Now is time to build levees, migrate to more sustainable areas, and to build to survive the worst.

It is truly past the time simply cutting back will help.

I know fallout New Vegas was and still is a bit of a hot mess, but I have no confidence a remaster will be any better. I mean has anyone played a game from them that was not a hot mess?

That’s one example, yes. My point is we like to invent new ways to call out the same shit. Vibe coded projects that get abandoned within half a year are just another example of vaporware, just a new take on the concept.

Vaporware is never not a thing.

They are? I thought they lost faith on climate change goals a long time ago.

If its built on UE5 that is likely to be dogshit. The issues seem to be exactly that the physics are jank in UE5 as well as other issues with consistent performance. If this is just them fixing those issues and renaming, sure that works. But if they could do that why did they not fix it when UE5 was getting dragged though the mud?

I am thinking it will work on RL just fine (likely with a lot of backend work) but 6 like 5 will not be stable outside the showpieces.

good thing they are getting 6 instead, but I guess 5 was not very stable so who knows maybe a good call.

Yeah, I am still waiting for unreal 5 to not be a hot physics mess. Guess they are giving up and delivering another half baked engine instead.

Why? But really, why?

GTA 4… Or did you like the shit ending and the calls from your cousin?

They sold a similar amount, your agument only works if saros sold a proportional amount more (10x in this case). As it stands the marketing clearly did not work.

Game review and news outlets cover the games most likely to be of value to their audiences, partially because they foster that with their own interest, and partly because the data tells them what their audience is reading or watching.

Have to vehemently disagree with this, it is clear that their coverage is not dictated by the value their audiences receive but from other more corporate values. And as time goes on the media coverage on games has been less and less valued. It has nothing to do with my option on the media but my observations on the industry. The reason I brought up zenonaughts 2 was that it has 1/10 the reviews but similar sales, and that is indicative of the clear decline of the main stream gaming review system not having the pull it once did.

What other gaming areas are you thinking of? Are they user driven for content and discourse like this?

And there are 130 outlets reviewing the game because they are in the business of reviewing games and this one was a rare exclusive for the ps5. It would be odd if they did not review it (and give it questionably high marks). If you look at a game like xenonauts 2 that also came out recently that sold about the same number of copies (very odd since one is very niche) they only have 14 critic reviews vs 130. The issue is the critic reviews clearly don’t hold the same value to consumers as they once did.

Edit response time: That people interested in games did not know about it would be very indicative of a major failing and current lack of relavance of mainstream gaming media. That would seem to be very much on point, as there is no need to help us for not knowing, but it would seem Sony might need help.

The fact that I never seen or heard of this is no surprise though, the only time gaming news coverage shows up for most is when there is some sort of scandal. Its why I know more about “Mix Tape”, “High Guard” and “Marathon” then this game.

I like my small indie / oddball games but I find I get more info from people steaming a game and talking about it then a “review” that had clearly been bought and paid for. And it seems I am not the only one, as clearly no one is reading the “major” gaming news sites anymore. Well at least in this case no one from their target audience is.

The thing that ruined it for me was the story just kinda falls apart and the society they made seems laughably small, like total universe has like 30,000 total people in it. Then you add in the loading into loading to watch a cutscene to cover a loading of the next area and the kinda bad ship combat. Eh the end result is not the worst game, but not a game that anyone should pay more then like $15 for.

Likely thinking about proxy wars, This for example would be how you could serve in Ukraine as a Canadian. The issue is its great thinking about helping the defender in a war (like US airmen helping the UK in 1940) but less so when they help an aggressor nation.

Yes, and Franklin is also a you tube personality.

They are not good at it, they are good at baiting me with stupid however.

Hey guess what you are not actually doing?

You are unlikely to make real money (basic law of averages), and if you are making the sort of CEO cash these posts are even funnier.