The Wednesday letters page feels bad for the negative press Saints Row is getting as a reader takes a chance on Cyberpunk 2077.
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Surprise Favorite I can’t say if Saints Row is the worst game of 2022 because I haven’t played it, but I feel sorry for the developers if everyone piles on it. There’s a certain type of person who likes to rant about something just because they think everyone agrees it’s bad, and so they can be part of the team if they do the same. Maybe that’s not what’s going on, but that’s what it seems to me.
So instead of joining the dogpile, I thought I’d turn things around and talk about a game that exceeded my expectations and that’s MultiVerus. If you’d told me a free-to-play Smash Bros. clone was going to be my game of the year, I’d have thought you were very odd, but it really is.
The action is great, the characters are varied in both looks and skills, and the whole thing feels very complete and well designed, even though there are hardly any cards and you have to unlock characters. I’m honestly shocked that it went so well and that trying to spend your money on things isn’t even that bad.
It really opened my eyes to what a free-to-play game can be and proved that as unassailable as Nintendo may seem, it’s not impossible for others to make games that are just as good. Maybe it won’t be my favorite by the end of the year, but it’s a really great game.Dalglesh
Too good to be true An Assassin’s Creed 1 remake could rival The Last Of Us Part 1 for the least requested remake ever! I’d be all for Assassin’s Creed 2, but I understand the point is to only reuse resources from the main game, so it’s done cheaply.
What I think is neat is that this will be part of the season pass, which I think is a really good idea. The idea of adding an extra city as DLC actually sounds good too, and I’m not even a particularly big Assassin’s Creed fan.
Unfortunately, this is what leads me to think that some of the rumor probably isn’t true, as it seems too generous. However, if it’s practical, I encourage publishers to try it, because this is the kind of thing that would make me spend money on a pass, not stupid cosmetics and the like.Peppard
Nauseous Suggestion I was doing my daily Google search for the word Nintendo today when I came across an article I just had to read. Its beginning said that the next Legend Of Zelda should be a first person RPG – Reader’s Feature. I have read this entire article and am nauseous. The Legend Of Zelda is a franchise that will live on forever, even after subpar iterations. Breath Of The Wild was a decent game. As a result, there are now more Zelda fans than ever.
That fact is just like when Final Fantasy 7 was released on the PlayStation 1. The open world, going everywhere, changing weather, giant map aspects of Breath Of The Wild made this possible. The lack of REAL dungeons helped keep these new users to the end. And has made them permanent Zelda fans. That’s nice, I’m happy with that. Breath Of The Wild 2 will keep the same world, same Link, same Zelda. Breath Of The Wild 2 brings it closer to the puzzle-solving adventure role-playing game it’s always been.
On the next system, when an eventual new Zelda comes out, I pray with all my being that they all do. Third person, as it always has been, an open world like Breath Of The Wild, but even more and expansive, and dungeons. No more breaking weapons. Ocarina Of Time was a masterpiece because it took all the great stuff you had seen in the 2D games that came before it and used it perfectly in a 3D game.
Honestly, why not give us a Zelda remake? The original Zelda in full 3D with a wider range than Breath Of The Wild, complete with the second quest. The reason they don’t is because I don’t run Nintendo. So in conclusion: no, dammit, no. Don’t make it first person, don’t keep changing it further and further on the western role-playing track. Anonymous
GC: Zelda has never been a role-playing game, that was the point the Reader’s Feature made. There’s also no indication so far that Breath Of The Wild 2 will be any closer to the earlier games in terms of puzzle-solving or anything else.
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Budget cuts I feel sorry for Saints Row because I think the biggest problem is simply the budget. I’ve watched the game for a few streams and not only does it look like the last generation (like in the Xbox 360 generation), but it all looks so cheap. The graphics, the bugs, the radio stations with like two songs you’ve heard of… it all smacks of a game that wouldn’t match the catering costs of a GTA, let alone anything else.
I think they should have reduced the game world or just made linear levels. At least make it more like God Of War, which was kind of an open world, but more like a bunch of hubs stuck together. Since the best part of Saints Row is the combat, it would have made a lot more sense for me to focus on.
I might still pick it up when it inevitably gets cheap (which I doubt it will last long), but I think the whole game plan was flawed if they could just do a knock-off GTA with no money.
An exception The reason that the price of the PlayStation 5 has not increased in the United States is defined in the reason stated by Sony, it increases here because of the exchange rates.
It’s not favoritism, it’s just that many intercompany trade contracts are USD denominated, so the cost of the PlayStation 5 probably hasn’t changed compared to the US retail market.
Sterling, however, has fallen 15% against the dollar in the past year, so relative to their cost, Sony sold it here for 15% less on their books than last year.
It’s not their fault that our pound is worth less than it was a year ago, it’s ours. Anthony White
GC: The price increase applies to the whole world, except for the US. It was mainly attributed to inflation which is 8.5% in the US but only 2.6% in Japan and China or 6.1% in France.
The Curse of Success It seems like if you “win” a generation in a console war, you’re doomed to make a slew of bad decisions in the next generation.
I wrote this ironically, but it’s frustratingly accurate. Sega’s Mega Drive beat Nintendo’s SNES in many countries, but they messed up the Saturn, which was the catalyst for their exit from console making. Sony followed up the ridiculously successful PlayStation 2 with the ridiculously expensive PlayStation 3. Failing to learn from the success of the Xbox 360, Microsoft focused on Kinect and Always Online features that put the Xbox One to death before it even was launched. Finally, Nintendo succeeded the Wii, the console even your grandmother owned, with the Wii U, a console your grandmother didn’t even know existed.
Now it seems that Sony is repeating mistakes of the past by following the success of the PlayStation 4 with the increasingly expensive PlayStation 5. The price increase is, in my opinion, absolutely abhorrent. It is a stark reminder that these companies are not your friends, their only motivation is to make money off you. It seems that the rest of the world is now subsidizing PlayStation 5 purchases in the US, which makes matters worse.
But the price hike is just the latest in a long list of Sony’s missteps, and I’m struggling to understand how this company has managed to destroy all the goodwill it’s created with the PlayStation 4. It’s actually impressive how poorly they seem to understand what gamers like and want, or even how to interact with them.
With most wallet ranges being tightened even further over the next 12 months, I think console sales will falter. Hardly anyone I know has a PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series X, or even seems to want one. It’s not helped by most of the games still available on the previous generation consoles.
But I digress, one thing is certain: Nintendo’s next console will somehow manage to unravel all the good things about the Switch and be an absolute disaster. It’s the way of the console wars.Matt
Secret Fans Consider me another person who is stunned by the success of mafia games. I’ve never played one and never wanted to, simply because they just looked like GTA, but boring. That’s fine, there are a lot of games that I don’t like, but like you said, I’ve never met anyone else who also likes them.
Are they really popular on the moon or something? I’d be very interested to hear from readers who would consider themselves fans. I’m not ignoring them, I’ve just never heard of such people. Clovis
Curiosity rewarded This is a letter I didn’t think I’d write, over the weekend I took a chance. I had a physical copy of Ghost Of Tsushima for PlayStation 5 that I finished (and I can now access the digital version through PS Plus Extra too), so I decided to trade it in at CeX and a few games I didn’t own. played or maybe missed.
The first was asked by reading your article about Project CARS and Project CARS 2 being removed from digital stores due to licensing. Reading the article brought me to the Project CARS 3 review that sounded interesting to me, so I picked up a copy. However, the next game I picked up was the real point: Cyberpunk 2077!
Now I remember the Inbox at launch and seeing the videos and articles about how awful it was, but knowing there have been plenty of patches and I was going to get the PlayStation 5 game upgrade for free I thought it would be worth it was worth seeing. To give a little pretext, the game wasn’t even on my radar upon release. I hadn’t really paid much attention to it and if it hadn’t been such a mess when it was originally released it would have been completely forgotten and never thought about it again.
However, I have to say that I was both pleasantly surprised and absolutely blown away by it. I think the PlayStation 5 version with all the patches is what everyone expected the game to be at launch. The world is absolutely breathtaking, the gunfight is quite good and the story is really engaging and well acted.
It was the perfect tonic for a bit of a grind where I haven’t really played anything for a few weeks, and I never thought I’d say that! I understand people burned by it probably aren’t in a rush, but it’s worth taking a look! Rickandrolla
Inbox also-rans I’m back from vacation and I’m trying to catch up with the Inbox, but Friday 26 August seems to be missing. Was there no Inbox or is this just a glitch? Dom
GC: There was one, it just got the wrong article tag. Here is a direct link.
I don’t think Sony has anything to worry about raising the price of the PlayStation 5. The market is big enough to ignore this and buy anyway. Look at iPhone and their prices. I don’t think Sony is concerned. Anonymous
This Week’s Hot Topic The topic for this weekend’s Inbox was suggested by reader Pinky, who asks what do you do when you’re stuck in a video game?
As technology has changed, so has the way people deal with difficult games, either because they’re stuck in a puzzle, don’t know where to go, or simply because it’s too hard. So what do you usually do? Looking for text-based help online, watching a video, asking a friend, or something else?
Do you still buy physical guides and if so, is that mainly for help with playing the game or more as a collector’s item?
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