From Eurogamer: "Last year, Eidos Montreal released Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy - its own, original take on Marvel's oddball spacefaring family - to largely positive reviews which praised its single-player focus, character work and humour. But it remained unclear how well the game had performed commercially, and in February, publisher Square Enix said the title had "undershot expectations".
Ahead of the BAFTA video game awards last night, I sat down with members of the Guardians of the Galaxy team to discuss the game's emotional storytelling, where the series could go next - and some unexpected tussles with racoons."
Eidos-Montreal and Square Enix's Guardians of the Galaxy is the latest free Epic Games Store game, and it's available until next week.
It amazes me how epic can give out free games like that. While Sony tied theres to a subscription
Don't forget that it was on Game Pass as well. Xbox didn't give it away for free either.
I didnt forget about them, at least at one point Xbox gold gave out games that you keep even if you wasnt sub. I don't even own a will ever own one im just saying. I'm guessing the disagrees came from the losers that got mad I didn't mention MS Xbox.
Part of the reason why they blowing through cash right now. I have over 300 games I believe, incredibly stupid on their part but who am I to stop them, it's their money after all. It's all incentive to spend money on their store but why spend money when you can wait for them to give the game you most likely want for free?
Epic is competing with Valve (who is selling this game for $59.99 on its platform). So don't you mean it amazing you how Epic can give it out for free (spoilers: they can't 'give it away for free'... Epic has to pay Eidos) while Valve is charging full price on its platform? This has nothing to do with Sony...
The game is totally a rush-to-market with some discount bling topping. It is quite worthy of a pass at free.
Completely agree! I'll freely admit it wasn't a game the year contender but it was solid, had a good story with a good amount if humor. It's an easy pick up at free. Hell, it was an easy pickup at the 15 or do dollars a pair last year at this time for it.
Agreed. It's a good deal and the game was good at full price imo. Shredder if you don't like epics launcher just say so but don't deride a fun game over it. I don't like epics launcher so I haven't added any of their free games no matter how much they want to bribe me.
I waited to buy this when it was $20 but it was a very good game IMO. I don't ever pay full prices for any game but I believe that the quality and gameplay of this game was worthy of a full price purchase for many.
The best PS5 single player games have incredible cinematic storytelling, impressive combat, or in Astro's case, charming platforming.
Returnal honorable mention reason is dumb. It is a single player game with optional coop. Just like Elden Ring which is in the list.
Ratchet and Clank and Horizon are my picks. Miles and GoW are gathering virtual dust on the SSD. Good games just not as addicting as those imo. Returnal is best if you’re into that challenge.
No uncharted :( I had a blast playing the legacy of thieves collection at 120 fps.
In a world where superhero team-up games are clearly harder to do than some studios think they are, Guardians of the Galaxy nailed it.
Totally
This game was more respectful the comic books than the James Gunn films, it's kind of what I wanted from them but didn't get. It's packed full of lore and references, creating their own thing while still being respectful the source material.
Mantis alone was fantastic and they even gave her the mantis like blades
I loved it. The whole mission with Mantis on Lamentis was hilarious because of all her lines. They really nailed the characters in that game. Drax had me dying with all his Dog Report Item stuff.
The gameplay was the issue for me. So mid. Halfway through i just wanted it to play like a telltale game so i could get to the rest of the story faster.
Yeah that was my only gripe. The combat could have had more depth and generally been more interesting.
The game most likely suffered due to Avengers because Eidos-Montréal did additional work on the game in addition to Crystal Dynamics
Most of the time being respectful of comic books is worse for the adaptation.
The Zack Snyder films were more respectful to the comic Books - both in terms of characterisation and tone - but the world went with the Marvel movies, which basically took the superhero element out of their stories in favour of reflecting the lives of soldiers.
It was my pick for GotY that year.
Such a fantastic game and well written. I feel it did more Justice to the Adam Warlock character than this new movie.
It’s annoying it didn’t sell well… errr well enough by Square Enix’s standards.
It was a great single player game filled with wonderful lore and nice touches. Journalists didn't cover it much either so I don't know what this person is on about.
the article is great, but the headline is super misleading. The author is just saying that the game deserved far more recognition and praise than it actually did.
True that. I remember seeing mantis in the beginning of the game in my ship just standing in a corner like a statue. Long before you get to meet her in game. It was fun but damn it was a glitch fest haha
Not sure Midnight Suns deserves that shoutout, I barely made it past the first act before it grew too stale and repetitive to continue and there was nothing more to explore/discover in the base... Might pick it back up again after a break but overall pretty disappointed.
Guardians of the Galaxy tho, that one was a masterpiece. Admittedly I was super sceptical when it was revealed, fortunately a friend then bought it and convinced me it was worth it.
The writing and story execution was exceptional.
One of the best I've seen in any video game.
The banter, timing, relationship building on the fly was thoroughly engaging.
At many points it felt like a Marvel movie.
It will be hard for a sequel after the first performed below what square wanted.
I really hope the mass effect team played this. This is everything I ever wanted for a multi character space game. So good
Although I did beat and enjoyed the game. There are definitely things I would like to see changed in sequels:
1. Be more polished, lots of combat bugs and exploits that were just down right goofy at times. Characters attacking the air for finishers, enemies being alerted mid transition between in game dialogue.
2.Those slide mechanics can be limited or adjusted because they were excessive and meaningless at times.
3. Better enemy variations and expand the combat to allow other characters to be selected. Each character is so radically uniques they could make the combat feel more engaging and also make the world feel less dependent on Quill. At times it felt like this story was more about Quill and not the Gaurdians sense most backstory of other characters were hidden behind finding collectibles and talking to them.
For me fix these things and I think the sequel could be phenomenal.
If Square Enix didn't push them to make Avengers, Guardians probably would have done a lot better.
But they decided to take a developer known for their in-depth, layered, singleplayer experiences and have them make a GaaS title that, unsurprisingly, failed.