any MM game moving forward can be a success (assuming they are Megaman-ass Megaman games) if they just watch their budgets
one of the asshole activist investors in Squenix shitposted a graph showing game budgets and claimed that Dragon’s Dogma 2 and MH Wilds both cost less than FF16 and Forespoken so assuming those are true and Capcom’s last brush with almost killing themselves with RE6, I think they can manage
no that’s way too lucid a post
guys there’s gonna be a PS4 game in 2027
I like how this kinda confirms that the relentless moody gore porn Naughty Dog is largely Druckmann’s baby, and there’s maybe an iota of a more light-hearted Naughty Dog still out there (though Straley was more of a Jak and, uh, Gex guy, than anything to do with Crash).
That makes me more interested since the Jak games were the closest to something I actually liked playing out of their library, and I’d take Gex over crash any day of the week, totally non-ironically.
that clip mainly reminds me of how he should actually be playing geese howard
it’s funny to me that there are 3 actual professional wrestlers in this movie and none of them are playing the professional wrestler Zangief
thought this was a good response to this year’s Game Awards
While I respect those who call for Keighley, and his show, to better reflect the values of those who work in the industry he desires to speak for — by actually supporting his “Future Class” initiative, or offering more than middling statements gesturing vaguely at massive abuse scandals or endemic layoffs, or generally acknowledging that games and the people who play them exist in the world and that world might matter to them — it feels like going to McDonald’s and getting mad they don’t do steak. Should Keighley do those things? Absolutely. He’s smart enough to, no matter how hard he’s worked to appear as a vacuous dummy this last decade. But I think it’s our job as journalists to see things clearly for what they are, and The Game Awards as conceived by Keighley is not built for that.
This is not a show made for humans. It thinks very little of the people who make games, and it thinks even less of the people that play them. And I think every little thing done to give them credence — every podcast discussion or article about its trailers and winners and column chronicling that awards horse race — has worked to cement the place where it all sits. Yes, The Game Awards are here because Keighley has the resources and stubborn will to insist on them, year after year. But they also endure because on some level, we want them to. We don’t actually want something better. We want what Keighley is selling.
…video games are not a better place thanks to The Game Awards. Careers are not made, prestige is not accrued, horizons are not broadened. I do not fault developers for grasping at any handhold available to them in this rapidly decaying business beset by lecherous consolidation and ravenous profit-seeking, and hope that more than a handful have been able to stay in the business longer thanks to the show’s exposure. But I think The Game Awards stance on the industry is exceedingly clear: Things are fine just the way they are.
sad, if the 97 / 3 odds on anything but expedition 33 winning paid off , i wouldn’t have to think about any of this.
dunno if this was posted here or a thread else but good heavens
Surprised this hasn’t been discussed much yet. Perhaps the forum wide YakLad fatigue is in the air.
I remember people complaining about Yakuza fatigue when 3 came out.
Maybe nagoshi was the juice behind the series and that’s why yakuza sucks ass now
I think it’s the typical thing where the couple projects immediately after the creator left are surprisingly good because they benefit from the looseness but they start to lose focus soon after that. the last one he has a non executive credit on was 5 and imo that’s exactly when the series went from a consistent B+ to straight A’s for a while (0 gets too much of the credit from 5 in the US because localizing 5 took them forever and it seemed impenetrable, and then 6 and 7 were both great, then they fell off a bit)
Nagoshi’s project does not look good though, that’s screaming “just go back to Sega if you really want to keep making this kind of game”
imo it totally tracks that most of the best games in the series came out when he was no longer working on them himself but was still at the company and people were trying to make him happy. I would be shocked if Project Century isn’t a lot more interesting than his next project, he’s in his Larry David Sour Grapes era
“does not look good” is stronger than I’d put it about a two minute cgi thing of ma dong-seok beating ass from a game that is otherwise entirely unknown. I did not think you could leave sega and make a whole yakuza game with a handful of people at your own studio in this economy but I guess they have netease money.
