So, as someone who got hyped because he is the man behind Black & White and Fable. What am I missing?
They are remastering all the old ones, so I am hopeful for a new entry,
How are you liking Fallout 76?
I think we should just forget the game exists. One day they will announce it, but until them, let’s just assume there is no Silksong, and Team Cherry is just taking a long long vacation.
Voice communications are pretty simple on console too. I prefer to turn it off even if games have it, unless I am playing with an actual friend, so that default is fine by me. And when actually using it, it’s pretty easy, takes just a few button clicks. PS5 even got discord integration recently, but all my multiplayer friends are on PS, so didn’t had a need to test that. Though I don’t play on PC so I am not sure if discord on PC is even easier.
As for creativity, indies are leading in that department (and Nintendo has been pretty good too!). There are some great games out there, but unfortunately for AAA when you spend millions of dollars on a game over 4-5 years, it becomes a big risk, specially in today’s environment where even a successful game doesn’t ensure you won’t be layed off, an unsuccessful game is just a suicide.
But in general, yeah, kinda disappointed by the current gen. Eagerly waiting for Switch 2 though.
That’s pretty interesting. Glad to see him trying to pursue his goals, and hope the game succeeds.
Astro Bot had a PS VR game in PS4 era, and apparently it was very well received. Then there was a “tech demo” with PS5, and now they are releasing a full game for PS5.
There is also a separate live action Minecraft movie in the works. With Jack Black playing Steve.
Just told my kid about it, and his face broke into a huge grin. I guess that’s the target audience.
Though, Netflix has generally been pretty good with their animated shows, so won’t mind taking a look at what they do with Minecraft myself.
Ah, it’s finally out!
I have been keeping an eye on it, hope it comes to consoles.
Interesting article. They also talk about indies and different consoles:
Having heard some indies at GDC talking about skipping Xbox and PlayStation because there just isn’t much of an audience for indies on those platforms if you can’t get included in their subscription services, we ask Lowrie about how healthy the console ecosystems are for indies these days.
He echoes the indies we heard from in acknowledging that Switch stands apart from Xbox and PlayStation on this front.
“They’ve created an ecosystem – and therefore a user base – that is really open to interesting concepts and gameplay ideas,” Lowrie says of Nintendo. "The PlayStation and Xbox user, for as long as I’ve been doing this… there’s a lot of people that still like indie games, don’t get me wrong. Cult of the Lamb has done very well on those platforms. But I think the large majority of those people buy those platforms to show off what they can really do. They’re looking at Destiny. They’re looking at Helldivers. They’re looking at Starfield. They definitely push those.
“I think the platforms themselves all are really strong believers in indie games. They really do push them. I think on the other end, the consumers – as big as they might be – there’s still a smaller portion than we would like on Xbox and PlayStation that are open to looking at a pixel art platformer and going, ‘I’ll give this a shot.’”
Can’t you make a free PSN account from any country? I know people in countries with no PSN using US PSN account, without any VPN or anything. You just set your country to US, or UK.
Don’t know what engine they used for STS, but apparently they were making STS 2 on Unity:
At the time, it said it’d made much of Slay the Spire II in Unity, but would still migrate to a different engine if Unity stuck to its guns.
Yeah, III was basically coined to differentiate one-man / low budget indies from high budget indies like Hades, which was made by 20+ people, and a much higher budget, when compared to “normal” indies.
This looks pretty good.
I think the issue is there wasn’t as much help available.
Also, according to the post, your mic or anything won’t be recorded, just the raw game footage, though it will have any notifications that may popup, like chat message or trophy. Not to mention, the video will be reviewed by moderators before being added to Game Help.
That looks like an interesting idea. Game Help doesn’t gets much usage, and this can change that.
Oooh, MUDs! I used to play 1 or two, don’t even remember their name now…
Patientgamers FTW!