BudgieMania

@BudgieMania@kbin.social

Gets carried away in overly rambly rants about unimportant bullshit, uses fancy words without understanding their meaning, has a complete lack of self awareness.
Likes budgies.

BudgieMania,

If you are WB, I can't see how you compare the performance of this game vs the performance of Suicide Squad (which had similar development time) and not rethink your approach to future licensed titles

BudgieMania,

Makes sense, it's now or never probably. IGN is 100% a "content volume over content quality" type of company, the type that would replace a lot of the writing and editorial staff with AI as soon as it became a half-decent alternative. So might as well put pressure on them and exercise bargaining power to get some guarantees while you still have leverage and they still need you.

BudgieMania,

Well shit... The last time I saw memes about how ridiculous an Apple product looked, they were about the AirPods and they ended up being ridiculously popular.

It doesn't matter how silly it looks to us at first, Apple could convince people that wearing dog feces on their face looks cool. Unfortunately.

BudgieMania,

A week?!

The house is going on fire and they wanna take their sweet time finding the most optimal faucet?

That basically confirms every rumor about this. It wouldn't take a week to prepare a statement if it wasn't the tectonic shift it is rumored to be. Damn.

BudgieMania,

It didn't end up being the system seller quality game they might have wished for, so why not get some more sales out of it. Nobody is gonna base their choice between Series X or PS5 on Starfield, but a lot of PS5 owners would indulge in purchasing the game out of curiosity. The maths make sense.

The problem is, you can extend this sentiment to most if not all of the XBox console exclusives that have been released for a good while now. They have unfortunately failed at producing a killer app for far too long at this point. Ever since Mattrick killed the momentum of the brand, they have never been able to recover it.

As much as I don't want a future in which PS5 is uncontested in the console space (Nintendo is too much its own thing to count as direct competition imo), it is starting to look like, from all angles, it just makes sense for Microsoft to focus on expanding Gamepass and their games as much as possible across all platforms because there's more money in that than in salvaging the XBox hardware brand.

BudgieMania,

At this point it's not even just about it being too expensive for an upstart, it's about being too expensive, too hard, and not at all worth the risk/reward proposition for anyone.
Microsoft is the largest public company in the world and they failed at it! Coming from two successful previous generations of products! Getting in in the market as an unproven entity at this point would be suicidal. Not to speak of the fact that the requirements to enter as a player in the market today are 10x more than when Microsoft entered the market with the XBox. When they unveiled the XBox, a half-decent network infrastructure for gaming was revolutionary; nowadays, an almost-perfect infrastructure with a good digital store is a minimum requirement.

Quite ironically, many of the players that could plausibly throw their name in the hat already have their fingers in gaming in other ways that don't exactly align with launching a domestic console. Apple is currently pushing for more ports of current AAA games to iOS and Mac; Facebook (I refuse to acknowledge their rebrand) is pushing Quest as its main platform and I imagine a traditional console would clash with that; NVIDIA provides hardware for Nintendo, sells gaming hardware for PC and a cloud gaming service, and I guess a console kinda clashes with all of that; Amazon seemed more interested in becoming a publisher than anything else when it comes to gaming; Alphabet probably still has PTSD from the whole Stadia fiasco...

Like, I don't know, I don't see a fuck you-tier company that could plausibly pull it off and at the same time would be interested in it. Tencent maybe? It's not looking good, honestly.

BudgieMania,

Yeah, at the very least it would result in a brutal deterioration of the value proposition of future Playstation hardware. The harsh truth is that a large majority of Playstation players would not consider moving to PC or Switch 2 as a viable alternative, and Sony knows that, and would price accordingly. We all saw what happened the last time they felt they were uncontested in the market when they unveiled the PS3 and its pricing, but this time there would not be a 360 to punish them for it.
There is not a world in which a hypothetical PS6 isn't at least 599 ( without the hardware to make up for it) if it doesn't have a direct competitor. And that would have its own domino effect on Switch and PC hardware pricing... what are you gonna do, go to the overpriced PS6? Pleaaaaase.

BudgieMania,

You know what, you might be right, a second attempt at the concept of a Steam Machine, but this time done in a way that, you know, actually makes sense, with a single super-official SKU, with a lot of abstraction from the "PC" part of it (which Steam Deck has already set the field for) could potentially work.
But they did it so, so fucking badly last time, that I won't believe it until I see it.

BudgieMania,

I've seen Rock sabotage like four Mania main events at this point and I still find it hilarious

BudgieMania,

he should live sing it lmao

BudgieMania,

I am currently one of the scrubs you beat in Tekken 8 on your way to the red ranks

BudgieMania,

Well surely this means that archive.org will be allowed to exist in peace, since it would be ridiculous to make the information and culture produced in the year of our lord 20fucking24 the most ephemeral it has ever been in human history, right?

Right?

BudgieMania,

I hate this attitude towards adapting media so much.
Please stop thinking that you know better and that you can improve the original material (or that it needs any improving at all).
If you were truly able to do Avatar better than the original, you would've, you know, came up with an Avatar level phenomenon, you know what I mean? At some point, a product has maintained popularity for long enough that all its decisions should be trusted. I would argue that when people are still talking about it almost 20 years later, it has reached that point.

People adapting media need to come at it from the understanding that they are lower in the hierarchy than the original material and the original creators, and default to adhering to them as much as possible unless a change is inevitable for the media that it is being adapted to. No matter how little you understand why something is there, no matter how much you disagree with any element, no matter how much you thing "whoah I would've done this so much different if I had made it", remember: you didn't come up with it, so don't touch shit.

BudgieMania,

I don't see the point in adaptations if you aren't going to change a thing

See I've never been the biggest fan of this argument because it sidesteps around the fact that anime is almost entirely based around 1 to 1 adaptations of another medium and is humongously successful.

The point of adapting to another medium can just be exactly that, that it is another medium with a different set of tools to tell the story.

BudgieMania,

Metro is such a good fit for VR, they have a really good concept going here

Hopefully it will be Saints and Sinners level of quality

BudgieMania,

The tradeoff kinda made sense at the dawn of streaming, when the transaction was basically trading quality for better pricing and convenience.

Nowadays? Yeaaaaah I don't know about that chief

Crazy to think that we lost all the advantages that streaming offered, kept all the disadvantages, piled on a few more disadvantages on top of that, and people went "sure that makes sense 24 bucks a month worth it bro"

BudgieMania, (edited )

It was an unfortunate reminder that Konami clearly doesn't see Silent Hill 2 (or any of its beloved properties, really) with the same eyes that its audience has seen it for years.

The fact that they thought that this is an appropriate level of quality for what is considered by many to be either the best or at least one of the best horror games of all time is incredibly disappointing, but ultimately not surprising. My reaction to this this has been mostly "sigh, of course".

I've seen some people throw blame in Bloober's direction, but the responsability of choosing a developer that was not way over their head with the project lays on Konami, as does the responsability of providing enough time and resources for the project.

Konami clearly wants to have their cake and eat it by intending to get the results that Capcom has gotten out of their RE revival while putting one third of the effort and the care, and at this point all I can say is that I hope it doesn't work out for them.

It really sucks when the owner of the thing is the one that cares the least about it, what else can you say really.

BudgieMania,

Most of the trailer looked like a PS3 game, especially in terms of animations and janky combat.

Honestly, combat and animation wise, I'd say that suggesting the idea that it is comparable to PS3 era games actually does a disservice to many of the games of that era (TLoU, Dead Space Series, the REs of that era, etc etc).

I might even go as far as saying that in some aspects it may even be outdone by the Silent Hill games of that era, Homecoming and Downpour, but that is probably reaching a tad too much.

BudgieMania,

I thought nothing could possibly be too over the top or too out there for my tastes but... This might be that

BudgieMania,

Believe me it wasn't any less jarring playing through it

To this day it is the game that I'm the least sure about whether I enjoyed it or not

I did play it to completion so that's gotta count for something... right...?

BudgieMania,

deserved, they had brutal expectations to live up to but somehow delivered

BudgieMania,

Music licensing shenanigans strike once again.

The evergreen digital market of today is just incompatible with the practices established back when stuff was sold in boxes and only expected to sell for 5-8 years, and every now and then we get a reminder of what happens when they don't mesh.

Thankfully GoG was still selling it and discounted it massively to allow more people to preserve it.

BudgieMania,

waaaay out of the timeframe you have specified (it is a 2020 game that is still actively updated) but still with the same vibes, I'd check out Easy Red 2, as it scratches that specific itch of a WW2 shooter with scale. It is maybe too open at times for my taste but it is one of the very few modern games covering that niche. It does have optional squad management gameplay elements but you can ignore those in favor of playing a simple soldier, and the AI will do those jobs for you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ziR73NhHjY

BudgieMania,

We could have had the CoD take on those parts of For All Mankind?

And they cancelled it?

Are you kidding me?!

BudgieMania,

Don't forget the invulnerable ghosts in a room full of spiky floors that slow you down to a crawl and deal DoT...

And the run across a series of rocky passageways full of guys out of reach that increase your weight to the point that you can't almost even move, so you can't just run past it to retry the boss quickly, a boss which by the way is simply a fight with a trio of reused NPCs...

And the run to Sir Alonne...

Seriously it's baffling to me that people say those DLCs are great. A salad with a couple poisoned tomatoes and one rotten egg cannot be a great salad!

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