Infographic of upcoming, rumored, and ongoing games from Xbox, Bethesda, and Activision/Blizzard, Plus Pie chart of all studios

[Leynos]

Pemalite said:

Leynos said:

Nothing that interests me personally. Just seems more quantity than quality. Not taking away from those who enjoy these. Said it before and believe it. Nintendo still has the better talent and will continue to have higher quality output. Sony I feel has been iffy for some time. A lot of the same kinda stuff to where even with a different name and studio a lot of their games look like the same game. MS at least looks more varied than Sony.

There is definitely quality in there...

Blizzard is probably my favorite developer of all time... Mostly that has been thanks to their historic focus and support of the PC with gems like WarCraft, StarCraft: Brood Wars and Diablo 2 being amazing games in their own right that set genre trends... Ironically, decades after these games released, you can still play them online via Battle.net... I bet you can't say that about allot of exclusive games that released in the last 15 years, let alone 25 years on console.

Bethesda always made great open world games, Morrowind was absolutely the ducks nuts before Oblivion or Skyrim was cool.

Doom and Quake set examples on FPS shooters that the industry followed at several points in history.

Halo defined console shooters.

Gears defined 3rd person shooters.

Forza leads the industry in racing.

That doesn't discount that Nintendo makes some amazing games, Links Awakening and Metroid Dread are my favorite Switch titles... And Mario Kart 8, Breath of the Wild were my favorite Wii U titles.

Every platform has amazing games, it's whether those games are pertinent to your own individualistic tastes, personally I don't let myself be limited by a brand name... That's silly and you miss out on great experiences.

Bethesda makes crap buggy broken games. ESII is the last great RPG they made. The west can't design good melee combat for shit. With very few exceptions, western devs are pretty bad at melee combat and Bethesda's is about as stiff and aged as they get. Fallout is the same game over and over. The best FO games were 1-2.

Never cared for Halo.

I liked Doom 2016 but Eternal was a massive downgrade and letdown. I didn't ask for Doom May Cry. I like Doom. I like DMC, I don't like them merged. I like Wolfenstien more but after the last 2 entires I lost faith in the series.

Gears is old and tired and been bested since. 5 had a pathetic excuse for an open world. It felt like a desperate attempt to revive a stagnant series. VanQuish is a better TPS and the best TPS ever mechanically and I just can never go back to something as slow and plodding as Gears now. Splatoon a series I'm meh on sells better than Gears these days.

Mario kart a single entry outsells the entire Forzra franchise and I'd take Cruis'n Blast/Hotshot Racing/Fast RMX/Horizon Chase Turbo over Forza. Give me 90s arcade racing over another bland sim game,cars are shiny,environments look real...ugh all looks the same now, I fall asleep playing them at least I did on 360 and Driveclub on PS4. Played Forza. Boring to me. Maybe if MS brought back PGR then maybe be interested. I liked the Kudos system. 90s style arcade games often went for more imagination and fun envirments then look how real this cliff looks.

If MS gives me a Killer Instinct 2 from Iron Galaxy and don't do a season model. I'd be interested. If MS would fund a new true Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey Sequels. (BD on DS doesn't count) if MS and SEGA are on such good terms. Fund Virtua Fighter 6. A new Jet Set Radio.

I need Sony to remake Ape Escape on PS5. I joke about Omega Boost but that game still plays well and they could outsource it to the team behind Astebreed. I'd love fr Sony to fun a ZOE3. A new Sly Cooper that's good. Bring back Wild Arms.  Wipeout. Not more half assed large envirment forest simulators. So many of Sony's game borrow ever bad habit of modern game design ESP in bad modern open design. I'm tired of it.  Gravity Rush was cool but no one bought it and it sucks. No one bought Lost in Rain and that sucks. Now the studio is dead. A studio that was creative in ideas.

I couldn't care less about Mario Party/Pokemon/Animal Crossing but funding Bayonetta 3 and Astral Chain then publishing Daemon X Machina is perfection.  BOTW is the best designed open world ever made and makese sense when the kings of large worlds in Monolith designed the topagraphy. Monolith knows how to make well written RPGs with massive worlds top level design and engines very solid and don't break. Tho Monolith still fails in designing worthy side quests.