With the amount of bitching going on I would think I am sitting in an old ladies sewing circle.
I see the same names saying over and over how much the game stinks, sucks, blows, and is garbage. How about getting off your ass and donating your perfect video game programming skills to the makers of SEV2 since making video games costs money and programmers need to get paid.
Am I being confrontational? No, but I am tired of reading about people crapping on the game and how this and that should be better. Like everything else in life, games have a budget, and the company has bean counters that make sure the budget is stuck to like glue. When a bean counter says a feature will take too long, it gets cut. When a bean counter says the budget has been reached, ship that sucker and after we make a few bucks, send out the bug fixes, that is what the programmers have to do.
I feel fairly confident that the programmers HATE, HATE, HATE having to listen to the little jerks in the budget department. The a**h*les that would not know program code from a roll of toilet paper have the final say when work has to stop. No programmer in their right mind says, "Lets make a game no one likes" or "Lets p*ss off our fan base by doing a crap job!"
Rebellion is not a huge studio, unlike Namco who had published SE 1, and I bet Namco has more money than Rebellion and 505 combined, yet the people at Rebellion and 505 did their best. So do these people a favor and pull up your pants and stop sh*tting on them!
They are still working on kinks in the game, the survey they posted tells me that much.
SE2 is far from perfect, but any of you play "Sniper: Ghost Warrior"? Not a great game. Am I going to crap all over it to compare the two? NO! Why? because it would make me a hypocrite. I think SEV2 did a much better job than S:GW by quite a margin.
All the people who talk like they know how to fix a problem with SEV2 should be first in line to try and offer CONSTRUCTIVE criticism so the actual programmers can repair your beloved franchise instead of running it into the ground. If you REALLY love this game, and the series as a whole, be supportive of the group trying to make the game better.
There is a chance that a patch, bug fix or DLC will come out that will address many of the SAME issues brought up over and over on these boards by the same people. Hell if I worked for this company and on this game and came to see what was up on the boards I would feel like sh*t after reading a few of the posts, it might even make me question my abilities and maybe get into HVAC work and leave game programming behind forever.
These folks bust ass, for the love of the job, and the challenge of creating something new, and hopefully great. It may not be great, but they did some new stuff, and any development house is going to be ambitious, and try to blow minds (I personally love the X-Ray kill cam) and while it is not perfect either, it's still innovative. What was the last innovative thing with BF3 or COD3, COD:BO did?
My whole point is quit bitching, and start being supportive. Do the friggen survey, tell them what they need to hear in a nice way. That whole saying about getting more flies with honey applies everywhere. Good feedback will ensure hard work to fix most any problem. So give feedback, but try doing it in a way where some programmer wont want to slink off to the office closet and cut their wrists, or sit in front of their workstation and cry for hours instead of hammering away at the computer keys fired up that people like they game but needs some work, and that employee will bust ass to make needed fixes.
Great games take a butt-load of work, and it's clear people did a lot of good work on this game, I love it, I made my requests in the survey of what I would like to see changed or improved and now I am trying to remain supportive on the Forum Boards.
One request I do have would be that I want to be able to snipe Hitler with a nice clean headshot. I want to just focus in on his ugly head and squeeze the trigger and watch the X-Ray kill cam trace my bullet as it enters his face and yanks his brain out the back of his head. Maybe watch an eyeball fall from it's socket for fun. Even better would be to have Hitler standing barking orders to the men and being able to score the much vaunted "Nut Shot" any time I want. Having to chase him is kind of fun, but there should be a chance to just pick him off nice and easy.
I know it's asking a lot Rebellion/505, but you have to fix the fact that Hitler did only have one testicle after being wounded in WW I. It would make scoring the nut shot that much more difficult, and that much more rewarding. Just a suggestion.
Games are supposed to be fun, relax and let them be ...
