Jamaal Ryan writes: "From Assassins Creed Unity’s frequently jarring and occasionally hilarious glitches, to Halo: The Master Chief Collection’s near catastrophic matchmaking issues, to Far Cry 4 and Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare’s online instability, to the continuous train wreck that is Driveclub ... the last few months have been fraught with unpolished releases, and have raised an unusual paranoia that particularly console gamers aren’t used to: “Will my game actually work at launch?”
While players have begged for Master Chief Collection mods on Xbox, Halo Studios has confirmed its not possible right now.
Yes PS5 version confirmed 🤣
Is what daylight observer would say then comes obscured and say dream on fanboy. 🤷🏿
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DriveClub, the legendary PS4 racer from shuttered Runcorn studio Evolution, has such an interesting story.
Originally announced alongside the PS4, the game had been intended as a launch title – we even played it in a big London church Sony had rented to showcase the new system prior to its release.
Evolution was done dirty... DC is still the most stunning visual game of its generation. They certainly deserved better in the end.
DriveClub was pretty and I loved the experience of driving in the rain, it was immersive. I had some good races with people from an old forum, but at times I found it to be a bit boring. MotorStorm was such a fun game to play and I loved the controls - it would make sense to remaster that.
I'd give the visual showcase award of the last generation to The Order: 1886. That game was immaculate.
Uncharted 4 was also absolutely insane, and perhaps manages to use the PS4's power in extremely clever ways.
Cause the game was mediocre at best, and surpassed in pretty much every area by Forza Horizon 2.
Apart from visuals, driving model, weather effects, only thing forza had was an open world...
It's multiplayer component was the only thing struggling at launch but the game was still perfectly playable offline. Done dirty is an understatement because how many games after came out with broken online components that got a pass? Now games with an SP and MP get separate reviews for SP and MP smh! SONY shut them down as if Evo had been bleeding money instead of putting out great games. Their fate was undeserved and they were the targets of a media smear campaign due to that one trailer.
Loved it.
Now here's a game that would benefit from a remaster.
4K, 60 FPS
I'd buy it.
See? Another reason why physical is important. Going all digital will have you miss out games like this.
Brilliant game, I really miss it, and it deserved so much better than what Sony did to it.
Most important reason I liked it; It was FUN. That’s it. The actual gameplay,throwing a car around corners, the challenging AI opponents, the entertaining tracks which were peak-design, etc etc, it was above all just FUN to play.
Sony's recent State of Play inspired this feature on video game remasters. How the industry is changing & how much they still benefit players. Mike @ Thumb Culture
At the rate in which we have been getting them, and the selections such as TLOU and Horizon and other similarly unnecessary remasters, no.
In terms of reintroducing classics and making them available again at a reasonable price where as previously they were locked behind ridiculously priced physical copies, yes.
agree with the Horizon but TLOU - I've never played it and the remaster it's quite impressive graphically so for someone who never played the original game it's a treat to enjoy such quality!
There a plenty of gamers who switch platforms and so I guess the remasters are meant for those
There is a new crop of gamers every generation that didn’t play the originals and some of us older games want remasters of older games to play them on current hardware. Overall I say yes it is good. Nobody is forced to buy them.
They can also gauge interest for older IP with remasters and it could lead to a new game in the series. Remasters aren’t for everyone but no game is anyway
Chances are their parents did... and may still have them. That's how I introduced my kids to gaming. They played what I had and worked their way up. They learn to appreciate them better that way.
I don't have an issue if they don't take away from developing new games. It's always nice to revisit a game you loved in the past with extra shine
remasters of older games absolutely.
but i dont see how a 4 year old game needs a ... Remaster. a upgrade update should do the trick
bjt i guess for newer players its a good option.
Microsoft REALLY screwed up on an EPIC level with The master chief Collection. That blunder cost them millions of dollars and turned off would be Xbone adopters. It couldn't have come at a worse time either because after the holidays the Xbone will be in drought mode while Sony is releasing amazing exclusives for the PS4.
Yeah this is getting out of hand. Last gen you bought a game and generally it worked fine (with the exception of Bethesda games). Maybe some people found a few minor glitches and the game was maybe patched once to fix. Anyone without internet was mostly ok as the game usually still worked as the glitches were minor.
Now you buy a game and you immediately need to run to the internet for a multi GB day one patch to add the rest of the game that was incomplete on disc and fix it so it is playable.
The problem with patches is that they can't be backed up. So when you delete the game (HDD space/failure etc.)the patch goes with it. Want to play it again in the future? Well you need to go back and re-download the patch all over again. That is annoying but not as annoying as it will be when the patches are eventually taken down leaving you with a permanently broken and maybe unplayable game on disc.
I honestly feel for developers. Its not like these people who are passionate about their industry WANT to put out broken games.
They are stuck between a rock and a hard place with release dates. If they release late, then they miss out on advertising budget, prime release dates, and bring the anger of fans for delaying it.
It they release on time and hope for the best then they bring something broken and buggy, and hope they can work on big patches for Day 1.
Its easy to say they shouldn't release broken games, but I think we need more transparency and less PR talk from some of these companies about the issues
That's the reason i'm sticking with Sony,it's not like i didn't have issues with the PS4 so far but in the end i hope they'll deliver the same variety of exclusive games as they did with the PS3.
ENOUGH!