I wouldn't let the fact that Obscure is hyping this game affect your interest in it just because he is equally willing to hype obvious nonsense. This game looks like one of the rare examples of a game that manages to combine the good aspects of 2000s PC game design with modern quality of life improvements without introducing every negative aspect of modern game design.
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You are right that Steam numbers aren't everything, but they are the only data that is always publicly available that can be used to compare numbers from one game to the next. Obviously we get charts from certain regions, and those can be helpful, but they are imperfect. A game can launch in a slow week and be #1 while a different game that launches in a bigger week can sell more units but only come in at #3 due to heavier competition. Same thing with monthly ch...
It's always a huge turnoff when a dev adds unnecessary magic powers into what could otherwise be a decent shooter.
Do we know yet whether this one made a ton of money? Steam concurrents only got up to about 24k, which isn't terrible, but it's far from a hit on there. And while I'd expect sales of this game to skew more heavily to PlayStation, the PS5 sales will probably need to be pretty considerable to balance out what look to be low PC sales.
Shh don't point out to people that they spend ~$1000 every two years on a phone. That's totally different because many of them spread the cost out into exorbitant monthly payments. Also price complaints that apply to all aspects of life magically don't apply to apple products.
Yep people always want a console to be $400-$500 at launch but then they are whining a year or two later because the CPU is weak.
Still, I don't think either Sony or MS will go to $700 for the next gen, unless sales of PS5 Pro end up being super strong or we have another few years of bad inflation.
You really can't be so naive that you think that people with a nefarious agenda write their nefarious agenda down on a publicly available word document titled "Nefarious Agenda," can you?
I'm sure you'll concede that many companies in the world have discriminated against various minorities in hiring. Do you think all of those companies have a paper they hand to their HR department that says "Groups We Discriminate Against," or do you think it...
I don't think very many PS5 owners, other than the types who frequent sites like this one, even know about Until Dawn in the first place.
I agree, but people are attacking Rockstar right now for doing only a simple port with minor upgrades with Red Dead Redemption on PC.
Still available on US PSN. It's under "Until Dawn 2015." $20.
Cool. Great sales for a game of this style.
I don't disagree with any of your points, nor am I covering for Sony. I'm pointing out that people on here make inherently inconsistent criticisms all the time.
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Everyone when this remaster was announced: We don't need this! It's a waste of time! Everyone who wanted HZD has already bought it!
Everyone now: They took down the old version of HZD! That's unacceptable! I was totally going to buy HZD on PC in three years! How dare they!
Also, while Cyberpunk had bugs on PC at launch and is undeniably improved now, a huge part of the backlash stemmed from the terrible versions of the game they put out on PS4 and Xbox One, back when everyone was still pushing the "install base" narrative. The problems with those versions had a lot less to do with the game being crappy and far more to do with the systems being obsolete.
Lol I'm sure we'd start hearing about teraflops again.
Actually the physical version, which is launching soon, includes this expansion.
Even if Concord causes a change in direction now, there are probably several projects, including this one, that are already well past the halfway point in development, that they aren't just going to cancel. I mean they would lose a ton of money whether they cancel an almost completed game or they launch it and it flops, so they probably feel that whatever reputation points they save by canceling won't be worth it. If they launch these types of games they've already worked on, ther...
They advertised this game wrong. If you hype it up as a AAAA experience, people are going to set their expectations accordingly. Just because a game is a Star Wars game doesn't mean it has to be AAA though. There were plenty of Star Wars games in earlier generations that weren't crazy, big budget experiences (Jedi: Power Battles, Bounty Hunter, etc). Even Squadrons launched at $40. They should have sold this as a $40-$50 AA title and then many of its issues would have been charming, r...
You are sort of right in that devs/pubs always find a way to take the wrong lesson from failures. They launch bad singleplayer games that fail and then the lesson they learn is that singleplayer games are dead, not that gamers don't want bad games. If they launch a game with live service elements and it fails, the lesson they learn is that the game wasn't enough of a live service, not that gamers didn't want a live service at all.