Kevin of Paranerds writes: "If there’s one thing I hate doing its making dinner and spending money. There’s nothing more upsetting than finding out a game that you thought was on one console all of a sudden jumps only to another console. That I get. But a game going multiplatform? Why is this a bad thing?"
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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
Multiplatform games are the best thing for gamers, I will always stand by the fact that if more people get to play a certain game the better and I don't understand why limit the playerbase. Exclusives for sure are better for Console platforms but it is not better for consumers in the long run. Most people will buy one console and regardless of which console they chose they should be able to play the games and not miss one just because they don't have the other console that it's exclusive on. (If it's a game dependent on greater hardware it's understandable in some games. Seems to happen a lot with Wii U like the new AC Unity)
Most of the games that I am excited for this year are multiplatform games, they pretty much make up most of my library and that's because I don't buy consoles for exclusives, though that does not take away the fact that I own at least half of the exclusives released on my PS3/PS4. Exclusivity again is good for the console to pick up sales but for us, the people who are playing the games we should want the games to be available to everyone.
Why pick sides for just a game?
Also, I don't think I ever heard a statement saying Multiplatform games are a bad thing.
You don't see Super Mario Metroid Star Fox or Zelda on other platforms do you? and they are some of the best franchises ever END OF STORY!
Sure multiplats make the industry go and provides fun for everyone BUT............
Exclusives bring about the real CORE gameplay and make the most of a particular platform.
Each platform needs it's Exclusives to really push that system. Nothing better than a Dev team dedicated SOLELY to your hardware.
Ah the Golden Era when virtually NO Game was on more than one or two platforms. Only sports titles were multiplats back then with a few exceptions like Mortal Kombat, SF2, etc. unlike now how 90% of games released are multiplats.
Golden Era = PC, Neo Geo, Turbo GFX-16, SNES, Genesis, Arcade
Multiplats aren't a bad thing.
They just shouldn't ever be the ONLY thing, because exclusives help keep diversity alive through competition.
thanks for all the comments
In the article it's stated that First party titles should be exclusive whereas third party titles should be multi...