AgentMantis

Yuri is SAG-AFTRA, no developer in their right mind will touch anyone signed up to that cartel now.

Corporate says I need to write an apology

@glennthefrog I'm not sure they are tbh, they've always been a mid-tier developer who sees themselves as far more important than their output has ever warranted.

Injustice would be poorly timed, the DC cinematic universe fell on its butt and the general fatigue with all things superhero hasn't shifted. With Warner Brothers deep in a debt crisis it's possible they just sell the studio if they're years away from a release.

@get2sammyb Exactly. All the people crying out for Factions seem to forget it that it wasn't all that popular, despite it's quality, and many resented it for taking resources from the base game.

All filler, no killer

Even on PS+ I wouldn't bother

"Real fans will find a way"
6 months later:
"Did not meet sales expectations"

@SeanOhOgain Genshin has an estimated 6.5m active players alone, that's a five year old game at this point. Honkai Star Rail made £100m in April alone. Gacha's and live service are massive.

A lack of an invert y killed the game for me on launch. Looks like I dodged a bullet by dropping it

I was interested until I found out it's part of a meta-world approach with plans for digital storefronts, social media integration and a live service shooter all in the pipeline.

Looking forward to Gloomhaven

Square Enix's final boss is their executive level

Get ready for "sales didn't met expectations" statements

It's because EA FC didn't sell well last year and the last battlefield tanked. They need to shift copies to keep that share price high. If they had a killer slate you could guarantee the prices would rise

The developers likely didn't want to make an extraction shooter, EA gave them no choice. EA is sat on some absolutely gold IP and they waste it all.

I'm not sure there's a lot that could bring me back after 3. They struck gold with 2, everything else has been mediocre at best.

It's incredibly short, I completed everything in an afternoon. It's the kind of game that should be on PS+ not £25, no matter how cute the cat is!

Easily the worst PlayStation exclusive, everything about it is mind numbingly dull

Tangoworks died after a shadowdrop, you would have thought lessons had been learned. Given Bethesda's pedigree a shadow drop from them screams broken, near unplayable mess alarm bells.

It's worth noting that E33 is £40 on launch.

"Did I ever tell you what the definition of insanity is?"

It's baffling that Sony has even made the low effort to port this to PS5. It was the blandest PS4 exclusive going, literally everything about it was generic. They canned any potential sequel for good reason, they should have just left it to rot like they've (unfairly) done to Bloodborne.

I'm sure it's dozens of players are ecstatic about it

The changes don't benefit the game in any way, the meta "fates" story angle is cringe worthy and they should have never included the edgelord characters from the extended universe.

It'd need a ground up rebuild for me to pull the trigger on it. It's just too outdated, even Skyrim which improved upon pretty much everything feels archaic without mods.

Wrapping up Dragon age Veilguard. Each to their own but I've had an enjoyable time with it.

Netflix? The same company that has seen a downturn in quality in recent years, has raised its prices as subscriptions have plateaued and is $17 billion in debt? I'm sure the CEO has some great advice to dish out

While the game itself could be interesting, the metaverse they are building around it sounds terrible. It's part of a wider project where they want digital storefronts and social media accessible through the game, a live service shooter is up next.

Dragon Age: Veilguard, while it's not perfect but it's far from the car crash it was made out to be.

Dead on arrival

@Throb has it still not been fixed!!! I had to drop it shortly after release as it was basically unplayable for me.

Xbox going back to console exclusives isn't going to happen, a more likely scenario"exclusive to Gamepass". With enough of the industry under its control it can effectively force the service onto playstation.

@Anke it's not the kids, they didn't ask for this. It's the sketchy group that engineered a shady takeover.

@nessisonett while I support workers rights to not being replaced with AI this is not what is going on. Lycoan's VA refused to work for a company, that while not union, is emphatically against AI voice creation in a sympathy strike to a union he ISN'T even a part of. He then took to social media and misrepresented the entire situation. Voice actors across the industry have since come out and praised Sound Cadence as one of the good ones. It's the Bayonetta situation all over again.

Genuinely shocking. I can't see how EA justifies Bioware's existence for much longer

The game allegedly cost $700m to make, what did they spend the money on!?

No doubt he'll get a fat bonus for making the "hard decisions"

I gave it a go as it was free but it's not for me, I just wasn't having any fun with it.

PS+/Gamepass changed the AA sphere, everyone just waits for them to inevitably hit the service

@nessisonett games are now taking 4-5 years to develop, imagine how long it'd take if you had a custom engine to build as well. On top of that new staff need to be brought up to speed on the new engine before they can actually contribute. Modern games are so technically complicated that a common industry engine is a necessity.

3 was the peak of the series for me, hopefully we get the remakes we should have years ago.

Cut content for DLC. It's a cynical bare bones launch.

After 3 or 4 entries it's usually better to walk away, let the team re-energise and try something new before the franchise slides into diminishing returns. As much as I enjoyed the Resistance series Sony made the right call, Insomniac has gone from strength to strength while in comparison just look at how Gears and Halo have struggled since their same gen heydays.

It's the series that pushed me back to playstation after jumping over to the X360. I just didn't like it and it was absolutely huge, I just couldn't see a future for Xbox where it wasn't dominated by sci-fi shooters.

I enjoyed the demo but ubisoft games are subscription fodder. I'll carry on slaying the backlog until it inevitably turns up on ps+.

@DonkeyFantasy That's the little extra spice though. Spencer's grubby grand plan not only failed it forced Xbox to pull a SEGA. He now has to sit through interviews confirming just how badly he mismanaged Xbox.

Metaphor and ZZZ

The non-existent marketing and terrible name don't help. FIFA, CoD and Fortnite and all the other live service titles with booming player bases leave very little left over for anyone else, when you add in the high costs of making a modern game it's little surprise that the AA market is essentially non-viable.

Arise and Scarlet Nexus both suffer from "but wait there's more" insane plotting. The core premise of each game was interesting enough. The mountain of half baked plot twists scuppered the second half of each of them.