I personally disagree. Outside of rubber banding in racing games (which has always been BS) it can rob players of the true challenging experience simply for being cautious, experimenting different approaches, or restarting an area multiple so they can attempt a perfect run without using healing items etc. I would personally be infuriated way more if a game made things easy for me just because of my playstyle rather than dying on a difficult section over and over until I get it right.
If you're being paid for your review then yes, you should at least have a decent level of competency. Nobody is expecting reviewers to be elite MLG pros, but when you struggle to grasp basic gameplay elements, or struggle to press 2 buttons at the same time, or miss vital pieces of information because you skipped every tutorial message and dialogue, and score the game less because of it, then your reviewing skills should definitely, absolutely be called into question.
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SFxTekken was a bit of a failure compared with mainline SF and Tekken games. It didn't really garner a solid community and lasted just one year at EVO, with barely any other tournaments. Considering this, I expect Namco are hesitant to go full swing with theirs.
I think there was an expectation that merging the two franchises would attract both fanbases and get a ton of attention. But in reality, it mostly just appealed to those who were fans of both series. Meanwhile m...
Because every single character is viable in Tekken 7, even at the absolute highest level of play.
Not only have we seen a Japanese Gigas player beat 5 Korean legends back to back, we have Jeondding taking Lucky Chloe to top 3 in several tournaments despite them both being bottom tier. Plus LowHigh shocked everyone by breaking out Lars (also bottom tier) to beat Noroma (considered Japan's best Jack player, and a high tier character) in Tekken Tokyo Masters. The balanci...
Hmm... Not sure about that. 5 million, yes. But 10 million? Maybe if it has insane legs through word of mouth.
*Totally different type of game released months apart*
"Yes, that's the one that killed our billion dollar franchise."
Need For Speed and Mass Effect are... dead?
*Ryder stares back awkwardly*
That's the thing... I'm not sure I'd mind all that much. I have a pretty big backlog, plus games from yesteryear that I never got around to playing. Not to mention I have other outlets for my spare time. I could quite easily go on if the industry went critical.
This is the thing, games this gen see price drops extremely quickly. The base price of games in the UK is £40, and yet leading up to Xmas Resident Evil 7 went down to only £15 on Amazon, and The Evil Within 2 went down to £25 despite only being a couple months old. Unless it's that one game you simply can't wait for, what's the point in buying day one?
Even if you did do so out of spite you'd still be well within your rights as a consumer. That's the idea behind "the customer is always right." If you don't provide the product people want at the price they want, you fail. It's up to them to convince us to part with our money, not up to us to prop the industry up out of duty. If 90% of gamers decided to simply never buy games again, and the industry burned to the ground, not a single one of those people should feel a...
This is a step in the right direction.
And every single time something like this happens, thousands of people will claim "you gamers can say what you want but nothing will change, just accept it." And then when things do change they'll keep moving the goalposts. History will forever repeat itself...
Thank goodness!
Never played a MH game but I'll definitely be getting this. :)
Yup. The headline alone is condescending. "This is what critics aren't getting!" Insinuating that anyone who dislikes the game is being ignorant or unappreciative. Gamers seem to forget that all of us, you, me, every single gamer on the face of this earth has at least one unpopular gaming opinion. Everyone. And we should embrace that. But no, reviewers who give out low scores are called trolls, attention hogs, liars etc even if they're being one hundred percent honest.
Whatever it is, Tenchu, Shadow Tower, Bloodborne 2... I'll buy it regardless.
It's either government legislation or let EA, WB, Activision etc keep doing what they're doing with ever increasing prevalence, giving future games less and less value along the way. I certainly know which "slippery slope" I'd rather welcome.
Taken from Wikipedia:
"AO is the highest and most restrictive of the ESRB's content ratings, and dramatically impacts the commercial availability of games which carry it; all three major video game console manufacturers (Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony Interactive Entertainment) refuse to allow AO-rated games to be published for their platforms, most retailers refuse to stock AO-rated games, and the popular video game live streaming service Twitch explicitly bans all...
So far my top 5 is:
1. Persona 5
2. The Last Guardian
3. Tekken 7
4. Nioh
5. Danganronpa V3
That said, I still haven't played Horizon, Resi 7, The Evil Within 2, Mary Skelter, Yomawari 2 (either in backlog or getting for Xmas) and I don't own a Switch so no Mario/Zelda.
If I remember rightly, Valhalla will be getting a physical release from Limited Run Games at some point this year. No idea on when exactly, as their plans are not set in stone.