How did dying lose you hours of time? I just played it again, dying did NOTHING save for costing you your body armor and some cash. I beat the game in 15 hours. Some of the missions still suck and can be finnicky, but the lack of checkpoints wasn't bad at all. GTA4 is still a very very solid game. So unless you mean "hours of time in the game", which are essentially meaningless, I'm failing to understand.
Some of the missions felt like hours... just driving across town got so tedious and it felt so restrictive. I much prefer the open roads in RDR.
[quote name='panzerfaust']Was planning on pre-ordering Starcraft 2 today with my left over GS credit. Went through the whole checkout process and everything, but couldn't pull the trigger.
I've never been this conflicted over a game before. Starcraft Brood War is one of my favorite games of all time and I've played it regularly for the past 11 years. After all this waiting, hype and excitement -- I can't even justify spending $35 on its sequel.
I don't know what's wrong with me, it's a great game. It's just that after 11 years this is perhaps the most anti-climatic sequel I've ever played. Blizzard isn't known to revolutionize, they just make extremely polished games -- which is all I want from them. But SC2 has honestly bored the living hell out of me for the past few months.
I'm not a nostalgic type of gamer so it's not some trivial reason like the visuals or anything, but damn it's been 11 years and this is it. It's just everything about SC2 is just a bit dull compared to Brood War. It's fundamentally identical, but it seems they just kept the original game and degraded everything that gave it flare.
Most competitive game ever played and the new Battle net is turning out to be a downgrade from what WC3 introduced.
I'm going to wait and see how the game evolves past release. It's very much like Brood War so in that regard its already a very fine RTS, and it's balance is even better than the original SC was at release. But color me as one very sad gamer.
Well you have to look at it like a Beta. Nothing in the Beta is persistent and things are constantly being moved around/changing. Also only about 50% of the game is in place, there are still a bunch of things that need to be implemented. Add on the fact that there will be amazing UMS games post release. I'm pretty bored of the Multiplayer as well, but that's because that is all there is.