Makes sense to me, it’s a good game.
It’s not the All Time Greatest Game Ever Made, as everyone unfairly assumed it would be, but it’s a pretty enjoyable Deus Ex-like. It also features probably the single most “realistic” and believable city in the history of the medium. Even for all its many, many faults, Night City…
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Ever since they moved their crappy games to Epic’s store it’s been so much more easier to ignore whatever they come up with. A real dumpster of a company Shittysoft has been.
Nobody runs a store without expectations of profit. Otherwise, there would be no point. MS absolutely expects Gamepass to become profitable at some point. Like any new subscription service, MS is willing to bleed money up front for user acquisition, then once the user base is sufficiently large, slowly hike up the…
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The use of ‘our idiosyncrasies” to me supports diving deeper into the individual experiences of black people instead of the use of generic stereotypes to fill the diversity quota.
To me it isn’t as much that he’s blaming his marriage and kids as he is saying he was depressed and unhappy and using alcohol as a way to avoid making difficult decisions regarding his marriage. He was depressed and self-medicated with alcohol which is not terribly uncommon. I know it’s popular to dog on Affleck but I…
I’m going to be honest, it’s really weird to see the dichotomy of “Black people are not a monolith” protest but then see articles basically say the exact opposite of that. What dose “black-passing” even mean? How do you reconcile the idea of an, apparently, universal Black Culture with the idea that black people are…
AAA Games today are more expensive to create than they were in the 90's. Just because micro parts of the process have become easier doesn’t mean the whole game is cheaper.
I didn’t say that, at all actually. I specifically said the PC version was created in tandem and the PC version is not a port. No idea where this strawman argument ran off to.
Everything you just listed applied to developing for older consoles too. They just had the additional cost of cartridges. The question was whether or not $70 games were more justified in the 90's than they are today. The answer is “yes.” Sure, modern game development is more expensive because the teams are much…
I’m sorry, but I find this argument to be highly reductive every time it comes up. Sure, game prices haven’t risen with inflation and increased dev cost for awhile. But those two factors are not the only or even the largest consideration here.
To be clear, I don’t think they’re just “not accounting for regional pricing”, at least in Europe, the UK and Australia. I think they’re intentionally using this as an opportunity to gouge. Not accounting for regional pricing would mean the UK price would go up to £52, or maybe £55 with rounding. If they really wanted…
Frey can be seen traversing mountains at break-neck speeds as well as fashioning herself a floating skateboard to cross a river.
That was...a lot for a throw away comment. Didn’t need the lesson personally but maybe someone will benefit from the write up.
“...Some people are worried it’s the beginning of an across-the-board price hike, even if it’s one that’s been long overdue.”
Look, there’s no place for details like long release delays, exclusivity shenanigans, or The Magic of The 88/12 Split™ in the discourse. Poor, innocent Sony, that scrappy little underdog, is getting bullied and gaming media has to run to their rescue. Besides, Kotaku has a long tradition of telling PC gamers that when…
“Our view was that we’re offering an array of extraordinary experiences, lots of replayability” So you can charge more? There’s games with way more replayability than FF7 Remake, and they cost a fraction of $70. Game prices are not value-based.