Welcome, you're in for a treat !
I mean, it would be a bad look if one of the 8 most played games on SD in 2023 was gimped in 2024...
FFS Ubisoft... I was curious but not "tolerate Denuvo"-curious.
Yup, seems like the larger the company the more they gravitate to placing fewer and larger bets. After all, why be satisfied with some money when you could attempt to get ALL of the money ?
Except a lot of these bets are lost, and they do not come cheap. We'll see about this one but it looks bound to have the same trajectory as Avengers (which had in fact a pretty decent campaign, followed by a mediocre grindy live service "endgame").
The shared-screen twin-stick design is fine, but Arrowhead has been doing it since Magicka. This feel like them getting their shot at making a wider-appeal, bigger budget game. Hopefully they stick the landing and managed to keep the feel of the original while expanding the gameplay.
It's kind of amazing they chose to go with that design, when they hadthe benefit of hindsight with recent superhero-backed games:
"Well duh, let's try and make one of these live service games".
That means the community servers running on leaked code are now the de-facto official servers, doesn't it ?
Has such a thing ever happened before ? Usually these servers are at best ignored, and at worst being threatened or sued into shutting down.
My playthrough lasted 8.5 hours and was well worth experiencing.
Took me five hours start to finish. Not rushing but not trying very hard to find secrets either.
Perfect game pass game that one.
I bought The Making of Karateka. Not exactly a game, more like a playable documentary (akin with Atari 50 anniversary collection).
On the flip side, no more being "killed by the camera".