You make a valid point; however to the investors the difference between 4 million unit and 5 million units sold equates to approximately $60million in profits (assuming the game cost $60 at retail). Furthermore for a game like Fallout76 that is built around the GaaSA model, the long term sales projection is what drives initial investment. I'm pretty sure Fallout76 won't meet it's sales projections, the game is just generating the wrong type of bad press.
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They should just take Fallout76 out back and shoot it. It's a failed experiment, they should put it out to pasture and divert the manpower and resources onto their next gen projects.
Good. No company should be given a free pass when it comes to anti-consumerist practices; and especially Bethesda who send their lawyers after people who try to trade games that they have rightfully bought. I hope hope Bethesda get a strong dose of their own medicine.
Edit: No one can convince me that "digital" is the way we should go. It only enables anti-consumer practices like these even more. "You can't get a refund because you bought it digitally&qu...
Its not so much that Bethesda has lost touch with it's fans, as much as Bethesda has been caught out trying to exploit and milk their fans with a poor rehash.
CDPR are the ones have have come out with the comparison to RDR2. They are the ones that say they want their game to be as "refined" as Rockstars' games.
Well GTA V had both third and first person views. It is the highest grossing entertainment product of all time.
RDR2 has both first and third person perspective and is selling like gangbusters.
For those two games we didn't hear Rockstar trying to convince themselves why they o...
The GOW reboot was so well reimagined it might well have been a new IP :)
But I don't think Sony will realistically let them go into hiatus again after the success of the reboot, it wouldn't surprise me at all if we see God of War Remaster as a PS5 launch title (heck I'm willing to bet we'll see a few others as well). I think that's more likely for them to get to grips with PS5 architecture, than a new IP from SSM
Hopefully CDPR can be persuaded to included the much asked for third person perspective. You want to be as good as R* - then add a third person view, they added both views and left it up to the gamer to decide how best they wanted to be immersed in the game.
I guess gamers are getting tired of being milked by Bethesda. They can see through the cheap recycled cash grab that is Fallout76. I hope this makes Bethesda come to the realisation that they can't just pin all their hopes on their old game engine and just expect gamers to give them a free pass. At the very least they should have optimised the game engine; I mean it's not too much to expect that bugs from 2011 should have been resolved by now.
Look at Rockstar for e...
Sony are still very much in the driving seat, and know exactly what they are doing. There's not point putting on a lacklustre E3 with games and trailers that gamers have seen for the last 2/3 years in a row. It makes perfect sense to hold off until they have all their heavy hitters ready to go. The anticipation for PSX2019 will be through the roof, and the media attention will be just as, if not more focused on what Sony will have to show. If the rumours are true of a PS5 reveal, then Son...
I think it's also because Gwent was in Beta for way too long. TO the point that even though they completely redesigned Throne Breaker and Home Coming, most fans had already had their fill of Gwent and were ready to move on to other things, even other card games like Artifact.
Brilliant article, and so true of Red Dead 2. I can't remember the last time the end of a game had such an emotional impact on me, not just because of Chapter 6, but also the emotional and nostalgia inducing epilogue. The way you connect with Arthur Morgan all through the game; I was the same, making sue that he camped regularly between long trecks, making sure he was fed and slept, and also that he kept the gang camp afloat. But by the time chapter 5 began to come to a close, there was t...
Well not Really. Not even close to be honest.
You couldn't customise and interact with Snake in the same RPG manner as you could customise Arthur. Old Snake didn't have hair that grew, you couldn't shave his beard, or feed him so that he would gain weight; or vice-verse. More importantly, without spoiling things, the way both games ended were very different emotionally.
Good to see Sony leaning into VR. I hope they don't abandon it, but take it further next gen.
I've bought a few games twice over the years. I've bought ICO and Shadow of the Colossus a number of times (PS2, PS3 and PS4). I also bought The Last of Us twice. There have been games though that I have bought 2 copies so I can play with family - I don't know if that counts though?
Exactly why I asked the question. It seems that the meta game is to acquire nukes, and then to launch said nukes at a target of the players choosing. So I imagine it means that even if I chose not to engage in PvP, and I am a lone wandered, I could still get nuked anyway??? What happens if I've chosen to opt out of PvP, but a nuke is still launched at my C.A.M.P? My point is that the article does not address such issues at all, and yet still claims that F76 will be "the best surviva...
That's a pretty bold claim, and one that the article doesn't adequately defend. What about bugs? What about net code? What about getting Nuked? What about repetitive gameplay loops? What about the lack of a Story? Microtransactions vs the grind? etc etc I could go on. As a long time fan of The Elder Scrolls and Fallout series, this is the one game that I am the least interested in. If Bethesda had at least updated their game engine, maybe. But this just smacks of one last lazy cash gr...
Like I said to King_Noctis above...
"No camera cuts, with a single camera shot throughout the game IS revolutionary; especially by virtue of the fact that it had never been done before in a video game. The fact that it was implemented so successfully that it reinvented the God of War franchise - is the very definition of revolutionary!"
Period.
They didn't even nominate Red Dead 2 for any category. That should tell you that there's something amiss. When Take Two send their lawyers after you for $1million, there's bound to be so much red tape that you won't be able say anything about their product anymore - weather good or bad.
I did find it odd that they did not include Red Dead 2 as a nominee in any category. I guess they're not allowed to cover Red Dead 2 much, as there really isn't any real Red Dead 2 news or reviews on the site.
^^So much this.