OXM:
"From a first party standpoint we're continuing to be heavily invested in gaming. We probably right now aren't talking about it maybe as much as we should, because we're talking so much about what's new," he told OXM at the Microsoft campus earlier this month.
A third game in the Falconeer series has been announced as the second, Bulwark: Falconeer Chronicles, launches.
While there’s a lot to love about modern video games, there is one trend — particularly in the AAA space — that tends to grate: their length.
Games are coming out with too much fluff and side activities that are horribly dull. That's my main issue with all these open world games. Open world should be about exploration, discovery and wonder, not have some stupid 10s or 100s of boring activities spread throughout.
I stopped buying overfluffed games like a decade ago. Cant stand games with the Ubisoft mindset of just filling maps with uselss collectibles and fodder. Make it mean something. Ill gladly take 1/4 size of the map and 1/10th the "content" if it all meant more, were more unique and greater affect on your progression.
Is Capcom justified in releasing the game with 21 downloadable items?
all which you can earn IN THE GAME BY PLAYING.. sheesh.. people need to chill and stop trippin'.
capcom has done this with every resi game since 2, with devil may cry 4 and 5.
we should be complaining about the poor Performance
I'll be handing out homework In the form of research on the essence of the boiling frog syndrome because the comments already are afflicted with this.
*Performance comment Is spot on 5+ points.
Accepting that these publishers have these types of mtx In games Is tiring, "well, they've done it with their other IP" so should we accept it? Your acceptance of it happening is ruining gaming, just to make it clear.
But it's okay though, you can earn the stuff ingame. 🙃
Having not actually played the game, but only heard about what microtransactions are on offer, no. Dragon's Dogma 2 has not taken microtransactions too far. I think a game would have to go to extraordinary lengths to qualify for the statement 'taken microtransactions too far.'
I mean, I remember a rant from yonks ago (Dungeon Keeper mobile) which, just from memory, went WAY further than Dragon's Dogma 2, with literal days of waiting to mine a single block, and a huge price mark-up to advance.
So, no, Dragon's Dogma 2 hasn't gone 'too far.'
Xbox, insert "You don't say" meme.
I'm betting ten bucks that Microsoft's E3 press conference won't surprise everyone either.
EDIT:
Please let me provide you a brief summary prediction regarding their E3 conference:
-Dom Mattrick walks onto the floor and fills in more details regarding Xbox One (ten minutes).
-Rags about sales over the past years, and more bs why its better than Sony and Nintendo (five minutes).
-Announces more apps and services which are completely unnecessary (probably take about twenty minutes on that).
-Shows off probably two new original IPs as well as more stupid Kinect exclusives (betting twenty minutes on that).
-Some other random engineer walks onto the floor and talks more about TV services (ten minutes).
-Ends with a Call of Duty trailer (five minutes).
THATS IT. I just predicted the future of MS's E3 press conference. You're welcome folks.
Oh and MAYBE (despite the chances are pretty low) a Final Fantasy Versus XIII announcement trailer. But who knows?
It's understandable, but they did say that E3 was all about the games.
You have to wonder if they were just a little too excited to show off what the console could do, but I think patience is a virtue, really looking forward to seeing what they have at E3.
I guess Microsoft looked at the reveal as a way to show the hardware, thinking more people figured gaming would be a given, but gamer's are fickle these days and hard to please, so I guess it wouldn't have hurt to show one more game or two.
E3 should be fun.
I'm gonna hold MS to their word of E3 being about games..I want them to come on stage with core software and not family focused Kinect garbage..E3 will be MS last chance to sell me on the console.
The could should show 50 games at E3, their used games policy is a deal breaker for me.