RANDOM VIDEO GAME NEWS - DA REAL DEAL

[Katphood]

 

A Hat in Time can what Yookan't?!

 

Have to finish both sometime later until I can decide but if there was one game that really didn't deserve the hate it got this year, it was Yooka-Laylee...and PREY of course. 

Edited October 23, 2017 by Katphood

[injurai]

So is that new Mario game inspired by this game? Are the followers now Nintendo?

[Keyrock]

Well, well, well...lookie here: http://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/news/how-activision-uses-matchmaking-tricks-to-sell-in-game-items-w509288

 

Now if all of that effort and money had went into making a good game, what would have happened I wonder...

Holy crap that is straight up evil and wrong on so many levels.  I'd say that I'm going to boycott Activision games entirely, but I haven't purchased an Activision game in at least half a decade, so nothing changes, I guess.

[Zoraptor]

I'd guarantee that it isn't just Activision doing that though. Most of this stuff crossed over from 'free' services and there's a constant testing of what is acceptable. It will stop when it starts costing companies money rather than making them it, which given humanity's penchant for compulsive behaviour and special pleading will be never. People literally spend thousands on loot boxes and the like. Let's be honest- it's deliberate targeting of people with either actual compulsive disorders or poor self control in the same way as Nigerian Prince scams or MS Technical Support call scams target the naive/ greedy or technical illiterates; but while it's pretty disgusting morally it is legal unlike those and it can be argued that people know exactly what they're getting (or the chance of getting) when buying the stuff, they're just being 'encouraged' to buy it.

 

(Have to say though, for all the flak other companies get a lot of the worst systems were popularised on PC at least by, well, Valve as much as by Zynga et al)

Edited October 24, 2017 by Zoraptor

[Katphood]

So is that new Mario game inspired by this game? Are the followers now Nintendo?

 

I doubt it. The new Mario game simply looks phenomenal. 

[Amentep]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-18-the-sad-slow-death-of-lego-dimensions

 

In unsurprising news, WB and Traveler's Tales announce that Lego Dimensions is being wrapped up a year earlier than planned, with no new content being made.

[Hurlshort]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-10-18-the-sad-slow-death-of-lego-dimensions

 

In unsurprising news, WB and Traveler's Tales announce that Lego Dimensions is being wrapped up a year earlier than planned, with no new content being made.

 

That's too bad, it was a pretty good system. Much better than that Disney one and pretty close to the Skylanders experience.

[Amentep]

I liked Disney Infinity, but their initial insistence of not setting a made toybox experience where every toy could mixed and played in a full experience was a big mistake.  Even if they did a "you have to play it once with the themed characters then it opens up to anybody" would have worked better. 

 

But I mostly wanted to play the Pirates ship battles with any character... ;____;

 

Lego didn't start off with that handicap, but its interesting how quickly the Toys-to-Life stuff hit and collapsed as Skylanders is also on hold.

[Keyrock]

IO Interactive have announced HITMAN GotY Edition.

 

https://www.ioi.dk/hitman-goty-edition-announcement/

 

Includes a new campaign with 4 missions set in reworked versions of existing locations. Also, you will now have access to any elusive targets you missed, though you don't get to do any elusive target missions you already failed. $20 if you already own the game.

 

I can't wait. HITMAN is one of my favorite games of the last few years.

 

/rubs hands together

[ShadySands]

EA 'Doesn't Care What the Players Want, Only What Players Will Pay For Says Ex-BioWare Dev

 

Although EA never said it outright; it was strongly implied that the reason the company shuttered Visceral Games and took over the Triple-A, single-player Star Wars game that was in-development was because EA is moving towards more open-world, multiplayer games. Not really a surprise according to ex-BioWare developer Manveer Heir in a recent interview with Waypoint over the weekend.

[Lexx]

No way, the company only wants to make money? Who would have expected that?

[marelooke]

No way, the company only wants to make money? Who would have expected that?

 

I'd never have expected such of EA.

Never.

I'm shocked.

Truly!

Really!

 

Come on guys, I'm using my best acting skills here.

[Malcador]

"seen people literally spend $15,000 on Mass Effect multiplayer cards."

 

 

Hm, is why I think GTA 6 will just be a MMO.

[213374U]

You know something's up when even Gamespot is starting to suggest that, hey, maybe it's not so cool.

 

But really, who cares? Your opinion is literally 1/250 as valid as that of the whale putting down $15k for garbage that cost exactly zippo to make. It's the perfect money-printing machine, and you are out of your mind if you think companies are going to give it up without a fight!

 

Finally, the true measure of worth and success has reached gaming -- dirty peasants remain at the bottom where they are meant to be, toiling away day and night for a miserly chance at an uncommon card, and the super-rich can cruise around in their luxurious gold-tier equipment, mowing down hordes of unwashed plebs, from the first minute of day one. Don't like it? Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, stop demanding free stuff, and get a six ****ing figure job already, you entitled crybabies.

 

This is Freedom with a ****ing capital F.

[Malcador]

You forgot mention that we should ante up, kick in and help Make Gaming Great Again

[Keyrock]

Wait, so my boycott of the games that do this microtransaction gambling crap is anti-freedom?  

 

I've been doing it wrong the whole time! 

[213374U]

Why do you hate Freedom, Keyrock?

[Keyrock]

It is the way I was raised, comrade 213374U.

[Sarex]

You know something's up when even Gamespot is starting to suggest that, hey, maybe it's not so cool.

 

But really, who cares? Your opinion is literally 1/250 as valid as that of the whale putting down $15k for garbage that cost exactly zippo to make. It's the perfect money-printing machine, and you are out of your mind if you think companies are going to give it up without a fight!

 

Finally, the true measure of worth and success has reached gaming -- dirty peasants remain at the bottom where they are meant to be, toiling away day and night for a miserly chance at an uncommon card, and the super-rich can cruise around in their luxurious gold-tier equipment, mowing down hordes of unwashed plebs, from the first minute of day one. Don't like it? Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, stop demanding free stuff, and get a six ****ing figure job already, you entitled crybabies.

 

This is Freedom with a ****ing capital F.

 

But what out the Pirates.

[Malcador]

But what out the Pirates.

Probably have very productive years.

[majestic]

Everspace got an expansion/DLC. Guess I'll sink more hours into the game to keep my 100% completion rate. Plus there's a new ship to play around with... one that allows component modification four times rather than three. Mmmm, welcome  my new 3k range Beam Laser M, meet some dead Outlaws...   

[Blodhemn]

You know something's up when even Gamespot is starting to suggest that, hey, maybe it's not so cool.

 

But really, who cares? Your opinion is literally 1/250 as valid as that of the whale putting down $15k for garbage that cost exactly zippo to make. It's the perfect money-printing machine, and you are out of your mind if you think companies are going to give it up without a fight!

 

Finally, the true measure of worth and success has reached gaming -- dirty peasants remain at the bottom where they are meant to be, toiling away day and night for a miserly chance at an uncommon card, and the super-rich can cruise around in their luxurious gold-tier equipment, mowing down hordes of unwashed plebs, from the first minute of day one. Don't like it? Pull yourselves up by your bootstraps, stop demanding free stuff, and get a six ****ing figure job already, you entitled crybabies.

 

This is Freedom with a ****ing capital F.

It's not like multiplayer games never had balance issues before. It just feels dirtier when money is involved?

[Mamoulian War]

Yes.

[Katphood]

Best course of action would be to stop supporting such companies. I have never spent a dime on micro transactions but I would very much like to keep my hands away from ANY game that practices that kind of business because if I buy their game, it could only mean one thing to them: I am satisfied with their product!

 

Well, I am not.  

 

EDIT: ,,,and it's here!

 

 

Assassin's Greed.

Edited October 26, 2017 by Katphood

[Mamoulian War]

In other news, another "evil" EA move *sighs*

 

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/10/ea-shuts-down-fan-run-servers-for-older-battlefield-games/