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Jack Brickman said:
It also confirms that Bungie absolutely cut a ton of content from the base game to resell later, which is why they won't be seeing another dime of my money.
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Yeah, it sounds like the original plan (or at least the plan the writing staff was working under) was to make a complete game that the hardcore fans would keep coming back to for the DLC and other people would just be satisfied with the base game.

Instead of sticking with that they went with the hard MMO model of trying to nickle and dime you along the way while shipping a stripped game to start with. Unfortunately it sounds like there aren't enough people like you to hold their feet to the fire for screwing people the first time around.
 
spydy13 said:
Yeah, it sounds like the original plan (or at least the plan the writing staff was working under) was to make a complete game that the hardcore fans would keep coming back to for the DLC and other people would just be satisfied with the base game.

Instead of sticking with that they went with the hard MMO model of trying to nickle and dime you along the way while shipping a stripped game to start with. Unfortunately it sounds like there aren't enough people like you to hold their feet to the fire for screwing people the first time around.
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That's not really the MMO model, though. MMOs usually ship with a ton of content at launch, then release major updates every year or two to keep people playing. The base World of Warcraft had tons of content before the expansions started hitting. I never found it compelling, but there was more than enough content to keep players busy for a long time.

Contrast that with Destiny, which had about five or six hours of actual content in the base game. There's just no comparison.
 
Jack Brickman said:
That's not really the MMO model, though. MMOs usually ship with a ton of content at launch, then release major updates every year or two to keep people playing. The base World of Warcraft had tons of content before the expansions started hitting. I never found it compelling, but there was more than enough content to keep players busy for a long time.

Contrast that with Destiny, which had about five or six hours of actual content in the base game. There's just no comparison.
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Admittedly MMOs aren't really my scene, but I thought WoW was more the exception to that rule than the standard, which I thought was part of the reason of why it dominated the market for so long.
 
MoneyMP3 said:
Played a Halo game for the first time in years. Brought me back to my childhood. From 4 player splitscreen on Halo 1 and 2 with my cousins to staying up till 430am playing custom maps on Halo 3 with my friends. Nostalgia hit me so hard I'm going to buy an Xbone and the MCC when I get the money.
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you might be disappointed in MCC, at least from everything ive heard about it, its pretty meh
 
AuxiliaryPie said:
you might be disappointed in MCC, at least from everything ive heard about it, its pretty meh
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Honestly if the campaigns are still good I'll be happy. I'll save the multiplayer for Halo 5.
 
For the record, I got a lot better at MLB the Show 15 the more I've played it. I don't throw to the wrong bases anymore. I get more hits and see the ball better. I have more patience although I'm still pretty aggressive. Other than the first pitch sometimes, I usually get the bat on anything in the strike zone.

Only thing that kills me are the change ups. Usually change ups down. I'm always hacking at those. The other thing that gets me is when there is a fly ball to the outfield and I have trouble determining which player I'm actually switched too and sometimes I think I'm the center fielder instead of the right or something and end up running the wrong way when it could have been an easy play.

Base running can be a little bit iffy too. Don't totally understand the controls there. I have trouble controlling which runner to move and sometimes move the wrong guy.
 
Finally started the witcher 3, and already just sunk 5 hours into exploring all these damn questions marks on the map in white orchard. I can tell this game is going to consume me :chuckle:
 
pr26 said:
Finally started the witcher 3, and already just sunk 5 hours into exploring all these damn questions marks on the map in white orchard. I can tell this game is going to consume me :chuckle:
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Just wait until you get to the two actual maps.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Just wait until you get to the two actual maps.
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I assume it's worth running around to these question marks though? Even though some I can't do much about yet (don't yet have bombs to destroy monster nest, etc.) it seems like every question mark has been an interesting fight/decent loot.

I'm on the second hardest difficulty, blood and sword or something like that, so it seems like keeping a solid food stock will be imperative.
 
pr26 said:
I assume it's worth running around to these question marks though? Even though some I can't do much about yet (don't yet have bombs to destroy monster nest, etc.) it seems like every question mark has been an interesting fight/decent loot.

I'm on the second hardest difficulty, blood and sword or something like that, so it seems like keeping a solid food stock will be imperative.
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You might be able to buy a bomb recipe from one of the vendors in that area. I don't remember where everything is sold. Also, herbalists are you friend when you want to craft a bunch of potions and bombs. You can just swipe back and forth between what you want to craft and the ingredients they sell. It can be kind of a pain because the game automatically resets you to the top of the crafting list each time, but now that you can bookmark recipes it's not as big of a deal as it was before when you just had to try to remember what you needed.

Also, buy every gwent card from every vendor. There's a quest later in the game where you can win a shitload of money from a gwent tournament that will really help you out in the end-game content (getting the witcher armor crafted is really expensive), so it's very important to learn the game and put together a great deck. Every time you talk to a merchant, buy any gwent cards he has. Oh, and play every merchant who gives you the option once. You get a random card drop if you win. Gwent really sucks early in the game, but it gets pretty fun later. You only get one card drop per merchant, though, so don't bother playing them more than once unless you wanna do it for fun.
 
Jack Brickman said:
Nope. Been on a TF2 kick the past two weeks.
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Ah man, when you (and anyone else reading this) get a chance to, lemme know. It's the kind of thing that you have to discuss afterwards, there are so many layers to it.
 
Anybody get into the overwatch beta?
 
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