Hahaa, coulda called it.
I made my decision a long time ago, no game is worth the wait Valve makes their customers sit through. Mass Effect 2 was by no means perfect and in some ways even lesser than its predecessor but it was one of the best games of that year, a strong contender for my personal best games ever list and it came out a little over two years after the original.
Half Life's episodic gaming, as Yahtzee pointed out three years ago, was supposed to make it so that good quality updates came faster, but they've taken longer than BioWare to put out a game that had about half the content or less. The engine's already there and in place, and three years for one writing project? I'm a writer and I actually have a concept of deadlines and writing to them.
At this point they're just relying on old games which aren't as good as everyone says they are to let them jerk their fans around. It is utterly beyond me why Valve are the only developers who still get a free ride from almost everyone. Though it is nice more recently to see some of the tide turning more and more against them with every delay.
Gee, I seem to remember that happening fourteen years ago with another big up and coming shooter that was a sequel to an established name. What was it called again...
I made my decision a long time ago, no game is worth the wait Valve makes their customers sit through. Mass Effect 2 was by no means perfect and in some ways even lesser than its predecessor but it was one of the best games of that year, a strong contender for my personal best games ever list and it came out a little over two years after the original.
Half Life's episodic gaming, as Yahtzee pointed out three years ago, was supposed to make it so that good quality updates came faster, but they've taken longer than BioWare to put out a game that had about half the content or less. The engine's already there and in place, and three years for one writing project? I'm a writer and I actually have a concept of deadlines and writing to them.
At this point they're just relying on old games which aren't as good as everyone says they are to let them jerk their fans around. It is utterly beyond me why Valve are the only developers who still get a free ride from almost everyone. Though it is nice more recently to see some of the tide turning more and more against them with every delay.
Gee, I seem to remember that happening fourteen years ago with another big up and coming shooter that was a sequel to an established name. What was it called again...
