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Monday’s papers think a new Modern Warfare is the last thing Call Of Duty need, as a reader is bored at the time of Summer Game Fest.

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Sudden ending
I’m a little unclear if Destiny 2 is getting mothballed or if it will continue. I admit I’m a lapsed gamer and haven’t touched it in almost a year so I guess I’m part of the problem. But I got tired of the way Bungie handled it, with all the twists and turns and arch content you paid for.

Clearly I’m not the only one, and now Bungie has paid the ultimate price, which will probably mean shutting down or shrinking the developer to the point where they’ll never be able to do anything big again. A truly shocking end to the creators of Halo and to what was for a long time one of the greatest multiplayer games around.

I don’t know if they now regret leaving Activityand before that Microsoftbut that’s definitely not how I imagined their story ending. I think Activision actually kicked them out so they must have thought they were saved when Sony bought them…

GC: The game is still alive and will remain so for the foreseeable future, but it is no longer receiving live service updates. So that’s probably it as far as major new content goes.

only in the US
I see time for summer window displays are as awkward as they can be for Europe (or Japan). The state of PlayStation at 10pm on a Tuesday is bad enough, but Summer Game Fest is on Friday. Is that really what I want to do on a Friday night? I’m not sure it is. of Xbox one is only 6pm but it’s sunday night and that’s not good at all.

I feel like in years past there was a better effort to pick a time for everyone, but lately they just don’t seem to bother. Based on previous years, I don’t think I’d miss anything just by having a normal night and reading about it all in the morning. I wish game companies would realize that there is a world outside of the US.
Cranston

Losing patience
i feel Nintendo is skating on thin ice at the moment when it comes to raising its price. We all know the memory crunch is a real thing, but to increase the cost and say you will they make as much console as they were anyway… that doesn’t exactly sound like a company that is hurting.

It must be nice for a company to just make a lot of profit in a tough time, instead of massive amounts, but business doesn’t want that. It seems like Nintendo knows it’s pushing its luck, with talk of having a better line of games, but if that doesn’t happen soon, people will stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Black pepper

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terribly late
I tend to agree with the theory that Sega has left things too long to revive most of its old series. Crazy Taxi it was incredibly shallow even when it came out and I can’t imagine anyone wanting to play it now. Or at least not paying £50+ for it. But if they make the game free or something, they’ll have to fill it with microtransactions and other horrible things.

Maybe a compilation of old school remastered games, but I can’t imagine it being cost effective. The new Shinobi game was definitely a failure and I can’t see Crazy Taxi or anything similar being any different.
People talk about Jet Set Radio, but as much as die-hard fans love it, it wasn’t popular at the time and the multi-format sequel was even worse. Good job trying to make it seem relevant 25 years later.
jealous

Minimal effort
Totally agree with GC article on the lost art of video game announcements. There’s such a lack of excitement around game reveals these days, and it’s not just because most things come out prematurely.

If the reason they’re doing it is because it’s cheaper, then I never see them going back, but that’s a real shame to me. Surely I would have thought it would count as good publicity, having a splash that found everyone talking about it. But I think it’s cheaper to just publish a tweet and call it a day.
Tony T.

Plan Z from outside Activision
I understand that you can’t make a game like Call Of Duty in a hurry (although they certainly transformed Modern Warfare 3 from DLC to game very quickly), but I think it will be a disaster for Activision that has the next game is a Modern Warfare game.

The whole reason fans started turning against the series is because it kept doing the same thing, with endless Black Ops and Modern Warfare games, and now their answer to two Black Ops games in a row is… another Modern Warfare.

If I were them, I would have simply changed the name and characters. Most Call Of Duty plots are pretty interchangeable, so I don’t think it would have been that hard.

I don’t even know if next year’s game will have had enough time to do something new. Probably not, to be honest. So if this year goes bad as well, and maybe the next few years, you’re looking at the end of Call Of Duty, not literally, but possibly as one of the most popular games around.

It’s always going to be relatively easy for him to hit the nostalgia button, but they’ve already had Modern Warfare 1 and 2 revamps and reboots, so two of the most obvious ones are already gone. Sure, they could make the original Black Ops or something, but I don’t think it’s enough.

Activision had all the time in the world while they were in charge to make plans B to Z, but it’s now clear that they haven’t prepared anything. Not if their big concept to turn things around is another Modern Warfare sequel.
FOCUSING

The part is missing
I’m also very disappointed with Saros, which is strange to say when I think the game is still very good. of Reader feature He’s right though, in that everything but the combat was definitely worse than The Return.

I really don’t know what they were thinking with the story, which barely exists for most of the game and is super obvious anyway. I didn’t know the Return director was gone, but that totally explains it. Will be interested to see what he does next.
Barney

Pole vault
Recent talk about arcade machines makes me remember how good those days were. I must have racked up a lot of hours either watching ace players or taking part myself, which speaks volumes for how fascinating these cars were. As good as computers and home consoles were back then, arcade machines were still more powerful.

The arcade game I must have spent the most on in that time was the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles arcade game, of which just over five pounds was spent on twenty pence in my local town cafe with a mini-arcade room at the back. I was determined to get past Krang and beat the Shredder, but in the end I couldn’t beat the many Shredder clones, but it was great fun regardless.

I think it was the PlayStation 2, N64, Dreamcast and Xbox onwards that consoles and arcades were getting closer in power to each other’s performance. Then, from the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One onwards, arcades were seemingly on the decline. There was a console called the Neo-Geo that replicated the game surprisingly well, but it was very expensive and their games were ridiculously priced, although that’s ironic now, with the expected price of GTA 6.

Another thing I liked about the arcade experience was the solid joystick and buttons. I mean, you had to be pretty aggressive to break them as they were strong and tough in almost every way. But like fun fairs, 20 or 30 pence turned into £1 and it was quite a costly affair. But so was having a powerful PC or console setup in the bedroom or game room.

Akihabara Electric Town and places like that where you will still be able to experience the classic arcade setup. But now online multiplayer and Roblox is apparently the dominant force. One thing is for sure, the memories of hanging out with friends in these gaming shrines are still as strong as ever and those times will never be forgotten.
Alucard

GC: Arcades were in decline by the time of the PS1. For all intents and purposes, they were already dead by the PlayStation 4 era.

Inbox-ka too
Although I have my issues with Forza Horizon 6 (namely the lack of proper crashes), I’m very happy to see it succeed, as it could mean more big-budget arcade racers in the future. Bring back Ridge Racer and OutRun!
Plesco

Has there ever been a Planet of the Apes game? It seems like one of the few major sci-fi franchises that I don’t recall ever having a tie-in.
Zeiss

GC: There have been quite a few, in fact, although none of them have been high-profile or very good. There were a couple based on the 2001 reboot and the most recent was the VR game Crisis On The Planet Of The Apes.

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