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GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
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<div class="IPBDescription">Games are rushed too often</div> It seems nowadays PC games are rushed, especially hyped up or popular titles.

The developers are always being pushed to meet a deadline, and 90% of the time the product that goes onto the market has barely had any beta testing. You would think they would just wait another month, so they wont get bad reviews on the game....
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  • ZerglingZergling Join Date: 2002-11-26 Member: 9977Members
    the gaming industry has sucked since snes.
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  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    Its harder to make a game too, its not like you can throw around some sprites and make a huge game in your spare time anymore <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

    The SNES rocked, pfft. Give me a SNES over N64/PS/PS2/GC any day. Chrono Trigger and Zelda baby <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • SirusSirus Join Date: 2002-11-13 Member: 8466Members, NS1 Playtester, Constellation
    Can you say EA games? They feel pressured to release a game every other day.

    And yes, Chrono Trigger and Zelda were awesome ;)
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  • GnatsumGnatsum Join Date: 2002-12-11 Member: 10566Members
    it seems that most pc games these days need beta testing. lol command and conquer generals.... warcraft three THE FROEZEN THRONE

    and many others baldurs gate diablo yadayadayydyada

    yeah well most of these so called "beta tests" are always opportunitys for little hicks wanting to get their smuffy little mitts all over and just play the hell out of the game before anyone else plays it.

    well enuff of that.

    I have no complaint over the pc games of today i think they;re fine

    Did Super mario or uh the very first zelda need public beta Testing, no they're fine. You just gotta have some more faith if the games suck and frankly i don't think they suck.
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  • GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
    Some of them need a patch just to make them run properly... Thats just wrong.

    Games should be Playable out of the box... Crashes are to be expected on some hardware configs but bugs in the game engine itself are unacceptable...
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  • GadzukoGadzuko Join Date: 2002-12-26 Member: 11556Members, Constellation
    I agree... beta tests should be extended. I really despise extra-buggy games... sigh.
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  • TenSixTenSix Join Date: 2002-11-09 Member: 7932Members
    I don't care if they release Deus Ex buggy, I wanna beta test that game bad. Whether I have to pay $50 for the opportunity to do so or not <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--TenSix+Mar 15 2003, 04:51 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TenSix @ Mar 15 2003, 04:51 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I don't care if they release Deus Ex buggy, I wanna beta test that game bad. Whether I have to pay $50 for the opportunity to do so or not <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    You can wait... But i think you need a life outside of gaming first man.
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  • Gimpy_Doodly_DooGimpy_Doodly_Doo Join Date: 2003-03-15 Member: 14521Members
    Yes I do miss the good ol days of Mario 1 2 and 3 those were fun games. But now that games are not just scrolling 2d funness in a box and they have to do a WHOLE LOT MORE WORK than they used to have to.
    <ul>
    <li>Texturing
    <li>Massive 3d levels
    <li>Sound (actors)
    <li>I could go on but...
    </ul>
    I think u get my point
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  • masterswordmanmasterswordman Join Date: 2002-12-21 Member: 11303Members
    First of, never set a completion date, on my mod for explain supposed to be released by summer, hell our lazy **** can barely get past making the first stage, the game will be done "When it's done"


    Also, most sports games suck.
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  • b0b1b0b1 Join Date: 2003-03-05 Member: 14340Members
    GWAR even if there rushed the companies hold back on games for ages, instead of releasing on the awaiting dead-line, add all this new crap and make the game much worse than before! Shame when companies battle for the number1 game spot, upsets us gaming fanatics <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • xioutlawixxioutlawix Join Date: 2002-11-05 Member: 7118Members, Constellation
    edited March 2003
    Another thing I hate is the strategy some of these developers are employing.

    Through warforge I've been managing to play the war3 frozen throne beta...and let me tell you, this is what warcraft 3 should have been in the first place.

    Then again, if I was a bunch of greedy ****, I'd release a half assed game and then immediately follow up with a $40 expansion as well. Of course they're going to buy it, why keep the initially released (and shallow excuse for a game) when for just $40 more you can have a real game that is actually FUN to play! Hoo-ha!

    I love some of the quotes from the fat man and his illigitimate stepchild Gfrazier from the days before anyone knew about the expansion,
    "Depending on the response from our fans, we may or may not consider an expansion for warcraft 3..."

    Yeah right fat man, and pigs are going to start flying out of my ****
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  • GWARGWAR Join Date: 2002-11-01 Member: 2297Members, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--b0b^+Mar 15 2003, 07:05 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (b0b^ @ Mar 15 2003, 07:05 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> GWAR even if there rushed the companies hold back on games for ages, instead of releasing on the awaiting dead-line, add all this new crap and make the game much worse than before! Shame when companies battle for the number1 game spot, upsets us gaming fanatics <!--emo&:angry:--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/mad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='mad.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    The only company that does that is EA.

    And you cant know if all this "new crap" is bad or not unless you beta test it... And nowadays games dont get much time in beta testing anyway.
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  • masterswordmanmasterswordman Join Date: 2002-12-21 Member: 11303Members
    Then read a review, if it sux get it on kazaa
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  • DY357LXDY357LX Playing since day 1. Still can&#39;t Comm. England Join Date: 2002-10-27 Member: 1651Members, Constellation
    <!--QuoteBegin--TenSix+Mar 15 2003, 02:21 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (TenSix @ Mar 15 2003, 02:21 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Its harder to make a game too, its not like you can throw around some sprites and make a huge game in your spare time anymore <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

    The SNES rocked, pfft. Give me a SNES over N64/PS/PS2/GC any day. Chrono Trigger and Zelda baby <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Lets not forget Metroid and F-Zero on the SNES.
    /me hugs the lonely Metroid Cart
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  • VenmochVenmoch Join Date: 2002-08-07 Member: 1093Members
    I think what we are now experiencing is a slump in the gaming world. Nothing new and exciting is coming out. It's just some rehash of an old idea or trying to make something better. Gaming companies are not taking risks anymore. They just churn out the same old stuff. (Ever noticed how much of the PC market involves a war of some kind??

    For once I can use the sims as an example. The Sims was something new that no one else had done. In fact Maxis tend to be much more adventerous in there games. (Sim Ant anyone?) And it also seems that one of the greatest genres of game has died.

    The Humorous adventure. Take Sam And Max or Escape From Monkey Island or even something like Beavis And Butthead In Virtual Stupidity (Which I got and almost ruptured something during playing. "NAD BURNS!") Graphicswise they didn't look amazing but they didn't need to be. They had HUMOR! Something which almost no games are built on. Sure some games have funny bits but they aren't based on humor like Sam And Max was. Someone In PCGamer UK put it the best way.

    <!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->So whats gone wrong? Why on earth aren't people making this type of game any more? Why are we instead being passed off with "games with a sense of humor"? Well, the reason lies in the death of narrative. And the guilt lies squarely at our feet. We the average gamer have asked for more of the wrong things.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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