James-5955
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Posted - 2013.06.25 16:08:00 -
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Comparing this game to Rome is pretty funny. A+ for effort but in the end Dust is still only a mediocre shooter at best and will have to compete against other shooters that are already better. I don't expect Dust to eventually become a good or great game (in my standards) because I feel the core mechanics are flawed.
The main core mechanic that I dislike? The SP system. The games I remember being good didn't make you grind to have an advantage or grind to stay on par with other players. They'd give you unlockables and a leveling up system with some other unlockables that don't really make your character better but what you could unlock was well balanced with all the other items and just gave you a different weapon that required a different playstyle to use well.
That's how I like shooter games to be. I think that someone should be able to buy it, log on and the only real disadvantage they have is not knowing the maps well and not being quite used to controls/sensitivity. You know, stuff that comes with experience in a game. To someone new who joins in Dust it's BS, people are running around that have much stronger characters than you AND they know the game better, just stacking advantage on advantage. Yeah they *can* grind through it, but how long will it take to reach 8+ mil SP, especially without boosters? & in the end would it even be worth it when the game is mediocre anyway?
It's the same issue I had with EVE, you can join now but you are insanely behind the vets in SP and you shouldn't even attempt to PvP one of them 1v1. Just blob warfare, woo. & that doesn't even work in Dust since its a fixed player cap at 16 vs 16. Which is another disappointment, why are we STILL stuck at 16 vs 16?
Although honestly playercount doesn't matter to me much, hell I've been addicted to The Last of Us MP where it's only 4v4. But guess what? The game plays very well, it's not glitchy, it runs smoothly, it promotes teamwork/tactical play more than Dust, and it's overall simply more of an enjoyable experience.
Actually I'm going to go play that now.
I hope that CCP can turn Dust into a masterpiece but I'm not going to stick around and grind it out waiting. How does it feel to know that a big chunk of your playerbase is only playing the game to cap out on SP so they aren't behind when/IF the game finally becomes good? |