The first game’s gameplay was like Morrowind mixed with aspects of Skyrim, with a focus on immersion and “realism.” Combat is determined not just by stats but player skill. It’s set in a real-world historical setting: 15th-century Bohemia, just prior to the Hussite Wars.
It was one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played, but it’s very much a game that inspires love or hate, depending on your personality. It was one of the few games I preordered over the last year.
People would go nuts for Mario Paint 2. Easy sharing and live collaboration…
I’m a BioWare fan from way back. I’ve played nearly every BioWare game they’ve ever released, as they were released, including that Sonic Chronicles RPG that I had zero interest in. In most cases I finished them with 100%, even with The Veilguard, which was bland and forgettable in nearly every way. The Mass Effect trilogy is one of my favorite game series of all time.
But. If they make Mass Effect 5 some shitty live service game, I’m not going near it and they might as well just close BioWare and absorb the few employees still around into the EA mothership. It hasn’t been “classic BioWare” for over a decade.
EA: where great studios go to die
I don’t preorder games very often, but I preordered this. The first game is wonderful, and it seems like they learned their lesson about sticking the landing at launch. They even made their DLC release calendar public. I’m really excited to start it.
It’s clear that this has become a make-or-break game for BioWare based on Veilguard’s reception and sales performance.
I’m inclined to think they decided to re-tool for that reason.
Yeah, I don’t know how many times people need to learn this lesson, but don’t spend $100 on an online game if you can’t afford to lose it all. Especially don’t do it if you’re unstable and think death threats are a justifiable response.
Genuine question: why is this a problem for you?
The Switch 2 BETTER have this feature…
Or else what? You’ll still buy it.
It’s sad, but the asking price is way too high for bare Famicom cartridges, which mostly go for nearly nothing. Even boxed Famicom games are only a fraction of the price of boxed NES games.
From everything I’ve heard about their plans for the next Xbox, they’re aiming to compete on game portability, graphics, and ecosystem preference (including GamePass).
For portability, it sounds like they mean playing on your console, moving your game to your SteamDeck-like Xbox handheld, or even playing via cloud streaming on your phone. Cloud streaming has never interested me, but an Xbox handheld that played your back catalog locally could be compelling and a reason to continue buying for Xbox.
Graphics, well, I think we’ve long-since reached the point of diminishing returns, given I can’t even really see the difference between PS5 and PS5 Pro.
And even though I prefer Xbox’s ecosystem and have invested quite a bit in it over the years (I have nearly 100,000 GS), I would have to see a pretty compelling reason to buy an entirely redundant console when every game I might want would be available on PlayStation or Nintendo.
Basically, if they introduce a SteamDeck-like handheld, that would do it for me. Otherwise, I’d have to put some thought into whether or not I’d want yet another giant console in my TV stand.
As a longtime fan of the series, I played it. I was underwhelmed, despite getting 100%. It improved a bit toward the end, and there were some exciting set pieces, but as a whole it just felt generic and repetitive.
I didn’t really feel attached to the characters, either. Karlach, Minthara, Lae’zel, and even the Narrator (all from Baldur’s Gate III) have 5x as much personality as anyone in The Veilguard. That said, I felt like Neve was closest to a real person.
I think a big part of the blandness was also the fact that the different races just felt like humans, short humans, humans with pointy ears, humans with horns… the earlier games did a much better job of making them feel distinct.
I will say, though, it was a very well-tested game and very stable on launch.
Anyway, it probably got the sales it earned.
Persona 3 FES and Persona 4 were PS2 titles. Aside from Infamous and Demon’s Souls, the rest were multi-platform. I bought a PS3 at launch, but my game library for it was always small.
Same. It can play PS1, PS2, and also cook up a hamburger. It reduces the fat!
Recently started Indivisible. I’m really enjoying the gameplay, and the animation, art direction, and characters are wonderful.
That’s all true. It wasn’t until the last 15 years, give or take, that handheld screens could really handle fast motion.
The Game Gear was only good for 2-3 hours on six AA batteries, so you basically had to play tethered to the wall or invest in lots of rechargeable batteries. The library also wasn’t as strong overall as the Game Boy’s, although its top games were previous-gen console quality (because they literally were in other territories).
Both screens were also just awful about blurring during fast movement. Nintendo wisely avoided it altogether, while Sega was bound by their flagship brand. When you really got going in something like Sonic Chaos, particularly considering the small viewing window, you were really just letting Jesus take the wheel.
Source: I was a Game Gear kid.
I was in college at the time and there were a few of us with Dreamcasts. I bought my games (and still have them), but there were guys with literally every single game in the library burned to disc.
I don’t really care about PSN downtime, but I can’t stand corpo-speak.
It’s not “some users.” It’s not “might be.” “Experiencing issues” is so generic that it’s pointless.
Just say, “PSN is down. We’re working to bring it back online.”