2003 was fine! Until 2004 came out to supercede it in every way of course. Can you believe no one outside sports gaming wanted to buy the same game every year with only minor upgrades? Its not like you got an updated player\team roster, the only reason for even buying the sports games.
It’s so odd in hindsight. In many ways, what they clearly wanted was for UT2KX to be Fortnight, a live service infinite money machine, but those hadn’t been invented yet. So it has these vestiges and echoes of the monetization to come but is otherwise still clearly a game of it’s era.
Nah, 2003 played much worse than 99. It was a total downgrade. And as far as I could see back then the release of 2004 was very welcome as the UT 2003 should have been. I didn’t see anyone looking at it as a potentially yearly release cycle.
And I mean, UT 3 took its sweet time and was basically just mediocre without anyone caring much.
I was really enthusiastic about the community almost open source approach of UT4 but that kind of stagnated over the years until it was unceremoniously buried after Epic had their surprise success with Fortnite.
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2003 was fine! Until 2004 came out to supercede it in every way of course. Can you believe no one outside sports gaming wanted to buy the same game every year with only minor upgrades? Its not like you got an updated player\team roster, the only reason for even buying the sports games.
It’s so odd in hindsight. In many ways, what they clearly wanted was for UT2KX to be Fortnight, a live service infinite money machine, but those hadn’t been invented yet. So it has these vestiges and echoes of the monetization to come but is otherwise still clearly a game of it’s era.
Nah, 2003 played much worse than 99. It was a total downgrade. And as far as I could see back then the release of 2004 was very welcome as the UT 2003 should have been. I didn’t see anyone looking at it as a potentially yearly release cycle.
And I mean, UT 3 took its sweet time and was basically just mediocre without anyone caring much.
I was really enthusiastic about the community almost open source approach of UT4 but that kind of stagnated over the years until it was unceremoniously buried after Epic had their surprise success with Fortnite.
I must be the odd one out - the slower pace of 2k3 fights better suits me.