The Video Game Critic

It is just sad of what the Video Game industry has become in modern times, don't believe me, lets compare two Ubisoft games with Rayman 2 the Sega Dreamcast version vs the god-awful Assassin's Creed Unity on 8th Gen Consoles.

Rayman 2 on the Dreamcast ran at full 480P VGA/60FPS with little to no frame rate drops, along with native 16/9 Widescreen support complete with max out Antialiasing on the Sega Dreamcast with V-Sync turn on, along with no screen tearing and almost no draw distance problems.

Assassin's Creed Unity is 900P/sub 30 PFS at launch on 8th Gen consoles with tones of frame-rate issues, less Antialiasing complete with jaggies, and worst of all screen tearing and draw distance problems galore: http://gamingbolt.com/assassins-creed-u ... s-xbox-one and http://forums.ubi.com/showthread.php/94 ... ble-Forums

Rayman 2 on the Dreamcast was 99% bug/glitch free with little to no bugs/glitches during the whole GamePlay from start to finish.

Assassin's Creed Unity was a buggy/broken mess of a game at launch with problems all over the place, and the game needed over 9,000 patches to get rid of manny of these problems, and even then, still has problems after all this time, and patching support won't last forever on the PS4/Xbox One once the servers go away.

Rayman 2 on the Dreamcast treated customers much better as the game had 3 Free pieces of DLC that you downloaded for free from the official Rayman 2 Dreamcast website, and even when the website went away, the 3 Free pieces of DLC are still obtainable via 2 cheat codes: http://raymanpc.com/forum/viewtopic.php ... at#p812550 or by using the unofficial Sega Dreamcast VMU backup CDs: http://www.bucanero.com.ar/2005/08/12/v ... p-cd-v130/

Assassin's Creed Unity has paid DLC via the season pass before it got removed to be free to those that have purchased it, after the buggy launch it had back in late 2014, and it also has paid Microtransaction that can cost as much as $100, along with paid DLC from Ubisoft Uplay service: http://assassinscreed.wikia.com/wiki/As ... le_content and https://store.playstation.com/#!/en-us/ ... price~desc, and once the PS4/Xbox One/Uplay servers go away, the game can become useless in the end.

Rayman 2 on the Dreamcast had a beautiful, glossy full color manual, with colorful pictures, complete with lots of information on the manual.

Assassin's Creed Unity has no manual, and only comes with a lame season pass advertisement, and maybe a DLC code if it was the limited edition version.: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqzjZe7SXiI

It is just lame as technology gets more advanced, it ends up going backwards in other aspects in the end?

Thoughts on this folks?

Personally, I am pretty much done with current gen games. My last venture in to AAA titles was Arkham Origins, which was just a gigantic pile of garbage. I liked how I got half way through the game only for there to be a glitch that makes the game unplayable. Then I had to wait for an update to fix it. Even with that, the game was still barely playable. I would say 3/5 times I would use the bat plane the game would freeze, I would grapple to buildings and fall through them and/or get stuck in walls, plus the story was just a contrived mess. Then, just when it started getting interesting, the game ends. It was such a let down compared to Arkham Asylum, which Is in the top 5 best games I have ever played.

Now, with these current gen systems, you are being forced to pay to play. The new Star Wars Battlefront is the perfect example of that. You take one of the biggest franchises in modern history, make a game out of it that looks absolutely beautiful, market the sh!t out of it, but force you in to pay a subscription to play it after purchase and offer no worth-while offline game play. Just silly if you ask me.

The last two titles I am interested in checking out are the two Metal Gear games that just came out. I love that franchise, and will give them a shot, though I hear its plagued with micro-transactions. I will wait to get both at a bargain price.

MGSV is a fantastic title and easily my best game of this generation. Just when it starts to get samey it will mix it up and keep you engaged.
Clever things like the bad guys adapting to your tactics: keep sniping headshots and they will start to wear helmets, always attacking at night ? They will start using night vision goggles and flashlights.

Don't worry about the micro transactions that seems to apply more to the online component. The game has never made me feel like I need to buy something for single player.

Brilliant game don't miss it.

Sonicx9 wrote:It is just lame as technology gets more advanced, it ends up going backwards in other aspects in the end?

Thoughts on this folks?

It is lame. It is also inevitable with more advanced consoles/PCs. The only force that could counteract it is consumers giving a crap, and they totally don't.

We have idiots falling for schemes left to right... It isn't just the industry, but the plastic drones that max out their parents credit cards on farming simulator assets that'll be blown off in under a day.

Not to mention all the shady kickstarter projects that never get past square two, and that's on a sunny day.