Yeah TBH considering it’s over a year at this point I would have expected to have seen more of the ABK content on GP by now.
There must be some legal / technical issues as Bethesda’s games arrived so soon afterwards.
I typically pick up COD’s years after release to play the single player campaigns, however I never played MW2 because I heard the campaign was super short, so after the ABK news I thought I’d wait for it to land in GP instead. Last week I gave up and just went straight onto MW3 which is in GP, it makes no sense at all.
I am still waiting for MW2019, Spyro Trilogy & Tony Hawk remasters (and hoping to see the Transformers games relisted)…the Activision back catalogue game pass situation is definitely weird at this point.
I just finished the Episode Aigis for Persona 3 Reload and I have some thoughts about it.
In terms of gameplay, I would same it is more of the same as the base game and even worse since you don’t have the social links. I understand why they are making you start from scratch but it is still a bit tedious, especially if you just finished the base game. However, the combat is still fun.
In terms of story though, whoa ! It really brings a lot of closure around the base game, why the characters did what they did, all the important themes and morals. It really struck something inside me on a level that I have not seen since Like A Dragon.
So overall, an interesting DLC with a really good story, but tedious gameplay loop.
I’ve been “forcing” myself to push through with the DLC. I love the combat in P3R but being stuck in Tartarus for so long isn’t great, as you said, in the main game it gets broken up with social links, school stuff, etc. That said, what you mentioned about the story has given me renewed motivation to try and push myself to keep on going
I mean at the end of the day… Bungie destroyed Bungie.
You can only host celebration parties for leaving publishers… (apple, ms, activision, etc) because they were the problem and you’ll do better with out them so many times before you realize you are the common denominator.
I’m all for calling out a company when they mess up… But this statement reads as I wanna console war so I need to make this into a point to fit my narrative.
If that’s what you need go for it I guess… But at the end of the day it doesn’t change that Bungies management structure was never good.
Bungie seem to have always had quite an arrogant leadership team who think they’re better than any publisher and that taking paid-for content away from gamers without refunds is acceptable, plus apparently not having a plan for Destiny 3 despite having made Destiny 2 completely inaccessible for new players.
They made promises their talent / leadership can’t meet so are reaping the cost for once (or at least their underlings are).
Sony appear to have been taken for mugs, massively overpaying for what appears to be a dying brand and IP, expertise that often feels more like “what not to do / how to piss off your player base” than actual quality live service knowledge and a developer with no plan for the future.
Sony may be able to take the reins and eventually deliver something, but the “PlayStation magic” their fans expected would make Bungie amazing clearly hasn’t materialised and with Concord it would strongly suggest that magic just doesn’t work with live service games from first party developers.
That is a major worry for Sony as their single player games are really expensive and don’t make huge long-lasting profits (it’s a big lump at launch then a slow drip feed, unlike the steady high income of live service for minimal overhead once initially developed), so they’ve sold their shareholders this idea they’d have a bunch of live service games generating a ton of profit - if this is showing that’s not going to materialise for years it’ll hit their stock price and worry the management…
Sure it is a loss for both. And I pretty much agree with what you have typed. But I still don’t think it’s fair to say it’s Sony who is at fault for the breaking up of Bungie.
Sure they made a snap decision and bought Bungie based on face value of what leadership said and they should have done their due diligence.
But at the end of the day it really appears that Bungie was a sinking ship that might have corrected itself, but I honestly doubt it. Their management was to full of itself and kept having moment after moment of bad decision making. Which when called out on just pointed to their publisher at the time.
Bungie was wanting to be bought to try and save itself… When it really needed a management shake up.
Yet, IGN types will never have half of the damning articles for Sony like they do for any hypothetical/perceived catastrophe at Xbox’s hand.
Also, not a fan of posters trying to take culpability away from Sony when they are directly responsible, contractually even, for the state Bungie’s staff is in. Sure, Bungie leadership in the lead up to a buyout were atrocious, but Sony was the one that threw in arguably-impossible-to-meet contingencies and metrics. I think we can all be spared that brand of bullshit.
That being said, i don’t get the fine print under the golden text. Am I reading this right, only available if you don’t have Game Pass Core or Ultimate? Tf?
It feels like Alan Wake 2 is way sharper with the last patch, especially in performance mode. It is noticeable and a great visual improvement. Shimmering is less pronunced.
