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@DennisReynolds And those games are not online-centric live services!

Shout out to CI Games, the publisher of this game, for reaching out to former Bluepoint Games staff with opportunity to get a job with them.

Don't you guys have TVs? Chances are, your TV does both those things: upscaling and frame generation. TVs been doing that for years. And now we are told that the same technology, only at a better quality, is the defining feature of next gen hardware.

I am beyond disappointed.

@Ajbr8687 Perhaps the meaning of what I said was lost in translation: live service game does not mean it has to be centred around multiplayer. It doesn't mean it has to have micro transactions out loot boxes. Destiny was a single player live service game with multiplayer activities slapped on. Marathon is the opposite.

Not actively rooting for it to fail; simply predicting that it will "perform below expectations"

@bowzoid It will last a month and then I expect player numbers to drop dramatically.

@wildcat_kickz Bungie never did a multiplayer first game. This is the kind of live service they had up until this point: multiplayer is secondary, not primary activity in the game.

@Ajbr8687 Destiny first and foremost was never a multiplayer game at the core. Core activities were designed around players personal progression with cooperative multiplayer on top, working in the most casual and non demanding way. Compare that to say Helldivers.

Compare that to Marathon, which is multiplayer competition at the core, with additional activities secondary to that. It is the opposite of Destiny, or Halo.

Also, a live service game is just a game with continuously updated game world. No Mans Sky is a life service game. It doesn't dictate the design to be centred around multiplayer activity.

@wildcat_kickz The problem is not there's not enough good solo games to come by. The studios which can pull off a truly great game are few, and that is the problem. When the studio like Bungie is forced to do whatever is the current live service fad, of course people are upset. Of course, they want this trend to fail so the studio can go back to doing what they do best.

Many commenters don't get they don't have to buy the game now. Buy after a review you trust. It's not like Bungie will run out of copies to sell.

Unless MS is okay with burning even more money on gaming, they can bring exclusives back. But something will have to collapse in the longer term, either Game Pass, or exclusives, or both.

Burning money is not a sustainable business, even for Microsoft.

Should have been clear from the start. But I don't think they should change it now.

@LiamCroft Is it coop only? Or can I play alone?

Daaaaaamn. I absolutely must play as a pumped up rooster before I die

I wonder if there will be an option to upgrade

@Toot1st I think you didn't get my point. If they add sprinting, they'd rather redo the levels as well, due to pacing change. But they most likely will not.

Remake can add anything, but it has to address how the changes affect everything else, or they end up with a worse game than the original.

I will be careful with this remake. I loved the original game, and want to replay it again.

However I read some critical take on the remake that by adding new mechanics (sprint) breaks down the pacing around which the levels and environment were designed.

I don't think this is near the level of Demon Souls remake, so I'll be patiently waiting for your review

Hell is Us is my personal GOTY.

There’s no controversy. All artists in gamedev use generative AI for placeholders, unless they are specifically prohibited from doing so. Why would anyone spend time creating something bound to be temporary when they can just move to the next step

No matter how you spin it, not a good sign. Art director is a cozy role to enjoy for many years if the future of the studio is bright. An art person simply has no position higher than that in game development.

Everybody uses AI to generate placeholders, unless explicitly prohibited. What's the noise about? End product will be cleaned up of that and will use real art. Why would someone care about internal production specifics?

I hope you are smart enough to not preorder. Are you, guys?

To all people who do have stick drift: had this after 3 months on start with the original daulsense that came with PS5 I bought on day one. Figured can't be due to mechanical wear and managed to fix it by using WD40 contact cleaner spray. It is non-conductive so is safe to use with electronics. Had to open the casing though to spray into the base of the drifting stick.

No problems ever since.

Having two controllers of any generation will give you infinite battery life. I don't get how do you guys play with just one? Regardless of the charge a play session can be super long and it sucks when you have to suddenly stop playing and start charging. Why worry about that at all?

Elden Ring has too many technical issues to be on the list.

I don't think Bungie will survive until then

Best art direction is Hell is Us, which is not nominated. Sad.

Remember the market mood before Bungie acquisition? "Oh, Sony is falling behind, Microsoft is on the roll buying publishers and big studios! Sony is going to lose the market unless they do something similar fast!"

Very few had common sense and were doubting Microsoft's strategy.

"Sony, for example, has always sold its systems at a loss or break-even in order to grow its install base and make money through the sales of software, where it takes a 30% cut on each game sold."

We know from financial reports that for PS5 they began earning money from console hardware sales about half a year after launch.

This is what a live service game should be like

The new architecture could be a path to efficiency, that would allow creating more powerful handheld companion device, if rumours to be believed.

However, I think that the movement of hardware development at Sony towards upscaling as a necessary part of graphics pipeline leads to a dead end. I do not agree with Cerny that raster performance cannot be significantly improved any further, as that contradicts evolution curve of deferred tiled shading GPUs we can see (primarily coming from Apple).

There is more than one path towards efficiency, mr Cerny. Yours will sacrifice image clarity.

I deem 2027 highly unlikely due to hardware only existing "in simulation" now. They need to spec out and design the chip, prepare for mass production with TSMC, and start ramping it up way before the release date to give dev kits to studios

Marathon will fail miserably, though I expect Bungie to spend enormous money on marketing, so the catastrophe won't be visible right on launch. In a month time it will become obvious. And later there will be massive layoffs at Bungie.

Oh, I never questioned the acquisition. It was the biggest blunder by Sony Entertainment from the day of the deal announcement, unquestionable.

@Czar_Khastik They are small, running costs are not that high. Past sales gave them several years of worry-free work. Those updates encourage new sales, though of course by now that number is not that large.

This is a live service game done right!

Not considering DF reliable source anymore, and think things are not that bad in reality. I understand they are not lying, but they are overly obsessed about frame drops of all kinds, no matter how small and how rare those can be.

On the other hand DF completely ignores image clarity.

Like it. But the appeal factor will depend on how good Diana's voiced in English. Maybe will have play with Japanese audio...

People complaining about the mini game: have you played Nier: Automata? Helldivers 2? This mini game is the same, get in-combat advantage while under time pressure, using simple controls.

@dskatter That won't fly. Many of the game servers run proprietary code, and the chance of that changing is the same as a chance of enforcing game developers to only use particular game engines.

The only viable alternative is to force companies to run game servers for quite a while.

The cost of gamepass.

Most likely will buy it day one. Was highlight of the show for me. But I never preorder games.

Preordering culture makes publishers shift budgets from development to marketing, and for good reason: thanks to massive preorders neither Bungie with Destiny 2, nor CDPR with Cyberpunk suffered financial dire straits due to the condition of their games at launch. Rushing paid off. Marketing paid off.

Remember that next time you are going to give them money before the product hit the shelves.

There are 195 countries in the world. „Hundreds of countries“ couldn’t have been excluded from PSN.

To add some context: Switch 2 costs less in Japan than abroad, where it has price parity with PlayStation 5

That’s because Pragmata was the headliner 😎

@AndyKazama Torrent users will have to skip because of Denuvo. The rest will play.

@get2sammyb A loud minority complains about that. Seems like a lot, until you compare against the numbers of buyers

Why there's no Daggerfall in the voting? Am I just too old?

That game should go through remake (not remaster).

@AdamNovice Live service design inevitably changes game experience for the worse. There will be grinding, to keep players engaged. It will become harder to play on my own pace unless I'm okay with missing content which will be tied to daily, weekly and monthly events.

So, not necessary trash. Just in general worse.

I think they should set up separate studio(s) to do live service games. Not tasking studios famous for single player experience with producing GaaS products.

I'm afraid that will lead to more graphics artefacts.