Like it or not, games are heavily dependent on attaining that holy grail of a high Metacritic aggregate.
Personally,The What Culture find this heavy focus on dictating a game’s worth based on a numerical value as immensely disappointing. Not only does it deprive many gamers of a worthwhile experience, the industry’s unrealistic belief that a game must reach a ‘90’ or higher has formed an attitude where perfectly acceptable and genuinely good releases are dismissed as mediocre, despite reaching scores averaging in the 70s and 80s.
Unfortunately, this can also lead to the making or breaking of a perfectly capable studio in the process. No other console library experienced this unrealistic attitude more than the Xbox 360, which has rather sadly led to a long list of games whose praises simply aren’t hailed enough as they should be.
Mass Effect 4 has the perfect chance to reintroduce dialogue skills, and Baldur's Gate 3 might be the blueprint BioWare needs.
I'm not so sure they can, most talent that made the old games as good as they were, has left Bioware.
They can always recruit old fellas,
And also, new devs can always learn and also new indie devs are very passionate evident from the amazing indie games heavy with these gameplay features.
I don't think anyone would wanna come back after the stories that were told from Anthem development. I just don't see it happening. It's a bit similar to blizz, some of the talent has come back there, but there has been a shift in the studio's culture and also what the higher ups expect/demand of them
After andromeda and veilguard i think it’s assured that the bioware we once knew has gone, I have little hope for me4. Hopefully i’m wrong.
Take-Two announced its financial results for the fiscal year 2025, also sharing an update on the sales of GTA5 and Red Dead Redemption 2.
The anticipation for GTA6 has reached fever pitch, with the latest trailer being the biggest video launch of all time.
Milk...get your milk...and so much more. Really when you release the same games in three editions over 15 years it's amazing how much money, and the amount of sales you earn. It's amazing how no one can compete.
To be fair, no many companies could release the same game over and over. They've earned that whether we agree or not
GTA v isn't the only game that's released three consoles generations running but nothing has sold those numbers including GTA San Andreas which is now 4 console generations deep.
No surprising considering that it’s been on every major platform and store.
I decided to look up the longest and most sold games list. To my surprise Tetris has takes the top spot.
Pure Arts Reveals Borderlands Collectible that fans should l8ve.
I agree with most of this list. Mafia II was good, but it wasn't great. I was expecting an overall bigger game, but it was fun while it lasted.
Also, Sniper Elite V2 is one of my favorite games. I might have to check out some of these other games.
Enslaved was amazing frame rate issues aside but got panned pretty badly. It was around that time I stopped buying games soley on review scores.
Tenchu Z, one of my favorite 360 games
Nier would fit into this category. Unfairly dismissed by critics at launch due to visuals and lame side quests. Also most reviewers probably never played the two extra new game +'s that added heaps to the narrative.