I’m excited to play this game on my Xbox, I’ve watched a few videos on Shadows of Doubt! The mysteries feel so organic and interconnected; as the game seems to weave a large web of intrigue the longer you play.
I had a fun time playing in early access, even with the bugs. I should check it out again when it hits 1.0. I recall generating a new location and immediately falling through the ground to my death and deciding i would wait a bit to play more.
I am going to bang on so many apartment doors until the old lady that lives inside doddles over to answer and when I hear the key rattling in that lock I will flying kick that door off the hinges, blasting her unconscious, so thar I can take everything out of her wallet and her safe.
What was that? Is she a suspect? …Suspect in what? Hey did you see my cool apartment? I can afford a new sofa now!
So it ended up being a class based shooter instead of a hero shooter. That’s good at least. Hopefully it doesn’t minimize the benefit portals brought to the original.
The article says nothing of the sort. They didn't phase it out. The article was released before the game officially was. It does actually say this though:
The danger for any game is simply that people stop playing, so the team focused on retention and on listening to feedback from the community to make Splitgate a “forever game” that can go years, with “seasons,” new features and maps, and so on.
Splitgate became a 2-3 month game, not a forever game. The game only had 1,600 players on Steam when it officially released, there wasn't even a spike in players on that day. It had one spike on 8th August 2021 of 67,000. The developers fumbled with their "lightning in a bottle" as they say in that article.
They are making a new one because it failed to retain the interest of the audience and the $100M from investors has to be made back, are they just gonna keep making new Splitgate's and pray on hype to sell as many skins as they can in such short amounts of time?
I found the puzzles refreshing in CrossCode. It was nice having a game that actually had the guts of challenging your wits, instead of spoiling all your fun with the characters telling the solution before you even manage to look at the damn puzzle. They were my favourite aspect of the game for sure.
A bit sad they decided to tone down on that aspect, but hopefully they’ll strike a balance that makes both of us happy.
I’d rather premium games didn’t take money from unrelated companies to modify their games in any way. Not unless they’re sharing the ad profits they’re making off me with me or using it to offset the price of the game for consumers. But I am violently anti-ad.
Just because a game has advertising doesn’t automatically make it a bad game. Need for Speed Underground 2 did this very well.
There was advertising for various real world business sponsors of the game, like Old Spice, Gillette, Best Buy, and various automotive related brands. But NFS U2 is literally peak, best of the best Need for Speed. How is this possible with advertising? Because it made the advertising part of the game world in an unintrustive way. Billboards along the sides of racetracks, Best Buy buildings in the scenery you drive around, these were great ways the developers incorporated ads into the game without them being intrusive or interrupting the game. It was also the correct genre of game for advertising, as this would not work so well if it was in a game like Skyrim, for example.
If another game needs to have ads in it, I am okay with it if they implement them in the same way NFS U2 did. No pop-ups, no " watch 3 ad videos for 2 gas droplets," none of that. Just a static image on a billboard, implemented in a manner that doesnt interrupt my game and that fits its genre.
I find it really weird that in NHL24 they have very limited ads and most of them are just EA’s own shit. As a hockey fan, it’s actually a little jarring because real arenas are just plastered with ads for a variety of shit. Kind of a weird thing to complain about, but I mean… It’s trying to look as real as possible; having real-world ads in the real world way goes a long way to accomplishing that, IMO.
Plus I think it would be cool as hell to see local businesses advertised based on the arena. It would add to the feel of realism, while also benefitting those local businesses.
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