I'm between two minds about the whole remake thing.
On the one hand -- art should be all about the new, not just rehashing old ideas.
But then on the other hand -- (AAA) developers are so creatively bankrupt, and bereft of those ideas, that the only way to make enjoyable videogames seems to be remaking old ones.
I think this might be a controversial take but I don't really like the direction Sony has been going over the last year. Kinda GaaS-ey, and not championing these amazing new first party IPs like they use to.
My suspicion is that Microsoft's acquiescence from the market will now allow Sony to become a bit lazy. The reason the PS3 turned out to be such a beautiful, beautiful console was that the 360 had serious momentum in its first year or so and was a legitimate co...
"Other studios"...come on Todd, you know EXACTLY who people want to make the next Fallout
Bethesda could have kicked them some cash about a year ago and collaborated to make it a full scale thing
I firmly believe Bethesda would actively avoid hiring Obsidian because they'd be so upstaged.
It would be amazing though -- I am sure Obsidian would try to get as many of the original NV and even earlier Interplay Fallout 1 and 2 developers onboard
That's a good point -- if they are bowing out of the hardware market then their games ought to be class-leading and they're not even close.
I don't like the Gamepass concept, the model is based around endless consumption rather than enjoyment/art. It's a bit like streaming services where it's quantity over quality.
Like the rest of Microsoft's ecosystems it's now a "service" rather than a "product".
That's the reality of it, I could not comment of the financial viability of this but I will say it massively dilutes the brand from a sheer power perspective. Xbox will become this nebulous concept rather than a "thing"
Spot on!
I don't think FNV was good/evil. You have evil with Caesar's Legion, then everything else is different shades of grey imo and quite relative to your own political views! 😅
I don't care what anyone says, it was a hard pivot to an "open world action game with RPG elements", akin to Far Cry, whereas the Fallout series was HEAVILY dependent upon the concept of morality, choice and consequence in a world very different to our own. It's a very shallow experience with Fallout 4 in comparison.
It was also missing any real role-playing element as far as skills go. In New Vegas, a charisma + speech build was MASSIVELY different from ...
I wish they did a F3/FNV remaster duo pack instead
Wait a min...I swear to god CP2077's source code got leaked before. CDPR needs to stop using "password123" for all their accounts 😅
I think the retrospective of Fallout: New Vegas' existence has somewhat diminished the view of Fallout 3 in the eyes of many, but it getting out of the vault in Fallout 3 was, for me, the most remarkable experience I've had in a videogame.
I was 12 when it came out, and I remember I just saw the score it got in Gamemaster magazine (remember those!? 😅), and I just went to the shop and bought it with my pocket money.
Not knowing anything ab...
MW was an excellent videogame. They messed up Spec Ops big time, but aside from this it was a huge step in the right direction initially. Most notably, at launch it seemed to come from a very cohesive creative vision that was felt across gameplay, to story to art style/visual direction. It was also very notably written by prominent ex-Naughty Dog guys that quit almost immediately before release.
That COMPLETELY dissolved through post-launch content and the full pivot to a...
I don't really understand the incentive to get a PS5 Pro where the base console has felt like it has yet to fire on all cylinders.
The PS4 was absolutely stretched to the limit by the time PS4 Pro dropped.
On the whole I would say the PS3/360 generation was the last one with that "magic"
The games market needs something like this desperately
Sony letting Driveclub die was idiotic move.
Even if it didn't get blistering sales immediately, it had SO much going for it. Sony having a road-based, slightly more arcadey counterpart to Gran Turismo was a great concept.
I am getting more and more like an angry (but wistful) old man.
I remember during the 00s we had excellent NFS games, Burnout, Flat out, Midnight Club , Project Gotham...
The amazing age of arcade racers is well and truly over.
Should have got a finger out and remade Fallout 3 and New Vegas as a duo.
With the new show, it would have sold MASSIVELY.
Bethesda should have been more on the ball with contracting other studios to make spinoff Fallout games. Hell, if they just got the New Vegas team back for another one it would have been an absolute triumph.
I have a theory that Bethesda has a major insecurity about other studios outdoing them though (especially a...