@Kidfried Alright, I wasn't sure if I was right or not, and I would feel silly talking nonsense.
Anyway, during one of my ''I need to watch trailers of every upcoming game I'm excited for'' moments, I saw the game Vane on my wishlist. I watched the trailer, and I remembered it was that intriguing game about a bird, a bit like Journey perhaps. Anyway, I moved on, watched a few PSVR games, and a little game called MARE showed up in my feed.
Turns out, it's unfortunately only confirmed for Oculus Rift so far, but it looks like a pretty cool game:
I'm getting strong Last Guardian vibes from it. But it also reminded me of Vane, as you're playing as a bird character. I did some searching, and it eventually brought me to Polygon of all places! Turns out there's this guy that worked on The Last Guardian, left midway development, wanted to make his own game and he joined a studio. That's what turned into Vane. He wasn't happy with the changes the studio wanted to make to his game, so he left (again), to work on his own, and now he's making MARE. A sprititual successor to a game that isn't even out yet which was inspired by The Last Guardian in the first place. And with Vane resembles TLG nothing at all, I can imagine that's due to the changes the studio wanted to make.
Here's another trailer:
Anyway, this is probably completely pointless to you, as I don't think anyone on PushSquare even owns an Oculus Rift (neither do I), but it's a cool story I wanted to share anyway lol. The Polygon article is actually worth a read.
granted,actual reviews are not out yet,but i don't think the user score will go up by much anytime soon due to the backlash it has. (valid backlash in some cases)
I share here an interesting read about videogames and violence; not the usual one since this time the journalist interviewed some of the survivors of the 2015 terrorist attack in Paris who always played videogames, shooters included.
This is the direct link for those who can read French; I haven't found an English translation yet. https://www.lemonde.fr/pixels/article/2018/11/13/13-novembre-...
So a thought, why do companies want people playing non-MP games for so long? It makes for MP, but why a company wants people to keep them to keep playing a game instead of having a satisfactory experience and move in to buy another game is confusing to me. I can’t imagine stuff like AC gets that much of MCs.
@Kidfried I hope it makes it way to PSVR at some point. I just bought one, so I kinda want as many games as possible. And it looks like the type of game I'd be all over.
Well, I still remembered that time Polygon tried to prove that Mario Kart 8 would be the worst selling Mario Kart by using this chart. They predicted 1.28 million total sales, but it ended up at 8 million or something like that. They have a bunch of other nonsense articles as well. It's all over the place really. The pie chart is still the best, I don't think anybody knows what it was supposed to add.
@Jaz007@Kidfried More time spent in a game = a higher chance of purchasing MTX at some point?
@Jaz007 Yeah, I’m not necessarily a fan of SP games all getting to be so long. Occasionally having a 100 hour SP game is fine but most of the games seems to be getting longer and longer. Maybe it’s because a lot of consumers only buy a couple games per year and not everyone has an enormous backlog like *cough, cough * some of us do.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
@KratosMD Except that E3 is just... E3. It's nice and all, but a live stream garners just as much attention these days. Gamescom is bigger than E3, may as well go there. E3 isn't that important anymore. Now if Sony announced an all-digital PS5, and MS Tweeted ''Keep your old Xbox discs for Scarlett!'' You'd have a point.
In the end, I'm in it for the games. If they can keep delivering games, then I don't really care when or where they announce them. I'm sure they're planning something, and maybe we all look like fools in a year from now thinking this was a terrible idea.
Considering people disliked this year's E3, I think skipping next year's may be a good thing. It's going to be a repeat of this year anyway, minus Spider-Man I guess. This also tells me they can't reveal PS5 games at E3 because they will reveal the PS5 at a later date. Get the remaining PS4 games out of the door first, then start focusing on the PS5.
@Octane Your statement about skipping E3 ‘because the only new or exciting news they have to share is PS5 related’ makes a lot of sense. I think you’re right. They can’t reveal Horizon Zero Dawn 2, Spider-Man 2, or GoW: The Boy Adventures, or any of their other PS5 games that we know are in development until they nail down a PS5 reveal. If your reasoning is correct, then it’s a wise move to hold out until the PS5 announcement is ready, probably later in the year.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
My issue is they have games to show off. Nioh 2, Medieval remake, stuff like that. If they made the expectations tempered like we initially expected this year, they could still have an E3. Plus third-part announcements can come too.
@Jaz007 Yeah, we’ll still get the 3rd party announcements and I’m sure they will mention PS4 exclusive things, but some may be presented during the Microsoft show and if so we won’t be detailed about PS extras. There are a couple exclusives left for PS4 that weren’t highlighted at the last E3 like Medieval Remake and Dreams (not sure Nioh 2 has been confirmed, has it?) but probably not enough for a full conference. Xbox went high volume this past E3 and will probably do so again with all the studios they have bought, whereas Sony focused on quality over quantity. For some reason the consensus was that it was a weaker show by Sony as a result and so I get why they don’t want to try that approach again. Especially when games like Nioh and Medieval are not going to be system sellers like The Last of Us and Spider-Man.
“We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.”
So I had a bike stolen (a cycle this time) in August, and it cost around £900 so it was quite nice and I was pretty disappointed to see it go. Usually they don't come back to you, especially somewhere like London, but I got a call this afternoon from the police and they picked up someone dealing drugs on it so I'm getting it back!
I did since replace it, so I'm not sure I have room for both now... I've already told my girlfriend hers is going to get moved into the garden, I don't know how that's going to go down though.
@kyleforrester87 That's pretty sweet. They're often gone if don't hear anything after a few weeks. It's a good thing they checked the reports of missing bikes.
@Th3solution I’m convinced the only reason it was weaker was because the format was awful. If Sony has a traditional press conference people would have loved it. And it might have less new announcements than a regular E3, but look at MS’s E3, they were were considered to have a good conference and didn’t have a lot of big exclusives to show, I can’t even remember what they had honestly. They took advantage of thurd-party though, and it worked well enough for them. I belive Sony could have a good E3, just not a legendary one.
Today I spent the day at work helping the fire victims by handing stuff like toiletries, food, petfood, clothes and such to them. It was quite a humbling experience and it felt good helping those that lost everything. It's amazing how basic necessities like toothpaste, shampoo, clean clothes we take for granted. One girl that I gave shampoo too was so happy that she will be able to wash her hair tonight.
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@Tasuki I can't even begin to understand what it must be like in that situation to have just lost almost everything like that. And not for it to be just your own property that's gone but everyone around you too.
@Thrillho It is a humbling experience to say the least. It's amazing the stuff we take for granted in our every day lives. These people that I helped were so greatful to be receiving a bar of soap or a bag of razors, a new pair of clean socks etc. I hope that I am never in a situation like that and my heart goes out for those that are. I was glad that I was able to help those in need out in whatever way I could.
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