YinzJagz (PSN: YinzJagz)

In other news, overstrike looks sweet! Really excited to try a new insomniac IP. They always deliver.

I think everyone is missing the point here. It's not that we don't hate call of duty. It's that Elite is screwing over gamers. With elite, the xbox exclusivity contract is basically extended as a gamer on PSN with no elite. Now we have to wait much longer for content that has been available on xbox for months.

It's another way of activision testing their audience and seeing what the market will bear for call of duty. You are naive if you don't think this is the test run to COD becoming a subscription based game. Pachter has been saying it for years and it has slowly been trending that way. First map packs were $10, then $15, now they want $50-60 upfront or else you have to wait forever for content. It's their way of forcing you into their system.

Furthermore, you paid for a year subscription blindly and months later are told that there is only 10 months worth of content you are getting. I told everyone I knew that the DLC rollout would be changed to accomodate this, they did. They will probably release content after the subscription year is up too.

Remember when game modes were FREE! They added game modes to Black ops post release, why is everyone acting like game modes are now worth paying for?! YOU USED TO GET THEM FOR FREE! Do you not like free things?! Really, stop acting like the game modes are an added value to elite.

The elite stat tracking has been admitted that it has been around for years. That's why it has all your old prestige tags even if you have deleted your old game info. The fact that they have now made stat tracking available to the public, and tout this as a feature when other games have done it for free for years is insane. Elite is muh more in depth, but who really sits there and studies their stats like a high school football coach? Noone? That's what I thought.

How does anyone see this as a value? You basically paid for the game twice, upfront, months before your promised content was delivered. Hey, lets do the math real quick. 12 maps for black ops cost $60. 12 maps for MW3 cost $50 up front. Basically you are getting a menial discount and a couple free "missions", in return for giving activision BILLIONS of dollars in revenue before they deliver you a product. Hell, they didn't even tell you what the content was. They just said that it was going to get new content every month and half the audience bought into the bullshit and gave them their money up front for content they don't even know what it is!?!?

The hidden cost here is how you have affected other gamers. You've screwed us the most by support activision in this. You've enabled them to delay content to us and they now have 10 packs they can charge us with instead of 4. They WILL make it uneconomical to buy the packs separately and attempt to force you into the elite program. Once most of their audience is in the elite program, what difference would it make to switch COD over to a subscription based game? NONE! Their goal would be complete. They would have found a way to double their profits on their largest selling franchise on release day. No more waiting a few months for that DLC money to flow in, you get $100+ on day one instead of $60. It's a no brainer business wise, but it hurts gamers.

The bottomline is: If you support elite, you are supporting greed and going against gamers as a whole. Vote with your wallet people, that's how you get businesses to listen!

Good luck man, we'll miss your posts.

@tendoboy1984 Open ended hack and slash is more like the hulk/spiderman games. Nice try to equate it to games that are NOTHING like it though. Do you raiden with a gun? Does he get a car to drive around the city with super floaty mechanics? Are there dialogue trees? No, no, and no. Nice try though bud.

@(Unverified) Haha, Holy crap! You took the words straight out of my mouth. I loved bayonetta, but I was not very impressed when I watched these videos. It just doesn't gel well with the metal gear solid universe in my opinion. I don't know what to think really, I'll probably pick it up though because Platinum is awesome. Loved bayonetta AND vanquish. Just balls out crazy action!

I wish that video was subbed so I could just listen to the story without being held hostage to this page for 25 minutes.

Hey Joystiq, Thanks for posting this and subsequently ruining my childhood. I used to have fond memories of the Ducktales game, now I just wanna stab this guy. Please write me in jail.

@Pure Black World Tendency
I've never had a boss fight ruined for me by narrative, that's how I arrived at that conclusion. Boss fights are about gameplay only. There is little to NO NARRATIVE during boss fights usually, it is usually before and after. So how does the narrative have ANYTHING to do with the actual fight? It doesn't that's how. What were you expecting fontaine to do smarty pants? Please, you are just another gamer full of complaints with no answers.

Well dummy, considering most people think that the boss fights are bad because they don't fit with the game. You MUST rely on your gunpower for bosses and that just isn't how the game is made. How am I supposed to know you are pissed off at the narrative? You are completely missing why people don't like the boss fights. They are unbalanced, and make you try to play the game differently than you do the rest of the game.

Learn how to write and maybe one person in your comments would have had a retort that made sense, or for that matter learn to stay on topic. How am I the dimwitted one when you go off on some ridiculous tangent, and don't even bother to explain it. DUH!

@Faceless Troll - Yeah, I had a ton too by the end which was good cuz those final terminals were a bitch. I hadn't lowered any of the security through augs cuz all the hacking was really easy. The last few terminals were not though. That pissed me off too. I literally just has to keep retrying it until I got lucky and didn't set the alarm off for a the first three nodes or so. Had to retry hacking that final terminal a billion times, which kinda ruined the end of the game for me. Also, if anyone bitches at me about spoilers they can GTFO I'm being very vague.

Yeah, I mostly used it to grind for xp too. I as well got most of the useful augs. I always would leave one augment in my inventory in case I ran up against something I needed it for. Thank god I did or I would've never gotten past the second boss.

@Pure Black World Tendency

I just think maybe you don't like a challenge. These boss battles were unsound in their design and deserve to be criticized. The second boss was almost impossible without the aug that makes you immune to electric damage on hard difficulty. They made you resort to cheap tactics because they were entirely overpowered and had bad mechanics. Bioshock's final battle was not that hard.