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[Silent]

I was hoping to see more simulation elements. Solid joystick support is pretty much an afterthought even though they partnered with Razer and made that terrible Artemis joystick concept which we have never heard anything about since. PGI was given the SDK for TrackIR a long time ago and nothing became of that and I doubt anything will. I doubt there will be any official support for Oculus Rift at this point. In recent Ask the Dev commentary the developers made it clear that the currently disabled cockpit screens probably won't show any vital information about your Mech. Most of the pillars that seemed interesting in concept have either never materialized or were reneged on: Information Warfare, Role Warfare, etc. Any semblance of Community Warfare is still so far in the future it's laughable.

[Alistair Winter]

In regards to the high score and MWO being ranked one of the top 25 FPS games of all time, I will ask one question. And bear in mind that I'm a quite vocal critic of PGI, as referenced in my signature.

If this game isn't a top 25 FPS game, then why didn't I play all those other top 25 games several hours a week for a year, like I've done with MWO? The only previous FPS I've played as much (probably more) is Counter Strike Source. And I will grant you that Counter Strike was, and still is, a better game. But even for me, it's a bit too minimalistic.

[LordBraxton]

As much as we all love to hate PGI's decisions regarding MWO

There really isn't another game out there with combat anything like what we have here.

I think the basic mech piloting and combat in this game make it worth the 83/100

When reviewing a F2P game like this I think 'potential' should factor a little bit into the score.

MWO has a really solid base to work with....

(@ Alistair) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I think of counterstrike a lot when people criticize MWO. Both are no-respawn tactical FPS on small repetitive maps with only 2 game modes....

Yet I've spent more hours with CS and MWO than most other online games combined.

Edited by LordBraxton, 28 October 2013 - 12:00 PM.

[Odins Fist]

Roland, on 28 October 2013 - 08:09 AM, said:

The reality is, MWO didn't belong on any list of "Best X of all time", especially back whenever that list was put together, given the game hadn't even been released yet.

^ THIS, and I said this months ago when MWO was still considered in BETA, and it received a "one of the best of all time" label..

You CANNOT put a "Best of all time" label for anything that hadn't been released yet..

If this didn't have the MechWarrior/BattleTech background it would simply be just another unfinished product brought to market.

Edited by Odins Fist, 28 October 2013 - 12:00 PM.

[Madara Uchiha]

O_O?. Basically my expresion when i saw that.

[Sandpit]

Heffay, on 28 October 2013 - 11:12 AM, said:

There is a world of difference between someone stating an opinion and claiming they were paid to do it.

How much does Hawken pay you to come here and complain about this game? Because only a complete fool would whine on the forums as much as some of you do without pay.

really? This is exactly what I'm talking about. You have no idea what being unbiased is. You rant and rave all day about everyone who says anything contradicting your opinion or gives a less than favorable review on anything PGI or MWO related. Yet you make statements like this. This is just ignorance. For the record I have never played Hawken, not my cup of tea and I'd rather THIS game not become like Hawken. I've played about 500 matches or so. I've spent far less time in this game than with a myriad of others simply because there is no game outside of stomp, shoot, repeat. I don't know why you take any and all criticisms of PGI and/or MWO personally but you should probably relax a bit. If they handled propaganda and PR as a professional company nearly as well as you do, they'd be the golden boys of gaming at the moment. If you think this is one of the top 25 games of all time in any way shape or form, that's great. Kudos to you. That's doesn't make it fact. You do nothing but spout of biased opinions and take potshots at Anyone that says Anything negative about this game. I calls em like I sees em. When trolls are spouting of ridiculous negative propaganda and doom and gloom I point it out. When someone (not mentioning any names *cough cough*) stands up and says things like "Yay, game is greatest ever and you should love it to and if you don't then it's obviously because of some bias and can't have anything to do with the fact that the game is incomplete" well then I point that out too. Maybe you should do your own research and instead of saying things like "You must be a hawken fan" actually read through some of my topics and posts. Of course that might actually lead to you making an unbiased statement about another player for once as opposed to "PGI great, you suck because you said something bad about them"

I'd actually do a list of my top 25 games but windows 8 doesn't let you do a line break on these forums so I'll wait until I have my laptop. It would be subjective and "biased" anyhow I'm sure

[DisasterMedic]

For those of you getting worked up either way about this PCGamer review, and PCGamer reviews in general I present a piece of history:

Dragon Age 2 - 94/100: Or How I Gave Up Integrity and Learned to Sell My Review Scores

At this point Heffay will come in with some hyperbole, assumptions, and broad generalizations to defend PGI in his quest to become the Baron of Brown Nosing, and someone else will reply with something reasoned out that will be subsequently dismissed by Heffay if it does not carry its significant digits out three places past the decimal point, so I think we can put this thread to bed.

[Sandpit]

DisasterMedic, on 28 October 2013 - 12:26 PM, said:

For those of you getting worked up either way about this PCGamer review, and PCGamer reviews in general I present a piece of history:

Dragon Age 2 - 94/100: Or How I Gave Up Integrity and Learned to Sell My Review Scores

At this point Heffay will come in with some hyperbole, assumptions, and broad generalizations to defend PGI in his quest to become the Baron of Brown Nosing, and someone else will reply with something reasoned out that will be subsequently dismissed by Heffay if it does not carry its significant digits out three places past the decimal point, so I think we can put this thread to bed.

I read it and thought it was a spoof but that was a real review...... wow. That explains a lot though

[MechFrog1]

Considering the rather... positive... coverage that PC Gamer has given MWO over the past year and a half, objectivity may not be their strong suit.

[Cimarb]

DisasterMedic, on 28 October 2013 - 12:26 PM, said:

At this point Heffay will come in with some hyperbole, assumptions, and broad generalizations to defend PGI in his quest to become the Baron of Brown Nosing, and someone else will reply with something reasoned out that will be subsequently dismissed by Heffay if it does not carry its significant digits out three places past the decimal point, so I think we can put this thread to bed.

Boy, someone sure does have a crush on Heffay... It's ok, you can be honest with us!

[Silent]

Heffay's love will forever belong to this bad robot game.

Edited by Silent, 28 October 2013 - 01:17 PM.

[Heffay]

Cimarb, on 28 October 2013 - 01:11 PM, said:

Boy, someone sure does have a crush on Heffay... It's ok, you can be honest with us!

Sadly, it's unrequited. He just doesn't do it for me.

[fil5000]

Cimarb, on 28 October 2013 - 01:11 PM, said:

Boy, someone sure does have a crush on Heffay... It's ok, you can be honest with us!

Adhominem.txt

[Cimarb]

Silent, on 28 October 2013 - 01:17 PM, said:

Heffay's love will forever belong to this bad robot game.

The bad robot game that you have put a lot of money and time into, and still post ten times as much as I do about? Me thinks someone needs to find a different hobby... Heffay will be glad to help your search, you just have to ask...

[Sandpit]

Cimarb, on 28 October 2013 - 01:11 PM, said:

Boy, someone sure does have a crush on Heffay... It's ok, you can be honest with us!

Silent, on 28 October 2013 - 01:17 PM, said:

Heffay's love will forever belong to this bad robot game.

Heffay, on 28 October 2013 - 01:17 PM, said:

Sadly, it's unrequited. He just doesn't do it for me.

fil5000, on 28 October 2013 - 01:18 PM, said:

Adhominem.txt

See? This is what the forums should be more about. Less anger and more friendly banter. People need to stop taking criticisms and opinions about a game personally unless you personally developed the code for said game.

[Silent]

Yeah, being one of the first 600 members to sign up for this website and having high hopes for the franchise several years ago gave me a high post count and this Legendary Founders tag. Shame on me.

[Heffay]

Cimarb, on 28 October 2013 - 01:21 PM, said:

The bad robot game that you have put a lot of money and time into, and still post ten times as much as I do about? Me thinks someone needs to find a different hobby... Heffay will be glad to help your search, you just have to ask...

Hey, I'm e-famous! Look at all the suitors I have!

[fil5000]

Heffay, on 28 October 2013 - 01:25 PM, said:

Hey, I'm e-famous! Look at all the suitors I have!

I think it's more that cimarb really wants to see you with someone.

[Silent]

Cimarb just really wants Heffay to kiss him for defending his honor against all these trolls.

[Heffay]

Silent, on 28 October 2013 - 01:27 PM, said:

Cimarb just really wants Heffay to kiss him for defending his honor against all these trolls.

Many people want me to kiss them. I'm quite handsome.