7/10 is about where I’ve placed it when talking to friends about it. It’s a “good” game, I’ve mostly enjoyed it, but the disconnect caused by loading screens along with feeling like I’ve seen most of the game in a relatively small amount of time (already had identical bases appearing on multiple planets and I’ve not even explored that much) and lacking many basic QOL features like a decent map has left me with a “yeah it’s OK but meh” response.
My first impression (after a short time, granted - an hour and a half maybe), as a guy who's been into Oblivion, Fallout 3, Skyrim and FO4... is that this is disappointing. The new stuff isn't great (and is a minigame), the old stuff is "not improved upon" at best and sometimes worse. Still companions get in your way, still corpses somersault, the gunplay was fine in FO4 but feels like peashooters in Starfield, the dogfighting is shitter than 20+ year old games. I hope for the Bethesda RPG-ness to suck me in, but then the core mechanics need to support it.
I still think this can get reasonably good but it will take mods, it's nothing new for Bethesda.
As a now PC player for around 7 years or so I want exclusives to die. The way I see it the more people that can play the better. But I do see the point in exclusives it’s hard and I have no right answer.
Games are so expensive to make now that keeping them locked to one system doesn’t make much sense but at the same time consoles need exclusive content to sell systems.
I think the answer is shorter periods of exclusivity of between 6 - 12 months then release the game on rival systems.
Obviously I’m not including Nintendo in this as they sell a shit load of everything they make already.
Yes especially for you games that thrive on a player base such as your SOT your helldivers etc I honestly see them both selling really well on both platforms and the players are the ones who benefit from that. I don’t however see games such as GOW or Halo going over because I see those as platform sellers.
As a end user I refuse to buy a PlayStation or xbox to play there games if they are only there and never come to PC if I am dying to know the story I will watch a YouTube channel. I can not justify spending 500$ to play a couple games.
Side note: I am completely ready to eat my words about halo cross platform
God of War is almost 6 years old and I can’t imagine that outside of sales it sells many copies anymore. So why not tap into the 35 million plus Xbox gamers?
It does obviously all depends on how much it costs to port an PlayStation game to Xbox and market these games.
But if they sell it for £40 and just 2 million Xbox owners bought it that’s £80 million (minus Microsoft’s 30% cut) that Sony is just leaving on the table.
For me personally I own all three consoles so I can play all the games but I’d love to only have to buy a Switch 2 and PlayStation 6 next generation and still not miss out on any games.
Very true just an exclusive window would be best option for consumers and companies imo. You can see how good early access does for preorders and the type.
After caving and buying Dirt Rally 3.0 EA WRC, probably that. Maybe some XCom 2 that I got in the recent sale, and there’s the anniversary assignment in Deep Rock Galactic.
Though I’ve just realised it’s already Sunday and I’ve not managed to play anything yet!
The death of any game involving “battle passes” and “seasons” is fine by me, bonus points if they’re the reanimated corpse of something I loved as a child.
lol fuck no. It’s a live service/online game. That’s the fate of all of them. Every last online game has a death clock. Once it’s no longer profitable to run the servers the games will die. With very few ways of running local servers or with bots.
Buy games that you can actually own and play beyond their profitability.
”Buy games that you can actually own and play beyond their profitability”.
This is the primary way I decide which games to buy. If it won’t work just as well 20 years from now as it does today they aren’t getting my money. I’ll buy used if I really want to play any game that requires an internet connection.
I’ve been playing Gran Turismo 3 for the last week or so and it’s just as functional now on my PS2 as it was the day it launched. The 7 year old GT Sport on the other hand is barely functional at all now the servers have gone away.
Yeah, as much as I agree with CDPR about not releasing for those legacy consoles, this is some BS and one of the corporations involved should be making it right. Either MS, or CDPR, or both.
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