I have to agree with VectOr and Midgie. I can understand your frustration about the price, but people that bash RE:ORC so mercilessly are really starting to get on my nerves. I'm beginning to think they didn't even buy it to see for themselves, just watched a couple of videos, read the "OMGZ IT SACKZZ" comments and were quick to judge and reproduce them.
I don't like Capcom, they're just a game company for me and nothing more, nothing less. I respect EA for giving me constant gems like Dead Space, Mass Effect, Shadows of the Damned and more like them, but I generally don't like Capcom's approach to its very audience. But, I understand why they had to release Revelations, a mixture of old and new RE games, and ORC, a Western-developed pure shooter in the RE universe. No one wonders why both were released prior to RE6, but in the same year? They tried to bring together the old fans with Revelations, and attract younger fans with ORC, merging them into one fanbase that will buy the upcoming RE6. They're building up hype for RE6, and are trying to maximize the numbers of people buying it, something completely logical. They even were clever enough to add a RE6 demo code to Dragon's Dogma's copies (I'm getting it regardless), to attract even more people who are completely irrelevant with the RE franchise.
Now, people argue ORC is a terrible piece of crap that doesn't even function. Is it? I find people have selective memory. Does anyone remember BF3's launch? Or Black Ops' launch? Or even how Gears 2's online is, even years after its release? Hell, does anybody remember Skyrim, the game I bought on 11-11-11 on my PS3 and finally got in working condition on the 9th of February? I assume not, why would they? These are AAA, blockbuster games, so their flaws are automatically crossed out and they're only remembered for their "innovations" or "mind-blowing gameplay", which was buggier than a forest most of the time. Of course I'm not comparing ORC's production values to these previous mentions, and no one, safe of mind, would. But taking this in account, I can say ORC is, technically, even better than those titles. Given the considerably smaller budget and studio's inexperience, I can say ORC is more of an achievement than Skyrim or Gears 2-3. I got it on launch day, and had zero matchmaking problems, zero match problems (i.e., spots not filling after someone leaving), zero hangups (except for ONE freeze), zero lag problems. Being a multiplayer-centric game, these are what should bother people the most. What did I have with that "amazing singleplayer experience", Skyrim? An unplayable dust monger for 3 months. What do I still have with Gears 2 and 3? Crap matchmaking, incompetent or marksman (nothing in between, ever) bot AI, because the game fails to fill the empty spots, and constant lag although I was promised to play on "dedicated servers". What do I have with BF3? Although I love it, lag and overall gameplay bugs, that affect the experience, are still present.
To sum it up, I hate people that have grown too attached to their precious franchise, so much that they're afraid to point out their huge flaws, and are very quick to bash on something new, from a small, inexperienced studio. You're cutting off Slant Six's wings, and support bug-ridden, unplayable, unfinished messes like Skyrim and outright lies from the developers of it. At least Slant Six didn't come out and tell me I'm not playing the game "as intended", and that "only 1% of the people experience these problems". I don't give a flying ****, I paid the same money as the other 99%, and I demand that it's in the same condition. Slant Six is quietly working on the bugs, I'm sure of it, no one who has a chance at something that will boost their rep would drop the chance and stop working on it. If they're not, you have my word, I'll come back and retract all I said about them and label them "incompetent", just as Bethesda is for me right now.
