The Tuesday letters web page pits Indiana Jones towards Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, as a reader is disillusioned there’s going to be a Last Of Us Part 3.
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Rising bills
Plenty of legitimate factors lately, together with the Reader’s Feature, relating to the truth that there’s actually nowhere for the following technology of consoles to go, if publishers don’t need all the things, from the video games to the consoles, costing much more cash. There’s a degree at which issues turn into simply too costly and I really feel the £700 PS5 Pro crosses that line. I realise it’s solely aimed toward tremendous followers however the truth that it even exists, and its enhancements are so minor, I really feel is an indication that publishers ought to cease and take inventory of what they’re doing.
That may very well be what they’re doing too, with this discuss of portables. But, like everybody else, I can’t think about a future the place Xbox or Sony determine to make their subsequent console much less highly effective than the present one with a view to match it right into a handheld system. That’s so towards their complete mindset I simply can’t see it ever taking place.
The downside just isn’t solely is it just about not possible to make a PlayStation 5 handheld however the nearer they get the costlier it’s going to be. Do you wish to spend £700 or something even near that on a handheld? Even the most costly Steam Deck mannequin is lower than £600, they usually’ve solely bought just a few million worldwide of these.
And if the PlayStation 6 is a standard console, that goes beneath your TV, how a lot is that going to be? Given present costs it’s going to be at the least £600 and I believe that’s an excessive amount of even for pretty dedicated players. Sony and Microsoft have backed themselves towards a wall and I actually don’t know the place they go from right here.
Danson
Franchise battle
It’s not a fantastic measurement for a sport that’s in all probability going to be performed extra on consoles however Indiana Jones And The Great Circle at present has an all-time peak on Steam of 12,138 individuals. That’s not dangerous, in comparison with some current flops, but it surely’s miles behind one thing like Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2, which has a complete of 186,199.
I believe that’s been one of the in style single-player video games on PC this 12 months, so it reveals how excessive it may well get however its 24 hour peak is simply 8,861, so it was clearly a little bit of a flash within the pan, as I think about most single-player video games are.
It does give a sign of which IP are extra in style with fashionable players although, and I wager they spent 10 instances extra making a sport based mostly on Indiana Jones than they did Warhammer. Probably not the very best choice in hindsight however at the least they will say that the sport reviewed higher than Space Marine 2 – though not by that a lot.
Zeiss
Running the store
RE: Colm. It’s true Valve haven’t actually pushed the Steam Deck exhausting by way of advertising and marketing, and many others., however what they efficiently did was kickstart a whole market that didn’t actually exist beforehand.
Handheld PC gaming is now a market in itself and everyone seems to be clamouring to strive get in on the act, and even Microsoft and Sony are attempting to resurrect handheld gaming.
For Valve, it’s not even necessary that their console could be large vendor, if they will persuade others to comply with swimsuit and produce comparable machines which might be profitable, they’d be ecstatic, at it’s extra individuals to purchase from Steam retailer.
Kiran
GC: That’s an excellent level.
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Physics is difficult
Just completed Sniper Elite 5. Didn’t prefer it at the beginning however as a consequence of being too late to refund it, I discovered to love and even get pleasure from it.
I might say nevertheless that the x-ray and loss of life animations want a number of work. The manner enemies go flying when shot wants an overhaul. If the bullet flight and drop, and many others. are sensible why can’t the physique physics be the identical?
I’d additionally wish to know why I all the time appear to shoot out the tooth of virtually each enemy. It’s in all probability my aiming prowess in order that subject is on me.
I’ve performed each sport thus far since 2, even enjoying the VR sport, so I do get pleasure from them however I want it to vary simply ever so barely. Helmets shouldn’t fly off when penetrated. Bodies ought to hunch when there’s a head shot and autos shouldn’t simply come to a sudden cease when hitting mines.
I’m conscious it’s not an AAA sport sequence, so I can forgive a few of the subject however possibly they will tweak it a bit for the following numbered sport within the sequence.
Bobwallett
No cost
It was talked about within the Inbox a few months in the past, however Shogun Showdown is one other (at present PC solely) indie sport that’s constructing a superb repute and hasn’t been reviewed by many but. It’s additionally free simply now in case you have Amazon Prime, so possibly that provides it much less of a enterprise case to incorporate it in your 2024 wrap-up critiques, as a number of us wouldn’t essentially have to determine whether or not or to not choose it up.
I haven’t performed it but, however my understanding is it’s a 2D turn-based technique with roguelite and deck constructing components. It’s now sitting on my Steam Deck and even should you’re not going to get an opportunity to overview it, I simply wished to flag that it’s up for grabs for anybody that has a Prime sub.
Panda
Cost chopping
Good on these Call Of Duty voice actors quitting the sport, if Activision is holding them to ransom over cloning their voice in AI, and simply utilizing that, I wouldn’t have something to do with them both. I’m nonetheless shocked that the second we get one thing near AI the one factor anybody appears to wish to do with it’s exchange artists. You know… these famously underpaid employees that eliminating will in all probability not save any cash in any respect and but will make your product drastically worse?
What current film have you ever been to the place the worst factor wasn’t the script and but now they wish to make them even worse by having an AI write them? And they wish to have all of the artwork in video video games executed by AI, so it all the time appears to be like the identical? And now voiceovers too? So they by no means sound fairly human and all the time barely off.
The visitor stars and cameos in Zombies mode was once one of many massive appeals, the place they’d say that Michael Hasselhoff was in it or whoever, however now they’re all simply AI? What’s the purpose, you’re destroying one in all your main promoting factors simply to save lots of just a few kilos. Not to say ending up with an inferior product.
Focus
Predictable consequence
I do know everybody stated earlier than it got here out that it was bizarre Konami was making so many Silent Hill video games, given none of them had ever been that massive earlier than, but it surely’s nonetheless unhappy to see that Silent Hill 2 doesn’t appear to have executed that nice.
I don’t know anybody amongst my informal gaming associates that has heard of it, and it doesn’t appear to have executed a lot by way of gross sales or streaming protection or any of the opposite measurements we may use. I bear in mind GC saying the unique wasn’t that massive a success so I’m undecided why Konami anticipated that to vary with the remake, but it surely’s a disgrace as a result of it’s a extremely nice sport.
Landon
Same previous, usual
Why am I not stunned to search out that discuss of The Last Of Us Part 3 has gone from in all probability by no means taking place to a matter of if and never when. It appears only some months in the past Naughty Dog was saying that they’d solely do a 3rd sport if that they had a good suggestion for it and now the implication is that they do have an concept, they usually’ll get spherical to it quickly. Or, moderately, Sony noticed how in style the TV present was and made Naughty Dog do it.
I do really feel Naughty Dog has been the largest sufferer of the growing time it takes to make video video games. They’ve solely labored on two completely different franchises because the PlayStation 2 period, each of them with very comparable gameplay, and now they’re being dragged again to one in all them once more, one which didn’t want one sequel not to mention two.
Most individuals at that firm may have recognized nothing however Uncharted and The Last Of Us and that appears such a waste. I hope they’re engaged on a brand new IP and it’s one thing fully completely different, however even when it does contain dragons, or no matter, why do I get the sensation you’ll nonetheless be creeping round throwing bricks to distract them?
Gunther
Inbox also-rans
To be trustworthy, I’m stunned anybody nonetheless makes VR video games any extra contemplating how few individuals personal the headsets. How are these corporations ever going to make their a reimbursement on that new Batman sport or this Behemoth sport?
Lempton
I can’t assist however snigger at how these GTA 6 tales about followers are getting crazier with each passing week. I don’t suppose a few of these individuals are going to make it to subsequent autumn. The subsequent trailer goes to make them worse, not higher!
Bircher
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