Okay well download it and play it for trophies then. They'll have numbers on how many people actually get the trophies. If only like 800 people platinum this game, the takeaway they get from that is going to be that not that many people actually care about these classics, even the ones that are hyped up on the Internet.
So just remember, all of you who have been chirping about Legend of Dragoon for years now, Sony is going to have numbers on how many people either purchased this game or downloaded it through a subscription. So they'll know if you were all talk or not, and they'll definitely factor that in when considering what other classic games to put out.
But the thing is, even if you are still doing physical, GameStop isn't even the best place to buy. Obviously Amazon is the best, but even Best Buy and Walmart have better game sections now that GameStop is dedicating so much space to licensed T-Shirts and similar nonsense.
I was in one about a week ago for the first time in about 6 years. I was trying to buy Mario Golf on Switch (I am all digital and have been for years but this was a present for someone who likes physical games still). Target's game section was pathetic and they didn't have it, so I went to the nearby GameStop and it was just depressing. A bunch of Funko pops and a bunch of licensed shirts that looked like things that hot topic would have sold in like 2008. And of course, they didn'...
Well, the loading screens and spinning loading wheels when you try to open doors are not great. The point of PS5's SSD was supposed to be there wouldn't be spinning loading wheels when you go to open a door. At that point I'd rather have them hide the load behind a slow door opening animation or something.
But yeah as far as performance goes this game has launched in a better state than a lot of similar games do.
However, just playing the game...
Xbox fans now are like PlayStation fans in the first few years of PS3. They're so tired of hearing about how much everyone loves the games on the rival console that as soon as they get anything good, they hype it out of control.
TLOU Part I top ten on PS5 in both regions, and Part II on PS4 top ten in both regions. So what was that everyone was saying about how the remake was unnecessary because everyone who wanted to play TLOU had already done so?
Also remember that you if always say digital is what matters, I don't want to hear how this chart doesn't factor in physical sales.
Lol that's a great point. Although from their perspective I guess if other people are going to get away with blatantly copying them, they might as well copy other people.
Well, it's not very cool to give Ubisoft credit for something.
The copied becomes the copier.
Yep. If they can modernize it in the good ways (good controls, high production value, etc) without modernizing it in the bad ways (terrible writing, hand-holding features, awful UI, etc), this could really be a special game.
The "this game is sort of like the thing you like to play" doesn't work with live service games. The sooner publishers and devs learn that, the better. It sometimes works with single player games; i.e., if you can release a decent clone of a popular single player franchise in between releases from that franchise, you can get at least some of the fans to try your game because they are hungry for that type of experience. But with a live service that people are always playing, anot...
I mean, in a sense they are the future. It's just that people are going to keep playing the ones they have already invested time into (i.e. Destiny 2, Apex, Fortnite, RS: Siege, Genshin Impact). Publishers looked at the success of these live service games and thought "wow, look how popular those are and how much money the publishers are making, we have to get one of those going." Really the lesson they should have taken away was "wow, people who want to play a live service ...
Who could have foreseen this?
It's so much better to just go play L4D2, which has a bigger playerbase than B4B anyway.
This might be the most disappointed I have been with a game in the last ten years, which is saying a lot. If you get on Steam charts and look up the player count for this game and then for L4D2, it looks like a lot of people feel the same way.
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I don't really understand the "love Dishonored but hate Deathloop" thing, unless it is very specifically tied to Deathloop's rouguelite type elements. The games are pretty similar in terms of gameplay (powers, traversal, etc), world building, AI, art style, and writing, so I can how people hate both or like both, but only liking one is confusing. I mean if you ask me which is better overall, it's Dishonored, but it's not a night and day com...
Haha I forgot the sketchy scam links to buy a PS5 from a Nigerian Prince he posted. Good times.
Yeah admittedly if I didn't love Arkane I'd probably be skipping this based on what I've seen. But Dishonored was great, and Deathloop was wildly underappreciated (by gamers, critics actually liked it), so I'm willing to give this a shot, particularly since it's on GP. But if it turns out to be one of those "yes we said you could play it single player but it isn't balanced or fun when you do that" situations, I'm going to lose interest fast because I doub...
People really overestimate sales totals for games from earlier generations, even hit games like FFVII that are highly influential.
It's going to be so embarrassing if that's the "solution."