Tomes.

Maybe even Tolstoy's War and Peace. Kids today could use a little culture in their lives.

In Search of Lost Time is over 4,000 pages. That would have to break something.

Today's News:
1) During a recent Reddit AMA session, the CEO of Skybound studio stated the company is currently working on plans to hire former Telltale employees to help finish development for The Walking Dead Final Season.
https://www.destructoid.com/skybound...n-527701.phtml
https://www.destructoid.com/skybound...n-527293.phtml

2) According to reports, NBA Playgrounds has been suddenly delisted from all digital online stores with no official reason given yet by 2K Games nor developer Saber Interactive.
https://www.destructoid.com/2k-quiet...s-527673.phtml

Today's News:
1) Facebook is reported to have cancelled all development for the Oculus Rift 2 and the co-founder of Oculus has recently left Facebook due to being frustrated with Facebook's plans for VR and its future.
https://www.destructoid.com/rift-2-i...k-528085.phtml

2) Former Assassins Creed series producer and founder of Motive Studios, Jade Raymond, announced she has recently left both EA and Motive Studios.
https://venturebeat.com/2018/10/22/j...ntreal-studio/

3) To keep up with today's theme being bad news, publisher Future announced they are ceasing all production for gaming magazines GamesMaster and GamesTM following the release of next month's issues in the United Kingdom.
https://www.destructoid.com/uk-magaz...h-527746.phtml

VR has no future

Eh, they were close this time. Problem was most of the "games" they released were glorified tech demos and not even close to being worth 65 bucks.

Resident Evil 7 showed it has great potential.

Even that's a console game tacked on to VR.

VR never had a Killer App ever. It's been hype for decades now. The recent resurgence was all based on the graphics being better than Lawnmower Man now, but that's not enough.

VR games are not good. And the better ones are never native to VR. It's been over two decades; it's utility just isn't gaming.

Jade Raymond went to EA, created her own studio, and is gone in like a couple years.

Same thing happened with Amy Hennig.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

VR still has some big potential in gaming but probably down to just Nintendo, Valve, and Naughty Dog to pull out the killer app for it any time soon. Those three companies have enough bright minds to really think outside the box or create the memorable experience needed for VR's "Super Mario 64" moment.

Why would they, tho?

There is no consumer demand.

Slender Man would make a great VR game.

To bring something new and lasting to gaming or the next big money maker like PUBG and Fortnite for recent stuff.

Based on past history, Nintendo is more likely to make it work for controls or gameplay-wise, Valve for engine or tech-wise, and Naughty Dog for narrative or experience-wise. All depends if or when they ever get serious about VR gaming.

Think Valve was rumored for a while about seriously considering making a new Half-Life game revolving around their VR tech.

Bioware announced they will be holding an official live stream on November 1st for Anthem showing off new gameplay footage.

Also planned to be shown off is the game's character creation mode and tools.

https://www.destructoid.com/bioware-...k-528167.phtml

"New and lasting" is an amorphous goal that's almost never an actual motivation. I think you're conflating the public or even cultural response to a smash hit game with the honestly simple beginnings of a project. Nobody making Fortnite or Dark Souls was thinking "we're gonna change everything". Every game starts from the same place, maybe leaning toward the financial or artistic at times, but never with such a specific ideal as to be profound.

Companies arrogant enough to actually express this goal tend to set up their own failure.

As far as being a money maker you should keep in mind that we're talking about a video headset apparatus with bleeding edge tracking tech that after 2 decades hasn't managed a single killer app despite many attempts from very smart developers and game jams. I'd dare to say not a single commercially released VR game made good on its investment. Not one.

Today's News:
1) For those interested or are buying Battlefield V, DICE announced the game's Battle Royale mode called Firestorm will not be available to play until at least March 2019.
https://www.destructoid.com/battlefi...h-528326.phtml
https://www.battlefield.com/news/lau...-the-beginning

2) Sony is currently rumored to be developing a remake of MediEvil based on a recent teaser tweet from the lead designer and voice actor of the original game.
https://www.destructoid.com/medievil...t-528273.phtml

3) IO Interactive recently released a new trailer showcasing all the locations for Hitman 2.
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Today's News:
1) Sega announced Team Sonic Racing has been delayed till May 2019 with the official reason related to them needing a lot more time to work on the game.
https://twitter.com/sonic_hedgehog/s...90414382219264

2) Capcom announced they are currently working on Switch ports for Resident Evil 0, Resident Evil 1, and Resident Evil 4 with all three planned to be released next year.
https://twitter.com/Capcom_UK/status...36450313433095

3) For those interested in the Switch version of Diablo III, Blizzard stated a Nintendo Online subscription will not be needed in order to play the game's Seasons online mode. Other online multiplayer modes for the game will require a subscription though.
https://us.battle.net/forums/en/d3/t...age=6#post-120

4) Sony recently confirmed rumors of them currently working on a remake for MediEvil and its official debut trailer will be released on October 31st.
https://blog.us.playstation.com/2018...ones-about-it/

5) Based on a recent report from Kotaku, employees at Rockstar mostly denied having to work 100+ hour weeks for Red Dead Redemption 2's crunch period but did confirm poor working conditions in the company. In regards to RDR 2, the biggest issues were Rockstar removing people from credits if they left the project regardless of how much work they did and giving lower performance scores to dev teams who worked less than 60+ hours per week in order to get teams to work longer.
https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-g...nch-1829936466
https://www.vg247.com/2018/10/23/roc...-credits-work/

Bandai Namco revealed another surprise for Soul Calibur 6 as they got together with Platinum Games to bring in 2B from Neir: Automata as a guest fighter.

Sweet.

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Killed the 2B created character industry.

Playstation classic lineup:

A lot of those games can't have aged well.

Oddworld I think holds up but early 3d games have aged the poorest I think. You can still play SNES and most of up it totally holds up. May be simple but its clean. N64 and PS1 era is rough (ROUGH) on the eyes and im not a graphics gamer at all.

Super Mario 64 is mechanically immortal.

Like half of that list is stuff I don't even remember or never played.

Today's News:
1) Microsoft is currently rumored to be working on Switch-like detachable Xbox controllers for mobile devices as part of their ""Project xCloud" plans for playing Xbox brand games on any device.
https://www.destructoid.com/images-o...e-528963.phtml

2) Sony revealed the full list of 20 games for their Playstation Classic mini-console device. Resident Evil Director's Cut, Twisted Metal, and Metal Gear Solid were among the games included.
https://www.destructoid.com/playstat...s-528948.phtml

3) For those interested, Namco Bandai recently released a new trailer for God Eater 3 along with a February 8, 2019 release date for PS4 and PC.
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1st party nintendo titles had a level of polish that shouldnt have been possible given the lack of experience and the mechanical limitations of the hardware.

Persona vanilla is probably horribly HORRIBLY dated but it's the only title on the classic I kind of want to play just out of morbid curiosity.

Creative vision and leadership.

Time is a major factor as well. In house development starts much earlier than 3rd party so to prepare a game for launch a 1st party title might have as much as an extra 30% lead time.

But i agree with you completely.

Same. And i do find it amusing that P5s success is the sole reason for its inclusion.

Haha yeah, there are so many games that should really be on there over P1

The issue with a ps1 classic has got to be licensing

Very few true classics of that console were in house...if any?

A snes classic could be 50% 1st party with out any effort. Youd be turning games down so you could include 3rd party.

Yeah Sony didn't really have much to show for themselves until PS3. Even then, eh.

Psx and ps2 had tons of amazing exclusives tho

But psx/ps2 1st party is like Microsoft's 1st party. Nonexistent

Ape Escape & MediEvil are the only ones that seem to fit the bill. They used characters from both in that PS3 smash clone. Seems weird neither are on this actually.

Never got into the PS1, load times turned me off. Thoroughly enjoyed my NES/GB up until the 64 came out.