I finally got to give it a go on PC thanks to GP, but I just couldn't get into it. I mean, it is a well made game. I had some fun for a few hours, but for some reason I just couldn't quite get engaged enough to want to come back and fire it up again. Not entirely sure why, guess not everything can click for everyone.
I thought for a moment this was The Last Night getting a re-announcement. Particularly because I looked up mid-stream and saw the section that starts at 1:18 in this vid - that part especially has similar vibes.
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Hopefully this means there's something coming that's akin to more traditional, structured content. I tried to play SoT a while back, but its structure felt kinda like (a less impressive) NMS - interesting sandbox, but very reliant on you to make your own fun within it. I get this game is likely just not for me - which, hey, fair - but it couldn't hurt for them to try to expand their playerbase by courting people like me lol.
I'm guessing not. If they had an inkling it might, they'd likely have put out a tentative date or at least the quarter given there's less than 6 months left for them to hit a 2021 date. Kinda crazy this was shown off in trailer form all the way back in May 2018.
I'll add to the general chorus, I guess. It wasn't a bad show, or anything, but I really was hoping for something more. Just something to really catch my eye. Personally, nothing really did that. I'm glad I can play Yakuza LaD on my PC since I snagged GP for $1 recently, but mostly just felt like "oh, that's nice" the whole way through.
Curious to see what the new Arkane game is actually like, same for Starfield, but those are both interesting due...
@Bladefist - No, it is not 1 Dollar/Euro/Local Currency per month, even if you don't auto renew; I guess you could technically, if you accept multiple months of not having GP while waiting for a new deal to pop. I mean, I can get it cheap for sure, like the recent 3 months for $1. I previously did the same in December 2020, but had to wait until 3 months later to get another deal.
Assuming you play enough of the games included, and are invested in most of the games they...
Clearly this is just what the trailer is rendered at. It's just a cinematic trailer, there isn't even any gameplay. It's just to announce that a physical copy is coming, not that there's a 4k60 version for Switch.
It's possible it might also be a cloud game like Control was. Though this announcement seems to indicate it'll be native, and if so...good luck porting team lol
EDIT: Well, native it is. Found this in another article "A collaboration between Warhorse Studios and Switch port specialists Saber Interactive". Apparently Saber is who brought TW3 to Switch, and that was a pretty aesthetically-rough version...though playable! Good luck to Saber on this one.
This feels a little...late? I did quite like BL2's Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, but still kind of surprised they chose now to do this. The height of her popularity (and the time things like "butt stallion" were funny) was nearly a decade back when BL2 launched. But I'm still interested to see what this actually becomes.
That entire quote he gave was so noncommittal and mealy-mouthed. You don't want to pre-announce things, I get it. But at this point you guys should have a better handle on the game and your timeframes, and should be giving people a clear idea of what they can expect in terms of improvements. I'm not going to pick this game up until they start actually adding value to the game, not just these small sized updates and stability patches.
Any other game, and I'd thi...
Probably one of the weakest Choice bundles I've seen in a while. If you didn't have Civ6 and wanted a bunch of content, solid deal. But, at least for me, very few interesting choices in this one. Hard to complain for $12, especially given how most months are really solid in quality and breadth of genres. Maybe I'll just pause this month and pick up again next month.
This is one of those questions that, if you have to ask, you kind of already know the answer...
It's truly a strange one for me. I got it very cheap on PS4 & played a bit of it, going back to play more just before and after the multiplayer update. I mainly used it as a time killer while I grinded away for bigger ships and freighters, but always did miss having a true structure to the game.
I've tried going back multiple times on PC - purchased again to play in VR & with higher frame rates, and to support them, as my first copy was used so they got noth...
It is rather interesting. It took Hello Games 3 months to push out a decent update in "Foundation", but took a further year to get to the "Atlas Rises" update. Then another 11 months (about 23 months after initial release) before the launch of "Next", the update that really started to turn the tide heavily on the narrative and sentiment surrounding the game.
I don't think we're going to see CDPR add anything in the lifetime of this game...
Other games get rid of numbers as to not potentially exclude people who feel like they'd have to play previous games to understand and enjoy a later sequel. Obviously Square doesn't care too much about high sequel numbers (FFXVI, DQ XII, etc) or bizarrely numbered ones (NieR Replicant™ ver.1.22474487139, KH 358/2 Days, etc),. But I don't know, implying a skip from 3 straight to 10 feels an unlikely move, even for them. Won't fully count it out though lol.
This quote is surprising:
"Adam Badowski, will now focus on other leadership duties inside the company. This includes CD Projekt's RED 2.0 transition, which will see the studio alter its strategy in order to develop multiple AAA titles in parallel."
None of their games seem to have had particularly smooth development - even TW3 required a lot of patching to get it up to snuff - and this has been trending worse, not better. Not to mention how...
It should likely be a reminder that if you're a small team, filling an open world with enough content is going to be tough. This was a 20 person team. Sure, it can be done, but it's obviously going to be much harder when we're used to game worlds stuffed to the brim with things to do...much easier to accomplish when you can count your team in the hundreds.
Underrated? They chose games like:
Celeste - over 33,000 reviews on Steam w/ an Overwhelmingly Positive rating. Meta score 92.
Dead Cells - over 65,000 reviews on Steam w/ an Overwhelmingly Positive rating. Meta score 89.
Hollow Knight - over 135,000 reviews on Steam w/ an Overwhelmingly Positive rating. Meta score 90.
Nier Automata - over 63,000 reviews on Steam w/ a Very Positive rating. Meta score 84.
So not only nowhere clos...
I don't begrudge people for preordering, but the unfortunate side effect is that publishers get guaranteed money off of hype without showing the quality of the title or of its experience. Companies are becoming more emboldened to release more and more broken games that just get patched later.
Take CP2077 - that game made back its entire budget for development and advertisement in preorders alone. People put down money before it was widely known just how broken the game ...
Solid studio pedigree to be sure, but these types of trailers never really hype me up. They are a net neutral at best, slightly frustrating at worst, given they show absolutely nothing in them. We know it is some kind of co-op open world game thanks to the few words shown in the video, but that trailer was CG and didn't give us literally any other info to go on. Glad to Avalanche has got something else going on, but we'll probably have to wait a year+ to find out if it really holds an...