It's certainly a game I'm looking forward to. A big fan of the Ace Combat series, they're fun, engaging and surprisingly often they tell a good story.
The fact they want to make it is promising. Obsidian are fantastic, even when given limited time & resources (New Vegas) or experimenting (Alpha Protocol)
The storefront does look good and if it's curated well, it could certainly be good. However, outright dropping Steam from some games could prove to be a very bad move. Steam is by and far the true online storefront for PC titles, even though other companies are starting to drop away and move to their own storefront.
Fair enough, though it's too much of a marketing push for me. I won't be watching them, though I haven't done for a bit now.
Not a huge surprise. Subnautica isn't the biggest game around nor will it really use the full power of either of the enhanced consoles.
It's certainly the best move by MS. They've lost this current generation due to a massive lack of worthwhile games. There's no doubt that having a huge amount of games that can promote a future console and also improve their holding on the PC market.
I sincerely hope it's another game by Creative Assembly. Alien: Isolation is a fantastic game.
Microsoft would do well if they didn't micromanage as they have done in the past. It does seem to be the case that their studios are retaining a level of freedom, much like Psygnosis did with Sony back in the day. However, this freedom will come at a limit, even the biggest studios find that (Naughty Dog, for example) and there are deadlines to meet and budgets to keep within.
It's about time really! Not a big surprise that it's finally come to the PC though, nice price considering it's effectively the ultimate edition.
Nah, not a good idea at all. Why ruin a studio that is making good games? Granted, as he says - he recommends keeping the actual game makers and getting rid of the management.
He isn't wrong - the US at the moment is in a constant state of one-upping itself. Here in the UK we aren't much better, but yeah.
Hmm, 150+ hours of side content sounds like a lot but it's how engaging that content is. If it's a lot of copy-pasted caves, etc, then it wont be that engaging. Though Bethesda have always been pretty decent at getting things right.
The emergent nature is the most appealing to me. I love an emergent narrative, where your actions seem to directly influence the way the story forms and the paths that are taken. From my personal experience with Cyberpunk, it does seem to be heading that way - so let's hope I'm right.
Honestly though, if Cyberpunk is everything that it's made out to be, it will be the milestone for every game in the near future. The anticipation and expectations may be too high,...
From the time I've spent with Darksiders III, I'm actually looking forward to it. It's more challenging and decently freeform. Not the best looking game in the world, though it still looks good, but it plays great.
I hope so, bug how true that is remains to be seen. The problem woth an open world is the time it makes to create good, filling, content. That's why your open world 'tropes' exist - easy to replicate things.
There could be a few reasonable reasons why. The cost of developing the enhanced edition for the PS4 wasn't cost-effective and worth it for the company. Also, it could be a simple cast that Sony funded the enhanced edition development.
Forza Horizon 4 genuinely is a stunning game and insanely fun as well, plus there's no horrible in-game monetisation forced in to try to milk people. It's a fantastic release.
That sounds good to me, removes the need for backtracking. We'll have to wait and see on it fulfilling a sort of power fantasy though!
It sounds like it should be good. Really looking forward to it, though very disappointed that there's no sign of a PC release.
I'm certainly looking forward to it. Obsidian knows how to make a great game and enhancing combat, which is traditionally the weaker part of an RPG, is always good