Just looked it up. I did the Relief Support Pack for $5 mainly to increase carrying capacity. All games should allow at least 99 quantity for consumables. I then did +10 Level Up 1 and +10 Level Up 2. So I went up 20 levels at $3 each for a total of $6. Including the $5 for the Relief Pack, total was $11. And that was after spending $100 on the beyond the dawn edition.
Agreed but this is why I don’t like cross-gen. I want it to advance day one when the new hardware launches because if not, there’s literally no point in selling new hardware. I would want people to transition sooner rather than later but if not, they can wait for price drops on hardware. Of course, im old school. I want my consoles and I want the games to be for that console and take advantage of the hardware as best they can. Anything less just defeats the point in Microsoft/Sony releasing new hardware because why bother if you can play three years worth of upcoming games on the older hardware? I would rather see them wait three
years, make the hardware even better and have no cross-gen at all.
You have to see the difference between selling a game with $100M budget to a market of 3M next gen only consumers versus a market of 100M cross gen consumers, right? If AAA gaming has a sustainability problem, it simply doesn’t make sense.
I think you gotta step back and think less about what is best for you and more about what makes sense for the people making these decisions.
You guys ever get the sudden urge to play a game and don’t know why? Out of nowhere I started thinking about dusting off my copy of Two Worlds. I think this might be a cry for help.
Considering the fact that the companies only do what’s best for themselves and their bank accounts, why would I look at it differently? When has a company truly been for you? Are some worse than others? Absolutely but overall, I don’t believe that any company has ever cared about their consumers/fan bases and never will.
As for game budgets, that’s on the companies. Not the consumers because look at Indies. They do amazing at a far cheaper price and have far better innovation than any AAA title. Look at the companies now wanting to just focus on major AAA titles while eliminating the smaller games. Then when that blows up in their face because it will, they’ll lay off people, close studios and then what, blame the consumers/fan base even though we never asked for only that.
It’s like with companies over hiring and over spending during Covid. That’s 100% on them. No one else. No one was ever going to stay home year after year. They all complain and cry about this or that when in reality, it’s their own doing which is why I always look at what’s best for me, not the companies.
We should all look at what’s best for us, but when you’re discussing the strategy of a business what is best for you personally is not meaningful and just muddies the discussion.
I think cross gen is here to stay. Wouldn’t even be surprised that when new Xbox comes out in 2026 some devs even support Xbox One and same with PS6 with some indie devs still supporting PS4. The argument that hardware isn’t fully used is old and completely untrue to be honest. Look at RT; it’s the new shiny thing and both consoles support it and it’s barely used anyway. Most of the graphical advancements in HB2 are due to new engine but also due to several years of development and high quality assets.
We are at a point where the limitation isn’t really hardware but time as quality of assets and animations comes with time put into the game . Performance (so fps) and resolution will be affected by hardware for sure, but then you could have a cross gen game just running smoother and sharper on the new system but assets will be the same ones. People are impressed by stuff like TLOU2 on PS5 and it’s not due to the PS5 hardware but because 2000 people spent years to make everything super detailed; that’s all there is to it.
An ever evolving platform that supports several gen is the best thing as it makes the user base bigger and also gives different price points and performance options for customers. As long as the dev tools are well made to scale I think 6 years per gen is plenty.
I dont get why people hate cross gen. Games scale. we know this from pc. If I were a developer and i was making a game like fave the fiver why not put that on ps4 5 and 6. why leave out an old version of people are playing it. Id want to cast as big a net as possible. if it gets to a point where your game just wont work on old hardware then fine dont support it.
Oh man, that is some bullshit right there. It’s very unfortunate because a few years ago I finished Vesperia and while there absolutely was grinding involved, it wasn’t as bad as what you have in Arise. Why do some JRPGs do this? This is one thing I wish they would tone down. Does FF7R have this too?
Just finished the Banishers demo and damn, if I already didn’t have too much in the backlog I’d buy this because the story is very interesting already, the writing surprisingly strong, great voice acting. We only spend shortly with Antea and Red but I already like them. Good job DontNod, they really can make more than just Life is Strange type of games.
For those that played it, is there a good amount of diverse locations and is it daytime as well or mostly night?
Yup, most videos I’ve seen on YouTube are negative and performance just isn’t there. It seems right now the ROG Ally and Lenovo Legion are the smart choices if you are looking at a Windows handheld.
While the Claw certainly underperforms, there have been a bunch of posts on the Reddit forum for a while now indicating that it’s getting noticeably better with every update, and it’s certainly not as bad as that article makes it sound. (From what I can tell, anyway. I don’t own one myself.)
From ASUS on the other hand, I’m hearing horror stories about their repair bills if you send your Ally in, “fixing” things that weren’t broken for hundreds of dollars, sending it back dismantled if you don’t pay, etc. So good luck with that if you live in a country without a two year warranty.
I’m happy enough with my Steam Deck for now. But I’d like to pick up a Windows handheld at some point. They’re not making it easy to decide, though. (In the EU I’d be covered with that warranty. So the Ally still has a slight lead for me. I’m not sure I want to support a company with that sort of attitude, though. But… are the others any better?)
Doesn’t seem like it would be that hard.