As you may have guessed, I’ve been playing more ReCore: Definitive Edition. It’s a challenging game to say the least, but I’ve been getting through it so far. Most of my experience with the game has been enjoyable, but I have run across the occasional frustrating section due to how hard an enemy or group of enemies…
I’ll be getting a little further into ReCore: Definitive Edition. I first tried playing the game a long time ago when it was in a comparatively buggy state (back before the Definitive Edition fixed things). Now that I’m really giving the game a fair shot, I’ve been pulled in by the creative platforming, mostly fun…
I’ll go ahead and tell you what the offensive content is in The Council, but be warned that it involves a massive spoiler for the game’s story.
Let’s say that the three games this $250 disc-less Xbox One S comes with are worth $60 together. At $20 per game, I think that’s low-balling their worth — but let’s go with that. That leaves $40 — which sounds like a reasonable if somewhat low value for the 4K Blu-ray drive that’s included in the disc-able Xbox One S.
I agree. This should have been $200 on the high end. $150 (with no games and maybe a three-month Game Pass trial) would have been ideal and probably would have generated a lot of excitement.
One thing I forgot to mention is that if you don’t have Xbox Game Pass, ReCore is currently on sale (part of a spring game sale Microsoft is doing). You can get it for $11.99 (normal price is $19.99).
It’s hard to say how open the environment is. I guess you could call it “semi-open”. There is exploration to be done and the game looks open enough from the visual style and the design of the world, but there are definitely hard boundaries (which are basically high radiation zones where you’ll die quickly if you try…
I’ve gotten back into ReCore: Definitive Edition a little bit. And I have to say, I’m really warming up to the game. The visuals are growing on me, the characters are endearing (especially a robot named Seth), the combat is fun most of the time, and I’m starting to love the creative platforming. When Seth joins your…
I love going outside the normal bounds of a game world. I’ve done it quite a bit in Mass Effect: Andromeda. Here’s just one example. You can see where the fully rendered landscape on Kadara abruptly ends and gives way to what looks almost like sand dunes cast in shadow.
While I don’t agree with the rest of your comment, I am glad that you see how unconstitutional it is to deprive citizens of basic rights and liberties.
The sacrilegious element I mentioned isn’t a theme. It’s a bit of dialogue nonchalantly thrown out by one of the characters. But its implications are huge. It’s the equivalent of somebody nonchalantly revealing that 9/11 really was an inside job. Such a revelation would completely undermine the public’s trust in the…
It’s funny you mentioned Crackdown 3. Earlier today, I was playing another first-party Xbox game that underwhelmed at launch: ReCore. I was playing the Definitive Edition (which seems to be less of an enhanced version and more of a version that isn’t as buggy as the original). ReCore is an interesting game. There are…
There was a time when I was cautiously optimistic for Anthem. The traversal and combat looked fun and the graphics were pretty impressive. But all it took was the first story trailer to put me firmly in the “wait and see” camp. Everything not related to combat and traversal looked bland and reminded me of storytelling…
Or if EA had allowed them to use Unreal Engine 4. Former indie developer Ninja Theory made the incredible Hellblade: Senua’s Sacrifice with that engine. And just look at this screenshot I took from my original Xbox One (we’re talking just a 1.33 teraflop machine) while I was playing Gears of War 4:
Adding the flying back was good, and changing the name to Anthem was also good. It sounds way less generic than Beyond.
I think $250 would be a bad price UNLESS the SwitchGo had, say, 128 GB of built-in storage. But if it’s the same 32 GB as the original Switch, then I think it would have to be priced at $200. It would just be missing too much of the original Switch’s functionality for me to see $250 as a reasonable price. And more…
I would have loved to see an Unreal 4 version of Anthem. After seeing what that engine can do with games like Gears 4 and Hellblade, I think it would have made for a version of Anthem that looked every bit as good as the Frostbite version — if not better.
I know it may sound strange, but I would say that a significant amount of immersion is tied to rumble these days. The 3DS got away with not having it, but the games on that system were either older home console experiences (like the N64 Zelda remasters) or experiences that normally didn’t compare with the home console…
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