ThrowawayOnLemmy

Damn. Bubsy 3D to Days Gone. What a redemption arc lol

But hear me out. Battle passes, dark patterns and FOMO.

I enjoyed this game way more than I thought I would. You’re right though, it’s more akin to a Mario 3D world than it is to a LBP game.

Well you do have to give it to him, three graphics options (low/med/high) is more than the two graphic options (low/high) that came in the previous game.

Rebirth also says it requires 12 gigs of vram, my 3080 is crying.

Oh cool, more AI crap instead of real performance.

Well somebody better tell Ubisoft to delay Assassin’s Creed Shadows till 2026 then.

Who?

If Sony is willing to put up a bunch of money to get a game made with a 3rd party company like Square, and if Square wouldn’t have been able to make the game otherwise, then being an exclusive could be the only reason it exists.

Similar to Alan Wake 2, which I still haven’t played, it’s possible that this game owes its existence to the exclusivity agreement giving the necessary upfront funds to get the game development going.

But this isn’t like the previous generations of exclusive consoles. These consoles are significantly more expensive, development on video games is significantly more expensive, and the profit margin that you could make from being exclusive to just a single console is significantly lower.

This is a combination of ballooning budgets, expensive hardware with lower sales, and the PC gaming market looming over Sony and Microsoft’s shoulders. And don’t forget to mention the explosion of the free to play, micro transaction riddled games they also have to compete with for screen time now.

Does this mean exclusives will go away? Probably not. If it’s financially beneficial to go exclusive, they’ll do it again.

But it does mean that the gap between the potential gained revenue of not going exclusive and the potential locked in revenue from the exclusivity agreement is currently looking razor thin.

Oh don’t dismiss that they’re also graphics and programming wizards. They don’t work with the cutting edge, but they run circles around anyone on the lower end, making games look and run better on potato hardware is no easy feat.

I’d argue the optimization required to make something like that happen is significantly more skillful than all of the crap AAA stuff that takes 250gb and requires shader compilations every boot.

The bounty dispatcher or whatever is a woman version of budget Snake Plissken and a smoker, but the voice actor sounded like she was lifted from a 1940s movie and had never smoked a day in her life (rare, I know, but still). I expected at least a hint of gruffness from her character and got absolutely zero of that.

I felt the same way when I heard her voice. Not near rough enough for how that character looked.

At the same time, this could be your typical Kojima fuckery where he makes it seem like he’s talking about himself, but he’s actually talking about an exhaustion mechanic from Death Stranding.

Meh I’m still skeptical. These reviews seem awfully generous compared to the gameplay footage I saw.

Wasn’t Microsoft just talking about how important game preservation was to them?

Four characters, and 3 hours of extra story. But I heard the extra story sucked and wasn’t in any way worth the time or money put into it.

I’ve been holding off on picking it up until it goes on a deep deep discount because there’s no way I’m paying nearly the full price of the game for a fraction of the content.

They 100% did this to themselves. Tons of fans loved the precious story DLC’s on the older games. Those were cheaper and way longer. They didn’t justify the extra cost for this DLC in any way.

Well damn. Maybe they shouldn’t have made the last mediocre DLC $50. Totally killed my interest in the game.

That, and I hate the modern monetization methods of mortal Kombat. I miss the Krypt.

Shame Ubisoft doesn’t feel this obligation to gamers. If they did, we’d probably only have 4 assassin’s Creed games

Doesn’t explain single player games.

CEO Matt Garman said nine out of 10 workers he has spoken with support the new policy

Got news for you, Matt. 9 out of 10 workers are kissing your ass.

A year back he started invading my feed and I took the bait for a bit. Ended up blocking all his channels I came across though. My mental health has thanked me.