After seeing the combat physics in the gameplay trailer where the brute guy doesn’t react at all to hits except for the 5th or 6th in a row I’m gonna have to pass on this game. It looked promising, at first, but hopping around a boss and landing multiple hits without any reaction just seems lazy from the devs. Microsoft and Sony are both churning out some bullshit to try to appeal to millennial gamers and it’s not working.
First off, nothing will beat red vs blue for Halo-verse content.
The only way I see an Elder Scrolls screen adaptation being even remotely well received by fans is if they follow the DnD: Honor Amongst Thieves/ Masters of the Universe movies, and Fallout show’s structures, where they didn’t take themselves too seriously and leaned into the cheesiness/abstract nature of those franchises.
Amazon’s MGM has had some bangers, and Paramount and Hasbro have had commercial success with Transformers, even if their flops have been more well received by fans than the movies and shows that were commercially successful.
I just don’t see Microsoft doing well with any of their licensed franchises without an established studio to produce it… feels like they’ll probably pivot to an AI slop studio to churn out some bullshit that takes itself too seriously if they actually plan on turning any of these into fruition.
I wish it was that easy. California would instantly be a top 5 GDP country and could enforce its own taxes on states and corporations outside of California for every resource we have… instead we’re stuck under this shithead president that thinks tariffs are a means of stimulating the economy. The guy is a fucking idiot and most of uUS are anticipating the day he no longer breathes the same air we do.
I’m sure that there is plenty of arrogance from Idaho to Georgia… the electoral college has given way too much of a voice for the flyover states even though they are the minority. I can guarantee you that the coastal communities in the States hate what our country has become as much as you Canucks do. Western Washington/Oregon/California have hated the maga movement from the beginning, unfortunately billionaires use it to pocket tax dollars left and right, and the simps in purple states are down for the billionaire cause despite the fact that they will spend hundreds of millions of dollars to elect officials who are against a universal healthcare bill.
I think there’s a fine line that you can teeter on as a AAA dev nowadays. I absolutely got more enjoyment out of morrowind than I did Skyrim as a young player because Morrowind gave you less directive and kinda let you get in over your shoulders into places that a low level had no right being in. As an older gamer now though, I do appreciate games that let you do that as well as highlighting zones to let you know it’ll be max difficulty when you enter them, rather than cordoning them off until you achieve a certain level.
I have way less time to play games than I did when I was in my late teens/early 20s playing Morrowind, so games like Dying Light 2 that give you the option and caution of entering certain areas/quests helps me not my waste time with impossible areas.
I get it though, the whole setting a marker for the next quest is pretty mind numbing and the fetch quests are boring as hell.
Wolverine having QTEs that don’t matter if you get them correct is just pure laziness from whoever the director of the game is. Insomniac made some very good spider man games, but seems like they dialed this one in.
Sadly, I think AAA games are mostly dead… studios are gonna use AI for voice acting, coding, etc more and more if it means they don’t have to pay a salary to an actual person.