BrintaPap

Game studios need to learn that not every genre is feasible for live service style games. Even if Nintendo would make the next Smash Bros a live service styled game it would flop so why would the others succeed?

If you look at some of the most succesive live services games they are either on mobile where people are more willing to spend money in general or they are on the big platforms and most of the times have a huge playerbase per lobby. Making the chances big that people are willing to spend money down the line:
Apex 60 player per match
Fornite 100 per match
Warzone 60-120 per match
FF 14 I guess thousands per server
Having those numbers just results in a bigger spending rate. And then devs/publishers need to try and maintain them.

Some other games racking in billions like Genshin and ZZZ have less players per lobby, just 4 or even just 1 person playing, but still a huge playerbase due to their good content drops and great game in general (the others listed above also have that in general) and the best game design for “attractive/waifu” playable characters that people just wanna unlock.

If your base game suck (suicide squad, gotham knights) no one is going to spend a dime on it even it were free to play.

Why can’t WB just look at their huge succes with a full priced game like Hogwarts and try to replicate that with other IP’s they own? The risks they take with free to play (live service) games is not paying off while the traditional game of making games is making bank. It is such a shame because they have great IP’s.
It is just better the let other studios/pubshers just license the IP at the moment.

Rocksteady with a new Batman/Nightwing game
Green arrow in a urban Horizon game or Uncharted
Wonder-woman in a God of War game
Catwomen in a (smaller) stealth game
Flash or superman in openworld game
Teen titans in a side scrolling TMNT/streets of rage game
Detective game with Gordon
The creators of Lies of P making a dark souls type game with Doctor Fate.

Man, it just sucks that WB is not doing more with their IP’s because I really like the DC IP.

Sorry for the weird formatting, wrote this on mobile.

@Matroska handheld gaming also has this thing where people buy to collect them more than the homeconsole on this worlds, as the pricepoint is also cheaper on nintendo’s side. Not saying that that is a large number of people to do so but I’m willing to guess that it’s at least 0,5% of total switch sales that are just bought by someone that already has a switch and want some more limited edition.

But they won’t be buying more copies of a game they already have naturally.
Speaking for myself I own 2 switches and was almost willing to buy a Switch lite because of the Zelda edition.

I consider myself “hardcore” but not “this hardcore”.
I will just wait 3/4 more years for a ps6. This price is nonsense, buy a pc at this point.

As always many companies want to do live service games for the fast and continous stream of income but never tackle cheaters and support their game monthly.

@Zeke68 define playing a game ''proper''. trophies have been devalued a long time ago mate.

Is the value of the platinum of your average telltale game worth the same as demons souls? or the same as those 3 euro games where you can plat in 5 minutes? according to people not but to sony it is.

Just remake bf:bc2, dont add stuff just a hd remake. Dice clearly does not know what the players want.

Does a player dictate a game? Nope but it does not seem like they (DICE) listen to player feedback until their player drop the game en mass.

2042 at the begin was a fiasco, it kinda already was even BEFORE official launch with their operator instead of the regular 3 classes.

@moeshiboe I don’t say get good to any1 but honestly there are they so many gamers saying games should have plenty of accessibility option, the devs clearly don’t want this for their respective games. There are tons of other games to play with tons of those settings.

My top 3

1 Apex ps4 1147 hours
2 Apex ps5 784 hour
3 Cod BO3 772 hours

(Bonus as apex is still the same game albeit a different console)

4 overwatch 269 hours
After that the singeplayer games start coming.

@Enigk @wizzNL im pretty sure you/he left the game on and the clock will ofcourse still count, it kinda applies to every game if you leave your ps5 on.

@Keyblade-Dan she also is a big fan and a good player, the devs likely is glad to have her lending her voice for this.

Yeah, got premium also cheaper but I will lowering my tier, don’t play that much games on my PS5 at the moment and would rather start building a pc to play online for free. I barely use the paid online from sony now, mostly play Apex as my online game. Around 2,60 a month extra on top of regular prices is not gonna break me but If I dont even use the function mights as well drop it.

Price increases for a other sony product - Crunchyroll has also been 40% coming october/september so I’m not even suprised about this one.

Other gaming is happening on my Switch (being a father now) and has allowed me much more gaming around the house. If im not gaming I’d rather invest in my other hobby: motorbikes.

@REALAIS i played turn based games on my laptop using the streaming option from playstation. It’s handy for when my wife wants to watch tv/talk to me while playing my games. I can see a market for this, wont sell bucketloads but great there is an option

@HonestHick pc also has it problems with 1000’s of different configurations.

Honestly I think they might have a great succes if they remake or reboot bad company 2, give assault class back ammo packs en let the class with lmg’s revive again/have med kits again. Have smaller teams, 128vs128 sounds good and fun on paper but not if the games are not populated.

@UltimateOtaku91 “ Being on gamepass isn't a problem, it's the fact Microsoft paid to have the next gen versions exclusive, so there wasn't a PS5 version for playstation players who supported the games from the beginning, but there was an xbox series X version...”

Which game do you mean? Persona 4’s re-release? I feel like I am out of the loop here.

@Bentleyma ah I’ve missed it… probably because every game here is a port/dual release and FighterZ is coming later this year.

Robert why did you put Final Fantasy in this list, also where is Dragon Ball FighterZ? It kinds is a better game than Kakarot imo but yeah this it not my article.

@Grimwood anyone buying a piece of plastic with some sillicone in it is dumb, just like someone buying a house over a million or a car over a 100k. Or a phone over 500 pounds/dollar/euro.

People should not be allowed to spend their money for which they worked hard for. Or else these people will risk being called dumb online strangers.

@Joabra01Swe ah thats fine I do not destroy a battery in one gaming session, worst I’ll have do is taking a break for a few I guess where in the mean time I’ll do some workout or cleaning.

@LN78 haha the one what? If I have the money for it why not?

Bought it already, now I just need to wait for delivery.

If this release you can pretty much get it for free through organisations who focuses on making games available for everyone. Just like the Xbox one and Hori one (for Nintendo).

Just don’t abuse I would say. Buy if you can if you don’t have problems regarding your motor system.

@Deljo I do upstairs on my ps4, ps5 behind my tv downstairs. Been looking for a chair.

Was just thinking about replaying this game and now this article pops up, got lots of memories with this game!

Love the games, played them all even tho the combat is pretty the same for every character, in every installment.

I hope they fix the dualsense controllers not having a stable connection, I never had this problem with any other console.

I would have bought this game day 1 if it had crossplay, I wanna play this game with a friend who plays on pc and me on ps5.
WB said that right now that have no plans for crossplay. Now I’ll just wait for a sale.

Back to the comic itself, being 6 comics long is nice and I like having more info on the game, with hopefully physical media I can put in my (comic) collection

@thefourfoldroot1 why should this stop trophies being earned? First people said this at hades, then sifu now this.

I don’t know if the author plays Apex but both Gibraltar and Mirage are better healers then Lifeline at the moment.

@ShogunRok & @Voltan Thanks!

@ShogunRok are there online trophies?

This is what happens when you (nintendo and sony) sell your IP’s. Even when people barely play crash or spyro it hits them. I still don’t plan on buying a XSX now, but if it’s on sale I’ll grab it.

Sony should have bought other publishers, microsoft has been doing this for years.

@Rural-Bandit my problem with the dualsense for me is that it indeed feels to big for me. I can reach all buttons but I liked the smaller that the dualshock 4 is. I play a lot of Apex and prefer to play it on my ps4 over my ps5 (also) because of the backbuttons. Maybe I’m just need to use my ps5 more since I play my ps4 more often so I can get used to it’s controller, but this is the first time I want to have the xbox/nintendo switch pro controller layout for the ps5.

@nomither6 bro how do you get those fast times on the time trials? Any tips?

The rest of the trophy list is easy i guess but i have not played the game in month, when i tried to beat cpu on time timetrials it just got insanely hard

You guys forgot the cuphead dlc

I actually prefer the ps4 controller over the ps5’s dualsense controller. Too bad that it does not come with backbutton which would have been perfect for example the returnal

@mephistosghost Persona 5 royal also has it.

@DeepSpace5D tied for me with BO1. I loved survival and played it to death while I also had many MOAB in mw3’ online with many different weapons… but I also got over 100 kills in every game in bo1 multiplayer and it has zombies.

I stopped playing both games on ps3 because the more cods that were released the more hackers came into mw3 and bo1

Best fps games I have ever played. After that comes bo3. I hated the new Modern Warfare (2019?) to many campers, weak maps and somehow on ps4 I could not play that game for a long time due to bugs. First Cod I sold and never looked back (after the platinum).

I would love a mw3 remaster with online play and survival or maybe I should just buy it on steam.

Imagine being mad that “your” games are going to another platform, allowing more people to have fun on their prefered platform. Is gaming not what we do for fun? We can’t have other people also have fun playing the same games as “we” do?

@GADG3Tx87 exclusively after it was available on pc for like 20 dollars? It even can be played on any pc/laptop. And the audience can be all pc owners which frankly, most people have.

I think there is 0 reason for Sega/Atlus to keep it exclusive. Atlus even said that wanted to be more open to other platforms.

You seem to be gatekeeping a not-longer exclusive here… why do you want it exclusively for ps4/5?

Remake of lights, camera, action pretty please!

This also looks very intresting tho!

@Air-Dog I had the exact same issue on my ps4 pro. So I sold ( I kinda never sell my games) it and never looked back.

COD MW was the worst piece of software i have ever played. I could not even play it. Literally, the freaking software said I did not had the MP component installed. It was that bad.

@BoldAndBrash what racing games do you like? On ps4 I only NFS (remake) and NFS heat along with Team Sonic Racing (that game is okay but it’s not that fun imho) and CTR.

@GeneJacket I’m more of a Mario Kart/Crash Team Racing/Blur (that game was so fun to play when I was younger) guy.
I prefer arcade racers with power-ups and/or stunts/crashing into your other racers like in Burnout.

When I first heard about this game I thought that it was going to be a wacky game but its seems more realistic and this boring to me. Even if there is a nitro mechanic, and the tracks are all orange… yeah I know it’s hotwheels but in a game constantly seeing that colour will annoy me. It think that in real life it’s okay but in-game the only way you will know that are playing a different track is because of the background.

Sigh, if we could only have a remake of NFS Underground 1, 2 and 2005 Most Wanted.

I think the game looks nice but the gameplay itself looks basic/boring. This is a type of game I would like to see normal gameplay of instead of trailers and read reviews of.

Then again with my limited time for gaming even of I would buy this game it prolly would have been when it’s on sale.

Mario advanced tennis on the GBA was a very good game with very fun and hard minigames.

@EchoRange you mean that game in dev problems for the last 6 years or so?

@huntbearpig ah dang thanks tho. I forgot about location.