Oh. Well. I guess it takes a special kind of vision to be President of Microsoft.
Other than the fact that Activision more than overcompensates in sales with CoD, how does Blizzard make money these days? Are there that many people buying mtx's in Overwatch 2? Are there that many people shelling out for the latest WoW expansion? Are the esports for 10 year old games still an advertising magnet?
Seems to me, the layman, that if they have any sense of self-preservation throughout the likelihood of the Microsoft acquisition, they would cut this shit out....
Both are an exercise of taking more money from customers and providing them with less service. Game pass works great as a rental service for gamers on the fence about new titles, or as a way for casual gamers who have no desire to ever own a game to play xbox, and Playstation+ free games are a neat way to think that you're getting a great monthly value as you fork over money to Sony for a subpar online service. Both are charging you monthly to give you nothing except temporary binary data...
Not sure if it's your preface of scoffing at all talk of cultural appropriation (kinda makes it seem like you think minorities are just whining) that explains why you've been downvoted so heavily, but you've actually identified the exact reason why minorities claim cultural appropriation. You understand how it works if it's framed in the context of video games, so just extend that out a bit further to the rest of the world. But I'm pretty sure you've been downvoted bec...
While everyone here is lamenting gamespot trashing their favorite culture war proxy, I'm sitting here wondering why the hell N4G is pushing a review for a game that's been out for weeks. You've all been baited into another JK Rowling argument.
Game reviewing as an exercise is inherently subjective. Games are a form of art, and everyone has differing tastes. Biased or not against Rowling, it's their take. Why do they need to issue a retraction?
Arbitrary number of games from a system known for hundreds of classics? Beyond oversaturated content offering? Intentionally semi-controversial for rage-comments from bored nerds that eat up this kind of low effort content? Smells like a slow news day to me!
Just buy GTA4 on 360, pop it into any xbox.
The licenses for the music are all expiring and R* isn't renewing them. A remaster/remake would have none of the music you remember. Remaking a game that exists on a modern HDMI capable console is just a waste of plastic.
@VenomUK misogyny? Nice deflection. While yes, game reviews should be only about the game itself despite the horrendous views of the franchise's creator, you can't deny that there are enough people that care about Rowling's words and actions that it's now relevant to the marketing of the game.
That being said, from what I can tell from the game and its players, is that it's a paint-by-numbers open world game with nothing innovative, capitalising on mill...
"Outlandish free speech" is a myopic take on what R* does with their games. Sure, that's still the order of the day, but there's a point to the dialogue in the games. They're not just dropping hard n-bombs for the sake of being edgy, they're creating raunchy scripts that generally have some kind of relevant satire in them.
If you think that GTA is toned down now, I would ask what you truly mean by that. In what way is GTAV toned down over Vice City...
I would argue that the potential for a quality follow up to Bully never existed. The first game, despite not having any of the controversial content that conservatives and concerned parents were clutching their pearls at, was a one off. It was created during the absolute height of Rockstar popularity thanks to creative direction from Dan Houser (remember how utterly amazing R* games were in the mid 00s?). R* has always maintained some degree of cultural relevance while conceptualizing their g...
If we've explored every single last theme in horror, to the point of post-modern self-reference and remaking every single last game that did even moderately well in sales, then I guess that's that. Horror these days is 4K jump scares.
Sorry, this is hot on the heels of the previous article that said that Nintendo will not be pricing their games @ $70 going forward. Excuse me if the contradiction is met with dismission.
You Americans need to realize that prices go up over time. You can't have $60 games forever. Adjusted for inflation, we were spending over $100-150 for a SNES or a 64 cart back in the day, now you expect AAA experiences on modern hardware for no more than $60. It's unsustainable.
My layman's assessment would be that it would seem theyre going to release all 3 Primes remastered, THEN announce a release date for 4. Or 4 is cancelled.
We uh... kind of forgot about 180 quick turns. They must have played the original, and just decided for their near 1:1 remake, they just wouldn't have that feature. Uh huh.
James Gunn came in WAY too late to do anything of value for WB. The DCU was DOA even when Man of Steel dropped. No story bible, no overarching plot, no relatable characters. You can't create a pantheon of godlike, charisma-devoid, acted-like-cardboard characters and expect people to throw money at you like they do to Marvel products. Even kids can see through the half-cocked world building and terrible CG. Also, the implication that Gunn was the saving grace for the ENTIRE DCU? Yeah, sure...
Kill the whole franchise. The story is over. Anything more at this point from a different developer is just cynical money grabbing because people develop parasocial relationships with fictitious characters and you can easily exploit people if you can bypass their logic centers and tickle their emotional response. It's not like they can create an original story that doesn't rely on all of the pre-established Uncharted story-telling tropes that were tired in Uncharted 3 and felt like pa...
Who's we?
I don't understand how Gamespot/Wired/etc are hypocrites. They have been long-time supporters of the LGBTQ+ community, and they made it known that they take ideological Umbridge with a game that directly financially contributes to hate groups in the UK. Kind of hard to reconcile that against the themes of inclusion within the WW. Seems more like JKR is the hypocrite.
Truly, your opinion this long after release just reeks of "nananana transphobia is normalized, get ...