Don't be shocked that Ubisoft knowingly rushed out a broken game prior to Black Friday. That has been their M.O. for over a decade now.
This is one of the best posts I've read on N4G in a long time. Spot on, and exactly my thoughts. I have the SpiderMan PS4 Platinum, but doing all the 'clean up work', like collecting things and stopping crimes was pretty damn boring. Glad to hear that MM doesn't bog the player down with extra crap.
The thing is, gamers believe that adding an extra 40 hours of boring filler in a game equates to "REPLAY VALUE" but no, that's not true replay value...
Does warranty require a receipt? Shouldn't it only require registering the serial number on the PSN account? Only the first registration counts of course.
I had a similar set of thoughts but a bit easier to manage:
Only Sony should be the exclusive temporary seller of the console. You must have an active PSN account, and request a console. PSN seniority (age) and activity (hours played) are checked automatically, and their long time fans get first crack at purchasing a console.
In order to prevent scalping, the console would come pre-installed with your PSN account, this is bad for scalpers, but good for re...
The first half is correct, but the second half about 'flooding the market' is actually impossible. Sony would be happy to do so, but they can only make so many in a single day.
Sony already had two PS5 pre-order batches made specifically for their fans, and that's how I got mine. No stress, no issues, easy-peasy, took about 15 minutes waiting in a virtual line. All Sony needs to do is continue that process and be the temporary exclusive seller in that same manne...
The solution is actually simple, but it requires that only Sony sells the console exclusively until after demand has started to drop off. Only people with an active PSN account should be allowed to pre-order or purchase a PS5 in the early days, this way the biggest PlayStation fans are guaranteed a console at launch period.
After that demand drops, and so does the resell value, and finally other stores would start to stock the console. Its an easy solution, but Sony wants r...
I've played on Stadia for free, and its actually pretty decent. Highlights include GYLT and Super Bomberman R Online.
GYLT is basically like Resident Evil 2 remake crossed over with Stranger Things. A slightly less scary version of RE2 where you play as a young girl. Its really good, beat it four times! But its a Stadia exclusive (for now) and not many people know about it because of that.
Super Bomberman R Online is a battle royal game, and I thought...
Ace Attorney, Final Fight, Power Stone?!
YES BABY! Thank you CAPCOM, all we need now is Dino Crisis Remake, and Mega Man Legends 3! Come on, you're on a roll here, make your fans happy!
Very interesting. Didn't care much for EA Bond titles, so glad to see them lose the license.
Hope this game has:
- Wit
- Charm
- Humor
- Stealth
- Non-lethal takedowns
- Alternative paths through missions
No grinding for EXP / Skill points / Resource collecting / Currency / Forced online server connection / etc. That'll just drive me away from it.
Sony is most likely doing this to avoid having their console get hacked since save files can be a method of homebrew injection, but taking away standardized gaming rights is specifically what sets people off towards piracy.
Nintendo was the first to do this with cloud storage as the only official method of backing up save files, and its not free. MS offers free cloud storage, why can't billion dollar companies like Nintendo and Sony as well?
One of th...
You've just described Ubisoft as a whole over the past 7 years. They've sunk so low, and the only reason they make games anymore is to put in a micro-trash-action store within their games.
I haven't played WD:L yet, but a 2/10 really isn't out of the realm of possibility for 'typical Ubisoft filler trash'.
We also need them to translate the current Japanese-only games in the series. :/
The best news of 2020. I can't believe it took a console manufacturer this long to finally stop making us sit through the same CGI scenes upon loading games. Very pleased with this!
I loved the series up until AC 3, when Desmond's story concluded. Starting with Black Flag the games became increasingly bloated year after year. While I still enjoyed Black Flag / Rogue / Unity / Syndicate, I didn't like them as much as the older titles.
Once Origins dropped and I saw that they made specific design choices to 'encourage' microtransations. Well that sealed the deal for me. I didn't want to give Ubisoft any more of my money. Odyssey double-downed o...
Based on what the 'unbiased internet' has told me, only one hundred games were supposed to be backwards compatible on PS5. JUST ONE HUNDRED! How is this even possible?!
/S
Its actually old news holding all four shoulder buttons if you accidentally click delete on a save file. I used to read tons of gaming mags back in the day, and that's how I learned it. Very much public info for 'core gamers' that kept up with the industry via mags.
Nice teardown, glad to see that its fairly easy to replace the battery and that its not glued down. Hopefully we can get some decent quality battery replacements in the future when it eventually wears out.
I guess they thought this would be funny?
Starting to sound like Bioware's situation with Anthem. Not a good sign.
For the past decade Ubisoft has released unfinished and unpolished titles. Rushing games out before Black Friday to cash in on the holiday hype and craze.
They keep doing it because stupid gamers keep buying their trash. If gamers would just stop buying their games, put them out of business, then and only then would they learn their lesson. But no. Here we are. Rushed glitchy games. Rushed glitchy patches.