You have to root for them as they are the underdog. They only own all of pc gaming and doesn't even get to own consoles as well. It's unfair that a small company like MS can't even dominate the entire gaming space. But hopefully they'll get there when they own all of it.
But then again, Activision only really did Cod and Blizzard stuff at the moment. New entries in noteworthy non COD stuff might be 3-5 years out into the future, so a 5 year deal might not make a lot of sense. It would be a gamble, unless they saw a stellar roadmap, but I'd assume they didn't.
But nice that Ms continues to make their stuff available to more people by excluding the biggest platforms in the console space. They really should start being more honest.
Meanwhile I only use ps plus (for a limited time, never really subscribe for more than a month or two to these things) because that's where Yakuza and Dragon Quest is at the moment. So I guess that's the best value in gaming.
I think they'll add most of it. Don't really think they are making that much on Prototype and the like these days.
They could have lied and pretended to love it, but what would be the point then?
It's ok if a reviewer doesn't enjoy a game as much as another reviewer. Shouldn't be rocket science to understand this basic principle.
@RPGer, yeah: 3,4,5,6,7 and judgment are still available for now.
It's only the three first, rest stays for now.
@TheProffesional
Marathon is multiplatform and Activision isn't just COD, it's like 12 studios under the biggest publisher in the entire industry.
It has very good combat a pretty good story and fairly mediocre open world design. Would have been a much better game in a linear setting.
I think it's one of the best games I've ever played. The story and atmosphere is just perfection. Love the journey into the black mountain. And all the little details, was sold by the mirror moment in the beginning.
They doubled down on kinect to get some of that Nintendo Wii money, but with limited succes. Sony kinda did the same with move, but they were better at doing two things at once. So the failure of move didn't really impact the standard games.
Problem with Rrod is that it was something like one third of all consoles. There's also rumours that ms knew of the issues, but powered through becauae they wanted to release one year before ps3.
Some ps3 highlights for me were Demons Souls, Armored Core 4-5, Dark Souls 1-2, MGS4 (though still the worst mgs), Resistance 1 (slightly better than 2, but not much), Persona 4 Arena, Monkey Island 1-2 rerelease, Catherine, Dragons Dogma, Skyrim, Fallout 3 (ish) GT 5-6, and now Im drawing blanks.
Ds was a goldmine, but didn't notice until long after. Wii was also nice, reminded me that I really liked platformers, Galaxy 2 might be my favourite game of the era alongside...
@OhmyGhandi
There is some good stuff, but living through those years it took forever. And most genres that I enjoy were borderline dead because they were deemed "too old". I remember you had to research games beforehand just because there was a risk that they had made some stupid respawn system like in Prince of Persia where you were borderline immortal, because challenge was archaic.
And half the games you list are games that I would deem "just okay...
They had a lot better starting point. A cheap console and Gamepass, and yet it's slim pickens. Might get a big boost if the upcoming games stick to landing.
This is a very slow process, they promised that all games over a certain price point would get a trial. We are nowhere near that point at the moment.
I'm thinking that Silent Hill 1-4 might be realistic at some point. The way things are going they might even remember 0 and Shattered Memories.
But so far they've focused most on Castlevania.
I agree, they've done a good job with Castlevania, still would be nice with 2-3 more collections. Ds games, Chronicles and ps2/n64 games would be nice.
Soon we'll get Suikoden 1-2 and all off Metal Gear. They could do more, but so far they've done more than most. Which is surprising.
But as some mentioned, Capcom does it better. Ms, Square and Nintendo also deserves a mention, they've been good at making a wide variety of stuff available. ...
All the info was available, but I think it was a mistake to have so abstract a backstory and so many similar sounding words for different things. FFX is probably very similar, but I think they did a way better job of setting up the world.
Don't they own all the companies making big budget shooters? Aside from Epic and Bungie.