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nextgengamer · 17-01-2021 2:58pm

CP2077. I am so tired of hearing about this game. Looks like a million other first person shooter games. Stripping the technology problems and achievements aside, what is special about this game?

one armed dwarf · 17-01-2021 3:01pm

I don't really see what's so crazy about a 2 year old demo being smoke and mirrors tbh.

Feels like that describes most E3 demos

Azza · 17-01-2021 3:02pm

nextgengamer wrote: »

CP2077. I am so tired of hearing about this game. Looks like a million other first person shooter games. Stripping the technology problems and achievements aside, what is special about this game?

Emmm, for someone complaining about hearing about the game too much you don't seem to be aware its not actually a first person shooter.

nextgengamer · 17-01-2021 3:20pm

Azza wrote: »

Emmm, for someone complaining about hearing about the game too much you don't seem to be aware its not actually a first person shooter.

Ok it's first person and you shoot

Apart from that what's special about it ?
(Will Google, sorry for noise

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Shapey Fiend · 17-01-2021 4:40pm

It's a first person RPG in the vein of Oblivion, Witcher 3 etc.

It's always hard to discern differences with really big budget games because the art pipeline is so gigantic there's not much scope for experimentation in the game design. It's more of a OMGs there's 300 hours of missions for you to complete kind of buzz.

ERG89 · 23-01-2021 2:33am

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1352707290080665600?s=19

Such a shame

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1352625698800734209?s=19

I assume GamePass will eventually see a price hike following this too. Microsoft aren't a charity afterall.

Varik · 23-01-2021 6:07am

Link in tweet says they've cancelled price change.

Mr Crispy · 23-01-2021 9:37am

Yeah, seems so. "Xbox U-turns on Gold subscription price hike after fan backlash" - GamesIndustry.biz

Zero-Cool · 23-01-2021 9:40am

Jeeeezus!! The Tony Hawks remake was so good and they were hinting about remaking 3 & 4, possibly underground.

**** Blizzard

J. Marston · 23-01-2021 12:26pm

Mr Crispy wrote: »

Yeah, seems so. "Xbox U-turns on Gold subscription price hike after fan backlash" - GamesIndustry.biz

They'll come back with a less egregious price hike and people will accept it because it won't look as bad.

Door in the face technique, seems to the standard thing in the gaming industry now.

gizmo · 23-01-2021 5:16pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Jeeeezus!! The Tony Hawks remake was so good and they were hinting about remaking 3 & 4, possibly underground.

**** Blizzard

More details coming out about that now...

Blizzard Absorbs Activision Studio After Dismantling Classic Games Team

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1352766999823314949?s=19

Zero-Cool · 23-01-2021 6:28pm

Sucks for me as VV are a great studio and i haven't cared about a Blizzard game since rock and roll reaching in 1993.

pixelburp · 23-01-2021 7:16pm

I see TenCent have acquired majority control of Klei Entertainment (Mark or the Ninja, Invisible inc.). The former truly is a behemoth at this stage, hopefully if nothing else Klei can retain some degree of autonomy.

Mr Crispy · 23-01-2021 8:02pm

pixelburp wrote: »

I see TenCent have acquired majority control of Klei Entertainment (Mark or the Ninja, Invisible inc.). The former truly is a behemoth at this stage, hopefully if nothing else Klei can retain some degree of autonomy.

Yeah, I saw that. I'm a big fan of their work, so hopefully Jamie Cheng (Klei's founder) is right when he says;

As part of this agreement, Klei retains full autonomy of creative and operations across all aspects of the studio, including projects, talent, and more, There are some boring accounting changes that we will need to adjust to. Other than that, I will continue running the studio as before, with no changes to staffing, projects or other operations.

ERG89 · 23-01-2021 8:20pm

Zero-Cool wrote: »

Sucks for me as VV are a great studio and i haven't cared about a Blizzard game since rock and roll reaching in 1993.

Most smaller companies seem to be getting swallowed up by larger ones now. Amazon, Google, Sony and Microsoft are all looking at studios large and small as are Tencent.

pixelburp wrote: »

I see TenCent have acquired majority control of Klei Entertainment (Mark or the Ninja, Invisible inc.). The former truly is a behemoth at this stage, hopefully if nothing else Klei can retain some degree of autonomy.

Apparently they are looking at buying a bigger fish soon.

https://twitter.com/ZhugeEX/status/1352281993493544963?s=19

PopePalpatine · 24-01-2021 12:11am

How about ActiBlizzard, those guys are used to kowtowing to Xinnie the Pooh anyway.

Varik · 24-01-2021 4:27am

Rumour that China is going to nationalise alibaba and ant, as part of their digital yuan stuff.

Tencent could be next, also zero chance tencent won't interfere with their new purchases even if that doesn't happen.

Markitron · 25-01-2021 10:08am

Another new Kotor rumour. One of them has to be true eventually?

https://www.gameinformer.com/2021/01/24/new-star-wars-knights-of-the-old-republic-game-reportedly-in-the-works-without-bioware

Vicxas · 25-01-2021 3:00pm

TBF if its not Bioware i'd be ok with that....

Markitron · 25-01-2021 3:27pm

Vicxas wrote: »

TBF if its not Bioware i'd be ok with that....

Yea same, they might as well be a completely different studio to the one that made the original.

Seen as how this is gonna be a reboot anyway I see no harm in letting someone else have a crack at it.

Falthyron · 25-01-2021 3:35pm

Larian or Obsidian, please.

Markitron · 25-01-2021 3:40pm

Falthyron wrote: »

Larian or Obsidian, please.

Obsidian are making 4 or 5 other games at the minute so it almost certainly won't be them. Apparently its a lesser known studio that is working on it.

ERG89 · 25-01-2021 3:52pm

Markitron wrote: »

Obsidian are making 4 or 5 other games at the minute so it almost certainly won't be them. Apparently its a lesser known studio that is working on it.

Wonder if its Archetype Entertainment which was recently founded by ex Bioware staff.

Vicxas · 25-01-2021 5:01pm

ERG89 wrote: »

Wonder if its Archetype Entertainment which was recently founded by ex Bioware staff.

That would be a real kick in the teeth for Bioware.

Markitron · 25-01-2021 6:32pm

Vicxas wrote: »

That would be a real kick in the teeth for Bioware.

Fair to say they probably need a good kick in the teeth atm.

EoinMcLovin · 26-01-2021 8:15pm

Kevin Hart to play Roland in Borderlands movie

https://twitter.com/Borderlands/status/1354130443759620096?s=19

Varik · 26-01-2021 8:24pm

I like Kevin Hart but I don't see that at all.

ERG89 · 26-01-2021 8:24pm

Is anyone asking for a Borderlands movie??

EoinMcLovin · 26-01-2021 8:28pm

Just to note, Cate Blanchett is playing Lilith

OptimusTractor · 26-01-2021 8:35pm

EoinMcLovin wrote: »

Kevin Hart to play Roland in Borderlands movie

https://twitter.com/Borderlands/status/1354130443759620096?s=19

Calling it now Dwayne Johnson to play Brick.

pixelburp · 26-01-2021 8:50pm

Varik wrote: »

I like Kevin Hart but I don't see that at all.

It smells of pretty uninspired casting; a comedy movie needs a black guy so of course they go for the most famous / obvious black Hollywood comic ATM. Not sure who I would have gone for myself but not Hart either. A good character actor with comedic timing at a start, not this generation's Chris Tucker lol. Mind you, I'd call Hart too shrill & annoying but given Borderlands' humour is already pretty grating, maybe it's a perfect match

Varik · 26-01-2021 9:15pm

Borderlands doesn't really do much with the player characters in their own games you only really lean anything about them through collectables and the sequels.

But the character he's playing is already black and wasn't really comic at all, he was more about rousing speeches than jokes. There's a bunch of black action stars I'd have though of before Kevin hart, if he was still around I'd have said Chadwick Boseman would have been the studio pick first preference. There's probably a few dozen click bait articles written since this movie was first mentions with idris elba's name on most of them.

Parsnips · 26-01-2021 11:54pm

ERG89 wrote: »

Is anyone asking for a Borderlands movie??

Snore
Zzzzzzzzzz

gizmo · 27-01-2021 12:48am

pixelburp wrote: »

It smells of pretty uninspired casting; a comedy movie needs a black guy so of course they go for the most famous / obvious black Hollywood comic ATM. Not sure who I would have gone for myself but not Hart either. A good character actor with comedic timing at a start, not this generation's Chris Tucker lol. Mind you, I'd call Hart too shrill & annoying but given Borderlands' humour is already pretty grating, maybe it's a perfect match

Missed opportunity

Canis Lupus · 27-01-2021 1:14am

I don't see how the game would translate into a movie at all.

Retr0gamer · 27-01-2021 1:43am

Take away the gunplay from borderlands and all you've got is regurgitated memes and try hard zaniness.

I don't see it being good.

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J. Marston · 27-01-2021 1:58am

Who would play Handsome Jack?

pixelburp · 27-01-2021 10:46am

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

Roland is a black guy, the character they are casting for is a black guy therefore it makes sense to cast a black actor. Why would a comedy "need" a black guy? As for the casting itself...it's just wrong. Roland is supposed to be a buff, stoic, straight guy type. He's also tall. Kevin Hart is none of those things lol

You misread. Kevin Hart is Hollywood's most famous (profitable) black comedic-actor ATM, so of course he gets cast in a comedy that has a black member of its cast. That's the bit that just strikes as lazy, especially as Roland wasn't really a joker in the cast. Unless Hart is going to play it straight, in which case why bother hiring him at all except because "black guy in a comedy" means Hart's agent gets a call.

Anyway, I forgot this is being directed by Eli Roth so all the good casting in the world Can't paper over that particular crack.

Markitron · 27-01-2021 11:16am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Take away the gunplay from borderlands and all you've got is regurgitated memes and try hard zaniness.

I don't see it being good.

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Hopefully the writers of the movie have better ideas than 'lets take pickle Rick and put him in the game for no reason whatsoever other than R&M fans might laugh at it'.

Zero-Cool · 27-01-2021 11:22am

All this talk of films about games is great timing with the latest Honest Trailers. Maaaaan this is so good (as in bad.... very very bad). I remember watching this as a kid and being so confused how they could get something so wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TF7qMGvjxA

McFly85 · 27-01-2021 11:46am

Zero-Cool wrote: »

All this talk of films about games is great timing with the latest Honest Trailers. Maaaaan this is so good (as in bad.... very very bad). I remember watching this as a kid and being so confused how they could get something so wrong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TF7qMGvjxA

I was OBSESSED with SF2 growing up. The arcade in the bowler had at least 3 machines and they were always in use-I shudder to think about how many 20ps I used in them.

So I went to the cinema to see this on the opening weekend, and couldn’t believe how terrible it was. It was some guys dressed like street fighter characters in a completely different film! Since then though I have learned to appreciate it for the comedy masterpiece it was clearly meant to be

And in fairness, it wasn’t the worst street fighter disappointment in my young life, that award goes to the god awful US Gold Amiga port I got for Christmas. I wouldn’t even consider it playable.

Azza · 27-01-2021 12:29pm

Raul Julia's performance was so unfairly snubbed at the Oscars!

The Raging Bile Duct · 27-01-2021 12:39pm

Azza wrote: »

Raul Julia's performance was so unfairly snubbed at the Oscars!

Wasn't that his last role? What a terrible way to go out...

Retr0gamer · 27-01-2021 12:52pm

The Raging Bile Duct wrote: »

Wasn't that his last role? What a terrible way to go out...

He did it because his kids begged him to do it. And it looks like he was having the time of his life hamming it up and leaving teeth marks all over the set while slowly dying. He is the best thing about the movie.

Stone Deaf 4evr · 27-01-2021 1:43pm

The Phantom Pain wrote: »

I'd hate to say it but probably Ryan Reynolds.

Hugh Jackman gets my vote

JimBurnley · 27-01-2021 2:47pm

Street Fighter movie is my guilty pleasure. I know it's awful, but its definitely my favourite bad movie

The Raging Bile Duct · 27-01-2021 3:01pm

Funnily enough, the Street Fighter movie was just added to Amazon Prime today so you can relive its awfulness.

Dr. Bre · 27-01-2021 3:30pm

Surprised a grand theft auto movie was never made

OptimusTractor · 27-01-2021 3:31pm

The fact that it's one of JCVD's worst films speaks volumes.

OptimusTractor · 27-01-2021 3:33pm

Dr. Bre wrote: »

Surprised a grand theft auto movie was never made

Wouldn't be worth the twitterstorm

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