I miss Stella, and I miss Noctis' old outfit. The dynamic between Noctis and Stella was so much more interesting - or what we saw of it anyway - and Stella seemed like a more original character than Luna, who seems a bit too familiar to me. Also, Noctis' old outfit looked so much cooler - hopefully they'll include it in the game, maybe as an alternate costume or skin or something. The outfit they've settled on annoys me for some reason - I think it's the combination of the...
Strong feeling this is a smartphone / tablet game. It's the animation and layered 2D stuff that gives it away. Doesn't necessarily mean it won't be a good game though, and the music seems nice. I'm just sad that, once again, it's not Spyro.
There are no easy answers. The whole thing is a capitalism problem - a double-bind inherent to capitalism. Filesharing wouldn't be a problem if we didn't need to earn money to live - people would have no problem with people having what they made for free. Creative stuff is it's own reward - people only ask for monetary compensation because they need money to live in this system. On top of that, if they couldn't get enough money to survive doing what they liked doing, they'...
Man they didn't even TRY to look visually different from No Man's Sky. It seems to play differently to NMS at least, but it LOOKS identical. Really it should have been different in both departments, not just one.
The whole No Man's Sky genre is going to be oversaturated by the time NMS comes out. This, The Solus Project, Lost World Zero, some others I'm probably not aware of, and many more in the future. Enough already!
The worst thing about RPGs is the grinding and the farming. There are a lot of RPGs that boast huge playtimes, but usually grinding and farming make up a huge percentage of that. It's often a trick to make you think you're getting your money's worth.
I love RPGs, but exploration, discovery, and story should be what make the playtime long, not tedious, monotonous, soul-crushing labour. All that filler stuff just makes you sick of playing the game, and makes for ba...
They were exceptional in the gameplay, visual design, art direction and music departments - ESPECIALLY the music, which is some of the best I've heard in a videogame.
It's the story and characters that were weak. Story and script was just constant exposition, and the characters felt like melodramatic, basic anime archetypes, rather than nuanced. The voice work was good though and there were a few good characters, such as Noel and Caius. Ultimately though I felt games ...
So this is Transformers Devastation with a TMNT paintjob? Activision are the worst for milking successful things. I expect we'll see another 5 or 6 games like this.
Omikron: The Nomad Soul was Quantic Dream's best game, and it wasn't even very good. It felt like the technology at the time was holding it back in nearly every department.
Bowie was the best thing about it.
No, people can be excited or not excited, but they can't be disappointed or not disappointed - not yet.
This and The Witness are going to be day-1ers for me. Also Reset and Routine if they come out this year, and maybe The Solus Project and No Man's Sky. Also Everybody's Gone to the Rapture if the rumors of it coming to Steam are true.
Not exclusive. Coming to PC too.
Piracy is only "wrong" because we need to earn money to live. People would still make games if they didn't have to earn the right to live, just in the same way that people would still make music. These things are their own reward. People only ask for money for them because they need money to live and because they want to be able to make a livable amount of money from what they like doing so they don't have to rely on soul-crushing labour for an income at any capacity; and th...
I don't think he's disputing the fact that loads of people play games on PC, I think he's just pointing out that very few people who play PC games have PCs that are more powerful than current generation consoles. I'm sure many people who play console games also have PCs, a Steam account and some games on Steam, just not insanely powerful specs on those PCs.
I suppose games get made in a way that enables them to reach the widest audience possible. If they required super performance, only a small, rich minority of people could play them as they were supposed to be played, and so only said minority would buy them. No one else would buy them if they couldn't run them or if they felt they were going to get short changed. However, this also means that people won't be bothered even buying powerful and expensive gaming PCs in the first place, be...
These things always begin small.
It's common to see 75%-80% off during summer and winter sales - seems like a good deal to me. No competition necessary. Plus there are week long deals. I'm happy with Steam - the sales are very generous, and I think it would be greedy to ask for even more generosity. Sure someone could come along and undercut Steam, but most Steam users, at this point, aren't going to abandon Steam and risk contributing to its collapse, causing the...
No no no! Don't spread Steam hate. If Steam ever went bust because people were lead away from it... God, the amount of money I and many, many others spent on games... I know they said that they have a plan to make sure that no one loses all their purchased games should the service fall through, but I'm just not confident they'd be able to make good on that promise in the throes of financial crisis - I think it'd be messy.
That's not to say we shouldn't...
The difference is that to the untrained eye, this really would look like garbage. Most people won't know what's under the hood of this game so to speak, and none of that is visible on the surface. On the other hand, a spitfire plane has something to offer to the person who knows nothing about aeronautics - it's flashy looking, it's loud, and it does spectacular things.
My point is that it's hard to get a sense of what goes into making something like this ...
If you browse the RPG section of Google Play, you'll find dozens of games that look EXACTLY like this one. Churned out, f2p smartphone garbage. If this HAS to be be a Breath of Fire game, Capcom should consider making it a smartphone spin-off rather than the next proper Breath of Fire game.
Seems like they're trying to get people who don't really play games to buy it - people who play junk games on their smartphones / tablets. But, these people might be turned of...
There's still nearly 10,000 games on sale, but I've noticed that the discounts seem to be smaller than usual across the board. Lots of 25% and 33% off, some 50% off, and very few 70-80% off. I suppose this is all adjustment to the refund thing - if they're making less money because of the refund policy, I suppose making discounts smaller (together with the removal of flash sales etc.) would be a way to compensate for money not being made. I don't know, maybe doing away with th...
What's absurd is how angry you seem to be getting.
Sure I didn't know much about the character, but what they did release was highly suggestive of their relationship / dynamic and what kind of character she was - there were strong "vibes" I guess. It's not like I'm going off nothing. The early stuff was designed to give us a SENSE of what the creators were going for, not to leave us knowing absolutely nothing. The early stuff conveyed a feel for the...