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Re: Sony Says The Last of Us 2 Can Be Considered a Holiday Season Classic

Robinsad

I don’t think people realise what makes die hard a Christmas movie. I was thinking this watching carry on on Netflix, they trying to push it as a Christmas movie but it’s just taking place at Christmas. Die hard has Christmas theming and heavily utilises it, coming home for Christmas, family, Christmas party.
You can’t just say something is Christmas because of the month

Re: Game of the Year: Best PSVR2 Game of 2024

Robinsad

I’ve started with PSVR again after a long time, having a blast with drums rock, Jurassic World, played a bit of Kayak, might try before my eyes later today. But metro and aliens are what I’m looking forward to. I haven’t played the 3rd metro game though. Anyone know if it’s needed?

Re: Naughty Dog Turns Off Intergalactic PS5 Trailer's Comments As Discourse Turns Nasty

Robinsad

@RBMango I think the problem is decisions like that used to be made in the name of a good story, then over the last few years the decisions have been made for corporate DEI reasons and now its gotten to the point where its hard to tell so people are expecting the worse. We can argue this is tiresome but that expectation has been set by gaming/media which is also tiresome.

Re: Ex-PlayStation Exec Shawn Layden Says There's Been a 'Collapse' in Gaming Creativity

Robinsad

I personally think there are lots of reasons and lots of people to blame for this. I used to take £40 into a game shop and wonder round looking at box art till something looked cool, well that way of discovering games is pretty much dead now. The £70 price point makes me far less likely to take a gamble on a title, after I do take a gamble I have less money to buy another game so I probably own less than I used to. Things like PlayStation plus mean that if I’m just after something new to try there is normally something there I can just play without having to spend.
Then in game creation there seems to be a lot of companies trying to tell us what we want to play rather than just listening. They then over estimate how big their audience is based on the number of buzz words they’ve found, the large budget, well who sets those? It’s not like you can’t make a game on a lower budget. There are so many problems in the industry at the moment but for teams that approach it right it can be quite lucrative still.

Re: Don't Nod Financials Result in Reorganisation and Layoffs, Cancelled Projects

Robinsad

@Chupa_loyzer I think the problem is it’s down to business decisions but it’s not the people making those decisions that get laid off. The games that have been made are good but it’s the devs get laid off. The games however lack wide appeal, certainly not the appeal the decision makes anticipated, but they are the ones that keep their job.

Re: Random: Gearbox Founder, CEO Compares Company to The Beatles, Gets Roasted

Robinsad

Dont really care what he's saying but I'm tired of people dunking on Colonial Marines. I enjoyed it. I get as a full price title it fell short and was a long way below what it was marketed as but given how quick it was at 2.99 it was more than worth that. I played through to the end, had a good time and thats more than i can say about a lot of titles.