Purchase and shut up!
Dissappoints and Xbox come frequently in the same phrase for some reason.
it can run most available games decently right now, until games are nearly unplayable on it, i don't see any reason for SD2 tbh.
Really, i laught out loud when people call BG3 woke, it's possibly one of the most libertarian games ever created.
Just for one reason, the game gives you near complete freedom to do whatever you like, freedom to become whoever you want, have whatever friends you want, love whoever you like. That's pure, complete liberalism.
The moment you can create a typical white dude, and romance a sweet, traditionally beautiful character like Shadowheart, thi...
Nope, i've played BG3 for more than 100 hours, and BG3 is not a woke game, it's a game with mostly optional woke elements, that's not the same. In BG3 you can be any kind of person, race, gender and type, you can carry with you whoever characters you like or not, romance any character of any gender, and so on. For example, you can play the classic white warrior guy and romance Shadowheart, which is the classic feminine girl, you can't get more unwoke than that.
And yet again the law of "go woke go broke" never fails, few companies are more woke than Don't Nod, from Banishers aka "Ghostbusters girl boss simulator", to life is strange 2 aka "i can destroy the evil border wall with my superpowers!" to Life is Strange True Colors aka "body positive protagonist can see your feelings!", Tell Me Why aka "my mother want to kill me because i'm transgender!" ,the list goes on and on, this was going to ...
So the character design that made the franchise a success, is now outdated for reasons. What a shame Bioware has become, not that it's anything new, this game has Star Wars Outlaws trainwreck written all over it, i wonder how long will it be until the we hear about the Bioware layoffs, David Gaider the first of them, and the sad part is that i won't care at all.
You don't give players what they want, they don't purchase your games, plain and simple. Nobody asked for a cartoony graphical redesign, boring gameplay and combat, and a game that doesn't respect it's own universe and lore.
Starfield looks bad compared to almost any average UE5 game and its only going to get worse, their engine has given a good service but now it's behind the times now, it feels like both game design and graphics are being hampered to keep supporting and ancient and dated engine that can only be patched and tweaked so far.
Terrible timing to release an over expensive remake of a great but not extraordinary game. This is the kind of game that could do well in summer or at the beginning of the year, but in October with tons of great games being released, it's not a good idea.
They've burned billions of Windows money purchasing everything and they're still losing, even to the worst Sony generation i can remember, it takes some merit to fail so bad.
Looks like the need to do something after wasting 850 million in Skull and Bones engine and assets, and it looks like an AC4 remaster can use a ton of them.
Sounds like an excuse for yet another exclusive developer like Ubisoft running like a bat out of hell from EGS back to Steam after terrible sales, last time i heard Baldur's Gate 3 sold like hot cakes, but it released on all platforms and no Epic walled garden to limit their sales. Perhaps the problem is not AAA games but limiting the platforms it's released on, since well, Steam is a 132 million active users market, so not releasing there can, surprisingly, hurt your total sales pret...
It's that sweat in your eyebrows Guillermot? Hmm things not looking good, next time listen to gamers for once...
Also love that AC Shadows is coming day 1 to Steam, so the brilliant idea of not releasing games on Steam worked well too I presume? I thought Ubi Connect was doing really great and EGS was amazing so no need for Steam at all, so that didn't work too well either.
I don't know if it's the right decision but it's a risky decision for sure. You have a succesful franchise will a loved main character, any franchise in any genre, games books cinema etc, changing the main character is always going to be a high risk, just like if you change Neo in Matrix, Kratos in GoW, Vin Diesel in 2F2F, Lara in Tomb Raider, Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible etc. The game has to be truly outstanding for such a move to succeed, time will tell, because historica...
That's not reason enough for not letting them fall, at this point they promote non-owned, sometimes dissapearing, buggy, crappy over-expensive AAAA games with generic open world checklist games filled with political agenda. Let them burn i say, they are a perfect example of everything wrong in the industry and they should fall at this point.
I still remember the early Ubisoft with Rayman games, Beyond good and Evil, Splinter Cell games, Rainbow Six games, Ghost Recon AWF, Valiant Heart, Child of Light, Rayman Origins and Legends, Prince of Persia trilogy, etc it was such an amazing company, such incredible games and creativity, how could they destroy it so badly?
Their stock is on free fall, another huge release going bad could possibly take them out of the stock market completely and even expose them to a hostile acquisition, so they're avoiding that.
I don't know looks more like a glorified texture pack.