Oh, didn't know they also announced video games and were responsible for the comics adaptation.
I mainly knew them for the wonderful Winter Dragon pilot. I can't help but like it, in a so-bad-it's-so-good way lol
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The old WoT video game was surprisingly competent, and if you're willing to forgive its FPS nature that turned the One Power into guns, there was a lot of love for the IP, with every "gun" referencing a specific quote from the books.
Definitely not what I'd expect from a WoT game, but far from a hack/fraud.
By using this instance you agree to be crime and do gay.
I don't need your permission to be myself, you nerd.
I'm not even a Star Wars fan, but I spent a lot of time with the PS1 Phantom Menace game as a kid. Some of its levels (Naboo and Tatooine especially) felt surprisingly open world for a game of that era.
Have you tried the titles from Amanita Design? They've made quite a few old-school point-and-click games, with hand-drawn graphics and cute stories despite the characters never talking.
My favourite is Machinarium.
The first thing anyone should do when buying a smartphone is disabling/uninstalling the trash on it, including (especially) Google stuff.
There are tons of better Gallery applications out there.
Those games are already available on PC, nobody was freaking out about that. People were wary of MS exclusives being ported to other console platforms.
Consoles live and die by exclusives. Porting those over suggests a lack of faith in the brand and would be like admitting defeat. It wasn't clickbait rage journos baiting people, it was people reading the room and realising that the Xbox brand wasn't as strong as they thought.
The point is, Xbox is performing very badly, with the latest metrics suggesting not only that PS5 blew them out of the water, but also that XSeries is selling less than its predecessor. Coupled with rumors about exclusives going multiplatform, people feared that it meant that MS didn't have enough faith in the brand to keep going, and that Xbox would end like Windows Phone.
The concern was real and, in my opinion, perfectly justified. MS telling them to wait a week for an answer, without dismissing the rumors was the weird part. They saw the community on fire and said, "This is fine". All-around incompetence.
I wonder what took them so long to make a response. The community was turning against them and they took an entire week to tell them that no, they do, in fact, want to keep making video game consoles.
Nothing announced in the video is ground-breaking, nor did it require so much time to prepare.
(Honestly, Pentiment and Hi-Fi Rush going multiplatform in place of Starfield is a huge win for PlayStation users lol)
Spent a good chunk of my childhood playing Sacred 1. It's aged very poorly, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone nowadays, but I still think that the world design and environmental storytelling were some of the best I've found in a videogame.
For example, at the beginning of the game, orcs are migrating from the desert and attacking human settlements. When you progress, you discover that they aren't doing it because they want to, but because the undead army is forcing them out of their land. And when you progress in the northern part of the world, there's a completely optional region inside the forest, where you can find a few hastily made orcish settlements - but you only find women and shamans, because the men are fighting at the front. There are no dialogues, quests, books or anything telling you that, it's just something that you infer from the environment.
It made exploring the world and finding its secrets fun, even if there wasn't always a reward.
(There were also a metric ton of easter eggs, from tombstones mentioning LotR characters to receiving sunglasses as a reward for chasing rude orc visitors from a tourist island... it was a wild game)
Find someone that loves you like GameNOW loves that Final Fantasy screenshot.