Played about 3 hours yesterday and after a frustrating entry period it started to click and had a good time. It’s a weird mix of battlefield & Apex wrapped in a gaudy game show. It’s solid enough at its core but different enough it stands out.
Im not sure if I’ll stick with it but it has potential. Time will tell if there’s more fundamental issues with it but given its free id say try it.
The recent trailer showed there will be modifiers applied ( looked like a flaming melee mod from the very brief clip). I think this mode will be great as TLOU2 has some genuinely good gameplay that often gets overlooked due to the heavy story focus and general controversy it had at launch.
I tend to think about Infinite this time of year and jump back in for a few weeks but holy shit! Let’s fucking go with firefight! I love this mode and if this is a good version it might get me to stick longer this time around.
The weakest CoD in years (ever?), in a year or nothing but gold releases across every platform and it still causes waves and records. No wonder this DLC was pumped up into a full game and pushed out half arsed, why try when you win without effort.
It’s exactly a DLC that Activision realised they could make people pay £70 for instead of half that. Only a few weeks after MW2 came out it was being floated that there was no COD for 2023, and instead a Ghost focused expansion would come out to fill the void.
Don’t like it don’t buy it but FFS stop with faux shock and horror. COD is of the most aggressively monetised franchises in mainstream gaming, from a company with zero scruples. Facts that have been valid for a decade or more and the regular news cycle attached to it all gets tiring.
Ignore the bugger and maybe they’ll be forced to do better next time when this sell’s poorer (you can hope at least). It’s not like this is some long awaited sequel either, just skip this one. There’s so much more to play this year in particular.
I really like Destiny. It plays well and the world is one that I enjoy immensely. I bought Lightfall and the annual pass this year, as i did for Witchqueen and Beyond Light in the previous years.
I have barely played Destiny this year.
Lightfall was a mess at launch that was incredibly disappointing as both a follow up to the genuinely brilliant Witchqueen and as the penultimate chapter in this near decade long “saga”. The season content this year has been fine to good however, though not enough to pull me back in.
There in lies the problem, 2023 has been a banger of a year for games with multiple titles “worth a buy” each month. This means that as someone who is invested in Destiny, not even I have the time to put into it at the moment on a lackluster year.
I feel like this game lives/dies annually by its expansion that then serves to keep players invested across that years seasons. Between a bad xpac and tough competition from tons of other games, Destiny isn’t in a great spot. This poor year also calls into question what we’re actually going to get with Finsl Shape, and whether it’ll be one of the good or bad years.
Ultimately, my point is that I’m not surprised it’s not making enough money currently, or that there’s less interest in The Final Shape. Bungie have created this situation for themselves.
This looks gorgeous but the more the trailer went in the more I felt it was all very scripted and I’m struggling to get a sense of how it will actually play.
Regardless I’m surprised it was shown given the continued stories coming out about how it’s not in a good state even after years of development and crystal dynamics being brought in to help. Hopefully a sign it’s getting there but the cynic in me feels this was ordered to quell the rumours.