Ugh, what's the point? MS has been focusing too much on hardware since Spencer took over. More console models, more controllers.
WHERE ARE THE MASTERPIECE GAMES?
The first two years of the Xbox One's lifecycle were the last time MS even kind of tried to release games, and that's because those games were greenlit by Don Mattrick, not Phil Spencer. The moment the Don Mattrick games were released (or cancelled) was the moment MS ran out of games....
One of my favorite series is the THPS franchise, and it was packed with ads, but it didn't bother me. Posters for skateboard companies, JEEP, and Nokia phones. It did sort of fit in with the game world, but that was the past, these days ad would be intentionally intrusive or unskippable loading screen type of imagery. Ugh, I know EA would do it in a horrible fashion. Screw them.
Call of Duty needs to be taken down a notch, its too popular for its own damn good. So yeah, it seems like MS is going to help make that happen. So good job, I guess?
AC III offered some (strange) closure to the initial story arc. I also enjoyed it for the most part.
The last game in the series I bought, before it went down the crapper with all that equipment upgrade and overpowered enemies until after you've grinded for hours to level up. Ugh.
I wonder if they've learned their lesson? Who am I kidding, of course no gaming company does at this point. Keep making those mistakes.
Crazy that SEGA actually sold off their sports dev teams. Look at all this money they've been missing out on since then. Another stupid business decision, one of many.
Sloppy article spouting mostly well-known informaton. As for the screenshot tidbit, it only works for SOME games, the way they write it makes it seem like it works across every game, but no, the game developer has to specifically program this function within the game.
Some games have a camera that you can use to take pictures and that translates to screenshots you can view on XMB, such as MGS 3, MGS 4, MGS PW HD.
Due to the lack of modern stealth games, and me constantly playing the MGS series, I've been looking for alternative stealth games to play, and went back and re-played the SC series recently. I wouldn't call SC1 or SC:PT masterpieces, there are AI issues, they're very much trial-and-error games, and that can lead to a lot of frustration. I also found the stories in this series to be boring, uninteresting, and just sloppily told. Cinematics are also of poor quality for both in-game...
What a terrible and shallow thought process. Perhaps you work for Ubi-junk and are trying to get simple-mined fools to believe in their awful business practices, but it won't work on anyone with more than two braincells.
Proof that Ubi-junk doesn't want to go back to their old ways. Open world games are dime a dozen and played out, whatever happened to the well crafted linear or chapter-based masterpieces like Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, or Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory?
That era of Ubi-junk is long gone now, open world games are all they want to make because they can be monetized easier. Experience points, skill trees, resource hunting, treasure boxes, equipment upgrades, copy p...
They do this so they're can take the game away from you anytime they decide. Each year these trash companies push a little bit further to see how much their stupid customers are willing to bend over in order to play their generic, boring, trash, filler games.
Each year millions of idiots bend over, but we need them to stop, its the only way to fight back against Ubi-junk and all the other garbage publishers out there. Hit them where it hurts, their revenue streams.
Even without the online requirements and micro-trash-actions, STILL a hard pass. No more Ubi-junk for me!
It didn't have to be this way. Microsoft Xbox could have remained a contender but greed and ignorance took over. While Don Mattrick screwed up royally, Phil Spencer is the one who dug Xbox's grave.
I will always enjoy my Original Xbox and 360, but after that Xbox was dead to me. Its their own fault. I still remember idiots defending Microsoft's 2013 DRMs plans. They never understood how truly wrong they were. And I still won't forgive Microsoft since they ha...
When I was a fan of the series, I always wanted a game set in Japan. Now that we have it, I don't care anymore.
Grind, filler, padding, bloat, call it what you want, but that stuff is boring, and is designed to waste our lifespans intentionally to coax us into spending more money with their generically stamped out derivative games.
TOO LITTLE TOO LATE UBI-JUNK.
Of course, Nintendo has always preferred physical sales, especially since they skew to a younger audience, and kids want games for their birthdays and holidays. They go to the store and pick the game they want.
Since the Wii they have always been the last major publisher to support modern tech or concepts, and they will be the last to support physical if it ever goes away. Which I hope it doesn't.
"Suddenly", my gosh are people so slow on the uptake.
I've been saying this for years, its just a rental service nothing special, and you don't get to pick what the rental catalogue is nor how long it lasts. Anything can be taken away from you on a whim, even while you keep paying.
You know what the best deal in gaming is? BUY your games on disc / cart, OWN THEM, play them as much as you want, and no one can take them away from you.
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A better idea is just don't waste your lifespan playing Ubi-junk games at all.
Money is less valuable than lifespan.
How many years did it take for these fools to finally realize that they shouldn't be supporting Electronic Ass?
Its honestly embarrassing its taken some (but not all) of the fan base this long.
Too late is right, but not for the reasons you thought it was.
Its actually because the series is terrible now, and I would have appreciated a Japanese setting back before the series was so focused on being a grindy filler sloppy borefest.
Too little, too late, Ubi-junk!