Being devil's advocate, R* has become a massively different company since RDR 2 finished
Bring back the goddamn XMB from the PS3/PSP days, I swear to god that was one of the greatest UIs of all time.
I shake my head to think about how badly this series' fall from grace was.
Bad Company 2 was simply one of the best fps games ever made. It was SO much fun online.
I really miss this gen of gaming. It felt like the last truly "great" era for videogames before the modern approach really took hold.
The PS3 was such a glorious console. The UI, the games, the free online...just incredible.
This was inevitable since Sony has been the only show in town for years now. They are completely dominant and now Xbox seems to be officially giving up the console game altogether, so even the "charade" of competition is pretty much gone.
Historically, no brand has kept up quality in these circumstances.
They're great numbers of course, and this will get downvoted to high hell ... but I have to admit, this console gen has failed to truly "launch" for me.
I really didn't think that Astro's Playroom was going to be THE highlight of the PS5 "new gen" experience.
Remaking games that still look and function nicely is a waste of resources imo.
Take the Crash Team Racing remake...it was awesome, completely fresh take on a classic.
Remaking TLoU or Until Dawn is pretty stupid.
There would be way more value doing Killzone, SOCOM, Motorstorm (despite studio closure) or Resistance Fall of Man.
This game was the last of a dying breed, a signifier of where shooter games (and videogames more broadly) COULD have gone if developers didn't pivot so hard into the online services, micro transaction, season pass, yada yada.
New narrative territory exploring the actual art form of gaming and storytelling within it.
The gaming world desperately needs an arcade racing saviour.
A new Burnout with a crazy damage system and maybe world destruction would be unbelievable.
And really innovative closed circuits like pre-Burnout Paradise , but with track evolution and tons of different environments. Could be awesome !
One would have thought the name would have irked legal folk at EA! (even if Burnout is dead at this point)
You can feel validated no matter how perverse your opinions or interests are relative to the rest of the human population.
Now, to some degree, that's no bad thing... Music, movies etc, absolutely brilliant. But when you get into ideological subjects, or simply qualities of mentally unstable people....that becomes a very deadly combination.
Anymore?
The phrase "people are crazy anymore" might be one of the most accidentally poetic sentences I've read in a VERY long time.
Think about it, it's genius!
It's remarkable these supernovas appear from nowhere every few years. I literally never heard of this a couple of weeks ago!
That's an interesting point. Exciting if true!
Would love another old GT rework, or maybe Imola or Sebring.
Yuck, I hate the idea of this. Fortunately I think there'll always be people like me who innately love physical media and won't really go for this stuff.
RDR 2 not getting a 60FPS patch for PS5 was a crime.
Yeah I'm pretty sure R* got this. They are the masters of marketing campaigns. 2-3 trailers dispersed over the reveal-to-launch window, and a more detailed one about a month before launch.
Red Dead 2's trailers in particular were absolutely phenomenal. I can still watch them now and the hairs on my arm stand up.
Indeed - and if it is another shameless cash grab, they shouldn't bother. It's an insult to these classic games.
I honestly think the jig is up unless they seriously reevaluate what exactly they bring to the table in the RPG space.
I know it wasn't "their" game, but it would do them a world of good to have a long hard look at what Obsidian achieved with Fallout: New Vegas using their tools, and why that game is so beloved as a first-person RPG.