Are we losing the hype over this?
OpolE
Join Date: 2008-04-10 Member: 64057Members
Im starting to lose hype over this game, just wondering if anyone else was.
Back in the day NS was absolutely ragged by myself and best friends of which im greatful, but now my friends havent said a word about the game and may not buy NS2. Im sorta thinking this will need to impact steam and places hard to get peeps back into NS mode.
Back in the day NS was absolutely ragged by myself and best friends of which im greatful, but now my friends havent said a word about the game and may not buy NS2. Im sorta thinking this will need to impact steam and places hard to get peeps back into NS mode.
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Back in the day NS was absolutely ragged by myself and best friends of which im greatful, but now my friends havent said a word about the game and may not buy NS2. Im sorta thinking this will need to impact steam and places hard to get peeps back into NS mode.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
hey buddy :)
no we have not lol
Back in the day NS was absolutely ragged by myself and best friends of which im greatful, but now my friends havent said a word about the game and may not buy NS2. Im sorta thinking this will need to impact steam and places hard to get peeps back into NS mode.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
alpha shouldn't be marketed as a beta
Which is true, however this game in its current form is way past what can be considered an Alpha test, its in the early to mid stages of beta and is exactly what it says it is. A better way of describing NS2 at the moment would be to call it a perpetual beta (basically a version of beta where most of the core features are in place but new ones are constantly being added while striving to get to the release version)
Beta's are 99.9% of the time fully feature complete at initial stage. NS2 is not, missing many key functions.
The 0.1% is NS2 btw.
Never say anything that can be taken out of context ;)
Actually beta is supposed to be feature complete only bug fixing, alpha is when features are to be added by definition and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_release_life_cycle" target="_blank">wiki</a> :P. But anymore devs do not follow that model.
As for hype, I am still very hyped and can't wait for the release.
Woah, bro
That's not out of context. That's sentence restructuring.
I am looking forward to b186 but I am not hyped.. I rather hope that it will be good.. because as we saw in the past, not every patch is a good one. But after 5-6 weeks I think (and again: hope) this will be good.
But for the game.. I am still "hyped" as ever. It is going to be awesome :-)
And I hope it will be finished next year.. or is at least at some point next year feature complete.
<i>Interesting.... </i> :P
Anyways, the game should be a lot of fun. Look at what its actually competing against, if you get too pessimistic. There's an AVP game being released soon, but NS2 still seems unique
Ah take it easy fella. No hard feelings. Get back to mapping, you had something nice going there.
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What's childish about it :P. People have their own opinions.
This is how i see it
I haven't been playing as much because...its very hitchy.
It ran beautifully smooth for a good chunk...and it was awesome.
AI sucks compared to humans...this is why multiplayer is so so ...satisfying.
And I was hunting different aliens down dark hallways, destroying things...growing.
And I was crawling so so slowly just so that first bite could be the head...i don't think i get more...its just more fun.
I check the site daily...and i spread my butter a little to thin sometimes.
I spin up every patch...(except that one while on vaca)
I love the concept.
I think they did a very good job toolwise and enginewise.
Multiplayer that is not vanilla ...is very iteration necessary.
The tools allow quick iteration.
and iterate they do.
The flexibility in the engine and tools also allows them to investigate NEW IP quickly...but that is farther in the future.
And the team building this...loves this game
you can see it in their faces
you can see it in their beards
you can see it in those 'what you talkin bout willis?' posts by Cory
Tried BF3 Beta yesterday. Left it after an hour for some NS pleasure.
Anyways, there shouldnt be a too big "hype" about NS2 by the time, as many ppl just dont have the patience to wait for the next patch nor do they understand it is an (pre-)beta product currently. These ppl will tell others that it is a ###### game, unplayable etc etc. not the best PR ;)
Beta is for Testing, not for entertainment, tbh
For me, I got very naggy that I bought the game in May 2009: 2 and a half years is a long time!
I do play ns1 still on Wonga server. It's good. Love ns1 !