One of the crown jewels of Sony's first party lineup before Shuhei foolishly shut the studio down.
Just think how great it would have been to have a Wipeout game from PlayStation's premier racing developer for the launch of the PS4. Instead the whole studio was shut down and priority was given to Evolution Studios, which brought us that mess called DriveClub over a year late.
RIP Studio Liverpool. Hands-down some of the best talent that Sony had, putt...
Regardless of whichever console happened to sell more, the point is that people like Aaron Greenberg should have kicked to the curb when Phil Spencer stepped in to take Xbox in a new direction after the old team had caused so much damage to the brand.
Greenberg embodies everything wrong with the industry today, from the executive level all the way down to the consumer level. He's a miserable fanboy that loves to ignite stupid fanboy wars and doesn't think twice about ...
343 are having so many problems because they're incompetent and seem to be determined to kill the Halo franchise.
Honestly, the best thing that Microsoft can do at this point is shut the studio down and start fresh with a new team (as in, nobody from 343) to take the reigns of Halo before it's too late.
Everybody that loves Halo hates what 343 is doing ever since they were put in charge. It started with their handling of Reach once Bungie left, contin...
I agree, SSX really was one of the best games of last gen, and a really refreshing change from all the realism-centric sports games that flooded the market. It wasn't quite perfect, I feel that some levels simply had too many death pits to be enjoyable, but it was still a gem of a game with a fantastic multiplayer component (score/ghost based rather than actual simultaneous multiplayer).
I'm praying that EA make a sequel at some point because it would be a tragedy to ...
@FriedGoat
That's pure fanboy nonsense, and you know it. Making excuses for one game having the exact same problems as another is absurd.
ANY game that launches broken should be criticized for it, and just because TLOU is a PlayStation exclusive, doesn't mean it should be held to different standards than any other game. Broken multiplayer is broken multiplayer.
Edit: @Gamerbeyond. Yes, TLOU was broken at launch, which is why Naughty D...
Don't you guys feel angry that you've been sold a broken product? Like, does your allegiance to Microsoft override basic common sense and your consumer rights? Are you really willing to handwave away 343's continued ruin of the Halo franchise because you've got to defend Microsoft at all costs?
It just doesn't make sense to me, especially after having seen so many hardcore Halo fans utterly disgusted and furious at the whole situation, and fed up at 343...
If you really are skint and lacking money, why on earth would you spend what little money you do have on the limited edition of a video game for a console you don't own?
That makes no sense.
I'd actually say that just over 1 million units worldwide is shockingly low for a Halo game. Let's not forget that these games usually sell in the range of what, 15 million or so?
Of course, VGChartz aren't a particularly good judge for sales either way considering they literally guess the numbers, therefore the real sales figures could be higher (or maybe even lower).
If HMCC really has sold roughly 1 million copies however, I expect Phil Spencer...
How do you equate what I wrote in my comment to not being able to handle any criticism of GameSpot? That doesn't make any sense. I can only assume something I wrote struck a nerve for some reason and you've felt the need to become defensive?
I just think that greater criticism of games/publishers/developers across the board is a good thing, be it from GameSpot or any other site. I honestly cannot fathom at all why anyone would be opposed to that.
I think the problem is that GameSpot is actively trying to give fair and honest reviews of things as of late, and people simply can't handle it. Would you really disagree with their criticisms of anything lately? Not just the Xbox One here, but also games in general?
I'm actually getting a lot of respect for GameSpot recently because they're no longer dishing out high scores for undeserving games, which I think is commendable. They're calling games/publishers/...
Fanboys will always cry and whine about reviewers not giving their preferred platform high scores, which is ironic given that it shows reader bias more than anything else.
Take GameSpot for example. Bias against Xbox One? Say that to all the Sony and Nintendo fanboys who scream whenever exclusive games for their preferred platform don't get perfect scores and actually receive justified criticism.
Heck, even fanboys of particular franchises and publishers/...
Yeah, I've no idea why anyone would criticize the Xbox controller for needing batteries when the PS4 controller has the worst battery life I've ever seen. Even when you set the lightbar to dim the freakin' thing gives you what, five or six hours of life before you're getting warnings to recharge?! It's appalling.
I don't know why anyone would list The Order as a reason to own a PS4 when everyone who's played it says that it sucks. Until Dawn doesn't look particularly great either, I don't think anyone would even care about that game if it wasn't exclusive.
Bloodborne is probably going to be great, though.
@Septic
I can't help but wonder how Microsoft's confidence in 343 must be waning considering the damage the studio has done to the Halo franchise?
Master Chief Collection is, quite frankly, a tremendous mess, but when you combine that with Halo 4 damaging the brand significantly (putting personal opinion aside and looking objectively at playerbase reaction and dropoff compared to previous entires in the franchise) and how reactions to Halo 5 seem to b...
People won't hand Double Fine money any more after they proved how incompetent they are. They got way more cash than needed for their adventure game and still only delivered 50% (late) and their Spacebase Alpha shut down and was marked as finished before any major advertised features were implemented.
Now when Double Fine does more Kickstarters, people won't fund them since they know they'll never get what they were promised. Double Fine only have themselves to bl...
I hope so, because Killzone Shadow Fall is nowhere near as good as KZ2 or KZ3.
To be honest, I'd rather see PS4 games run at lower resolution to achieve better framerates. I think the drop from 1080p to 900p is worth it to have the game running smoothly since at the end of the day, framerate is a much more important part of the gameplay experience than the resolution.
Yup. Greedy publishers want to force all this online nonsense on customers but they're not willing to invest the cash to create a sufficiently large and stable infrastructure.
Gamers will never vote with their wallets though, they all simply have to have the latest big releases and as such, these problems will only continue to occur and most likely get even worse in the future.
What story?
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Haha if you seriously don't think that 343 will screw up AGAIN after their disastrous handling of Halo Reach post-Bungie, the abysmal COD-wannabe that was Halo 4 and the utter mess that is the Master Chief Collection, then you're a fool.
Besides, look at it, it's Advanced Warfare with a Halo skin. They've literally copied Call of Duty again, this time aping the exo abilities. It's pathetic.
The sooner Phil Spencer shuts this studio down an...