Our Gaming Editor Marc takes a look at problematic game endings, and what can be done to fix them.
Microsoft just posted the third quarter of its 2024 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $61.9 billion in revenue and a net income of $21.9 billion during Q3. Revenue is up 17 percent, and net income has increased by 20 percent.
Xbox content + services up 62% while hardware down 31%... seems about right with the way they tout you don't need the hardware to play. People can play on their phones or smart tv or other means. I don't hardly play on my consoles directly since getting devices like the logitech g-cloud and ps portal. Which is to also say I have been playing more digital than physical because of these devices.
Too expensive hardware when others offer the same or more for less? Good work, Green Team.
As of right now, there are no monopolies in the games industry, and for the sake of the medium as a whole, they never should either.
And yet the biggest tech companies in America are essentially that. They buy up all the small comps only to kill them off and steal what they have, and if they can't buy em they bleed them to death.
They buy IPs not talent. That's why these buyouts never work and the IPs die. Right now it's too expensive to develop games - but I expect that to shift maybe as AI tools can make it easier. The best games have been indie games for awhile as big developers fuck their ips to death with "games as a service" -
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Ubisoft doesn't know how to do an ending.
The Splinter Cells back in the day all had like 10 second endings. They even retconned out one of the ending choices in Double Agent.
Prince of Persia reboot ended in a cliffhanger and its DLC ended in another cliffhanger that still hasn't been resolved.
Far Cry 2 had a terrible text ending with stills. FC3 was barely better yet has some of the longest credits I've ever seen.
Assassin's Creed has been left hanging forever. Even Ezio's fate is left to a seperate downloadable animated "movie"
Some things you don't need to have your hand held and told what happens, give your brain a chance to create something.
You're playing too much COD.
Still waiting for a game, open worldish with a good story, you can ride a dragon, jump off for combat, about an evil man who kidnaps your daughter,girlfriend etc.
A good story can make a game, a bad one can break it, no matter how good in other ways said game is.
Maybe because we don't like the game to end ?
NO.. I think because they are working so hard but at the end they just want to finish it quick.