Nobody said anything like this above.
People love old Halo and the new ones… not so much. Both Microsoft, maybe the game is the issue.
Part of the answer has always been to make more focused games. Games filled with a lot of arbitrary areas provide no value to me but must cost more time and money. Games twice or three times as long as they need to be because of padding. I’d rather have 15 hours of joy than 10 hours of meaningful game and another 40 hours of work (then I can buy more games too). FFXVI is a good game that could have been great had it been shorter. Even Elden Ring I feel the same about.
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I think content and scale makes sense in Skyrim. But usually it create a lot of empty space and content. All expensive, sometimes lovingly crafter but often absolutely useless. You can use small environments effectively, yakuza has a ton of life depth by those locations are fairly tiny compared the most games. But everything feels alive and part of something larger.
I am happy for a spin off. People seem to complain that this is not the same (I get it sone times things don’t feel right). It likely won’t be. But the series is full of deviations and experiments. Episodes that shoehorned Pyramid Head in needlessly probably showed far less understanding of its meaning than this. It’s not a mainline entry, I am sure the narrative with explain why the location is different or how they are linked. But if this a good horror game with good narrative then I am hap...
The problem for me is that the combat was not varied or customisable enough to last the game’s play time.
Otherwise, I agree with RaiderNation it is the reason I held out from buying it until it initially, is it was not the genre I wanted. I am happy for a series to change and grow but I want an RPG to some extent. It’s a shame because it handled narrative and dialogue pretty well.
Looks like UK and US.
It is clearly is an important topic to you. You made an account especially to comment.
Case Files worked really well in VR.
He was asked. He can speak more freely now.
I am willing to give Obsidian a chance as I remember Alpha Protocol getting massacred in reviews but being secretly excellent (with obvious rough edges). But I am not really feeling this yet.
After years of Obsidian knocking out great titles, alongside ones with admirable intent. I am going to politely disagree. (Maybe I am missing a punchline but this is the internet).
It’s an outage. It was slightly annoying, that’s the case of Microsoft of not. Plenty of problems with all the major companies.
No scan or ID needed for me and I am from Europe.
They bought Criterion for their middleware engine Renderware I believe. But the studio was a bonus.
I enjoy Mario Kart but the rubber banding AI makes me feel like I am in a Gatcha game or something, the original game did not have it.
I think opinion articles are a sign that there are not enough new games or franchises coming out, this has been a quiet generation with the odd good title (indies games still are in a good place). I remember I used to click on gaming sites to see a snippet of news about a new game/console, maybe the odd exciting rumour. Now it is hot takes about oldish games and tedious culture wars nonsense or tedious console war nonsense from sites called things like “ThumbTriggerz”. . I realise arguing on ...
You made an account especially for this, Izzard?
It’s probably a handful of factors
How do you feel about the core of the game?
How much is precision a key element of the game? A janky platformer or shooter may suffer more than an open world RPG.
Does jank work with the premise? like in Silent Hill 2, he’s just “an ordinary guy”. Deadly Premonition is surreal and awkward in every sense.
Does it have cool world design, narrative or lore? These things go a long way fo...
It’s a tech article speaking about specs people who care about this will know. I did not own an XB1 but know it’s at a similar tech level as PS4. PS4 has a far greater sales footprint, it makes sense to use it.