Enough blue glowies for you though Fed?

mmmmeh

but maybe Blizzard will see one of these stars and remember that things are supposed to happen in cutscenes.

I confess I haven't played anything of Blizzard's since I bought Warcraft III. But I remember... I'll never forget.

A demon-possessed man returns to his castle and stabs his father! But we're not going to show you that. Here are shadows.

A city gets completely destroyed and all of its inhabitants are burned to ashes! Here is a sandcastle.

This is the the best comment from YouTube's first page:

Meanwhile, Blizzard uses its vast animation department to make cutscenes of a woman falling asleep as her grandfather reads a book.
dorpth 6 hours ago

You forgot:

Here's an other worldly badass demon slaughtering an orc and human warrior! But we're not going to show you that. Let's cut straight to their lifeless hand.

Oh shit how are these two orcs going to kill this invincible demon who shrugged off their strongest stuff? Oh, he stabbed him with a sword...

EXPLODING HIPPIE TREE

As long as they do another open beta I'll give them the benefit of the doubt.

Business wise, SE is a class act with how they understood the game launched as crap, kept extending free play time, and are shutting it down and redoing the whole thing instead of going piecemeal while charging players.

Bioware on the other hand cant admit they screwed anything up, concluding that the only reason their starwars MMO failed is because it cost a monthly fee.

When your game sucks so bad that only armageddon can cleanse it.

As someone that was really interested in The Old Republic, but hasn't tried it yet, the emaciated free-to-play option hasn't even enticed me to try it.

I was selected by Bioware to beta test SWTOR in closed beta a while ago. It was doomed from the start, and pretty much everyone except the die hard Star Wars geeks knew it. It was just so linear/cookie cutter and had waaaaaaay too many problems for a game that cost that much, and took that long to produce.

I could go on, but there's nothing I could say that hasn't been covered in volumes in game reviews.

SWTOR was a great single player game...

Why do these things get released in pairs? SWTOR and The Secret World: both MMOs that should have just been released as single player games.

hooker, I'd recommend you take advantage of bioware's idiocy and play the solo content (basically all of leveling to 50) for free. Beyond that there's no point in playing.

I am holding out hope that, after it shuts down completely, TOR will get a second life as a fan project (like Star Wars: Galaxies) but completely devoid of the multiplayer.

That reminds me, I need to check out the progress of SWGEMU. I think they were in Alpha testing last time I was on. I'm curious how close they are to Beta. They've done an amazing job of re-creating the server-side code so far.

Maybe it's time to put down the Final Fantasy franchise.

It may be the cynic in me, but when I see a cutscene that a game company put a lot of effort into, in order to use it as a promo, my first reaction is: WHAT ARE YOU HIDING?!!

As a child of the 80's I'm no stranger to amazing box art with tanks and fighter jets piloted by grimacing soldiers fighting for their lives, and ending up playing a game that consists of guiding a large square through a maze.

There seems to be nothing "final" about this series. Gamers appear to not mind shelling out $$ to play the same thing over and over again.

Doomstein: You have every right to think that, because releasing pre-rendered cinematics is literally play #1 in the game industry's play book for hyping games with either undeveloped...or just shitty...game designs.

Also see: Dead Island. Yes. I will always harp on this game as an example of this phenomenon.

I give this video the benefit of the doubt, because like Blizzard, Square is expected by its fanbase to put out these gigantic CG dry humps. Even if they didn't want to do this, which I highly doubt, it just would go against their hype routine.

Sorry. "go against their hype routine" of releasing a game play teaser before or without a pre-rendered cinematic.

Well there is the "remastered" FFVII coming out for PS3...

Lets not forget about that Chrono Trigger remake that they killed with lawyers.

"People who liked this video also liked: Ziggy cartoons"

It makes Episode III look worse?

Hey, if you remove the plot, characters, settings, excessive CGI and bloated universe you would have....well you would have a decent soundtrack.

One of my all time favorites.

Now if only SE would jump onboard the retro-bandwagon and make a new 2d FF.

Chrono Trigger, Parasite Eve


Name the last two great games Square made that died from total shit sequels.

"Now if only SE would jump onboard the retro-bandwagon and make a new 2d FF."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_Dimensions