I know, get paid thousands [if not tens of thousands] of dollars to develop a game that you apparently hate. Also, don’t devs often get free copies of the games they develop ?
This person is boycotting a billionaire who simply doesn’t care at this point. J.K. Rowling is rich, still has millions of fans, and Hogwart’s legacy will sell millions of copies.
Hogwart’s Legacy seems to be a good game. It’s also unfortunately, being unfairly attacked due to its association with J.K Rowling. There are literally people attacking streamers online for playing his game, and discussion of the game is even being blocked on some forums.
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I’m not getting Hogwart’s, due to the fact that I don’t like the Harry Potter franchise. I read the first few book [up to the Goblet of Fire] and saw the first film in theatres. However, ...
Amazon, Google, Apple and MS all over hired due to the pandemic boom.
Even with archaic visuals, and minimal development effort, Pokemon games can easily sell 20 million in less than a year.
I hope the Orks are in Space Marine 2, as they are a funny yet menacing enemies.
Hyperbole, we are only 1 month into 2023. There will be several well reviewed AAA in 2023.
Oddjob is was hated for being extremely short and hard to shot in the game. Oddly, in the films Oddjob is like 5’10 and not a dwarf. The timesplitters series solved the character height issues of Goldeneye by giving smaller characters low health and faster than average speed.
There is some significant licensing involved with releasing Goldeneye 007.
Roiland is simply paying the price for his actions. He will likely be blacklisted for so time. Why has the same been done to Ezra Miller? A person who has much more accusation and charges.
Shooters that gets a similar or lower metacritic score to 343i Halo games seem to get less bashing, due “fan” and media biases. E.g. people where saying the the Coalition should develop Halo, despite the Coalition’s Gears of a war titles games not reviewing better 343i’s Halo games. Halo Infinite actual has a similar critical reception to Doom (2016), Doom: Eternal and Titanfall 2. It also has better reviews than the recent CODs (e.g. Vanguard, Cold War, MW (2019) and MW (2022) games too.
Cutting Warzone, dozens of weapons, enemy classes, several vehicles and even well received maps (Regret and Plaza) from 5 was a mistake. You’re expected to build off and refine your template, which 343i did to an extent. However, you shouldn’t just throw out stuff due to criticisms.
Then who would develop Gears? Not mention both Studios be rampantly criticized for abandoning their respective franchises.
Based on Ragnarok’s ending [and overall narrative] Kratos wants to become a benevolent steward of the Nordic realm. He intends to help the people rebuild. He is also old and tired of fighting. Conversely Atreus wants to to travel the world to find out more about the Jotunn and also embrace his adventurous nature. Therefore, I think a successor series to God of War could follow Atreus, with Kratos being a background character.
Doom (2016) and Doom: Eternal may have rejuvenated oldschool areas shooters, had either game launch with no load out TDM.
I enjoyed it. However, it’s the only Devil May Cry game I have ever fully played through.
Since Beyond Good and Evil 2 was teased in 2008, I obtained two degrees and found a career. Taking your time and not rushing things perfectly fine. But, time-and-time again we scene games with excessively long development and multi-year delays collapse.
The Series S has a more advanced GPU, faster RAM and a much powerful CPU. It should obviously outperform the PS4 Pro.
Red Dead Redemption 2, GTA 5, and The Witcher 3 have more interactive, dynamic worlds than Elden Ring with easier to track quests. Elden Ring open world is far from perfect. At times it’s confusing. Boss are repeated with questionable balancing and a lot of the dungeons are redundant.
It’s odd that Samus has a realistic looking face in Metroid Prime 1. In the sequels Samus’ face is cartoony, if not anime inspired. A lot of work was put into this remaster. Effects, models, environments etc. have all been redone.