It could. But Rockstar doesn't bother for some reason. Maybe they're watching for the next Nintendo Successor. Having to put the extra work to scale down a version probably isn't worth the effort.
I'm glad it's Fallout 4 that's exploding and not Fallout 76, it means people want moddable single player games that don't rely on content internet connections.
Ehhhh not so much the internet thing but the fact Bethesda atill has a large player base there. They also expanded fallout 76 too and fallout shelter too lol not just 4 the other day. I want to play connected to the internet with all my games so I can get achievements
Not sure what you’re on but 76 has had it’s biggest player count peak surpassing Wastelanders. There’s so many low levels flooding the severs they can’t keep up lol.
@@randybobandy9828 Fallout 4 ain't that pretty of a game to begin with. I think the bigger issue is performance, especially in downtown Boston. That area can tank the framerate even on PCs much more powerful than Switch.
A few Bethesda ports were left on the table. The Elder Scrolls Morrowind and Oblivion, Dishonored. Wolfenstein New Order and Old Blood. I see them getting most of their missed games when the next Switch comes out.
@@Darkstar301 Haha okay I may have been in highschool when I played them but I still think it would be a blast to fire up every now and then. That option and all the player levels gone... Rip indeed
As a backer, I've been playing Eiyuden for about 4 days now, 30 hours in. Yesterday I lost track of time and played for like 10 hours. I fully went from nervous it couldnt live up to my expectations to in love with it. I'm not surprised it gets an upper 70s (altho the switch version is definitely dragging it down), because it is not made for a general audience. It is made for fans of PS1 era jrpgs, and it is that to its core. I can't speak to the story yet because I feel like I'm probably a third of the way through (there is a lot of side content), but the rest of the game has definitely lived up to or even surpassed my expectations.
Although this type of game isn't my cup of tea it's an example of why I don't pay attention to reviews in the least. I know if something looks interesting to me far better than some random RU-vid channel lol. So many games I've loved had bad reviews and vice versa.
Every RPG vhannel has recommended Eyuden Chronicles so far, they mentioned its caveats which boil down to "it's basically what a direct continuation for Suikoden I and II for the PS2 could have been". And that is exactly what I expect from it ever since the Kickstarter campaign. I also played the spin-off game and got all achievements, I specially liked the character writing and interactions. I'm pretty sure I will love this game... When I find the time to play it.
Even the complaints I heard were trivial things like not being able to save on the world map or choose your party members anywhere. I just finished replaying the Suikoden games and Dragon Quest VIII. None of them offer you those baby options people refer to as quality of life, and EC was going for the retro vibe.
seems very simlar to Suikoden 2 though, uncanny similar, which is not exciting to me, I'm afraid it's really more or less the same game with a slightly different skin.
Nah. The community was getting amazing. Over 10,000,000 levels.The Logic programing got advanced that full 3D movement with unlimited layers, custom modded content that and be shared and downloaded with others. Not only that LBP scalled perfectly on the PS5 allowing you to create even more advanced logic and complex scenes using the power of the PS5. It was very accessible to anyone because it supported crossplay between PS3, PS4, and PS5. No other game had that. Not only that LBP has had more cross overs then Fortnite. The amount of DLC and support the game got is staggering and could've easily been kept alive if Sony actually cared
I don't understand why the Switch would have issues running GTAV, I mean okay the remaster is out the question, but end of the day the PS3 and 360 ran this game just fine.
Because the switch is I believe around the power of an Xbox 360 but runs on a battery so they have to account for that. The chip may be able to push that, but it just isn't feasible. Maybe if it had FSR, but it would probably end up like a steam deck where the battery is good for an hour. Plus I don't know where Nintendo stands on shark cards or whatever it's called.
Rockstar could still make some money off GTA 5 on Switch. Just package the single player campaign, make sure it's labeled as such, and release it at a lower price like $30. And just like that, 3-5 million more copies sold.
Even my weakass laptop can run GTA V so a port to the Switch wouldn't surprise me, what's surprising is Rockstar taking this long considering how much they love rereleasing GTA V
I think it would be interesting to see a new Fallout game with the play style of Fallout 1 & 2. The recent success of Baldur’s Gate 3 shows that people are more willing to give those types of game a chance. Microsoft could let another studio work on this Fallout spinoff while Bethesda works on Elder Scrolls 6.
My first DVD player was actually a DVD drive for my PC and a RealMagic Hollywood Plus MPEG2 decoder card. PCs at the time were not powerful enough to play DVDs, except for maybe some high-end systems. You install the DVD MPEG decoder card, connected your monitor to it and there was a passthrough cable to go from your video card to the MPEG2 card. The MPEG card had S-Video/Composite out to plug to a TV, which I did. To watch DVDs on your PC monitor, the MPEG card overlaid the DVD video on top the video out of the PC GPU card. If you connected your monitor directly to your GPU, you would just see a black box where the DVD video was to be playing.
One of the biggest reasons I've seen that has kept other companies from wanting to acquire Paramount, aside from them losing money on streaming, is that they have an assortment of cable channels with incredibly low viewership that lose the company money. As acquiring the company also means you're acquiring their debt, while it would be enticing for a company to make use of big brands like Star Trek or SpongeBob, taking on that amount of financial baggage would be a major risk.
It is, but I also think Sony would go for it. They seem very big on home entertainment especially with CrunchyRoll and Funimation under their wing now so Paramount technically would be a solid pick-up but as you say it's... hard to call.
My current and 2024 gaming: Supplice on Steam (old school shooter), a couple old demos on the PS4 that I've had for a long time, and Grindstone on the Switch. I watch game news, game reviews, and retrospectives, and also listen to game music and soundtracks and remixes. I do that more than I actually play games.
Modern gaming for the mainstream stuff and console hardware is definitely in a worse state, but the indie side is definitely in a far better state offering way more indies to chose from that offer far better quality for a smaller price.
Another nonsense comment. - Elden Ring -Spiderman 2 - GOW RAGNAROK -Splatoon 3 - Xenoblade 3 - A Plague Tale Requiem - Bayonetta 3 - Horizon Forbidden West - FF16- low sales numbers but still rated very highly and amongst fans, still accepted as a quality FF game - LOZ TOTK From the top of my head, these sizable budget games alone are JUST released over the last 2 or so years. If you want to look even further, generation 8 of consoles was filled with quality. I love indie titles as much as the next, but stop pretending the AA and AAA gaming scene is on the verge of a collapse that is impossible to come back from.
Mainstream gaming is better than ever. There are so many mainstream games on the market that it is impossible for a working adult or student to play all of those. You are just brainwashed by mainstream media who creates negativity intentionally to create engagement and clicks. All they talk are Call of Duty, Blizzard, Diablo, Fortnite etc. These are not the only games in market.
Oh, you love indies, right? Name 5-10 indies that you are hyped for in 2024 without mentioning Hollow Knight, Hades, a Wario Land style game, or a Wayford title.
@@cbgg1585 AAA has seen more microtransactions and always online demands, but worst of all theres far more adding a sketchier TOS/EULA that demand they monitor us when we arent playing their games. Many games including the ones you listed include such creepy requirements now. Also lets not forget that elden ring and spiderman 2 and GOW ragnarok had a pretty rough launch with many bugs or crashes, Splatoon 3 had (I think it still does) terrible server connection issues, Bayonetta 3 has some visual and performance issues but its the switch so kind of understandable, and Horizon FW had quite a few progression blocker issues. You could say "but games have always had these issues" and to that I say yes but it was far rarer to see back then because they had far more testers back then.
@@SUPERVEGETTO92 I've got a crap ton that Im waiting for to release: Phantom Fury, Jump Ship, Runa, Super Polygon Grand Prix, Parking Garage Rally, Fumes, Old school Rally, Hyperlight Breaker, The Last Exterminator, Interlopers, Wind Runners, Schim, Screen Bound, Wind Runners, Warside, Toastercide, Core Decay, Japanese Drift Masters, Replaced, Plucky Squire, and Verge World. Theres plenty that are already out that I havent bought yet but yeah indies are offering the goods more than ever.
I think my biggest Fallout series complaint is that everything looks too clean. I’m no lore aficionado, but it’s a fun ride. And John Daly’s character is the best.
Really getting tired of servers going offline for games that still have a following just because they decide they want to save a few dollars. Just make games supported for custom servers like it always used to be and let the community take over.
One of the problems back in the day with video stores was picking the wrong or too short of a game. I remember renting Rugrats 64 and beating it in under a hour.
@@wreckitralph4714 true, lol being stuck with one crappy N64 game is painful 😭 i never grew up with game rentals, think i was just imagining how i’d use them now
Cartridge size isn't an issue for rockstar and take 2 because they put L.A. Noire on the switch which had had a physical release and they just made you download part of the game
I voted that there was a lot that I’m excited about. That’s mostly titles that have been out for months. I can’t play games quick enough to stay up to date, and buying them late when they are finished and on sale is an added bonus
I really don't get how Witcher 3 with all content made it onto Switch but the 360 version of GTA V couldn't get ported to the Switch even with downloads
Since Sony has jumped into the anime/manga distribution market, it has gotten objectively worse as a result. I kind of hope they don't acquire Paramount because of that.
Although this game is kinda not-so-new [and I’ve actually had this game in my library for a couple years], I’ve been playin’ this indie called Ruiner. It’s a twin-stick shooter/brawler with a cyberpunk aesthetic, and it’s pretty damn fun.
Duuuuude I just bought that game yesterday. It was on sale on psn. I had it on somewhere, one of the pass subscriptions for the longest and told myself “I’ll get around to it”. Guess it came off. So I bought it last night. $3 too. I always thought it looked cool too.
@@EhEhEhEINSTEIN - Damn. The Ascent was in my backlog since it hit Game Pass, and I still haven’t tried it to this day…but from what I remember, it’s fairly similar. Just a different tone, but I think it’s similar gameplay.
One argument could be that paramount+ wasn't really available outside the US for a long time or that most people don't necessarily want to subscribe to a streaming service for just one show and most people have prime anyway because of the free shipping that comes with it. Or maybe it's just the quality of the show, didn't watch Halo, but maybe the fallout show is just better. In reality it's probably a combination of all those things.
Every industry is getting it's legs beneath them after the pandemic, I don't expect the videogame industry to fully recover until 2027 given the average length of game development.
@@Final_Dawn Not exactly. What it means is buying software and then the company can strip or delete the software from your device like the Discovery situation sometime back. 3D All Stars, for anyone who bought it, can still be played and redownloaded, but cannot be bought digitally anymore as it was only for a limited time.
I know that's not what Todd Howard wants but for the sake of everyone including Bethesda and Microsoft, I think Microsoft should force them to expand and have a dedicated Elder Scrolls studio and a dedicated Fallout studio that can both work simultaneously. Both IPs are massive now, they both have MMOs to support, and the waiting between new entries is getting ridiculously long.
I don't think Microsoft really cares whether they have a game lined up or not. They're selling a decade old game and even getting players onto 76. If anything, the show was marketing for what's already existing.
Every day you say before we get to the comment of the day that we're gonna look at the poll you posted up. Was there ever a time that you read the comment of the day first?
Sony and Microsoft are slowly making me go from loving PlayStation and Xbox to loathing them in a race to the worst. This sucks. I miss the PS2 and Xbox 360 eras and I want them back…
I don’t think that last bit is true. Certainly video game rentals are mostly done except game fly but retro game stores have been growing quite a bit in the United States at least because they see how many collectors are out there and how well nostalgia sells.
If you want to go back to FO3 on PC, it is worth also getting New Vegas and installing "Tale of Two Wastelands". You get to play both games combined and Fallout 3 will have NV's functions and compatibilities, etc etc. It does take a bit to set up, but it is worth it in the end.
Some of the coolest people I met were in LittleBigPlanet. That game will live on forever in my memory. My PS friends list is comprised of like at least 50% people that I met on that game many moons ago. Thank you for endless laughs and timeless memories ❤️🙏
There’s this cool game called Restitched that’s in the works. It started out as a LittleBigPlanet fan game before Sony told them to stop, and so they made it into its own thing. Let’s hope it lives up to what came before.
I mean lower decks is the only decent Star Trek property in like two decades and they just cancelled it. So how much more damage can Sony really do anyways
Fallout 4 is probably my most played game across all platforms. I know the settlement building mechanic wasn’t received very well at launch, but it’s the biggest thing that pulls me back in.
I swear, all the games I loved but everyone else slept on are now becoming the popular ones. It's making it harder for me to recollect my loses as demand rises and supplies diminish. Re-grabbing all Metroids before Prime 4 dangit
With all the talk about game preservation lately, I wish people would show more interest in ‘trophy/achievement preservation’. What I’m referring to is players getting locked out of trophies/achievements when online game servers shut down. It should fall on the developer/publisher/platform holder to *guarantee* an alternate means of unlocking them. I personally barely escaped the LBP2 server shutdown a few years back, but some psn friends on my list were screwed out of their 100% completions because of that decision. I imagine the same is true for many with LBP3, or countless other live service/online only titles. I see no reason why the corresponding trophies/achievements can’t be auto unlocked for all who played if an online only game is terminated.
I'm not sure completing your epeen collection is worth anything to the company paying for the servers. Nintendo doesn't even bother with trophies; the game itself is the reward.
@@redlion145 Tell that to Microsoft, you can't even earn achievements on Xbox if you're offline, even if you meet the requirements to unlock them. Quite a few of them don't retroactively unlock once you go online again too.
Prior to the release of Outer Worlds I would’ve said that Obsidian would be the best choice. Unfortunately, that game proves that just like Bethesda modern Obsidian has fallen off. Outer Worlds was mediocre at best and was forgotten shortly after release.
It’s crazy that people start to like your series when you make entries that aren’t absolutely terrible lol. I imagine that’s why Microsoft may have underestimated Fallout, but glad they are kind of doing things better with Fallout, Halo, etc.
They had a Mario animated movie, Mario and Zelda series, Captain N - so it's not that new of an endeavour, just that they're likely more involved these days.
I’ve played about 8 hours of Eiyuden Chronicle. I think people’s experience of the game will strongly depend on their expectations . It is no doubt a solid spiritual successor to Suikoden with a ton of strengths like the 100+ characters, story, and beautiful art. But it does skirt some modern conveniences in favor of several classic JRPG tropes. For example, no fast forwarding battle sequences and few save points. There are patches coming so we’ll see what those do. It feels somewhere between an Indy game and a AA modern JRPG like OCTOPATH. Great game, and (so far) I think it’s a must-play for any JRPG fan but a harder sell for those needing it to be more modernized with QoL features.
19:22 Dang, I wish we had more physical media. I mean yeah it’s way less convenient to store, but even to this day, me and my friend like going into a GameStop to browse the selection. It’s a fun pastime. But we’ve gone so often and the titles change so little that it’s gotten boring 😕
If Sony acquired paramount and added in some version of their streaming into PS+, that would be an interesting value proposition. Having both a sizeable gaming and tv/film offering would be unique.
im thinking sony final goal would offer streaming content with movies and series to maybe compete with netflix many many years in the future. They probably would like to make their own movies just like nintendo
Jon, you totally overlooked Fallout London which was due to come out tomorrow (23 April) until Bethesda threw a spanner in the works with the Fallout 4 update. Okay its a Mod and will only work on PC but it looks impressive and might well be the new game in the Fallout series everyone has been hoping for.
To be fair, this next-gen update was announced in Oct'2022, so it wasn't totally out of the blue. It's a much needed update, especially for Playstation players and PCs with modern RTX GPUs that no longer support that old PhysX feature that FO4 used. I can't run it for more than 5min on my RTX 4080 without crashing to desktop. Once the Script Extender gets updated, they should be able to get Fallout: London back up and running again. This has happened many times in the past.
There's so many large companies across so many different industries that are merging, buying each other up, etc. Getting a little dystopian now that it feels like so much of the world is owned by the same 30 billionaires that all have pseudo=monopolies on multiple different things...
I find it hard to believe that anyone could say that gaming is just straight up boring right now. 2023 had to be one of the best years in gaming. I think with how often games are released now compared to previous generations it kind of desensitizes you, especially with how unoriginal most AAA games are. But there are still GOAT games being made.
Got Hundred Heroes for Steam and love it. Graphics, art style, music, and gameplay are top notch. Think it's getting slammed for being a random battle and turned based JRPG. But if you are into retro at all this is not something that will bother you. Reviewers just tend to hate those old school JRPGs.
DO NOT let Disney acquire paramount. If Disney acquired paramount then that company would be in an even worse fire than probably already is. Just look at what Disney has done to Indiana jones, marvel, Star Wars. They’ve completely ruined all of these properties
Eiyuden Chronicles is delayed for switch physically till May 21st :( Also it’s funny that when people mention gaming companies doing things with Microsoft Azure it’s a big deal. It takes a lot of infrastructure to run companies. Just as Sony does more than gaming but when the company does something with another division, it’s for gaming side. There may be some synergy with the purchase, but don’t get to excited ;)
I'm lucky to live where i live, I suppose. Our Walmart and Best Buy still have physical games. Our Gamestop is usually well stocked, and we have at least a dozen retro game stores within a half-hour radius of my home. Not to mention the insane amount of games ranging from atari to current gen being sold on Facebook marketplace at pretty much all times. There really are no shortages on options here.
Microsoft are fools for not paying leasing out the Fallout IP. They don't need Fallout 5, they just need a new Fallout game, whether that's a New Vegas 2 or a remake of one of the old games. That's something Microsoft should have done on day 1. They're leaving hundreds of millions of dollars on the table.
DVDs tick me off pretty badly. With bluray, those are max 1080p, where everyone now has at least 4k TVs. DVD has a max resolution of 480p, but during the entire physical media lifespan of home movies (since DVD release), DVD has been the biggest seller. People are buying 4k TVs, and are hooking up DVD players and watching DVDs. Publishers should have stopped manufacturing DVDs soon after blurays came out, and definitely once 4k TVs became the norm. Instead, DVDs were held at $20, Bluray was at $25-30, and 4k UHD blurays were at $34-40. It doesn't take a genius to see why 4k UHD failed. The general public are not audio/videophiles. Many do not understand resolutions, refresh rates, upscaling...they see a $20 movie, and the same movie for $40 on the "fancy" disc, and they are going to opt for the cheaper version. IF Bluray would have become the defacto medium, set that at $20, then offer 4k UHD bluray for $25-30, stop making the dang DVDs and make more bluray and especially 4k players, more people would have purchased 4k movies and players. TBH, I don't blame people, the cheaper TVs--even 4k TVs, struggle to show massive improvements of 4k UHD blurays over regular blurays...but guys anyone can see the difference between DVD and bluray. Here I am sitting with an Oppo BDP 203 4K UHD player and fewer and fewer movies are being released on 4k discs, and besides, I also do not want to pay $40 for a movie. Streaming had a huge impact on physical media, but the quality is just not the same as a good 4k transfer on a 4k disc. Heck, I could go on...another reason 4k blurays failed is because many publishers didn't even put 4k versions of the movies on the 4k discs. They were 1080p upscaled. 4k UHD discs have been a cluster when it comes to marketing, pricing strategy, and even the quality of the content put on the discs. Now that I think about it, I don't blame the general public for just continuing to purchase DVDs. They are simple, and are cheaper, and most players and TVs upscale. I'll just shut up.
Honestly they need to get on a New Vegas remake for season 2 of the Fallout show and then they shoud just give Obsidian the keys to Fallout 5. Bethesda can't do it all alone anymore with how long dev cycles are.
I wouldn't say the gaming industry is in a rut as much as the market is just so saturated right now that it's hard to get very excited about new releases. They could completely stop making new games tomorrow and there would already be enough amazing titles out there to keep me busy for decades.
Yeah but then we would get a million RU-vid videos about gaming is doomed and complaining they can’t make new content or they would start making random retro pickups videos…. Oh wait they are already doing that now lol
How can anyone think we are in a rut? There are more incredible games lately than ever in the past. Unless you only play AAA big mainstream games. I will never have enough time to play everything I'm interested in 😢
Crazy how everyone hated Fallout 4 at launch and now everyone’s like wait this is actually a great game. Always has been. Starfield is a little lacking but with more support, I think people will appreciate it a lot more when they come back to it after a while
The Blu-ray player on the PS3 actually performed very well! Sony actually didn't cheap out its quality. The PS2 was a different story: I already bought a dedicated Pioneer DVD player prior to the PS2's US launch. So, later that year, when I saw the PS2's DVD video playback quality in comparison, I was not impressed at all! It was very blocky and littered with artifacts. There weren't a lot of good games at launch either, tbh. It was basically an entry-level DVD player with literally a handful of games. So I held off until some games I really wanted showed up. It's still an incredible system!
Fallout 3 and NV look really good on the Series X. If Microsoft/Bethesda put 3 and NV goty editions on the Switch that could at least drive new sales. Throw in the isometric games and you’ve got a stew going.
OK, let's have this same poll six months later or whenever. My answer will still be the same: The current videogame industry isn't boring. I'ts infuriating!
The strangest thing about NINTENDO... Nintendo would offer game publisher billion dollars to crush GTA 6 and Activision. The extreme violent video games. Nintendo is looking for friendly family content video game not video game advocates killings.
About Sony potentially to aquire Paramount and what they could want with that. In two words: STAR TREK Also Viacom - which means Nickelodeon and their deep IPockets (and Marathon too but I know that most people don't care for that. I love Totally Spies, okay?)
Xbox should be hammering home the idea that it’s the easiest place to play Fallout 3 and New Vegas. People keep saying Xbox has a small exclusive library but my Xbox has been an affordable way to play games I missed from back in the day.
I'd be very happy to see a remastered collection of Fallout 1 and 2 get announced. I have only tried Fallout 1 for the first few hours but I feel like a lot of people skip over them because of the older gameplay style and presentation. The world's lore and characters from those games did establish quite a bit however!
poll - it's okay. comment of the day - the ps3 was a cheaper blu ray player that could play video games made for it with blu ray movies/tv shows. member comment of the day - physical games are dying, which sucks.
I Green Man Gaming Preordered Eyuden Chronicles but the mixed reception and lack of quality of life modern options makes me wonder if I just wasted my money. Damn I feel dumb especially with Game Pass on PC looking at me sideways.
I am super excited for eiyuden chronicles hundred heroes. Love Suikoden and know i will love this. Other than switch most complaints is that it has old school mechanics
I didn't see the poll from yesterday so I couldn't cast my vote. There are some very good things in modern gaming, but I'm kind of sick of remakes because I wasn't interested in most of them the first time around, and the microtransactions in modern gaming are ruining things as well for me personally.
I bet there are discussions happening at Bethesda about splitting off a team and hiring up for Fallout 6 ASAP. If they could get a game out in 5 or 6 years then it might coincide with a series finale for the show if it lasts 3 or 4 seasons. I didn't vote in the poll but I'm having trouble keeping up with all the great games coming out. So, I would have voted, "It's great."
It surprises me to see people complaining that there are no games coming out and that the industry is in a bad place and here I am drowning in my backlog buying games almost every month and never catching up
