It isn't a good thing to be honest. It's lowkey promoting laziness from companies. Instead of studying the market to get a foothole in there, they just jump on the bandwagon of Tencent. SMH.

Though hopefully Tencent puts their foot on Square Enix's neck to do better because the way they manage their teams is just atrocious. Final Fantasy XV in development for a fucking decade, and it was one of the worst main final fantasy games in the series. Final Fantasy VII Remake and Kingdom Hearts 3 are taking forever to make, and they're constantly delayed. I know that people like Square so they don't want to criticize them, but there is no excuse for them to be that bad.

No. No. Yes.

I told you.

If they use a new engine, i won't call it a port.

You seem to not notice that you said that, that i won't call it a new game even if it has a different engine. And i corrected you.

You seem to have something personal with me...

I’d like to get a PS4 Pro but I really don’t like the stories that I’ve been hearing about how hot and loud that they run.

@Kusimeka: Not really, my expectations for a more expensive game are more related to the more non essencial gaming aspects of a game than with its core qualities. For example, a 9/10 game to me must have really good gameplay mechanics regardless of budget. That's where I feel that a game like Owlboy fails, those qualities are just not there. I guess we just have to disagree.

@Kusimeka: Well a 0.10s difference is huge on 100m while being a small fraction, and a £0.05 to £0.15 difference is tiny while being the triple. My point is when evaluating a game IMO the price differences aren't that significant to the point that should have a big impact in scores (except exceptions that have more to do with business practices than price point).

@Kusimeka: I said, to me. When I'm going to buy a game it's kind of irrelevant the price point since where not talking about a lot of money. While a record time is a RECORD, it's something that most can't achieve, it's in the name. ?

Of course if I payed £60 for a 1h game I would be pissed, but other than extreme cases I think price should be left out of reviews. I'm playing Hollow Knight now, and in all honesty £10 for it feels like a steal. But if it was a Ubisoft game, made by 500 people at £60 plus a £40 season pass, plus microtransactions, to be able to play the exact same game I guess that should be taken into account too.

@KungfuKitten: Personally I don't take into account price point, as to me I don't see a difference from 20 to 60 as a big thing. But I'm OK with reviewers making that distinction as long as they make sure to mention that.

But it's odd to me, it's not like, let's say, a TV were sometimes you can see a review being a bit harsh when is £2000 but after a while you have an update where they recommend it because it's now £1000.

And honestly, one of the biggest problems with big games it's how much filler they have. To the point that it's frequent for me to feel like my overall experience is lessened because of that. I don't mind paying full price for a well balanced 8h game, I really don't need to climb walls non stop or get into filler shooting sequences to feel like I have my money's worth. On the contrary. Uncharted 4 is a classical example for me. I mean, I can clearly see that's an expensive game to make, its production values are evident. The last thing I needed from that game is getting to a point of saturation like I did because its pacing was ruined, just so that costumers feel like they have their money back. This is a problem also with movies. Do we really need a 3h Transformers movie? What's wrong with the old 90m action movie? Jebus! Worst thing is that much of this is actually caused by consumers that demand quantity over quality. Maybe something to do with changes in our society that are too deep for me to even understand.Edit: This is to say why I also tend to prefer smaller gamer over AAAs. They deliver a much more focused and polished experience, IMO. But with Owlboy I didn't find the quality to be there to justify such high scores.

You're talking about genre I'm talking about presentation. I play lots of genres but draw the line at ugly pixellated graphics it's not what I want to look at when I play a game these days. It seems to be a design choice and to me it's a lazy one and tbh it's a bit pretentious that people are constantly passing off this garbage as 'pixel art' just my opinion.

This is definitely one of the games that I think is in the most need of a remake. I'm hoping that the remake of Resident Evil 2 does really well which will then motivate Konami to remake Silent Hill.

By the way, whatever happened to the Resident Evil 2 remake? I haven't heard anything about it in a really long time.