I'll pass. Tried playing Revelations on two separate occasions and on two separate platforms... got bored about two hours in.
A quality 20 hours of gameplay might take me a month or two of off/on gaming. My days of sitting down and burning through a game over a weekend ended when I was 12 years old. I go out to dinner and can easily pay $70 for a dinner for two. It's all relative in the end.
Fantastic homage to a memorable part of the original. The authenticity to the source material is outstanding and blows away all of the pathetic Hollywood adaptations that we've had to endure as fans. The addition of Chris Redfield's original actor AND (separate) voice actor is fantastic! Heck, even the CGI was pretty good given the total budget of $55k to make this.
40 bucks in 2010 is nearly $58 today. https://www.usinflationcalc...
You're fully welcome not to purchase the game. If Nintendo didn't think that there was demand for this product at the $60 price point, they would price it appropriately so. Evidently, $60 is not high enough to scare off the volume they are looking to achieve.
The common fallacy with remasters/remakes, is that folks assume that these are being marketed only to existing fans of the original title. The reality is that for many, it will be their first experience with...
Marvel.... Pass.
This is where Nintendo plays its cards well. If it were Nintendo, they would have a team work on a quick-and-dirty port of Sunset Overdrive to a new platform with minimal enhancements to a) maximize ROI on existing work, and b) gauge consumer demand for the franchise to see if there is future potential. These are relatively inexpensive efforts as most of the fundamental design work, story, etc, is already complete. Which is why you have a variety of revisions available like Luigi's Man...
I actually believe there is value for Sony in doing this. Right now, they are having to run PS3 “streaming boxes” on the cloud, which I don’t imagine is particularly efficient on either end, and having to run proprietary legacy hardware has its limits (repair parts, servicing, etc). If they can release a competent PS3 emulator that runs on PS5 specs, it would alleviate the hardware/streaming burden that exists now.
These all look like pixel-for-pixel ports/emulations.... no remastering or up-rendering, or anything?
I finished Enter the Gecko with 100% back in 1998..... even then it felt rough. Not exactly interested in a straight emulation without some basic cleanup and quality of life improvements (besides rewind and save states).
Exactly. How he’s still in charge boggles my mind. It’s almost as if they believe it is less disastrous to keep the Xbox brand on a slow death spiral than it would be to upset the remaining fanboys over firing him.
Or perhaps there is really no saving the brand and it doesn’t matter who is charge anymore.
I really feel that Game Pass was the "Hail Mary" play that MS banked its entire XBox brand on, and now that it has largely failed to achieve its intended goal/target, are now in full damage control with. I feel like the XBox house is ship that is sinking, and MS is throwing all of its core advantages off the ship to try and salvage what's left....
If Phil Spencer was indeed the brainchild behind Game Pass, most companies would have sacked him by now.
Totally there. With the exception of a few games, I generally feel that games today are full of filler and the experience, even if it is a good one, gets stale after the 10 hour mark and I subconsciously reduce the effort to return to it and finish.
The original God of War is a title that I have never completed. I have gotten about 80% of the way through 3 separate times (original PS2, PS3 Remaster, and Ps Vita version), but I run out of steam at about the same mark and wi...
Game development has just gotten too expensive, and everyone is making nips and tucks to offset the gap.
What people often leave out of the picture is that game development is an internal investment into the business. If a game releases and is successful, it can generate a positive ROI.... likewise, if the game is not successful, it will have a negative ROI.... the losses combine with the gains to generate an overall risk level that a publisher must carefully weigh. And w...
20 million of those are Series-S Gamepass gamers.
Rational discussion is critical in this stage of game development. We are reaching a point now where you need hundreds of artists to make super detailed graphics in a game that most people don’t notice. I can appreciate photorealism, but the “wow” factor is gone for me and it’s not worth the extra time and money to chase diminishing returns.
Shawn is just talking sense. I’m a lifelong gamer and I only finish a fraction of the games that I start because they are too long fo...
Link’s Awakening remake was exhausting and monotonous to me. This looks like a budget spinoff using the same engine (frame rate stutters and all). Nintendo has its game development and budgets down pat and they know how to string out a lot of value from relatively little cost. Kudos to all who like this kind of stuff, but it’s a pass for me.
The Punisher is awesome. Finally home on consoles.
Capcom can only lose so much money on Gamepass at any given time. Have to spread out the Gamepass doldrums.
Appears that publishers don’t want to cannibalize actual game sales by putting it onto Gamepass. Strategy seems to be to release on platforms that people actually buy games for, and then after those sales have dried up, release on Xbox to mop up any remaining interest.
Sounds like a slippery slope for Xbox.
Very misleading. Inflation is a real problem and companies can't simply turn a blind eye to it if they have any ounce of self-preservation in mind. As a dramatic example, if you were running a business, you wouldn't suddenly let someone pay you 50 cents for something that costs $1 just because their country was having some inflation issues.