It's pretty much like EA. If you choose to trust them when all eyes are watching, you'll be fooled again. As soon as they have a decent foothold, and your backs are turned, the men in suits will interfere again, finding ways to gouge, steal and cut costs while delivering little.
MS always put a guy the think will soften the crowd out front, but backstage, there will always be non-gamers in suits rubbing their hands when they see the fish are hooked.
Sony exclusive: 30 million development cost.
EA/Activision game: 30 million development cost, 70 million marketing, hiring guys in suits to brainstorm/develop monetisation tactics, upper staff 'expenses' and paying off journos for higher scores and to advertise to the eyeballs.
Everyone knows PC is the most powerful platform, if you have the money for high end.
We also know that innovation is not dependent on which platform you use, but by the creative minds behind a game.
Since the age of the new age puritans, that have no idea that their narrative is puritan in execution. People who don't like mediums, trying to control mediums that they know or care nothing about. People who cannot accept that sexuality is a human trait and both men and women can enjoy it... At the criminal expense of others, it's a different story, but for the average, consenting human being, it's a part of life.
Dangerous times.
Waste of money. The game is fundamentally broken (no pun intended).
2K don't even answer their paying customers on if it will all be fixed.
Don't generalise. I look forward to these games, avoid spoilers and play them. Have been since storied games became a thing.
Casual gaming has killed it, partly, with lazy 'gamers' just watching Twitch or Youtube streams. It's also down to the bollocks that social media and wannabe, clickbait journalists bring these days... Hell, I've had whole TV series, game plots and movie endings spoiled, just by logging in to Facebook or checking out a game site by ...
Better in the hands of the unknown, than the greedy mitts of the bigger AAA companies.
I still hope Creative Assembly get another run at an Alien game though.
Both are worth owning. I don't really care if Nintendo take over... Both they and Sony are delivering the games.
I have no idea. It's as if people are happy to accept that they can pay for an item, never to have it fixed.
Not sure if comprehension of my post is a problem.
I agree. What we also need is the right to refund if a game is not patched to a playable level within the first 3-6 months of purchase.
My example (excuse the game) is WWE 2K18. It was released in October 2017, with a day one patch to fix existing bugs. It still had bugs that broke entire mode progression, and a lot of minor ones.
Three months on, there have been multiple patches that have stated they have fixed certain things, while also breaking other m...
It's a disability, yes, but it's not a handicap. I think terminology has changed for the better.
A handicap puts you on a scoreboard of how well you do things... I can't paint a detail-perfect image of a landmark I've seen once using photographic memory, that's not a handicap, it's my lack of ability to do so.
I can't do most of the activities as skilled as my son or others with disabilities that I've worked with for over t...
It wasn't about passion, it was budget.
Taro and his team poured their all into the game with the money and time they had. SE's budgeting was going elsewhere... To the extremely shallow FF XV and obviously, Kingdom Hearts 3.
Nier: Automata just goes to show that gameplay will always win over flashy graphics with little substance. It's more a shame that people have overlooked N:A for lesser games last year.
Ask Sony for a superteam game. Amy Hennig, Neil Druckmann, David Cage, Hideo Kojima, Yoko Taro, John Gonzalez and Cory Barlog all get a chapter/level each... Tell the same story multiple times in their own style with gameplay elements fitting their forte.
I'm sure Sony would welcome Amy back anyway.
I have no opinion. I don't work for David Cage and don't know the truth.
I do know that we live in a culture that likes to twist words, use the media as a revenge platform and start bandwagons.
The media perpetuate a side of a story the like for revenue...
I'm done with listening to hearsay this year. It has killed spirit and the power of unity and humanity.
In other words, until there is proof, it is goss...
Yep. I'm a screenshot whore in games with detailed worlds. Souls, Bloodborne, Uncharted 4, AC Origins, The Witcher 3... Some of the things you notive when you just have a wander is amazing.
Like when you find real world landmarks worked into them, even if it's a fantasy setting, or how most of the flowers and herbs in TW3 are actually used in real life as medicinal and look like their counterparts.
It only happens now and again though, as you'...
Just make a great Final Fantasy game... We've not had an in depth battle system since what, X?
Between the older, turn-based systems, the weapon upgrading systems and character trait progression systems, SE have managed to make them more boring every iteration since.
XII gets a pass because it's a good game, but they tool a lot of control and customisation out of out hands and have been continuing to do so.
What's next, an U...
I'm hoping it's REmake2... Other than that, I'm not sure. Maybe a remake of Resident Evil with first person mechanics?
Seems bare bones, even for a beta. I'm just not having fun with it... Like most of SE's recent attempts to do something with FF, it's all flash and no substance. It's also a bitch to try and get hits in when you rail off higher ground.
Just doesn't feel tight or polished enough. Less trying to dazzle us with graphics and just deliver some good gameplay ffs.
Research is for testers to prove, not use paying customers to guinea pig their monetisation tactics.
Also, hire real gamers as testers and not shareholder appeasing idiots.
You mean if you can't beat em, throw money at it.