@ sparky77
I could have sworn It Takes Two won GOTY, not Deathloop. The nominees for that year are not nearly as good as the nominees this year. Although Deathloop is a good game, I’m not sure it would have even been nominated if it came out this year. Context is everything.
@notoriouswhiz
I believe his argument is that Bethesda was around before the practice of manipulating metacritic review scores, which was the OPs comment. If you wanted to bring video game reviews into the argument, MS has been around before them. Video game journalism geared towards consumers didn’t start until the early 80’s, Microsoft was around before that. However, I agree with darth’s sentiment, although technically his wording is incorrect. This practice has been goi...
Their vision is for you to blindly fork over your money regardless of bugs or game quality.
@tacoboto
His quote states that Square first approaches multiple platforms about releasing the game. Meaning Square is making the first offer, their game. It's not difficult to ascertain what an offer is without having to explicitly use the word offer. To put it simple; Square offers their game to multiple platforms, then they receive offers of money, help, whatever back. Then they make a decision they feel is best for them.
Streaming effects gaming differently than every other market. Movies don’t have to worry about processing the data for multiple inputs, or rendering random assets in real time based on the decisions of the player, or countless other ways gamers interact with a game that a person doesn’t do with other forms of media (so using their adoption as your argument is unfair). If you want to watch a video game streaming is perfectly fine, if you want to play a video game it just sucks. Sure streaming ...
@ olmyerslo
The only reason Lightfall was pushed back was because the prior expansion, Witch Queen, was delayed (domino effect). If they didn't push the release back then one of the seasons, that people paid for, would have been cut short (each season is 3 months). The reason Witch Queen was delayed in 2021 was due to complications from the pandemic, an unforseen circumstance at the time.
Where did you get 13 years? First of all LBP2 came out in 2011, that’s 12 years ago. Second, Dreams came out in 2020 which is 9 years after LBP2. Third, they developed 2 games in between LBP2 and Dreams, Tearaway (2013) and Tearaway unfolded (2015). So it’s more like 3 very unique and creative games in 12 years (by a relatively small studio of around 50 people), not 1 game in 13 years.
It’s amazing how people just spread misinformation, and equally amazing how people just r...
@ gangsta red
Ninver mentioned not being able to play the game in a few years due to server shutdown. You replied that if they are still playing the game in a few years (which infers the servers still being active, not shutdown) then something in the video game industry went wrong. My inquiry was what's the correlation between them playing this particular game after a few years and something being wrong with the industry.
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@ gangsta red
You make no sense. First you say if people are still playing this in a few years, something is wrong. But yet it’s good people are still playing Sea of Thieves after a few years. Which is it? Is it wrong or good to play a game for a few years? Make it make sense.
@ gangsta_red
People still play Sea of Thieves, and that came out in 2018. Do you think something went wrong with Xbox since people are still playing the game after a few years?
@ orchard
Noticed you only refered them to Sony games. Keep that same energy when Redfall releases. Wonder if you think it'll be a problem when people can't play the single player aspect of that game when there are the inevitable server issues.
Umbral engrams are important for focusing seasonal gear, which is why they are getting rid of umbral engrams and replacing them with seasonal engrams. Most likely will be the same thing, just a different name.
You have to give Microsoft massive credit, they successfully indoctrinated their gamers. No longer are the days of measuring success about the release of quality games. Now success is measured by how many games are released on a subscription service, regardless of quality and availability on other platforms. I guess when Microsoft seems adverse to making quality titles outside of Forza, what else can you do.
So according to the article, Microsoft's heaviest hitting franchises are primarily IPs that they had no hand in creating, from studios they had little to no hand in developing.
@ darthv72
So you’re not the same way as him. In fact, you’re opposite.
@ Logic
While Playstation gamers have to cold boot games as you put it, they still get to play them. XBox only gamers have to suffer the horror of no booting quality AAA exclusives. Give them your heart
Microsoft doesn't have a good track record of maintaining quality when handing off their major IPs to different people. Gears of War and Halo went downhill. I don't know if people just lack the talent or if Microsoft just chooses the wrong people to lead the projects. Either way, if history is an indicator of anything it's that Microsoft is going to have a challenge on their hands maintaining the quality of Forza Horizon now that they have to choose a new creative director.
Why would you think Microsoft has to prove anything? You have, admittedly, been paying for months without using it because of the promise of day one AAA games. Don't you think it would have been wiser for you to see proof before throwing away money? It's not like Microsoft has a history of consistently releasing quality AAA games. It seems there are tons of people who don't mind spending money on empty promises.
@ Giovanni
You forgot about the arm chair psychics. "Wait until next year when such and such happens." It's as if they are in a perpetual state of disappointment and therefore look to the future for potential hope.
Xbox gamers are used to waiting extended periods of time for first party games, so no big deal.