Aikouka
Lifer
- Nov 27, 2001
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Every new game on release has bugs look at Skyrim,Witcher 2,Dragon Age 2 etc..you can bet a patch or two will be available a some point.
Don't forget that the demo is 3 months old and they worked on bugs and other anomalies for the tomorrow release.
I probably wasn't very clear in what I meant by play tests. I guess I should call them something like "player trials".
I actually don't care much about the bugs as the only one that really affected me was the "black screen of death". Once I found out how to get around it, I was fine. However, I do think the game plays oddly on the PC, because the controls haven't really been tailored to it. I talked about it earlier, but an example is how you swap spells.
My talk of "play testing" really just means that it feels like the game could have been better if they brought people in to say, "I don't like this..." or "I do like this...", and consider the feedback. Releasing a demo is nearly worthless for this as it is typically far too late in the development cycle to change anything other than minor issues (or bugs).
The only important thing is to avoid changing something that is simply just not what the person prefers. An example of this is how I'm not a huge fan of the whole can't steal from people without consequence stuff. I don't really play the realism RPGs, so I'm not used to this, but it seems that this was a direct goal of the developer. If I submitted that as an "I don't like this...", they should obviously ignore it or consider ways to make it easier on some (perhaps make it less annoying at lower difficulty levels?).
I also wish that they would remove the voices. It just seems way too weird to have everyone but the main character have a voice. The responses and questions that you can pose are all scripted anyway. I guess it makes it seem more awkward because your character just stands there in a very stoic manner like he's one of those guard people in England (you know... those people with the fuzzy hats).