The Wednesday letters page thinks Fate Of The Old Republic is going to be a very different game to KOTOR, as a reader argues Valve doesn’t care about Steam Machine sales.
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Red flag
I see Ubisoft is starting to ramp up the marketing for Assassin’s Creed: Black Flag Resynced and I’m not sure I’m buying it… literally. I did like the game back in the day but that was a long time ago and Assassin’s Creed has changed a lot in that time, let alone anything else.
It’s weird how it looks like they’ve changed a lot and yet hardly anything all at once. The thing is, I don’t want to be part of the crowd encouraging them to do more remakes. I don’t mind it with Resident Evil, because they put them out often and the old games are nearly unplayable now. But Assassin’s Creed is hardly in that position. In fact, I’m pretty sure they said they were still going to sell the old version of the game.
We all know how long games take to make nowadays, so I really don’t think we should be wasting five years remaking a game that didn’t really need to be remade. As another reader said, I’d much rather have had a Black Flag 2 than just a remake. I’m not say that I think the remake isn’t worth getting – I’ll wait to see the reviews – but I don’t think it’s the no-brainer that Ubisoft seems to think.
DecaDeka
It’s bigger than that, it’s large
Obviously, everyone knows that GTA 6 isn’t going to flop but I have feeling its first day sales, and all the other sales records, are going to be even bigger than expected. The pent up demand for it is so much that it could be a completely terrible game and it’d still sell five times more than GTA 5.
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It’ll surprise some gamers who are lowballing it at the moment but I think it’s going to break the mind of normies who don’t usually follow gaming. Think about it! GTA 6 is going to be bigger than any movie or TV show or musician or anything that has ever been!
Whether you like it or not there’s millions and millions of people that are going to buy it the second it comes out. I don’t think the internet or people’s sanity will be able to survive.
Korbie
Getting steamed
I think it’s pretty obvious that Valve doesn’t care how much they sell of the Steam Machine or its controller. Since they make more money than they know what to do with, all their hardware and VR stuff just seems to be a pet project of Gabe Newell, not a way to make money
Normally I’d say that was a good attitude to have but not bothering to have pre-orders and not caring about scalpers is a pretty terrible way to treat your potential customers.
Say what you will about the Switch 2 but Nintendo tried their best to make sure there were enough consoles to go round and have done everything they can not to increase prices due to the tariffs. They promised there’d be enough at launch and there was. I think it’s obvious that won’t be the case for the Steam Machine.
Onibee
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On a break
I am curious to see what this year’s Call Of Duty is going to be, and that surprises me. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a company apologise for a sequel before, but Activision did last year and I’m fascinated to see what they’re going to put out that will try and win fans back.
I don’t know what changes they could’ve made in just a year but I’m willing to give them a chance. I didn’t buy Black Ops 7 and I haven’t played any Call Of Duty this whole gen, but that doesn’t mean I couldn’t be tempted back.
A lot of people make these big gestures about how they’ll never play a game but especially with something like Call Of Duty, or a live service game, it’s easy to just take a step away for a few years and then come back later to see what they’ve done to improve it – or not.
Creeper
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Summer shopping
I could see GTA 6 selling more than 25 million in the first 24 hours, I really can. If they’re starting to advertise the game in the summer, which could be around 21st June (first day of summer) at the bottom it will say pre-order now.
That’s a good two months of time for people to save up and buy it. They should do 25 million in pre-orders in 24 hours alone. I mean, I’ve got £150 in my PSN wallet ready and waiting for pre-orders to go live.
David
GC: 21st June is the summer solstice, which is the start of the astronomical summer. In meteorological terms summer starts on 1st June and lasts until the end of August.
Return of the Jedi
I hope this new Knights Of The Old Republic game works out but I am wary because these developers that are made up of people that left to set up their own company never seem to amount to anything. None of the ex-Bungie ones seemed to work out and I’m worried for the guys with their not-Witcher game.
But assuming everything goes well there’s the fact that the game is billed as an action role-player, which the original one absolutely wasn’t. It was an old-fashioned, sort-of turn-based game, which is exactly the sort of thing people don’t make any more.
I’m not surprised that’s not the direction they’re going but it makes me wonder how similar it will really be, especially as it seems to be quite a time skip forward. I suspect, based on the teaser, you’ll just be controlling one character, and not a party, and that’s already disappointing because the original was good because of how many different people you had in your team.
None of this means I think it’ll be bad, but I do think it will be very different. 23 years is a long time and what worked then was never going to work the same way again, which is just one reason amongst many that a remake always seemed a doomed idea.
Bootles
Artificial art
I see Disney films is laying off 1,000 people, from concept artists to designers, to be replaced with AI. Really not a good time in film and games and sadly it’s going to get worse.
I fear everything is just going to look the same and become sterile, without the beauty and imagination a person brings.
TWO MACKS
Future horror
Nice feature on sci-fi horror games, which I would love to see more of. I find it hard to take ghosts and vampires and whatever seriously, but I think we can all see that reality is very quickly catching up with science fiction and that in itself is scary, especially given it’s all the dystopian hellscape stuff that’s coming true – not the Star Trek utopia.
We’re probably just years from robots being openly deployed on a battlefield (they probably already are secretly) and then we’re at the point where Terminator 2 is becoming a documentary, and that’s something you couldn’t say with a straight face a few years ago.
I would also like to give a definite recommendation for Soma, which was on your list and is exactly the sort of thing I’m talking about it. It’s very scary and seems outlandish at first but less the more you think about it.
I’ve not heard anyone talk about it on these pages but there’s actually a ‘spiritual successor’ to Soma that’s mean to be coming out this year. It’s called Ontos and is set on a hotel on the moon, which is another thing that’s suddenly got far less fantastical than it used to be.
It doesn’t have a date yet, so it could be delayed, and it’s described as a ‘psychological thriller’ rather than a survival horror, but I’m hoping it’s going to be a good one.
Cubby
Inbox also-rans
Every time I get reminded the PlayStation VR2 is a thing I get depressed. What a waste of money that was. I sold it off but got less than half what I paid for it.
Justin Tyme
I was watching a friend playing World Of Warcraft and I’m honestly impressed they’re keeping with the same graphics they’ve had since 2004. I know it’s so any PC can play them but it’s like going back in time to the N64 era.
Horton
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