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I specifically remember them buying the exclusivity to the Tomb Raider sequel and also adding silence clauses to crystal dynamics PR so they were not allowed to admit that the deal was temporary and would eventually the game would come to other platforms.

@DonkeyFantasy you can play every single Tango Game on a PlayStation console

@KidRyan no, I didn't realise that existed

Honestly I remember it just being all over the place and I remember the frozen section being really dull

Did people like KH3?

It honestly put me off the entire franchise. I really enjoyed 1 and 2 when they released and replayed them in the HD collection but 3 just didnt work for me at all

Didn't realise their designer had passed away, tragic. The style of Coffee Talk really is beautiful, it's a very stylish game from the menus, to the backgrounds and the characters

@Platinum-Bucket
"Just to let you know, this is gonna suck"
doesn't mean you're allowed to not think it sucks

The combo of shorter showcases and splitting the first party studios between single player and live service essentially means you don't have a lot of time anymore if what you want to see is tentpole single player games

Praise be. I know it's difficult but id love to see an eventual ps3 emulator.

Miller can say what ever he wants about Mad Max as far as I'm concerned.

Maybe they could've made a better game. Maybe the development of the game was difficult.

The end result is the Mad Max movies are unique interesting movies, and the game they made is a generic open world collectathon game with a bad reskin of the Arkham combat released in a sea of other similar titles.

I think it is still an incredible deal to game pass users even if the games aren't exclusive.

Win win I see it. Xbox players get free games, PlayStation players get to play them.

The game was (and presumably still is) legitimately good. It got a lot of hate first time around and I don't really know why, people were practically day by day reporting the player drop off like a spectator event.

I never had trouble finding a match

A very strange publisher.

As I've heard repeated numerous times in the last year, they have run out of Western studios to blame their follies and losses on. I'm interested to see if this will lead to actual scrutiny for the 3 creative units

Game that consisting of 100 hours of climbing towers, killing 5 people in a settlement and opening 10000 chests promises further 30 hours of thrilling tower climbing, settlement liberating, chest opening action in post launch window.

I really like being able to play these old, tough as nails games with the rewind feature.

seeing the ending of games I never managed to beat as a kid is a joy

@Bionic-Spencer in this market it would be absolutely insane for them to release a niche game like Hellblade as an exclusive, you're asking for big M$ to shutter the studio after a lacklustre launch.

hell, its insane that Starfield is currently locked on Xbox, I predict that they will make millions porting it.

@trev666 they're currently paying some consultant firm thousands of dollars to tell them that, and you're out here giving the info out for free!

@Art_Vandelay there was a certain global event a few years ago that he was a skeptic of, something I found surprising of a guy who portrays himself as a voice of reason

I still love The Witness and Braid by the way.

Whoa no way.

So you're telling me the entire weeks long controversy was all bad faith nonsense used by bad actors in an intentional attempt to poison the conversation!??

COLOR ME SURPRISED!

It's a great game. I'll never understand its failure.

For the gamer:
Slay the Spire good
Firaxis good

For the Marvel fan:
characters good
story good

And Marvel Snap and Spiderman games are massively popular, tying the two target audiences and game genre.

And the game just didnt sell. Its blasphemy honestly.

@Ico1977 they're both super interesting characters.

weirdly as time goes on I've swung around to like Phil and dislike Blow, complete opposites of how I felt a decade ago

If this release made you wonder "I wonder what Jon Blow is up to now" I beg you. Just go about your life. Do not check his twitter page. Live happy. Hug your family

Is 2 hours enough time to see...that scene 👀 it is, isnt it?

I wonder if this is tied to how, without a solid sales figure for the title because of Gamepass, it's easy to just write the studio off.

There was a great article Kotaku ran the other day, "What's Even The Point Of Xbox Game Pass Now?" talking to this topic. If it doesnt insulate the studio from shutdowns, whats the point of it?

This is absolutely fine of course.

I do think some of those exclusivity deals done with Playstation, there is a potential that Square calculated that the money lost from not launching on Xbox was low enough that Sonys exclusivity cheque either covered it or straight up was worth more to them than the added players.

But I think all of these games should be multi-plat, even if the Xbox version is just serving one person

This studio is 10000% getting shut down.

They're lucky they're in the stage of development they are, otherwise they'd have been added to this months bin with the other studios.

Really does look like that awesome The Animated Series Joker.

The devs of this are the guys who used to make "The Decline of Video Gaming" flash animations (which was 15 years ago now jesus christ)

@NinjaNicky yeah and I don't play any of those either. Zelda the last 2 were a departure right? Climbing system, open world etc.

Whats the point of remaking old Assassins Creed games, the games are all exactly the same anyway, playing Valhalla feels like playing Origins, Playing 2 feels like playing Brotherhood etc.

Please do not buy these titles. Ubisoft need to stop churning out Far Cry 3 reskinned and AC reskinned every few years and they won't learn if you buy them

Is it on deep discount somewhere?

First we had the "2cm of boob covered from a single costume" controversy.

And now we have the "login to an account" controversy.

I'm terrified as to what will we get next? I barely survived these two, I hope Sony start providing therapy to customers

Sounds cool.

I thought the last trilogy was decent, but sort of diminishing returns for each game.

The story wasn't super engaging either so would like to see improvements here. I really liked Lara and the Maori guy in the trilogy, but thought they should have built more on their friendship. The voice actors bounced off each other really well I wanted more of them

@L_Bosch I have darker desires

I forgot Lies of P are a Korean studio too.

Two good games from Korea, hopefully we'll get more

@TheOldHunter4K

Ordered thanks for the headsup

I want to see Professor Layton laying pipe

Surely you should be trying to make those 5% reductions across the board rather than pinpointing two entire studios and shutting them down.

Although I believe Intercept are a studio that was spun up to support Kerbal and help with Kerbal 2 and are directly responsible for Kerbal.

Aside from the fact the controversy is entirely ginned up by bad actors and waste of absolutely everyone's time, I don't think saying “stay tuned for updates” and thanking players for their “passion and feedback” is a tacit approval or even acknowledgement of the cringe inducing petition currently being run by some of the worst people in the space.

The time window on those breach chests are insane. I'm just making them but oof. I cant imagine how someone with slower reaction times would do it, and if you were color blind

@Porco agreed. I really like the gameplay which is keeping me hooked but the story is a real nothingburger and the VO is pretty awful

@DennisReynolds I think I prefer the combat in Stellar Blade to Nier, although yeah, the story and voice acting is nowhere near as strong.

Anyone gassed about "censorship" in this title, open the menu, go to the costume section and click your current costume.

It removes your current costume and thus, all of Eve's clothes.

@Futureshark I have full faith that you'll get over this, don't worry.

Time heals all wounds

@Terra_Custodes the dream

I wish it was a better game they'd chosen to give a little touchup.
I'd take New Vegas, I'd even take 3. 4's such a bummer of a game, I wish it was better

I'd love to get that Gears of War Ultimate Edition, play a little Team Deathmatch on Gridlock for old times sake

It's working now, I just downloaded.

It wasnt working yesterday so I was definitely affected

I need that performance patch asap