Paul Stachniak defends Mass Effect 3's ending by offering three endings from other popular video games that missed the narrative mark.
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD have been delisted from digital stores without warning.
Stupid headline. Should state that they are being updated or discontinued. This makes the crazy people that only read headlines think it some kind of conspiracy to take away peoples already purchased games.
If you want to all of a sudden own them now and haven't played them yet because a remastered is coming out, shame on you. I can't believe people are complaining about this 15 years later when it was bound to happen anyway. "A new remaster is out, quick, I'd better buy the original from the shop."
Gamers: "Physical? who needs physical? everyone knows that digital online games are the future. stop living in the past. we don't need no stinking disc drive"
Same gamers: "How dare the delist a digital game that I own!!!!"
And? What is your point?
Same gamers: "How dare the retailers to delist (quit selling) a physical game that I own!!!!"
I think you just read the headline and don't know how dilisting works with Sony. It's common knowledge that:
"Players who already bought the games will still have them in their library and can download and play them as usual."
So again, what is your point?
Remakes of the campaigns featured in Xbox Game Studios' Halo 2 and Halo 3 are currently in development, according to a new rumor.
That's Microsoft's gaming division for you...kill off developers making new ip while trying to capitalize off some long lost glory that has no hope of ever being what it once was thanks to recent decision making favoring unrealistic profit goals and greed. What a joke.
So much bitterness. Why be upset over something like this. Just don't buy it and stick with what you prefer.
Give it rest medman..., take a deep breath and try to not sound so invested in something no one is forcing you to read, buy, or play.
"Console war"is over, Sony won, be happy.
@thesoftware730
I'm invested in people losing their jobs and their livelihoods while Microsoft execs tout record profits for their gaming division. Not sure why you wouldn't be invested. Could be you one day. Good luck.
So what’s their solution to having multiplayer? Wait until Halo 7?
That was one of the most memorable parts of Halo..
I'm not sure spending the heavy investment in time to recreate the multiplayer here is the answer either though.
Remaking the campaigns is a great idea to bring the new players up to speed. But if the multiplayer is included in each it'll just fracture the player base of each release.
I think it might be better to turn these campaigns out quicker and have 1 multiplayer game to keep everyone in one place
Maybe having an Halo Online and just release the Combat Evolve maps. And when Halo 2 releases have those maps release. I don’t know but I would like to play a newer version of Halo multiplayer. I know times have changed, and Fortnite is all younger kids really play. But back then it was Halo and you connecting 6 Xbox’s together lol.
I agree. I think that'll segment the playerbase and once 7 comes out, players might realize it sucks and go back to the older games. Especially if 7 is live-servixe, they'll be shooting themselves in the foot on the one good leg they have to stand on.
Kinda surprised they didn't just port MCC.
Maybe more $ to by made with separate remasters
Wouldn't have that problem if it were MCC being released. Gotta wait for 7 to be disappointed with MP all over again cause if they half baked Infinite what makes people think they won't half bake the next game? MP works in past HALO games not cause of nostalgia but because it's MP that isn't concerned with the endless service approach.
There is so much cognitive dissonance over Infinite. People say they didn't like it because it was a live service. Yet if you look at what the criticisms of it were at the time it came out and when the playerbase started falling off, the primary issue people had was a lack of updates. In other words, it wasn't enough of a live service.
Which is really an encapsulation of the problem with multiplayer today. So many people think that they want to go back to the "good old days" of mid-2000s multiplayer (The first few Halos, Socom, the first few Battlefields, CS 1.6, etc), but in reality if a multiplayer game like that came out today, people would whine about the lack of content within a month of launch and go back to a live service with a grindy progression system.
Why not just port the MCC? 🤔 That was the easiest layup ever and you completely missed it
I thought the same thing, then I realized that they wouldn't include the remakes in that edition. We may get a different version of Halo MCC in the future with all of the remakes included. I just want them to include Halo 5 at some point for PC.
I wonder if Microsoft will port Reach over to Playstation I quite enjoyed that game. I played Halo 3 and it was not bad I have Halo 2 on the OG Xbox I just need some cables to hook up to my tv to play it.
The developers behind the original Borderlands discuss their last-second Hail Mary to change the course of the franchise.
ever since XIII came out I really loved the cell shaded artstyle in games. I probably wouldn't have tried it if it didn't have such a style like that
Personally, I didn't have a problem with ME3's ending. Sure, I can understand how people got upset from not having every bullet point addressed at the ending, but I feel like every decision was addressed by the immediate result at the time of the decision.
At the end of Mass Effect 3, all I could think about was whether or not I was willing to sacrifice the synthetics that I'd saved, and how my Shepard would never get to see his crew again because of my decision. I kept thinking about it intermittently days later, and I think that's a hell of a compliment for any piece of narrative.
MGS4? Really? Some people...
I would, however, say that MGS2 belongs at the top of any list of bad endings. It was so bad that it put me off to MGS3 until long after Subsistence had released.
At least you knew it didn't end at Halo 2... And MGS4's ending was great.
And Borderlands 2 isn't even out yet.
How am I suppose to not like the ending to Borderlands 2 if it hasn't even come out yet?
As for Halo and MGS4, those for one made sense. MGS was emotional and bitter sweet, Halo 2 was purely ment to go straight into Halo 3. ME3's endings took no what what you have done into account throughout the franchise, it also didn't even matter what you did in the 3rd game. It came down to what choice do you want to do A Bor C. Even the extended endings did nothing but add a slide show like it was suppose to help, which it didn't. Also adding another ending which surprisingly made the most sense out of all of them.
It's not the ending that is bad that people are mad about, it's the fact that Bioware sold the game on the statement that your choices effected everything and that ended up not happening. It was like the ending to Deus Ex, where you pushed a button and that was the ending.
Please realize this before making stupid articles trying to bash highly respected games
See, I don't think a developer should change the ending to a piece of media just because people don't like it. Some things have really bad wtf endings and I think that's okay.
I mean, JK Rowling changed the ending to harry potter and the deathly hallows because she gave a few people copies of it and they didn't like the ending where harry died. So she tacked on some half-baked conclusion where he doesn't actually die and threw it in just to keep the fans happy, but I think the original ending would have made perfect sense, despite it being unpopular.