Guess we can’t have real life cars then either, right?

Putting real life cars into racing games, real life athletes into sports games, etc. its only purpose is advertising. There is no other reason than advertising to include any brand logo or product from real life into a video game.

Im fine if they actually fit the game. But this means they are basically limited to games that are only set in the real world. I actually liked seeing the Old Spice and Nokia billboards in NFS Underground 2, and seeing them now is an even bigger reminder of the time the game came out. Or the random products in Kojima games.

But seeing real world product ads in games like Halo or Dark Souls? No thanks. I can’t see how you add those to the world and make them feel like part of the game world.

C&C Generals AND Half-Life? Whoever is nostalgia baiting with this is using some high quality bait.

Here in South California, the poverty line is $100,000 USD. If you make less than that per year, you are considered poor. Cost of living is horrendous here, so you can imagine that makes everything feel expensive. And its only going to keep getting worse. I wouldn’t be surprised to hear in 10 yeas that its $175k.

If I have to choose between one game and a meal for my family, the game loses every time.

Reminds me of the Lord of the Rings Battle for Middle Earth RTS. That was a great game.

EDIT: I was thinking of War of the Ring, which is older than Battle for Middle Earth by one year.

You already gave them the Monet

Bro paid an insane price for this game, he better play it.

Probably, but telling you where to find it would be illegal in many countries (depending on instance country and applicable law, hosting comments or messages containing such information could be considered copyright infringement). Patching your own legally obtained ROM is pretty easy, though.

Anything after ProStreet may as well not exist IMO. And I didn’t like ProStreet as much as previous entries. Still better than anything by Criterion though. Their racing games were fine as their own thing, BurnOut was a fun series, but they should never have been allowed to touch Need for Speed in the first place.

Thats like having Psygnosis, the Wipeout developer, work on a new Gran Turismo. Or having Treyarch make the next Battlefield. Its going to feel wrong unless the developers are skilled at replicating the previous studios feeling, or they dont have employees that feel the need to touch everything that already worked and was loved.

I bought Unbound for only $5 and I feel robbed.

Ignoring the political yapping in my ear for the first like 45 minutes about “police and politicians are oppressing street racers” (that literally cause thousands in damages and definitely cause multiple fatalities every race),all of Criterion’s NFS games have bad driving models compared to Black Box, which is literally the most important part of a racing game. IMO, the gameplay peaked with Underground 2, and the story was best with Most Wanted. I didn’t like MW or Carbons driving model changes from U2, but they are miles better than anything Criterion made. Heck, even NFS The Run feels like a proper NFS game, and that game was BlackBox’s worst NFS game.

I wanted to like Unbound, and even liked its art style, but it gave me too many reasons to not like it. Uninstalled in under an hour, couldn’t get a refund because I didn’t buy it on Steam.

Bandai Namco has the RE Engine

Don’t you mean Capcom?

Bethesda still uses the NetImmerse derived Creation Engine. Or is it called Hero Engine now? I always knew it as NetImmerse which morphed into Gamebryo and then that morphed into Creation.

EDIT: HeroEngine is a different game engine used for Star Wars The Old Republic MMORPG and Elder Scrolls Online MMORPG dyring development.

I am pretty sure most business financial experts would say this unironically.

Obviously they also know they are ethically wrong to do this since in this case it isnt the customer’s fault. Also $400 USD is such a tiny expense to a business like Microsoft, I dont see how they couldn’t just comp it. He already paid for them before, so effectively moving the 1s and 0s to a new account will cost them next to nothing, way less than $400.

Steam sales.

I mean, I don’t think Todd could have predicted the world’s economic crisis it is currently in.

If people like you and I actually had the money to spend on games like we used to ~10-15 years ago, I would say it is less likely that Todd’s statement would be considered wrong.

Never forget what Oblivion did to beast race legs.

Does it matter? It starts with the mobile games, but that’s how these big publishers boil the frog. Always gotta start with low heat and ramp it up slowly until-

Oops, no more disk drives! Don’t like it? Too bad! Buy our new product!

I’ll be honest, I think Bethesda is too big. They hired too many employees for the studio to handle.

Most AAA studios have too many people. It gets to a point where these huge teams take too long to make something because they cannot be as flexible as game development requires with so many people.

That they held onto so many people for this long is pretty impressive, actually. I thought certainly it would have happened sooner.

Morrowind was made by less than 75 people (including the voice actors) and was an absolute banger. Starfield came out and, while I like parts of it, it is nowhere near Morrowind and how many people worked on Starfield? Way more than the <75 of the Morrowind team, that’s for sure.

Is this an attempt to temporarily artifically inflate unique account activity metrics for self-congratulation and shareholder ego stroking?

(This month X millions players logged in to play games, which is a significant increase from before!)

I think the marketing did this game a great disservice. It promised something the game was not, and the developers had to alter their plans to match the marketing. This ended up with a very rough launch, but the recent patches have really helped pick the game up.

I find it is still more limited than even something like Starfield, as far as limited choices effecting the game go, and while I would have preferred the greater freedom Starfield presents (to that games own detriment sometimes), Cyberpunk 2077 is still an enjoyable experience for what it is.

Just make sure to fully spell out the name instead of abbreviating it. Bit of an unfortunate situation with that, unless you call it C77.