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No, it doesn’t need to be like DOOM. It does need to be like Metroid though, and guess what Metroid, at least the good ones, doesn’t have? Yapping NPCs. The only that had anything close to that, was Other M.
And how many of those games have NPCs that accompany the player, making comments about “interesting things” they should definitely check out?
Because that is the issue. If it were a fixed NPC in a single area, where the player only interacts with them when they want to, that would be a completely different discussion.
I mean, I’m not the most professional player of either. But I likely have more experience than the guy who feels the need to lie on the internet about not seeing bots in his games. ( ͡° ε ͡°)
Of course they would not sell it at a loss. That would be a very bad idea, because unlike consoles, this is not a closed system. People can buy the device and never spend a single dollar on Steam games. So Valve cannot count on making money later like console companies do.
The real question is if Valve is willing to make only a tiny profit, so the final price can stay low for buyers. But even that has limits. Estimatives on the parts inside it, make the device cost around 4...
For those wondering, this is the new Xbox Windows Launcher, essentially Microsoft’s answer to Steam Big Picture and Steam OS. It makes your PC behave more like a console in terms of interface, allowing easy controller-based navigation, which is especially useful for TV-connected PCs and handheld devices. It first launched with the ROG Ally, but is now available to anyone enrolled in the Windows 11 Insider program.
According to tests from some tech channels, it even reduces ...
I haven't played CoD, so I can't really comment on it. But after spending dozens of hours on BF6, I think I understand why it sold so well this time around.The game handles weapons, damage, and on-foot combat in a way that’s very close to CoD. I even booted up Bad Company 2 to make sure I wasn’t imagining things, and yeah, BF6 plays closer to CoD than to its own “bloodline.”
So I can totally see the usual CoD crowd picking it up because it looked interesting, and th...
What makes it even sadder is that if you jailbreak your Switch 1, it actually runs those games better than the Switch 2. Since you can, on the fly, change the rendering resolution and overclock the device to handle it.
I’m currently playing Xenoblade X like that and it’s great, no FPS drops, and even in handheld mode, the game looks very clear. Though, I have to say, I’m still a bit divided on whether I like or dislike the changes they made from the Wii U version. On one ha...
Very unlikely to happen, but I really wish they at least remastered Shattered Memories. From a story telling point, that is still my favourite title and I think it would fit really well as a VR game.
I mean, the issue with MacKenzie isn’t about him specifically. It’s literally because we know there will be more NPCs with that exact same role. Will they vary the delivery? Sure. But the point still stands, their very presence is the problem. It takes away from Metroid’s isolation and exploration aspects.
That kind of NPC is something we expect from Sony’s hand-holding, tell-don’t-show games, not from Metroid.
I really don’t understand Microsoft’s endgame with GP. They must be bleeding users at this point.
The thing about the PlayStation Pro versions is the value. The PS4 Pro was awesome because it cost the same as the normal PS4 when it came out. You got more power for the same money, that was an amazing deal for everyone, fanboys and regular people alike.
But the PS5 Pro is different. It launched $300 more expensive than the regular PS5. So, its value propostion was pretty bad from the get go, it’s basically a device meant only for the hardcore fans.
For those asking “anticipated by whom,” it topped the most-played demos at one of the Steam Fests and was voted the most wanted title at the last PC Gaming Show. So definitely anticipated for a debut indie release.
But apparently, people played the demo and moved on.
I mean, you can, I'm also pretty sure that there is some bias towards Nintendo as well. But DK at least is on the top 3 best critically reviewed games of the year. And this is a critic award at the end of the day.
And again, it doesn't matter. It's not a popularity vote, it's not the Golden Joystick Awards, it's the TGA. A critic-based award. The nominees are picked by critics, and the vast majority of the voting weight comes from critics. So if you want to talk aggregated scores, then talk critic aggregated scores.
Also, come on, PSN reviews? Really? Where literally only fanboys would even bother to write something? The same fanboys who would say anything even remote...
I mean that is bad as well, not selling well, means "why bother making actual good ports, just port for the Switch and upscale it".
That is not what I said. This game was made for the Switch 2, and the version in the video is the native Switch 2 version. But it looks bad because the developers basically just upscaled the Switch 1 version. The only real changes are the higher resolution and better frame rate. There is no extra foliage, no better textures, no volumetric lighting or smoke, nothing. That is why it even looks worse than the PS4 version, because it is basically just an upscaled Switch 1 game being sold as a Swi...
Honestly, this doesn't bode well for the console. Not because it looks like crap, though it does, but because other channels have compared it with the Switch version and concluded that they’re basically the same. The only differences are a slightly higher resolution on the Switch 2 and the fact that it runs at 60fps.
So it’s basically the laziest port possible. And if this does well, developers will just be motivated to do more of this kind of BS.
Those aren’t players, those are Metacritic users. You don’t even need to own the game to give it a score on Metacritic, so it's a completely useless metric to use as an argument. It becomes even more meaningless when you consider that the TGA is not a popular vote award, it's a critics’ award. So if you want to use an aggregated score as an argument for anything, it should be the aggregated critics’ score.
In that case, Blue Prince is literally the second-highest-ra...
I agree that Blue Prince should have been nominated for GOTY. I'm not so sure it should have taken DK’s spot, though, instead, I think it should have replaced DS2. I'm 99% sure that one was only nominated because of who made it.
As for Arc Riders, I honestly don't even know if I’d put it in the Best Multiplayer category. Don’t get me wrong, the game is good, but not because of its multiplayer component. It’s hard to explain, one of those cases where the whole is...
If you think the Switch version models look unique, I have dozens of anime titles to sell to you.