Steam had garbage due to Greenlight and anyone being able to spam votes. GoG was hand reviewed by their staff. Basically, if their staff didn’t approve of the kind of game you made, then you weren’t getting on. Period.
Do you think there's any sort of happy medium? On the one hand, it sucks GoG was so picky. On the other, wading through Steam's pages and pages of dreck isn't fun, either.
Steam had garbage due to Greenlight and anyone being able to spam votes. GoG was hand reviewed by their staff. Basically, if their staff didn’t approve of the kind of game you made, then you weren’t getting on. Period.
Do you think there's any sort of happy medium? On the one hand, it sucks GoG was so picky. On the other, wading through Steam's pages and pages of dreck isn't fun, either.
I suspect a happy medium might be a more curated version of Greenlight.
i.e. if you get the votes, your game appears to some subcommunity of people that voted for it, only.
From there, you're on the platform, but it is up to you to build visibility and buzz -- then maybe at some critical threshold it becomes visible site-wide.
Would keep most of the garbage content in the shadows, without dumping the good-but-not-as-popular stuff off of the platform entirely.
Every other new game on there is anime games with porn side loads, or some shovelware stuff made from stockart marketplaces.
The other half is My First Indie Game stuff, and then the remainder is some half decent indie platformer, rogue-like, or puzzle game.
A tiny miniscule fraction that is really more of like a rounding errors worth of percentage are games that truly shine, and not a single one of them come from a AAA studio, unless it's just a console port or HD remake.
Is Witcher 3 and Civilization 6 on consoles? If bot then that's probably the only two PC exclusives that aren't indie games. (Overtale don't count for the same reasons Minecraft wouldn't have counted years ago)
Every other new game on there is anime games with porn side loads, or some shovelware stuff made from stockart marketplaces.
The other half is My First Indie Game stuff, and then the remainder is some half decent indie platformer, rogue-like, or puzzle game.
A tiny miniscule fraction that is really more of like a rounding errors worth of percentage are games that truly shine, and not a single one of them come from a AAA studio, unless it's just a console port or HD remake.
Is Witcher 3 and Civilization 6 on consoles? If bot then that's probably the only two PC exclusives that aren't indie games. (Overtale don't count for the same reasons Minecraft wouldn't have counted years ago)
You really don't seem to have an accurate pulse on what kind of content is available on Steam...
I'd also question your tastes in describing the platformer, rogue-like, puzzle, dungeon crawl, etc options as "half decent".
Put simply...this series of posts makes it very hard to trust your opinion about games or gameplay.
Every other new game on there is anime games with porn side loads, or some shovelware stuff made from stockart marketplaces.
The other half is My First Indie Game stuff, and then the remainder is some half decent indie platformer, rogue-like, or puzzle game.
A tiny miniscule fraction that is really more of like a rounding errors worth of percentage are games that truly shine, and not a single one of them come from a AAA studio, unless it's just a console port or HD remake.
Is Witcher 3 and Civilization 6 on consoles? If bot then that's probably the only two PC exclusives that aren't indie games. (Overtale don't count for the same reasons Minecraft wouldn't have counted years ago)
Honestly, if you can’t find quality games on Steam, that’s on you. They took away greenlight and made it more difficult and expensive to get titles on there.
I mean undertale, but I was confusing it with overwatch. Also, when I say roguelikes and platformers are half decent, I mean there's very few that make me say "wow, that was a good game"
Undertale, Cuphead, Guacamelee, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Bastion, Shovel Knight, Bendy, Isaac, Factorio, Hotline Miami, Enter the Gungeon these are all standout games that are made with great care.
Maybe steam recommends crap games to me, I dunno. But it seems like almost everything is anime porn dating sims, half assed indie games, console ports, HD remakes, and only a select few titles that actually amaze me make their way through the filth.
I mean undertale, but I was confusing it with overwatch. Also, when I say roguelikes and platformers are half decent, I mean there's very few that make me say "wow, that was a good game"
Undertale, Cuphead, Guacamelee, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Bastion, Shovel Knight, Bendy, Isaac, Factorio, Hotline Miami, Enter the Gungeon these are all standout games that are made with great care.
Maybe steam recommends crap games to me, I dunno. But it seems like almost everything is anime porn dating sims, half assed indie games, console ports, HD remakes, and only a select few titles that actually amaze me make their way through the filth.
You can turn those off in your settings I am pretty sure, that's what I did cause I'm a good boy.
Originally posted by: Every1whocountsluvsNedFlanders
Originally posted by: PowerPlayers
I mean undertale, but I was confusing it with overwatch. Also, when I say roguelikes and platformers are half decent, I mean there's very few that make me say "wow, that was a good game"
Undertale, Cuphead, Guacamelee, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Bastion, Shovel Knight, Bendy, Isaac, Factorio, Hotline Miami, Enter the Gungeon these are all standout games that are made with great care.
Maybe steam recommends crap games to me, I dunno. But it seems like almost everything is anime porn dating sims, half assed indie games, console ports, HD remakes, and only a select few titles that actually amaze me make their way through the filth.
You can turn those off in your settings I am pretty sure, that's what I did cause I'm a good boy.
Yup just edit in your account settings what games you want blocked and your good to go!
I bought a bunch of GoG stuff awhile back (basically every game from the late 90s that went on sale). I assume their servers are shutting down and that anything you bought is not gonna be re-attainable after that?
I bought a bunch of GoG stuff awhile back (basically every game from the late 90s that went on sale). I assume their servers are shutting down and that anything you bought is not gonna be re-attainable after that?
Oh god no, nothing anywhere near that drastic lol.
The odds of the PS5 being backwards compatible with all previous PS systems is about a million to one unless you count digital only as backwards compatible (which I don't care about).
The only way to get me to buy a console at launch is to make it fully backwards compatible with the games I currently own, but since that is extremely unlikely to happen, I will wait just as I did with the PS3, PS4 and Switch.
I've been considering adopting a "don't buy anything until it's 'last gen'" strategy. I've seen people find some pretty extreme success with this (financially speaking) and it sounds pretty appealing in that regard. Literally you'd be buying PS3 games right now for like $3-5 a piece (including even the huge critical successes), and this has proven to be extremely effective time and again. I spent $80 CAD on The Last of Us cuz I bought it at launch; I could buy it for a fiver today.
I personally need to get over the "gotta have it now" hump, but I think it's definitely a method I could see me trying to adapt, with exceptions for certain PC games.
To be honest, I wouldn't be disappointed if they go digital only because it would be an excuse to skip the generation and focus on what I have. It might sound weird, but I sort of want to draw a line in the sand and say I'm not going to buy anything new anymore. I think it would make focusing on my older stuff more fun.
Again, a little late but I did this years ago. I only just broke down and started collecting for PS3. It helps tremendously to not be distracted by the next new thing. I learned this early on with the genesis vs snes argument. Technically, the genesis has a higher resolution. It counted for nothing. The games looked like shit and weren't half the quality of snes games. The next new thing is always a joke. If you have to move on just go a generation or two behind. It's cost effective and you can avoid wasted money on bad games.
"the next-gen console will still accept physical media; it won’t be a download-only machine. Because it’s based in part on the PS4’s architecture, it will also be backward-compatible with games for that console. As in many other generational transitions, this will be a gentle one, with numerous new games being released for both PS4 and the next-gen console."
yeah and it seems that it will be a specialized drive just for the console! Interesting where they talk about the speed of being able to travel being restricted by the hardware, can't wait to see what it looks like!
"the next-gen console will still accept physical media; it won't be a download-only machine. Because it's based in part on the PS4's architecture, it will also be backward-compatible with games for that console. As in many other generational transitions, this will be a gentle one, with numerous new games being released for both PS4 and the next-gen console."
Dope for sure, this is great news for many.
I have a feeling the fully backwards with all previous PS systems is a pipe dream... but who knows. Still PS4 backwards compatibility is good. Wonder if that will make PS4 games more collectible?
PC market is growing stagnant. Too many distribution platforms and not enough quality games. Hardware is growing too expensive and has become a turnoff. RGB is getting tacky and they're running out of gimmicks to upgrade PCs for. Games are mostly Free To Play nonsense and there are no more great AAA exclusives anymore.
You're crazy.
If anything XBox eventually flips their model to just be out-of-the-box gaming PCs with a marketplace for finely-tuned installs that don't require any tinkering to optimize.
But PC gaming isn't going anywhere. It is the single most accessible and lowest cost platform for independent developers/distributors and likely always will be, owing to the competition across distribution channels that simply doesn't exist on other systems.
Exactly. Phleo has apparently never heard of Steam.
That and he pulls false info out of thin air and presents them as facts.
My interest in the PS5 entirely depends on whether it's backwards compatible or not. I'm tired of having new consoles to hook up. PS3 and PS4 take up so much room. At least Switch is small and doesn't take up that much room. Plus it's portable. But PS5 needs to be at least compatible with PS4 and hopefully PS3 as well. Bonus points if it's compatible with 2 and 1 as well. I have barely scratched the surface of PS4 so I'm really not ready for next gen, but I'd be much more willing to move on if my next console can play what's current now.
Let's all hope that if there would be backwards compatibility to physical media, it's not just network stuff. If anything, having both would be really cool.
What I'd really want to see other than that:
* A damn disc drive
* More USB ports (At least 4)
* Ability to change the share ability to our own custom map rather than 2 presets
* The ability to actually copy/store/transfer save data as easily as pics and videos, without any need of a backup or cloud service.
* Custom backgrounds
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
* 60fps minimum
* Full mouse and keyboard support. (Also bring back PC controller support!! <)
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
Oh man, same here. If only Activision didn't rush the development to try and hit Spyro's anniversary, we'd probably have all 3 games on the disc.
I'm hoping a re-release "playstation hits" can fix this, because as it stands, the fact that it didn't have all three games on the disc prevented me from buying it.
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
Oh man, same here. If only Activision didn't rush the development to try and hit Spyro's anniversary, we'd probably have all 3 games on the disc.
I'm hoping a re-release "playstation hits" can fix this, because as it stands, the fact that it didn't have all three games on the disc prevented me from buying it.
I bought it not knowing that was the case cuz why the fuck would it be? These are single-player story-driven games, and just straight remakes at that. Why on earth are all 3 games not right there on the disc? They're not even particularly long games.
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
Tony Hawk 5 you basically downloaded an update which was pretty much a whole new game because it was released broken.
Nostalgia in 20 years will be piracy driven because of the shit these companies are doing nowadays.
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
Tony Hawk 5 you basically downloaded an update which was pretty much a whole new game because it was released broken.
Nostalgia in 20 years will be piracy driven because of the shit these companies are doing nowadays.
Spyro should have been better, but Tony Hawk 5 was just a shit show.
Funny thing about THPS5, it was also Activision (again!) rushing the developers, mainly because of the license was about to be up iicr?
Nostalgia in 20 years will be piracy driven because of the shit these companies are doing nowadays.
I've been predicting for a while now that in 20 years, the equivalent of today's homebrew developers will be working on their own fixes and patches for these games since the servers and Sony/Microsoft's support for these games will be long gone.
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Steam had garbage due to Greenlight and anyone being able to spam votes. GoG was hand reviewed by their staff. Basically, if their staff didn’t approve of the kind of game you made, then you weren’t getting on. Period.
Do you think there's any sort of happy medium? On the one hand, it sucks GoG was so picky. On the other, wading through Steam's pages and pages of dreck isn't fun, either.
Steam had garbage due to Greenlight and anyone being able to spam votes. GoG was hand reviewed by their staff. Basically, if their staff didn’t approve of the kind of game you made, then you weren’t getting on. Period.
Do you think there's any sort of happy medium? On the one hand, it sucks GoG was so picky. On the other, wading through Steam's pages and pages of dreck isn't fun, either.
I suspect a happy medium might be a more curated version of Greenlight.
i.e. if you get the votes, your game appears to some subcommunity of people that voted for it, only.
From there, you're on the platform, but it is up to you to build visibility and buzz -- then maybe at some critical threshold it becomes visible site-wide.
Would keep most of the garbage content in the shadows, without dumping the good-but-not-as-popular stuff off of the platform entirely.
Every other new game on there is anime games with porn side loads, or some shovelware stuff made from stockart marketplaces.
The other half is My First Indie Game stuff, and then the remainder is some half decent indie platformer, rogue-like, or puzzle game.
A tiny miniscule fraction that is really more of like a rounding errors worth of percentage are games that truly shine, and not a single one of them come from a AAA studio, unless it's just a console port or HD remake.
Is Witcher 3 and Civilization 6 on consoles? If bot then that's probably the only two PC exclusives that aren't indie games. (Overtale don't count for the same reasons Minecraft wouldn't have counted years ago)
Steam is garbage fodder these days.
Every other new game on there is anime games with porn side loads, or some shovelware stuff made from stockart marketplaces.
The other half is My First Indie Game stuff, and then the remainder is some half decent indie platformer, rogue-like, or puzzle game.
A tiny miniscule fraction that is really more of like a rounding errors worth of percentage are games that truly shine, and not a single one of them come from a AAA studio, unless it's just a console port or HD remake.
Is Witcher 3 and Civilization 6 on consoles? If bot then that's probably the only two PC exclusives that aren't indie games. (Overtale don't count for the same reasons Minecraft wouldn't have counted years ago)
You really don't seem to have an accurate pulse on what kind of content is available on Steam...
I'd also question your tastes in describing the platformer, rogue-like, puzzle, dungeon crawl, etc options as "half decent".
Put simply...this series of posts makes it very hard to trust your opinion about games or gameplay.
Steam is garbage fodder these days.
Every other new game on there is anime games with porn side loads, or some shovelware stuff made from stockart marketplaces.
The other half is My First Indie Game stuff, and then the remainder is some half decent indie platformer, rogue-like, or puzzle game.
A tiny miniscule fraction that is really more of like a rounding errors worth of percentage are games that truly shine, and not a single one of them come from a AAA studio, unless it's just a console port or HD remake.
Is Witcher 3 and Civilization 6 on consoles? If bot then that's probably the only two PC exclusives that aren't indie games. (Overtale don't count for the same reasons Minecraft wouldn't have counted years ago)
Honestly, if you can’t find quality games on Steam, that’s on you. They took away greenlight and made it more difficult and expensive to get titles on there.
Civ 6: Nintendo Switch, Microsoft Windows, iOS, Macintosh operating systems, Linux, macOS
Witcher 3: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
Undertale, Cuphead, Guacamelee, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Bastion, Shovel Knight, Bendy, Isaac, Factorio, Hotline Miami, Enter the Gungeon these are all standout games that are made with great care.
Maybe steam recommends crap games to me, I dunno. But it seems like almost everything is anime porn dating sims, half assed indie games, console ports, HD remakes, and only a select few titles that actually amaze me make their way through the filth.
I mean undertale, but I was confusing it with overwatch. Also, when I say roguelikes and platformers are half decent, I mean there's very few that make me say "wow, that was a good game"
Undertale, Cuphead, Guacamelee, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Bastion, Shovel Knight, Bendy, Isaac, Factorio, Hotline Miami, Enter the Gungeon these are all standout games that are made with great care.
Maybe steam recommends crap games to me, I dunno. But it seems like almost everything is anime porn dating sims, half assed indie games, console ports, HD remakes, and only a select few titles that actually amaze me make their way through the filth.
You can turn those off in your settings I am pretty sure, that's what I did cause I'm a good boy.
I mean undertale, but I was confusing it with overwatch. Also, when I say roguelikes and platformers are half decent, I mean there's very few that make me say "wow, that was a good game"
Undertale, Cuphead, Guacamelee, Minecraft, Stardew Valley, Bastion, Shovel Knight, Bendy, Isaac, Factorio, Hotline Miami, Enter the Gungeon these are all standout games that are made with great care.
Maybe steam recommends crap games to me, I dunno. But it seems like almost everything is anime porn dating sims, half assed indie games, console ports, HD remakes, and only a select few titles that actually amaze me make their way through the filth.
You can turn those off in your settings I am pretty sure, that's what I did cause I'm a good boy.
Yup just edit in your account settings what games you want blocked and your good to go!
I bought a bunch of GoG stuff awhile back (basically every game from the late 90s that went on sale). I assume their servers are shutting down and that anything you bought is not gonna be re-attainable after that?
Oh god no, nothing anywhere near that drastic lol.
"PS5 could be backwards compatable with PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1"
Unless that means the actual discs, NOT just whatever they feel like hosting at the PS Store or whatever, then that does NOT count.
I'd bet money it means "you can buy it from us again", not "you can play the discs you own"
Then like I said that doesn't count.
The odds of the PS5 being backwards compatible with all previous PS systems is about a million to one unless you count digital only as backwards compatible (which I don't care about).
The only way to get me to buy a console at launch is to make it fully backwards compatible with the games I currently own, but since that is extremely unlikely to happen, I will wait just as I did with the PS3, PS4 and Switch.
I've been considering adopting a "don't buy anything until it's 'last gen'" strategy. I've seen people find some pretty extreme success with this (financially speaking) and it sounds pretty appealing in that regard. Literally you'd be buying PS3 games right now for like $3-5 a piece (including even the huge critical successes), and this has proven to be extremely effective time and again. I spent $80 CAD on The Last of Us cuz I bought it at launch; I could buy it for a fiver today.
I personally need to get over the "gotta have it now" hump, but I think it's definitely a method I could see me trying to adapt, with exceptions for certain PC games.
To be honest, I wouldn't be disappointed if they go digital only because it would be an excuse to skip the generation and focus on what I have. It might sound weird, but I sort of want to draw a line in the sand and say I'm not going to buy anything new anymore. I think it would make focusing on my older stuff more fun.
Again, a little late but I did this years ago. I only just broke down and started collecting for PS3. It helps tremendously to not be distracted by the next new thing. I learned this early on with the genesis vs snes argument. Technically, the genesis has a higher resolution. It counted for nothing. The games looked like shit and weren't half the quality of snes games. The next new thing is always a joke. If you have to move on just go a generation or two behind. It's cost effective and you can avoid wasted money on bad games.
https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-sony-next-gen-console/
First official News from Sony
https://www.wired.com/story/exclu...
Nice...this was a big mention:
"the next-gen console will still accept physical media; it won’t be a download-only machine. Because it’s based in part on the PS4’s architecture, it will also be backward-compatible with games for that console. As in many other generational transitions, this will be a gentle one, with numerous new games being released for both PS4 and the next-gen console."
Dope for sure, this is great news for many.
Nice to see a SSD in there.
yeah and it seems that it will be a specialized drive just for the console! Interesting where they talk about the speed of being able to travel being restricted by the hardware, can't wait to see what it looks like!
First official News from Sony
https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-sony-next-gen-console/
Nice...this was a big mention:
"the next-gen console will still accept physical media; it won't be a download-only machine. Because it's based in part on the PS4's architecture, it will also be backward-compatible with games for that console. As in many other generational transitions, this will be a gentle one, with numerous new games being released for both PS4 and the next-gen console."
Dope for sure, this is great news for many.
I have a feeling the fully backwards with all previous PS systems is a pipe dream... but who knows. Still PS4 backwards compatibility is good. Wonder if that will make PS4 games more collectible?
Surprise Loser: PC Gaming
PC market is growing stagnant. Too many distribution platforms and not enough quality games. Hardware is growing too expensive and has become a turnoff. RGB is getting tacky and they're running out of gimmicks to upgrade PCs for. Games are mostly Free To Play nonsense and there are no more great AAA exclusives anymore.
You're crazy.
If anything XBox eventually flips their model to just be out-of-the-box gaming PCs with a marketplace for finely-tuned installs that don't require any tinkering to optimize.
But PC gaming isn't going anywhere. It is the single most accessible and lowest cost platform for independent developers/distributors and likely always will be, owing to the competition across distribution channels that simply doesn't exist on other systems.
Exactly. Phleo has apparently never heard of Steam.
That and he pulls false info out of thin air and presents them as facts.
What I'd really want to see other than that:
* A damn disc drive
* More USB ports (At least 4)
* Ability to change the share ability to our own custom map rather than 2 presets
* The ability to actually copy/store/transfer save data as easily as pics and videos, without any need of a backup or cloud service.
* Custom backgrounds
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
* 60fps minimum
* Full mouse and keyboard support. (Also bring back PC controller support!!
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
Oh man, same here. If only Activision didn't rush the development to try and hit Spyro's anniversary, we'd probably have all 3 games on the disc.
I'm hoping a re-release "playstation hits" can fix this, because as it stands, the fact that it didn't have all three games on the disc prevented me from buying it.
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
Oh man, same here. If only Activision didn't rush the development to try and hit Spyro's anniversary, we'd probably have all 3 games on the disc.
I'm hoping a re-release "playstation hits" can fix this, because as it stands, the fact that it didn't have all three games on the disc prevented me from buying it.
I bought it not knowing that was the case cuz why the fuck would it be? These are single-player story-driven games, and just straight remakes at that. Why on earth are all 3 games not right there on the disc? They're not even particularly long games.
Originally posted by: Gloves
Originally posted by: BouncekDeLemos
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
Tony Hawk 5 you basically downloaded an update which was pretty much a whole new game because it was released broken.
Nostalgia in 20 years will be piracy driven because of the shit these companies are doing nowadays.
* Not needing an update in order to even play offline games (Which they're pretty much good on, but let's keep it that way)
I was really disappointed that I had to download a significant amount of data to play Spyro Reignited out of the box. Some levels on the 2nd and 3rd game are behind a download so you won't get the full games when the servers eventually go down. Not that I plan to be playing it in 20 or so years ANYWAY, but there it is. Reliving nostalgic games from today will be a whole different experience for kids growing up now.
Tony Hawk 5 you basically downloaded an update which was pretty much a whole new game because it was released broken.
Nostalgia in 20 years will be piracy driven because of the shit these companies are doing nowadays.
Spyro should have been better, but Tony Hawk 5 was just a shit show.
Funny thing about THPS5, it was also Activision (again!) rushing the developers, mainly because of the license was about to be up iicr?
Nostalgia in 20 years will be piracy driven because of the shit these companies are doing nowadays.
I've been predicting for a while now that in 20 years, the equivalent of today's homebrew developers will be working on their own fixes and patches for these games since the servers and Sony/Microsoft's support for these games will be long gone.