There's probably no better press for a game than great reviews from most sites and negativity from Polygon. (See, for example, The Last of Us).
I'm glad they didn't try to call this Recrashtered.
This was a great strategy ten years ago.
I think the "standing up" aspect people are seeing is that they didn't want Epic exclusivity, but they did want to release on all platforms including Epic, but Epic refused. So basically Epic was pressuring a small studio not only with the inherent risk assessment I discussed before, but also that they'd lose one marketplace to sell the game if they did not take the exclusivity deal.
This is actually another distinction from the typical scenario: you don&#...
I guess the solution I'd really like to see is a dedicated series to historical combat and one to modern/near future combat. That would be a good balance between what we had in the late 90s-late 2000s, where almost everything was WWII, and the period I just criticized (late 2000s-mid 2010s) where everything was modern or future-focused. They could easily revive the Medal of Honor brand for one of these, particularly since it was a WWII series anyway until around 2010 when publishers decid...
Fair point, but it's not quite the same as a major development studio turning down a deal with Sony/Microsoft so that they can be on PS4 and XONE, instead of just one of the two. For an indie studio, the upfront money has to be far more tempting, in that one game is far more likely to be make or break for a small studio than it is for a larger one (unless the larger studio is already in trouble for unrelated reasons). So an indie studio with an exclusivity offer from Epic that comes with ...
Inevitably there's a game that was actually a broken mess that the same reviewer gave a 7.
Exactly, having BF:BC, BF:BC2, Battlefield 3, and Battlefield 4 all doing modern combat wasn't enough. I need at least six modern combat games for every one set in a historical era.
It's so obviously 3 for me that I find it surprising that this is such a debate.
So basically the timeline goes like this:
-Insomniac primarily makes exclusive games for PlayStation and has a ton of success.
-Sony shows interest in buying, but Insomniac wants to own their own IPs and reach a "broader audience."
-Insomniac puts out Fuse on all platforms, and Sunset Overdrive exclusively on Xbox.
-The so-called "broader audience" fails to materialize.
-Insomniac goes back to making PlayStation exclusives and h...
It's almost like people are assuming for the sake of this question that you could still play all of these games. You know, since people are talking about the games they would like to play again. No one is claiming that they are actually playing these games.
Your comments show that you don't understand the premise of what people are talking about, or more likely that you are pretending to not understand. We are talking about what games we'd play again if we could-therefore, it's implicit in this hypothetical that servers would be available for now delisted games like MAG, etc. You clearly understand this.
Although Resistance 2 was easily the weakest link in the series campaign wise, the co-op was years ahead of its time, and it never gets acknowledged for it. Had that game been on 360, all the major gamesites would have treated it like Borderlands.
I mean, both of these games are available for PS4, where they run significantly better than on PS3.
Unfortunately what is more likely is that we just get fewer and fewer real games. Younger people now don't seem to care about games being laden with microtransactions, and those are the people who are going to drive the industry, so I don't really see it going "belly up." Although your point still stands-when the industry goes to crap, you'll have a bunch of old games to play. I have an almost inexhaustible backlog of PC games for that contingency.
You can already play the Uncharted trilogy on PS4...
@Salooh
There doesn't seem to be much traction behind her, despite strong debate performances and weak ones from her opponents.
It's good to know that, when we finally get out of the Trump era, all these newfound fans of free trade are going to oppose tariffs and other taxes which make the economy less efficient. Because I'm sure it's actually a principled realization that tariffs are inherently bad policy, and not simply opposition to a policy due to hate for the messenger. It's especially nice knowing there's no worry that these people will ever vote for Bernie Sanders or someone in his vein, who...
Welcome to the realization that Trump is not actually doctrinally conservative, in the American sense.
This. And their upsells are so painfully written for people who have no understanding of video games (presumably parents buying gifts are the target of these), I.e. "Do you want to go ahead and make sure you have everything by paying for the DLC" "Do you want to make sure you get the full experience by paying for a strategy guide?"
It's amazing to me how, in the age of Amazon and the death of brick and mortar, the owners/decision-makers for physical ...