It’s important to remember that this piece of junk (‘a $70 AAAA live-service game’) had to be released because Ubisoft had a subsidy deal with the Singapore government.
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Yeah, I don’t expect anyone actually expected modern Squeenix to be able to make a game anywhere near as good as Splatoon? Nintendo may be behind the curve on some technical things, but has always been top of the pack at game design.
Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment are exciting. Not mentioned here, but Forza Horizon games are really fun cartoonish racing, would be worth having on PS5.
As for the rest....
Halo - a tired, dead franchise with all the creativity and fun long sucked out of it. Anything new is going to be live service hell at this point. Okay,…
It can’t. It can be a fun movie, it can make decent money, it can even get good ratings. But Deadpool is off in its own little suburb, like Spiderman. Nothing that happens with Deadpool tells you anything about the floundering mainline MCU and Disney will learn nothing.
Well, Hi-Fi Rush would be great for the people who don’t have a PC or XBox. That’s a fantastic game. And Great Circle if it doesn’t suck, sure. Starfield, though? You can keep it. That’s a game that’s Good Enough For Gamepass (TM).
Well that’s fine. The neat thing is there are only so many f@#$ing stupid players who will play your live service game so you are competing with every single other live service game in an actual zero-sum competition, so hopefully this will cause a complete meltdown of all the corporate a-holes and their private equity…
Certainly a lot of people are playing it, but nobody I actually know is playing it. Because some of us knew in advance the people making it make shitty games, some had no idea it was even out there, and the rest were just waiting for reviews which... are not good?
I feel bad for the actual employees, but on the other hand they were working for garbage companies I’d like to see have fewer people working on turning out crap. Win a little, lose a little.
Palworld: ‘Uh, yeah, we totally filed off the serial numbers. Like uh, our Totally Not a Wooloo has a gold bell. TOTALLY different. Totally.”
And s usual with Bethsoft, it’ll be up to modders to fix the majority of the quest bugs... if they even care enough this time.
Yeah, sorry, we were about to release the patch when we noticed the game design is fundamentally broken. It’s 99.99% boring procedurally generated shit and there’s nothing other than a rewrite from scratch that can possibly fix it.
Well obviously this is going to be nowhere near as good or tightly designed as Splatoon. Though it is obviously trying really really hard to be Splatoon.
Yeah, my absolute least favorite part of the original games was the crappy tank controls plus that they combined it with you having to be absolutely 100% right at the edge of a ledge and perfectly perpendicular to the ledge or you would not make a lot of jumps. Lead to a lot of frustrating ‘Am I just not supposed to…
Unfortunately, speculative jpeg trading is still alive and well at Star Citizen, where dumbasses keep pumping money in to HODL, HODL! But it makes a good enough excuse for GameStop.
Okay, yeah, the VR stuff is terrible, but a controller is really a better way to control a car. I’ve played tons of games, including hardcore racing sims, with wheel and PS5/XBox controller and while the wheel is more ‘authentic’, the gamepad is just better all around.
So the big thing I notice here, which is not a big surprise because they’ve always been a very (very) vocal community, is the ‘I don’t have time for talking and plot and testing various things to see how they work because they get in the way of my shooting/axing people in the face.’
Starfield.
No he did not have a ghost, he is just fantastically over-imaginative. Which is what made him so successful, but there were no actual ghosts.
This is also available on GoG (for free) where you can just install it instead of faffing around with it.