@rlow1, I’m not disagreeing with what you are saying but I also think you are still trying to redefine game trials as a demo. Regardless of which service game trials are on, they aren’t demos. Period.
If you want demos over trial access on a service, or demos without a service, you are asking for the ‘trailers’ of a game during a period of roses and rainbows of the gamepass/pspremium era, and few wanted it.
I’m in the understanding that “multiple platforms” actually means more than one platform. So for Microsoft, all games are multiplatform, which doesn’t exactly mean multi console. Microsoft’s strategy is obviously known to them, but some clarification to what franchises would be CONTINUED on multiple consoles post ActiBliz would be appreciated rather than the company giving ‘word salad’ that is open interpretation to ride the time out for the community to juggle until they drop the bombshell, ...
Well you can eliminate Indie games from the equation since MS owned studios aren’t independent developers… They have a parent company, Microsoft.
“A’s” are a measure of budget.
Game trials aren’t game demos. If you’re old enough, you remember what game demos are. But in case you forgot…
Demo is short for demonstration, a small slice of a part of a game. A pre-selected level for demonstration purposes that is intended to reflect the gameplay experience of the whole game.
A game trial is the whole game.
Not an exclusive
I enjoyed Flower more than Journey, but they’re by the same game company. You know, ThatGameCompany
I once met a scientist at my university, like an actual scientist that does big wig data. He said he hated living things, like proudly in class. A 60 year old. It was clear to the class he hated living things, and he was so intimidating few students dared to stop onto his office because he was so smart and he hated you as a living thing. All he cared about was data, and as a student you were just an inconvenience to him that would die at some point. He was my professor, and I didn’t like him....
I think he means the game was too hard for him to finish.
Edit: Wait…. Haha! It went over my head too lol. Finland!
Don’t grind that grain more finer than it is. Be happy with your gaming console and not imagine if you have another. Xbox is having a hard time producing games for the duration of a year. If you don’t play on Xbox, let it go. It’s not your problem.
I feel like this comments section helps distinguish the PS ‘old’ fans from the ‘new.’
SNES was my first console, Christmas morning heaven.
I’ve never played SF but I can understand the delight for trophy support 20 years after.
Just curious, did you miss out on the Killzone and Resistance trilogies?
Bro this was very likely due to a technical error. It was corrected fairly quickly.
If it was intentional based on some evil strategy, it would have taken a better half of a week, to many weeks for a company to reverse course based on community backlash.
Recent examples: PS Store Closing, XB1 DRM, XBL Gold Price hike, etc.
Would it be crazy to think that maybe… it could actually… be a technical glitch that was addressed so quickly to...
No it’s not similar at all. It had nothing to do with activity.
When I joined, you had 3 bubbles per article, meaning I could make an OP comment or response to another user 3 times per article. That was literally it.
So if you were a recognized member of the n4g community, and your comments were for casual gamer conversation on this site (so no fanboy/troll bait), your comment could be ‘liked’ by other users. After enough ‘likes’ of your comment from the...
4 dollars a game in the Ezio collection isn’t bad if you last played them over ten years ago, but now in 4k for some great memories.
MW2 isn’t even a Microsoft game lol. The Activision purchase hasn’t been completed yet
Orchard, you are trying to compare a ‘single’ player games always online requirement to an entire console online requirement.
As you mentioned a DRM issue, but you can actually launch and play some modes offline in that game, which is very different from Xbox console DRM which games cannot even be launched.
You know the always online requirement in your favorite game is to legitimize track times, and most would agree there should be an offline ‘unranked’ ...
Since the 2013 DRM debacle I think it’s safe to say one console manufacturer hasn’t listened, or just really really want to control your gaming box and software after purchase regardless of the ‘pressure’ gamers put on them. Or the manufacturer is hoping gamers forgot about 2013 or blind to it.
Either way I don’t think the ‘Big 3’ need to be listening since 2 of them haven’t perused console and game DRM- and thus those manufacturers have been listening, watching the others ...
Dialogue select is why I can’t stand RPGs. I could only put 10hrs into Zero Dawn and won’t be coming back for the sequel.
It literally makes me want to scream and throw my controller that I have to select dialogue for what could be a cutscene. Could I just watch the cutscene please and not have to click a button until I finally select the right sentence to progress with my mission? Waste of time to me, and if high enough annoyance that I don’t okay RPGs
With the western studios sell-off, I actually did think of someone if not Sony, had acquired Square Enix.
It’s odd for a major publisher like Square to sell their western studios and major IPs, to downsize to their Japanese studios at a time of consolidation in the industry
Same. For a series called The Last of Us, some seem to forget that in a post apocalyptic world most people die without their hands being held. There are incredibly tragic things that happen in the game. It was intended to disturb the player so we feel the pain of the characters and deeper understand their actions throughout the game. I believe some gamers who dislike the story weren't prepared for that experience