1995 was a good year to be a gamer, that was until 1998. 1998 dwarfed all other years for game releases on the PC and on consoles. Gamers were trapped in a happy medium of many consoles and the PC. Games like Half-Life, Starcraft, Metal Gear Solid, and Resident Evil 2 were released. But the Goozex Report has to ask two things, what will these games be remembered for? Can next year top 1998?
Hope writes: "Classic RPGs make up some of the most formative examples of late '90s to early 2000s PC gaming in my memory, but I also remember when they weirdly disappeared. If you loved games like the original Baldur’s Gate, Icewind Dale, or Planescape, and also wondered why we stopped seeing these kinds of titles for a bit there, well it turns out you can blame physical retailers for the decline in Dungeons-and-Dragons-style PC RPGs."
I would have loved to have bought Baldur's Gate 3 if it would have had a physical release (not the censored Japanese release).
Why can't you just buy the physical release? I have an opened one on Xbox and a sealed collector's edition for PS5.
Are you just not capable of searching online?
Buy the euro version? That is available to purchase. The North American version was limited and sells for a good amount on eBay.
People want to play them. Retailers will sell them. But most dev teams can't make them.
Elon Musk is working on an AI-generated game, but Baldur’s Gate 3 publishing director Michael Douse isn’t convinced. He says AI can be a helpful tool, but it won’t fix the industry's biggest issues.
Leading domestic game companies have entered into an unprecedented competition to win orders for Starcraft, Blizzard's representative IP (intellectual property).
Weird MS is letting go of a good IP. I don’t mind it but hopefully the best dev wins and I’m not sure who that is outbid those.
What they are bidding for are exclusive rights to develop the IP. Microsoft/blizzard is essentially licensing it out to the highest bidder, not selling the IP.
I wonder if we'll see Starcraft Ghost come out of this. And if we do, I wonder if it'll be a free-to-play gacha game.
Given the potential developers, looks inevitable there will be free to play gacha versions. But given south korea’s love for starcraft there would be one that is inline with starcraft 1&2.
Might want to expect some sort of backdoor cheat that only south koreans know of lol 🤣
Hours of wasted time in Half-life...
Such a huge year. Looking down the road 12 years later, these franchises are still as, if not more important than they were upon release. Starcraft is one of my top games of all time.
Yeah, I started playing games much later. I didn't even know there was a Rainbow Six until the Vegas series started.
Yea the original Rainbox 6 has not held up well...
Wasn't only huge year for gaming, but for the electronic music genre as well.