It's a powerful mix of things. Tribalism. Fear of the unknown/stronger beliefs simply in what you know (or, alternately, falling into the "trusting the devil you know vs the one you don't" mindset). The way we "chunk" information - we take complex topics with many levels of nuance and chuck them into one broader, more generalized category so we can quickly parse information and ideas. It would be almost impossible for us to function without our inherent chunking of...
It's the same reason Sony hasn't made another Order 1886 - these games are incredible visual showpieces, but they reviewed mediocre-to-poor and didn't sell well enough to invest another huge development budget in.
I'd love for either of them to dig up a game like that to give another chance on next-gen, but they pretty much look to new IP to hit big on the first go. If they don't, drop it and move on. The odds of us seeing a sequel to either of those ga...
I am in agreement with what you wrote and its sentiment, but the "console war" rages on with or without games media. Just look in here when an exclusive game pops up for one company or another. When one gets good or bad scores. It doesn't take games media to bring out boasting or roasting, people do that of their own accord.
The games media certainly takes advantage of that by stoking the flames, but they aren't the sole source of the fire by any stretch....
Releasing games to PC is supplemental revenue? That is, at best, a very dated mindset. This article from GamesIndustry.biz shows the total revenue from all platforms in 2018 - PC generated $33.4 billion and consoles $38.3 billion. PC accounting for nearly the same amount of revenue isn't exactly "supplementary" lol.
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In general, wise words. I wait for sales for everything - can't remember the last time I bought a game at full MSRP lol. But that's one thing I find problematic with Nintendo created/published games - they take forever to go on sale. And once they do go on sale, the cheapest you'll ever see for them is about $35, but more often it's $40-45.
There are games I'd like to play on my Switch that I feel could be interesting, but I don't buy full price game...
Kinda funny that "enthusiast" requires the 2080 Super, but the "ultra" only requires the 2080 lol. I guess that's down to 4k30 vs 1440p60, but it does make for a bit of a weird chart.
That said, now my hardware is finally showing its age. Apparently it's only good for "high", and 1080p60 is a little underwhelming for what this game appears to be showing off, graphics wise. Then again, Odyssey was also a bit of a torture test for hardwar...
Kinda sounds like this game is taking Galaga's dual ship mechanic up a notch and turning that into its defining gimmick.
100%. This is obviously just showing what can be done with the current highest end hardware, rather than what should be. And if you're splashing out for an RTX 3090 over a 3080 for gaming (small performance delta if not using that huge buffer for productivity), then I guess you'll also consider splashing out for an 8k screen. And, I mean, you'll want to be able to do *something* with it lol.
I've looked at this on my 1080p 24" monitor and my 50" 4k TV. I've studied the photos. I truly can't see any difference, and I gave each of the 4 comparison shots their due diligence scanning for differences.
Now, 120hz? That's something you won't see in pictures, and if you have the TV to take advantage is a nice upgrade. I love high-refresh gaming on my PC, so it is nice to know it is coming to consoles. I do recall seeing a video a while bac...
It was never claimed liquid metal was new. It's that it has drawbacks (lifetime of material, potential for leakage & damage, assembly line application issues), and it has not really been used in mass-produced consumer electronics that aren't meant to be self-serviced.
It's always been a known quantity for the quality of heat dissipation, it's just the other issues that have created problems in using it in mass-market devices. Issues that, apparently, Son...
Did you read the article? It was Otori himself that said that it was an ultimate cost saving measure. Liquid metal, while being a higher cost material than traditional thermal paste, enabled overall cost reduction because improved head dissipation at the source means a smaller overall heatsink, means a smaller overall fan, means the fan can run slower. So liquid metal allowed the bill-of-materials to cost less with the more efficient & costly liquid metal, as opposed to a higher overall s...
I'm a bit leery of the combo of requiring PS+ and having no offline mode. If you play solo, I should hope it is at least something like Destiny 2 where you can play solo stuff at least without Plus, only requiring it for group activities.
Still surprised companies can get away with charging. I know they've added games into the package, but otherwise? No value has been added since the earlier days of console online, and you don't have the option of not paying for...
I'm at a complete loss here. You really think this game is better than BotW? I'm not arguing you are wrong to hold that opinion, of course, just that it feels a bit like hyperbole to me since I'm clearly missing something. I personally feel like it is a pretty decent mobile game, but that's kinda it. I have read a lot praise for this game, even from conventional sites, and decided to give it a go. Downloaded it on PC and Android. The game seems fun enough when viewed as a mobi...
I think it is worthwhile to know. I mean, it is pretty common for games to not allow older saves to transfer, but there are enough cases of other games where your save kind of travels from patch to patch, basically making older saves compatible with the full release.
Not everyone has time to restart a game as lengthy as Larian games tend to be. Not everyone would want to have to scrap characters if they became attached to them. This info also just lets people know "how...
Surprised the rollout to other platforms is so slow for this game. A little surprised that it isn't getting a simultaneous release on other platforms now that the Apple deal has clearly run its course. You at least normally see Switch/PC, if not all platforms, when something like this releases. Haven't even heard chatter from the devs about other platforms.
It does feel like a good fit for the Switch, and while I'd consider buying it for mine, $30 feels a bit st...
Has anyone on N4G also checked this game out? I've poked around a bit here and there on the PC and Android versions, and the game seems...fine? I'm seeing all this incredible hype for the game, comparing it to BotW and such, saying how incredible the game is and - in my experience so far - it feels like a fine mobile game.
I feel like people are going nuts over this game, but it just feels like - at best - a watered down PC/Console game. I guess with all the hype -...
The comments in here confuse me a bit. I'm definitely no Xbox fan - Good ol' Phil burned me a bit, and I don't like my OG XBO at all - but I think this video was pretty evenhanded all considered. I'm not quite sure where some of the things I've read in here are coming from, with some people really seeming to take pretty benign comments and reading into them with the most negative possible connotations. A little perplexed.
Retirement. I mean, kind of a bizarre question when there are no more games being made for it.
100%. I was going to add in a pithy "because of Kutaragi" in the comments because, yea, it's the Cell that's the problem..but it was a problem because of Ken lol.
PS3, if executed only on his vision, wouldn't have even had any traditional GPU at all! The Nvidia GPU got thrown in practically last minute due to (plentiful) feedback, and I just wonder if the PS3 only had SPUs to work with, how much more would the PS3 have struggled, and how would that ha...
Weaponizing FOMO.
They saw what limiting things like the "classic" consoles did for sales, and then some sleezy marketing exec said "why not do this for games that would otherwise sell meh-to-fine to infuse some extra revenue!"
No doubt about it, it gets fence-sitters to buy in, and those who wouldn't care to become interested simply due to the limited nature. The fact that this seems to be becoming a trend for them really knocks ...