I’ve been reading some of the criticisms against Space Marine 2, and wow people have had their brains destroyed by AAA gaming.
No the game isn’t « incomplete ». No, it doesn’t need « perfect balance ». It’s not a live service game. It’s a 360 style brawler with enough stuff to hold you for about 40-60 hours. That’s how games should be. Not everything should be a live service, competitive game. Just because you have online modes doesn’t mean the game needs 5 years of weekly updates.
@thelinuxEXP A few things...
Mostly because it has a multiyear roadmap, online focus and marketing placing it, so therefor it is one.
The recent massive flow on effect of players joing from other games due to various various issues in other live services like the end of a 10 year story in Destiny's case or Sony's and Bungie poor handling of Helldivers 2 and Destiny has likely created an appetite to feed the specificvoid these games used to serve.
From what I've heard as a passive obsever completely unfamiliar with WH 2K universe and Space Marine 2 beyond whispers, much of the complaints so to be around janky balance the discourages doing anything but one thing to the point of not being fun or punishing trying different approaches. Which seems to be a fair call to balance coming as someone who loaths sweats who demand balance in PvE games.
@Flux But they don’t market it as « this is your new COD ». They just said they were going to add a few things.
That doesn’t mean this is a game that will be supported for 10 years, it doesn’t mean it should have daily balance patches. Just because the devs have plans for the current multiplayer offering doesn’t mean they want that to be the main focus, and it doesn’t mean it aims to compete with live service games.
Nick @ The Linux Experiment
Flux