I didn't want MS to acquire more studios, I wanted them to bring back Lionhead and give me Fable 4
Crackdown, Ori, Gears and Battletoads aren't exclusives: they're available on the PC too.
PC is a platform, Xbox is a platform. A game available on the PC and Xbox is a game available on multiple platforms, ergo it's a multi-platform game.
"Console exclusive" is a marketing term and in no means should be treated like an exclusive.
Not much, most of the good developers and writers left before Microsoft purchased them... Microsoft are also responsible for almost killing them in the first place years back.
It's honestly another Rare at this point, money does nothing if you don't have the talent to back it up.
The game is nicely polished but it doesn't deserve 9/10 in the slightest.
There's a severe lack of difficulty or reason to pick any Pokémon other than your starter until you reach master trainers . There's an awful camera judder every time you begin moving, and the docked (forced) motion controls are early Wii-era game bad.
Every trainer has a massively reduced count in Pokémon, and even your "rival" heals you up before fights at tim...
Are you so all naive to believe that companies driven by excessive profit of such a lucrative market are benevolent enough to cut into their own revenue and drop prices?
Games wouldn't be cheaper if we went purely digital, companies would continue to pocket the change.
And to think there are people who discredit physical releases thinking there are no benefits. Does the second hand market, the ability to resell your copy and buy pre-owned titles at a cheaper c...
Most the stuff in best art direction look pretty, but they don't actually have a unique art direction. Games like Assassins Creed don't belong in that category, that should be reserved for unique artsyles like Valkyria Chronicles and Octopath Traveler.
@Team_Litt It doesn't detract the value of the system for existing owners, it detracts the value of the system for potential buyers.
As someone who owns pretty much everything, Sunset was one of the few arguments to justify purchasing an Xbox. With its release on PC I now have one less reason to buy a system that I already had very little reason to buy.
Although this saves me money, I think it would be in Microsoft's best interest to secure games ...
@gangsta_red OP meant in the context that it's no longer an exclusive game, not that it's unplayable on its original system. Gone from the list of Xbox exclusives.
Maybe in the West if they released a lot of high quality exclusives that you can't play anywhere but on the next Xbox... And if Sony at the same time dropped the ball and stopped releasing any good exclusives.
But that's a big maybe.
They'll never dominate in the East though, not unless they bring a lot of exclusive JRPGs to the table. They tried a little during the 360 era but it wasn't enough.
Until then they'll always be considered a...
Who cares. You play a hunting game to hunt monsters, not write articles on body representation.
Kids shouldn't be playing this game anyway, it's PEGI 18
Context is important, this was at a time when videogames were even a fraction as popular as they are today. And the studio that approached the author were a small time studio that had only just ported a game as their claim, it's not like they had anything successful to use as leverage.
CDProjekt enjoyed a better deal than the author in the long run. If this was any other place that would just be a tough deal and you learn from it... But Polish law actually helps the guy...
Bethesda stopped caring about the Fallout lore in Fallout 3 when they turned Super Mutants from a race of mutated humans capable of reasonable debate and with their own unique beliefs to "haha I collect guts and stuff lol I'm random".
Super Mutants believed they were the next step of human evolution and by unifying humanity to a body capable of thriving in the wasteland, all being the same race, that they'd stop man's almost primal instinct to fight.
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Call me crazy, but instead of crunch how about management hire an appropriate amount of staff for the project?
How about they provide an appropriate amount of time for a project to compensate for faults, and regularly review the state of the build against milestone goals?
And in the event of issues with the build arising, how about they hire temporary help, provide alterations to the scope or extend the deadline as required?
There is zero excuse for crunch...
The term RPG is thrown around too loosely nowadays, the genre is probably the most diverse one already thanks to the likes of ARPG, JRPG, SRPG/TRPG.
Odyssey is an ARPG, though some would debate action-adventure with RPG elements. It also has the benefit of being a lot newer than all those other games, of course it's going to feel more fluid.
However navigation of its world feels the way it does thanks to its action-adventure roots. It's a little u...
I would not like the Xbox One X to be the stepping stone into next generation, a console more powerful than the Xbox X would no doubt cost more money than I'd be willing to spend on a console.
First and foremost I like my consoles cheap and filled with exclusives I cannot play on my already well spec'd PC.
I play Dead or Alive Beach Paradise for the plot
It might be a wiser idea to work on the optimisation of the game and the content offered on existing platforms before moving to additional platforms.
I find it a little silly, why can't we enjoy lower budget titles like Hellblade has shown is feasible?
That way gamers can enjoy a quality experience that still looks rather nice and is released for a reasonable price, without the need to include loot boxes, microtransactions or an excess of preorder content!
I just want to play videogames and have fun playing them without a political agenda being forced down my throat or being told that I'm a bad person, is that too much to ask?