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KEEP HOPE ALIVE, MAN.
edit: Fable Legends cancelled. Fable 4 announced... world and assets mysteriously resemble Fable Legends. Multiple NPC parties... etc... etc. :P
I wonder if they'd be in the same spot if a different game had won the vote for what game they should do next.
Molynuex was the idea man who set them on a path they could never succeed at.
I like to think he had good ideas but that were a bit too unrealistic and ambitious. Still, a lot of the cooler ideas in the Fable games were things he proposed, like the cosmetic evolution of your character and the dynamic music cues.
I guess I read that as - "They're too small and unstable to make a big game like the previous Fable games."
Maybe better than pouring more resources into it and then having it collapse.
After seeing him run his IOS game and totally cheat that guy who won his Curiosity Cube "Win the gift of a lifetime" game out of any form of prize (Its been 4 years now), I dont really give him the benefit of the doubt anymore.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2015-02-11-the-god-who-peter-molyneux-forgot
A con man with good intentions is still a con man in the end.
So I impulse bought Halo 5 today because Target was doing their "30% off select titles with $1 pre-order" and it overlapped with their Cartwheel offer of "35% off Halo 5". Will I be completely lost after never finishing Halo 1&2 and never playing the rest of them?
You're missing a couple good games between them, but you'll likely pick up what's going on. Master Chief is a badass, shoot aliens in space, etc etc
Just shoot mans. You'll be okay. :P
Unless you care about lore. Then maybe you'll be lost.
The human-covenant war is over and new things are around to shoot at that are old things.
Yes, but not anymore than you'd be if you played Halo 3 I think. The events of the prior trilogy have been compacted up, but what's retained are the characters--and 5 has an unusually big cast (most specifically, Keith David's Arbiter and Dr. Halsey won't make any sense to you, nor will Castle Buck." But the story is as obligatory as all previous titles, and the collectible intel (if you bother finding it) is all self-contained and exclusive to this title.
I want to say they do a decent job of summing up the broadest strokes (particularly with the central conflict), though the remaining Promotheans as an enemy army (introduced in 4) will seem very out of place.
On the bright side, there are no Flood in this one, so you don't need to know what happened to them.
You could play all the previous games and still be lost. Halo 5's plot... has room for improvement.
Also, pick up Master Chief Collection. It's great! And Reach via backwards compatibility while you're at it.
Well, I'll see if I like H5 before I consider TMCC.
It basically features the biggest alteration to the gameplay since the series began (not counting Halo Wars). Aiming down the sights is the smallest part of that.
From everything I read, it works like in Battlefront; it zooms you in, but your shot accuracy is unchanged.
It "reduces spread" and zooms in slightly.
How's that for a semantic rabbit hole?
I for real can't get over how ridiculous that is
BTW, it's 30 bucks at the moment (for Gold members), and is pretty fun even if you suck at shooters. It's like, yeah, everyone is killing the shit out of me but HOLY SHIT AN AT-AT WOO. And it's downright gorgeous. I'd recommend it just for the Star Wars factor alone.
Pretty sure it doesn't, that's why I said it's the "smallest part".
The gameplay in 5 is much, much more mobile.
Speaking of Xbox (Live), a decent deal popped up: 12 months for $39.99 US from a respectable eBay seller. Not the $34 I was spoiled by paying in the past, but still $20 less than Microsoft's normal price and $10 less than a lot of resellers.
Very recent trailer released for Excessive Feels: Electric Boogaloo Edition
OUT LIKE, TOMORROW.
Edited because typing on phones is hard
Assuming this isn't some hot new console I'm unaware of (CBOX....*hmmmmm*), this is particularly ironic in light of the fact that Sony earlier this week started handing out the compensatory game codes a part of the class-action for the 2011 PSN outtage--note that these aren't the same games they gave away as the promotional when the service came back up two months later.
Basically, if you want that, expect that the service in question has to go down for everybody for a continuous time measurable in weeks. Then you can begin the class action lawsuit. Then you can opt-in to the lawsuit. Then four years later, the lawyers will get some money and you'll get some game codes back.
Because, shit--PSN went down two days ago (only for short time though), and XBL went down earlier last week.
Welcome to modern "gamer". "Gimme refund didn't work for an hours!" is peanuts on the entitlement scale. At least, to that dude's credit, he DIDN'T do so.
Eh...gamers feel how they want to feel. It's like the people who looked at the Xbox One's launch and go "THIS IS TOTALLY DON MATTRICK'S FAULT!"
Which is to say, it is his fault. But then you remind them that the current-nice-guy Phil Spencer (whom I actually think is, in fact, a nice guy) who was general manager at Xbox for a half a decade before that, and was certainly involved at least in in part in the same decisions Don Mattrick made, and it's "NOPE! I LIKE PHIL SPENCER! IT WAS 100% DON MATTRICK'S FAULT!"
And I like Phil Spencer too. I have a theory that many, many people hate each Xbox console at launch. This is based on the highly unscientific method that I was around for each console launch, and distinctly remember how much they hated each console because they refused to stop screaming it in my ears each time (and I have a memory more advance than that of a gold fish). What happens next isn't entirely predictable based on that, but that's the gaming culture for you.
microsoft ? hate : hate
About covers it. I can't believe I just used a ternary operator in a forum comment. I need a vacation.
Without dredging back into a discussion of the original Xbox One offering, Mattrick's responses to the situation weren't ideal.
Like... they are up there with Kutaragi's justifications for the PS3's expensiveness and stating they want people to work more hours to buy one or something to that effect. I forgot the exact quote.
I actually don't think this is entirely true--it didn't help that Mattrick was unusually vocal (for his position) in botching the response. Awareness of him absolutely rose, even if he was hardly a household name.
Consoles are corporate products and these decisions represent institutional decisions, whether people like to think so or not--for a time, the aftermath was weirdly focused on Mattrick, to the point where it might've been a deliberate way to make the next person have a slightly easier job of it (but that's getting into weird conspiracy speculation almost). Mattrick was absolutely hammered for it, though he wasn't alone. And it's not like he didn't put his foot into his mouth, it just wasn't exclusively his decision (like anything else at Xbox probably).
If it makes you feel better, you made me look up what "ternary operator" means and I educated myself a little.
I can see where they're coming from though.
When PSN goes down, I can't play online.
When Xbox Live went down a while back, I literally couldn't play games that I bought the disc for. I couldn't watch blu-rays, I couldn't use netflix, and I definitely couldn't play digital versions of games that I own.
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I had no idea who Don Mattrick was. I did a quick Google search and the second a saw the "we have a console for that, it's called a 360" quote, I remembered that. So people may not know who he is, but they remember what he said.
I wonder about the equivalency of this--I'm not questioning your own experience, which isn't any more or less valid than anyone elses, but I get a feeling this is more generational rather than brand divide.
Put another way: I don't have a PS4, but back in 2011 in the outage, I was off PSN for about five to seven weeks roughly on my PS3. I could still play my games, but no PSN obviously. That also meant no Netflix or Youtube in my case.
The last outage (which actually effected me) on XBL--my Xbox One could play games (specifically, I could play Halo 5 and Forza 6), but obviously that means no XBL Store, no Youtube, no Netflix, no Crunchyroll, etc. I could play blurays with absolutely no problem (in fact, I can shut down my wifi adapter entirely and still do it).
I have no doubt that this current console cycle is much more online-integrated than the last (see my post a few page asking who was missing their friends list for almost two days). I don't have a PS4 to compare to it, so maybe I'm just one of the lucky ones. One thing I do know is that neither company has had a repeat of Sony's unfortunate "whoopsie" in 2011--possibly because neither could afford the fallout that would result from which (the closest, I think, was the Christmas 2012, maybe 2013 promise by Lizard Squad to bring down Xbox Live permanently, I think--that took a little less than a week for service to come back, I think, albeit during a very inopportune time).
Steam has gotten better about this too. Not long ago, it was all "Steam cannot connect--go into offline mode. Steam cannot go into offline mode, connect to Steam servers and try to set to offline mode."
Everybody is, and Microsoft was stated to be offering internal placements, as is the custom for dissolving things. It's not really a newsworthy thing. Corporations cannibalize and consume employees.