"......incredible value IMO...."
".....IW could have easily charged $30 for those skins alone."
"......loading screens......"
Loading screens? LOADING SCREENS?!? Jesus Christ, how did we get to a stage where people are saying it's incredible value while paying for loading screens? 🤦🏼♂️
Gameplay is very flashy but overall production looks very low budget.
How frustrating is it watching that person playing the 3rd person shooter so badly, and then seemingly getting frustrated at themselves about how bad they are? I hope to God that's not a gaming journalist.
@Obscure: Who's going to buy it on Steam or Epic when game pass is available on PC? Everyone will play the game for €1 and that will be that, whereas a PS release could have generated some kind of revenue from actual sales. I don't know how anyone thinks this model is sustainable or good for the industry.
I'm familiar with Deep Down but this was another game. It looked like a single player action game playing as a knight in silver armour making his way through the ruins of a castle. The demo ended with this crazy fight with a dragon outside in a large opening. It looked incredible but haven't heard anything about it since.
Edit: I just found it; Project Awakening.
https://youtu.be/9Kovyw5oeC......
Hmmm, you have to wonder what the devs think about this. Redfall was never going to be a system seller so they've just cut a huge chunk of potential sales.
What was the game shown a few years ago with the knight fighting the dragon in the ruins?? What the hell happened to that game??
I have a pitch for a cool Batman game. Imagine if Batman forgets everything he knows and gets unceremoniously killed in the first hour by a group of the most unlikeable characters ever written. Then you play as Robin trying to get revenge, only for the game to do the old switcheroo halfway through making you play as the least likeable character involved in Batman's ridiculous death, and tries forcing you to actually like them 😃 Then when Robin finally catches up with the main unli...
When I first saw the thumbnail I thought it was a state of play announcement 🤦🏼♂️ Feels like Sony are intentionally holding back any big reveals while all this business with MS acquiring ActiBlizz is ongoing, which makes perfect sense if they've any chance to stop the deal going through.
The GP model with big budget games releasing day one isn't sustainable. Sure, it's great now, because MS are throwing all kinds of money at it, but inevitably it's going to come to a stage where something has to give. Studios will start seeing budgets slashed or there'll have to be an increase in subscription prices. Neither solution will benefit developers nor consumer.
@masterchief: I just randomly came across the wired review earlier. Disgraceful unprofessionalism.
@sadraiden: Can you give me an example of these "horrendous views" that JKR has? I'm genuinely asking as all I really know of is her comments on women's toilets and sports being restricted to biological women........... which makes a lot of sense to me 🤷🏼♂️
I thought it was good but not crazy on some of the casting. The actress playing Tess just doesn't seem right for the part at all, and I just couldn't warm to Ramsey as Ellie, although she wasn't in the episode for very long so I could change my mind. And are there no spores in the TV show? 🤔 Bit odd changing that up.
Was about to post the same thing until I saw your comment. The likes of MS, Amazon and all these other billion dollar companies laying off thousands of staff to cut costs because growth has slightly slowed down is despicable. And what better way to make the possibility of recession a certainty than putting thousands of people out of jobs.
Elden Ring has amazing artistic direction, but it looks like it could run on PS360.
A lot of the dialogue and vocabulary with the younger characters really didn't suit the tone of the game too. Thrud just came across as a stereotypical American teenage girl which kinda pulled me out. Then Atreus using certain slang terms like "no shit" just really felt out of place in the game. A minor gripe, but did break immersion from time to time for me.
IK+!! That brings back some memories.
Nintendo is primarily marketed towards children, and there's hundreds of thousands of children born every day that in a few years are going to be mesmerised by all the bright, wonderful colours and cute characters in Nintendo games, then won't stop annoying their parents until they get them a Nintendo. They're getting them young. The same reason Disney has become the behemoth it is. Children is where the money's at.
Elden Ring soundtrack is brilliant, but the score for Ragnarok is on another level.
Completely agree, very unprofessional and just shouldn't engage. On the other side of it, what a sad state we're in that they felt the need for a formal apology over calling someone something as juvenile as milkshake brain. It's not like he was told to go eat shit and die.
I've said this time and time again, the gamepass model isn't good for gamers as a whole. Quality was always inevitably going to drop to the floor, as we're seeing now, when there's literally no incentive for these devs to put any effort in.