I enjoyed this game way more than I thought I would. You’re right though, it’s more akin to a Mario 3D world than it is to a LBP game.

Well you do have to give it to him, three graphics options (low/med/high) is more than the two graphic options (low/high) that came in the previous game.

Yeah I think we all saw that coming after God of War.

Yep. This is history and we’re all surprised it’s happening again.

And when things inevitably come crashing down, we all suffer and they buy up the remainder to do it all over again, ad nauseum until we’re left with nothing.

How about they fire the stupid fuckin leadership that thought they could chase trends to get rich and ruin their work culture, lose their talent pool, and destroy their fan base in one fell swoop?

That is 100% a poor leadership decision.

Lots of stupid fuckin business decisions in this industry as of late.

Rebirth also says it requires 12 gigs of vram, my 3080 is crying.

Oh cool, more AI crap instead of real performance.

Well somebody better tell Ubisoft to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows till 2026 then.

The $50 story DLC did it for me. No fuckin way was I gonna pay that kinda price for that little story and additional content.

I hate the loot system too. Fuckin waste of my time. I miss the Krypt.

Who?

No.

If Sony is willing to put up a bunch of money to get a game made with a 3rd party company like Square, and if Square wouldn’t have been able to make the game otherwise, then being an exclusive could be the only reason it exists.

Similar to Alan Wake 2, which I still haven’t played, it’s possible that this game owes its existence to the exclusivity agreement giving the necessary upfront funds to get the game development going.

But this isn’t like the previous generations of exclusive consoles. These consoles are significantly more expensive, development on video games is significantly more expensive, and the profit margin that you could make from being exclusive to just a single console is significantly lower.

This is a combination of ballooning budgets, expensive hardware with lower sales, and the PC gaming market looming over Sony and Microsoft’s shoulders. And don’t forget to mention the explosion of the free to play, micro transaction riddled games they also have to compete with for screen time now.

Does this mean exclusives will go away? Probably not. If it’s financially beneficial to go exclusive, they’ll do it again.

But it does mean that the gap between the potential gained revenue of not going exclusive and the potential locked in revenue from the exclusivity agreement is currently looking razor thin.

Oh don’t dismiss that they’re also graphics and programming wizards. They don’t work with the cutting edge, but they run circles around anyone on the lower end, making games look and run better on potato hardware is no easy feat.

I’d argue the optimization required to make something like that happen is significantly more skillful than all of the crap AAA stuff that takes 250gb and requires shader compilations every boot.

They didn’t need to ask permission, you couldn’t do anything to stop them anyways.

But if you dare steal from them, even when it technically isn’t theft, they will come at you with everything they got.

With what games? Sega doesn’t have the catalogue to demand a subscription.

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The bounty dispatcher or whatever is a woman version of budget Snake Plissken and a smoker, but the voice actor sounded like she was lifted from a 1940s movie and had never smoked a day in her life (rare, I know, but still). I expected at least a hint of gruffness from her character and got absolutely zero of that.

I felt the same way when I heard her voice. Not near rough enough for how that character looked.

I’m more excited about the gameplay, but to each their own.

At the same time, this could be your typical Kojima fuckery where he makes it seem like he’s talking about himself, but he’s actually talking about an exhaustion mechanic from Death Stranding.

Maybe I’m just too skeptical of companies, but I don’t think this is all that well intended. I see lots of genAI patents mentioned in the article. To me, this feels a bit more like EA hoping others will pick some of these patents and develop something they could take advantage of it later.

Meh I’m still skeptical. These reviews seem awfully generous compared to the gameplay footage I saw.

Imma wait and see if this ends up a poorly optimized mess or not. Those requirements look absolutely ridiculous.

Wasn’t Microsoft just talking about how important game preservation was to them?

Four characters, and 3 hours of extra story. But I heard the extra story sucked and wasn’t in any way worth the time or money put into it.

I’ve been holding off on picking it up until it goes on a deep deep discount because there’s no way I’m paying nearly the full price of the game for a fraction of the content.

They 100% did this to themselves. Tons of fans loved the precious story DLC’s on the older games. Those were cheaper and way longer. They didn’t justify the extra cost for this DLC in any way.

Well deserved.

Well damn. Maybe they shouldn’t have made the last mediocre DLC $50. Totally killed my interest in the game.

That, and I hate the modern monetization methods of mortal Kombat. I miss the Krypt.

Yeah this sounds like a needlessly complicated solution to a very simple problem. Rather than trust a 3rd party app with admin privileges, just turn off the damn phone.

Damn, I never looked and now i don’t wanna.

Shame Ubisoft doesn’t feel this obligation to gamers. If they did, we’d probably only have 4 assassin’s Creed games

Wtf even is world of Warcraft anymore?

Oh look, a boss lying to his customers.

Doesn’t explain single player games.

How effective is a strike when everyone is getting laid off anyways?

Completely brand new to the monster Hunter series, but this game has me extremely intrigued. And the general interest around the whole series seems really awesome. Picked up Monster Hunter Worlds because of all hype for Wilds. I like it but damn do they info dump on you, these tutorials are overwhelming in number.

Honestly amazes me that people are still interested in call of duty

Didn’t they give away the sims 4 for free starting in 2023?

It’s no surprise that anyone who even had a remote interest in the sims might pick it up if you’re giving it away. How many of those users went on to buy their stupidly overpriced DLC? That’s what they really care about.

Damn bro, why tell on yourself like that?

Why tell on me like that?

Same. I might pick up Street Fighter 6 when it eventually gets rereleased with all the DLC as ‘Super Street Fighter 6 Champion Ed. ver 3.’ and only after it goes on sale.

EA 's fuckery with reviews is really on display with this game.

On the plus side, we get a really easy litmus test on who’s a legit game reviewer, and who will say whatever they need to keep the gravy train rolling.