I'll start praising once we get Spyro 4.
But yeah... some good funding decisions were made regarding these projects.
But yeah... some good funding decisions were made regarding these projects.
If this thread were about Sony or Nintendo's publishing lineup being great I daresay the reaction wouldn't be anywhere near as hostile. I don't think that just because OP wants to give props for a great lineup that they're disregarding the talent of the actual developers or lining up to lick Bobby Kotick's boots.
Activision has always made good games. What makes Activision garbage is milking them until they die, then discarding the corpse.
They handled Sekiro better than Sony did demons souls or bamco did any dark souls.
Yeah, I completely blanked on Sports games for some reason.
I don't really get that stance other than maybe having any pre-order stuff at all in those games? Dark Souls at least got post-launch support in any capacity. Sekiro didn't need anything but it was weird that there was absolutely no talk of dlc or even the idea of a sequel discussed by them.
At least with Star Wars there's diversity of genres and gameplay. And as far as I can tell the studios that have worked on Star Wars have also worked on other IPs at the same time as well.I mean, the publishers could have continued to stick them all on COD like EA does with Star Wars.
Yup.At least with Star Wars there's diversity of genres and gameplay. And as far as I can tell the studios that have worked on Star Wars have also worked on other IPs at the same time as well.
Aside War 3 Reforged, pretty sure Blizzard's IPs are doing great right now.I feel ripped off for buying Crash Team Racing. Given how much praise it got, I thought it would be fun, but it's a masochistic nightmare.
The new Guitar Hero was literally an FMV game that was dead on arrival.
And their biggest hits are just remakes of old titles. On top of that, everything by Blizzard has been struggling. Warcraft III's abomination came out in 2020, don't forget.
How?They handled Sekiro better than Sony did demons souls or bamco did any dark souls.
They weren't the first to do it, but after Overwatch it became common in 60$ games.
(For the record, I think the Blizzard side of things deserves no accolades. Overwatch feels like a missed opportunity that doubled down on eSports instead of making an enjoyable experience for all players. The Blitzchung situation was despicable. The Warcraft remaster was a disaster. Diablo 4 is years away at this point.)
It's weird to give Activision "credit" for basically not fucking up when it came to 4 games, 2 of which(Sekiro and Overwatch) they had little direct control over. Remember when they eliminated like 10% of their total staff just so that they could report a profit? The only thing they deserve credit for is that they let people who care about Tony Hawk take control of the IP, but that's like the bare minimum.
Can we please drop this narrative. I know its cool to shit on Activision but people need to understand that Activison and Blizzard are one and the same. Blizzard is just a brand under the Activision-Blizzard holding company. The execs are the same. Whatever shade you have for Activision "ruining" Blizzard is on Blizzard itself.Let's give them props for killing Blizzard, a stuiod that used to be one of the best game developers for deacdes.
bamco clearly forces the games out raw and Sony threw demons souls under the bus
Could you stop making reasonable statements please ?I mean come on guys, it's perfectly reasonable to hate the company while admitting that these games were treated with more respect than the usual rose tinted cash grabs.
Nah, they deserve jack shit with their tax evasion, glorified gambling, patching in MTX afterwards and how they handled that Blitzchung thing.