I know this is off-topic. But, Am I the only one who kind of wants Microsoft to relook at their acquisition of Activision and go, "You know what... Maybe not."
I doubt that very much, COD prints money for Activision & is probably 80% of what they paid for the publisher.
While the reviewer puts much of the negative focus on 'story' I could not give much of a dam about that, reading it's buggy and combat is pretty dull is the real factors.
Same, no games have great story & voice acting...I don't want to watch Citizen Kane, I wanna play a fun, playable, non-buggy game.
My son just bought the steelbook ed. for $119...WTF....The game is obviously not a $120 game, but I guess value is selective & he used his xmas gift certs to get it. I'll be waiting for Horizon, as I know that will be polished AF. Then Elden Ring & Sifu could also be possibilities.
I will wait (like I should have with 1st) to get a drastically discounted spruced up version, as they will more than likely do like they did with the 1st.
No to Destiny 2 going exclusive, but maybe Destiny 3 and 'other games'.
I really hope Sony helps Bungie clean up their story writing with Destiny 3. Destiny 2 was kind of a mess, but had great concepts.
Story, character fleshing out & those areas they could use some Sony help...BUT, their controls & shooting mechanics are the BEST IN BIZ...... Destiny's guns are satisfying to shoot, feel impactful & just feel unrivaled in buttery smoothness. And I am not a Destiny fan, in fact, I only played it for the aforementioned reasons..
I actually hope they go back to a story driven solo campaign type shooter with competitive mp.
I would even be up for Sony hitting up Marvel for The Punisher license & Bungie can have a crack at a story based The Punisher FPS game, ND could give them some help in the story, graphic violence department.....so could be EPIC... throw in some punishing competitive mp & could be a winner...
@RELeon: don't worry give it a year or two and sony will dump bungie like microsoft/activision did. they are not worth the money
MS didn't dump shit. Bungie wanted to move on from Halo as they had made 5 or 6, & MS said, "NO"... If you were just a fan you'd know this, but you're a fanboy...so you will fail to see forest through trees, if it fails to appease your love affair with a plastic box manufacturer!
Same sh!t happened with OG IW..... the head honchos went fighting for a bigger slice & Lackofvision ignored them & kept spending money on parties to sexually assault their female staffers... lol. Yeah, great companies.. MS are keeping their buddy Kotick in his position, just like a Catholic Church keeps Cardinal Pell & the other kiddie feelers...lmfao
They have already addressed that it will not become exclusive. And have already addressed that they still want to allow players to play their future games on the platform of their choosing. So unless Sony rules Bungie with an iron fist, I would say nobody has to worry about Bungie becoming purely PS exclusives.
Well, who knows... If MS starts pulling COD's from PS consoles, I would expect Sony to return fire & take Destiny from MS...but I don't think either could or should be able to work that way under the monopoly laws in place. I do think Sony needs a Ubisoft, Rockstar, EA or even Sabre Int. if more affordable.... they need a stable of developers with already established ip's to barter with MS. We'll swap you COD 200 for Destiny 5 type exchange program..lol.'
Because if Sony has no leverage, they are dead meat. I'm not sure what Nintendo's plan is, but they better start implementing something, or Mario will be on GP & Zelda on PSNow+ (or whatever they name it).
@dugdiggler: i hope some indie companies have the balls to say no even if these guys try to buy them out. bungie has also fallen so deep that them assigning up with sony kinda just is a good signal "stay away from us". it makes things simpler.
anyway i dont believe in a crash. in 70s/80s especially home games hadnt secured their place. now its already quite clear that people are simply addicted to games and cant imagine life without them.
It crashed for many reasons....but it wasn't because gamer's stopped loving games....Atari basically killed it off with sheer idiocy, p!ss poor mismanagement & the fact they were throwing out so much shovelware & TERRIBLE movie licensed games that consumers obviously got jack of paying $100 for a piece of barely playable shit.
Obviously a bit more to it than that, but just look at clusterf$#ks like the ET debacle. Hundreds of Millions of games shipped to retail...100's of millions of said game, sent back, taken out to a deserted location & put 16 feet under.
Probably a BILLIONS costing mistake in itself.. Throw a few other issues in & bam, ship sunk, because Atari didn't have the luxury of Sony's money, to bail them out, neither did Sega unfortunately.....& Sony has THIS EXACT same issue against MS, Sony are the Sega & MS are Sony in this sitch. The key for Sony's survival is to not offer MS any missteps, mistakes, etc.. because if Sony did that Vita shit now & that PS3 launch media beatup BS eventuated now, with the studio clout MS has behind them, it would Sony off...they simply would not survive financially.
Before Sony started releasing consoles, SNES was the highest selling console ever at 60-70 million install base..... Sony entered the loop & their 1st attempt at a console ended up doubling those numbers, then Sony's 2nd attempt smashed those numbers again with PS2 selling 170-180 million units. lol. So, Sony definitely broke down the heavy 80's & 90's weirdo nerd stigma wall attached with gaming & brang it to mainstream & catered to a maturing and/or more mature audience. They were doing unprecedented, genius shit like putting PS units in nightclubs with Wipeout running, as opposed to Nintendo just hitting toy sections of department stores with Mario.. Sony attacked both the younger audience & the older with these tactics.
This story makes out that MS just share all IP's of their acquisition's or at very least keep the already established biggies like COD there FOR THE TIME BEING. It then makes Sony out to be the evil hoarder of exclusives, when recent trends have dictated the opposite.
Truth is, fanboysim aside, Sony need to keep up with MS in the acquisitions front, or MS, Apple, Google, Amazon or TenCent will swallow them & Nintendo up in the next 10-12yrs. At least if they buy devs like this, (I'd love them to snap up Respawn next for my gaming tastes..lol. If they can get them, awesome, if they can't, buy Lightbox Interactive (buy both actually) & give us Starhawk or warhawk 2, reform Socom, Motorstorm & Wipeout teams, then a few more superb devs, as well as a Ubisoft to gain leverage over MS to either keep the big multiplats that way....this allows a game by game swap system at least. Sony having no leverage when MS owns EA, Activision, Ubisoft, ZeniMax, TenCent, Sabre Int., means they are F%$ked, & will have to swap GOW for yearly spewed out COD garbage...lol, Screw that.
Buy everything you can afford Sony, then buy sh!t you can't afford, then buy more. Just do it smaller & smarter than the big giants & keep your studios happy & with that hopefully productive AF. They will need to be. MS is buying up everything BIG & in years to come, they will throw everything at Sony to tighten the noose & gain control of market share on ALL fronts.
Smarter buys of highly productive studios like Insomniac are brilliant fits for Sony.
Sony should hit up Marvel for license to use The Punisher for future games, & BAM, give Bungie the reigns for a Punisher FPS.... bit of help from Guerilla, Insomniac, etc for gameplay related development & team members from ND, SP, SSMS,etc, could help & give advice on story, etc. Either that, or give ND The Punisher & Bungie can build Sony some constant money spinners that build on Destiny 2's vision, making a bigger, better, more focused & less convoluted game world to navigate.
Rockstar really doesn't get the negative heat it deserves, like Activision, Ubisoft & EA do...Yet, they do worse, I mean they get a free pass for reselling us the same damn game 3 gens straight, with only RDR2 as another release...But now they are gonna do the same with that & keep serving us THE SAME SH!T.....Literally, unlike Ubisoft where at least a new story, etc is attempted.... Same with COD, they at least offer new story & MP maps, CONTENT for the asking price.
Rockstar knock out a gem, then live off it for 15yrs straight, making billions off MT's, etc of GTA online...then instead of GTA6, or hey, maybe MP4 or a new IP totally, we get half ar$ed ports of PS2 era games....lol.... AND THEY KEEP GETTING PRAISE & SALES to keep encouraging them & other publishers & developers to serve us sh!t sandwiches for our money.
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