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Yes. I'm frequently in a situation where I have between 45 minutes to an hour and a half to play games, and I'm always reluctant to start a new game in those situations, because I'm usually pretty sure it is going to be painfully boring tutorials for the first hour.
I thought Doom 2016 was a little overrated, but I have to give it a lot of credit for getting out of your way and just letting you start playing.
Yep. You are right on. If the devs feel I need a little time to learn how to play, start me off in a smaller area with lesser enemies early on so I can learn the controls, etc. But let me just play the game. Don't force me to play drawn out tutorials. Breath of the Wild did a decent job with this.
I'm constantly put off from starting new games because I'll only have an hour to play and I don't want to spend the entire hour bogged down in crappy tutorials.
Lol yeah I don't think anyone avoided Doom 2016 or Doom Eternal because of that Doom movie The Rock made in 2005.
You mean like how you all went from "sports games are dumb and for casuals, and no one cares about baseball anyway" one day to "MLB The Show being on Gamepass is a huge win for Xbox" the next day? Something like that? Or maybe it's more like how you all are currently freaking out about FF16 after previously trashing it.
I can't imagine they are going to put more resources into the Hellblade series at this point.
@Hofstaderman
I would have suggested that, or even finding a One S for dirt cheap, but he also wants to play College Football 25.
It'll have to be on Gamepass. Xbox gamers never bought JRPGs in large numbers even at the height of the 360 when publishers were tripping over themselves to try to establish the genre there, and now the last few years they have been conditioned to expect major JRPGs to be on Gamepass.
Lol one of my friends is buying an Xbox because he wants to play old games (i.e. 360 era), and he is still among that fortunately shrinking crowd that hears "PC gaming" and still thinks it will be a complex engineering project to get a PC to run a game and that he'd have to constantly buy new hardware. But he represents a pretty small crowd. Most people in his situation would just play older games on PC.
Forza Horizon 5 makes a lot more sense than porting the latest mainline Forza Motorsport. Most on PlayStation see Forza Motorsport as an inferior attempt to be Gran Turismo, or at best as an equivalent. So there would be little real motivation for those people to buy it. But FH5 represents a type of game that Sony doesn't have in their first party and which third parties have increasingly unwilling to provide. I think it would do solid sales on PS5.
I think the console focused players are missing the importance of this mistake. A lot of PC players just don't want to clutter up their PCs with a million launchers. If you aren't on Steam, and don't offer a DRM free option through GOG, a lot of PC players are going to ignore you.
Hmm I didn't realize there was a native android version. That definitely sounds better than playing it on laggy cloud streaming, like everyone else keeps suggesting.
Unfortunately The Callisto Protocol has probably turned into one of the top examples suits at publishers point to when they are arguing that investing in new single player IPs is too risky.
Lol it's nice to see someone acknowledge this. There's a lot of "we knew this game was doomed from the start," but people were actually hyping it hard for several years.
Yep. It's always interesting (and depressing) to read statements from execs from publishers about this kind of stuff. They don't think of games like we do at all. They don't say, "hey, in the past two years, we launched two major licensed games, and we tried two very different strategies. One succeeded and one bombed, so we are going to follow the strategy that was successful." Instead they look at the games industry as a while, usually including mobile, and say "we...
I hope you are reading all the "hur dur hur WB is a publisher not a dev, yer so stoopid" responses as if they are in the SpongeBob chicken meme.
Yeah I've played it on Steam Deck. Definitely a good experience. It's just the type of game that would feel at home on a true handheld like Vita.
If only it was coming to Vita. This would be the perfect PS Vita game.
Interesting thought. Kind of like how the existence of the Wii assisted in keeping games coming to the PS2 for a few years because devs were already targeting that spec range for lower end games (some would have come anyway due to PS2 install base, I know).
@-Foxtrot
You are right on. This is a play corporations run all the time when they are putting out a movie/show/game/product. Find a few people on Twitter who are making bad faith criticisms of an actor/voice actor/director/etc. and then lump all legitimate criticisms with that person. It's the reason these people jump for joy when they get a "death threat" because then they can shut down all legitimate criticism by saying "it's just a game/movie/etc,...