small games that came in with relatively low fanfare at huge events like this like Minecraft or FTL that took off to become highly successful.
That said, it's not all doom and gloom, and I'm sure a great many of the games being announced will be amazing (or at least I hope they will), but it's good to keep a level head around such things, and not let yourself hyped up to a point where you can only be disappointed. Also recall that many of these games will be out in over a year, which is all sorts of time for other games to be iterated upon, new things to pop out that were unexpected, or might be delayed further, and no I am not just writing this to try to calm myself down over the announcements of SWBF, KH3, or any other games.
TLDR: E3 is Marketing to convince you to buy stuff, take it with a grain of salt. |
Avallo Kantor
DUST University
Ivy League
18
|
Posted - 2013.06.11 03:55:00 -
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Ops Fox wrote:Even if half of what was reveled comes even close to what it offered it will be better than dust.
We expected to have a full line up of racial vehicles and weapon by launch, then they launched the game with barely any content. I can live with them not being able to have X thing by Y date, but the fact they Launched the game with so much clearly missing and then balancing suits for stuff they plan to add later, like the heavies laser bonus when there is no laser heavy weapon.The thing is they launched the game without half the content, they didn't simply miss making a deadline for new content. they Launched it when they didn't have to.
Dust demos looked neat and we don't even half half of what dust videos showed and what we do have isn't working. even if half of what those E3 vedios show is true it will blow dust out of the water. Dust sole saving grace for the last year or so has been the huge void of MMO on consoles. the elder scrolls online, Destiny, and planet side 2 are coming to the ps4.
[Edit: Forum ate what I said]
The other point I was trying to get at was that many of these bigger games, like Destiny, or the Elder Scrolls will not be out any time soon, and many other big names will not be released for around a year, or more. During that time DUST will have time to continuity develop and grow. What we have now is by no means the final iteration on DUST. |