If you liked Zwei, then I can also recommend its sequel. Arguably the last "classic" Falcom game, developed for PC as the main platform
The Nier games, like much of Yoko Taro's output, are games that should be absolutely terrible and unplayable on paper , and yet end up being quite fascinating and ultimately unforgettable. I don't think anyone can really imitate him, for good or bad.
Yeah, it’s such a strange one to try and ape.
Yeah at least when Sega dropped out MS was right there to replace them. I dread to think what Sony would do without that competition. They could attempt some PS3 era "get a 2nd job to buy this" hubris and get away with it without anyone to keep them honest.
Or maybe the age of dedicated consoles is over in the next decade.
Can’t argue there. Closed-box exclusivity mongering has led us to the point where game budgets are unsustainable.
Arrowhead Games, the dev of the Helldiver series, is actually not a Sony studio, and the first Helldivers game was already released on PC and Playstation consoles fairly close to each other (about 6 months apart, probably due to needing more time with the port then any exclusivity stuff). So Helldivers 2 isn't really a sign of Sony changing anything with their large tentpole games
It's interesting because we're 2 years in a row where the TGA GOTY has been a game that goes against the usual "AAAA Leviathan budget" even if they're still obviously high budget games (Elden Ring and Baldur's Gate 3). These games have also managed to be talked about way after their release, while many of those AAAA games ended up disappearing quickly (even during big -40% sales). Even in 2024 we can see from Steam numbers the most talked games are Palworld and Granblue. It does seem gamers are willing to try "lesser" games as long as they cover the right itch
The name of that documentary had me confused too. To their credit, they made a documentary with the name "Grounded: Making the Last of Us" about a decade before the game from Obsidian came out, so I think they have dips on the title,
Grounded is what the hardest difficulty in TLOU games (1 and 2) is called. It's actually extremely tense because ammo is so limited so you have to really decide how you're going to approach things and figure out how to stealthily skip certain sections so you conserve everything.
I love retro shit so I love the idea. The only caveat would be the music, I think they should consider giving an option for higher quality music on the PC/Console releases.
I did play that on release. I played the original Zwei for like an hour when it came out originally, but finally got to finish it. I think Zwei II is way better,, but the original is still worth checking out.
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Fun thing is, Nier Automata doesn't answer those questions, Nier did.
Incest is the bare minimum for Yoko Taro. In the same continuity to Nier, Drakengard contains just that, and a lot of rape, and pedophilia, and cannibalism. In varying orders.
... his games are notoriously retconned to hell and back by the publisher, sometimes to make things more palatable he will write some of it, but often times, it's just bollocks added to sell copies. Nier Automata being a runaway success certainly took its toll, with very little of the post release content being consistent with the original work.
Awesome console it's been a while. I wanted it to play only SNES, MegaDrive and GBA.
So apparently now even day 1 gamepass games are going to end too. This is the part that surprises me out of all thsi stuff. I figured they would keep GP as is because it's the ONLY advantage xbox will have after they go multiplat.
At the same time it's not really that shocking. I know I was saying from the start that dumping $200m games on a sub service day 1 isn't practical long term. You're either going to have to make everything an endless live service to keep people subbed or they'll just rent a month of GP and play the game and drop it. The logistics of it never made sense at all but so many people (including the media) mocked people who questioned the service up until about a year ago.
What if all of this is happening with Xbox because they know Valve is about to enter the fray.....
That would basically be a mini PC with off the shelf hardware, at which point what's even the point for Valve to build anything? APUs from AMD don't scale up to a point where it can power 4K gaming, you would need external GPUs, and that's literal a bog standard PC at that point. At that point Valve is just spending money to subsidise normal PCs. I don't see them going that route.
Yeah there's people theorizing some kind of internal fight at MS between the gamer types and the money counters, there doesn't seem to be a coherent strategy right now. Guess we'll see what happens at this briefing next week but right now all the leaks coming out make it look like they have no idea what they're doing.
Yea it feels more n more like it was a giant mistake for Microsoft to buy Activision. They should have instead just picked up a couple more big studios and called it a day. Go into next gen with your cornered market of WRPGs, FPS and other traditional singleplayer games franchises. Push Gamepass to be the Netflix of gaming.
I love mine. One of the best consoles in the market. Enjoy!
ABK is not their issue. Bethesda is their issue. More studios that didn't bring money in some time. And by the looks of it it won't bring it unless something changes. Also not selling enough consoles is their issue.
I don't think the 7 billion purchase was all that big of a deal to Microsoft. Bethesda games have long legs and they have MMOs bringing in money + a lot of future projects. They would have slowly recovered that money over time like they did with Minecraft. Gamepass would have accelerated it too.
Again Sony will soon be in similar situation. Let's do some napkin math. Naughty Dog has 400+ employees. If we take Patcher $100K yearly salary per employee and bump it up a bit due to inflation and studio location to $120K we get $48M yearly expenses just to pay salary to ND. Add to that various other expenses like electricity and water bills, property taxes and benefits ND offers employees just to run ND could cost Sony up to $55+M. Now let's see if it takes ND 5 years to ship single game that is $275M just for ND studio expenses. Add to that at least $150M for outsourcing and other expenses (acting talent, composers, localization...) and at least $100M for marketing of a big budget premier Sony release and that is over $500M to deliver single game. If we take best case scenario and Sony sells all their copies via PSN where they keep all the money at $70 per copy they need to sell 8M copies to just break even. And TLoU Part 2 last numbers at mid 2022 were 10M lifetime copies sold. That is set the end of the generation where they have most users.
