I normally never pre-order but snapped up what must have been a pricing error by Curry’s, and have been crossing my fingers and toes that it lives up to the previous entries.Ī little surprised that Sony is buying Bluepoint to work on original games. Are we sure scalpers aren’t responsible for half of the sales, and have thousands stocked up ready to unleash on society in the run up to Christmas at double RRP?Īlso, great preview of Metroid Dread. Maybe that’s a reflection on my social circle, but I find it all bizarre. I still only know one person who owns the console. I find it insane that the PlayStation 5 has sold so many units. Plus, I’ll have no idea whether it’s authentic or not, so I’m not really sure why that’s what they’re obsessing over rather than some actual gameplay innovation. Far Cry 3 was always the best and we’re a long way past that now.Īlso, and I don’t want to make anyone feel old, but Far Cry 3 was nine years ago now and things have moved on since then, while Far Cry is still almost exactly the same game.Īll I’ve heard them talk about with the new one is the story, which I really couldn’t care less about. We’re six games and numerous spin-offs into the franchise and I can’t remember the last time it even did anything new or interesting. I have to say I have very little faith in Far Cry 6 being a good game. That implies they haven’t started work on it yet, so if it did come up it’d be a minimum of 13 years, and probably several more, since the first one came out before the third one is out. Naughty Dog says they haven’t decided yet whether they’re doing a third one yet or not. I agree but doesn’t that point to the whole current state of big budget gaming being fundamentally broken? It takes five years, minimum, to make a state of the art game and if you’ve got a story that goes over multiple years you’re basically limited to just two or having to remind everyone of the plot every five minutes by the time you get to the last one.Ĭonsider The Last Of Us. Basically, if they wanted a trilogy that would’ve taken 15 years and it’s unreasonable to expect people to wait that long/remember what the hell was even happening in the first one. I think people are kind of skating over the bigger story with God Of War: Ragnarök, which is that it was impossible for them to tell a bigger story because it would’ve taken too long. The mere fact that Nintendo was so quick to deny everything just makes me think it’s more true. Or maybe the kits don’t actually output at 4K at the moment (or however they work) but that’s what the games are being developed in mind for. The phrasing was that they don’t have 4K kits so what if what they have are actually Switch 2 kits? Nintendo’s denial would be technically true but at the same time what the rumour was saying is still basically true too. Like GC said, nobody believes that 10 year lifespan nonsense and there’s probably a hundred ways around what they said in their denial that would still mean they are working on a new console or that those developers have devkits. I agree it would’ve been because of the OLED Switch and them not wanting anyone to be put off buying it but I just don’t think it seems plausible that they wouldn’t have a more powerful and/or a brand new console in development by now. So that was pretty of character for Nintendo, instantly denying the rumour about 4K games. I mean, they put all that effort in to the first Mafia game and I can’t imagine who was supposed to be interested in that. I hope it happens, especially after Take-Two said they were getting more into remasters and remakes. I realise that would take a lot of effort to change but the gameplay changes wouldn’t, even if it’s just making them exactly the same as GTA 5. The city isn’t all that great either and kind of bland. Even at the time the driving, shooting, and punching was terrible and if you go back to it now you wonder how Rockstar ever had the nerve to release it like that.