Rossko @ FG: This week Sean, Greg and Rossko dissect just what on earth THQ Nordic have up their sleeve for the next couple of years, what they’re not yet telling us and which games we’re going to see first out of the gate from their ridiculous IP spending spree. We also jump into what we’re most likely to see at Gamescom Opening Night Live from a huge amount of publishers providing brand new announcements along with new content. We also delve into why we’re not really all that excited about Need for Speed Heat after that rather mediocre trailer and Sean returns once again with his fiendish Trivia Challenge, but this time it’s Sean that wants to kill us, rather than the other way around. I can’t think why.
By the looks of it, PlayStation 5 exclusivity does not hurt the sales of Stellar Blade in Japan as the game has passed 90,000 sold physical copies.
Stellar Blade really deserves way more praise than it got, devs have been adding more and more content, for free, since release and the game already was great to begin with!
Stellar blade is performing very impressively there, DD2 didn't do well because word of mouth destroyed it's reputation and not about the Microtransactions or performance, bad word of mouth about how the game lacks so many things that were in the first one
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Druckmann claims the tech could 'push the boundaries of storytelling in games.'
I’m more interested in what else he said.
“Neil Druckmann says new Naughty Dog title could ‘redefine mainstream perceptions of gaming’
Last of us 2 was still awesome. Did you like part 1? It was there as well it's just people hadn't brought politics into it yet so no one was really crying
Ellie was gay in the first. Abby is a straight woman. Burly for sure, but straight. People way over reacted to TLOU2. That's coming from someone who is tired of all the disingenuous pandering.
every time naughty dog make a game, you play it and get the feeling "this is not possible'
from the boulder running towards you in crash, on ps1,
to the massive open world of jak and daxter, on ps2,
to the QuickTime events sequences of uncharted on ps3/4
and now we will see what they do with ps5,
Arrogant asshole who sniffs his own farts bigs up next game…sounds like typical PR to me
You know what I find interesting? Almost every site reporting this as the main title where the REAL interesting bit of the interview is Neil praising AI and saying it will be used to help push story, characters, dialogue and more.
It’s super shitty to big up AI especially when it comes to story telling and other creative elements.
Just because someone says this type of stuff, it doesn't mean that it's guaranteed to be good news.
You can say this about microtransactions. MXTs revolutionised the gaming industry.
He also said it has "ethical issues we need to address" but of course that doesn't get the clicks.
I’m all for it. Cuts the time to make a game. Look, Hellblade 2 took 5 years to make, if AI can do that in half the time, as a consumer, I support it.
