The evening Inbox wonders if people have already stated buying two next gen consoles, as one reader learns to hate Conan O’Brien.
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The movie of Zelda
I have to say I actually hope that story about Nintendo making CGI movies is true, and that the emails leaking out doesn’t put them off or anything. I’d love the idea of a big budget movie based on Zelda or Metroid, even though the idea of a live action film leaves me cold. To be honest Mario seems like a harder sell, but I guess if it used some of the Paper Mario (non-Sticker Star) humour then it could work pretty well. I could imagine the guys that did the Lego Movie making a good job of it.
A Zelda movie that looked like the new game though? I’d buy that for a dollar. Probably several of them.
Ishi
The dealbreaker
I am not surprised to find that the Xbox one outsold the PlayStation 4 in November, whilst there may have been no official price drop the sheer proliferation of Xbox One deals over PS4 deals, and the aggressiveness of said deals, it was all but guaranteed. Also, as you say, the Xbox One exclusives in the run-up to Christmas have looked more impressive, and I can certainly add that Forza Horizon 2 is a great game.
I also wonder if some of the Xbox One says are people who already purchased their PlayStation 4 and now purchasing the Xbox One for the exclusives. I am not sure the percentage of video game players that own more than one console, but I certainly got my Xbox One in October for exclusives, having already picked up a PlayStation 4 earlier in the year.
Blackrogue13
GC: We doubt many get both at the same time, but it certainly seems reasonable to imagine that many may have got one last year and are getting the second for this Christmas.
Latest update
A Borderlands HD update?! Is there really anyone in the world that asked for that? I mean I like the games well enough, but the second one took so long to play through I have zero interest of doing so again with slightly better graphics. I mean the graphics are purposefully bad already so what are they going to do but up the resolution?
Surely these kinds of updates have just as much chance of putting people off a game as they do anything else. Say this comes out next spring and the sequel is the winter, who’s going to want to play so much Borderlands all in a row? Once again the GTA approach of making you actually want a sequel seems so much the best.
Hammeriron
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Re-boycotting
I bought Destiny on day one. I’ve had a tremendous amount of fun playing it and reached level 28 with my Hunter. The moment-to-moment gunplay is superb, almost without peer in my opinion. The thing is, I hurt my wrist nearly two months ago and have been unable to play games except in very short bursts so I left Destiny for a while but I knew what to expect with the first expansion, having seen Bungie’s list of rather meagre content.
I booted up Destiny on Wednesday morning to find that I could not engage in two activities because they had been ring-fenced for DLC buyers. To say I was angry would be an understatement. I have discovered that there are further changes that disadvantage those who did not buy the DLC, too.
As someone who has supported Bungie by purchasing every game they released since Halo along with singing their praises to all and sundry I feel disappointed and betrayed by their decision to isolate part of the game on a rotational basis and for releasing such a tiny amount of content for such a huge amount of money.
As a value proposition I reckon the DLC is maybe worth a fiver but I bet thousands have bought it for £20, significantly more than $20. Obviously none of the DLC buyers will read this because they are so busy enjoying it, they don’t have time to vilify those that think it is a rip-off.
So now Destiny is up for auction. Whatever I get for it will go towards the Wii U I have been saving for. To think I broke my Activision boycott to buy it. Never again I tell you!
Big Lizafish (gamertag)
When the banhammer falls
RE: Destiny unfair bans. So there’s discussion of the people including me who are getting banned for no reason. My story is that I have downloaded The Dark Below and I played it for one day. The next day I logged on to Destiny and it said I’m banned… I don’t even know the reason why I was banned. I did nothing wrong. So I wonder if you can write a story about the unfair banning that’s happening to us.
Link to one of the forum topics. Bungie said they do not discuss bans but these are unfair. And the other post before the author had made a new one.
degorat04
GC: The post here suggests it’s because you were using a modified console. The guy in the first post certainly seems to be implying he was.
Grind therapy
Seeing that other people have gotten bored of Destiny makes me feel better GC, I’m not going to lie. I put so many hours into Destiny getting to level 20 and I had a lot of fun with it. After that point however the game loses all direction and it becomes a boring, repetitive cycle of doing the same two or three things – after level 26 I gave up… bored and knackered.
What really annoyed me was the fact that progression after level 20 is a lottery (the gaming equivalent of purgatory)! You are a slave to the games algorithms and random drops – surely in a game with loot-dependent progression there should be better gaming systems in place. If nothing else enemies should drop more loot increasing your likelihood of getting an item you need.
In saying that when I stopped playing Destiny I fully expected the DLC to really tempt me back into the game and yet; here I am, absolutely no desire to grind for hours with nothing to show for my time. I am sorely disappointed in Destiny, it’s a game that is so lacking in any real ambition – a side-effect of the planning by committee – and that’s a real big shame as it could/should have been a game changer.
*Shameless self promotion engage*
I run a little gaming blog and at the moment I am trying to convince my readers to send me their stories (so I can run a series of them, a Hot Topic of sorts I guess) about their favourite Christmas gaming memories – they don’t have to be long, but if any GC’er out there would like to send me their tales of joy/woe/comical indifference I would be hugely appreciative! mrluvvaluvva.wordpress.com is the address.
A happy Chrimbo to all! (gonna endeavour to write in more though as I read everyday).
MrLuvva-Luvva (PSN ID) Add me!
No right or wrong
Aww… not fair… you almost make me feel ‘wrong’ for still liking Destiny. I don’t get much time to play so to dip in and do a short mission or couple of patrols is good for me… not so easy to try anything that much longer though on a regular basis, so I know I’m missing out on what could be the better part of the game.
No desire to purchase the DLC at this stage, certainly not after your ‘review’. Will keep on playing it as I’ve been doing for now or until I do get bored of it.
WoDMaN
PS: Hoping for Wii U from the wife for Christmas… mostly for Mario Kart family fun.
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Distant third
Good to see Super Smash Bros. doing well in the US charts, but boy the Wii U is so behind the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 sales it’s not funny. I never really thought about it in detail but I sort of imagined it might start to catch up, but this makes it obvious it never will. I guess the way Nintendo runs its business it doesn’t really matter, as long a they make a profit, but it doesn’t seem fair that the good games are not being rewarded.
There’s basically zero reason to buy a PlayStation 4 this year (I should know, I’ve already got one) and yet everyone will just to play tripe like Driveclub and… some multiformat stuff. They’ve no-one to blame but themselves I know but it does seem a shame now that the line-up is good.
Gonder
Inbox also-rans
RE: Terry Gold. I’d like to see Rocksteady have a crack at making a Bond game. They’ve made really good use of the Batman license and being British I can imagine quite a few Bond fans in the team
Ty Snowdon
GC: Unfortunately Rocksteady are owned by Warner Bros., which we assume makes it impossible. Which is a shame, because it does seem a good match.
I don’t know who Conan O’Brien is, but after having played Lego Batman 3 I find myself wishing harsh physical pain on him. Who on earth thought the ‘celebrity’ cameos were a good idea?
Dengar
This week’s Hot Topic
The subject for this weekend’s Inbox was suggested by reader iLike Fat Ladys (gamertag) and asks what’s the angriest you’ve ever got playing a game?
Although the obvious assumption is that it’s because of something that was particularly hard or unfair the reason can be whatever you want. Did any controllers or other peripherals get broken in the process, or anything else in the room you were playing? What were the repercussions of your outburst, and how much do you regret it now?
Do you feel the incident was more your fault or the game’s? And is whatever set you off a common element in other titles, and does it annoy you as much there? Do you often get angry when playing games and how much do you think that’s a problem?
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