Its been cool to hate on Bethesda since M$ bought them.
I really enjoyed it for what it was and glad there are some studios out there happily doing their own thing with a unique vision rather than just making the game people seem to think they should make. I loved the first one, had a great time with this one and hopefully there will be a third.
They are coming. Game development just takes almost a generation to get a title out now. I reckon they are holding back their titles for a fall PS5 Pro show to really wow.
Industry is in the gutters.
I think it would have, as it would have meant the studio was in a healthy position. What killed this studio over others for definite was almost every meaningful creative force the studio had when they released their previous games had left during Redfalls troubled development. If they hadn't left and released a good game then Microsoft might have made cuts elsewhere.
This studio was dead before they pulled the trigger. It was clear when Zenimax forced them to start making Redfall as a Live service game they had a mass exodus of their talent. When Ralph Colantonio left and set up Wolfeye the studio just bled developers with as much of 70% of the original team gone by Redfalls release. Microsoft just put them out of their misery, and given that they have made almost no significant improvements to Redfall since they released it, shows that there wasn't a...
The two studios had bled talent so I'm guessing they just didn't see them worth saving. Brutal business.
I honestly believe the next gen from Microsoft is going to transition to having 2/3 PC architect box boxes that run an Xbox platform along with Steam, epic or other storefronts of your choice, with one of them being a handheld akin to the steam deck. They are looking to alter the dynamic of the how the console market operates by fundamentally removing the walled gardens. PC gaming and Mobile are the only real growth sectors of gaming so why not have a product line that operates in all of them...
Yeah from 155m PS2's to 88m PS3 to 117m PS4s to 50m PS5 (obviously still more to sell) seems like even the mighty PlayStation with the best lineup has seen no real growth in the last 20 odd years either. Somethings wrong with the industry and you can all bury your heads into the sand all you want.
People seem to have missed that PlayStation has largely stagnated in its client base since the PS2, it's by far the biggest player but in a pool that's not grown significantly since the 2000s
My hope for next gen is a handled xbox to go with a ps6.
For a normal game maybe but this is Square-Enix, they always have insane sale goals for their titles.
You should only really gather the resources to use on your current game session, it really doesn't take that long to fill your pockets from the barrells next to your ship spawn and thats good enough for 99% of sessions. Its more about the loop of exploring, getting plunder and selling it before someone else takes it off you. Storing resources from session to session just isn't really needed.
Stalker!!!
They are rendering in what would be rough for a ps3 game never mind a ps5 game. It's so jarring with how nice everything else is so there's no way they are meant to be that low resolution.
Those rocks in Chapter 2 have to be a bug.
That's missing the point though. Even when you look at Playstation, the market leader, its not really grown the total pool of people buying their consoles. Its just capturing the majority of what has been a fairly stagnant market since the sixth generation.
Total sales across all relevant platforms
6th Gen- 209 Million Total: PS2 155m, Xbox 24m,GC 22m, DC 9m
7th Gen- 273 Million: PS3 87m, X360 84, Wii 101m
8th Gen- 289 Million: PS4 117m, XBO ...
The bigger news is that Sony say they won't be releasing any new existing IP games until March 2025.
As a Brit feel free to make any number of excellent games where we are the villians, based on the atrocities my nation has committed. If it's good I'll still play it and enjoy it.
Global inflation combined with Sony having such a large share of the console market they can do whatever they like and you will damn well accept it.