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CatInABox

https://twitter.com/TheAthleticUK/status/1331241936955564034

Haha, the amount of problems that FIFA is running into these days is unreal. First the continuing Loot Box/gambling thing, now this.

Varik

If they had any legal standing this would be in court, they wouldn't be limited to hashtag activism.

Retr0gamer

They sold their souls and likenesses to fifapro. Tough **** lads. Not like you don't earn enough as is

J. Marston

Die Fifa.

Back to the PES days of Van Mistelroum, Roberto Larcos and Naldorinho.

pixelburp

J. Marston wrote: »

Die Fifa.

Back to the PES days of Van Mistelroum, Roberto Larcos and Naldorinho.

Weirdly I miss that. Genuinely. The more sports games - football especially - drifted into trying to recreate the TV experience exactly, the more I drifted away. Bring back International Superstar Soccer damnit (I know it's a precursor to PES)

Retr0gamer

That and sensible soccer are the only soccer games I've liked.

Loved the older nhl and madden games before it got boring. I remember when sports games were fun rather than just feeling like rolling a roulette wheel and having the most licenses.

Kingp35

I still play Sensible Soccer now. It's a brilliant game although it's far too easy now since I've played it so much.

Retr0gamer

People want licenses though and don't care how much fun the actual game is. I'm actually baffled people will play multiplayer fifa, it's just a game I find absolutely no joy in since I'm removed from the actual football fandom and only looking at it as a fun game. I could just be approaching them wrong, Kat Bailey is a massive RPG nerd but loves sports and sees Fifa and Madden as RPGs were you play around with the stats and the matches are basically pokemon battles for her.

You could see it with the utter failure of the NBA Jam game from a few years ago. Brilliant game but people just didn't want something fun that wasn't trying to ape the actual sport.

CatInABox

pixelburp wrote: »

Weirdly I miss that. Genuinely. The more sports games - football especially - drifted into trying to recreate the TV experience exactly, the more I drifted away. Bring back International Superstar Soccer damnit (I know it's a precursor to PES)

I remember playing ISS on the N64, the commentators were great craic.

"Ireland.... are playing from left to right..... GREECE!!!!....are playing from Right to left"

Retr0gamer

A steaming rotten turd Last of Us 2 wins the Golden Joystick game of the year award.

Crock of ****e.

Retr0gamer

Best storytelling and studio as well.

Whatever about awful writing being awarded the second one really irks me. A studio that treats its employees as badly as naughty dog should be no where near that award.

tyler66

When will IGI 3 Launch. Any specific date

gizmo

tyler66 wrote: »

When will IGI 3 Launch. Any specific date

No specific date. The original announcement said 2021 so factoring in pandemic-related delays, likely towards the end of the year, perhaps even pushing into 2022.

pixelburp

Apparently SwuareEnix has yet to recoup its development costs from sales of the Avengers game. Oof. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory with that IP.

one armed dwarf

I'm sure it's not in the same ballpark as Spirits Within when it comes to financial disasters for Square but it is at the very least surely the next worst thing they've managed since the original FFXIV.

Which they eventually turned around into a brilliant game which probably made much more back than they lost, I don't see that happening with Avengers. Not sure anybody much cares about Marvel Avengers nowadays, not to the same fervour anyway

EoinMcLovin

https://twitter.com/GameSpot/status/1334609362724286470?s=19

Zero-Cool

Just about to post that. Wonder what that means for the new ME in production. Was he not happy with it or just happy to hand it over to someone else.

ERG89

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Just about to post that. Wonder what that means for the new ME in production. Was he not happy with it or just happy to hand it over to someone else.

He left Bioware before and came back to tidy up Anthem.....he always seemed checked out talking about Anthem or maybe he knew what was going on. The other guy worked on Dragon Age Origins and most of the bad stuff that followed that the last few years.
With Bioware being what it is now I'd have given any new Mass Effect to a new team with some fresh ideas as it truly needs that. Not sure EA is the place to do that but story driven RPG's badly need a facelift.

Trying to get back to the old bioware can't happen as its gone. Muzyka and Zeschuk left 8 years ago, any sense of direction kinda left with them. Maybe that startup by ex Bioware devs (Archetype Entertainment) might yield something elsewhere but that old Bioware were gone long before today.

Varik

Casey Hudson came back as general manager though which is a very different role, and as for Mark Darrah and the dragon age games they were good they just weren't as good as they could have been. Inquisition turned out well, especially when you consider how andromeda ended up.

Bioware went on a hire spree for andromeda including a lot of leading roles, it's the main reason they were promoting so hard that the next one was going back to the veterans. So I doubt EA or Bioware higher ups would be too thrilled by a new team with fresh ideas.

Stone Deaf 4evr

pixelburp wrote: »

Apparently SwuareEnix has yet to recoup its development costs from sales of the Avengers game. Oof. Talk about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory with that IP.

It came out too far from the release of the final film, and it doesn't help matters at all that the look of the characters is more akin to the porn parody than the actual actors who played them. I know there are likely myriad reasons for why they couldnt create virtual representations of Robert Downey Jr etc. but the look they settled on always felt off to me.

Take fortnites recent marvel event, they leaned into the classic comics look of characters like wolverine, presented in a cartoony style, which is much more easily digested when not trying to follow the look of the movies.

Zero-Cool

Stone Deaf 4evr wrote: »

It came out too far from the release of the final film, and it doesn't help matters at all that the look of the characters is more akin to the porn parody than the actual actors who played them. I know there are likely myriad reasons for why they couldnt create virtual representations of Robert Downey Jr etc. but the look they settled on always felt off to me.

Take fortnites recent marvel event, they leaned into the classic comics look of characters like wolverine, presented in a cartoony style, which is much more easily digested when not trying to follow the look of the movies.

Plus it was boring as ****. I only played the beta first 2 missions and couldn't wait for it to end and i ****ing love marvel. Devs spent too much money on the license and thought the only way they make it back was with mtx. Going that route, they should have made it like a dc universe game but they thought a slap of paint with models that look like the film but not enough to get sued and an awful new hero content purchase pack.

I don't think this would even be saved if it went free to play with just how boring the gameplay mechanics are.

Penn

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Plus it was boring as ****. I only played the beta first 2 missions and couldn't wait for it to end and i ****ing love marvel. Devs spent too much money on the license and thought the only way they make it back was with mtx. Going that route, they should have made it like a dc universe game but they thought a slap of paint with models that look like the film but not enough to get sued and an awful new hero content purchase pack.

I don't think this would even be saved if it went free to play with just how boring the gameplay mechanics are.

Even if they introduced a few different enemy types into the game it'd make the gameplay better. There is a decent enough gameplay layer there, but everything else is so bland and repetitive that it never gets a chance to shine.

Zero-Cool

Oscar Isaac to play Solid Snake in MGS film.

https://deadline.com/2020/12/oscar-isaac-solid-snake-sonys-metal-gear-solid-movie-1234650259/

Potential-Monke

Came on to post that... strange decision, and I can't see him being a good Snake. Hayter himself looks more like Snake than Isaac.

pixelburp

I had honestly forgotten there was even a MSG film planned: hard to know what to feel about this, given the series is already famous for its desperation to be "cinematic". Ostensibly it makes a better fit for adaptation than most game-movies. And I was about to sniff a dismissal towards it, but Jason Vogt-Roberts is an OK director (in fact I'd go so far as to call Kong: Skull Island a guilty pleasure and more enjoyable than it could have otherwise been).

EoinMcLovin

Neil Druckmann becomes co-President of Naughty Dog, Alison Mori and Christian Gyrling become Vice Presidents


https://twitter.com/Naughty_Dog/status/1334993287187320832?s=19

Mitch Connor

Potential-Monke wrote: »

Came on to post that... strange decision, and I can't see him being a good Snake. Hayter himself looks more like Snake than Isaac.

Is Hayter a good actor (not just voice). I would assume not, based on his filmography. I never understand people wanting casting based on look or voice rather than an actors ability to actually act the part.

Oscar Isaac is a very good actor, imo. and I also don't think his look is miles off either, so i don't get the criticism from that side either.

Mitch Connor

Mitch Connor wrote: »

Is Hayter a good actor (not just voice). I would assume not, based on his filmography. I never understand people wanting casting based on look or voice rather than an actors ability to actually act the part.

Oscar Isaac is a very good actor, imo. and I also don't think his look is miles off either, so i don't get the criticism from that side either.

The only voice actor I could have seen playing a good version of their character in a film would have been Michael Ironside as Sam Fisher but he's too old to play the role at this stage. Has genuine acting chops .