AverageGamer

The more i see of the Pro. The more I'm tempted to purchase one

"A sense the game would come together because the team was too good to fail."

Why does this same thing always seem to come up when we're dealing with legacy studios or studios spin-off from legacy studios

There must be a curse on Bungie and any studio related to them... cause every studio spun off from them have done nothing but struggle. Firewalk, 343, Certain Affinity... etc are all struggling.

@Pompey71 I mean… I can’t probably name any here. But you can look around key selling site and find it cheap. Just like Steam can have sale, those sites can sales. But those site normal price for the Remake is usually already $34.99.

@mariomaster96 I never had issues getting HFW to run well on my steam deck. You just have to tinker with the settings a bit.

@KawakiisaFraud I don't know about Shift Up... But Koei did speak on the low games sales during it investor meeting. They had to revise its forecast for the financial year due "to recent game launches resulting in lower sales than initially expected"

But that could either be Wild Hearts or Rise of the Ronin

@Pompey71 "The reason on PC for sales being low, is they don't understand how Steam pricing works!"

Pricing isn't the main issue... If you know anything about PC, you can easily find the game vastly cheaper than the Steam price.

The main issue is that Square Enix PC ports are hot garbage filled with a lot of performance issue, and a very basic option menu.

Steam players also don't like the idea of being a second-class citizen to the Epic store. It took a year to release on Steam after the Epic Store release, and they still didn't feel like fixing the performance issues.

@mariomaster96 Ragnarök was also on PS4, so I have no doubt that this will run fine on Steam Deck or Rog Ally

@CielloArc I don't think DD2 was nearly as long in development as any of these Final Fantasy games, and Capcom doesn't spend a lot of money on marketing unlike Square even tho they split the marking budget with Sony.

@jrt87 You’ll get some nerdy older folks that been messing with PC since when they came to the market, but that the outlier not the norm. Both of my parents not that much older than your father.. But both of them struggle to do the simplest of things. I don’t know what they’re going to do when I move out in a couple of weeks, and as some who IT support for residential customers. Most PC issues calls came from the 50+ age range.

“I'm mid 30s now and grew up installing stuff on DOS and having to deal with the various the wild west days of early 3D acceleration settings etc. Spent most of my 20s using Linux on my uni laptop.”

I did say a small subset of people over 30, not all 30 year olds.

I read one article about the younger generation falling behind in, don’t know it the same article as the one you seen. But falling behind was in terms of using a PC in an office environments… And that was because PC has always be an entertainment device, not a workhorse. It also doesn’t help that mid way through my school years, we switch from window based machines to chrome books and everything became google drive. So unfortunately my generation struggles trying to figure out how to fax something vs just installing Steam to play a game or set up a Minecraft server.

@NEStalgia Yeah, and some of y'all are still acting like it the DOS days. XD

My sister's coworker 8-year-old son just finished building him a customer gaming PC. Granted, I helped by providing a good site find parts. But PC gaming is not hard anymore.

@twitchtvpat Bruh, that vastly better than just an "ideal PC"... An i9 14900, 4900 gpu , 64gb ddr5 6k ram, dual 4tb nvme 2.0 hard drives... is not a PC. That is a workstation. You're not just buying that for gaming. You are buying that if your CAD rendering, 3D modeling, video edit.... etc.

This ain’t the early 2000s any more… PC aren't an hustle to setup at all. This whole “PC are too hard to use” dead back in early 2010’s. But I don’t know why we listening to PC advice from someone who haven’t had to set up PC before. He pays IT to do that.

TBH the only people who still find PC difficult are a small subset of 30s year olds and any one older than 40s. My generation and the generations coming behind mine have been using computers since before we could walk…

So good luck PlayStation. Your days are dwindling.

@Steel76 “ I don't understand why they did the same mistake, as with the PS4 Pro, and didn't use a more powerful CPU, to avoid bottlenecks like this.”

Cause console games are usually hardcoded for the CPU. Just slapping in a more powerful CPU could break compatibility which would either require developers going back in and spending a lot more time, money, and energy coding their game for the new CPU… or Sony will have make new software for Pro to emulate the CPU of the older PS5.

@CrashBandicoat “ Guys.............£1800 RTX4090's sold out. That's just the GPU, they are spending £1000+ on the rest of the PC too.”

People aren’t just buying 4090s for gaming. People are buying 4090s for WORK. That can be writes off as a business expense on tax…. Definitely not the same thing

This is either going to end up being Vive la révolution and out the Guillemots… Fitting since Ubisoft is a French company. Or this can end with the Guillemot running the entire company into the ground.

Live service is basically anything that is supposed to provide prolong user engagement... consistent patches, updates, DLC... etc are all aspects of a live service. It doesn't just have to be monetization through skins or loot boxes. It just has to be something that can keep people returning to the game outside of the normal launch window

I glad that this game failed solely for the fact it'll hopefully bring Sony and PlayStation's ego down a notch. I can't remember the last time PlayStation has had an outright failure, and for the last 2 generations... PlayStation studio have given off the impression they're untouchable.

Nice! Definitely will pick it up later either on sale or when it releases for pc some time down the line.

@Boucho11 May be mediocre… But still better than Outlaw, and would have probably scored higher and sold better.

Cool! No one cares… Can you forget about this game, Julian, and go back to making The Division. I’ve been waiting almost 6 years for 3.

@Boxmonkey "going to bankrupt a huge name sooner or later"

We're kinda due for the loss of a major publisher/developer. We haven't had one in a while... The last one was THQ?

@crossbit "Never reload a checkpoint from the moment after making a reputation-changing decision; as it stands, it will tend to load you back to the moment before the decision but will keep your reputation from the moment after... and promptly lower it even more."

This sound like a bug, and not something intended.

@crossbit TBH… People need to stop relying so heavily on auto saving. You really should be doing a manual save every 30 to an hour. I personally still approach modern like it still 2000. Gamers have become so relaxed about saving cause now game literally auto save after ever action the player performs… Player open chest, auto save. Player enters room, auto save. Character model breaths, auto save.

I had planned to purchase Outlaws collector edition…But Ubisoft reluctance to release on Steam Day 1 had me cancel any plans of supporting this game period.

@BrotherFriede Firewalk is full of ex-bungie employees, and is located in the same city of Bellevue, WA. I would be surprised if Bungie didn’t help grease the wheel so that Concord could get made over Factions.

@Savage_Joe Wasn't Hulst CEO of Playstation Studios before coming CEO of SIE? So, he was in charge of overseeing studios and approving game development... It is as much his fault as it is Jimbos.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner The grass is always greener on the other side

I'm just saying that we are getting it way easier in the game industry with the amount of bull crap we deal with...

@PsBoxSwitchOwner “ No other industry would be accepting this quality. You wouldn’t buy a car that’s missing the paint. Or a hotel with no bed.”

We really need to stop using these analogies. Cause you actually looked at the automobile industry and massive amount of bull crap they get away with? I mean car manufacturers are now shipping cars that require subscriptions to get features you paid for.

My $50k car came from the factory with an engine tick, and one of the worse and cheapest manual transmissions that shouldn’t be in a $40k+ car much less a $50k sport car.

EA wish they could get away with the bull crap Ford, BMW, GM… etc gets away with.

Any more expensive, I’m probably just going to stop gaming all together. So far this year, I only purchased like 3-4 games, and that was only cause I was able to get them for under $50 on launch day. Another price increase will likely put these same game back into the $60-70 price even with launch day discounts… I can easily find another hobby to fill my time, and it’ll likely also save me from expensive hardware purchases.

@Bobobiwan Unfortunately, being exec doesn’t really require you to be master of the subject for the thing you’re in charge of… You just have to know how to buy companies and make money. This dude is unfortunately very skilled in that since he co-found 2k and was president of the publishing label before he join Amazon in 2018.

I was very much looking forward to this game, but Ubisoft continues to neglect Steam players by no releasing this day 1 on the platform... So, I won't be purchasing it now, or in 4 months when they decide to finally put it for sale on steam due to poor PC sales.

@crossbit "That, and with the horrors that Disney continues to enact on the IP, the games are practically the last bastion of the franchise at this point."

I wouldn't say that the games are the last bastion of the franchise... The animated stuff is still very good

@Randinator123 Nope. They are still most likely still using those IP… Toy for Bob still a very cryptic image up on their website that may be pointing to a new Spyro game.

@PsBoxSwitchOwner This would have came to PS… This hypothetical Crash 5 cancellation was probably even before Microsoft had even announced they was buying Activision. This was something they started working on after Crash 4 in 2020, and probably got cancel 2021 and forced the team to start working on Crash Team rumble.

@Grumblevolcano Nah. There is probably enough Yoshida fanboys that will pick this up over God of War.

@Jacko11 If Driveclub was better than either Forza… Then we would still playing the game and looking forward to Driveclub 3, but we’re not. Both the franchise and studio is dead cause it was indeed not better than Forza.

@Coolmusic AH. I haven’t seen twisted metal… So I didn’t mention it. I personally only mentioned things I’ve seen myself.

@LifeGirl Detective Pikachu was good. There was the first couple seasons of the Witcher. Arcane, Cyberpunk Edgerunners, and Castlevania. Idk if Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves since that technically not a video game… Was the Warcraft movie liked? I don’t remember, I just know it made almost half a billion back. There was also the recent Ubisoft animated show

I would say that video game adaptations have definitely improved and we get more W now than L.

@pharos_haven Growth vs profitability

@Pigrotto @Sequel I’m also haven’t bought it due to not being on steam.

It crazy that studios haven’t realized that not releasing on Steam is the dumbest decision you could ever do… It like only releasing on Xbox, and not PlayStation as well.

And tbh… Even if it come to Steam, I probably won’t buy it or play it (unless I get it for free like control). I don’t want Epic sloppy seconds.

@Oram77 Large publishers/devs already don’t offer their games day one on game pass

This is going to be upset the people like having the precise control over their party. But BioWare probably have the numbers showing the most people didn't do that or cared.

@Nem Yup! Me too... Why spend hour customizing my main character then swap around to other characters in the middle of combat

Man… I forgot this was coming to PC. Can’t wait to finally play it!!

@RagnarLothbrok The future wasn't bright for them had they not gone into VR. Their rep was basically destroyed after The Order, and Deformers wasn't going to save the studio... Lone Echo at least kept the studio a household name in VR while console gamers mocked them for The Order.

Not surprising, they haven't released anything or shown anything since Lone Echo 2. Then they got hit with layoffs... On top of that, the sale for the Quest 3 don't look to great. The most recent rumored sale number put the headset at 1 million. It should have at least been at 2-3 million by now.

@Flaming_Kaiser 3 years is a very long time wait for someone to do something.

@WhiteRabbit I said good not great. But they did give plenty of massive visual overhauls for their games free of charge.

@Losermagnet Larian CEO has been very vocal about all the lays off affecting the game industry... Notably the Hasbro one that happened right before Christmas last year that completely whipped out the team that help make BG3.

@Losermagnet Unfortunately, Hasbro has probably burnt all their bridges with Larian. So, there will most likely be no more Wizard of the Coast partnerships.

@colonelkilgore The Xbox Series launch was pretty good. They had a lot of momentum going from the Xbox One X launch into the Series X launch. They were really pushing a consumer first approach... All the accessories from the One work, flawless back compact, free upgrades on games, ton of new studios, no $70 games... etc. It just that the years following that launch hasn't been great... Everything started going downhill with Halo Infinite then they became stagnant with the ABK purchase.

While I was never a continuous subscriber to their magazine (Curse being a teenager and kid with no income) ... They were my main source for gaming information from 2006 to 2012. I still have all my magazines. I remember going through the magazines and writing down all the name of the game I wanted for Christmas to hand to my parents.

Between this and the closure of the Xbox 360 marketplace... The era of what made me a gamer is dying. Which is fitting as my interest in gaming is also winding down.