Played roughly 4 hours of Dragon Quest Builders 2 today and it pretty much confirmed what I expected.

- boring combat
- below average graphics (looks very flat)
- uninteresting story (thus far)
- bad control layout
- "mining" and building is leagues below Minecraft. Placing blocks and items is extremely frustrating.

I will continue a little further but I might drop it soon.

I bet anyone in the game industry will try their best not to deal with Epic ever again after this court. So many stuff that definitely is NDAd from other companies is leaking just because Tim Sweeney is a greedy asshole. It also surprised me that iOS was about 7% of Fortnite revenue while Android is only 1%. Big brain move indeed. Epic literally killed Fortnite on mobile with this move.

So many morons on that thread comparing it to a AAA next gen Ratchet and Clank, this is why I hate fanboys.

MrMattyPlays is doubling down on his scoop that an MS 1st party dev is working on a “LucasFilm” IP something that he stated on the 25th of April, with the MS Star Wars rumors picking up more and more it’s looking to be credible.

Matty is also claiming to know which MS Studio is working on the game and considering his connections I’m getting more and more convinced that it’s a Bethesda studio and not a XGS studio, the only XGS studio that would be available is the Coalition and Bethesda has way more options.

Yeah, I was reading the same thing but that is exactly what is going to happen.  People will not know how Psyconauts 2 was started, how big the team is or any real context.  Instead they will see that Ratchet and Clank is a first party Sony platformer title and Psyconauts 2 is a MS first party platformer title and the comparisons will fly.  They will not care that R&C is a PS5 only while Psyconauts 2 is I believe going to be on all platforms.  They will not care that one team is huge compared to the other.  Context is something that never really helpful in the console war.

I still wouldn’t rule out Arkane, When you look at Machine Games they are currently not big enough to be working on 2 projects at the same time (hopefully this changes in the future) they will likely only start full development on Indiana Jones after Wolfenstein 3 releases and even then they will likely still have some staff on that game after launch for DLC and potential Multiplayer support (something that the game is rumored to have).

Deathloop is releasing this year and Arkane Lyon for all we know could start working on Star Wars after it’s release, so they would be in the same situation as Machine Games.

So they were basically on par with Nintendo that year, not as bad as initially thought. Sony being twice as much makes sense when you consider the install base difference.

Also with PlayStation raking in that much cash for Sony you would think that they would start expanding their 1st part more aggressively.

A crap ton of Gaming corporations are likely pissed off at this, If MS do get angry they should just pump a ton of cash into IDTech and try to compete with Unreal Engine.

At the very least just start to phase out Unreal Engine at 1st party studios an replace it with IDTech or in-house engines since it doesn’t make sense for them to give a cut To Epic on 1st party games and not to mention Epic getting close to Sony.

Get the Water. (NSFW: Language) https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=D5YpjwzeEik&feature=youtu.be

I know the talk is more about court leaks recently (which are juicy indeed) but I have no other place to get this off my chest so here we go:

I'm probably done with Dragon Quest Builders 2.
Took me almost 10 hours to finish the first island. Story is still boring and progress is really slow. I'm almost getting a little mad when I think about what I've experienced in the first 10 hours of DQXI...
The fights feel forced and haven't improved (easily the worst part in the game). It does have the Minecraft like addiction here and there and some nice ideas (different kind of houses depending on the items inside; better use of NPCs; infinite bag).
Had some fun with it but I feel like continue playing only wastes my time.
7/10