I don't mind the change of pace for a side title, but I DO mind the price.
Bayo3 didn't even come out 2 months ago, so this is cleary a small team effort. Just a smaller side project in the Universe of Bayonetta. Side projects can be fun diversions from the norm, or allow devs to try different ideas before implementing in the main franchise. They have purpose & place.
What doesn't have purpose or place is a $59.99 price tag. SIXTY BUCKS!? ...
On the face of it, sounds bad. BUT if we take this at face value:
"So that was specifically kind of fetch quest-like in terms of the makeup, like, do these five objectives and then you get to fight a boss. So the full game isn’t actually designed like that, that was just specifically created for that demo experience."
That makes sense, and I could see how a game could be quite a bit different from demo to release. Especially as demos aren't ...
Steam & Epic show it as $59.99, not seeing $49.99?
https://store.epicgames.com...
https://store.steampowered....
Still, if the price doesn't change on PS5 to match the cheaper MSRP in March, that's gonna raise some uncomfortable questions.
Most can. Fanboys on PC exist, just like they do on consoles. All of them are idiots and should be dismissed.
FWIW, I don't thik this is PC gamers shitting on others. This is a site questioning the pricing. The price not only people question for next-gen releases, but also for this title in particular given Sony remakes of the past had always been cheaper (like $40 for SotC on PS4, for example).
It also kind of points to the fact the game should have...
The real question is will they change the MSRP on PS5 to match the PC price when it hits PC? If not, that's a bit of a problem...
Also just looked on Steam, and it's showing $59.99 MSRP. Still less, but not $20 less....
https://store.steampowered....
I hate that all this talk is focused solely on CoD though. There's SO MANY OTHER GAMES that ActiBlizz have that would get taken away. On top of all the other purchases they've made. This is a deal for one franchise. Making it about just this one, I think, was a poor move on Sony's part. It may be the most important, but it's a piece of a much larger puzzle they're choosing to ignore.
I don't care about CoD, and I play almost everything on my PC anyw...
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For consoles, apparently just RT Ambient Occlusion and RT Global Illumination. RT reflections & shadows are available on PC. The non-RT reflections have apparently a much improved screen-space implementation, though.
Wow, that Steam Deck article was just one, long bad take. I suspect that specific writer, anyway, is either not particularly tech minded, or very, very loosely interested in games. Because...yeah, awful take given how easy it is to slap Windows on an SD card, dual boot, and hell, use Steam Big Picture mode to navigate if navigation is the chief knock against handheld Windows. Best of both worlds. What a weirdo, arguing against choice.
It's all about how you use it. If you want to max out the graphics, resolution, & brightness pulling 25+ watts of power on AAA games, yeah, you'll chew through the battery in 1.5-2 hours. But smaller experiences, or toning down graphics & resolution, and capping framerates or TDP or GPU frequency, you can easily stretch that battery life waaaay out.
The Steam Deck gives you options to play a game better than it can be on Switch at the cost of battery life, o...
I'm in a similar boat, but I got just enough out of the Wii U to feel like the Switch might actually be good, with their full support and 3DS devs moving over. The first salvo of games were good enough to make me believe Nintendo were going in a new, interesting direction with their games. Truly - in my opinion - going full "triple A", big budget, and taking some risks.
BotW & Odyssey were excellent games, very different from anything they'd done in t...
It's clear at that time they were hedging bets and appeasing shareholders, who I'm sure were really forcing hands while Wii U was collapsing. With the Switch being incredibly successful, I don't think they felt the need to do more than they have in the mobile space, nor were investors probably as insistent on them being in mobile.
I think it's also why Switch was a hybrid, gave them a lot of flexibility. It could remain its home console, or if they needed to...
This isn't really new, though, is it?
"FromSoftware Promises More Elden Ring Updates, Unsure Why It's More PopularThan Dark Souls" 164 days ago:
https://n4g.com/news/248667...
That also links to my comment from that time. Seems better to link it out, than copy/paste i...
At least their min spec on PC points towards needing at least a PS4 Pro or XOX console, if they released last gen, and we know they require a game to run on all SKUs. If min spec was like a 7870 XT or something in that realm, then I'd be scratching my head lol.
I also didn't remember M+R: Kingdom Battle won best strategy game that year as well. I really enjoyed M+R:KB, but up against XCOM 2:WotC & Warhammer II? I dunno, man...
He added that staffers at Nintendo “got worked up over this catastrophic scenario.” Yang mentioned “there was mass panic” and that she “had never seen something that was from a high to a low like that before.”
.....they know it was just a game award, right? Like...the game sold and reviewed excellently, fans loved it, if it didn't win, it would have changed nothing. Why get worked up over what feels like a largely marketing focused awards event?
I think we both know every platform has issues at some point, especially as devs have to stretch themselves out over multiple versions. Hell, even this exact game has performance struggles & missing features on the Series X, so it isn't like consoles are an automatic salve. Like console issues, a lot of problems come down to devs/optimization.
Some games never get improved, and on console that's generally the end of that. On PC, mods will normally come out to im...
Not sure where you get that I'm defending it - in some cases I am, but you make it sound like I'm doing it across the board, which I hoped was clear. I suppose it was not. For reference, I don't buy hardly any DLC, & I also railed against raising the base price for games this gen. There's a lot these companies do that I don't support. Hell, I advised skipping most DLC across the board.
In effort to be clearer, I was primarily trying to say that not a...
Well, as many have said, it'll never get any better when they continue to sell insane quantities (10 million copies of this in 3 days!!!). Pokémon titles probably get production budgets 1/10th your average AAA production, but still command $60 MSRPs with mediocre graphics & fairly simple mechanics. Why would they push the boundaries on anything when their customers reward them handsomely? I guess if that audience is happy with what they are getting, who am I to judge.
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We should never aim to completely remove options. I think it's all case-by-case; sometimes it is more great stuff you wouldn't have otherwise gotten. Sometimes - sadly most of the time - it tends to be weaker & easily skippable.
✂️ In terms of "selling cut content"✂️:
I think we can get too hung up on when stuff starts getting made. Sometimes the low-effort cut content happens, and its obvious. But in plenty of other cases they hire ...
Main character is both non-white and non-male. For people who throw that word around, one of those is enough to immediately call it into question. Both basically seals the deal. It's rather perplexing.