Technical issues--better known to gamers as "bugs"--are nothing new. Sometimes they are funny but other times they cause extreme frustration and can even lead to lawsuits. But why aren't they weeded out in the development process? The Division developer Massive Entertainment lead gameplay programmer Anders Holmquist has offered up an answer to that question, saying it all comes down to what your specific expectations are for the project.
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Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-
I think the only game here for me is Nine Sols. Was always interested in that game.
Good month for me, I wanted that particular footy game and thought it might be due. Anyway who cares, shame about the site I'll miss the comment sections. All the best everyone.
Naughty Dog was reportedly divided on the controversial fate of Joel in The Last of Us Part 2 during the game's development.
Funny considering Bruce left half way through development and now we get told there was an internal conflict with the story direction.
Makes you think…
I think it was good decision, if he was still alive, he would have been a mascot just like Kratos, drake and many others. These old dudes gotta die for new characters to take center stage with their own storyline. They keep dragging the emotional baggage into many sequels and eventually the story just turns into absolute shit show.
It was ironic because people complained heavily about the story in the Uncharted games not having sufficient stakes because all the key characters always survived, despite the dangerous situations they were always in. Then ND killed a character in a more serious series and everyone lost their minds. Just shows that people don't always really want the thing they say they want.
I thought the more common complaint about Uncharted franchise was how the main cast are the good guys acting so nonchalantly while killing hundreds in cold blood (aka the dissonance between gameplay and story cutscenes). They just did it again in Part II.
I don't think he would necessarily need to become a mascot (and besides, technically, I'd say Ellie is... So regardless, someone was going to be).
From a narrative perspective, I do think it has a similar effect to Ricky dying in Boyz N Da Hood: very likeable character, and you're really motivated to see the get back—in this case, it's more intense because it's an interactive experience. Most people hated Abby, but I get what they were after with portraying the cycle of violence and revenge—unfortunately, the game appears to want to take the side of the bad people.
But I will say that if Joel survived, it does become harder to tell an interesting story. What COULD have happened is an exploration into the rift between Joel and Ellie after the trolley dilemma events of the first game. It could have been interesting to see Abby out for revenge at the same time Ellie hated Joel.
Sorry just had to say this lol! RICKYYYY!
Man Cuba Gooding Jr was miscast in that movie, but that part was cringey it was sad and funny at the same time man.
I understand but the way they went about killing Joel, was poorly executed. Even the show of the Last of Us games tried to improved it, but it was just as bad. Well at least Joel got to know the reason why he had to die, before the death happened in the show. That part gave us the full context, but the game just let it happen with no pay off.
Joel death should have been a midway thing through the story, so we at least get to play him a little more with Ellie. Abby didn’t need to be this Hulk looking woman, but more like the show Abby which is a beater idea in my opinion.
Honestly as much as I loved the game, they could have just not killed him off.
I get it creator vision and all but killing a character that made you millions is just wrong imo. At least have him go down fighting.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
Becuase some companies don't take the time to polish.
Bugs take time to fix, time takes money.
While there are a lot of reasons to explain why some games are buggy, a lot of this has to do with the companies mentality towards bugs and the way media / consumers act in relation to them.
Since virtually everything can be patched now, there really isn't any real concern to get it right. Some companies, like Nintendo, will still do the honest thing and really polish their games, but companies like EA sell you something closer to a beta (or an alpha if you want to be really mean) and after a series of updates the problems are resolved.
Naturally this sucks, though it's hard to blame companies for having consumers beta test when the media / many consumers give games a pass. We saw a lot of that with Battlefield 4, Bethesda (in their defense, most games are very big and complex, so some bugs are understandable) released some real stinkers on the PlayStation 3 (Fallout 3 GOTY edition literally crashed 40+ times for me and I found the DLC unplayable) and still came away with many perfect scores (even on the PlayStation platform) and GOTY (from PlayStation sites) and a number of other examples (some of which were never fixed). Sadly a lot of this stems from how the game communities work though.
Too many people will write excuses for certain companies, games, situations for games / companies they like, but will turn around and act like Capcom is the greediest company to ever grace this planet for charging for costumes (even though BlazBlue was charging for pallet swaps and later featured additional announcers at a steep rate and micro-transactions). Since some people won't take a stand against say Aksys for having online verification DLC in Sorcery Saga, it doesn't seem that risky for a game to tempt fate by releasing in a buggy state. Especially when those articles are typically met with "They will patch it, so just wait".
Luckily this isnt an issue with Nintendo. Quality is always put over quantity.
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