It's a joke.
I very much disagree but I'm happy you enjoyed it. I wish I had.
[Jez Corden] - What to expect from the Xbox Games Showcase 2024 (sequels to beloved franchises/revival of Xbox classics/multiplat strategy)
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I very much disagree but I'm happy you enjoyed it. I wish I had.
Man, a sequel or even a remake of Jade Empire is my dream game. I can't explain how much nostalgia I have attached to that game.
It was a pretty common saying at the time, especially with Square releasing statements on why FFXIII did not have any towns ("HD towns are hard", compared to LO which had multiple cities / towns), and why the original releases of FFXIII only came with 1 audio track because of space issues. (LO has 5 voice-over language options)
Also comparing critic scores from back then is a bit disingenuous to determine quality imo. That was when action based jrpgs were all the rage and LO was knocked points for being an "outdated" turn based JRPG.
On a side note, I personally liked LO. Yeah the main villain was lame and predictable, but certain parts of the main story and many of the text stories are burned into my memory. Like one of your immortal party members reuniting with her long lost 70 year old son.
Yep.
I wrote elsewhere that they seem to be hitting the panic button before they can even asses the results of their acquisition spree.
Sure there's Starfield and it didn't move the needle (let's be honest, it was no TES) and neither did HiFi Rush. Hellblade 2 won't.
But it's a long term investment.
Unless they want to make more people familiar with their games and then withdraw when they're in demand. They might be going multiplatform now, but might not stay multiplatform when next gen hits. Or when that COD contract expires.
But if there is choice to be made between the two, at least for now, then you have to go with Blue Dragon. Perhaps the performance and feedback of one remaster drives the other.
I for one am glad that MS appears to be going back and taking a look at some of the under appreciated games of the 360 era.
Crackdown 3 is not a bad game. A game doesn't have to be great to be good and fun. The gaming world needs Crackdown 3's!
The Crackdown series is a guilty pleasure of mine.
I actually bought 3 before I got Game Pass....and I never regretted that decision.
Look, I don't want to derail the thread, but I consider it to be terrible. I agree that a game doesn't need to be great to have fun, I live Deadly Premonition. But it's uhh. Yes.
Maybe disappointing is a better word. It's in my top 3 most disappointing games ever. A franchise that had hope that Microsoft basically took a massive dump on and tried to pretend it was gravy. Crackdown 1 was great, but they took something that had potential and warped it to a mere husk if what it once was. There is an alternative universe out there where it is a key pillar of Xbox, instead of being mocked by weirdos like me. Microsoft should be ashamed of what they did to Crackdown.
I don't think C3 was ever going to be a pillar of Xbox like gears or Halo. But I do agree they put more hype and pressure on it than was needed and it's hard for it to live up to its B+ nature in a AAA world. C1 was a fun surprise. C2 is TERRIBLE. C3, in my opinion if it's stripped away from the cloud hype, was a solid crackdown game and a reminder of the ton of great B tier games from the 360/PS3 era we don't seem to get anymore.
My memory of all 3 crackdowns is that they are all essentially the exact same game, 2 almost quite literally. So saying one is significantly worse than the others feels weird to me at least and more like a symptom of when you played them vs expectation. 1 and 2 came out so close to each other they where basically a blur. Like the only personality and differentiation they had between them was the Voice coms telling you who to kill and why.
2 giving you mobs of zombies to blow up, instead of just more gang menbers on top of a cooler looking suit and a glider, put it over the top for me personally even though I can acknowledge I was doing the exact same thing at Basically every moment in all 3 games. Which is obsessively scouting the horizon and listening for the hums.
That's a play box series that deserves the Earth Defensive Force like treatment. Make a super cheap sequel every few years that looks and runs slightly better each time with a few new toys. Publishers NEED to play with the cheap iterative sequels market. Everything can't just be AAA and gass
2 giving you mobs of zombies to blow up, instead of just more gang menbers on top of a cooler looking suit and a glider, put it over the top for me personally even though I can acknowledge I was doing the exact same thing at Basically every moment in all 3 games. Which is obsessively scouting the horizon and listening for the hums.
That's a play box series that deserves the Earth Defensive Force like treatment. Make a super cheap sequel every few years that looks and runs slightly better each time with a few new toys. Publishers NEED to play with the cheap iterative sequels market. Everything can't just be AAA and gass
This is not a controversial statement in the slightest lol. It's the worst mainline FF versus the Gooch.
I just purchased FF XIII and XIII-2 a couple of months ago for 360. Curious to try them out just to see why they're so bad lol
I held off so long on starting Blue Dragon/Lost Odyssey with the hopes they'd get performance boosts. Looks like I'm now in for a remaster/remake for at least one of these two games...
I feel like we'll always get CG trailers, as they are mainly used for a hiring tool.
With that said, I think we'll see a lot of gameplay this year as games get ready.
What additional boosts were you looking for beyond the impressive BC improvements?
I can't believe we're having LO vs FF13 discussions in 2024. Like guys, it's been 15 years now lmao.
I thought I had seen that these games hadn't gotten any boosts to resolution, which is what I would have primarily hoped for (FPS doesn't matter to me).
If there's new hardware being released later this year (whether it's an Xbox controller with haptic feedback or a new model of Series X, etc.), is it safe to assume that it'd be part of this showcase in some way? Even if it's a pre-show or after-show thing? Or would there be a different time to expect anything like that?
A new Xbox revision is going to be an interesting pitch during a showcase that apparently has some multiplatform strategy information:
"All our games are coming to other hardware. Also, buy our new box with no redeeming utility"
Hype trailers with no gameplay don't bother me, but if you do one. You better have it followed by real gameplay in maximum of 4 months. This shit that is 2-3-4 years is one of the problems i think is effecting the industry. You show gameplay 3 months before launch, no one likes it, and now you scrambling and grinding, and still launch something people hate
recent vibes have me wondering if Sony knew what was going to happen. COD will be more multiplat than ever, i wonder if MS would reup the marketing contract. It's free money
Yeah, any contract they signed was mostly a gesture, and not some onerous obligation they need to adhere to.
When it expires little will change.
There is no way they buy COD and let PlayStation market the game.