@FinalFantasyFanatic; While I love the 90's as much as anyone, and while I oppose this BS and nonsensical unnecessary censorship from Sony these past few years, it's completely false to insinuate the 90's didn't have its fair share of OTT BS censorship. Many cartoons and videogames were heavily censored back then. Think Dragon Ball, Batman TAS, Mortal Kombat on SNES, etc etc. Most Asian movies released in the West were heavily butchered as well.
Well, if your consoles and games are barely found in any stores any more, of course you're gonna struggle finding consumers ...
Yeah, I'd love that, or any modern Asian city for that matter. Hong Kong could be amazing as well. Just let the disaster' hit in modern times or 10 years into the future, and then set the game 25-30 years orso from now ...
It's obviously never gonna happen since Sony killed the game and studio, but Driveclub. Even in its current state, 10 years after release, it still puts many competitors to shame ...
If they just respect the SP experience (complete, no MTXs, no nickel & dime crap, etc) , as they have done so well with their SP games so far, then I trust them to deliver a SP game I'll enjoy.
I hope they just keep building on Mario Kart 8; Add a track-creation tool, and probably open it up to more Nintendo IPs with new tracks and characters, so Metroid, Punch Out, Starfox, Animal Crossing, etc etc.
They want you to believe their nonsense about development cost being sky-high and taking weeks/months, and then you have unpaid folks who do this all for free as a community-service and just because they enjoy creating and sharing stuff, and they come out with gorgeous new outfits and skins etc etc, within days.
So free mods expose the BS these companies spout in order to justify their excessive greed.
Well, for starters, I'm sure there are plenty of games I never bought which did, somehow, still, meet their sales-expectations.
Concerning Dead Space; I never played and thus cared for the original. It's in multiple genres (shooter, sci-fi, horror) I don't particularly care about so it was barely on my radar pre-launch. I was never its target-audience.
When reviews hit, and it was scoring big, it gathered my interest, so while it wasn't in...
Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.
Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.
A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'fol...
I don't know if sales met their expectations or not. I just know that the high review scores received my attention so I was interested in buying it, but its price stayed high (50+ bucks) for so long that I simply never bothered picking it up.
Driveclub is one of my favourite games of all-time, but once Sony killed it, it's barely playable in offline; Leaderboards are obviously gone so one of the things I liked to do most in the game, Time-attack, is now pretty pointless, and every race you start there's a red text on thr screen telling you you're offline.
There honestky was no need to keep the offline so integrated with the online stuff, and it's made me wary of other games which are now 'al...
Not sure if 'the engine' was the cause of the problem for why Starfield failed.
Seems to me that what Starfield had to offer just wasn't very interesting, in terms of locations, characters, story, and perhaps even core gameplay ...
If those are your main issues, then it doesn't really matter all that much which engine is running the show ...
Not saying they shouldn't upgrade/change their engine btw; Clearly they sho...
I really miss games like Project Gotham Racing and Driveclub, which were games which weren't sims (obviously), but also not 'arcade' like the NFS games where you had boost-functions and could bounce of walls and everything.
It was the so-called 'sim-cade' genre, so you still had to drive (relatively) clean and well in order to stand a chance to win the race, and your opponents offered a good challenge.
These days it seems all we have ...
I don't buy incomplete games so my self control is fine, but it's disappointing that in order to experience and enjoy a full game, you pretty much have to wait a few years until they release a complete edition, if they ever will, and if I'm still interested in the game by then.
These are increasingly depressing times in terms of buying full priced games and then just getting nickel & dimed to the bone by these shamelessly greedy devs.
Was impressed with the Tekken 8 demo but so glad/relieved I didn't pick it up ...
The excuse "Oh, we NEED to do this so we can keep supporting this game is such obvious BS, it's actually offensive in itself ... "
I think they could get away with 500 bucks if they're releasing a truly impressive next-gen console, hardware-wise, and I think they would/could sell it if they're smart enough to just do a very attractive bundle, so 2 controllers plus 3-5 games. Doesn't have to be the newest games, but some quality stuff that offer a nice varied introduction.
But, knowing MS, they'll think they can just bundle it with GP Ultimate and they'll believe that will get them t...
It (series X) currently has a bundle in Hong Kong where it's bundled with Forza Motorsport, Dragons Dogma 2, and 3 months of Ultimate, and tbh, with the direction Xbox has been heading (focus on subscription, current/upcoming lack of must-have exclusives, now a digital-only Series X announcements, and rumours of them releasing a new, more powerful console in the near future so they can leave Series S behind (which has kinda kept developers from truly using the power of the Series X becaus...
Battlefield fans just want Battlefield to be Battlefield. Which means a focus on Conquest-mode (5/6 flags), some gorgeous and fun maps to play on, 4 balanced classes, and that's it.
The suits keep wanting to turn Battlefield into everything else BUT Battlefield, so first they wanted BF to be more like Call of Duty, so they copied a bunch of stuff from CoD. Then they wanted to take advantage of the Battle Royale stuff, so they went after that crowd. Then they saw the her...
I'd rather see them keeping the base-game's price at 60-80 bucks for 3-4 years, and then supporting it with free new updates (characters. stages), instead of the current way of releasing a game, then immediately nickel & diming us with season passes while the base game goes on deep sale within months because as soon as DLC hits you're dividing your player-base between haves and have-nots, and thus the have-nots are now looking at an incomplete game where numerous characters an...
Looking forward to this. Hades is easily one of the best games of last-gen. Just hoping they nailed the characters again in Hades 2, because they were fantastic in the first game.
It will be very hard to top.Zagreus as a main character btw.