I should have known not to get my hopes up. It’s my own fault. They’re talking about things like ‘community’ and ‘years of support’, but all I want is just a good SP career mode and a fun gorgeous city to skate around in. I have zero interest in sharing some online city with dozens or hundreds of other players, probably filled with ads and branded gear.
Again, this is on me. It’s EA. I should have known better.
Gawd, I wish the Mona Lisa would have had some product placement on there, Leonardo could have gotten filthy rich and gotten a boat and retired somewhere …
It’s a move that has lots of potential, considering the Nintendo IPs. Obviously Zelda would make a great anime, but you could also have shows around Mario Kart, Metroid, etc. If they’re ambitious and have the talent, they could bring out some amazing shows.
Leave it to Sega to take something people love; 5 classic and great 2D Sonic the Hedgehog games, have the bright idea to put them in a collection in HD for current consoles, plus extras, and then decide they’ll rush the release by pushing it out before devs are ready, and ruin the release with strange out-of-place DLC-greed, souring the experience for everyone involved.
Classic Sega.
This could, and should, have been perfect, and yet they botched it.
The collection is tempting but after the well publicized greed by Sega and the devs’ complaints about how the game was released in a less than satisfactory state, I’ll be waiting for a deep discount and/or a Plus/Complete release which fixes the wrongs of this release.
If it would have been a SP action-adventure game like the first one, I would have been excited.
Well, there’s supply issues with the new-gen consoles, there’s a lack of truly new-gen game releases coming out, there’s Sony now insisting on keeping their exclusives at 70-80 bucks, and for a longer period of time, there’s the Switch which is kinda on its last legs, and of course we have a whole bunch of different issues going on in the real world which means more and more people have less disposable income these days, so we’re all thinking twice about what to spend it on.
Really hoping the game will feature all parts of Hong Kong, and not just Hong Kong Island.
It’s a racing game, and the roads/locations are far more interesting away from HK Island (Lantau Island, New Territories mostly).
Sonic The Hedgehog for me. That just completely blew me away in every imaginable way. It was on one of those big CRT TVs as well, so flawless pixel-greatness, fantastic music, a cool character, and fluid gameplay in gorgeous colorful worlds we had never seen before.
I’d recommend Battlefield 4, Battlefield V, Battlefield 1, Battlefield 1943, Star Wars Battlefront II, etc, before I’d even consider recommending 2042.
While I agree with the criticism of Sega’s incompetence and greed, once again on full display here with Origins, which SHOULD have been a comfortable slam-dunk for them, but yet again they mess it up somehow, let’s not pretend Nintendo is that much better when we just saw them phoning it in with 3 lazy ports of Mario 64, Sunshine and Galaxy (1), charging full price and making it a limited physical release to boost up FOMO hype …
Considering Battlefield 4 is a far superior game, it’s not that crazy.
If EA decides to be generous and makes all the DLC maps for BF4 free and throws them into rotation on their official DICE servers, I bet the game would gain thousands of active players again overnight. Right now DLC maps are an abandoned wasteland because too many folks don’t have them, thus empty servers, so nobody would buy them either.
Not sure if that’s a big positive, considering that often games get pulled from digital stores after a few years because the rights to the licensed music runs out …
Personally, I’d rather see them abandon 2042 completely, cut their losses, and then going back to Battlefield basics and just giving us a Battlefield game; 32 vs 32 players. 10/12 gorgeous fun medium-sized 5/6 flag Conquest maps. 4 well-balanced classes. That’s it.
Just keep it simple, guys. It’s not rocket-science, nor should it be.
No ‘Seasons’. No ‘specialists’ or ‘heroes’, no ‘battle royale’.
Just a game. 60 bucks. Working. Fun. ...
They’re way overthinking this; We just want Battlefield to be Battlefield. That’s it.
We don’t need ridiculous large maps. We don’t need hundreds of players on that same map at the same time. We don’t need ‘heroes’/‘specialists’, we don’t need battle royale modes or whatever.
We just need 2 teams, 32 players each, a couple of gorgeous fun Conquest maps, 5/6 flags on each map, and 4 balanced classes.
That’s it. That’s all Battlefield ne...
I hope they’ll have the Japanese voices included this time …
We just wanted Sonic Mania 2 and Sonic & Sega All Star Racing Transformed 2, Sega. What are you doing to yourselves?
I swear, the suits at Sega are utterly clueless.
“It's just cosmetics”.
Yeah. Stuff that we used to unlock in-game, for free, by playing the game, and enjoying the sweet rewards for doing so.
Which is now behind a paywall, because you decide to nickel & dime your fans/customers for these ‘just cosmetics’.
Is it worth it?
@Army of Darkness: I think many of us have complained about Nintendo’s ridiculous pricing for many MANY years, while Playstation used to be the system to go to if you just wanted to enjoy gaming, because there were lots of great games available at affordable prices.
Now that it seems that Sony/Playstation wants to place itself in the market more as a ‘Premium’ brand, so higher prices, and games stay expensive for much much longer, of course many of us are going to complain,...
Trailers look nice, but gawd, do I hate Day 1 DLC. You’re enthusiastic about a game, you go out of your way to make sure you buy it at launch and support the devs, and you end up paying full price for a game which isn’t actually full, because you start it up and they’re nickel & diming you for content which was created to be included in the game, but is taken out for no other reason than to sell it separately, because they know they can.