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Metalsonic66 posted...

At least Tomb Raider turned out okay

It's mostly because Crystal Dynamics did most of the work, and Squeenix mostly just acted as publisher. But multiple people have pointed out that Squeenix shuffled Crystal Dynamics off the job and took a more proactive role in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider is easily the worst of the three games by far.

A similar pattern can be seen with Deus Ex. Human Revolution was mostly Eidos, and managed to be a strong entry in the series. Mankind Divided was the one that had a much stronger influence by Squeenix, and the game is shit in about half a dozen ways.

Squeenix mostly succeeds by keeping their fingers out of pies and letting other people do the worthwhile work. But they lack the self-control to keep their fingers out of any of the pies once they start realizing how popular those pies are getting.

They've also got the problem where they screw themselves over by having vastly unrealistic sales expectations based on enviously seeing what sort of numbers CoD is pulling - which is why you have stories like Tomb Raider selling 4 million copies (more than any other Tomb Raider game in history), and Squeenix still viewing it as a failure. Which only encourages them to start tampering, which in turn absolutely ruins the good thing they accidentally lucked their way into in the first place.



Zeus posted...

And I was referring to the possibility that you might come into ownership of a XBone at some point in your life.

Yes, but I am pointing out that I have a greater chance of waking up one day and discovering I have sprouted wings than I do coming into ownership of an Xbone. At a certain point, there's no functional difference between a 0% chance and a 0.0000000000000000~1% chance.

I've actually operated on the assumption for years that if I somehow won or was given an Xbox One for free, I'd immediately sell it or give it to someone else instead of using it myself. This assumption hasn't actually changed at any point.

Nearly every game released this generation that I care about at all is available on the PS4. Halo 5 and the Master Chief Collection are the only games that would even potentially interest me in theory, but they absolutely ruined Halo 5 and the Master Chief Collection has been massively broken since release (something they're only starting to fix four years later), so I have zero interest in playing them.

When it comes to other exclusives, the main ones everybody always used to bring up were Scalebound (which was cancelled, but which I never gave a shit about in the first place), Crackdown 3 (which is endlessly delayed, and which I never gave a shit about in the first place), Quantum Break (which never interested me), Sunset Overdrive (which always seemed like overhyped pretentious garbage, like a shit version of Jet Set Radio), Titanfall 2 (which never interested me), Forza (I haven't been interested in sim-racing games since Gran Turismo 3), and Gears of War 4 (I've never liked the franchise, I see no reason to play the game most people agree is the worst one in it).

Oh, and the joke without a punchline that is Sea of Thieves.

I am very, very confident that I will never own an Xbox One. Just like I was very confident that I would never own a PS3 last generation, and I still don't own a PS3. I'm pretty good at predicting my own personal future preference trends (and have been for more than 25 years).

Granted, Microsoft COULD release a console next gen that solves a lot of my issues with the Xbone and successfully courts third-party support reminiscent of the 360, and thus win me back again. But literally none of the evidence out there now suggests that they WILL. Or that they even want to.


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