You can tell when a golfer just starts getting tired. It’s usually sometime around the middle of the final day of a tournament, when those birdies keep slipping to pars and the drives just aren’t quite as long as they have been. They’re pros, and they compensate well, but there’s just not that spring in their step that made things fun and exciting.
Tiger Woods 13 is that point for the venerable series.
Everyone has picked up a game they grew to love, whether it’s an RPG title or FPS game, games we adore earn a special place in our hearts. So why is it that the game companies then have to attempt to milk the living crap out of it? Replacing that loving memory with a burning hatred for game developers
EA hasn't changed franchises as much as Ubisoft for example. Ubisoft have changed the SPlinter Cell, Rainbow Six, Ghost Recon, Prince of persia, and Brothers in Arms series to almost laughable franchises.
you are soo right. After ghost recon future soldier, i am no longer going to buy Splinter Cell or rainbow six patriots. Are they crazy?
Why is it that developers want to go down the CoD casual root when Socom proves that it is disastrous
It's not always the way. For example, with Tiger Woods, all they did with 13 was change the UI, the core features and mechanics are almost identical. But they removed a ton of stuff and replaced it with online only features. :(
I would have preferred to pay £40 for Tigers Woods 12-2 with 15 more courses :D
we want devs to change things, but we dont want them to change things so much that you cant consider them apart of the same franchise anymore
deadspace used to be horror now its an action game with co-op
prince of persia was a fantasy, mythological world, but this rumored rebbot looks more like an egyptian assassians creed, which is realistic
splinter cell is more action than stealth
i could go on and on, thats why games like zelda, sly cooper, ratchet and clank, and god of war still do good, because they change things but at the core they are still the same thing we liked in the first place
Sony and Zipper are the worst Publishers/Developers that are guilty of ignoring their loyal fans and making crazy changes that favour the CoD audience
MediaKick: Day-one downloadable content (DLC). On-disk downloadable content. These are terms we’ve become uncomfortably familiar with this generation, and publishers know it; in fact, they revel in it… or at least that’s what EA’s Peter Moore would have you believe, if you read his fairly transparent comments about turning a $60 game into an $80 game from day one. It’s eye opening stuff; for everyone who doesn’t believe that some of the big name publishers are doing their best to shaft you at every turn, you’d have to believe it now.
Day DLC is good if its free.
On-disc DLC is never good. People feel they brought the disc they are entitle to everything on it. Which don't seem wrong. Be like buying a $20,000 car and told you have to pay an addition $5000 to get the key to the trunk. You would be pissed right, I know I would.
DLC continues to be the biggest form of cancer this generation. With each purchase the cancer gets bigger. Games will cost twice as much for three times less content next generation. Its out of control.
Day 1 DLC isn't the problem...on disk DLC is.
Just because there is DLC available Day 1 doesn't automatically mean that it was stripped out of the game.
For example, lets say a game is set to release this October and lets say that this particular game has Day 1 DLC. How do we know whether or not this DLC was stripped from the main game?
The main game could have been finished in March and the months up to release could have been devoted to polishing/creating EXTRA DLC missions.
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EA has done nothing new to refresh this series since this generation began. Tiger Woods is awesome, its just too bad I can't say the same for EA.