I just noticed the two games I was most anticipating for 2024 was a remake and remasters.
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Multiplat is just a bandaid for the real problem anyway. You can put everything on PC day 1 and all that does is buy you a little extra time on the current path, but eventually budgets will get high enough that even the couple million extra sales that gets you won't be enough. This industry is a car speeding towards a cement wall and all this will do is extend the road a little more.
Sooner or later these companies will be forced to downsize the scope of these games in some way and it looks like they're choosing the "later" option.
Sooner or later these companies will be forced to downsize the scope of these games in some way and it looks like they're choosing the "later" option.
Depends what you like in Zelda I guess, they do have decent puzzles and good bosses, but the exploration and the progression (despite getting new items, health upgrades, etc) is just not here since it's so linear and mostly flat.
And the global tone is dark and really post apo, but a lot of NPCs are more upbeat and vaguely funny... so even the setting doesn't really work so well.... big disappointment for me.
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Its a shame too. During the PS4 era we got a lot of smaller scale titles in between the giant blockbuster releases, and it did well for them too. Until Dawn, Detroit, and Ratchet and Clank all did really well and it feels like they just decided to do less AA titles and just put that money into ballooning their blockbusters for minimal returns.
Now their big titles are $300m+ and it just feels like a waste. I loved Spider-Man 2 and all that but did they really need to put that much into it? We're at a point now where if a game flops for one reason or another its going to hurt more, which means Sony is gonna take less risks and just stick to their formula. We're getting less titles and Sony's approach to padding out their lackluster release schedule is buying up timed exclusivity for 3rd party games.
So boring.
so last Sony's CEO new statement are saying something we already knew, just upgradre your PC and buy Switch 2 on the next gen.
Sony and Microsoft are becoming third parties.
Sony and Microsoft are becoming third parties.
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I wonder how long it will take for emulators to be made for the switch 2. If I remember correctly it only took a couple of months to hack the switch and then get Yuzu off the ground and running.
He made 3 great games at Konami then left in 2002 as he had stayed a decade and his goal was to move on after that long. Only bad thing is his removal from the 3rd game's credits because he left just before its release or something like that. Sucks, he was too young and a great creator, RIP.
Seeing how beautifully the Tomb Raider collection runs on the Steam deck I'm literally dreaming about a Resident Evil Classics and Silent Hill trilogy collection. That would be amazing
That was mostly because of a hardware design flaw. I have a hard time believing they'll make the same "mistake" again, but who knows really.
Good to hear. I think I'll try the Tomb Raider Collection.
That's right (the same happened with PSP first firmware that wasn't encrypted and was hacked before international release), but I think if like the lastest rumours say Switch 2 will be compatible digital and physical with Switch 1, and taking in consideration flashcard already exists, hackers could take advantage of it. Time will say.
I'd even take Comic Sans Hill on PC to be honest lol. But I just want to be able to buy this games steam and play them on the Deck.
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Yeah I'm not sure what the answer here is because some of the smaller games like gravity rush flat out bombed but most of sony's studios are not set up to do smaller games and they may not even want to. Like if you have a 500 person studio they all need to be doing something, so maybe the answer is multiple smaller scale games but then you run into the question...do the devs WANT to do that? Like do the people at naughty dog strike you as people who want to do anything but push the tech limit further and further? You risk a talent exodus if you force limitations on them but at some point they're probably going to have to do exactly that.
I guess what I'm saying is I'm glad I'm not the one who has to make these decisions.
Pre rendered backgrounds wouldn't work so well with that model.
Tons of old series deserve a remaster adapting them to modern times though.
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I believe that there are always people in the studios who want to work on something smaller. For example Ubisoft let people at Ubisoft Reflections to make Grow Home and Grow Up and helped them publish it (even on Steam without any Uplay integration if I remember correctly). And that was some smaller project few people at the studio worked on. Also main issue is management (both project and studio management). Insomniac has crazy output compared to other Sony studios. And they are same or smaller that some other ones like ND or SSM.
Yeah I’m not saying Sony should go out and force their blockbuster studios to do smaller titles alongside their main stuff or anything. But they have multiple studios with extensive history working on multiple small projects alongside their big titles (Insomniac, Santa Monica, Bend) and most of their breakout titles from last gen were from 3rd party studios they don’t own anyway. (Until Dawn, Detroit, Bloodborne)
I mean we’re literally seeing a AA 3rd party developed game from them do gangbusters right now with Helldivers 2 lol, I wish sony would do stuff like that again but it seems like their main focus with third party collabs is timed exclusive deals on games that would have existed without them, rather than them funding titles from the ground up.
Whatever it is, I'm sure it has already been done in a C64 demoscene product.
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The insomniac efficiency thing you mentioned is ironically because their games are much smaller than ND/SSM's games however they still are so high budget that they are unsustainable. The last ratchet was a $100m+ game while we all know the comically large numbers SM2 and 3 are. So even 15-20 hour games are too unsustainable at the current trajectory but we know most people won't buy 7 hour games anymore (certainly not anywhere near full price).
Also this is more of an aside but I think the insomniac efficiency is really overrated by people. Spiderman 2 took longer to come out than GoW ragnarok did and that's despite it being about 30-40 hours shorter AND reusing most of the same map from the first game. Their advantage was having another team to make a smaller game (ratchet) but like I said that smaller game was still over $100m to make so does it really solve the problems we're talking about?
They also made Miles Morales that is bigger asset reuse than 2. And Spider-Man games are doing great but what it makes them not so good for Sony is basically Disney cut. And they are efficient as studio compared to the rest of Sony studios. Sucker Punch for example took 6 years to make GoT. Is it good game? Yes. Does it feel like something that was 6 years in development? Not really. Also I didn't play new GoW but didn't it reused a lot of from GoW 2018 too? But I still stand with my comment about management, I believe that big part of longer dev cycle is management.
A website was just launched for the Valve Prism, a standalone VR headset:
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This video is probably the best explanation as to why I find Persona 3 to be underwhelming compared to Persona 5. There are so many ideas that come off as silly and you oftentimes feel like an observer to the world instead of directly influencing it. There's also some nitpicky stuff like no awakenings outside of the protagonist's and side characters being lame.
It's not that Persona 3 is bad, but Atlus learned and refined a lot of things before knocking it out of the park with Persona 5.
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Sadly fake. The copyright information at the bottom is typed "Vaive" with the "I" being capitalized. Also the domain was registered today.A website was just launched for the Valve Prism, a standalone VR headset:
Is that real?A website was just launched for the Valve Prism, a standalone VR headset:
The APU would have to be custom, and it seems difficult to envision running PC VR on it in (without a PC connection). And if that doesn't work well, then you're putting a whole lot of compute into it for no reason.
SheeeeeshA website was just launched for the Valve Prism, a standalone VR headset:
boooo
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Imagine going to all that effort to make a fake. Why not just play some games or do something actually constructive?
Yeah, the headset with checks notes teeth and tongue tracking might not be entirely real, guys
The posts that state they'd abandon their consoles suddenly (for PC) if they lost their exclusives feel like some weird threat. If the only reason you're there is because they have to artificially restrict maybe two handful of great games over a generation then you should be celebrating, not decrying it.
In other news, I finished my Baldur's Gate 3 campaign a couple weeks ago. In just 338 hours too! I've been meaning to write something up about it. In the meantime I'll just say that Lae'zel is the best companion.
I've also been playing Dragon's Dogma for the first time. I just finished the base campaign (saw credits). It's fantastic. I'm about to start Bitterblack Isle here soon. Mystic Knight is a lot of fun.
In other news, I finished my Baldur's Gate 3 campaign a couple weeks ago. In just 338 hours too! I've been meaning to write something up about it. In the meantime I'll just say that Lae'zel is the best companion.
I've also been playing Dragon's Dogma for the first time. I just finished the base campaign (saw credits). It's fantastic. I'm about to start Bitterblack Isle here soon. Mystic Knight is a lot of fun.
So Tomb Raider Remastered... looks great, runs great (duh), has absolutely no options of any sort.
Modern controls are absolute garbage, maybe the worst I've ever seen in an action game, and more importantly, they don't work. As in Lara's training in her house? I don't think you can actually complete it since modern controls have no side step or back step, and lock a lot of movements to having her guns out (which you can't do in this case).
Just to hang off a ledge, you have to press shoot, then get close to the ledge, and then press roll to drop.
Oh and of course, not a single one of those movements will be explained to you ingame, not even in menus.
Absolutely baffling decisions all around, and I would consider it barely playable in many parts (beside the ones that are literally unplayable)... and that's without even mentioning how most items are almost invisible in remastered visuals, and it will trip you up.
So huh... mostly a disaster? At least the tank controls work like they should...
Modern controls are absolute garbage, maybe the worst I've ever seen in an action game, and more importantly, they don't work. As in Lara's training in her house? I don't think you can actually complete it since modern controls have no side step or back step, and lock a lot of movements to having her guns out (which you can't do in this case).
Just to hang off a ledge, you have to press shoot, then get close to the ledge, and then press roll to drop.
Oh and of course, not a single one of those movements will be explained to you ingame, not even in menus.
Absolutely baffling decisions all around, and I would consider it barely playable in many parts (beside the ones that are literally unplayable)... and that's without even mentioning how most items are almost invisible in remastered visuals, and it will trip you up.
So huh... mostly a disaster? At least the tank controls work like they should...
Not sure what are you referring to, I managed to complete the house tutorial without issues. Although the movement does feel 'slippery'.
About TR I II III Remaster, I launched it just to try and chech how it was running and I ended spending some hours with it. I haven't played a classic TR game in years and one of the worries I had was about was about how it could handle. Initially I thought about using the modern controls but after spending some minutes in the tutorial the memory of how it played just came back!
I started with the first game as it was one that I barely played back in the day. It's incredible how those games still gives me a sense of wonder and discovery, be it by wandering through a level or by solving a puzzle.
The remastered graphics are nice and they help bring the game to a modern audience even though the old graphics have some kind of charm to them. Still about the graphics, one thing that I disliked about the graphics is how there are no indication about strong currents in the water, but when switching to the original graphics the effects arr there. I'm not sure it t's a bug or not, bug I hope they fix it.
Overall so far it's been a nice comeback to a series that made part of my life
I started with the first game as it was one that I barely played back in the day. It's incredible how those games still gives me a sense of wonder and discovery, be it by wandering through a level or by solving a puzzle.
The remastered graphics are nice and they help bring the game to a modern audience even though the old graphics have some kind of charm to them. Still about the graphics, one thing that I disliked about the graphics is how there are no indication about strong currents in the water, but when switching to the original graphics the effects arr there. I'm not sure it t's a bug or not, bug I hope they fix it.
Overall so far it's been a nice comeback to a series that made part of my life
Yeah unfortunately youre absolutely correct about the modern controls, I mentioned also that I struggled to find out how to grab ledges (there is a "secondary button" that lets you do that)
The camera was also a nightmare in places, getting stuck and spinning weirdly (while swimming in the second level of TR1). I dunno what they were thinking; none of these issues seem like they shouldve gone through QA, and I hope they fix it asap. I was looking forward to playing these games with a modern control scheme, but as it is now, its better to play with tank controls...and I hate tank controls.
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I find this a good post, since I always get somewhat annoyed by these "oh, nobody is playing this game anymore" posts; they are based on this weird assumption everything is a live service or continuous game. It IS fine that games have limited content; have a definitive end. Not every dev has Fortnite mines that will churn out content regularly, not every game needs to be the next WOW, not every game is meant to be played forever...thankfully!
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I think its possible Larian figured it out. Or maybe partially figured out the correct formula.
AAA Early Access should pretty much be the future as budgets for these games balloon into ridiculous $$$ territory. Its gonna be the safest and most appropriate way to release big games. Its seems to be a way to do it without both running out of money as a dev and prevent interest in your game from completely dying out over the many years it takes to build it.
It reminds me a bit with how Kojima did MGSV pushing out Ground Zeroes first as an appetizer. And then the main course a year later.
Or even how Valve did the Half-Life 2 episodes. They clearly didn't do episode 3 but it didn't sink the company. and they still managed to do something for the fans with episodes 1 and 2. Its better than nothing at all. That could be an example of what failure looks like for future AAA games. While MGSV and BG3 are the success stories.
An incomplete story in a game is still better than a company going under and devs losing their job.
Tho I personally don't want games to be episodic. More like Larian did by releasing 25% of the game and few years later drop the rest without charging people 60$ again. Use your community and all the feedback to build a great game. If the early slice you release is loved by everyone then its almost guaranteed you have a winner. And if the initial feedback is negative then you know exactly what to fix. And the overall negativity will minimal since your game is labeled as early access and your die hard fans know its not a completed game yet.
I started right back in TR2 since I've completed TR1 not long ago.
And it's an absolute nightmare. Since you can't back step nor side step, you have to take running jumps and haphazardly do more than the tutorial asks you to - not making it impossible to complete fully but... the tutorial not being a tutorial but trying to apply a movement set that is not explained to you ingame because the remaster simply removes movements?
Yes, I will call that a complete disaster.
I think Valve could have easily funded a Half Life 3, and kept working on it for years, if they really wanted to. They have no monetary pressures, as they are no investors demanding profits and they have an endless source of money. That's more specific to Valve not being interested in doing iterative sequels. Each new game has do bring something new to the table and I believe at the time they were also more interested in live service games (about a decade before it really caught on with the rest of the industry)
Given how others seem do be fine, this sounds more like a "you" problem. Which is absolutely fair! But I have seen others do some really complex move with the modern controls and not struggle much with it. The most tricky thing, from what i have seen, is the "long jump", where you can use a back-step do get the distance just right before the running start
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