From what I've seen Longview has been quoting numbers and citing sources all over this thread, yet on every page someone makes up excuses or fails to pick the bigger one out of 2 numbers. For now it seems pretty evident that Dota-Allstars is the most played game (at least in it's own genre) in the world by any common measure.
Unfortunate as it is, league is undeniably most popular game in the genre in NA and Europe and that is unlikely to change any time soon. And while it's not uncharacteristic of Riot to make baseless claims I'm having hard time following people who refuse to accept data that proves them wrong.
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its what put me off the game, i tried it when it first released, i just could not get comfortable with the controls and everything seemed so dark and gloomy. but mostly the controls put me off, though after playing WoW, every mmos controls have felt weird and clunky. GW2 has been the best movement and animations since WoW, but still dont seem quite as fluid.
the awards should really be based on the game, gameplay/story ect, not how much money it made or how many people play it.
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yeah that was kind of cool, its a feature ive always wanted to see in WoW to cast with my staff
If MoP or D3 gonna get anything I gonna piss myself with laughter, unless it's worst game of the year.
why do so many mmo fail at getting movement and animations right? a lot ive played just dont have a smooth feel to them. its sad
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ive not played D3, but i wouldn't call MoP worst game of the year, not the best mmo either. best mmo for me this year was GW2. i see GW2 winning the mmo of the year, i dont think planetside will beat it (i hope not anyway)
Well animations are one of those tricky things. Eastern MMO's usually prioritize it but sacrifice depth of the game such as kill X quests instead of the more dynamic quests. It takes a considerable amount of time because you have to adjust for clipping issues too.
Also MoP is the same old same old wow. Nothing new. The standard quest to max level. Lower level zones become useless again, do dailys for rep, grind gear for raids. Grind raids for loot.
what ive noticed is most games cant do one thing that wow does. and thats turn around on the spot instantly. as in your're facing one way, and instantly turn 180degrees without moving or turning around slowly. i dont think even GW2 had that. you have to sort of turn around in a circle
D3 will not win the RPG award, and if it does I'll go kill myself ...
I absolutely hate how Mass Effect 3 Ended and the way they completely threw the entire series plot out the window and fucked everything up... But even STILL I have to concede that personal prejudice against the plot aside, it was a fantastic game and a brilliant RPG. I don't know about Torchlight but ME3 should definitely win the award LEAGUES in front of D3.
Other then that I don't really care about that much about the awards, this year was pretty lackluster in gamging.. Most of those GOTY titles I didn't play and the ones I did play I wouldn't give them GOY. So wait and see.
i wonder if Farcry wins an award of sorts, i found it to be a very fun game, but has some flaws that i think need working out. they could have made so much more use of the map editor in the game. with a few new features to Farcry 3 it could be an amazing game with a lot of replayability, if they let users create maps for their own game types, and single player / co-op scenarios.
Few things I feel strongly abt are:
Mod.. Definately DayZ, I may not like it, you may not like it, but a lot of people like it
Rpg.. Torchlight will prolly gain most votes after people nerdraging with d3's connection "issues", mass effect shouldnt even be there for "pc gamer" and dark souls port was just horrible compared to console version so ye, not gonna happen..
GotY.. Again I dont know why ME3 is there for pc gamer, Planetside is too fresh still to lay judgement on. And the award comes down to if they decide while Walking Dead is awesome, if its long enough to be crowned the winner.. If they however feel like I do and think walking dead is just too goddamn short of a game for GotY, then Dishonored hands down
ESports.. Its a tough thing to judge.. LoL has the superior status cause it has millions and millions more players than any of the others, and the tournaments get huge views, Dota2 while was awesome by valve, its still too rare of a occurance in ESports to be taken seriously, maybe next year though. And then Starcraft while being hands down best ESports game of the 3, its prolly too hardcore of a game to really go past LoL, I mean just look at LoL player numbers and tournaments, SC2 has a tournament every week allmost but they get only 20k-50k viewers and LoL gets over 100k each time
But thats just how I feel abt it. And people prolly wont feel the same
does that in GW2 aswell i think, its a pretty cool feature that really helps with targeting in pvp, more games should do this. i didn't know rift done that as well, sounds like it does have some really good little features in it.
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was the ME3 ending really that bad? ive never really that much of a fan of the games, but i always hear people saying how bad the ending was. was it really that bad where it ruined the entire game and caused such a big upset?
i just watched
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4H_A7SeawU4
was a good watch. i see now why people hated it.