A survival spaceship game sounds like it could be a lot of fun, but there's no way I'm playing any game that's tied to blockchain.

Darks wrote on Sep 4, 2024, 22:37:
I honestly don't know how much further PC Gamer can fall. Their reviews are utter shit. They are actually saying the graphics are not that great. I mean, everyone else is praising the game and graphics. what a bunch a shit heels PCG has become. And why I no longer have any respect for them or their reviews.

The same reviewer, Robin Valentine, gave Hellblade 2 a 58, which is absolutely ridiculous. I'm guessing his review of Space Marine 2 is equally so. I certainly won't be reading his reviews in the future.

Sad to see another old and storied developer get forcibly closed. I'll always remember the fun times I had playing their early games.

I thoroughly enjoyed the game and was glad I purchased it. Hopefully they'll continue to release new content for it.

Simon Says wrote on Jun 23, 2024, 16:35:

Desalus wrote on Jun 23, 2024, 14:47:
I read a few of the user reviews and the difficulty sounds awful to me. It makes me wonder how it gets such great reviews from journalists. At what point does a FromSoftware game's difficulty negatively impact journalist reviews?

At what point does a Disney's production radical propaganda negatively impact journalist reviews?
So far, we haven't found that point yet it seems. *cough* The Acolyte *cough*
I guess it's the same for your question.

It depends on what review aggregator you're looking at. On Metacritic, the Star Wars reviews more accurately represent the quality of the shows (in my opinion). The Book of Boba Fett: 59, Ahsoka: 68, The Acolyte: 67.

This DLC on the other hand, despite its performance issues on the PC and its difficulty level, has a 94 on Opencritic and a 93 on Metacritic for PC. How objective are these journalists being when reviewing this game?

I read a few of the user reviews and the difficulty sounds awful to me. It makes me wonder how it gets such great reviews from journalists. At what point does a FromSoftware game's difficulty negatively impact journalist reviews?

I must have missed something...Why is all but one human in the trailer bald?

I think many JRPG fans were very pleasently surprised to see this during the Xbox showcase. It certainly looks like it has the potential to be a good game.

That video was a very odd with the juxtaposition of the rock music and silly tone with the game's jungle tribal theme. Made me quite disinterested in the game.

There's no need to watch Fury Road before Furiosa. If anything watch Fury Road after Furiosa because it will feel like the actual conclusion to the character's story.

Furiosa was good, but not nearly as good as Fury Road (which is my favorite action movie). If you enjoyed Fury Road, I would definitely go see Furiosa in theaters.

FrostyRei wrote on May 30, 2024, 00:17:
I traded my PS5 for a Series X specifically to switch to Game Pass and escape Sony's overpriced service, as well as leave PlayStation for its total lack of exclusives this generation. I have been a full on PlayStation fan since 1, but 5... A let down. Sony have dropped the ball on this. I grew tired of watching Microsoft introduce some great AAA games onto Game Pass and see new ones coming soon, including exclusives. As for PS Plus: you pay $€15 for Extra and still don't get everything, for that you pay more for Premium. Game Pass Ultimate, you get it all for a lower price than Sony's Premium service. I just bought Ultimate for €26, 4 months service (1 month free), while Premium costs triple that. I'm happy to have left Sony.

It's refreshing to hear this from someone else because so often the narrative is that PS has all the good exclusives and Xbox hasn't had anything good for the past decade. I'm one of the few odd people who have preferred Xbox's first party exclusives to Sony's.

Bub wrote on May 30, 2024, 06:57:
Marketing has sold "Convenience" as in reducing the participation in selecting games from many individual decisions to one binary decision. The fact that you might only play a small number of the games offered by a subscription and that you might have played more games if individually selected from a broader set of choices, is skillfully buried by marketing.

I think the general sentiment from Game Pass subscribers, including myself, is that we play a lot more games and many different games than we would have without the subscription. Because of Game Pass I've played countless games that I never would have directly purchased.

yonder wrote on May 7, 2024, 14:27:
Before burning MS at the stake I'd like to know more.

Outside of ex-Arkane developers pissed about Arkane Austin's closure, the anger and surprise in the community is centered around the closure of Tango GameWorks. Obviously, there's internal reasons for closing the studio that we are not privy to, but from an outsider's perspective it looks like MS is closing one of its best studios. I have no idea how well their games have sold, but if I had to guess, not well enough to justify keeping the studio open. If MS had been more transparent about why they are closing the studio they probably could have avoided at least some of the anger from fans of the studio.

Outside of developers, I don't think anyone is that upset about Arkane Austin. The studio was a shell of what it was, due to departures, and then they released a shit game. It's been a year later and yet there is still no big update, which leads me to question whether they were ever able to right the ship.

On a side note, I wonder if Harvey Smith is out of a job or if he will be retained. I'll never forget him because of the abomination that was Deus Ex: Invisible War.

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Burrito of Peace wrote on Apr 28, 2024, 11:57:
Hear me out:

What if Obsidian just developed all future Fallout games? Fallout: New Vegas was arguably the best of all the modern FO titles. Let them ditch the Creation Engine and use Unreal Engine 5 to reduce or eliminate the inherent jank caused by the Creation Engine. Plus, you get better graphics that can showcase the power of the Xbox. Seems like a win-win on offer and we're not waiting 15+ years between Fallout games.

Meanwhile, Bethesda can focus on The Elder Scrolls series and reduce the timeframe between releases of that series as well. They can also do weird ass shit that doesn't work well, too, like Starfield.

I would love to see this. However, Obsidian is already working on The Outer Worlds 2 and despite MS owning all these different IPs and studios there doesn't seem to be a whole lot of sharing of IPs. About the only exception I can think of is Rare isn't developing the next Perfect Dark (understandably since it's been nearly 20 years since the last one).

Also, I find this idea of capitalizing on the interest in Fallout by rushing the next Fallout game to be a bit ridiculous given how long it takes to develop AAA games now. Too bad Bethesda squandered those eight years of development on Starfield; a game that is unquestionably worse than their previous games. They could have had the next Elder Scrolls game already complete and been working on the next Fallout game. Hopefully this renewed interest in Fallout means we won't see a sequel to Starfield anytime soon.

Aren't they getting a little ahead of themselves? They haven't even released any gameplay footage and yet they have a collectors edition ready for preorder. Also, an ugly wall hanging, a notebook, and wristband? They couldn't think of anything better to include?

Prez wrote on Apr 21, 2024, 11:58:
For some reason I was thinking that this was purely a multiplayer game. It has a singleplayer component?

There's no singleplayer component but there is a story that you progress through. It's completely playable solo, although some parts may be difficult and some of the bugs will take a very long time to kill on your own. I basically played it solo and had a fun time.

Jesus Christ be praised!

This update also comes with new content; a new quest and free workshop items.

Leahi84 wrote on Mar 28, 2024, 13:37:

Prez wrote on Mar 28, 2024, 13:36:

Desalus wrote on Mar 28, 2024, 13:15:
Embracer bought them for $1.3 billion three years ago. They must be very desperate to take a loss of $840 million.

Good. The faster the utter pox upon gaming that is Embracer Group is no more, the better. They can't die fast enough.

What did they do wrong other than get screwed on a major investment deal falling through, and then have to close or sell everything off to avoid going bankrupt? They hadn't really even released any games yet, at least nothing too major that I can remember.

I think there's a very strong dislike for market consolidation. Embracer was going on a buying spree, and now they're having to face the consequences.

RogueSix wrote on Mar 28, 2024, 13:24:

Desalus wrote on Mar 28, 2024, 13:15:
Embracer bought them for $1.3 billion three years ago. They must be very desperate to take a loss of $840 million.

This is incorrect. The conditions of the original takeover depended on a 6 year plan. Now that Gearbox has been divested after “half term”, only Embracer, Take2 and Gearbox know what happened to the original conditions but Embracer certainly “lost” far less than $840 million here.

Ah okay. Thanks for the correction.

Embracer bought them for $1.3 billion three years ago. They must be very desperate to take a loss of $840 million.

Edit: Nevermind. It was a six year deal and only three years elapsed.

This comment was edited on Mar 28, 2024, 13:40.