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[Blowfeld]

I really do not expext this to be game of the year material.

I rather hope that this game does not let me down and starts quite bug free and without server issues. Hopefully there will be enough initial content in MWO to keep people busy and battletech newcomers interested, so the developers can add more and more content after a while to let the game grow with its community.

Give it a solid start, good mechanics and an overall good feel and I am in. Remember, F2p Online Multiplayer Games have the tendency to develop into something bigger and better rather quickly, cause the usually have better support and a lot of balancing and adding content to keep people interested in playing (and buying).

Also I do believe that PGI can craft a good or even slightly better than just good game, but not a AAA masterpiece, at least on on release.

Edited by Blowfeld, 24 July 2012 - 10:03 AM.

[Xytaglyph]

Adridos, on 24 July 2012 - 05:01 AM, said:

There's still Torchlight 2, Darksiders 2, Prototype 2, Borderlands 2, etc.

We can win in F2P games, provided Dota 2 doesn't go full.

I play dota, alot, and if there's any game that i would play in tandem with MWO that would be it.

[Flamekin]

D3 may still win just because its name, its ratings and the amount it sold. I agree that it had issues in the long run of the game, for me the economy sucked (especially after the gold dupe bug when they launched the USD auction house). Inferno was just a mistake in my eyes, and they promptly nerfed peoples ways of getting through inferno. Ratings were based on early play and not complete play through (I feel), which is what prompted the high numbers. Still that may actually be enough for them. I also was looking for more D2 from D3, but they wanted something more streamlined and probably hit a broader audience. I knew it would not live up to the hype there was simply no way it could.

I didn't have an issue with the online only (I understood why they did it), but that doesn't make it right.

There are many many games. Don't forget Transformers Fall of cybertron also is coming out, along with many other games that people are looking forward too. (Most of which have a 2 after the name). I am looking forward to just about all of them. I actually randomed to this site because my brother found the joystick. Needless to say, I love mech games and looking forward to this game now too. There hopefully will be a good fight for game of the year, and I hope the game that wins doesn't do so just on hype/ initial sells.

One note though, Diablo overall was a good game. If it had any other name, it would have been considered much better, but the expectations were extremely high for a 12 year wait, and from Blizzard who constantly delayed it because it wasn't ready (my opinion is that it was ready to cannibalize WoW, so they wanted to wait). I still played it a ton, still enjoyed most of it. But it definitely had glaring faults, which could simply not be overlooked for the name Diablo and Blizzard.

Edited by Flamekin, 24 July 2012 - 10:05 AM.

[Sybreed]

Adridos, on 24 July 2012 - 05:01 AM, said:

There's still Torchlight 2, Darksiders 2, Prototype 2, Borderlands 2, etc.

We can win in F2P games, provided Dota 2 doesn't go full.

I play DOTA 2 a lot and I can tell you it'll give LoL quite a fierce competition. I won't be surprised if it wins F2P of the year, even if only by popularity.

[MrMasakari]

I for one am sad I wasted £40 on this game which took 8 hours to complete with little replay value. D3 requires no skill or brains, and not much more than that at the higher levels. Its not a bad game, just extremly boring. I got bored on my second playthrough trying to reach a more challenging difficulty, which in its self is dumb. You have to grind to make it more difficult...Lol.

End boss was absolutley pathetic also. Let down the series imo.

[Virage]

I love D3 and thoroughly enjoyed it...for the first few weeks. But with their "balancing" issues and the need to nerf over and over, it became far less enjoyable. I also spent weeks, months, maybe even years playing D2 and when I was in high school I used to wake up at 2 AM to do a few Meph runs. Most groggy fun I've ever had. Nothing like that exists in D3. In fact, I was talking to my cousin and (after I quit playing D3) he tried to get me to play it again. He said it was so easy to farm gold and get items and level up. He then told me he had two accounts and one of them was a bot that he ran which gave his main account money. Yes, I suppose if you cheated at D3 it could be very very fun.

GW had a pretty big following and if GW2 is "as good" if not better than GW, it can easily win game of the year. I haven't tried Hawken and I would be hard pressed to since I'm a Btech fan hands down. Why bother playing another more or less similar mech game? I only have so much time in a day to play so I would probably just spend it on MWO.

[Garth Erlam]

Vote for Torchlight 2 here - fantastic game. Everything that was tedious or annoying in Diablo 2 was addressed in this. Also it's charming and fun.

[blah40000]

game of the year is a joke at this point, just like the nobel prize.

[WardenWolf]

Garth Erlam, on 24 July 2012 - 10:19 AM, said:

Vote for Torchlight 2 here - fantastic game. Everything that was tedious or annoying in Diablo 2 was addressed in this. Also it's charming and fun.

I played - and liked - the first Torchlight... didn't know a sequel came out! I guess I have been too focused on a certain game, which I'm waiting on a beta invite for...

[light487]

Just picked up "Divine Divinity" during the Steam Summer Sale... got it for $3.. but even at $6 it is worthwhile.. very much like Diablo II just deeper and more open-ended..

[xxx WreckinBallRaj xxx]

MechWarrior Online as a game of the year? Seriously doubt it. Most players won't even like it. You got your FPS fanboys that like CoD, your MMO fanboys that like their WoW, and your RPG fanboys that like their Skyrim. This game will only really appeal to MechWarrior fans. Also, it's going to be a low budget F2P title. Piranha is not a huge company like Blizzard. Do not expect game of the year material. Also you got Guild Wars 2 coming out in August, which is going to be the world's next best MMO, and it's been in production for a really long time. You can't even hope for a F2P title that is <2years in development to compete with that.

If we're looking at quality itself and not genre, then it may be able to compete with other F2P games(aka League of Legends) and give Steam games a run for their money. But it won't even put a dent into the FPS/MMO fanbases.

I'm not saying MWO will be a bad game by any means; I'm merely pointing out that people are over hyping or dreaming of the impossible. The best it could hope for is best F2P title. Btw there is a good website called mmogrinder.com that reviews F2P titles.