Avallo Kantor
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Posted - 2013.06.21 21:23:00 -
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PlanetsideTwo F2PonPS4 wrote:Great thread, planetside has a great Core, dust's core is dust.
You cant build the empire state building on a swampland, or you get leaning tower of piza.
Dust is the leaning tower of piza
It's funny you should say that, because I don't necessarily consider the core of a game to be simply the mechanics by which certain game features work, but instead by the motivation for the process of the game, the underlying schema behind creation and development. In that sense DUST has an extremely good core because the developers are motivated by a very, very large scale dream, that will probably take a long time for them to develop into.
Games such as Planetside 2 already have their core created and finished. Fighting on a rather large map, with a few copy/pasted installations on them for some samey-shooty fun.
(note the below examples are taken form the perspective of childhood, which I'm sure everyone remembers.)
I would instead of making the comparison you made, make this one, Planetside 2 is a rather large one story Chucky Cheese. It's fun to play in for a while (I enjoyed it when I was a kid), but it's not something you'll stay in forever. It's also really rather complete. They might swap out or improve some of the arcade games inside, add a new slide, or change the menu, but it's still a one story Chucky Cheese.
DUST 514 is going to be Disney World. Right now only a few of the rides are finished, and not all the characters are walking around, but all the other areas are under construction, new rides are being made, and it's a place you don't want to really leave. It will keep growing, adding new attractions, new areas to explore, it'll add those cool roller coasters, and more. It's not done growing, and likely never will stop expanding.
[Edit:] I should also quickly throw in that I quite enjoy the rides it has so far. Which for the purposes of this example is Thunder Mountain. |
Avallo Kantor
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Assert Dominance wrote:Shadowswipe wrote:PS2 doesn't have the depth Dust currently has. In PS2 if you take the entire game world as your faction, you could go eat for 2 hours and the whole damn planet will be flipped to a different faction. It is a giant waste of time as nothing you do matters for longer than 30 minutes. You can't claim anything for yourself.
Dust on the other hand, you can claim a planet and hold it for weeks and GET money from it.
I could go on for hours about that, but that is the gist of it. Dust has more depth than Planetside 2. doesnt matter how much depth the game has or how brilliant the concept is, if they cant perfect the fps mechanics the game will fail, and this game has the worst mechanics of any game known to man
It's clear you haven't played many games in that case.
Or you are trying to give a massive exaggeration for the purpose of making a point.
This game does have a large number of bugs, but I can at least get through a match just fine.
I've played games that have had much, much worse bugs.
There was a time in WoW when a zeppelin crossed over to the other continent and forgot to load the zepphlin, letting us all plummet to a rather comical death.
There was a situation in PS2 in beta that would literally kill your modem, and you'd have to hard reset it to get it to work again.
EVE had a patch that literally destroyed the boot.ini file of some users. Killing their machine.
I've played games that gave fatal errors on start up, blue screens, and worse.
I've played games where somebody "accidentally" permabanned the entire player population for a few hours. (it got fixed)
To claim this game has the worst mechanics of any game clearly shows you are rather new to the whole gaming experience. Trust me, there is FAR worse out there. |