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Reality Check people: Every game ever made is cut and the scope narrowed as a game goes through production due to reality setting in, deadlines and budget. Massive plans for a game getting cut is the rule not the exception.
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Massive plans getting cut is not the rule, every game has cuts and nobody ever gets to do everything they wanted, that much is true but there's a big difference between having half your content cut and not getting to implement a few extras. You cant say Final Fantasy 9 and Final Fantasy 15 have the same level of cut content or that the content is cut for the same reason and having it cut because someone wanted to channel funding to games that turned out rubbish by outsourced developers over someone as loyal as Itsuno is especially egregious.
It happens all the time though, it's part of business. Much more than you'd expect. And funny you should mention Final Fantasy because the same happened to Xenogears when the team and budget was gutted to get FF7 out the door.
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I do wonder which is more de-motivating for a developer: not having enough time / resources to build all features, or having to scrap an entire featureset completely and changing tack? The latter doesn't get revealed publicly that often, but I've been surprised how many post-mortems consist of that moment when they had to go back to Square 1.
There's probably as many games that get prototyped and put into a development cycle than cancelled as games that get released. Every developer in the industry has worked on a project like that. Usually the projects get cancelled for a good reason and the cases like Prey 2 for instance wher eit's down to corporate greed or incompetence are the exception.
Also having features cut isn't always a bad thing. It kind of works like an editor on a film, you might feel disheartened by changes and cuts to a game but often times those cuts help focus the project and make it better. The game I worked on I had to cut an entire feature I worked hard on and was really proud. Had loads of arguments with the lead manager but in the end I agreed with him that it made the game too hard for the audience.
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Is the Xbox One X one of the most pointless consoles ever?
As bad as the WiiU was recieved its game catalogue has basically been a large chunk of the Switch's first party games.
The One X was the most powerful console on the market but by the time good games could come for it you could play them on PC with gamepass anyway.
Well it ran games better than any other console and lots of backwards compatible games got X updates.
Honestly the PS4 isn't far off being pointless. It has a few exclusives but it could be argued only about half of those are worth playing and it's far less exclusives than you'd expect on another console. It seems good relative to the XBox but compared to last gen, or hell the WiiU which was around for 18 months, the PS4 exclusive line up is anemic (and timed exclusives don't count).
Both consoles are still cheaper than a PC. Which is a big point in their favour for people even if over time that's reduced due to subscriptions and higher priced games.
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People that don't have a PC overblown the technical difficulties of PC gaming. It's been years since Windows vista.
As for PlayStation 4 exclusives I'm not saying they are all bad there's just so few of them in comparison to previous generations. A lot of the games you name check are multi platform. The PS4 just seems a bit unessential unlike previous consoles. It's just a box that plays pretty much the same games as the other platforms. I mean if you name all the exclusives for PS4 you'd get a less than most years of the PS2s or even say the gamecubes life.
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Im just sitting here wondering why quokola tried to use Metal Gear Solid as a reason to buy the PS4
As it stands, in a Xbone vs PS4 contest, the PS4 does come out on top. But in a Xbone vs PS4 vs PC royal rumble, its PC by a large margin.....not even a contest.0 -
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I really think Sony knocked it out of the park with some of the exclusives
Sony have managed to put out quite a few good titles. However the problem is only Sony are making the exclusives now. I mean people bemoaned Nintendo on their failing consoles where it's only Nintendo making the exclusives but this has now happened on the playstation except there's even less exclusives because the costs and development time have risen so much.
It's going to be the norm going forward but it just makes each platform far less essential whereas before I'd own all the consoles and feel they were all worth the investment. I kind of feel my investment in the PS4 is a waste of money (and would with the XBox One except it was nice and cheap).
PC stands apart with it's ease of development as a place where you see a lot of exciting stuff in the indie space which inevitably make their way to console. And the best backwards compatibility
In a way I'm more bemoaning the state of console exclusives rather than the PS4.
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Im just sitting here wondering why quokola tried to use Metal Gear Solid as a reason to buy the PS4
As it stands, in a Xbone vs PS4 contest, the PS4 does come out on top. But in a Xbone vs PS4 vs PC royal rumble, its PC by a large margin.....not even a contest.
I used to be a PC gamer and found myself slowly just play Playstation, got sick of constant upgrades hardware and still not being able to play on High. I envy Xbox Gamepass so much but love the PS too much to switch now. The exclusives are just a cherry on top. One thing I notice between the platforms when it comes to discussing games
Xbox player - "This game is great...
PS Player - "This game is great....
PC player - " Ugh, this game only runs at 200 FPS, virtually unplayable....
Not saying all pc gamers are like that but how a game runs comes up quite a lot and even though PC will always run a game better than console, I enjoy not caring about how a game runs anymore but that just me, a 30fps enjoying simp.0 -
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The whole PC gamers complaining about game performance was more to do with the awful ports PC was getting during the 360 and PS3 time. There was so many broken ports and there was good reason to complain.
Since the consoles have moved to more PC like architecture ports have been almost uniformly excellent. There's the odd exception like Nier Automata but again PC gamers have a right to complain there were a 60 FPS console game somehow has framepacing issues on more powerful hardware that the developer never fixed and had to be fixed by the community.
And last night I beat Halo 3 at 60 FPS on the PC and jumped straight into Last of Us 2 and 30 FPS is disgusting. However at least games on console are hitting a consistent 30 FPS which is a lot more ideal than dodgy frame pacing and drops below 30.
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