The Sims? This is actually a title for people that just started dating a gamer or befriended a gamer or group of gamers, bought a console or PC and want to look like they enjoy playing video games by leaving this crap running in the background. Look, not one buys or plays this Sims crap (except for the console-store newb and clueless demographic). They try to sell discount it ALL the time. No wonder it's free. Essential? About as essential as stepping in dog dookie.
Buying studios without a way to sustain them was MS’s stupid, very, VERY stupid strategy to counter Sony’s successful hardware sales. In addendum, MS just destroyed the legacy of several studios all in order to stranglehold the market. They were willing to neglect them and shave them off bin them just so no one else could have them. Like a jealous lover “if I can’t have you no one can!” Wt serious f MS? They deserve every foot they fall from grace (faux azz grace that it was).
Funds are lining the walls of the escape pods for the MS executive team and directors.
Rather Have Gannon as the main perspective and conquer Hyrule.
Incorrect / worded incorrectly. It was Sony that formed the new studio of former Deviation games developers.
The studio does not have the pull to tell Sony what they are forming yo, that what being independent is about.
...and overspending on aquisition only to find out they cannot aford to keep what they aquired. It's like an idiot winning the lotto and blowing it all on hookers and blow in loosing it in one night (or like Bobby Kotick rolling his bonus in Macau).
This is the era of short term flex investment. You gotta understand that the gaming industry was wrecked by it, and it will never be the same, meanwhile fanboys/gurls had been blindly cheering it on like it was some kind of genius move or level to achieve, and now stand awestruck at the steaming wreak and nonsensical reorg it has left the industry in. Nice. MS has willingly "look what I can do!" gone mach 5 straight into an anvil (and it is so awesome).
Yeah it was good, but it only did the time travel bit in one level. Dishonered 2 did the same thing. Now how about a game where it's implemented throughout the gameplay? Singularity says Hello (and deserves so much more recognition).
And? Sony and Arrowhead still a win no matter how you spin it.
It's not just Phil (Phil is just the dumb kid taking the money) and Kotaku is NOT the voice to listen to as shi7 sites like Kotaku helped contribute to modern gaming toxicity and disinformation. Kotaku staff = Much like Phil, and yes need to go.
Considering the level of games they made, I'm surprised that more than 2 people worked there. 45 people (+ outsourcing) making mediocre mobile games, like cut the rope. I mean dude....Nintendo stooped to new lows in quality development and entertainment standards.
Anymore? This white knighting is really tardy and moot. Microtransaction was a term reserved for mobile app (and early PC) market commerce. You know, 99 cent type stuff? (features, unlocks, add free etc). PC and Consoles adopted this as a standard and negated the terminology from the start in order to cash in on it is much as possible (multi-transactional, becuase as a major for-profit biz {based on peformance} they'd be crazy not too), so why u supprised? This is only been ureasonable f...
I would say greatest “Bait and Switch” stories.
Hello Games deviated and dropped the ball too many times to call it a comeback unless you are into that kind of relationship.
PVE games have been around for a while. They have been proving this long before Helldivers was even a thought.
Just don’t. 3DO games were the worst. Imagine paying premium prices for a dog-crap version of a game. The era of barely trying or understanding their own tech and charging asinine prices… 3DN0. It’s best that you don’t admit that you had one of these.
THEY. It's a collective of investors that give no f-s unless the monkey dances for money and delivers. downfall? Urm.. dude... do you understand this is a rinse and repeat process? They won and bailed before plane crashed, the working industry did not. People saw investment money and sold themselves and the industry out like hot real estate, and now look at it. Honestly, you should be more upset with the studios that jumped on board for the carrots rather than those that were handing them...
The industry model and standards and who's in place to approve/disapprove have changed ^ what Keoken is feeling now is much like the Mobile burst 15 years ago. Expect more to come out of your own finances. Investors are treating games like movies and now (thank$ a lot for involving yourself hollywood) only the big (and money blind) investors get involved, effectively killing a lot of content that would come out with proper non-gate-kept and/or with incentivized funding.
Ghost Runner 2 = Yes.
Cash-in-on-the-Cyberpunk-tren d Destiny Light Fall = No.
Tunic = Please, no more indie artsy fart echo chamber garbage.
FC24 = Walmart bin game in 3, 2....
Loads of ancient titles.