same I enjoyed just didn't like the endings or how short it wasIt's an utter chaos out there and I am enjoying Cyberpunk on my Series X. :(
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Same here, Quality Mode on the X is good.It's an utter chaos out there and I am enjoying Cyberpunk on my Series X. :(
Do you get inconsistent framerates on quality mode? I can't not use performance mode
Yeah it's got to hurt. All the more reason why they continue to invest in first party - not having to rely on third party marketing deals as much, which they have had to do a lot of recently and often seem to back the wrong horse lol
What are you trying to say about Space Jam 2? It's gonna win an Oscar next year, we all know it.
Good point, they should have delayed Cyberpunk.
Anthem, Fallout 76, the recent maligned Battlefield and now Cyberpunk 2077. Sony's big misstep seems to have been Avengers, by comparison.
I mean, it was only after the backlash that they decided, not because of good will.
Thanks yeah I realized shortly after that new dlcs were coming and the season pass just didn't include Jungle and Creeping. :)
At least they showed us the gameplay, Craig and all. CDPR didn't give reviewers codes and limited them to show only clips from their own marketing.
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That is true, CDPR made a huge mistake here, lets see if it doesnt cost them.
Yeah, 2023 sounds about right for Fable and I would expect the same with Perfect Dark. Both will have to build the teams/studio alongside the game, which takes time.
As a sidenote and as I've said before on Era, I wanna see The Coalition having dev times like this and the developers they're often compared to.
The story in Dishonored is pretty simple, but is really good and in combination with the setting has the ability to get under your skin and make things memorable. It uses many familiar ideas just with smaller twists, so everything feels relatable and real. In many ways it's such a depressive and oppresive world.
You should definitely consider trying it, especially if you like stealth games (though a more action oriented approach is possible).
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They were already talking about delaying Halo before the XGS showcase, earlier in the year according to Phil.
No Man's Sky was huge. A lot of anger over that.
Cold War has been kinda broken for awhile too now. But it's call of duty. Bricking Xbox's. Patches making things worse. Etc.
I forgot No Man's Sky was tied to Sony, yeah, that was a big one.
I can kinda see this in other cases, but not Perfect Dark. It's legacy is multiplayer. It HAS to be there.
I'd bet most people who loved the OG Perfect Dark loved it because of its MP. The MP is the only part of the game that stands out to me since I played it on the N64.
If anything a MP only shooter would make more sense with the IP.
It needs multiplayer because that's absolutely a part of it's DNA, but it was the campaign that stood out in the long run. Multiplayer had a ton customization options, but the basic mechanics are if not better, then at least different in modern shooters, while the campaign in many ways still hasn't been superseded, if taken on its own premise. The genre simply went in a different direction after that, instead of doing what the campaign did, better.
A multiplayer only shooter would miss the point of Perfect Dark completely.
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Gonna have to disagree. The singleplayer was a huge part of it the games success. Let alone the following...
- Carrington Institute hub world with training, firing range with goldeneye guns as rewards, story information ect.
- Co-op mode via splitscreen or with AI partner.
- Counter op mode where second player plays as an enemy.
- Unlockable cheats that created lots of replayability.
With EA buying Codemasters it made me realize that for the foreseeable future we can "cheer" EA's acquisitions, as that also means having said dev's games on Game Pass hahah
I can. This year
even with their stock down 40% thats still a spicy like $4.5 Billion to drop on one company.
They already have 4 RPG studios (3 of them with multiple teams), why would they need to buy a 5th one?
It would make no sense to spend billions on CDPR. Their output is too slow and much of their worth is tied to a gaming distribution platform MS don't need at all.
This isn't about refund mechanisms or PSN wouldn't be delisting it in certain regions, it's about CD Project outright telling people their game wasn't fit for sale and trying to shift the mess onto Sony and Microsoft.
If they hadn't put out that statement, Sony would never have delisted it.
Microsoft probably haven't delisted it because either they don't want to, or it would be a bad look to delist a game you are marketing.
This has probably been said a fair few times since the hivebusters gears dlc, but my god I'd love a full gears package all remastered with the same visuals as gear 5 and hivebusters, but also, I'd love the coalition to have a crack at a gears horror spin off... I got pure horror vibes in the second chapter of hivebusters.
That said, it would also give them a working PC storefront that people likes to use
I wonder if they could just rebrand GoG as Windows Store (or Xbox to differentiate from the regular Windows store with programs, apps...)
Or would it be too much of a hassle? Seeing the current MS Store and reliability problems, no mod support, uwp... I wonder if it's easier to solve those problems or it would be easier and faster to do the rebranding
I think a Gears horror spin-off would make a lot of sense. Especially if it were a shorter game.
I just dug out some of my old Perfect Dark stuff, just to give an idea of how single player was positioned in comparison to multiplayer. Notice how the vast majority is dedicated to the campaign, with even the box itself reserving three out of four screenshots for campaign and talking about corporations and conspiracies, leaving a single line to mention the multiplayer:
I'm not saying multiplayer wasn't important. Obviously that's part of Perfect Dark, but leaving single player out would be leaving out a major part of what the game was actually trying to sell. I have a lot of magazines of the time lying around and might consider taking pictures later, just to show how much the campaign was actually featured. It was a vitally important part of the game.
Also discovered some of my Perfect Dark Zero memorabilia, from guides to comics and even a Rucka book. Always fun going over stuff like that :)
I'm not saying multiplayer wasn't important. Obviously that's part of Perfect Dark, but leaving single player out would be leaving out a major part of what the game was actually trying to sell. I have a lot of magazines of the time lying around and might consider taking pictures later, just to show how much the campaign was actually featured. It was a vitally important part of the game.
Also discovered some of my Perfect Dark Zero memorabilia, from guides to comics and even a Rucka book. Always fun going over stuff like that :)
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Would be really funny if MS bought CDPR now, but lets be clear: the only one who is burning bridges in this mess is CDPR.
MS should follow Sony on this and pull it from the store (would probably also make a takeover even cheaper lol)
I don't think MS would do that given the marketing deal in place. CDPR just need to scramble and fix the issues pronto.
Makes me wonder why they even considered last gen consoles for such an ambitious game.
I don't think that a marketing deal with a company tanking their reputation and value at full speed is more important than the customers.
I also don't think the marketing deal covers the game being broken and being pulled from the store.
especially when Sony is doing it, this would look so bad for MS.
I can't see them not doing the same.
I don't see the appeal on acquiring CD Projekt Red. Their output is lower than Microsoft needs for Game Pass, and the acquisition price for the studio would be overpriced and really expensive.
(plus current controversies made me drop the appreciation I had with CDPR)
Better spend that money on bringing more JRPG to the platform, acquiring studios or just founding games. Level-5, period.
150m dumb reasons seeing as their value has crashed hard. How dumb can you be thinking this wouldn't happen given the state of the game?
MS should definately follow Sony here. F CDPR. Let their value crash even more. Maybe itll drop even more to a point its worth investing in so MS can fix CDPRs toxic, racist, transphobic culture cause I don't see that changing by themselves.
This is a good lesson and warning to all other publishers/devs that releasing a mess of a game can damage not only your brand but your value in severe ways. This will force more to delay games instead of releasing them unfinished. IMO.
kinda agree, MS would have to fire the whole management at least.
Still Xbox would become an even bigger RPG monopoly with Obsidian, Bethesda, Playground, inXile and CDPR.
they could have 5 year cycles and still release one big RPG per year lol
Fair point. Still, with such a massive development time and plenty of crunch it makes once wonder what went wrong.
On base consoles, maybe. But PC, stadia and next gen account for about 70% of the sales so far, so there's a majority out there more than happy.
But they really should not have bothered with last gen. The game is too much for the machines....or at least released last gen versions maybe next year.
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