Yeah, as a company, MS are currently where they should've been at the end of the 360s generation.
I'd say it was inevitable. More interested to see how far off my overall prediction of 60-70 million life time is.
@rainslacker
I refer you to my previous comment:
"Show me once where I said this game "doesn't do anything new". Don't attribute things to me which I never said or a conversation can't be had."
Until you show me you're capable of basic reading comprehension I won't engage in a discussion with you.
@knushwood Butt
"All I get from that is that it is innovat...
I think it's more likely that they're more comfortable developing for two platforms at a time. I doubt the company harbours a deep grudge over scalebound.
@Muzikguy
Another person trying to dogpile while contributing nothing to the discussion.
"Give someone credit.for trying to be different since that's what you claim to want so much anyway. You sound miserable in your rebuttals."
Sorry for hitting a nerve with you for criticizing Death Stranding. In regards to the discussion of this game being innovative everything people have mentioned has been done before. Also I don'...
@sampsonon
I read what you wrote perfectly fine, thank you. It's you whos struggling to justify your claim.
So now Sony's position is threatened by cross-play and cross-progression? And Sonys exclusives are under threat if their system doesn't sell exceptionally well? You're basically claiming that if the system sold lets say 80 million instead that Sonys games would decline in quality, but we've no evidence to suggest that would happe...
@sampsonon
"you say " why does that matter it good for the consumer"
"yes it is if you are not selling 100 million consoles."
So when a console becomes super successful cross-progression becomes less consumer friendly? Wtf is this narrative you're trying to spin? I'm genuinely interested in understanding this crazy logic, lol.
Yeah, I just feel like even with Infinite they decided to fall back and return to Rapture with the DLC. I just hope its not going to be something where the franchise tries a new location, and then ends up falling back to Rapture every time because its a safe option.
@rainslacker
"Just because it has things that are in other games doesn't mean that the game itself doesn't do anything new."
I find myself having to do this far too often with you @rainslacker. Show me once where I said this game "doesn't do anything new". Don't attribute things to me which I never said or a conversation can't be had.
@Knushwood Butt
When you say the online syst...
Many of the best games I've played this generation had outdated visuals, no voiceovers, and no fancy animations. They all had superb gameplay.
A game can be be terrible at numerous elements, but if it's gameplay is spectacular it can earn itself a huge reputation. Multiplayer games prove this time and time again and single player games can follow the exact same playbook. Meh soundtracks, meh visuals, meh story, meh animations, frame rate is iffy in areas.... All tha...
A price cut will absolutely have to be on the tablet if they want to be competitive. That's doesn't have to happen this year, but almost certainly should in 2021.
I also think they'd benefit from being a bit more ambitious in their 2nd party deals.
Wonder if they'll do a new location or return to Rapture.
Played Crysis 3 on PS3, and you need to take off the rose-tinted glasses. The jaggies in that game were an eyesore.
@oldboy
"the games quality, what don't you get?"
The part where the main missions primarily consists of fetch quests, and activating Ubi-towers; the shooting mechanics are a stripped down version of MGS and almost no enemy variety; the stealth is basically weaving through traffic cones that start moving if you get too close; the vehicle mechanics are laughable as something as small as a pebble causes the bike to crash, and you can drive up r...
@oldboy
"I enjoy the driving and the gunplay, I also enjoy the challenge of traversing"
And there it is. The classic "well, I enjoy it" defence. We can all like bad games dude, but you claimed it's quality "can't be denied". Of course when someone comes at you with a point backed with substance you go all quiet.
"Does that help?"
Where did that attitude about backing thi...
@Oldboy
"Easy to throw shade without backing it up knuckles."
Interesting how you can make claims and not back them up, but as soon as someone offers a different view you starting quivering and demanding evidence, lol. How laughable. We can go through the terrible driving mechanics and the awful physics, the shooting mechanics being a stripped down version of MGS, the stealth systems basically being an obstacle course at best, the games lack of ...
@Knushwood Butt
The shooting mechanics, ubi-towers, the vehicle mechanics, the stealth mechanics, ect. Now would you like to name all the things that make this game the most "innovative and fresh" game around?
"Death Stranding is completely new in terms of the gameplay loop"
Fetch quests, resource grinding and Ubi-towers are not at all new in terms of gameplay loops. Calling this game 'completely new' is a huge exaggeration that cant be backed up. In terms of gameplay, the only thing that I can think of that's different is the consequences for death, but even then praising it for that is a stretch as the game is almost incapable of offering any challenge on ...
Actually we have no numbers for either game. We had some early numbers for Days Gone and claims of it doing very well in NA but not much since. We have nothing on Death Stranding other than it getting knocked out of the UK charts far sooner than expected. There is currently no evidence to suggest this games sales hit intended targets.
"If true then I don’t understand why people can’t grasp why people are so ticked off."
Dozens of AAA non-VR games release every year, but all of a sudden VR gets one exclusive AAA game and people lose their shit over it. It's about time a studio, like Valve, stepped up to create high end games built from the ground up for this platform. Disagree? Then you can keep waiting.