Shaunodon said:
shikamaru317 said:
Wow, sure am glad I missed the Sony Showcase. If I had watched that whole thing live I would have been so disappointed, even just skimming through the trailers I was a bit let down by it. The best games were by far games we already knew were coming like AC Mirage, Granblue, Dragon's Dogma 2, and Alan Wake 2, almost all of the new announcements were underwhelming, from the Splatoon knockoff, to yet another Souls-like in an already Souls-like crowded market, to the eat the rich GaaS game from Jade Raymond which just felt like Ubisoft's Watch Dogs if it were all multiplayer. And then there was Project Q, a wi-fi only streaming handheld meaning it is largely useless outside of the house, that thing is going to make the Vita seem like it was a successful handheld by comparison.
And to think I was worried Sony was going to put the finishing blow on Xbox's marketshare chances this gen by announcing multiple AAA timed hats from established AAA franchises like Bioshock and Dragon Age, they could have afforded to do that as they have more than enough cash on hand and are able to get hats for cheaper since they are the marketshare leader, but instead they left the door wide open for Xbox to have a much better showcase than them.
Sony has given Xbox a golden opportunity to start to make up some lost ground. Xbox needs to have a stellar showcase, fix the X supply issues and S pricing issues asap, and then nail the Starfield launch in September and have a strong holiday exclusive like Hellblade 2. Better not F up this golden opportunity to make up some lost ground Xbox.
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Lmao, it was so hilarious they opened the show with that. I was literally rushing back from breakfast to catch the show, and because you'd expect them to open with something strong I plonked my headphones on before I'd completely finished cleaning up; I heard the first 5 seconds of dialogue, saw the generic hipster wannabe hacker/activist imagery, immediately went 'I can just fucking ignore this' and went back to finish what I was doing.
Was there some mandate for their first few trailers to all move in rhythm with techno wubstep music? Is that how they lure the kids in these days? I thought it was about to become their version of Nintendo and farming simulators.
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Yeah, I was shocked when I saw this was the Jade Raymond game. From helping to make some of Ubisoft's best franchises, including Assassin's Creed, to making this generic ass GaaS game that is sitting on about 4x as many dislikes as likes, on the GameSpot reposting I saw at least. Starting to see why her career has gone pretty much nowhere since she left Ubisoft, with EA canceling both her Star Wars game and her new IP before she left there, then to Stadia which flopped spectacularly, then to Sony where she made this GaaS trash. She seems to have lost her touch in a big way, get the feeling she will be one of those sad game development veteran stories with a career that ends in mediocrity/disgrace. Won't be surprised at all if we hear that Sony has closed Haven in the wake of this game releasing and almost inevitably flopping, or at least refocusing them as a support or PC porting studio.
