The Tuesday letters page thinks Hideo Kojima’s next game will be announced this month, as one reader suggests everyone is playing Into The Breach.
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Two years later
I’m all for admitting that Call Of Duty gets unnecessarily much criticism from some people, but it’s certainly… optimistic to describe the big reveal event as “era-defining”. To be honest, I’m just getting sick of sequels in general right now, be it Call Of Duty or not.
If your sequels are in double digits and they don’t come out just once or twice a generation like Nintendo does, then by default I’m just not interested. What the game industry desperately needs is more new franchises, more new names, more things we haven’t heard or seen before.
The last generation already had less new IP than all the previous ones and so far it seems that this generation will have even less. Half the time, it hardly looks like this gene has even started and while that’s in large part due to the pandemic, it’s simply because no attempt has been made to do anything new.
Remember when Microsoft and Sony marketed SSDs as a game-changer that would change the way developers make games? Well, it continues two years later and the only game that has even used it in an unusual way is Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and it didn’t matter much.
There could be all sorts of extenuating reasons, but as far as I’m concerned, the next generation has been a disappointment and I don’t see any chance of that changing anytime soon.
MBE
Draw their time
I wonder what the new Tekken game will be. It’s not something that gets talked about much, but that franchise has to be one of the most consistent out there. Maybe there aren’t huge highlights, but I can’t recall ever being hugely disappointed by any of them. (Not counting Death By Degrees, of course.)
Like any fighting game, a new sequel has the same problem: what do you have to do to make it different, but it’s managed all along without resorting to gimmicks, so I say just keep going.
The best news to come from Evo, however, was not that Guilty Gear -Strive- hit 1 million sales. Well done to Arc System Works I say. They’ve been on the hard transplant for a year and it sounds like they’re only now getting the recognition they deserve. Can’t wait to see what they do next.
Wooster
Caught again
I know there was a leak a few months ago, but isn’t it strange that we haven’t heard what Hideo Kojima is working on yet? If it’s this horror game, why hasn’t it been announced yet? Especially if someone has already seen the leaked trailer.
I suspect he’s waiting to reveal it at his friend Geoff Keighley’s show, which I believe is at Gamescom this month. If not, then definitely The Game Awards in December.
Whatever it is, I hope it’s not a Death Stranding sequel. Not that I didn’t like the original, but I really don’t feel like playing a sequel. Kojima already spent way too much time with Metal Gear, for long years he could have done other things, and I wouldn’t like to see him get caught up again.
Even the horror game sounds like it might just be a replay of its aborted Silent Hills game. For a man so famous for his imagination, it’s a shame he only sticks to a (small) handful of franchises.
Fangor
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Changed experience
Like Kimble, I prefer the kind of experience Battlefield can deliver over Call Of Duty. It’s just that he doesn’t deliver it anymore. There was no emphasis on team/squad play as there is no microphone support for god knows how long!? I also like a big battle, but they seem to have lost the 128 player Breakthrough.
The vehicles are the only saving grace and the only reason I’ll ever turn the game on, and even then I’ll be lucky if I get to the draw fast enough to actually drive them.
I really can’t wait for Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
At least I’ll be able to get some semblance of teamwork from search and destroy.
TommyFatFingers
movie classic
Night Trap, the controversial ’90s game on the Sega CD that made headlines from BBC News, is currently available for pre-order on PlayStation 5 Standard and Collector’s Edition from Limited Run Games through Sunday, August 21.
I was planning to pick up the standard version to experience the game that came on BBC News in the mid 90’s! It’s now also in 4K!
Andreas J.
Full disclosure
CD Projekt is still not completely transparent about the entire Cyberpunk 2077 development process and only shows us an update every 10-12 months if we’re lucky. Especially considering that they lost nearly $100 million developing the $316 million total, it should be enough to keep the customer in the dark as much as possible.
Look, I’m a huge fan of the game, so much so that I finished it on a last-gen console rather than the new-gen console simply because the story was gripping, the music was phenomenal, and the fact that the graphics being out of this world for a game of this scale. And that’s why I want it to become an even better game over time, and not feel like it’s slowly dying or the whole development is interrupted, like Watch Dogs Legion, another promising game with too many bugs to really be. to enjoy.
Now I understand that the game is huge, that’s why I don’t care that much about the DLC, just that they solve as many technical problems as they can find, and make it as close to a masterpiece as they intended to make it.
Anonymously
Xtreme Xbox
RE: Denshan. if Microsoft made a steamy handheld it would have a terrible name.
If they didn’t call it X-Stream they’d miss the obvious, but it’s the worst name imaginable. Can you imagine the ad? ‘X-Stream is extreme!’
It would be the 90s most thing ever and worry that if they did this (and turned up the ham), it might just work.
Tron
Insider secrets
In response to a recent article about Sony being concerned about making Call Of Duty exclusive to Xbox.
Sony is concerned and rightly so, but maybe Sony is hurting themselves when they could be playing Microsoft at their own game.
Undoubtedly, the recent acquisitions of Microsoft Bethesda and Activision Blizzard are real game changers (no pun intended). The Bethesda takeover caused me and some friends to buy an Xbox, although I would have always claimed to be “Team Sony.”
The question I have is, why isn’t Sony fighting fire with fire? When Sony acquired Bungie, they could have easily turned the next Destiny into a true AAA-exclusive title, but Sony doesn’t seem to have any intention of that strategy, and their recent acquisition of repeat.gg doesn’t make any business sense. Will Sony return to typing and rely on teams like Naughty Dog to keep them afloat? If so, I think Sony has a big problem ahead of them.
Anonymously
GC: There’s no way to answer that question, as anyone who would know isn’t talking or probably won’t tell the full truth. But maybe it was Bungie’s determination. Sony has repeatedly said they were primarily interested in Bungie’s expertise with live service games and not necessarily Destiny 2.
Inbox is running too
Great to see all the love for Into The Breach from GC. Totally agree it gets a 10/10 on Netflix. Not only does it have a ton of new content, but it’s essentially free. Everyone should play it.
Kreeps
I don’t understand how someone uploads a 30 second clip of Diablo 4, of him saying he probably shouldn’t upload it, only to be surprised that it gets deleted. With friends like that, Blizzard doesn’t need enemies!
Bolton
This week’s hot topic
The topic for this weekend’s Inbox was suggested by reader Cosmo, who asks what is your favorite video game universe?
Which game or franchise do you think has the most interesting fictional universe? Is it because of the lore, the characters, the art design, the gameplay, or something else? What is a good fictional world and how has your choice improved the games it has been played in?
Have you explored the game world in media outside of video games, such as books and comics, and do you think it’s interesting enough to be adapted as a TV show or movie?
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