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Re: 'People Are Less Willing to Pay': Dev Speaks Out Against Day One Releases on PS Plus, Xbox Game Pass

LordAinsley

The conversation has completely changed. You see it with Mindseye.

People arent saying "looks bad" or "maybe ill try a demo". People straight up say "I will try it WHEN it lands on Plus". Not if. WHEN.

People know, sales will be bad and they will try to recoup by selling the licence to Sony or Microsoft. And they know the worse the sales, the sooner that will happen.

No idea if you can put a lid back on that

Re: Despite Black Panther Cancellation, EA Is Still Making Three Games with Marvel

LordAinsley

This is a big company thing I think.

They got the rights for these properties, presumably for a cost, and instantly their leadership announced them even though no work had been done to try and fluff up their stock price.

The Iron Man game has actually worked out but presumably a year or so of trying to get this Black Panther game going, nothing interesting/fun came up so it gets "cancelled". I suspect it never really existed in the first place.

Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33: Flying Waters Walkthrough - Paint Cages, Journals

LordAinsley

@Ammurphy612 Yeah, this guide is a little odd.

It specifically highlights some outfits but not others.
I thought maybe the idea was to highlight outfits tied to mimes as most of them are in this guide but then I found a few mimes in levels that arent listed in the guide as well.

Its been good for journals and music tracks though, I've got all the music now and just need to beat some optionals for the last few journals

Re: Poll: Are You Hyped for GTA 6 After Trailer 2?

LordAinsley

I think the trailer, although it looked graphically pleasing, was kind of uninteresting.

This probably says something about the length of the production cycle, but the idea of a Florida based open world filled with conspiracy theorists, gators, beer, booze, trap and strippers...its just very 2015.

Maybe they'll have an interesting take on it, but I feel like their writing team has really dampened, a lot of the trademark Rockstar humour felt stale in GTAV and I'm getting the same vibes from this trailer.

Hopefully, I'll be proven wrong

Re: Poll: Are You Sold on Borderlands 4?

LordAinsley

The humour and character are unbareable and somehow get more annoying each iteration of the game.

Even the first game, I remember people commenting how Claptrap is annoying, but every game outtrumped him by 10 and he's almost the best character in there now.

The gameplay doesnt change enough to make me sit through the awful, unfunny, Elon Musk-tier humour. I couldnt make it the whole way through 3.

Re: Rumour: An XCOM-Like Rainbow Six Spin-Off Is in the Works for PS5

LordAinsley

Sounds good to me, but feels strange to me that we're suddenly getting loads of XCOM-likes (Star wars one, marvel one, R6 one) when apparently they dont sell that well?

I wonder if they've sort of worked out a good way to budget it so it can be profitable and sell to the audience of people who want this, or it s a punt and it wont make as much money as the studios expect

Re: Dodgy List of Most Influential Games Ever Puts 2-Month-Old RPG in the Top 10

LordAinsley

The problem with all of these surveys that are done by people who aren't critics is that 90% of people just see any analysis like this as "What is the best game".

In this case, its influential but you often get it in other awards, the GOTY often will win "Best Sound" which often isn't the case.

People love to hate on critics, but they actually thoughtfully analyse things. Also you don't have to agree with anything anyone says really, so why does it matter

Re: Over 70% of PS5 Fans Want Sony to License More of Its Dead Franchises Out

LordAinsley

@naruball I dont think so.

I think guaranteed successes are few and far between:

A Killzone remaster/remake might sell OK, same with an Infamous one (but probably not gangbusters)

Anything else, I just dont see the market for it. They wont flop but they're going to sell like 100-200K copies if they make a new Socom or Resistance or Twisted Metal or whatever. Theres just no market for it. If there was...the game would already have been made

Re: Don't Forget About the New Game from One of GTA's Most Important People

LordAinsley

I'm suspicious of how this is going to play.

In theory, this is a game that exists in Everywhere, so in practice, is this a game made in a game generating game, similar to Tren (built in Dreams)?

Theres so much potentially to go wrong. If Everywhere makes bad games, then this game is just going to be bad.

if it makes good games, but this game has been made badly its bad.

We need more gameplay and previews.

Re: Animus Hub to Bridge Assassin's Creed Shadows to Modern Day Story

LordAinsley

@WolfyTn I like it, it feels damned if you do and damned if you dont.

They overleant on the series in the PS3 era, and started really dripfeeding the overarching future story so practically nothing of impact happens during the game.

I think Valhalla did the best in recent years with it, so its kind of disappointing that in Shadows its been relegated to next to nothing. Its pretty one note in Mirage as well.

I'd love to see them try and fix it but at this point I think they either need to fully reboot the franchise