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@KoopaTheGamer Splintered Fate is excellent. I’ve been playing through it on my M4 iPad Pro, and it definitely a great hades rogue lite. I just don’t know if I would play $30 for it tho. Maybe $20 max, $15 on sale… etc

I loved how much attention TMNT has gotten in the gaming industry over the last 4 years, but where is the mature TMNT stuff for the older fans? Wasn’t we supposed to be getting a game based off The Last Ronin graphic novel?

@TruestoryYep Yeah. I enjoy Eurojank as much as the next guy, and they were kings of Eurojank. But I never understood how they survived a day past Gothic.

Give it a day, and most people won't even remember this studio once the news articles are over.

It sad that people are losing their job, but nothing of value was really lost...

@rjejr This is the first time I heard someone compare ZZZ to “Astral chain”.

Everyone and myself included have been comparing it more to Persona, especially Persona 4, with the whole y2k aesthetic and focus on CRTs.

@Nem This doesn't really mean anything. A studio came work on more than one game at a time.

This comment section is how you know the developers made a good guy. People only get this butt hurt when others are having fun and enjoying something they dislike

@rjejr the last time I checked… They had 5k employees across 9 locations. How many are actually working on the games. Idk.

That probably also why they moved away from the open world with HSR and ZZZ. And went back to a much more limited scope. Some will say that also why there so little actual “gameplay” in ZZZ

@Malaise It also help that they’re easily accessible. Like it or not, not everyone has a PS5 or a decent PC, but everyone definitely has a mobile phone. Mix that in with the massive performance increase we’ve seen from mobile chip over the last couple years. These game have become the go to for anyone slightly interested in mobile gaming due to the high quality content and optimization it receives on mobile.

@Dalamar RE should have ended after 4… Then we wouldn’t gotten 5 and 6, and all the other random nonsense they’ve given us. I still don’t consider 7 and 8 RE games.

@Dalamar They killed the studio years ago…

@Splat Even with how cheesy that game is. I boot it up on my pc at least once a year.

@Vdweller "We live in a world where only 32% of gamers actually finish the game
But this is Gamepass/PSpremium thing right?"

No. This has nothing to do with Game pass/PS premium. Not everything in the industry is the fault those service.

People have been saying this for ages that gamers aren't completing games well those services existed. Games are selling "xxx" millions of copies per year, but if you look at achievement/trophies. Games that have achievement/trophies for the final level or beating the game. The % are extremely low. Most people aren't even finishing first level or tutorials based of %.

@Porco Sakaguchi literally stated that in multiple interviews for the game that there was no plans for it prior to Apple. Whether or not Apple was looking for “big names”. This game only spawn because of that… We would have probably ended up with a vastly different game had they went with someone, or they would continue supporting Terra.

Who to say it was a bad fit? The only people who had problems with it. Are those who holds a grudge against mobile gaming in general or Apple.

@Porco "the apple arcade version (which nobody wanted)."

If it wasn't for Apple or Apple Arcade... This game wouldn't exist period. It was a game that only came into existence due Sakaguchi meeting with some Apple employees, who were fans of both Final Fantasy and Uematsu's work, and the funding that provided to them through Apple Arcade.

Great game. Really enjoyed playing it on my iPhone and MacBook. Great that it getting more attention.

@Nem The only issue isn’t that other two games aren’t completely self contained… If I remember correctly, the main player character, Hawke, from 2 shows up in Inquisition. Which means you’re missing out the relationship building between Hawke and Varric.

@UltimateOtaku91 "Reasons vary by each person, for me it's not the Xbox games or the Xbox console as both look great, it's Microsoft and their business strategy that I don't like and do not want to give my money to help them (in my opinion) consolidate the market even more.
If they ever become just a Publisher then il probably buy their games."

What kind of backwards statement is this... If you don't like their business strategy of consolidating the industry. That means you don't support them period. Cause you supporting them as a publisher sound like you just don't like Xbox consoles.

It definitely looks interesting… I probably only pick since they are releasing a version for iPad. But Ghost of Tsushima will continue to be king of Japan/Samurai games. I

@UltimateOtaku91 "Titanfall 1 full exclusive, GTA 4 DLC timed exclusive, Dead Rising and Ryse full exclusive etc etc" Phil wasn't even in charge of Xbox when these happened... Also, Xbox had some stake in the studio that did DR3 and DR4. So, they had contractual rights to the franchise, and was probably the only reason we gotten the sequels that we did.

@UltimateOtaku91 More like the usual. "We're a small devs team, and can't make work on multiple platforms at the same time, so are focusing on the biggest player base first".

We saw the same thing last gen. Xbox is just not a priority.

@MegaManX-7 The Sequel don't look bad... But out curiosity i booted up my PC copy, and yeah... It looks bad.

@MegaManX-7 If this comparison between the old and remake are real. The game need more than just 60FPS... The visual jump looks like jump from a Switch to PC, and that probably was the PS4 version. I can't imagine playing that on PS5 even with 60FPS.

@jorel262 Avalanche Software is probably busy also working on the sequel…

@Cjam36 Yeah. It better then laying off half the studio like it used to be.

@Frmknst Nah. A P2P model is better… Should hopefully keep micro transactions low, and at least will keep some toxic players at bay especially if the game doesn’t blow up in popularity.

@ShadowofSparta It was at one point... Now it trying to be the metaverse

@Gamer_X The Xbox Showcase hasn't leaked yet. Come Friday or Saturday there will be leaks. It happens every year, but also, I'm pretty sure the Xbox showcases are live events... They aren't just pre-recorded and uploaded to Youtube like the State of Plays.

@reek Cause being weaker then something doesn’t technically make it last gen. The only thing weaker about the S is the GPU, and the fact it has less available memory. It has a significantly better architecture, faster storage, a better CPU, support for Ray tracing… etc.

@Tecinthebrain I don't know where you're getting that PC gamers aren't watching these states of plays. 99% of the game show here are releasing on PC at some point... PC doesn't have a big event where a bunch of AAA game are announced that caters to them. So, these Playstation and Xbox event are literally the only place where a LOT of PC gamer can see announcements for the next big game.

@Orpheus79V I feel that they do this every event. So it something y'all just need to get used to.

@glennthefrog They are most likely forced to churn them out. Even tho it seem the developers are fine with making the games. But that what happens when you deal with licensed game. You have to churn an “X amount out” or lose the license. It really why Sony have to dump out a bunch of Spider-Man Universe based movies even tho they all suck.

This is probably why they move from in-house engine to UE5

@Mikey856 You forgot the GameCube… which was also a failure

@adit365 Yeah... The Avalanche studio's founder was not happy at all with George Miller comment on their game.

Cool. Won’t be buying tho… I don’t and have never really cared for Treyarch’s CoDs. I’m an infinity ward fan, so I can probably skips next year CoD as well if we get one.

@kcarnes9051 "that this sequel was originally supposed to be on Playstation? "

Do you have anything to confirm that the sequel was supposed to be on Playstation. Cause there was no confirm that a sequel was even in the works post release of the first game... Ninja Theory went straight to work on Bleeding Edge. So how can a non-existed sequel supposed to be on a platform.

@glennthefrog Cause it didn't take 5 year... more like 3-4 years. The development for the game didn't start till 2020, and it development was probably slow down due to covid, and the fact they had to wait for UE5 which didn't actually launch till 2022.

Can’t wait to play this. Quite enjoyed the first one… but didn’t get to finish it. Since it more or less crippled my GTX1060, and was just playable of my 2070 super. This time I have an 4090 to throw at it.

I really hope that this game tackles some of the fights in Super... I am getting sick of playing the same old fights from Z.

Also, who do I have to sell my soul in order to get a grounded OG Dragon Ball game?

@Americansamurai1 “ I think Herman is playing favorites” Not just Herman… I think there also another ex Guerrilla employee that head of development of something at PlayStation.

@CieloAzure Would we have wanted a sequel? The Ghostwire Tokyo we got probably wasn't even close to the one we were supposed to get since Ikumi Nakamura left a couple of months after it was announced.

@breakneck "How is Spencer still in the job? His gambles have all put Xbox in an even more precarious position."

Cause Phil job isn't just to sell plastic boxes... He job was to overall increase profit in their gaming division. Unfortunately, while his decisions look bad from our viewpoint. He brought Micrsoft from being 7 or 8th in term of revenue (They was getting beat out by Apple and Google). To now being 3rd behind Tencent and Sony, now ahead of Apple.

Imagine where they'll be if their gaming app store plans work out... They now control some of the biggest mobile games.

@Nem I don't consider Greedfall 2 a sequel either. And never stated it was... The article did.

The studio founder has never considered Technomancer a sequel. They stated that during plenty of interviews back when the game originally come out.

Good night Sweet Xbox, you were my pride and joy during my teenage years.

@Nem Not a sequel but set in the same universe.

@Kevw2006 "The only real use I can see for them is transferring saves to a new console and if you need to do that you could simply just sign up for one month to upload and download your saves to the new console."

idk,... Cloud saves is pretty important for more than just moving consoles. If you're someone who buys a lot of games. There is no way you can keep all those saves files on the tiny SSD consoles get. Eventually save data is going to cut into storage that already has to be share with large game downloads and photos/videos.

@Mikey856 An Xbox handheld would most likely just be an Xbox theme handheld PC running window with a custom UI... Basically what the is ROG Ally but green.

@HonestHick Here we go… with this nonsense 😒

Whether or not, it was Jim fault for that. The person he would have been speaking to approve that push for GaaS is Herman, the man who actually approve what titles get developed by their studio, since he was CEO of PlayStation studios.

Rich men don’t count miles. But some do get old, and would rather spend more time with their families.

@nomither6 I get that some of their studios being in California is a big reason. But like I mentioned before in another comment, one of the main reasons that Jim Ryan retired was because of the difficulties caused from having to travel from Europe to North America. These two will probably also get sick of it…