Viri4thus

Of course you don't. Glad you experienced Ueda and keep having fun with games. Have a great day.

Consolidation is bad for the industry. It sucks because the acquisition spree of MS especially setting their sights in Japan is what caused this. Sony already owns a minority share of kadokawa, so they wouldn't need to acquire it if there wasn't the danger of an MS takeover and dilution of the soulsborne value by dumping them on gamepass day 1. I hate it's happening but I can see why. PS is the home of soulsborne and it was Japan Studio colabs that set up the entire genre. Leadership at Sony doesn't want to lose these franchises.

Jensen can keep his GPUs, the way AAA gaming is going I'll be playing indies for the foreseeable future or playing on console. I have evolved into a patient gamer. It also has the advantage that if I want to see some theorycrafting I won't be swamped with youtube suggestions about pronouns or diversity. I'm not starting to use an account, I'm not American nor am I a conservative google, stop trying. I'm fine with different looking people in my games telling different stories. Also, TLOUII was one the greatest games of all time.

You mean, aesthetically, Shadow of the Colossus, Ico and the Last Guardian? The games BotW aped? And that's just aesthetically. BotW is every single Ubisoft open world dumbed down for children with a couple of garry's mod dodaads added to the mix. The execution and polish are top notch but there isn't a single innovative bone to BotW, there's ample refinement but nothing new. I invite you to expand your played games repertoire to include some of the ones I mentioned. Ueda is nothing short of genius.

Which rip-offs? Name 3

Don't fret, it's only a 3 month exclusive and it's going to take them a minimum of 1y for the game to reach a state worthy of being sold. This is one for the patient gamers both on PC and the consoles.

Microsoft should rebrand to Tumorsoft. They have metastisised to an absolutely megalodon of a corporate structure with no redeeming qualities. Their position is justified by nothing other than their legacy of being the default bundled OS on almost every single computer. How this wasn't already prosecuted to the ground is beyond me. They have "allegedly" bribed several government officials to stop the terrain Linux was making within the EU and suffered exactly 0 consequences.

So a studio owned by the company that also owns the azure infrastructure and has real time access to sales data was caught by surprise by the sales of their game and failed to boot up a couple more Vms to serve paying customers... Right, sounds totally legit and not penny pinching at all.

They are based in Kyiv and the team moved away from UA. If they were based in the Eastern part of the country, the game would have been in development hell forever.

7,7/10

I'd wait for an actual reliable data driven review from notebookcheck and GSMarena.

Inject them straight into my arm please. Also, Amy Henning is an absolute treasure and I miss her writing. I lost track of her work once she left Naughty Dog. She shaped so much of the good narratives we still have in an age where every game is written like a care bear episode.