«Power of the Cloud» marketing fluff is back, huh?
I'm afraid of this, though - «The game is always running and it’s always possible to update pieces of that game». Judging by Ubisoft quality standarts, when you visit "updated area", all you'll see is «Loading new terrain, 0kb / 5gb». And it also might lead to some areas being marked as "currently in development" on release. Don't see any positive things from thi...
If GTA V has only entered the arena, then Resident Evil 4 is the final boss probably
@OtterX
Thanks, i hope so too. And a lot of people do too, no one really wants what's going on. I mean, what that's going to solve? Nothing at all...
This constant «russians are to blame, ban them, block them» narrative (without separating russians into who's actually to blame and regular people, who just want to leave in peace) is making a lot of russians paranoid and afraid.
Sorry if i was sounding like i'm b...
@OtterX
No offence, but it's very easy to give such advices, sitting at your home.
If you're being put in jail just for simply protesting (even standing alone with a blank piece of paper), you do understand what'll happen to you for insurrection? We have a lot of police forces and army. And they're ready for anything. I can't risk my family loosing their only income (me). And i can't even move my family out of this, because air tra...
I agree it's a good game. Though, *spoiler* i didn't like that it was all involving Joker, again *end spoiler*. And after Arkham City, i guess, a lot of people expected more changes, at least i heard a lot of people saying "I was expecting more from this game". And i remember quite a few bugs.
Multiplayer was trash, though, IMO. At least i never got it to work properly (lags, falling through floor, frequent disconnects). And they abandoned it rather quickly.
@OtterX
If you'll got out and protest, you'll be put in jail and lose your livelihood. Which in current times is pretty much a death sentence.
@princejb134
Russia receives most of it's money from selling oil and natural gas. And it's still selling it to EU and US. At the higher price (up to 3x/4x for gas in Netherlands, for example, up to +0.8 eur per liter for petrol). No one is stopping that. Not to mention the whole hypocrisy.
I guess, by «nice out» you mean «move out»? If you do, then you're probably trolling. Because you can't leave Russia through the air right now (because air traffic is being blocked and airplane manufacturers forbid to use their aircrafts by russian companies) or roads. And EU/US do not give visas anymore to russian people.
And how will that solve anything, by the way? Remember that movie, «Memento»? It had an interesting message, «...
@alb1899
You have no idea how this works in Russia or what is going on, don't act like you do.
To most of the russian people, it's not Putin who took away their favorite game, world cup, olimpic, movies and so on. It's the west (Europe/UN/NATO and United States). Because people think that turning the blind eye to the situation will suddenly fix it. It wouldn't, it will actually make it worse. If you want more people to wake up, you have to...
Why though? This Christian Dailey got nothing under his belt*. Casey Hudson, on the other hand, was responsible for Mass Effect 1-3 games and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (and others, but he was a project director for those).
* "He had worked as the Franchise Development Director of Anthem Live Service" - taken from Anthem wiki. I don't think he or anyone else should be proud to be a part of Anthem.
What should go away is publisher launchers, like Battle.net, Uplay, EA launcher and so on. They're useless and you're forced to use them. Want to play Blizzard game? Install Battle.net. Even with Uplay and EA, if you buy the game on Steam, game still installs and uses their launcher on the background.
I can understand why smaller launchers might be troublesome, i remember buying a game on Desura, playing it, then few months later, Desura is gone and so is my game pu...
What happens with "your" games if you'll get banned at the service, which might happen for any reason, by the way, from fair (like using stolen cards) to idiotic (like "being toxic" or disrespecting someone else's pronounce)?
What happens if your internet stops working?
What if your government and/or service provider will block either related services (like auth or trading servers) or whole service? That slowly happens all over the world, by the w...
No offence, but:
«- For instance, gliding, yes other games had made gliding for sure but BOTW was the first to implement it in an open world, aside from the fact that you can climb anywhere at any height so you can glide.»
That's false. Infamous, Prototype, Just Cause 1-3, Saints Row 4, Sly Cooper games, Batman Arkham games, Spider-Man games from PS2 era all had climbing anywhere + sliding/gliding. You can argue about climb everywhere in a fantasy setting and y...
So, Breath of the Wild was the reason why Halo: Infinite had terrible story (or rather, story with nothing interesting happening, every interesting thing happens either behind the scenes or after the main game), boring open world with same few types of activities and such small enemy variety? Good to know.
P. S.: According to the article, Halo Infinite took "creative gameplay" from BotW. And new Horizon will take, and i quote, «Horizon Forbidden West has its ...
Yeah-yeah. And BioWare, as Wilson said, «is an incredible studio filled with incredible people who do incredible work». Like Anthem.
I never thought i would say this, but i miss their previous CEO, John Riccitiello. At least under his leadership EA was releasing quality titles. Now it's just same low quality boring mess.
Microsoft have opened the Pandora's Box, looks like. I usually praise Sony for building the relations with a studio, then acquiring it, like how Sony did with Housemarque, Insomniac, Sucker Punch, you name it. Not just buying some random studio, just 'cause.
Now gaming scene will start to consolidate more and more with each passing year, soon we will be left with a few huge corporations (including shitty ones, like Tencent) owning 99.99% of the studios. It will not ...
@SlappingOysters
«Firstly, the whole point of NFTs is that you do still get them even if the game closes or the exchange shuts down.»
Firstly, i recommend you checking the "MetaBirkin" situation (there're probably more if you google that, but it's the most recent one). Yeah, blockchain still has a record that you bought an item, but it's unusable, you can't even show a link to a product you paid for.
Secondly, ...
There are no positives from NFTs though. You have to pay for them with real money either way (buying new or re-sale). They don't guarantee you anything. As soon as the coin, exchange or the game are closed down, there goes your NFTs out of the window.
And it will be bad. It'll be like microtransactions, nowadays first and usually the only working thing in games is that damned in-game store.
It might be probably tolerable at first (though, i doubt even that)...
What about Binary Domain?
But players can still be killed, that has a huge negative impact on impressionable minds. Star Wars Battlefront II and fully invincible players on the other hand is a masterpiece. If no one can die, there are no losers either. Such a bliss! Too bad toxic players want that to be fixed...
P. S.: ƃuᴉʞoɾ ɯ,ᴉ
If you want to get a taste of what to expect, check their previous title, The Council. It's not a perfect game, but at least they done something to improve the formula. Story is mostly pretty good and you have a lot of choices with skill checks. There are puzzles, multiple endings. It might also be boring and slow at first, but once you get into it, it'll be very enjoyable (at least, it was for me).
*spoiler*
Some endings kind of suck, IMO