Video Game General 2.0: Yo Dawg I Heard You Like Remasters And Ports

Saitsu · June 20, 2014, 3:14am

You didn’t send Hope out to the front lines to die?

DANZAN · June 20, 2014, 3:15am

@DrellyFish‌

i’m joking dude. I hate FF13 more than anything.

King9999 · June 20, 2014, 3:16am

Look at the prices for FF13-2 and Deus Ex. The Square Enix Price™ strikes again. :lol:

You could say the same about the other conferences if you aren’t into shooters or sports games.

BigDewey · June 20, 2014, 3:21am

Reggie Says Not Having A Single Player In A Multiplayer Game Would Be A Mistake

GamesBeat: I’ve seen quite a few games that have multiplayer only, is why I ask. In some ways that seems like a good way for smaller companies to cut budgets and save time. But it also seems like it’s a direction gamers are going in.

Reggie: I’d disagree on that last point. I think gamers want a full-featured experience. I think it’s actually a mistake to cut out modes. Now, certain games, in the way they’re conceptualized, they are what they are. I played Rainbow Six: Siege, Ubi’s five-on-five game. The innovation there is that it’s a one-shot kill. Now there’s strategy to it, which makes that interesting. I don’t know if they’re going to have a mode where all of the other entities are non-playable characters. That doesn’t seem like a lot of fun to me. I think it needs to be that online multiplayer to bring it to life.

So it depends on the game. But in the first-person shooter genre, I would argue that not having a fully featured campaign mode, in this day and age, would be a bit of a mistake. Even though all of the hours played are likely going to be in multiplayer.

po_pimpus · June 20, 2014, 3:24am

I like Nintendo’s philosophy on games.

I wish other devs would adopt this line of thinking, instead of cutting shit out or blowing a state’s yearly budget on advertising.

crotchpuncha · June 20, 2014, 3:26am

I still havent gotten past the 6 hour mark in XIII.

orochizoolander · June 20, 2014, 3:28am

Call me frugal, but the way I look at it is…eventually a multiplayer online game will be offline permanently and I can never play it again if there is no offline/single player mode and even if I spent countless hours having fun well more than worth the money I paid for it, I’d still be a little tight that I essentially paid for a game I won’t ever be able to play again.

So yeah, I agree with Reggie.

Hawkingbird · June 20, 2014, 3:28am

BigDewey:

Reggie Says Not Having A Single Player In A Multiplayer Game Would Be A Mistake

GamesBeat: I’ve seen quite a few games that have multiplayer only, is why I ask. In some ways that seems like a good way for smaller companies to cut budgets and save time. But it also seems like it’s a direction gamers are going in.

Reggie: I’d disagree on that last point. I think gamers want a full-featured experience. I think it’s actually a mistake to cut out modes. Now, certain games, in the way they’re conceptualized, they are what they are. I played Rainbow Six: Siege, Ubi’s five-on-five game. The innovation there is that it’s a one-shot kill. Now there’s strategy to it, which makes that interesting. I don’t know if they’re going to have a mode where all of the other entities are non-playable characters. That doesn’t seem like a lot of fun to me. I think it needs to be that online multiplayer to bring it to life.

So it depends on the game. But in the first-person shooter genre, I would argue that not having a fully featured campaign mode, in this day and age, would be a bit of a mistake. Even though all of the hours played are likely going to be in multiplayer.

http://mynintendonews.com/2014/06/19/reggie-says-not-having-a-single-player-in-a-multiplayer-game-would-be-a-mistake/

I like Reggie’s stance on this. Personally, I would like to see more companies take Sony’s approach and allow you to buy which portion of the game you want. Like with Starhawk they let you buy the single player campaign and mutliplayer separated at a reduced price if your only interested at a single part of the game.

Saitsu · June 20, 2014, 3:45am

On the same note though, I’d rather a developer not go and half ass a Single Player campaign just to say they did one.

If you’re going to do it, do it right. Otherwise don’t bother with it at all.

Vynce · June 20, 2014, 6:09am

Looking forward to No Man’s Sky and naming EVERYTHING Penis Monster just to troll the dev team who predicts that will happen anyway.

Infernoman · June 20, 2014, 7:23am

Last game I recall that invested in every aspect of the game with care was MW2. Campaign co op and MP all were enjoyable! I spent time beating everything and unlocking every part of the game! In a way as much ss I loved Titanfall the lack of a good campaign kinda made me get bored fast. Likewise wolfenstein could use a great MP!

I just don’t want companies to charge me full price for a game that was half baked.

Legendary_Hoamaru · June 20, 2014, 7:50am

FUCK!

I knew the shmups were coming…I knew they we’re coming…FUCK.

Welp eventually going to have to get both One and 4…

Sonichuman · June 20, 2014, 9:05am

PS4 Destiny Timed exclusives will stay exclusive at least until Fall 2015 according to Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/Destiny-PlayStation-4/dp/B00BGA9Y3W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1403229780&sr=8-1&keywords=destiny&tag=viglink129408-20

Nintendo: Third Party publishers will return as Wii U sells more system sellers

I beginning to highly doubt this…there’s games coming out now that have no business skipping out on this system. Stuff like Naruto and Dragonball Xenoverse. 3rd parties are just seem to be doing it just for the sake of doing it. Games like Arkham Knight where the power of the system would affect realization of the full concept of the game…I understand that but Ubisoft saying that they were considering not releasing Just Dance 2015 on the console is eyebrow raising.

Bungie gave input in PS4’s Dualshock and helped shape it

Metal Gear Solid V - japanese 30 minute closed doors demo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tto6n_AHdBM

MechWarrior · June 20, 2014, 9:15am

Prime example: Halo 2.
;_;7

Why are game devs not making mecha-based shmups?

Fuck the human scale and factor for a few years. Gimme more BattleTech/Gundam-style games.
Relatively RL-scale/perception-esque need a long break; they’re tired as a premise.

Move on with the cyclical stuff, and progress the cycle for fuck’s sake!

Hadoukie · June 20, 2014, 10:17am

No Man’s Sky looks like my shit. Cant wait.

also here’s the E3 trailers in glorious 1080p

http://www.gamersyde.com/news_no_man_s_sky_direct_feed_videos-15522_en.html

Gasaraki · June 20, 2014, 10:53am

If you haven’t yet, you absolutely should play Astebreed: http://www.playism-games.com/games/astebreed/

orochizoolander · June 20, 2014, 12:09pm

I’ll just drop this here: http://watchdogs.ubi.com/watchdogs/e...ws/index.aspx#

The dev team is completely dedicated to getting the most out of each platform, so the notion that we would actively downgrade quality is contrary to everything we’ve set out to achieve. We test and optimize our games for each platform on which they’re released, striving for the best possible quality. The PC version does indeed contain some old, unused render settings that were deactivated for a variety of reasons, including possible impacts on visual fidelity, stability, performance and overall gameplay quality. Modders are usually creative and passionate players, and while we appreciate their enthusiasm, the mod in question (which uses those old settings) subjectively enhances the game’s visual fidelity in certain situations but also can have various negative impacts. Those could range from performance issues, to difficulty in reading the environment in order to appreciate the gameplay, to potentially making the game less enjoyable or even unstable.

Thanks for playing Watch Dogs and stay safe on the mean streets of Chicago.

-The Watch Dogs Team

Legendary_Hoamaru · June 20, 2014, 12:27pm

As mentioned there is Astebreed, and G. Rev also did Strania:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcL6Ocmh9Lw

But yea all three of those Xbone games are in ships.

Swedish_Chef · June 20, 2014, 2:38pm

orochizoolander:

I’ll just drop this here: http://watchdogs.ubi.com/watchdogs/e...ws/index.aspx#

The dev team is completely dedicated to getting the most out of each platform, so the notion that we would actively downgrade quality is contrary to everything we’ve set out to achieve. We test and optimize our games for each platform on which they’re released, striving for the best possible quality. The PC version does indeed contain some old, unused render settings that were deactivated for a variety of reasons, including possible impacts on visual fidelity, stability, performance and overall gameplay quality. Modders are usually creative and passionate players, and while we appreciate their enthusiasm, the mod in question (which uses those old settings) subjectively enhances the game’s visual fidelity in certain situations but also can have various negative impacts. Those could range from performance issues, to difficulty in reading the environment in order to appreciate the gameplay, to potentially making the game less enjoyable or even unstable.

Thanks for playing Watch Dogs and stay safe on the mean streets of Chicago.

-The Watch Dogs Team

GeoG2 · June 20, 2014, 11:01pm

First thing that came to mind while watching the beginning of Phantom Pain demo was… a new Red Dead is gonna look ridiculous on the new consoles.