GameZone writes, "I'm not exactly sure when it happened, but at some point in the recent past, being a gamer started to mean that you had to religiously align yourself with a console manufacturer. And these days ridiculing Microsoft has become so vogue that the rhetoric is starting to resemble the kind of meaningless drivel that we've become accustomed to in politics."
Waiting a decade for new instalments in franchises as massive as Fallout and Elder Scrolls feels like a waste.
Microsoft have Obsidian but I feel it's Bethesda who just don't want to play ball as they've always said they want to do it themselves.
Once MS bought Zenimax in 2020 they should have put the Outer Worlds 2 on the back burner, allow Bethesda to finish off its own Space RPG with Starfield (despite totally different tone why have two in your first party portfolio with two developers who's gameplay is a tad similar) and got Obsidian for one of their projects to make a spiritual successor to New Vegas.
When the Elder Scrolls VI is finished Bethesda can then onto the main numbered Fallout 5 themselves.
The Outer Worlds 2 started development in 2019 so putting it on the back burner wouldn't have been the end of the world, they'd have always come back to it once Fallout was done and it would have been nicely spaced out from Starfields release once they had most likely stopped supporting it and all the expansions were released.
If they did this back in 2020 when they bought Zenimax and the game had a good, steady 4 - 5 years development, you might have seen it release in 2025.
We are literally going to be waiting until 2030 at the very earliest for Fallout 5 and all they seem bothered about is pushing Fallout 76.
Athenian Rhapsody is a JRPG with a difference: alongside turn-based combat & exploration, you'll need to complete WarioWare-style microgames.
Originally launched in 2011, El Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron is coming to Nintendo Switch, so It's time to look back at the original.
Still have my ps3 copies. Bought it at launch and another one when I found it cheap and in perfect condition about 10 years ago. I wouldn’t buy it on Switch but if they made a PS5 version I would. I still have one of my PS3 Fats hooked up so good to go either way.
Id play it again on the switch. I wished my 360 version was bc but this is still a good way to play.
"This week, Microsoft published a list of 50 titles that are in various stages of the development for the Xbox One, and 23 of those will be available on launch day. By contrast, Sony’s console has 33 titles in the works, and only 15 of those will become available during the launch window (notice that I said launch window instead of launch day for the PlayStation 4)."
May I correct this. The PS4 has 180 titles in development.
http://www.ign.com/articles...
"I'll never understand why Microsoft isn't getting credit for actively changing their policies based on customer feedback. The console no longer requires an always-on connection, indie publishing is becoming easier, and now we've learned that the Kinect 2 isn't required to operate the system. This basically covers all of complaints that gamers originally had about the console, doesn't it"
But why give credit? They tried something that was not really in our interest at all (almost insulting in some parts) but you questioning why no one give Microsoft credit for abandoning those policies. Does that really make sense. The reversal is more of a "thank god. Finally some sense" than a "well done Microsoft, have a cookie" moment. You shouldn't give credit to a company that should have be doing those things from day one. You just put that issue under the carpet and move on
"The Xbox One and PS4: When did gamers stop caring about video games?"
The minute Microsoft thought it was above caring about protecting their customers' rights and privacy. Which was right after we all learned about PRISM and Microsofts MANY ties to the NSA. So you see, M$ isn't as blameless as your headline would indicate.
This is all M$ own doing, not gamers. M$ knowingly or unknowingly turned this into an issue over consumer rights/freedoms/privacy and so it's logical that when something as important as your personal right to privacy is on the line, the people are going to back the system that has puts their concerns/interests and in this case "rights", first.
If this whole debacle with M$ didn't happen, we would still see the idiotic perpetuation of fanboyism and the dreaded and immature 'console wars'. This of course is another symptom of when gamers stopped caring about games, that and when it became en vogue to check your preferred console manufacturer's sales #'s and stock prices and listen to anything that Michael Pachter has to say.
thats easy when MS got a foothold :P
I never stopped caring about video games, Sony holds the best exclusives, i'm no fanboy but i know what i prefer and Sony are offering it