I wouldn’t want to bank my whole studio on one title being a blockbuster success either.
It sold 10,000,000 copies. It was the best selling first-party PS4 exclusive released.
I know the loud internet people were upset about Girls With Muscles or whatever, but it did fantastic with normal people.
(And will sell millions more when finally available on something besides PlayStation.)
Did you play it? If so, fair enough, but if not you’re missing out in my opinion. When it was announced i never believed i’d ever question whether a sequel could top the story told by the original, how could it? Playing through it a second time i do have that question now, it’s that good.
I had, I had a hard time with the conveniences in many of the cutscenes. The major problem for the story is that it really only works if you sympathize with Abby, if you don’t, then the ending just doesn’t… work.
Naughty dog’s average customer is not interested to online games. It would have flopped
Bad idea starting, good idea stopping before too late
I’m not convinced any online-only games are worth anyone’s time if they’re planned as a live service game from the get-go. When Halo: Infinite F2P multiplayer dropped, so many people on the Halo subreddit were like “yeah, it’s fun but the battlepass is so slow to progress that I feel like I don’t have a reason to keep playing.” Uhhhhh maybe keep playing because you’re having fun? Or do you need some artificial number to tell you to keep going?
Seems like a confusing shift in the target demographic where battlepasses and constant new updates are required in order to consider a game “worth your time.”
squeaky old man voice back in my day my brothers and I would play CoD: Zombies using the exact same strategies every day after school for years with no updates to the gameplay AND WE LIKED IT
Yeah I don’t get it either. Everyone rn is saying that Halo infinite multiplayer sucks because you “have to” pay for cosmetics or do lots of shit to progress the battlepass.
Literally all COSMETIC. Like it’s not even pay to win, just play the genuinely fun multiplayer game wtf
Halo Infinite’s problem isn’t that there’s a store where you can buy cosmetic items. It’s that the game was built AROUND the store. Cosmetics took a priority over gameplay, features, etc.
It’s not that fun though. I tried to enjoy it and played it a ton more than my friends, but it just gets boring so fast and matchmaking is so slow. I don’t know what it needed to be better, but it felt really bare bones. I don’t play CoD or anything like that so I wasn’t really comparing it to anything else, but it didn’t hold my attention at all and even when I did really well in games it felt underwhelming.
Good Naughty Dog.
I have hard time believing they had this great product they just didn’t want to support for a few years. Specially with how Sony has been dead set on having many live service games in its portfolio.
Specially with how Sony has been dead set on having many live service games in its portfolio.
the previous CEO was dead set on that, but he’s gone
The flop of high profile titles like The Avengers showed that it’s no golden bullet.
Some gamers love a game they can play forever. Maybe others gamers dabble in it, but it’s time that becomes the limiting factor. I know people that every year buy CoD and FIFA and nothing else, and sure, they make unreasonable amounts of money, but there’s plenty more on the table to be had from gamers who don’t like that.
