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Also considerably cheaper.
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General Gaming Indie Games Discussion and Recommendations
crispy4000 replied to ShreddieMercury's topic in The Spawn Point
Mina the Hollower digs closer to becoming a polished 8-bit Bloodborne WWW.SHACKNEWS.COM Yacht Club Games confidently reveals its progress with its modern tribute to classic games like Castlevania and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening. -
General Gaming Your personal top 5 exclusive PS5/XSX games
crispy4000 replied to Best's topic in The Spawn Point
If we're not limited by current gen it could be anything. But since I brought up indies, here's a few of my favorites over the years: -
General Gaming Your personal top 5 exclusive PS5/XSX games
crispy4000 replied to Best's topic in The Spawn Point
Why limit yourself only to newest games being the “best of the best?” The fact that we have so many high scoring remakes this year suggests that old games are often designed better. They’re less focused on being GaaS and don’t rely as much on skill trees for progression. There’s also plenty of indies that don’t push current hardware that are worth your time. Go play Hades if you haven’t. -
Humble Choice is pretty great this month. Wasn’t expecting Life is Strange 2 and Rollerdrome (so soon) and that will probably get me to buy it.
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Speaking of poisoned wells, I bet Konami is so bitter about Kojima that they would rather avoid Jeff entirely.
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If this game is their Mario Galaxy 2 to Mario Galaxy 1, I'd be cool with it. I think BoTW's world was interesting to explore, but the quality of the enviornmental puzzles could have been improved. Korok seeds did most of the lifting. I'd love to see enough interesting and unique ideas fill it to where they're no longer nessicary.
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General Gaming What are you playing today?
crispy4000 replied to CastlevaniaNut18's topic in The Spawn Point
I need to get around to it someday. Minish Cap and Oracle of Ages are the only the only mainline Zelda games I haven't finished. Actually, I guess not Phantom Hourglass or Spirit Tracks either. But those games kind of suck. -
We weren't getting much shitty off-screen footage anyways towards E3's end, because - Most games didn't have playable demos, especially AAA budget ones. - The few that did opted for behind closed floor presentations, or would take it to IGN/Gamespot/Nintendo/etc's stages instead where direct feed was captured. I really miss having a bunch of impressions of games hit all at once. Maybe that's not the best thing for the industry, but as a consumer, I like it a lot better than trailers that don't go deep into what the game is like to play. Last year, the closest we got to E3's showfloor proper was Sonic Frontiers and SF6 playable at Keighly's event. Fingers crossed that he's able to expand on that.
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PC Amazon Prime Gaming updates - September adds 28 games
crispy4000 replied to crispy4000's topic in The Spawn Point
April games announced. Icewind Dale and Grime are the highlights for me. -
General Gaming What are you playing today?
crispy4000 replied to CastlevaniaNut18's topic in The Spawn Point
Took a chance on a Fanatical Bundle, specifically the Discovery one for $5. There's this pretty competent DK Returns clone in there. Maybe not quite on the level of Yooka & the Impossible Lair? But they get the controls very right. It's like the Kirby of these games, easy mode. But still very fun. @stepee There's a 3D platformer Smurf's game by the same developer as well. -
Looking forward to Keigh3.
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As opposed to Microsoft buying Western studios of all sizes, like Bethesda, Ninja Theory and Double Fine, and keeping their future games off Sony consoles. That's a lot more than game-by-game exclusivity contracts, timed or otherwise. (Which Microsoft is no stranger to themselves) If this was Nintendo complaining, that’d be a bit easier to sympathize with. Granted, they did pay for Monster Hunter exclusivity on the 3DS. They’d still be hypocrites for that. But Microsoft....? It's the bully complaining about being hit back by a weaker punch. They have the weight to throw around, and they’re using it.
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I’d add that really I don’t like contracts for games like FFXVI. But if Microsoft wants to complain, they should go buy SquareEnix from under Sony’s nose like they bought Bethesda. These are the new terms of engagement. We enjoyed a really great decade plus of smaller stakes competitive moves, for the consumer end at least, but times are changing.
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The writing was on the wall when the CMA folded. Japan wasn’t stopping anyone. The idea of making exclusivity contracts illegal is really, really dumb. Not only does that sound draconian to enforce, but it’d have repercussions for 3rd parties working on 1st party IP, and also could kill a franchise like Bayonetta. We’d naturally see more acquisitions and studio/IP buyouts take its place. (As we have anyways post Bethesda buyout) There’s evidently no stopping that method of paying for exclusivity. It’s the same effect, only with more permanence, and sucking harder for gamers on the other side of the fence. There’s no good reason that the console manufacturers shouldn’t be able to contract out, only swallow up whole. If the latter is fair game, so is the former.