How is it "cheaty"? It's literally pausing the game, which you can do anyway, it just gives you the added option of being able to play other games while it is paused. It's not "cheaty" if you pause a roguelike/lite on one system and play a different game on another system, so how would this be different. And since it isn't actually creating a save file, all the stupid arguments about "save scumming" that everyone said about Returnal do not apply here...
It's hard for me to imagine that is going to be the case. That type of PC shooter seems to barely exist anymore, and given they are doing Stalker on consoles this time, I don't think it will have that same feel.
Lol so hopefully they give us a performance mode with dynamic resolution and no raytracing so we can have 60 fps.
Well. That's annoying. Quick Resume would be particularly useful for this type of game. Oh well.
Well, considering that most multiplayer games that come out now (either PVP or co-op) are inferior to similar experiences from 10-15 years ago, it's really not surprising.
I think they are saying "Dinger."
That version does not include all the bells and whistles that a native next gen version will include. You already knew this, of course.
@CorndogBurglar
Yeah that's my point. If they had used the Early Access label, the nature of the game would have been clear. Although I guess that would have opened the possibility that it would have been one of those games that got stuck in Early Access forever. Maybe without the backlash, we never would have gotten the game in the state it's in now.
Yep. Honestly, if they hadn't gotten so wrapped up with Sony and launching on PS4 (which admittedly I was all in favor of at the time), they could have done the first few years of what was the actual release as a an "early access" period on Steam. This would have allowed them to have the same "work in progress" mentality without all the backlash.
Agreed, in Battlefield where matches take so long and require so many players, having too many different game modes is actually a problem. Most of the modes in BFV other than Conquest just seemed like worse versions of Rush, but for whatever reason they haven't seemed to be able to get Rush right more recently. Hopefully if nothing else, there will be some decent Rush servers on the BFBC2 servers in Battlefield Portal.
BFV sold 7+ million in its first six weeks.
https://www.gamespot.com/ar...
Oh yeah that wonderful Battlefield 4 campaign everyone played and remembers so fondly lol.
Lol after Battlefield V sold 7+ million in its first six weeks and was labeled a disappointment, I'd say that's wise.
I see what you mean, although using maps as an example is a bit inaccurate, as most games as a service give new maps for free to avoid splitting the playerbase. Getting maps that way rather than in $10-20 map packs that only a fraction of the playerbase ended up buying is actually one of the only positive developments of the gaas trend.
It is a harm if the game's (and the dev's) signature mode is PVE, but hype about a tacked on PVP mode to one of their games causes them to go all in on PVP and make a disaster of a game. Which of course is what happened.
@Sonic-and-Crash
You are right that game sales on the Wii for basically everything except Just Dance cratered beginning in about 2010, but we haven't seen that happen with Switch, and there is no evidence that it is going to happen.
Let's not get all worked up about the PVP. I'm convinced that the people who wouldn't stop harping about the PVP in L4D2 are the reason we got Evolve instead of a real co-op game.
So in other words there will be more than 22 million PS5 owners by early 2022 but we are going to keep getting games gimped for a 2013 CPU for probably a year after that. Who do you think is going to buy Horizon and God of War, the hardcore 22 million who upgraded or the millions of casuals sticking with PS4 to play Warzone and watch Netflix?
Lol COD and sports games are about the only situations where cross gen makes sense. People always say "but the install base!" when anyone complains about cross gen, but in the case of more hardcore games, the install base numbers between new and old consoles don't matter much because the hardcore who actually buy games are the ones who move to the new consoles (this was exemplified by Hitman 3 on PS5 doubling the PS4 version's sales in the UK). However, the casuals who buy C...
As far as the whole "PlayStation Syndrome," sure, maybe it's possible you'll miss games that way, but I think Gamepass is creating the same problem as massive steam sales: you get access to so many things all at once for such a low price, you aren't very intentional about many things. For example, I used to buy tons of games in steam sales that I'd never otherwise buy because they were $5 instead of $30 or $12 instead of $50, etc. Probably more than half of those gam...