Dave Long said:The over the shoulder cam that allows you to "cheat" by seeing things your player-character cannot.
Your SOCOM cred. just ran out the window dude...
Dave Long said:The over the shoulder cam that allows you to "cheat" by seeing things your player-character cannot.
The main thing I'm getting at is that the majority of your issues are server-side which will be fixed, and your gameplay complaints aren't even that valid even though you talk like the gameplay is a complete wreck. If you disliked the genre or had more specific complaints I would understand where the hate is coming from, but it seems to me you had a frustrating experience and that was that.Dave Long said:It's very easy to explain...
I guess this proves that anyone can write reviews for a website. Enjoy your job.Dave Long said:I guess this just proves there's no arguing with the fans. Enjoy your game.
I standby youDave Long said:I guess this just proves there's no arguing with the fans. Enjoy your game.
Oh my :lolDave Long said:The over the shoulder cam that allows you to "cheat" by seeing things your player-character cannot.
spwolf said:yeah, it is 2008 and still only PS3 games have dedicated servers
OldJadedGamer said:Since when did every third party PS3 game suddenly get dedicated servers? Did I miss something?
Not that you'll find me disagreeing with you that Socom Confrontation is a buggy mess that was released prematurely... But in terms of objectivity, are you really surprised people are going to take issue with your criticisms--even if they're valid--on PS3 games, Dave? Your own blog has a post titled 'LittleBigFailure.' Sometimes the messenger says more than message.Dave Long said:Why do you guys think I haven't played the other games in the series? I reviewed SOCOM III for Computer Games Magazine and played a ton of SOCOM II and had a passing fling with the others. I realize people have a hard time accepting when someone doesn't dig what they dig, but that's just how it is sometimes.
Malvolio said:Since when did "only PS3 games" become the equivalent of "every third party PS3 game"?
OldJadedGamer said:"only PS3 games" means every game no matter who makes them.
Malvolio said:Incorrect.
Dave Long said:Gameplay problems include assault rifles as the only viable weaponry. The over the shoulder cam that allows you to "cheat" by seeing things your player-character cannot. Few modes of play that incorporate no new features for this genre. A capture point mode that's ludicrously designed (everyone caps points but a capture doesn't take one away from the other team? WTF?). You only get seven maps. SEVEN! And some of them aren't built for some gameplay modes! Best of all, they'll probably try to charge you for more maps later on!
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Agreed. He's a little off base there as well.dralla said:what? every type of weapon is useful. The SMG's dominate in close range.
Dave Long said:I think it's not out of line to note that someone's potentially going to be sniping everyone from the safety of some location outside the map sooner or later.
Then again, sniping is busted too, so maybe not!
Why do you guys think I haven't played the other games in the series? I reviewed SOCOM III for Computer Games Magazine and played a ton of SOCOM II and had a passing fling with the others. I realize people have a hard time accepting when someone doesn't dig what they dig, but that's just how it is sometimes.
I see what you did there.Mustaphadamus said:I agree with Dave. i just dropped 60 bucks on a game that is on some old bullshit. They need to fix this thing. I don't think complaining on neo gaf is going to get it done. everyone needs to go to the socom site and spam up their comments section with all the complaints. Make them feel the heat. Hit up Sony's blog too so they can understand, selling people a glorified beta aint gonna cut it.
Socom site link
Doel said:I feel bad for people who are missing out on this game because of reviews. When there isn't server issues it's the best playing console shooter out there right now as far as I'm concerned. Might be missing a couple promised features but that doesn't prevent the gameplay itself from being incredibly fun, deep, and satisfying.
Das-J said:Me too... looking at it right now in fact!
Greg said:I guess this proves that anyone can write reviews for a website. Enjoy your job.
Rated-Rsuperstar said:What are you 4? All online multiplayer games have problems when released. Just come back to the game in a month when the server issues are fixed.
Ravenn17 said:Where do you guys play? Did you pick a home server yet?
don't like some of the community?dork said:i only played 3 games, all 3 times i got rooms where everyone had mics and worked together
although some of the ebonics could stop ;\
AgentOtaku said:don't like some of the community?
I see what you mean and yeah for the most part I've been pretty impressed how cooperative and communicative/talky the community has been thus far when playing (for a console release obviously) .....even though the "tough-ass mothafucka" talk gets old pretty quicklydork said:It's just a little much sometimes. I should have expected it knowing what I know about who buys these games (working retail)
But so far everyone has been at least nice and helpfull. Havent run into pointless yelling or name calling which is always a plus.
dork said:so if the ranking system is broken..how are people leveling up?
biocat said:I was playing on the Japanese beta last night, which is still going on, and managed a 3 hour session. It's really a fun game, but this was after about 4 hard-reboots earlier in the day from the game locking up.
I really hope they fix the bugs in the game. The Japanese beta should have already ended, but for some reason the servers are still up. Only about 100 people were on so I didn't experience any server-load issues. All the bugs I had were from the game just freezing up. Oh, and that scope alignment problem was a bit of a pain, too.
host plz!dork said:Im working on it
So far I have been finding whatever central server has the least amount of people in it
If i can get like 3 or 4 gaffers who want to play tonight, i can host and we can play. Let me know
edit-or even one person who wants to play, ill host and we can get some teamwork going on
Darkpen said:lol, ebonics...
be racist moar D:
I've always found the SOCOM community to be of the mature crowd, back when I played SOCOM 2, I assume its the same for this as well. I mean, sure, you get a redneck every now and then, but unlike in Halo 3 or CoD4, they tend to be more mature in SOCOM.
J-Rzez said:You get more than rednecks. You get E-thugs and the occassional "scream into the mic" people. But most certainly not near the levels of retards that CoD4 and H3 have. It's simply unbelievable how many of them play those 2 games.
AgentOtaku said:any idea how the japanese players feel about the game as a whole right now?
Topher said:host plz!
Darkpen said:lol, ebonics...
be racist moar D:
I've always found the SOCOM community to be of the mature crowd, back when I played SOCOM 2, I assume its the same for this as well. I mean, sure, you get a redneck every now and then, but unlike in Halo 3 or CoD4, they tend to be more mature in SOCOM.
I actually wished you did write more, nice impressions. One thing I do disagree with was the one-shot kill to the leg with an M82/M87. I think its very fair, since 1) its realistic, you can die from one bullet anymore with a 50 cal and 2) its actually harder to hit the legs. Reward the lucky .dralla said:**Sexy Wall of Text**
There's a lot more I could say but I don't want to walloftext everyone, time to boot up Dead Space.