[QUOTE=Starlight 456;48387190]Or maybe just buy it if you think it looks fun instead of turning into this major event involving 2 weeks of research and review hunting before tentatively buying it[/QUOTE]
Pretty much, the whole point of Pre-Orders is "Hey there sir, are you a fan of this, or really really like what it offers? Then buy it early so you can get it come launch day! We'll even throw in some swag as incentive for the expensive purchase, like artbooks, statues, or other goodies!
What's that? You don't want to slam down because you're not interested, well we're not forcing you to buy them, just wait until reviews come out ya dingus".
[editline]5th August 2015[/editline]
[QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;48387257]In this current economic crisis, such a hasty solution would be most unwise. Your dollars support a corporation that could do everything in it's power to focus on profit, and profit alone, while ignoring any fanbase.
2K is not known to be one to listen to fans, and the Czech division is the only one that evidently gives a damn about video games. Anything else is just the same 'progressive' mumbo jumbo with zero substance that the western market's been feeding us so recently.
Don't be hasty. Take a day to look up facts, and be a careful consumer. Don't take timeshares.[/QUOTE]
Umm, last I checked, 2K did a fine job with Bioshock 2. Also there are plenty of companies that give a shit about video games, you're just being overtly pessimistic to care to see, because you want to pretend you're some high mighty critic whose seen out this deeper mechanics of this industry works, as apposed to, ya know, sitting on your computer chair rambling on an internet forum where folks like me and Starlight can pan you for saying mumbo jumbo yourself.
[editline]5th August 2015[/editline]
Do you even know what "current, economic crisis" you're talking about? Does Pre-Orders even affect that? Last I check money gained for a project means three things.
1. The dev/publisher make back the money spend on making the game, and earing extra (this is called profit), which is deducted into two piles. One going to the folks that work at the dev studio, and the other to the folks that work at the publishing company, the rest goes into the next project they want to do.
2. It means the folks who work in the industry get paid for their hard work in entertaining us, and that means more games to be made! Jobs kept! and no one going hungry!
3. It means money to fund the next project.
[QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;48386793]
Are you saying the cut content wasn't actually good? Bullshit.
They cut the story in half. The final mission you play isn't even the ending. There's even more chapters than you think. They cut more than half the game alone.
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I never said it wasn't good, I said just adding a lot of shit to a game doesn't make it good. Which is true.
Either way, I bet you haven't played the cut content so how can you say it was good?
I know a lot of the pre release gameplay videos show missions that we never got, it's a bummer but not unheard of.So yeah, they cut stuff so they could get the game out. It sucks but that's a normal part of game development.
[QUOTE=Fat White Lump;48388282]I never said it wasn't good, I said just adding a lot of shit to a game doesn't make it good. Which is true.
Either way, I bet you haven't played the cut content so how can you say it was good?
I know a lot of the pre release gameplay videos show missions that we never got, it's a bummer but not unheard of.So yeah, they cut stuff so they could get the game out. It sucks but that's a normal part of game development.[/QUOTE]
No it ain't. Not when you're deliberately butchering the PC version so that it can be equally as awful as it's console counterparts.
[video=youtube;AAxjUPr-kqI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAxjUPr-kqI[/video]
It's just business yet again getting in the way of fun simply for profit.
[editline]6th August 2015[/editline]
Not even this, but some of the content they merely cut simply to "streamline" the game, something I find absolutely disgusting.
The difference between whining about this and Half Life 2 is that this was [i]finished[/i] content. Ready to ship.
[QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;48388467]No it ain't. Not when you're deliberately butchering the PC version so that it can be equally as awful as it's console counterparts.
[video=youtube;AAxjUPr-kqI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAxjUPr-kqI[/video]
It's just business yet again getting in the way of fun simply for profit.
[editline]6th August 2015[/editline]
Not even this, but some of the content they merely cut simply to "streamline" the game, something I find absolutely disgusting.
The difference between whining about this and Half Life 2 is that this was [i]finished[/i] content. Ready to ship.[/QUOTE]
How do you know the content was cut because of consoles? The earliest version of the game shown was the 360 version and that had a ton of cut features.
Simply for profit? Most of that stuff never came back as DLC, there's a like a car and a mission.
How do you know content was cut to streamline it? What if it was just a buggy mess and not worth fixing so they could get the game out after 3 years?
Half-Life 2 had all finished content? Get ready to get mad at Valve: [url]http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Half-Life_2_Beta[/url]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7CQTvVCwFI[/media]
There's a shit load of cut content from Half-Life 2 that was never ready for the final game.
Companies make demos just for shows like E3 and Gamescom. Even the Hydra in HL2 was never working in the game outside of the E3 2003 demo.
There's even Halo 2
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb9o-Ce_hYM[/media]
This mission was made just for E3, it was never in the game. Behind the scenes it was incredibly buggy and crashed if you went anywhere they didn't go in the demo.
[media]https://youtu.be/bTDVFdQVNw4?t=828[/media]
Even if stuff "looks ready to ship" it usually isn't until much closer to release. Seriously, this is normal. That's why [url]https://tcrf.net/The_Cutting_Room_Floor[/url] exists and isn't just for Mafia II.
Different developers, doesn't look like a Mafia game.
[QUOTE=Medevila;48382626]I wish I could get into Mafia I, the ambiance was great but it just feels too old[/QUOTE]
I'm playing Mafia I this week and I must say the gameplay is ass. I just wish it had a fucking map.
Looks like a cool game. I like the time period they chose. Doesn't look like the mafia game I was hoping for. Cast of characters seems silly.
[QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;48387257]Anything else is just the same 'progressive' mumbo jumbo with zero substance that the western market's been feeding us so recently.[/QUOTE]
oh no [B]THE BLACKS[/B]
when did I step into /v/?
[QUOTE=Diet Kane;48391535]oh no [B]THE BLACKS[/B]
when did I step into /v/?[/QUOTE]
No, but you're in a hyper moderate forum that doesn't like preachy garbage like modern Simpsons.
[QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;48392967]No, but you're in a hyper moderate forum that doesn't like preachy garbage like modern Simpsons.[/QUOTE]
How is playing as a half-black war vet in Louisiana "progressive mumbo jumbo"?
This game is basically Black Dynamite Begins
[QUOTE=Diet Kane;48393008]How is playing as a half-black war vet in Louisiana "progressive mumbo jumbo"?
This game is basically Black Dynamite Begins[/QUOTE]
I'm not saying this story looks like shit, but I can only hope they don't make it very literally 'black and white'.
I like my story to be just a bit gray.
They've confirmed the old guy in the trailer is Vito.
[QUOTE=Maloof?;48383675]Um yeah that's how development of a product works?
If you include in the final product everything created during the dev process you'd have one bloated and incoherent pile of poop[/QUOTE]
it's worse than that. the game they showed was very different from the game that came out. all the random events and things like that were cut from the game. the world was one of the emptiest I've ever seen. aside from driving a car around there was literally nothing to do, and the missions were repetitive as fuck. all in all I found it to be an utterly disappointing game, still regret buying it to this day.
[QUOTE=Fat White Lump;48384567]The old guy on the right is Vito.[/QUOTE]
That's fucking Vito? Man he's old now
[QUOTE=Keychain;48398320]That's fucking Vito? Man he's old now[/QUOTE]
He's apparently only 43 now, dude must have been stressed as fuck.
[QUOTE=DohEntertainmen;48387257]In this current economic crisis, such a hasty solution would be most unwise. Your dollars support a corporation that could do everything in it's power to focus on profit, and profit alone, while ignoring any fanbase.
2K is not known to be one to listen to fans, and the Czech division is the only one that evidently gives a damn about video games. Anything else is just the same 'progressive' mumbo jumbo with zero substance that the western market's been feeding us so recently.
Don't be hasty. Take a day to look up facts, and be a careful consumer. Don't take timeshares.[/QUOTE]
If I have the money to preorder Fallout 4 Pip Boy Edition, Black Ops 3, and whatever other games that are coming out all at the same time, I don't think my economic situation is in the gutter.
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