"Sleeping Dogs was in development as a True Crime game at one point"
"True Crime" was a game series with True Crime: New York and True Crime: Streets of LA.
Sleeping dogs started out as True Crime: Hong Kong. They're not talking about crime games in general.
They created a game that went against traditional narrative structure and took the story in directions people were split on. Some just hatedbthat Joel died while some of the split is honestly people just displeasure in where the story went while some is pure hatred, homophobia and transphobia. The flip side is then some of the defenders started claiming anyone who didn't like the game was one of these and the whole discourse was just a mess.
Some claimed if you didn'...
"Wouldn’t more releases risk the quality of the overall series? More importantly, could the series jump the shark sooner if it keeps pumping out installment after installment? Also, what if Naughty Dog hands off the franchise to another studio?"
Lot of 'what ifs'. I dunno if deciding to take off 5-7 (not including the time already past) years off a franchise solely because they MIGHT screw it up. As they say, you can never hit a bullseye if you don't s...
The fact people are getting that upset over it shows the level of love and detail that goes into ND's craft.
I don't remember seeing this much upset dog talk surrounding Wolfenstein games or Call of Duty.
metacritic user score doesn't even require you to have played the game to leave a review so how can it be reliable?
I could go onto the GoT metacritic on release and leave a 0 if I wanted even though we all know that's nonsense.
Nice screenshots but doubtful it looks that polished. Regardless if you love the games or not, their screenshot marketing has a history or flashing things up. They're more representative of gameplay rather than actual screenshots.
Have a look at the media tab for Far cry 5, also check out 4 and 3:
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"Unfortunately, it seems that the writer has watched too many “arthouse” films. There is now teen drug use, pointless use of excessive violence, forced LGBT references "
" convoluted plot that seems as if it is only for shock-value, and to excite the millenials."
"It doesn’t help that the lead writer’s likeness is actually a character in the game."
"Graphically, it holds up well, however it has not cha...
It's good to see people who actually finished it starting to come to the online discussion and balance it all out a bit better. At the start it was nothing but hate.
Having finished it now it's equal parts funny and frustrating to deep dive into forum discussions on the game and seeing how many people either just hate it because of the start and then just put up a wall or blatantly missed or misinterpreted huge sections and points.
If someone fin...
@legoisawesome
So if like me you own them all, then why care? If Sony tomorrow said "all exclusives are coming to PC via a Playstation App" then it just means I get to support playstation studios through PC regardless.
Next gen all MS exclusives will be on PC and xbox. Great for the consumer and the devs get their games on 2 systems. I can see more PS titles coming to PC after lengthy exclusivity times though.
It's fully voiced with thousands of lines that would need to be recorded based of your decisions and responses. Did people honestly expect to be able to change their voice and/or vocal tone?
I'll be getting a PS5 day 1 but I have never understood this, the mentality of being loyal to a corporation. Even as a kid I always went after great games and could care less where they were. The more great titles gamers get to play the better.
Honest question because I'm actually curious, you say you "felt betrayed when Sony announce HZD to PC.", does this loyalty come from only being able to afford a single system so you feel the need to defend it? Or is...
@Shezgear
But you're not forced too so if they wrote in all 3 killed have family that seek revenge then it would have been a break in continuity for those that let them live. Besides, in the flashback in part 2 we see the dead doctor (Abby's dad) as we were forced to kill him in 1 and then it never shows the other 2 after that, so you could reason they are alive or dead. All we see is Joel puck Ellie off the table and back put of the room.
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@Shezgear
The other 2 were probably nurses or staff trained to be surgical assistance. Abby's farther is a Neuro surgeon which added much more weight and importance. They needed to tie the story to a guaranteed kill to make it work as you're not forced to kill the other 2 in the room.
It could of worked with Marlene's sister angle too, but ultimately would ve the same story anyway of family dying and revenege. Plus I don't think it would hold the sa...
@shezgear
Which other doctor?
I think that's sort of a point/theme in 2 though. Joel (us) saw him as just an NPC, an object between us and saving Ellie. 2 attempts to show the easy dismissal of what we cobsider enemies in order to reach our personal goals and objectives. Kinda makes sense.
They probably chose not to give the optio to kill Ab and Lev to peave possibilities for a sequel open a bit more.
Angry Joes review discussion said the same, that it should of been an option but then he says if they make a part 3 then they can tell us which was canon, which would of just pissed people off all the same.
A Last of us 2 article and no Game-Ur complaint comment?
How odd
Difficulty?
fun
I know right. As someone who tried to complete everything I've started I think most of us in the discussion and forums of games are very much the minority. Watching podcasts and shows with Game executives, industry insiders and game directors have mentioned that on their back end they can see completion of titles and heard multiple times that the completion rate of games by user bases is usually around the 30% mark and if you get 50% then it's doing extremely well.
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