After Across the Spider-Verse, I can't help but want more creativity from Insomniac.
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth publisher Square Enix has declared a $140m loss based on a shakeup of its internal development pipeline.
What are they doing over there? Sounds like they canceled something big. I read a rumor a while back about ff9 remake . Here "Final Fantasy IX has gone through a very challenging development, the game is still in progress but may undergo changes drastic enough that we won't hear about it for a couple of years."
This could be one of the reasons if the rumor is true. That was Silknight i don't know how credible he is but it's something and it would make sense.
The industry implosion is continuing. Sky high budgets, prolonged development windows, stagnant sales numbers, and falling currency values (inflation) are wreaking havoc on the legacy industry. AAA games will slowly become the rarity.
Danish from eXputer: "The Witcher's upcoming sequel needs to overhaul the series' combat system if it wants to make a big splash among gamers."
after what we see ( 2015 - 2024 ) in dark souls 3, blood borne , sekiro , dragon's dogma 2 , rise of the Ronin combat they should really careful and bring very good combat in Witcher 4 this time
Saad from eXputer: "After suffering from massive financial hits, Square Enix & Bandai Namco appear to be turning over a new leaf but I'm still unconvinced."
I was talking about games with some Japanese guys here in Japan, and it seems like around here Bandai Namco has a fame of making low-quality games, with the occasional gem.
About Square Enix, I believe they lack the capacity to improve. They should learn with Capcom (although even Capcom still makes some bad mistakes), but I don't think they ever will. They keep chasing whatever is new at the time (blockchain, AI...) to say "we innovate", without considering the public perception and if these things actually improve the games or not. Them releasing too many small games with no advertising also shows a lack of trust in its own products. Even with their biggest games, like turning FF into an action game with XVI and the very divisive plot changes regarding whispers and timelines in VII Remake, shows them trying to attract a new generation of gamers without understanding what made the series so big in the first place.
I don’t know why NOW they decide on this, but I guess later is better than never.
What a stupid opinion piece, its Spider Man for crying out loud, his job is to suit up, swing around New York and take down bad guys while giving one to Mary Jane, what do they want Insomniac to do, make Spidey a tramp begging for coffee, have him searching for a cardboard box to sleep in, maybe they can make Spidey a window cleaner and we share our high scores on the net on how fast we clean windows with QTEs.
And the villains look fine, Kraven looks like he is meant to, so does Venom, he's suppose to be a big black blob of oil not look like a barbie doll FFS.
If you’re basing this off the Across the Spiderverse films I don’t think Insomaiac could do anything for you that would be creative enough to be “different”…those films have the multiverse at its core, how creative enough could you be to surpass them when your game is more grounded in one Universe.
Point is, it’s just a good old fashioned Spiderman story with its own take.
And it's still going to sell well 😀
“ I can't help but feel totally unengaged by it, wishing it would end up as something much more daring. Think The Last of Us Part 2, for instance, in which Naughty Dog didn't just deliver what fans wanted; it took a huge risk and ultimately made the right call. I adore that.”
But TLOU2 was divisive AF. Who wants to see Peter get his cranium crushed, lol? Leave the edgy stuff to original IP. Not a comic book caper my kid’s looking forward to.
It's not for the author of this article obviously, but the game is going to be insane even if the game isn't liked by 6 people.