Considering how they’ve announced 3 more Metal Max games I’m going let this one slide. I already bought the original game, which was a beta of a future final game. Considering how all this version has to show off is battle animations it looks like it’s still a beta of a final game they may eventually complete.
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Man, this takes me back to when Konami adapted The Wizard of Oz into an anime action game called OZ - OVER ZENITH (released in Europe as The Sword of Etheria). I thought it was the coolest thing, and 50% of that was because of the techno remix of the Polovtsian Dances used as the theme song.
Edit: That brief interlude in the middle of the trailer at 2:30 to show some keyart, music credits, and dialogue is still super sick. Gives me some El Shaddai vibes.
Looking that trailer up reminded me the game’s first trailer was 9 minutes long and pretty much entirely laid out the game’s concept and mechanics. Man, games just aren’t revealed like that anymore.
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I remember being sooooo enamored of this trailer, damn.
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$80 on Nintendo SwitchTM!
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i hope they never get to make another one!
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It did not even occur to me that this was a “problem,” but lo the replies
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I thought the coolest thing was the art/designs by Fumi Ishikawa (Suikoden 2/3) which were done after she had shifted her style.
C.1999:
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Do you mean yet another updated version of Skyrim or just TES 6?
So this week is going to be pretty exciting in terms of gaming news. Virtua Fighter and Dragon Quest both have streams on Thursday and there will be news about Unreal Engine 5 at 7am PT on Wednesday (May 26). I’m hype!
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I can’t wait for the VF announcement to be, like, an arcade rerelease of VF5 with some strange gimmick that only works in 2 sega arcades in tokyo
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those games suck ass
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Elder Scrolls and Fallouts are good even if they’re bad because there is nothing else out there close to carrying the Ultima sca nerd roof thatching simulator torch. These games are very popular for good reason because there’s a huge segment of people who just want to live in a world and play house but there also has to be the rest of the game world out there to be able to go into and come back from, just The Sims isn’t good enough. Nobody seems to understand this, or it’s too expensive to make. But rockstar has infinite resources and all anybody asks for for on grand theft auto online or red dead online is more options for roleplaying. modded role playing servers for these games are popular. people don’t really give a shit about mechanics or progressing along some skill tree or content, they just want tools to help their own make believe. them letting you build entire towns in the last fallout is hopefully a sign they haven’t forgotten the things that matter about these games, npc schedules, being able to pick up and place every object in the game world etc.
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yeah i remember a student of mine telling me he had put in over 300 hours into Witcher 3 and it made me realize that these games are not designed for someone like me.
my feeling is if i’m going to put in that much time to “live” in a game’s world, i’d rather it be something like FFXIV, which is a living breathing world with actual people in it and social interactions.
but i get that these games are just sort of their own thing. i play Fallout 1 and beat it in a few hours and i’m like “that feels like enough” and someone else is like “i want to do this for a few hundred more hours where is my content”
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i know people who are still playing skyrim on the save they started when it came out, and i just don’t get it.
as soon as i figured out how to quickly make myself strong enough to one hit kill every monster in the game, i did that and completed it a couple of hours later, then never had any desire to go back to it.
the witcher 3 was a much better game, but it was also so long that i eventually just gave up on it.
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Agreed - but - I think it’s fair to lament that this very natural human impulse has by the vicissitudes of capitalism been entrusted to these companies that seem to dread, or even loathe that they are compelled to keep these parts of the games going, when their interest clearly lies in Ubisofting everything into clear little quest paths.
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I gotta deal with that shit living in the real world, I don’t need it in my games!
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The house players deserve better. It’s cramming mods into Gamebryo, squinting at No Man’s Sky et al, or The Sims, which is still the best at it.
I think Starfield might lean so far into simulation that it alienates fans of Skyrim’s tourist RPG facet. BGS knows (from telemetry) how people play these games for hundreds of hours - that’s why Fallout 76 is what it is.
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I would love if Dan Houser told a federal judge that GTA Online is a metaverse with a straight face. More credible!
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