Tom Clancy's The Division
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Games have come out, but none of them are blockbusters. I'm talking about polished, mass-market appeal games that make for good watercooler talk. Dragon's Dogma? The Heavy Rain re-release? Sorry, that's laughably niche gaming. Also note that every game you listed is either a sequel or a re-release. The Division is a brand-new tentpole AAA title.
eXarc
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edit; I read those posts all wrong, nevermind. I think Ut and Valk maybe you could both be correct. There wasn't anything competing with The Division's genre for quite some time surrounding this release, and Rainbow Six (I believe) was the last thing that generated a decent amount of hype which didn't even come close to scratching the just previously released Black Ops3, etc.
Ut, I'm glad you rationally gave the game a chance and I agree with you also. I think they just overall did a pretty good job of putting it all together and it is a HUGE welcoming gesture away from the shitty ass deal Bungie/AV were handing us with Destiny. Hopefully Destiny 2 will drastically shape it the fuck up because they are going to have some open world/RPG/FPS competition from now on for sure.
Regardless, I think a lot of people who enjoy shit like Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell, etc. were looking for to this for a lot of similar reasons - I definitely was. I think Ghost Recon: Wildlands will also be a fantastically huge hit but not in the same immediate success story way that The Division is. I think they have a pretty high chance of fucking nailing it with GR WL and word will get out and they will sell a fuckton of copies.
Ut, I'm glad you rationally gave the game a chance and I agree with you also. I think they just overall did a pretty good job of putting it all together and it is a HUGE welcoming gesture away from the shitty ass deal Bungie/AV were handing us with Destiny. Hopefully Destiny 2 will drastically shape it the fuck up because they are going to have some open world/RPG/FPS competition from now on for sure.
Regardless, I think a lot of people who enjoy shit like Ghost Recon and Splinter Cell, etc. were looking for to this for a lot of similar reasons - I definitely was. I think Ghost Recon: Wildlands will also be a fantastically huge hit but not in the same immediate success story way that The Division is. I think they have a pretty high chance of fucking nailing it with GR WL and word will get out and they will sell a fuckton of copies.
Utnayan
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Oh ok
You said AAA game releases. That's what those are. Scrutiny? All of them are insanely popular IP's. Division, new IP.
I am sick to death of publishers thinking they need to put their games up against others in release time-frames and then either using it as a scapegoat for failure, or this is why it succeeded. A game succeeds on it's own merits. (Combined with a lot of hype and how much marketing noise there is)
eXarc
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I can't honestly recall a time when a game fucking tanked because something else released alongside it. That list contains so many fucking different genres. The only reason I could imagine is because people are too poor to buy all the 17 games they want released in February or whatever and end up picking them up later, haha.
I mean, yeah, we hear the excuse all the time but can it actually be true? What's a good example of two games of huge magnitude that are even on production value that ended up conflicting so much that one tanked the other? If they are the same genre I could see it reasonably happening in a case or two, but other than that...
I mean, yeah, we hear the excuse all the time but can it actually be true? What's a good example of two games of huge magnitude that are even on production value that ended up conflicting so much that one tanked the other? If they are the same genre I could see it reasonably happening in a case or two, but other than that...
ronne
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It's not really that surprising that this has done so well. Destiny did pretty damn well, and I know there has to be a market in the PC user base for a Destiny-like game. Division doesn't really do anything amazing or revolutionary for sure, but it also doesn't really fuck anything up either. It's very playable, looks and runs great, has great co-op play, some surprisingly compelling pvp stuff to do. etc. It's also released during the usual spring slump of game releases, before any of the real big time names like Dark Souls come out, so it's not competing against much, especially given its genre (is it really competing with anything on the PC? Borderlands maybe?).
meStevo
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Closest thing to that happening is probably Tomb Raider releasing the same day as Fallout 4.
Noodleface
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Anyone played this for both PC and PS4?
Is PC miles above the PS4 or are they nearly equal? Any good comparison between the two?
Is PC miles above the PS4 or are they nearly equal? Any good comparison between the two?
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Got to level 6, joined a team of two aspys, spend 1.5 hours fighting a lvl 8 boss wiping 5-6 times, kill him finally, aspy a trains last two little purple mobs to us and flame throws all 3 of us to death. Legit cursed out my tv haha. Game can be surprisingly tough, but it's still satisfying. Pleasantly surprised that this is pretty good. Glad I bought it!
spronk
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just hit 30 today, here's my little gay asian man after doing one of the daily missions - there are two, plus a daily challenge mode mission. each gives phoenix points which I think is for DZ gear. All the gear drops are from missions, haven't bought anything from a vendor yet. I'd recommend not bothering with DZ until you hit 30, at 30 you get much better drops and killing PVE mobs gives a LOT more xp/cash so below that is kinda pointless. All this was solo btw, I queued for every mission but only got someone to talk with once in 15 missions, everything else was dead silent.
just kinda interested to see how far up my numbers can go over the next week, at that point I'll probably be done with the game for a while
just kinda interested to see how far up my numbers can go over the next week, at that point I'll probably be done with the game for a while
RhoA
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I'm only level 15, but the deadzone hasn't been too terrible since I have a group of four friends that I always play with. I mean we end up getting demolished most of the time, but I think it's worth a look before you hit 30.
Xexx
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The grind to 50 is on another level. The challenge missions are more fun than nightfalls - However i cant really explain why considering the dudes that rush at you have crazy shields and are 2 levels up. I guess its just the part of it where you have to actually be tactical and put some thought into which abilities everyone is running and where you position yourself to maximize.
@140 Scav i got the Caduceus or whatever from a boss at random - promptly deconstructed the PoS
Its hard to find a better combo than an SMG/MM, the LMG/MM its good or LMG/SMG but ARs just seem like crap atm,
@140 Scav i got the Caduceus or whatever from a boss at random - promptly deconstructed the PoS
Its hard to find a better combo than an SMG/MM, the LMG/MM its good or LMG/SMG but ARs just seem like crap atm,
This is me after 40 hours in, done everything including dark zone stuff completely solo so far. I actually find going lone wolf a lot more fun, although it does not seem that many people go rogue anyway, because the incentives are not very good. Game is fun as hell, but i'll probably lose interest once I finish gearing out. The end game so far for me seems to be farming named bosses in the DZ for Phoenix and spending them on high end patterns. I saw a few streamers doing the challenge mode missions, and it does not seem that rewarding for the time spent on it. But i'm happy that they made it very difficult.. looking forward to raid content and see how that looks in a game like this.