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He also forgot to mention… That with the acquisition, Housemarque has also painted a target on it back. With everything that’s going on in the world. Studios shouldn’t be publicly announcing how they was able to increase development cost… That the problem with game development now. The acquisition should have been a way to create the same game at the same budget before being acquired.

@Keyblade-Dan Build where the type of game you’re trying to develop make sense, I guess?

@PsBoxSwitchOwner CoD doesn’t exactly scratch the itch that Rainbowsix/division/Any Tom Clancy game provides. CoD is way too arcady and not tactical. Grabbing Ghost Recon and letting the coalition work on it would be cool since Ghost Recon is just another band of brothers game like Gears.

@RoomWithaMoose “ The only worthwhile IP is Assassin's Creed, but Ubi would be stupid to sell it.”

There rumors that they may be spinning off Assassins Creed into a business with Tencent

@nhSnork “ variably related medical conditions should one even have to benefit from stuff like this or even maintain awareness thereof without relying on Figital Doundry's spec porn? ”

Could being a 20 year old professional League player count as a medical condition?

@fournexus Bandai was also a toy company at first… Hasbro failing at video games has more to do with them being a terrible company in general than them a toy company.

@Orpheus79V "Either way I'm curious/happy to see the studio doing a non Lego game in the future, it's been about 17 years since their last release.

We will probably not see any future games from them cause I'm pretty sure the only reason WB games has keep TT game open for this long was cause their lego games was making money.

@tameshiyaku @nomither6 Thank you!!! Took the words right of my month.

I love how everyone is sitting here complaining about what makes a FF game a FF game, but not even FF it self know what make a FF game… Literally the most popular and best selling FF game ever is one that mostly only still popular cause you can play dress up as a half naked cat girls and go clubbing.

If Square Enix wants to make an open world space opera with third person shooting and call it Final Fantasy 18. They are fully allowed to do it…

@McBurn It natural life cycle of game studios. Studio get established; studio create massive hit; studio gets acquired; studio gets hit by lay offs, creative talent leaves, or studio closes down; new studio(s) are born. Then the cycle repeats.

@RagnarLothbrok “ PS games had the same thing on steam at first but now sales have cratered there in comparison to how they forst sold”

And at no one else fault but Sony’s own. They burnt that PC bridge. It has nothing about the lack of curiosity. As long as Microsoft don’t burn any bridges with PlayStation players… Their games will continue to sell.

@dskatter "Suicide Squad ended the Arkhamverse beyond saving. So it’ll be interesting to see what happens if they’re allowed to do more damage."

Arkham Shadow came out and is high rated, so no... Suicide Squad did not kill the Arkhamverse. That game Rocksteady helped with, and it lays the ground work for a sequel-prequel

@dskatter Because Rocksteady is still surviving off the legacy they created with the Arkham series… The Arkham universe continues to print WB money be it tie in books, animated movie, or VR titles. Killing off Rocksteady could mean killing off that universe.

@HotGoomba Not enough people hate Meta since the Quest continues to outsell every major VR headset on the market.

@HotGoomba Nah. The Quest 3s is the modern PC VR headset steal. It lighter, cheaper, wireless, and offers just about the same functionality as the Quest 3 in standalone. There nothing worth it about buying PSVR2 over a Quest system for…. Plus you still need to buy the adapter so that another $60 which at that point. You may as well had just bought a Quest 3.

@LogicStrikesAgain No. The Quest 3 does not require a PC. It a standalone device. Facebook is also not required… You really need to update your 3 years out of date information.

@LogicStrikesAgain Granted, the Quest 3 doesn’t require an extra $400 device to use it tho. Plus the Quest 3 is actually getting games and will continue to get games for a longer period due to Meta opening up the OS to third parties manufacturers.

$400 is still way too expensive… It should be max $300.Neither the hardware or game are there to make worth the investment

Interesting. It really looks like Konami is making a full come back into the gaming space. Hopefully we get a new castlevania soon.

@JohntheRaptor You’re close… NetEase original and main business is E-commerce and internet technology services. They’re the largest free email provider in China… Them being this big and involved in gaming only start a year or two pre covid when they invested a ton of money into Bungie. Before that they dealt with licensing Blizzard game in china, and had a couple online games

@rjejr Laid off is still the correct term. Fired usually only used when it the employee fault aka own performance issues or misconduct. Being laid off allows employees to retain benefits for a period of time, being fired does not allow that.

Laid off is also at the fault of employers, not employee

“ Lay-offs implies going back to your job when the work picks up again. Think someone selling peanuts at a baseball game or life guards at a beach”

That would actually be more akin to Furlough

@Jrs1 I’m guessing a lot of it comes from the fact most people who are heavily into indies don’t care about the graphical or detail aspect of the games… Only the game play aspect. Most of these games look just as good on a 7inch vs 85inch screen. You’re not gaining anything from playing Stardew on a 85inch screen. A steam deck will also play a lot of these games maxed out at full resolution…

Another big reason for the switch, portal, and deck being the best place for indies. Is cause indie games allows for a much easier pick up and play. Most of these games don’t have endless 2-5 minute loading screens, have shorter game loops… etc. You easily play these game while at work on break, at a coffee shop, or on the train, plane, or bus.

A lot of indie games are also very cozy with cozy vibes. Being able to play them curled up in bed underneath a warm blanket with a pet cuddled up next to you is bliss.

Now my personal reason for switch, portal, deck being best suit for indies is due to minimal UI and very little heat those systems put out vs my PC and monitor. Booting up windows and steam to a pain. I live in a small studio apartment, so my 4090 and 1000nit OLED monitor basically becomes a space heater for an apartment that has an ambient temperature of 76 degrees F even in the winter

@Oram77 It understandable that Gooner blade isn’t on the list… Rebirth not being there is a miss.

@Blauwe_Chimay Take a look at Indiana Jones… We don’t need the original cast for a game to be good.

@Blauwe_Chimay As much I want them to get the original cast. I think it time for some new blood when it comes to these characters. Especially since video games development takes ages now, and none of the actors are getting any younger.

@Drago201 That a little bit different since by using the music... Royalties have to be paid out to the artist, producers... etc. Sony Music Group isn't just going to eat the cost of that. Unless DC is still paying royalties to the families of the creators. There wouldn't be any charge with an internal studio using the IP.

@AndroidBango WB can't afford to completely shut down a studio. They don't own a lot of studio, so shutting down Rocksteady would basically cripple their gaming division.

@Drago201 "the license for the intellectual property"

They wouldn't(shouldn't) have to pay any licensing fee since they are own by WB.

T pose for dominance

@nomither6 The entire company has been doing terrible since early 2010s. The gaming division barely bring in any profit, and we been talking about them selling off the gaming division since 2014... The company has gone through multiple mergers to keep a float since they was nothing but a money pit for AT&T so they was spun off... They are still struggling at they cancel multiple projects for cost saving and Tax write offs. And what they did to Cartoon Network is tragic.

@nomither6 " considering how big & rich WB is"

WB or more so WBD (Warner Bros Discover) isn't exactly rich. They're basically sinking, and struggling financially.

@ThomasHL Server capacity is very expense especially if you aren't running it out of a backroom in your office. Now with major cloud provider like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure... Companies aren't running server onsite like they used to. It all handed off to a 3rd party company now.

@3Above That depends on if they can build a case against it. That could end up being a pal world vs Nintendo situation

@3Above Or it could be that now we’re back to a Japanese business man CEO in charge of SIE… They’re probably not gonna tolerate stuff like this. 🤷

@RoomWithaMoose Rare Replay is probably not happening any time soon. The amount of effort to get all those emulated games especially the 360 games working would most likely not make it worth it…

@twitchtvpat @andrewsqual No. it 100% not required for all Microsoft games on PC. It actually only required for games that have online features (Flight sim, Forza, Halo…etc)

You can play single player games without, and this how it has been since they went to Steam.

EDIT: If a game requires a 3rd party account. Steam listed it on the Steam page.

@Ashina He killed one of the dlc protagonist, Johnny Klebitz, from lost and the damned. But not the main protagonist.

@get2sammyb “ If they're opening up their platform to, say, Steam then they're creating an environment where their customers may buy the hardware and never give Microsoft another cent.”

Granted, if Xbox’s recent developer connect is anything to go off of. Microsoft will be the only publisher releasing games on a constant basis. Unless you deliberately avoid any game Microsoft publish… You will be missing out on a lot of games. You’re going to give Microsoft money at some point or another.

@Oram77 I’m sure they’re talking about the brand as a whole, not just some small team in some back room office. Move PlayStation headquarters back to Japan, swap back the X and Circle button use… etc

@wiiware A lot of it has to do with too many people in these companies being buddy buddy, ‘You scratch my back, I’ll scratch your”. Reflector Entertainment CEO worked at Bandai Europe for 10+ before leaving, founding Reflector Entertainment, before returning to be CCO for Bandai Europe and CEO of Reflector Entertainment. There is probably a lot strange inside stuff going on.

I don’t want to be that guy…. But if I was the people at this studio. I would start putting in applications for other studios. Things aren’t looking great especially if Sony needs to close a studio cause they spent too much money on acquiring Anime production companies.

RIP my favorite local studio

@Airsqueeble Better hardware, maybe? It depends on if Microsoft goes closed ecosystem or portable pc just with Xbox branding.

Don’t know why they thought they could pivot to big fancy AAA-AA style games. Should’ve just continued to work on Duelyst 🤷‍♂️

@Oram77 @DennisReynolds That cause those same people still goes out and buys the game…
My friend group talked major crap about Sword and Shield, but they still went out and bought SW&SH then bought Scarlet and Violet.

@Leonhart Silent Hill is good… But Hellblade 2 is next level, but that cause the selling point of Hellblade 2 is it audio design. You had people questioning their audio setup when it came time to play Hellblade 2

Sony games has been filled with product placement for over a decade at this point… nothing new.

@Kriandis You mean the character that they keep trying to push to the back seat of their own films, and the one they absolutely trying to replace each film? Had Kingdom of the Crystal worked and Shia didn’t face legal trouble… Mutt would had probably replaced Indiana Jones.

But Indiana Jones also worked cause we first saw Indiana Jones when Ford was 38… and the character aged along side him. Unless they plan to age up Nathan Drake with his daughter involved, an almost 60 year old actor isn’t going to work… especially long term.

@Balaam_ @Coffeeglitch Both Nathan Fillion and Mark Wahlberg are unfortunately too old to play Nathan Drake… Sony is too busy thinking about how they can turn this into a long term franchise. Give Tom Holland age and current popularity… He was the best choice if they plan to make 5, 6, or 7 of these movies.

@Member_the_game As someone who has done IT support for ISP… “Cast to TV” is not at all reliable depending on your ISP firewall settings, or if you in an apartment/dorm/housing complex… etc that doesn’t have a unique router per unit. So casting will be blocked unless you specifically request access to due so.

Given that they just announced another anime… we’ll be seeing plenty of more updates/patches.