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That is simply not true. The game didn't change at all from beta to release. The low res textures and bad performance were still there as they still are to this day.

It's pretty depressing that the devs are listening to the vocal "souls" crowd more.

I have little hope for the next TU reading what i just did. I will see what sort of improvements arrive, but i am not optimistic.
It is almost certain i will be skipping on the expansion without drastic improvements. Bring on the next rise. I have had enough of this half baked game.

I think the Action RPG part is a bit odd. It's not how i would describe titles in the series, perhaps with the exception of Blood Omen. So, maybe it was a remake/remaster of that?
I really don't think this was a soul reaver remake.

If chrono cross returned, yes, chrono trigger will return as well.

But, a remake could be!

Quite the viral campaign this ended up being. Smart stuff. The actual reveal will be disappointing though, i'm sure. But, it got the attention now.

Umm no, it had a problem of live service. It means everything else except those sequels didn't get greenlit.

God i hate that. No, the silent protagonist does not become the player. I am clearly not the character in the screen nor do i live in that world. It just makes that mute character look very weird cause the other characters need to speak for it.
With that said FFX took some steps back as well. The size of the world felt much smaller with the loss of the traversible world map.

I really wish the silent protagonist trope would go away. It's a huge bummer that hurts the storytelling.

Well... yeah. It's much smarter to make it DLC.
Though personally, i do like getting physical releases with all of the content.

Ultimately, consoles made the mistake of pushing online communities to the PC due to the online play barrier they put up.
As such, it's unsurprising that multiplayer live service games like helldivers 2 gain more traction on pc than single-player games.
So, yeah, after the novelty wears out, i am not surprised PC gamers lose interest.
Online pay walling was a greedy shot in the foot with real consequences. They got money in one hand and let it escape in the other.

I am afraid that with the way social media is and how negativity drives engagement, this is the way forward to prevent an uncontested negative narrative from being formed.
I am in support of it. I have seen several good games fall prey to the disinformation in the last year and i do believe that it is the best for companies that will often be under fire and unfair scrutiny such as big RPG developers like Bethesda and Bioware, which are often dragged into social wars.

I bought the oblivion remaster day 1. If i had read all the negativity beforehand, i probably wouldn't and would have missed a perfectly good game that i loved. I do care about performance, but people nowadays tend to exaggerate in order to again, drive that engagement. I simply reached a point where i don't trust social media anymore.
Having a plurality of opinions out there from day one does allow more opinions to be heard and not be smothered by parroting and disinformation.

Yes, waiting for that Starfield port. It's the only thing that marginally interests me.

Well... the fact that they decided to say something is well... something?
But, "team"? I don't think there is a team any more. The series creator left after release. The staff likely were put working on MH wilds and/or got reassigned to the new Kamiya team.
I doubt there is an actual DD team left. They will be working on Okami atm and probably the next DMC after.

I would be very surprised if they were working on anything for this game, even this series atm. This one will be in cold ice until the next DMC comes out. Even then... i don't know if they have someone that will champion it. I don't see Kamiya picking it up.
But, given these sales, the higher ups might try and get a new project going in the future.

Seriously?! They are taking the piss.

A smart decision.

The steam deck sold 4m in 4 years. In console terms that is a bomb. I don't expect this to be much different.

@BearsEatBeets They still have over 200 people. I don't know exactly with all the lay-offs. They were 273 in 2022.
I also have found out that they hired at least one person this year. Hopefully she is not part of these lay-offs, as she is the best chance at a new legacy of kain game.

@Cerny Yes.

I rate it... a nothing burger.
Though it's cool to see tokyo extreme racer back.

Yeah, it's a bit overpriced. I will wait for a sale.

This one might be up my alley. I hope for exciting announcements.

Putting "infite" on your game title is becoming a meme.

I'm a bit disappointed to see such a negativity farming article, but it's just the internet these days.
What did you want? For them to show pre-alpha stuff so you can say how rough it looks? Bioware just released a game. Mass effect is only now starting full development.

Btw as i see the usual silly comment, DA the veilguard is a great game. Don't listen to the negative nancy's.

Well... given GTA6, it's dangerous to give a new release window. You need to avoid that.

I expect actually. The Xbox will be a PC and the switch 2 won't be able to run some of their games currently in development, so it's very likely playstation will get console exclusives of these, but a release on PC as well. 🤷‍♂️

It would be ideal if obsidian was working on a new fallout.
If we have to wait for bethesda it's gonna take a long time.

I do not believe this is legal in europe so i don't expect it to be on here, but something was off yesterday with the sales.
I had the discount price on ps4 but not on ps5, where it was still showing normal pricing. So, i think they broke something.

GTA3 was all about italian mafia culture. But, yeah... whatever. I haven't been interested since.

I mean... just cause few people are left doesn't mean they won't do it.
I would personally like a new mad max though.
The last just cause was released in 2018. It's mad if they saw that much turnover in 6 years.

Wasn't MGSV open world? Certainly it does...
But, it's not like everything needs to be an open world game.

E33 just doesn't appeal to me at all. There sure is a lot of buzz over it, but i really don't like the art style and way the game looks.
Also, not crazy about the idea of dodging in a turn based game.

I never payed and it would be in everyone's best interest for them to drop it.
All it did was grow the PC online playerbase.
It's daft to bar 60% of your playerbase from your online features. That is a lot of playerbase growth they waved away.

I think you mean ps6 at that point.

@Oram77 No, but when returning to racoon city, which literally is the place where the classics started, i will not accept anything less.
There may still be something. But as it looks like, this is not what i'm interested in.

It's ok. I will patiently away the code veronica remake instead. 😁

@Oram77 They still do remakes i am interested on.
But, yes. I am not interested in this.

Look, this is all a matter of perspective. How you define your market determines your competitors. But, in reality, just saying so doesn't make it so.
Microsoft did not succeed on the games market, so they are redefining their market as the market of simply every entertainment people consume. In that market Xbox is competing with the likes of Tik tok, youtube, netflix, disney+, etc. and honestly even every social network.
It's quite frankly, *****.
The consumer that watches tiktok is not necessarely the consumer that consumes games media. So, no Xbox is not directly competing with them, nor is Playstation. Though one can make the case that the markets are competing with each other.
Xbox is just trying to sell themselves as a bigger player, but in that market, they are even smaller than they are on the games market. 🤷‍♂️

No, thanks. Not interested in returning to racoon city without the classics.

Well... the answer is P6 because i am really short on time these days.
I still have to play P3 remake. But, i will likely get P4 remake as well... eventually.

Well... no time like the present.
I'm sure he will have an opening after Physint. Just need to get Sony on board.

The game has smudgy textures on all versions and it performs badly.
That is the main issue.

It's deserved that sales dropped. The game did not deserve the 10m sales it got at the start that it got from goodwill alone.
I have doubts the December patch will fix it, but i remain hopeful. I will otherwise pass on the expansion. I feel burned by this one launching in the state it did for a game that sells so much and has no reason to release like this.

As it stands, Rise sunbreak is the best MH game in my opinion. It is so much fun and it runs like a dream. It's deserved that it's outselling Wilds. It's a better experience.

Lol innovation is to make lots of money. 🤣

That's unfortunate. It would be nice if they could've gotten the games division.
But, i suppose it's all or nothing. All is definitly not a good deal.

I completely agree. AI is not capable of a single independent thought. It's just a mesh of existing data.
AI games will be generic slop. They will be samey and bad cause an AI can't and will never be able to tell what "feel" is. We cannot mathematically put into a machine feelings we feel. We cannot even fully share it abstractly with one another. The machine will only be able to copy what already exists to try and emulate it and if it tries to deviate it can end hilariously wrong. The plagiarism AI. It's all it is.

All AI can do is repetitive and menial tasks that don't require creativity or sense. A "tool", yes. A game creator? Absolutely not.

Good. Honestly, i think it's time the "pro" refresh goes away.
PS5 pro has not matched PS4 pro sales and it seems devs are not especially interested in putting enough resources into supporting it. It's better for everyone if there is only one SKU devs can pour resources into optimising.

@SterlingEyes You said "create". A new vaccine would be a new discovery. I don't think AI can do that. You are confusing it with just computational power. A new vaccine is not a mesh of existing vaccines. There are chemical rules and logic to it's creation, plus interactions we have not yet discovered. Maybe it was just a poor example.
But, my point here being that AI does not have a single original thought. It's plagiarism - the software and it has a lot of errors, which makes it's use in medicine incredibly risky. In an image it's something like confusing a hat for a beard. In medicine that would mean people would die. AI needs a lot of curation and i think it is incredibly overhyped.

I don't think comsolidation has anything to do with it. It's just microsft being greedy.
Xbox put itself on the crosshairs of microsoft investors for doing such a high profile purchase. Now, they want to see returns on that investment yesterday.

They should've done the 3rd party thing sooner and not have bought activision.
They'd be doing much better.

Well... we are waiting. As usual with Bethesda.

@SterlingEyes What are you talking about? AI does not discover things. It just gathers information from what is already available.
They are not capable of a single original idea that isn't a mesh of previously existing ones.

They aren't. That's how.
AI can only do the most menial tasks. It isn't fit for creative work.

Well, it certainly is a bigger success than the VR fad. So, i am not surprised they are changing gears.
It's just sad that the Vita was sacrificed at the altar of VR.

So antiquated, it pushed the Xbox platform into irrelevancy.