To be honest: keeping the chain alive would be great!
shinjiikarus
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If you are a permanent employee and get a good salary I can follow your argument, you are a cog in a machine and get reimbursed regularly. But if you are hired project by project and get paid some lump sum (and probably not a good one), then exposure in credits and on IMDb is really valuable.
Seriously: MW2 was rough for more than half a year and each season refresh brings back bugs already fixed. Vanguard is only two years away and could itself only have around two years of serious development time since it used the same engine as MW 2019, while Cold War used Treyarch‘s own stream. Even if Sledgehammer started development right after Vanguard they‘d only have two years of development time, but early rumors of CoD 2023 just being a larger live service update for MW2, instead of a new game point towards CoD 2023 using the same engine as MW2. In this case the major development time would have been what? A year? Besides Blizzard enshittifying their first solid release in years for a few MTX bucks right now, CoD 2023 feels like the next thing to crash and burn like Vanguard. Bobby is driving the whole company into the ground and I feel like the acquisition cannot come fast enough for CoD to have any chance of long term survival.
I hope the tickets are really expensive! And why wait until 2050?
I bought it on a whim and am totally surprised by what it is: The marketing looked very soulslike-centric and I expected something like The Surge, but I’d describe it more like a Gears of War/Destiny-mix. Yes, it is sometimes challenging, but Gears of War was as well back in the day, didn’t make it a soulslike. And the semi persistent checkpoints are just that: checkpoints. The skills and “RPG”-lite elements are very reminiscent of Destiny 2 to me. If you like both these games it’s kinda okay, but otherwise it’s nothing to get excited about. Without buddies the coop is really weird, especially if you play story missions, because randos can progress dialogue you might want to hear - but the story isn’t great and really convoluted, so the harm done is minimal. Buy it, if you want to play a challenging Gears of War with your buddies and tolerate Destiny‘s tediousness with resources and upgrades and RPG-lite elements.
They definitely made two balancings: one for reviewers and early adopters who raved in their assessment of the game and one for squeezing the pennies.
They wouldn’t have slammed into it, if they’d kept their safe distance as @[email protected] wrote. I’m in no way defending Tesla‘s „Autopilot“, it should be banned until they pass a very difficult test proving true self driving capabilities and multiple layers auf fail safes (which they can’t right now). But examples where an autopilot Tesla did something stupid and other people making human errors are disingenuous: if somebody drops their cigarette and breaks unexpectedly and the cars behind don’t keep their distance and slam into it, the reason they have an accident is not the cigarette but their dangerous safety distance.
He didn’t have the liquid capital to buy Twitter, either, that’s his problem.
They will fail so hard! On hand I am totally here to see that, on the other hand, I’m sad we won’t get a good new Splinter Cell.
Yeah, about that …
While I can understand someone moving away from D2 (and understand coming back cyclically), I always find the announcements WHERE they are actually moving quite funny. We don’t know anything about Starfield, but it’s probably not an MMO in any sense, so why that? Destiny seems to have no real competition or being incredibly niche, even though everyone publisher tried (and failed) to make a Destiny killer. Strange.
I can understand your sentiment in general, but the “grey color palette”, isn’t accurate. There are so many biomes in this game that you probably just caught one specific which heavily leaned towards grey. But I have played in lush forests and some of the currently trending viking-elf-aesthetics, which have definitely not been grey.
The game is really boring and grindy, though. I bought it on a whim, expecting Dark Souls with guns, like the marketing suggested. But it’s more like Gears of War meets Diablo or Destiny. This is a really bland third person shooter, with some interesting enemies and bosses but so much loot-based grind and so many resources to trade with different vendors. While the story is really one dimensional and tired.
I wouldn’t recommend this game if you are looking for a souls like as the marketing suggests, but only if Destiny-but-Gears-instead-of-Halo is your thing and you have a complete party of friends ready to join. Then this game has its moments.