It's wild that countries can just destroy the value of their currencies but when companies raise their prices to reflect that devaluation, it's the companies who are at fault, not the governments.
"That welfare you might get early on will bite you in the ass in the future if you ever try to sell a game separately from a subscription. Because consumers will expect your future games given for a small fee than paying for it from then on."
This is so obvious, I don't see how people don't intuitively get it. I'll acknowledge that in very rare cases, giving something away on a subscription can kickstart later sales and success. Rocket League launching...
This was definitely true of Aloy in Horizon Zero Dawn as well. She's supposed to be part of a primitive hunter-gatherer tribe (or at least, an outcast trying desperately to get into the tribe), yet she just takes everything in stride when she is exposed to science, technology, and history that completely contradict everything she grew up thinking. In her situation I guess it could be somewhat explained by her possession of a piece of advanced technology from a young age, but it still felt...
The next time you complain about how "everything is a crossover now," just remember that you also said this.
I never understand this issue when we are talking about a single game that takes a manageable time to play and is available on modern platforms. Don't get me wrong, I get the "do I need to play the prior games" question when the seventh game in a long running series gets announced and the prior titles take 30+ hours each and are not all easily accessible. But in this case, just play the first one this weekend.
Ironically, the people who advocate using the modern morals of white English-speaking Americans to "fix" Spanish are the same ones who constantly complain about cultural appropriation or cultural imperialism.
Using the fact that devs keep signing deals for Gamepass as evidence that they see Gamepass as good is like citing the fact that drug addicts keep buying drugs as evidence that they see drugs as good.
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Wouldn't surprise me. I'll take your word for it. That just supports my additional analysis that Starfield isn't really pushing mainstream consumers (who don't already have an Xbox or capable PC) to go out and buy one just for this game.
Yeah. That was a little surprising. Probably some of the people buying Xboxs for Starfield did so in August. Also, while it's clearly a huge success, it doesn't feel like Starfield captured the mainstream audience they were hoping it would based on the mainstream success of Skyrim, and to a lesser extent Fallout 4.
Back when platforms paying for years of early access to DLC was still cool!
Yeah I heard a lot about this before I played, and then it almost never affected me when I played the game (the few times it did were with bird form Freya).
Honestly it makes me wonder if a bunch of people are just really terrible at puzzles and took forever to do them and got hints. It's either that or they patched the game to slow down the hints (I played about 5 months after launch).
Bragging about playing Redfall is one of the bigger self-owns I've seen in awhile. It's like a PS3 fanboy bragging about Haze.
"Look at the poor sales for WW2, Vanguard, BO4, Cold War & Infinite Warfare."
The problem with that is that when you point to "poor sales" for COD titles, it is only relative to the other titles in the franchise. Every single one of the games you mentioned, except Black Ops 4, was the top selling game in the US in the year it released. And the only reason BO4 was second was because it came out in 2018, the same year as Red Dead Redemption 2.
This was a weird one. While it had some of the cheesiness you had to expect from licensed games of that era, in some respects it was also far deeper than a lot of contemporary PS1 games. It had a respectable dialogue system (which includes the ability to use Jedi mind tricks) and some pretty fun levels. The controls and perspective would feel horrible to modern gamers though.
"You ported a game, after almost a full priced release, run at a whole 60fps, while both PC and Xbox have been doing it for years."
Wait, is RDR 60 fps on Xbox through BC? When did that happen? I never saw that it received FPS Boost, and people on Reddit have been complaining for years about it being limited to 30 fps through BC.
I agree. That's why I am glad they are leaving it on as a default, because if they didn't I'm sure the game would get slammed for the swinging being "off" compared to the prior games, even with the option to scale the swing assist level. After seeing games with fully customizable UI systems get slammed for having a cluttered UI (Horizon FW comes to mind, but there have been others), I'm convinced that most people would rather criticize a game based on its default set...
Hmm. It will be interesting to see how different it feels across the range. Love the customization, but I don't blame them for leaving it at the highest assist by default, because 60% of players would probably never be able to figure out how to turn it on/up if it was off/low by default.
Solid month. If you pick something too big everyone is mad because they already have it, but if you go too obscure most people aren't interested. Callisto Protocol fits perfectly in that "I'm interested but not enough to commit to buying" zone that is perfect for PS Plus.
I mean "sucks" is an exaggeration. It's a good game in many ways. But it certainly isn't a genre defining or generation defining experience in the way some prior Bethesda games have been and that people were hoping it would be.
Better start preparing whatever trench you are going to fall back to when we get sales numbers announced. "It isn't selling as fast as Elden Ring" sounds like a good spot for you, why don't you think about using that?