For example, I'm still on PS4 and currently enjoying the Tomb Raider Remastered. I'll just be happy with remasters and updates of games of the previous 25 years released for new consoles. There are thousands of wonderful games waiting to be released and improved upon, waiting to be played by the younger generation.
Games subscriptions, paid DLC's, and micro-transactions, the buying up of studios, the pursuit of exponential increase in profit, the pandering to po...
The character models are not good. The movement physics looks like it was from 10 years ago. Not impressed. And not a good example of what can, or more importantly, should be done in 2024. However, this not targeted for that, but is a hobby project of a single developer, and in this respect, it is good.
The game sold well apart from his personnel woke agenda which I disagreed with, but I still bought and enjoyed it. Why? The actual gameplay was superb and it had a layer of polish and quality. It was accessible to a wide range of gaming abilities. And no time wasting open world, mtx, dumb side quests, no spending half the game deep inside menus. Few AAA games have this.
Sony should fire all the US/western management team, and bring it back in-house to Japan. The pursuit of endless growth for shareholders and the top end with US/western style capitalism is not working for them. Employees are bearing the cost of their greed.
You nailed it there, the 'pursuit of endless growth'. And subscriptions, they believe, are the answer to that. GAAS.
Very much agree. Well said.
Well said. It's is the greed at the top end. The pursuit for ever increasing profits for shareholders and the top end. They will be getting bonus for the layoffs. Jim Ryan who is leaving soon will no doubt be getting a bonus on exit because of this. They don't care. They say nice words which just automatically rolls off their tongue, but they don't mean it of course. The people who do the work don't matter to them.
I just knew this would happen. It is the first step to gamepass on PS5.
Subscriptions are extremely profitable to Microsoft, and gamepass is one of the most profitable.
For me, Legend should be alot higher (along with the other two ). Shadow, I enjoyed it, but has too much has fluff, as modern games tend to do. Playing the remastered series, and apart from the controls, is very good.
Subscriptions to Gamepass is the meaning of gaming for Microsoft. This, and destroying the competition is all they care about in the world of gaming. So the question Microsoft is debating internally is, does Microsoft need an Xbox console to maintain and increase Gamepass subscriptions?
You are right. And Nintendo will agree with you. I really think that Nintendo is preparing its fans that the next handheld will be a minor spec bump. Well, the bare minimum that they can get away with.
Sadly, even with all money made from the high profit margins due to the cheap to manufacture and badly engineered Switch, it seems Nintendo is preparing its fans for a minor spec bump only, just enough to get good reviews, that is, what is the minimum spec bump that they can get away with while receiving praise.
All Microsoft cares about are subscriptions, the money... subscriptions to Gamepass or whatever they change the name to. Microsoft does not care about the games or gaming, its the just subscriptions fees. Microsoft has worked out that this is where the easy money is. Lock people in paying forever.
With amount of profits that Nintendo has made by milking the cheap-to-manufacture Switch and their full price re-release games, they have remotely no need to get rid of people. They deserve no praise here for doing the bleeding obvious.
Looking forward to this on the PS4.
Zelda fan here as well, and I agree.
The hardware was dated when the Switch was released and the fact the Nintendo has been milking the Switch for so long, it is not made modern high spec games.
Good review. He calls the game for what is it.
His conclusion is correct...
"If you believe Bethesda doesn’t need to exhibit growth as an artistic outlet and hasn’t had to change a thing about the way it’s made games since 2008, I can safely say you’ll adore Starfield because it’s all that a Bethesda game has always been... and literally nothing more. Starfield is a shallow ocean, hiding its lack of creative ambition behind the physical size of a universe that’s minuscule where it counts."
Yes. I don't there is any point in a mid gen console either, not this time. I bought the PS4 Pro on release but that was mainly made for the PSVR released at the same time. I'm waiting for the PS6 too unless there a game I want comes along. I would say >4 years till the PS6.