It's almost already as bad as Hollywood.
Thank you capitalism. You always seem to fuck up the things we like.
The best way to stop it is to shun it. I've stopped listening to journalists of gaming at large and not because of any community-generated slander or "ethics in journalism" debates but because just objectively looking at what the mainstream press is looking for in games I anticipate I've always noticed how they never care or recognize games for the same things I care about.
If it's Mass Effect they'll talk about how great the gunplay is and and they...
I would mainly be buying it for its first party line up and hopefully it will replace my PS4 whenever need be for third parties... so I hope it's simply in the league of PS4 and not necessarily more than that and then being cheap as a PS4 currently is on launch. Otherwise it has to be a drastic leap somehow.
Completely agree. If the retail release was 30$ and the season pass was 20 or 30 extra then the price/content ratio would've been even.
Let's be real here. There is so little content in the vanilla game that the Season pass probably contains more than half of the total.
It's because all the game's content is stored in the 40$ season pass.
As a pc gamer you spend so much money on the hardware itself and expect most games to be semi-cheap because biggest games are stuff like LoL that are great F2P titles and stuff. You don't wanna spend 120 friggin dollars on a retail release after buying a 600 dollar computer.
I would much rather hear Chris Avellone or Neil Druckmann's opinion on it if I had to.
Bethesda went all out commercial and insanity like the other big publishers. I fucking knew they were going that route since they tried to go big at E3 last year.
Personally, I've developed a lot of bitterness over exclusives and business practices in general since the internet age and admittedly from growing up as well. I just don't think an exclusive has the same impact when everything is being shown on the internet as opposed to walking in a store and finding a cover saying "Only for Xbox", because, due to a lack of internet and social media or media-prominence in general back 10 years ago most consumers were left in the dark about...
Where they see "Innovation" I see repetition at this point.
I think I'm gonna tell my friend he should just skip buying a Wii U and play Zelda on his stationary already.
People have yet to realize how much worse Sony is post-Jack Tretton. Everyone is like "yaaay consoles's better than ever as proven by 80mio PS4s sold!" except take a gander on the PSN store. Look at how selective its featured items are, think about how the filter-options have no "toggle ratings", PS2 classics get no advantage if already owned on PS3 not even a price-drop, etc.
I just think Sony is trying to subtly move into the trends of mobile-game ma...
This guy should rebaptise as "Pachtological Liar"
Also, this is cringeworthy. PachterFactor is a PachterFapper.
Excited, but the more I hear the less I'm sure it'll be in technical competition to XBOne or PS4. A splendid solution would be a device that runs higher-end games like PS4 and such but at lower fidelity and 720p-1080p but then justifying it because it's handheld.
I like him. No objections so far, but I am always worried Nintendo will become more business like Sony or MS when their president isn't as understanding of how to make actual games.
Though, I can't say I approved of all of Iwata's business decisions either. He was just a very unique president, still.
Mass Effect 1 and 2 used the dialogue choices more to characterize your personally made character than to make choices that had consequences. Uncharted 4 having choices seems pointless unless there's actually some proper choice-consequence to it. I mean, Nate already is his own character.
Dialogue A: "I'm sorry"
Dialogue B: "I'm very sorry"
Dialogue C: "I apologize"
Dialogue D: "I have sinned"
I completely agree. What's the point?
If every dialogue choice is like in the trailer it's completely pointless and I can't believe ND is that clueless when they usually get their shit right.
Clap clap clap!
I love when Arists get the truth out. I love Souls and therefore I agree it needs to stop so we don't end up bastardizing it year for year until it's lost its last ounce of dignity.
More franchises need to know when to stop before becoming a shadow of their former selves.
Still, it's scary to think that it takes this guy becoming the leader of his company in order to stop the publishers from milking it. Oh how I w...
I think it's good enough in some cases that they account for the "everyman" experience a game has on its mainstream audience, but like you say, it's a slap in the face to any fan of a franchise when media obviously haven't played or remember the original games in a series and don't recognize the qualities their sequels lacked in comparison.
A great example would be The Elder Scrolls or Mass Effect. 75+ critics completely failed to talk about how Mass...