Yes. All of NT's accumulated time has been spent on anamorphic lenses and they don't apologize.
*crickets*
;)
I'm so lost by these inane comparisons. Agony was essentially broken at launch.
The reviewer's previous stuff is a better reference than what Gamespot said. The same person might actually like Alien Isolation.
But MS actually *DID* purchase them close to Ms. Splosion Man's release. Later, both parties came to a mutual split around the mid-2010s and Twisted Pixel moved their attention to VR.
-"But the conclusion Bloober came to with their themes in The Medium was incredibly jarring and poorly crafted."
I guess there's just going to be a hard disagree between us then. It ranks up there with Observer as far as Bloober's storytelling goes and it gave me more optimism about their heavily rumored Silent Hill project/remake. I can understand not wanting to get into details here, but I'm down for an extended convo via PM. It just might take a ...
Given techniques like split diopter shots (seen a lot in De Palma films) or splicing different takes in editing, there's way to incorporate a similar split-screen effect.
@monkey602
-"...Bloober has a history of writing trauma themes into their plot and handling it horribly."
As someone who's played almost all of their recent main games to some extent (Layers of Fear 2 excluded), they are inconsistent writers. Blair Witch had some rough execution for example.
-"The Medium was particularly problematic."
It has moments of shock value that harm the overall experie...
-"Call me crazy but I'm one of the few who did enjoy the plot of the game and finished it."
Don't let the most vocal of this site fool you: you're in the majority for those who actually played it.
-"You are the one trying to hand-wave away the comparison to other mediums by making the excuse that Blu Rays are cheaper."
But I tried to center it around personal WORTH a couple replies prior. We have a tendency to weigh products' inherent value exponentially more when costs climb higher and higher. A matinee movie being less than a hour of a minimum wage job won't sting relative to a half day's work with a game. I figured that's understandabl...
-"You want to excuse movies for being cheaper than games but don't acknowledge movies are typically 1-3 hours of content compared to TLOUP1's 15-18? All of a sudden the value changes."
Are we supposed to do direct 1:1 time comparisons across everything now? I'm not really sure how that works with my previous response when I'm fixating on the personal *WORTH* of a movie's special edition or whatnot. Whether looking at movies' or games'...
@anast
I'm bumping the price up more for Steelbook/Special Edition BluRays by default.
-"That's around the same markup as this game."
But there's a difference of kind and scale. When you look at movies, the one-time "rental" of a ticket carries the assumption of watching a film with immensely greater tech than the average home provides. That Blu-Ray does come with physical ownership, but not the same ...
-"Devs and companies can be greedy and ask for more than a product is worth. The point is that each game should be reviewed by its own merits not whatever price tag the finance department or marketing puts on it."
So if a game is judged by its own merits in a review and one consideration when evaluating it is "the retail value will be suspect to many people for x/y reasons" then everything's good, right? Your phrasing is so weird here b/c you treat ...
-"There are plenty of special editions, blu rays, 4ks etc etc of your favourite movies that are quite expensive, even if you already paid full price to watch them in the cinema."
Even then the typical one (for a movie) goes for around $30-$40. But even with examples of "special editions," the conversation as to whether it's WORTH your investment tends to come up.
-"A review score should be timeless so that I can look it up ...
-"No real critic should care about the price in a review."
Beginning your reply with a No True Scotsman fallacy isn't really helping your argument.
I mean... outside of art pieces, those other entertainment mediums are typically a 1/3 or 1/4 of the cost of a standard-priced game, so I don't see why value wouldn't get a heavier emphasis here. It's also weird to compare those other things strictly on their merits when we're talking about the remake of a remaster of an original game. You shouldn't be surprised if (non-sale) price point comes up when talking about an extended or director's cut.
-&...
Because we often don't make this delineation when reporting on a game as is. If you see a title saying "God of War Ragnarok PS5 to have x or y feature" you intuitively going to wonder if the PS4 version is missing out on something (beyond better graphics obviously). When that turns out to NOT be the case, it's a useless extra word that confuses the readership. For example: this comment section talking about it.
I don't think I'll ever get over how pretentious the "single tracking shot" gimmick is for games.
Do you have any evidence to substantiate your claims? Just saying "they didn't have the same opinions as me about the story" doesn't count. Most of them list how many hours they put into it (including the critical ones).
It's not a recent plague. lol