Which one is more disappointing?
CM is an awfull broken badly design game, AK just had a bad PC port but there is a good game there.
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Arkham Knight is by all indications a good game and getting good reviews outside of Steam. Its got tech issues, which isnt indicative of its quality. ACM is a piece of flaming crap as a game, regardless of tech problems. I guess you could compare the "hype", but Batman is likely a good game once the tech kinks get worked out. Arkham City did not have a smooth launch either and that's widely loved now.
I got AK pre-release but super cheap thanks to those Nvidia promos, I cant complain. I paid $1.99 for ACM and played it for an hour and turned it off because it was boring.
A better comparison would be Assassins Creed Unity and Batman AK. Both are better games than ACM, but mired by tech issues on launch. I personally enjoyed Unity and my problems with AK are minimal (persistent film grain and motion blur).
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In that respect, I choose the potentially good game that doesnt at the moment. A poor game at its core gameplay can only be fixed by remaking it from the ground up. Arkham Knight hasn't even been out 24 hours yet. Now, if Batman stays shit in respect to functionality, I could potentially change my tune, but for now its a pretty easy decision for me in that respect. ACM has no hope.
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A:CM.Arkham Knight's PC port is piss-poor,sure.Its shitty,but it can be fixed!And the game behind this mess seems to be awesome.
"Call of Aliens:Weyland Yutani",though?Fundamentally outdated,worthless and just fucking horrible in terms of story,gameplay,graphics and so on.
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Wow. Lotsa people say that "it can be fixed", and while it's true, go and see how utterly fucking "fixed" Arkham Origins is. I couldn't connect to online sessions 9 times out of 10, and there were game breaking bugs in the singleplayer portion from day one, never fixed. Keep that all in mind. Might be another developer this time, but the publisher's the same.
I'll consider buying it after they fixed it this time around, that's all I'm saying.
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I read a lot of people stating this and I agree, almost all games need patching at some point, but I think its too generous in this respect.
This is a huge, multimillion dollar budgeted AAA game that millions will buy upon release or pre-release. Sure, don't pre-order blah blah blah, but people do it anyway. At the very least, the developer/publisher has the resources to properly test and configure the game to work on a wide variety of machines. I can understand more problems if this was from a smaller company that have budgetary restraints in respect to things like QC and testing. WB doesn't have this problem. These problems many are reporting are indicative of a port that took shortcuts to meet a release date.
I don't think its too much to ask a developer that if we choose to invest the top amount in a new game on release or pre-release to expect it to function to an acceptable level for the majority rather than just the few at launch. Early adopters shouldn't be assumed to want to beta-test.
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Games do need patching. Even games that were optimized great out of the box do need things patched. Shadow of Mordor, Metal Gear Ground Zeroes, and GTA V are three relatively recent games that were all excellent on the PC right from the word go. This one is a different beast. It needs A LOT of work. Its understandable if its little things, but its a completely different story when the game has so many problems as this one does for many. Irregardless of specs, people with great rigs to mid-range to low level are having problems.
Patches are understandable, its a fact of PC gaming. Wholesale problems b/c of things being rushed are not understandable, especially not for a AAA developer with one of the biggest franchise in gaming currently. Its a disservice to everyone who paid the premium price to play right away.
Personally, its functional for me, but I spent a lot of time when Id rather be engrossed in the game play, tweaking things in ini files and all of that. That's not a complaint, I do it with a lot of games, but just to get it functional to an acceptable level is not something that should be necessary to play it.
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Yea its pretty bad. Even Metacritic pulled all of the "professional" reviews.
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I bought Aliens Colonial Marines for dirt cheap and I can't complain, it was fun for the money I paid for it ^^
Moral of the story...again, don't preorder ;)
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I feel sorry for those who pre-purchased the game. But I guess it is a lesson - never pre-order games, even if the previous instalments were great.
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