A good rule in life is that when someone uses the words "mid" or "meh" to describe things, ignore that person's opinions on literally everything.
Or that a lot of money gets wasted along the way.
You mean games that have overwhelmingly positive Steam reviews?
PS3 launched at $599 in 2006. By late 2009, the PS3 Slim was $299. Even if the US had implemented tariffs in 2010 that caused a 50% price increase, PS3 would have been $450, still far less than launch price.
So while we understand inflation+tariffs, why aren't these at least partially being offset by a decrease in the cost of components (which happened every other gen and resulted in price cuts)? Are we supposed to believe that, absent inflation and tariffs, it wouldn&#...
Yep I think Switch 2 could work for some people as a portable way to play older titles, especially with handheld PCs increasing in price as much as they are and getting comically bulky. However, it won't really compete in that specific space unless those ports of old third party titles are priced very aggressively, which they won't be.
? These aren't rereleases or something, they are patches to make older games run better. Very weird to be against that.
Imagine PC gamers complaining about Nvidia releasing drivers for a new GPU to help older games run better.
This is a great reminder of how game sales have become more concentrated in a smaller number of games/series over time. In the PS1/PS2 era a game was a success if it sold a million or a few million copies. The GTA games (3/Vice City/San Andreas) were pretty big outliers in selling as much as they did during the PS2 era. So in the minds of a lot of gamers something like FF VII feels like it was as big of a PS1 game as God of War 2018 was for PS4, but in reality far fewer people bought it (thou...
You aren't supposed to point to inconvenient facts that go against a narrative. Be better.
Maybe for a co-op mode like Legends. If it's going to be any sort of PVP mode/modes, it's just a waste of time at this point to make tack-on multiplayer modes. I miss the days when there were various different multiplayer options and games could sustain their own playerbases without constant updates, but gamers don't play that way now. A tack-on PVP mode will just be declared DOA for lack of content now. They'd be better off to just focus on SP.
I mean this is how PS/Xbox have been since PS4 and Xbox One launched. The disc is just an installation method; the entire game is installed to the HDD (and now SSD). That's why the "buying physical to save hard drive space" argument hasn't been relevant the last two gens, though you still see some people make it.
They will only show up if the game is bland (i.e. Outlaws) and/or the writing is bad (i.e. Forspoken). If the game is great and the characters don't all talk like American college sophomores, people will be fine. For most people "woke" is just a proxy for what they perceive as inauthentic.
No "0047" jokes?
Lol L4D2 came out in 2009, and you are saying it should have been a 2020s type live service game. It's just a great game, it doesn't need battle passes and skins.
This attitude is why devs are afraid to make any multiplayer game that isn't a live service.
The problem is that the scales are often defined differently than how they are used in practice. 5 will often be defined as "average" or "okay" (this publication uses the term "middling"), but average games are more frequently scored in the 6-7.5 range, and games have to pretty bad or broken to be in the 4-6 range. So when a game is actually just okay and gets a 5, it feels jarring, but the reviewer can always just dishonestly hide behind the way the scale is lab...
Probably not. A lot of "populists" who have recently voted Republican are not ideologically "conservative" in many respects. That's part of what people are getting at when they say that if you poll Americans across the spectrum on individual progressive proposals, they are usually popular.
Lol people apply almost no rigor in their analysis of something if they want to agree with the conclusion.
I mean he's putting it in the most annoying way possible, but he's not totally wrong. A ton of UE5 games have major stuttering issues.
The best part is that you confused Jim Ryan with Mitt Romney's running mate from 2012. I guess they were both in that same class of forgettable lol.
I sometimes wonder if these executives understand that gamers are not one unified group. Do they not understand that the people who want to buy Elden Ring/Clair Obscur/Stalker 2 (just examples, fill in the blank with the premium game you think fits) are, for the most part, pretty distinct from the Fortnite/Roblox/EA FC (FIFA)/Marvel Rivals crowd? Or do they understand that perfectly and just think the first group isn't worth the effort?
"Hell, some people only buy Madden, NBA2K, or CoD each year and nothing else. Do we tell those people they are crazy for buying a system for one or two games and nothing else?"
Yes. People on sites like this criticize this type of gamer all the time.