The problem is, every time they set a studio to create a storied game, it gets butchered for MTs and the addition of tagged on multiplayer to try and keep the money train rolling.
If the studios don't bend to it, they cancel the project and throw away potential money and satisfied customers.
MS, along with EA, Activision and anyone else trying to create live service games are thinking of their wallets first, quick and cheap, while alienating their fan...
This is Microsoft, unfortunately, but some people won't listen to reason.
Just be aware of E3, and promises made this year... It seems that this is their idea of GaaS. Fable, despite the name, will likely be another barebones shell of what the series used to be, offering you a village and some open world quests to begin... Look at the shiny, shiny graphics fans, looks great eh? £50 a shot or £10 game pass access for entry...
And that's w...
And Eurogamer's X obsessed wankers are more interested in graphics over gameplay and value as usual.
They should change their name to Eurotechie, because it's clear they're more interested in console power than actual good games... That or they're in MS's pocket.
Yet the media can call how good the game is after not doing most of this stuff either?
Can't have it both ways. You defended a 9.3 score in another post when there's no way a reviewer can give a score from so limited play time.
Hipocrisy much?
Star Wars Galaxies was sandbox gaming at it's purest. Downvote away, but you can't change the truth.
That's Roman Reigns, not a pirate.
But you still can't put a review score on a game a day afterwards...
Advisement is best taken on an informed opinion. A day is not long enough to have that.
Also, how many games have come out that have been good to great in the first 5-10 hours, then get extremely repetitive or dip in quality? Plenty. That's why no one should be dropping scores so quickly.
You also can't review a game from beta content. Things change from the point of beta code to final build.
Please stop. This sort of blind following is what has turned part of the industry crappy.
Never accept early reviews for big games, no matter who the dev is. If RDR2 scores pop up a day after a review copy is recieved, I will still take them with a pin... No, bag of salt, until it's been played properly and reviewed.
You can't review a game in a day... Especially open world games.
I have said this about other games, like TW3, MGSV and FFXV. Lots of rushed reviews for those, some the very day after review copies were sent out.
This is not reviewing, it's for ad revenue clicks and controversy.
Not really. Microsoft got too greedy and tried to implement a lot of consumer detrimental ideas... Like DRM, NSA spying, bad console design (RROD), the leaders in paid online play subscription, games as a service, microtransactions, DLC, Kinect mandatory...
Nobody but die hard Xbox fans fell for any of this long term. It's nothing to do with laziness from Sony, it's to do with consumer friendly gaming, and both Sony and Nintendo are taking the right steps.
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They really need to change the title to Lara Croft: Army Destroyer - A Faint Shadow of Tomb Raider.
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Yes, but shops still sell candles. We have gas burning portable stoves and heaters. We can read books if an e-book reader fails...
There are always fallbacks to a lack of electricity.
If internet capability dies by accident or purposefully, gaming ends. It's always best to keep something physical to fall back to.
Plus... Fully digital will just enslave gamers to the whims of corporate greed. At least with...
Another latecomer. You mean went and played MGS games from the beginning and not revisiting. IV is a great culmination of events of the other games' stories and is actually really well done, especially the intro.
If you think MGSV's gameplay is the pinnacle of the series, you are either too young or can't see the magnificence that is present in all the previous games.
Even MGS has better boss mechanics than 80% of following games. V just didn&...
Even if they MT it, make you buy DLC maps again and charge £50 for the base game? That's not even including that patented mechanic they'll be introducing this year to place overpowered players with micro bought guns into low ranked matches to fuck gamers over.
This is the reason I stopped playing CoD.
Gameplay > Graphics
Who cares? Nintendo and Sony are owning in the gameplay department.
If gamers wanted to look at pretty things all the time, we'd be art enthusiasts instead.
Pretty apt name for a new game in the series... It's now a shadow of itself.
Lara is now more of a killer than a tomb raider. Wish it would go back to it's more exploration and puzzle solving roots, instead of another game where Lara kills an army of mercenaries.
UK has a special edition with all 4 DMC games and the DLC included for £40...
Kind of a bargain, but there's too much coming soon to start playing all these for that price, seeing as it's not an upgrade from the PS3 version. Luckily, it'll be on sale by the time I've finished with Monster Hunter World, God of War and Detroit.
No... Sony should stick to what they're doing and Microsoft need to start catering to gamers, and not hardware junkies and entertainment casuals to stay in the loop.
Nintendo and Sony offer enough to be successful on their own merits.
So, are Xbox gamers going to continue to repeat the mantra that MS will deliver next time, and the time after that, and again?
Will MS declare that Crackdown 3 is going to be the next big thing? State of Decay 2?
What if these games under deliver too? Will MS gamers still defend MS to the teeth?
With SoT, you have seen the future of Xbox, gamepass or not, MS just made ten million at least from gamers willing to bite the bullet for game...