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Decent rivalry
Very interesting to discover that possibly the best graphics of the generation can be found in a game made by only 80 people. I assume Spider Man 2, which I would have said was the other contender, must have had at least three times as many people working on it, since Wikipedia says Insomniac Games has 450 people. Ubisoft Montreal has over 4,000, so who knows how many people it takes to make their games – I think you could count them up just by looking at the credits?
If the game is super short, I'm not sure it really saves that much. Especially if the game isn't that good. It certainly doesn't sound good to me and I'm sure I enjoyed Spider-Man 2 more than ever before Hellblade 2. Also, doesn't it sound like the levels are very interactive, with no destructible landscapes or moving parts?
I mean, kudos to the team, because the videos look impressive, but it hardly seems to qualify as a game. If I had it on Game Pass I'd play it just to see the graphics, and it sounds like maybe that's why it was made, but it all seems like a bit of a waste.
If Spider-Man 2 isn't the best graphics ever, I'd say it would be Horizon Forbidden West. Neither are the best games ever, but they do sound more like a real game than Hellblade 2.
Joke
GC: The only interactivity is the puzzles that change the layout and the water that moves realistically.
Games without gameplay
There are probably plenty of people who will be satisfied with the linear, semi-interactive, slow-paced nature of Hellblade because it deals with a serious subject matter, but personally I'm of the opposite opinion. You can deal with a serious subject and still link a video game to it. One with a solid gameplay loop. Not every game has to be as fast-paced as Returnal, but then you have a story about trauma with some heavy themes combined with a very engaging combat system and gameplay loop.
To each their own, but I don't believe in this approach to gaming. I find it strange that titles that aspire to be 'cinematic' barely give the player anything to do, and for a game with a five-hour running time, it feels like it would have served better as a proper cinematic film or a six-part series. The graphics are easily good enough to be used to tell a non-interactive story.
As you pointed out in the review, it's a shame that a talented development team hasn't expanded in certain areas to include more unique gameplay ideas in their repertoire.
Total
Maximum RPG
I absolutely agree Paper Mario: The Millennial Door is an absolute classic. I have already pre-ordered the remake and am really looking forward to it. I'm so happy to see it got a good review.
I hope it goes well, because now we have to convince Nintendo that they have misunderstood the franchise for the past twenty years. I'd love to see a new Paper Mario early in the Switch 2 with good roleplaying and a pretty weird looking camera, instead of this stupid rule where everyone has to look the same.
I hope the odds are good though because they also remade Super Mario RPG and I know they said that sold better than expected. Based on that, I'd like to see them go even more hardcore in the roleplaying department, with stats and job classes and all the trimmings. I don't see why not. I'm sure most Mario fans have played these types of games before, so why not go all in?
Onibee
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Impulse purchase
So, Nintendo buys that developer is pretty weird, huh? Why would they do that? They don't seem very good, they're not famous, and I don't really understand what Nintendo needs ports for. Unless these guys are going to handle the imagined remasters for the Switch 2?
I hope not. I imagined them being done by the original developers, maybe with some extra stuff on top. I'm not sure if it really makes sense to hand the work over to a Western developer who has no name and apparently no talent. That Mortal Kombat 1 port made headlines because of how bad it is and that's the company they want to own?
Maybe they just felt bad about being owned by Embracer and thought they were so dirt cheap, why not? That doesn't sound like a Nintendo thing to do, though.
Winston
Personality types
I think the reason Microsoft and the others don't like to learn from Nintendo is because they have such completely different mindsets. Nintendo is the strong but silent type, who just gets on with their work and takes the time to do a good job. There are no shortcuts with them and they will happily put things off to get them right. They also don't like to talk about themselves in public and never make big claims about anything unless it's literally launched right then and there.
Microsoft is the absolute opposite. They can't stop telling everyone how great they are and they have no patience. I feel like Sony has learned more, especially when it comes to the importance of first party games, but I think their problem is that they want to prove that they are better than Nintendo, so they often go off the rails when they think that they are doing well. a unique idea, like VR, and in the end they were just wasting their time.
JohnnyG
2 for 1
I know what I would do for Resident Evil's 30th anniversary and that's reboot the entire franchise. We're getting Resident Evil 9 next and the rumored Resident Evil 1 remake…seems like pretty round numbers to end on. I saw a rumor that Leon is turning 48 in Resident Evil 9. That's getting a bit old being a top Special Forces agent, let alone having such floppy hair.
So what I would do is remake Resident Evil 1, but also make it the first part of a new reboot series. I'm convinced this is a genius idea because it would allow you to have the same basic thing, but updated for the modern age and planned a little better so that everything fits together better.
That way you could make a new Resident Evil 2 and it wouldn't be a remake, but something completely different. Like an alternate universe version of what could have happened or something. Maybe this time Wesker will get the virus or the zombie outbreak will be stopped and Umbrella will go underground.
That seems like a much better idea to me than trying to drag out the story until the characters are fighting Zimmer frames and we're still having references to games that came out 30 years ago. Just my suggestion!
Purple Ranger
Opaque stories
Yeah, I didn't get that Elden Ring: Shadow Of The Erdtree Story Trailer not at all. How can it be a story trailer if you have no idea what they're talking about and they don't say much anyway? I'll get the DLC anyway because I loved the main game, but I don't pretend to really understand the story at all.
I understand that it can be fun to flesh out the lore from the descriptions, but I think they should have given us a little more to work with if that's not your thing. I still don't even really understand what the elden ring is, and yet apparently that's what my character is looking for?
Gifford
Whales and minnows
Absolutely tragic news to hear IGN buys Game Network. There goes the last vestige of the market for old-fashioned British games magazines. I know Eurogamer and the others didn't have a direct connection, but they had the same attitude and shared a shared history and that's what I liked about them.
It's not that I'm afraid IGN will tell them to do it, which they certainly will, but that sooner or later they're going to close them down. I don't think IGN bought them so they could own them, they bought them so they could sabotage them and eliminate the competition. I hope I'm wrong, but I doubt it.
Every corner of the games industry seems to be ruled by indifferent executives buying up everything, until we are literally left with a handful of companies that own everything.
Of course I know we still have Metro and The Guardian and stuff like that in the UK, but, no offense, it's not the same as a dedicated games site that only offers games. The fact that even US sites don't even look like this anymore, with all their film and TV coverage, makes this even worse.
I find this all so crazy because a year or two ago it seemed like the games industry was at the top of its game and things were just getting better. Now it seems that there cannot be a day between someone being bought out or closed down, or hundreds of people being laid off.
Cranston
Inbox is also running
Here's a drinking game to practice ahead of Xbox's announcement of its next-gen plans. Take a sip every time they mention the word 'AI'. I bet it will get you drunk within minutes.
Tonfu
Good, this game could save the industry – no, the world – if only Hasbro and Capcom can make an official version.
FoximusPrime81 (gamertag/NN ID)
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