Yep BF3 campaign I ONLY FINISHED in order to cry/laugh some more. EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT THE SP experience WAS WRONG.. it was a REALLY LONG TECH DEMO FOR THE MP!!!

And yeah Postal 3 was for me the worst game of all time. I LOVED the original Postal when it came out, precursor to GTA 1 back in 1995/96.. then Postal 2 was funny and gross but I loved it because what other game could you pull your thing out, have a female cop come up, try to arrest you, you pee in her face and mouth, she gags and vomits, you douse in petrol, set on fire and she's running around screaming and puking everywhere, then pull out your shovel and decapitate, then puke still coming out the mouth, neck stumps.. then use the kick button to play soccer with the flaming/still puking head, while other onlookers start running for their lives. Now, compare that sort of gameplay to the Segway battle and even the tutorial of Postal 3.. urgh. I mean, I thought Unreal engine looked way better than source. And move from 1st to 3rd person.. urgh. And every single possible thing was wrong with Postal 3~!! Worst was the Ron Jeremy imitation and the sucking up cum-soaked tissue mission.. And I actually was hoping for something half decent :(

and yes COD single player has ALWAYS been trying to be cinematic, from COD 1 & 2 it was like playing 'Saving Private Ryan' in a video game. On rails but nice bells & whistles and visually interesting scripted events. In BF3, they even ripped off how BLOPS would have the interrogation sequences between each mission. Then there was the way enemy waves would ENDLESSLY respawn until you moved up.. or you could just stay back (in the earlier unpatched retail) and your bots would roll through eventually. You could clip through areas of the map to get to where 'enemies' and emplacements were meant to be and there was nothing there but some explosion effect. You could NEVER progress unless did EXACTLY the way/thing wanted for each mission.. totally unforgiving and uninspired, giving no room for any tactical thought.. just a practice for the MP really. Then there's the jets.. in the SP mode, waiting all the time for the start of those missions, I was looking at the cockpit interiors. They have the SAME CRACK TEXTURES on EVERY SINGLE PANEL!!! Very likely I was in EVERY plane in the game and managed to crack EVERY display panel.. the exact same way!!! I COULD NOT put BF3 campaign DOWN once I started.. I played continuously for about 3-4 days, laughing and crying at every flaw. For me, it's was THE most painful gameplay I've EVER encountered. Mostly because it is considered AAA title.. and the MP is fun and refined, I play BF42 since back when it came out.. but damnnnn DICE make a SP campaign something good and memorable.. not a really really bad and lengthy tech demo!!!!

Brotherhood and Revelations were really just story updates, with cool gadgets to mix it up (but only a little). Assassin's Creed III, with sparser settlements, and the usages of trees, promises to change the game as much as the change from I to II did.

too true

Blizzard is successful today because of Diablo 1/2, Warcraft RTS games and Starcraft 1. If WoW was released without the previous warcraft games it would be just like every other MMORPG flop out there. Their company is running off 10+ year old franchises that will get old eventually and then they'll be gone.

I fell for it and bought their WoW games (quit ~3 years ago), Starcraft 2 and Diablo 3 on release days... No more from blizzard.

+1

30 years old kid here.
But of course: I only play four/five months every year. I hate playing WoW with people who have the "THIS IS SO SERIOUS BUSINESS" mindset...

Cynaris

The quality of Blizzard games had gone down alot, but that does not mean that their marketing is not great!! but those 1.2 million wow players in US/EU sure give them money for nothing.. The Asian pay the real price (around 85 cent a month)

So do remember that income and most sales don't equal quality! unless you think Fiat is a better car than Ferrari

Okay.

yeah, 300 exceptions, okay.

I'm sure quality if of high priority for them, but they have to squeeze it somewhere into their enormous moneymaking scheme. I bet when they canned the first version of D3 and later on started developing what we can see now the first thought they had was "how can we make a game that doesn't have WoW-like monthly subscription but still give us constant revenue?"

You gotta understand though the pressure they had on them. People kept playing the beta and saying "It's fine, release it!" And Blizz still wanted to take their time and released the game a half a year, or a year later. You really can't say the rushed it, or wanted a quick cash-in.

"LoL on the other hand is great for casual players, I might not like it but its a quality game for casuals."

And that's why it's a competitive game.
I don't even know how can a multiplayer game be casual, when it's basically always tied to the players skill level. Yes, I know, DoTA has creep denial and whatnot, I still don't think that's gonna make it hardcore, LoL has many other things to watch out for.