I think the difference is survival horror games don’t sell all the copies and become Call of Duty level profitable, but that doesn’t mean they are unsuccessful. A game like Outlast shows a responsible level of budget will lead to great success, spending more in development doesn’t necessarily lead to more sales. Alien Isolation was excellent for example, but I do wonder if it had been 4 hours shorter and the money required to develop the incredibly overly drawn out ending saved from the budge...
While rarely a good sign, if the business model is that you want people to sign up to a subscription rather than buy on launch day at full price / pre order; does it really make a difference if people sign up on launch day or a week before? Surely for them being able to say they had a x % spike in subscriptions on launch day is the best way of generating positive buzz and demonstrating the scale of appeal (or not) the game has
Gamers - There are no PS5 games, why won’t they announce stuff regardless of when it’s going to be released.
Also gamers - I hate when Sony announce games years before they’re finished and ready to be released. We don’t want cgi trailers.
That’s great to hear, but in an industry that not only prioritises but actively encourages people to pre-order months or even years ahead of release, it is frankly unacceptable any of these were released in such a poor state to begin with.
Industry can’t have it both ways, either incentivise day one purchasing but make games work properly at the start without over promising on what’s actually possible, or be honest that you’re releasing a glorified paid for beta build that ...
If we’re beating that drum, can we also stop forcing anyone who wants to play only the single player to download Warzone and all updates BEFORE they are then able to do another download from the menu of the single player campaign. I don’t see why I need 150gb of downloads in several ways to play the single player mode only from a bloomin disk which should have that campaign on it already.
I think that everyone was expecting for GTA6 to release this winter but was then subsequently pushed into the next financial year, but only after everyone cleared their release schedules thinking nothing they could release would compete against it. Even the third party releases look light this autumn / winter.
Loved the original ps1 games, and fondly remember liking Frontline and then playing Allie Assault on my cousins PC and being blown away by the massive improvements to the D-Day mission
Great, loved the first game and happy a sequel is coming but after such a lengthy development, are Telltale gonna be releasing it episodic with non specific time delays between episodes? If it is episodic, they need to have a full set of dates laid out for every episode so we know what we are getting & when like Resident Evil Revelations 2 did, buying episode 1 and not knowing when the rest will come is just unacceptable in 2024.
Disruptor PS1, a pre Goldeneye console FPS from 1996 (with Command and Conquer type FMV cutscenes) and the first game by a pre Spyro Insomniac Studios directed by Mark Cerny. A good game for its time, and pre Bioshock use of telekinesis type powers. A game sadly almost completely lost to time
I was at a retro store yesterday and burst out laughing when they were trying to sell the first season of 24 on UMD, that’s commitment to the format to watch 24 episodes of tv on the PSP
I’d be over the moon if we got another Motorstorm game and was really disappointed DriveClub didn’t do better as it was a genuinely great game completely ruined by he bad publicity of server problems in the first weekend. I never even look at the games like GT7 now because I’m not interested enough to buy a wheel and other sim rig stuff but it seems nothjng about those games is designed for someone using a controller.
Having seen RDR2, it’ll be interesting to see how much of the GTA6 dev work is devoted to incredibly niche and intricate features which aren’t really fundamental to gameplay despite taking thousands of hours and millions of dollars.
Rockstar, it’s not worth delaying the game by a year, and breaking staff in the process, to have something daft like headlights that dim if dirty and needing to be cleaned.
I really hoped this was going to be a sequel to the surprisingly enjoyable Terminator Resistance. Felt Nacon developed and got close to perfecting their gameplay loop in Robocop Rogue City so would’ve loved more of the same.
Maybe big lesson, stop releasing things at the wrong time of year. Releasing a full price character platformer in October / November unless you’re Super Mario is just asking to get swallowed up by all the other releases. Maybe if this came out in July or August, it would have sold better just because there was less competition.
Or making a better game wouldn’t hurt regardless of the time of year released and competition
Love the charity angle, anyone read anything that suggests if the money will go to charity if bought outside the US? Not bothered about the suits but will happily throw in a fiver for a good cause
But the weird thing is, Disaster financials for Microsoft was “only” making $146 billion profit in 2023.
I guess if they were planning to port it to the PC anyway, and with a movie to follow, I’d gladly play it again (but for £30, not a full £60 release) particularly if it brings in all the modern accessibility features and general quality improvements (the hold still minigame thing was an absolute pain).
It does look a lot better and if memory serves, the original was a pretty tortured development cycle and showed in a few places so a new engine would be good to get...
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered also doing the same, shame as looked a fun chance to relive them but not bothering without a physical disk and I will not budge on this (said by someone who waited for Cuphead to get a physical switch release)
Does make an interesting point about the idea of a PS5 pro and if there really is as much of a market for it as people assume. I do think if there’s one thing to take from the switch’s success is that graphics are important, but good game and especially art design should be the priority.
I went back to the original PS4 game recently and it surprised me how dark and textureless some of the environments are compared to the newer games like The Quarry as my memory has all these games looking basically the same. To me the video does seem a solid visual upgrade, I wouldn’t spend £70 but if this was £30 with some new story elements akin to a Directors cut, I think I’d bite for a Halloween replay through