• jagermo@feddit.org
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    3 hours ago

    It’s more or less a remake of the last Wolverine game, right? Even the intro, i remeber falling out of a plane in that one, too

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    7 hours ago

    Proof that gamers have no spine (once again. See also Switch 2 and PS5 sales) and that online discourse holds no prediction of real world value.

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      2 hours ago

      You think this id a good number? One of the reasons Sony dropped Kojima is supposedly that DS2 “only” sold 2M.

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        Who among us can truly know what numbers lie in the hearts of AAA publisher executives? Mark my words, mere consumers can’t even begin to guess the immense scale of these numbers. They are numbers of cosmic magnitude we do not comprehend. Verily, even the executives in question have even vaguest idea of what they are actually asking for, unaware of the true import of their demands.

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    8 hours ago

    buddy of mine bought this and I went over to his place to play it. It’s boring. it holds your hand for everything and it’s impossible to fail QTEs so there’s just no point in doing them.

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      8 hours ago

      To be honest, the only good quick time event is the one you don’t have to do.

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      Ah, but what you miss is that the game would be far too hard for DSP to complete otherwise. There will be no complaints of I PRESSED IT AND IT DIDN’T COUNT WHAT A STOOPID GAME and WHAAAT THE GAME DIDN’T TELL ME THAT.

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      5 hours ago

      anything I don’t like is bad and anyone who plays it is an idiot

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        4 hours ago

        This is a great example of misinterpreting what’s being said with an emotional response.

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          3 hours ago

          “I like this thing and defend its faults, and anyone who is against it is disingenuous”

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      7 hours ago

      I mean sometimes you want to just zone out and play something dumb. You don’t get any gamer credibility but nothing wrong with having fun.

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        Your “just have fun” stance ensures companies make poor quality experiences because people will still buy it. The capitalist love people that just want to zone out.

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      10 hours ago

      Idiots will pre-order anything. There were probably a lot of sales before the controversy even started.

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          I am sure a shit load of those sales were pre-release sales made by consumers that assumed the goodwill of Insomniac would translate to a win.

          There is no reason to preorder a game especially on a platform that doesn’t regularly offer refunds.

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        10 hours ago

        Concord was a brand new IP, this is an established popular IP. The brand recognition alone probably sells a million units.

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          10 hours ago

          Which is weird, because when I was a kid, having movie/tv/comic tie in games usually meant a rushed/bad game, and thus should be avoided.

          I guess LJN had to go out of business eventually.

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      10 hours ago

      Doesn’t sound like it’s a bad game, it’s just not anything amazing

      I won a copy so I will play it one day

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    12 hours ago

    This might be a lot but keep in mind the INSANE budget for this game so despite this it’s still nowhere near breaking even

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      Even the insane funds, it looks like it was a complete failure.

      I suspect you may have seen the video of people going out of bounds in that one area? They were able to find larger portions of cities, small towns and so forth.

      It looks like the game was originally meant to be open world or closer to it, but probably due to constraints they bailed on that.

      I’m guessing that’s the source of a lot of people’s dislike.

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        Yeah I’ve seen the OOB areas. But I don’t think people dislike the game because it’s linear. Tho hearing the word “constraints” when talking about a $300mil+ budget is kinda funny.

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    10 hours ago

    The masses of non passionate gamers don’t care the public perception or what the press has to say about a game. Especially so with popular franchises, see Pokemon, FIFA and Call of Duty as an example.

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      11 hours ago

      They also put out Ghost of Yotei and Marathon (yikes).

      Marvel Tokon too if you count console exclusives that are also on PC.

      Edit: Whoops, I forgot Ghost of Yotei was late last year. Unless you’re counting fiscal year starting in October I guess.

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        10 hours ago

        Marathon. The best game most people will never play.

        It really is very good.

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          They’re reworking it into something else now in an attempt to salvage it, but for me personally, unless that involves being able to host the server myself, I’m not giving it the time of day.

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            I don’t know what Bungie was thinking putting all their effort into Marathon. People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out. Didnt help they delayed it and had the art theft debacle.

            That game was going to struggle no matter how good it was at launch. THEN they stopped work on Destiny 2 right as Marathon came out despite Bungie promising the two games would co-exist and just pissed everyone off.

            Masterclass in running a studio into the ground.

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              People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out

              Way to fuck with classic IP too. I didn’t play back in the day because I didn’t have a Mac, but they were praised highly at the time.

              Can you imagine if the id guys came back after 20 years and announced Doom was gonna be a hero shooter because those seem to be popular?

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              Destiny was running the studio into the ground regardless of Marathon. Behind the scenes reporting says it had been a while since Destiny turned a profit, and by the time The Final Shape came out, the damage was already done. The reason they’re not continuing with it is that it just burns through money.

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                How did they think it would be any different? - when they remove the entire beginning of the game and expect people to just watch ~15 hours of archived gameplay on YouTube to understand what is going on - they were never going to gain new players, even as F2P.

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                Yeah the whole studio has been run like shit for years. They’re looking to sublet their huge office after firing like half the company.

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            Eh. It was never meant to be a big game. Trying to turn it into a flagship after launch isn’t gonna work. I’m just glad I experienced it at launch and season 2 before they really start to tinker. I think that will have to be enough for me.

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          Marathon. The best game most people will never play.

          I would, but they don’t support my platform. Does that make me one of the “most people”? I am a “Linux Gamer”, therefore I am part of “most people”. We are not a niche platform after all it seems. :D

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    Just barely eking out heavy hitters like Marathon, Marvel Tokon or God of War Sons of Sparta I bet.