I get people aren't feeling this. Personally I think it looks kinda quirky. I have gamed for years and are getting bored by the formulaic triple A games these days. Gimme a diamond in the rough any day! This could be one.....
@maryjdevore: Are you sure your earning $15 thousands a month? You didn't mention that down the boozer last night when you were asking everyone to 'borrow' a cigarette. You said you were 'barely getting by' and 'totally hated your job'. Mary, please just be honest with us all, its all ok!
From the brief gameplay, I very much like what I'm seeing. It looks fast and fluid and seems to be getting back to the basics that made the early games in the series great. I haven't got seriously into a fighting game in about ten years but I loved Soul Calibur on the Dreamcast and on watching this trailer can still remember how to do 90% of the mitsurugi moves shown. I'm sold and its a day one purchase for me!
@v8p: Never played the first one but totally agree the development team seem to have really tried to listen and communicated their plans very well.
The art is amazing. The galaxy looks stunning and the game appears really well optimised - given I'm playing on a 13 inch laptop.
With Stellaris, I never found myself 'connected' with any of my empires. The really differing mechanics and beautiful art and music have really got me hooked to playing each of the different factions.
So the question for me: is do these numbers actually matter? Subjectively if you've got any console and are happy then the sales don't matter at that time, however sales matter for longevity and what future content you might be seeing. Take the Dreamcast, I loved it but unfortunately Sega didn't shift it to the masses and it therefore didn't get wide spread publisher and developer support for the many years it was deserving.
So these numbers matter as they show what support each console is likely to receive going forward. If you were a publisher and wanted to make your title an exclusive, which console would you be most likely to approach first? Other things being equal its a no brainer!
Most households will have one console, if your on the fence, which one are you going to buy? Again the safer money is with the console with bigger install base.
These numbers aren't the be all and end all, but THEY MATTER and will influence what content comes from third party devs in coming years.
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