I said in a previous comment that it should have been one solar system or a few of them, no need for over a thousand planets. This game suffered from the extremes of "open-world syndrome" where there was too much space with too little to do in it.
I like how in BotW/TotK, they give you the basics, but leave you to work everything else out on your own, which leads to a lot of dumb experimentation on the player's part (I'm playing TotK now after finishing SS, lol). I would not be able to handle being blasted by tutorials in that game no matter how helpful.
Imagine making multiple games but having to find ways around making ladders because your engine can't handle them, limitations are one way to inspire creativity, don't think it helped them in this case though.
I think they were too ambitious, if they had reduced the scope of the game to a small solar system, (or multiple solar systems), they could have jammed more content into those limited play areas instead of having 100s upon 100s of dead planets with nothing to do on them. That would also give them more time to work on other aspects of the game (like bug fixing and sparse content), over a thousand planets sounds cool until you actually have to make them and put something interesting on most pla...
I was waiting for it to show up on steam, I didn't realise it was an Epic Games exclusive.
@Just_looken,
Hopefully it's something simple, it still powers on, just doesn't output picture/video or sound.
@mkis007,
I really don't know why more big budget studios don't do some AA titles in between bigger titles, not everything needs to be a AAA game with huge cinematic and photo realistic graphics.
I plug my PS2 into my AVR, but that seems to be more complicated that I would have expected, maybe I can find a component to HDMI converter at some point.
I did main my PS2 as a DVD player when I wasn't playing games, good times.
I pray that my PS2/PS3 never dies, I have so many good games trapped on them, I know one out of two of my PS2s have died (I was considering opening it up and having a lot inside).
Imagine if the brand had kept on the upward trajectory that the 360 established early on, at least they brought good online services and features to the industry.
I guess he has skill as a salesman, look how long he managed to get people to wait on Xbox.
Technically, Microsoft was going to kill Xbox off after the Xone announcement, but Phil convinced them to keep going, all he did was prolong its agonising death. And to be fair, they were coming from the success of the 360, so a turn around shouldn't have been out of the question if he didn't make decisions that were significantly bad for the brand. Also, it's sad that with Microsoft's money, those studios they acquired should have flourished rather than languishing in stagnat...
This generation should have been a little longer than to make up for the few years of Covid we had.
It still feels like this gen hasn't even begun, the Pro would be an appealing option for those who don't have a PS5 yet, but most people who want a PS5 probably already have one at this point.
Plus, fighting the anti-competition bodies over the acquisition would have costed them too, probably a calculated risk on their part though.
I don't want Cheeto dust in my keyboard/mouse or my controllers.
I forgot that franchise existed since it was trapped on Xbox, I would love to play that game again.
With all the developers they do own, and the IPs that go with them, they should have had an extensive portfolio of exclusives games, but they barely made anything, just, how?
@Tacoboto,
To be fair, Halo Infinite had a rocky start to begin with, I think they improved for a while, but fell behind again.