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[–] [email protected] 94 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I for one am shocked that a publisher called “Game Mill” is known for pumping out a ton of shitty games in a short time with little care for the developers of the game.

[–] Lame_One 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That's the publisher who took the devs who made Slap City and instead had them put out NASB. The schedules + enforcements they put on devs is atrocious.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Only for nasb to be dead in the water and now there already pumping out another uninspired sequel.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

Overworked and underpaid. It's like every single business in the world suddenly decided that they could simply employ fewer people, pay them less, and charge more for their products. I can only hope that it comes to bite them all in their collective asses sooner rather than later.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

People keep buying their products.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I've been a Bethesda fanboy since Morrowind and didn't buy Starfield. 😥

[–] [email protected] -2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I didn't buy Starfield cause bathesda doesn't want my money or my fan love, since I'm a PlayStation user. All those years of loyalty and they fucked us PlayStation players. We are literally standing here with our money in hand but bathesda doesn't want it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That was actually a Microsoft/Phil Spencer decision. If the man gets his way, a lot more studios could fall into The Xbox Exclusive club.

Honestly, I wish exclusives between the consoles would go away, they do more harm to the industry than good.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There's absolutely no reason (aside from maybe hardware limitations) that the new Spider-Man games can't be played on an Xbox as well.

I have Spider-Man Remastered and Miles Morales on PC and they play perfectly, even with an Xbox controller.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We the consumers allowed this. I used to pay $70 for a new game, complete and tested, finished. Now you're paying $80 for an unfinished lower tier, and the actual finished game is sold for $150 under a "deluxe edition" bullshit name. And even the deluxe will be filled with bugs and be basically unplayable for a year

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

$70. A game on the N64 cost only $40. The PS4 and XBox One X even had $60 games they advertised 4K gaming.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (2 children)

The N64 was almost 30 years ago, doubling in price since then is reasonable

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fair enough. Strange how I feel I have less money to spend on games? 🤔

I still expect games to be finished at their release. Especially now we are in the age of already made game engines.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah full agreement on that. I think the price is comparatively reasonable though I definitely feel it a lot harder these days (partly inflation, partly being an adult with bills, partly due to indie games half the price blowing them out of the water on a regular basis). But there’s no excuse for it not being finished at release. I get that announcing a delay sucks, do it anyways. I’d rather a good game a year late than a game I was looking forward to being unplayable and asking why I spent what is in my area, the price of a decent dinner with drinks with my wife on a game that’s buggy as hell. Like seriously there were bugs in Skyrim 3 releases in.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

There it is. Why even buy AAA games at $70+ when Steam has so many games on sale and Indie game quality has gotten so much better lately?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The last brand new game I bought was Bomb Rush Cyberfunk for a grand total of $40 USD on release. It's a fantastic game, extremely fun, completely polished and 100% on release.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Looks like a fantastic game. This game flew under my radar, so thank you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Absolutely. If you played and enjoyed Jet Set Radio or Jet Set Radio Future, this is both of those games mixed into one. An awesome, colorfully vibrant world and characters, an interesting story, and fun gameplay; I couldn't ask for more, personally.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago

I can’t wait for Dunkey to review this.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 10 months ago

All they had to do was copy the Hulk ultimate destruction and replace Hulk with a gorilla. The worst part of this King Kong game is that it kills the scale of Kong by having him running around a jungle. He looks like a regular sized gorilla

[–] mindbleach 1 points 10 months ago

A year is plenty of time to make a decent game. But no amount of time is enough, if you squeeze people half to death and dictate an unrealistic scope.