They started out pissing off Steam users with Metro Exodus going exclusives and pulling it from Steam. Not a great first impression and a lasting one at that. Not everyone will care and will buy from epic, but alienating a whole bunch of Steam’s core users off the bat is probably going to ensure they’ll never win them over.
I claim games from epic and have bought from even origin and uplay, but I’ll probably never spend any money at epic.
I think Jill is a great character she's strong without being a "man with tits" she's pretty while wearing practical clothes. Which is why I think it's a shame she feels under utilized. The game has a huge lack of banter while traveling around which is a great way for games to make their characters feel more present.
I do think it's a major factor. It first jumped out at me when I loaded into a zone and when the camera was done panning Clive was the only one in the shot.
In say FFVIIR all 3 chars would be in shot. It's minor but stuff like that for sure adds up.
Agreed. I would mind a lot less the "Kingdom Heats-ification" of FF is there was a AAA turn-based successor still out there. As it stands, the biggest "proper" JRPG left is Persona, and much as I like it, it's clearly a step below FF in scope. Even when they dabble in turn based stuff on the SE side they are stuck on mid-sized throwback games.
DQ 11 is also one of the only video games I've personally been hooked on the writing for, too. There are a few very emotional moments, both in the main story and side stories. Also, the rhyming mermaids start feeling corny but really grew on me.
Yeah, that's a good pull, but I'd place DQ closer to Persona than FF in terms of... I don't know, triple-A-ness? I think objectively that may not be true, DQ XI is pretty large and feature-rich, and DQ VIII was definitely as big as FFXII, short of having fewer CG cutscenes... but I guess the whimsy and more fairy tale-style visuals and narrative knocks it down to that mid-size for me? This may be entirely subjective, I don't know.
This is probably just my rose tinted glasses and nostalgia speaking but I always thought FF7 (the original) had the best combination of real time and turn based combat, it felt dynamic and tense but also tactical at the same time. Materia was the ideal fun upgrade and customization system and I only grew to love it more over the years of being bombarded with looter-shooter / diablo-like / gear treadmill progression systems that are being shoehorned even in places where they don't belong.
Hearing from Yoshi-P that he (or the analysts at CU3 I guess) don't think that such gameplay would appeal to new generations of gamers is just disheartening to me. Is there even any other AA or AAA studio that does these kinds of games well?
Yeah, Persona and Dragon Quest are the ones that come to mind.
I'd even take FFXII or FFXIII as valid examples of the form, too. I don't need pure ATB (although I'd love a throwback to it), I just don't think you need to make a mediocre action game to reach a wide audience. I would have been a lot more willing to jump into FFVII Remake, FFXV or FFXVI had them not been action games. In fact, I never finished Remake, I haven't bought XVI and I am not currently planning to get Rebirth at launch.
Incorrect. Sony owns the Spider-Man IP movie rights, this is not the case for video games. Marvel's Avengers would not have been able to put him in the game if that were the case.
edit: Maybe wrong on the Marvel's Avengers game front as I forgot he was a playstation exclusive character for the game, but Sony still does not own ALL spider-man rights, but specifically movie rights.
It means Sony has the rights to make X-men games, not that they won't be on PC. And they can still license X-men characters in other games, as well, provided they aren't exclusive to platforms that aren't playstation.
It will launch on PS first, but this doesn't tell you anything about whether they'll bring it to PC, which is what the title implied and the person I responded to read it as.
Twitch should have a second version targeted for adults and everything else. It could live together with Twitch for Gaming and save for kids. Let's call them Twitch Gaming and Twitch Live. And all problems are solved, world hunger has been defeated.
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