melacio: Why Gog there are no games like call of duty , evolve ,shadow of mordors, ryse or dead island?

don't want anyone offended , i like Gog but i wonder if some day come this type of games to Gog

darkredshift: because they're all shit ( with the possible exception of evolve)

synfresh: Shadow of Mordor is very good as well.

YaTEdiGo: COD is a game that worth to pay the money that costs in terms of satisfaction in their users, yes, it is a mainstream product, it is not a special, or different jewel, but frankly speaking it is far away from being a BAD game.

shmerl: It very much depends on what you define as good or bad. I don't consider such games good. By "mainstream" you mean dulled, averaged mass market commercialized work. Comparing it to really good games which are true works of art is like comparing some pulp fiction to timeless masterpieces.

Something being mass market is not a definition of being good. In art it's usually the opposite actually.

YaTEdiGo: People can hate or complain about COD games, but even if the story is always the same messy barely non-plot war thing, with never have a big innovation in terms of gameplay, and the multiplayer is over and over the same thing with different graphics, even with all that, COD games are very SOLID products, that bring you many hours of gameplay with enough diversity to be very appealing. Specially Treyarch did very well in the last years, with the Zombies thing, plus more interesting campaigns, and some slight innovations on the Multiplayer.

COD is a game that worth to pay the money that costs in terms of satisfaction in their users, yes, it is a mainstream product, it is not a special, or different jewel, but frankly speaking it is far away from being a BAD game.

RYSE is the worst game in that list, and I didn't tried Evolve, but looks a bit like a "failed" product for similar reasons to TITANFALL, you can only do "multiplayer focused games" if you have the biggest advertisement machine with you, check DESTINY, most overated multiplayer game in the last years.

shmerl: It very much depends on what you define as good or bad. I don't consider such games good. By "mainstream" you mean dulled, averaged mass market commercialized work. Comparing it to really good games which are true works of art is like comparing some pulp fiction to timeless masterpieces.

Something being mass market is not a definition of being good. In art it's usually the opposite actually.

synfresh: The Elder Scrolls games certainly are as well as Dragon Age/Mass Effect and most of these are all very solid products.

synfresh: . Just because a game is 'mainstream' doesn't automatically mean it's bad.

shmerl: Not really "solid" in my view. The last good ES game was Morrowind probably. Which was an RPG. The later ones simply became 3D sandboxes without much of the essence and story. And mass market is to blame, no doubt. In order to appeal to broad audience, the depth of such games is reduced to a minimum.

Can't say much about DA games, I didn't try any of them. But from what I've heard form others, they aren't on the same level of RPG quality as let's say Witcher games. Again, mass market appeal I guess. If you are interested in serious RPGs, don't turn to Biowares and Bethesdas of the world. Try CD Projekt Red, inXile, Obsidian, OtherSide and the like.

And that's not surprising and easily explained by legacy publishers' approach. They want to sell more at the cost of quality. If it means gutting the artistic depth and forbidding innovation and experiments, they don't care. And that's quite common for many so called "AAA" publishers. Independent studios on the other hand are more often real innovators and they try to follow their artistic vision instead of chasing mass market to increase profits.

synfresh: That's just your own personal taste though

synfresh: AAA publishers are going to continue to churn out your COD's and other 'mass market' games because people buy them. For all the complaints of just boring yearly iterations with just a newer coat of paint, these same titles still manage to sell millions of copies.

synfresh: But there are always diamonds in the rough, even from AAA publishers. Games like Dark Souls (Bandai Namco), Shadow of Mordor (WB), Far Cry 4, and Alien: Isolation

YaTEdiGo: Agree, but for a Mainstream product, COD is GREAT, it is complete, it is funny, it is solid. Of course if you ask me which game has more soul, COD or SYSTEM SHOCK2, I will have no doubts about which one to choose.

Ah, and probably some of the COD games, they are masterpieces. Not all of them of course. But the first Modern Warfare was a game that changed many things, and it did it well. I should also add that the art direction in all the COD games, even if it is only about war, war, and war... is really good.

melacio: A new drm:

Here's what EAs DRM is doing, they don't just verify the number of PCs you work on slash use, nope .. they dare to monitor hardware changes now, which I am sure is a privacy breach on many levels. So once we insert new hardware (CPU / mobo or graphics cards) the hardware id # hash changes and if that happens a couple of times they are rendering your activation invalid.
What a bunch of rubbish ....
If this is the future for EA titles then you guys can forget about VGA performance reviews as EA is rendering that pretty much impossible now. I've now been waiting for like 3 or 4 hours and we are still locked out of the game. The only way to solve this would be purchasing another key and setup a secondary account. This means that if we'd like to make a VGA performance review on Battelfield Hardline with a card or 20 we'd need to purchase the game three times.
EA - guys we understand your piracy and cheating/hacking concerns, but STOP pissing off your user-base with this STUPID DRM non-sense. Christ almighty, at what point will the industry realize they are killing the PC game market themselves ?

Please,you don,t buy battlefield hardline

darkredshift: But actual war ( war in games as opposed to violent killing in games) is boring against humans unless you're talking steampunk Nazis from Wolfenstein the new order, the Triad Pictures mercenaries and Oscuro monks from Rise of the Triad or Cabal cultists from Blood. And if you want pointless violence against irritating but morally questionable humans, then there's always the BOBs from Marathon.

jabotinsky1948: Does DA Inquisition do this? If it has this DRM then I regret buying it.
jabotinsky1948: I would disagree about war in video games being boring. Operation Flashpoint GOTY's 3 campaigns are among the best campaigns I've ever played. The difference is in the game mechanics. You're absolutely correct that the new Wolfenstein was improved by including steampunk. It's also the only game I can remember where you get to liberate a death camp.