The Paranoid Gamer writes: "Everyone is familiar new triple-A blockbuster games. But how many people actually know the effort that goes into them? Games such as Tomb Raider, Mass Effect 3, Hitman: Absolution, Bioshock Infinite all require enormous time and effort before they are put on shelves. But more importantly, they require money. Lots of it."
We were expecting problems with mod support, but there are a lot of other issues.
This is why you get the GOG version on gog you can select the version of the game to download.
On pc fallout 4 fallout new vegas and skyrim are all broken on steam because they all got the same "next gen" update.
Skyrim dec 2023
https://www.pcgamer.com/sky...
Can not find new vegas but anyone that modded it knows the script extender there was also broken
Not accidental, they want modders to stop modding their older games to force them to mod Shitfield.
There doing the same on starfield with a mods store and blocking mods
There goal is like blizzard and what they did with fallout 76 you make mods they can sell and you become a slave.
On skyrim they have "trusted" mod devs now basically a badge that lets your mod on the store you get a crumb of the sale when someone buys it.
lol to the disagrees, the last Skyrim update broke mods too. They've been trying to kill mods to monetize them in creation club for years, it's not a stretch that they purposely put out patches just to break free mods.
The disagrees are from people who have common sense. They aren't trying to kill mods. Most mods for any game will break with a new update because they rely on files/code that have been changed. This isn't new. Even with Bethesda this would happen way before the creation club. Mod support is literally one of the things that got Bethesda to where they are, and they're one of the only devs that releases comprehensive mod tools for each of their games.
Over 14 GBs and doesn't change much at all? What? Taking up that much drive space for a pathetic 'remastering' is shameful.
Par for Bethesda.
LOL people are actually expecting massive improvements or something? From Bethesda?? the same people who released Skyrim multiple times and the all look like shit? THAT Bethesda? are people for real?
The ps5 version doesn't change a ton but from my small playtime it's enough to make me want to replay it just to have it running at 60.
A side note to this my PS4 version no longer boots after it's "update" so I guess that's what it feels like to own a Bethesda game on PC
A voice actor from The Coalition's third-person shooter series, Gears of War, has hinted at a new game announcement coming in June.
Hopefully Microsoft will go back to the original story line and get away from that woke nonsense from the last Gears game Gears of Woke! But were talking about Microsoft so all the betting money is on more of the same woke nonsense.
The Locust trilogy concluded with Gears of War 3. I don’t get how Gears 4 and 5 are “woke” .
While many are fans of the Honkai Star Rail story so far, The Nerd Stash believes that the deaths of Robin and Firefly no longer carry much weight.
Man, that's a strange question. I think we should ask if aaa BUDGET'S are still viable (the budget not just the franchise alone). I mean: who would say not to a AAA title? But, the question is, does spending a AAA BUDGET guarantee that the game will see a profit for all the money spent making it. That is a question that I think developers/publishers are gonna be faced with.
People just need to live within their budget. Project management is essential.
Absolutely not. AAA titles were -always- a bad thing for the industry--specifically by contemporary standards.
This generation saw a massive spike in the amount of money necessary to create games... the manufactured "necessity" of creating AAA-experiences forced many independent developers to merge with large publishers in order to continue to develop games with the highest production values. EA and Activision did not take over the Western gaming scene this generation without reason, you know. Developers who stayed independent either went out of business, or were forced to merge with others (i.e. Square Enix). This is why most Japanese games are much less polished than western games--other than Square and Enix, most Japanese developers failed to jump on the AAA-bandwagon, and therefore had no need to join up with a mega-publisher.
AAA titles require a lot more money and a lot more people... it dilutes the creative vision, discourages innovation (if you're going to spend that much money on a game, so much that if it fails, you'll go out of business--see Kingdoms of Amalur--you want to make something you know will sell will), reducing both the quality and quantity of titles as development cycles expand.
The ultimate result is that we get prettier games... but not -better- games. Compare the combat of Final Fantasy XIII to Final Fantasy XII; compare the platforming of Uncharted to Jak & Daxter. We're waiting longer for more expensive games with unarguably better production values... but the games themselves are seldom better, and often far inferior.
That's bad for us (we're supposed to be gamers here).
And it's also bad for developers, as each AAA game becomes a massive risk. We're seeing entire companies fold, one after another, because a single game sold well, but not well enough.
But so long as fanboys insist on waging idiotic console wars, and insist the visual fidelity is the only metric by which to judge games, this state will persist.
Quantic Dream: Sequel kills creativity..
Wow an idiotic question. Stupid questions need stupid answers. YES!! its still viable. So you would rather play mobile games?? getting rid of triple A titles is like taking away "Hardcore" gaming. If its not viable then I would suggest to the author that he must not buy a PS4/xbox720/Wii-U because its a core gaming platform but also caters to casual. So go play some Temple Run 2 now thats one helluva game!!