“As one example of this, Sony Bend’s pitch to make Days Gone 2 was rejected”

Aside from the fact that the Pirates of the Caribbean dlc is bugged to shit and seems like it didn’t get tested at all, yeah, it’s pretty fun. 

Sea of Thieves seems to be doing pretty well, but yeah, I doubt MS was aware just how much talent Rare lost when ex-employees formed Free Radical a couple years before MS’s acquisition. 

even their older ones are dropping the ball. Rare farmed out battle toads and other than sea of thieves hasn’t done anything worth while. The coalition has been very hit and miss with gears, 343 absolutely dropped the ball with halo. Even Platinum, a dev I put a lot of faith in, couldn’t get their MS project going and…

Oh, for sure.

Devil’s Advocate: “we make smarter acquisitions”

It remains nowhere near ready, nor satisfying. 

They didn’t invent the term unobtanium for avatar. It’s an engineering term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unobtainium

Yeah even at its most formulaic, the Ubi open-world method is still decently engaging if not very original or challenging, especially when dressed up around a new and hyper-detailed environment. This could be really really cool if they make it competently.

Honestly the past couple Far Cry games the first thing I do is turn off any mini-map/gps and I think they did a pretty good job at having little and large visual cues of where to explore.

“First-person Horizon/AC but it’s Avatar” is a pretty dope game idea for me. People can say what they want about the movie (I’m an ardent fan, personally) but its world is an absolutely perfect video-game setting.

HZD does that really well IMO, and by default your compass even disappears until you tap the touchpad. The world feels both more realistically laid out and it’s also more easily parsed than any of the ubi open worlds I’ve played. BotW too, although it’s so massive there are definitely more stretches of lower detail…

I’m giving Ubi the benefit of the doubt on this one. I think it looks and sounds awesome. A first person game exploring Pandora, and just doing all those actions from the movies? With good graphics and detail n’ what not, sounds awesome to me. That world is definitely inviting and already had a very video-gamey feel…

That’s such a *bleep* reply from them.
Now, I don’t really know exactly what kind of game this is, but with such ridiculous statements, I’m not exactly keen to find out more about it.

We’re looking into ways we could support offline for the future but you will need an internet connection to play at launch

The game was problematic as fuck because it had no clue what it was trying to say. It wasn’t “libertarian” because it was pretty obviously against that concept.

I think to say that the Venn diagram of Nazis and white supremacists being a perfect circle is a bit of an oversimplification, and Ash was right to both make a distinction between them as well as criticize the game industry’s degree of comfort with depicting Nazis but not other kinds of extreme right wing identities…