Re: Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
Posted: Tue Oct 09, 2018 8:12 am
I miss the days where to progress quicker through a game or to power up easily you just needed to buy a magazine or wait for Patrick Moore to get around to it.
Parksey wrote:So I'm not sure why people are suddenly incredulous that he's saying this about Odyssey. I imagine it's because. They are suddenly irked that he's doing it towards a game they like. His approach is neither surprising or particularly outrageous.
Parksey wrote:Firstly, how do you know something like the XP tweaking isn't affecting you? It's very likely you're only playing the game on "default" so you have no real indication as to what the game plays like under the boosted settings. Those that have, have said that it isn't a case of making the grind faster, it also makes the grind better. They say the game progress seems much smoother with the boost on.
Parksey wrote:Secondly, since when has "something doesn't affect me, therefore it's fine" been a great excuse for anything?
Parksey wrote:Thirdly, Unisoft don't need this microtransactions. They aren't supporting the game's development, they aren't funded some niche product and the game would exist, and make a big profit, either way. They are merely trying to monetise and eke out every single penny for every facet of the game. It might not effect you now, but the practice is spreading to other parts. We already see bits of games carved up and sold off as extra. We see preorder bonuses and about ten different editions at launch. With Odyssey, even how early you get to play the game was monetised.
Parksey wrote:We are buying a £50 product anyway. We shouldn't be paying more still to make our progress through the game smoother (remember, not necessarily faster, but better from a gameplay perspective).
Parksey wrote:No doubt people will say, "well, if people are happy to do that, then that's their choice". But it isn't always a choice is it. You haven't really "picked" a slower XP grind. You've been lumbered with it and offered an upgrade for cash.
Parksey wrote:For me, the fact that Odyssey is a good game, doesn't change all that. Is it less palatable if the game was somehow naff? These are choices likely made by the development team anyway, so whether the game is good or not is irrelevant.
Photek wrote:Parksey wrote:Secondly, since when has "something doesn't affect me, therefore it's fine" been a great excuse for anything?
Who is it effecting negatively then? You can't pose such questions as rhetorical when they clearly are not.
Photek wrote:Or, yaknow, maybe some people don't watch the dude regularly or at all so it is relatively outrageous if many other reviews barely mention things he bases an entire video on...
Gemini73 wrote:How I'm reading Photek's stance is "I'm enjoying AC Odyssey, so don't you dare criticise it on any level".
jawafour wrote:Photek wrote:Or, yaknow, maybe some people don't watch the dude regularly or at all so it is relatively outrageous if many other reviews barely mention things he bases an entire video on...
Maybe I'm misinterpreting your point, Photek... but this screams "most news outlets don't talk about the controversial aspects so why does Sterling?".
No-one (bar Sterling!) is saying that the game is bad; it looks cool. It seems odd to want to wash over the additional payment aspects, though. It feels like you're annoyed about people questioning them.
Photek wrote:
I don't even own the game, I don't care if it's any good or not I'm simply making the point that Jim Sterlings video was bollocks.
Photek wrote:MT's in this are the same as MT's in Origins according to a few reviews,articles and Jim himself.
Shouldn't you be in school man?
Photek wrote:MT's in this are the same as MT's in Origins according to a few reviews,articles and Jim himself.
Shouldn't you be in school man?
Photek wrote:As long as I trigger folk that's good enough for me.
Photek wrote:Better to be hated than.....well I don't want to be banned. As long as I trigger folk that's good enough for me.
Moggy wrote:Photek wrote:Better to be hated than.....well I don't want to be banned. As long as I trigger folk that's good enough for me.
The most triggered guy on the forum is trying to trigger people?
Photek wrote:If it makes you feel better you made the grade.