The Tuesday letters page is unimpressed by Sony’s compensation for the PSN outage, as one reader thinks a new God Of War game set in Greece is a bad idea. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk. PLEASE NOTE: Due to staff illness there will be no Inbox on Wednesday. Normal service should resume on Thursday. Risk takers. If there’s one thing that gives me confidence about the Nintendo Switch 2 launch it’s that they’re taking a ‘risk’. I know they only mean in terms of making lots of them, even though they don’t know if they’ll all sell, but as usual in the games industry, and I guess most everything else, it’s the smaller companies that take all the risks and the big ones that just pump out the same old slop all the time.
It’s not a good idea to idolise any company but I would certainly be more willing to take a risk on Nintendo, in terms of hardware and games, than I would anyone else. The only risk Sony seems willing to take at the moment is whether they can get away with no proper compensation for the PSN outage. So I’m going to buy a Switch 2 at launch. Even though it’s not really a risk and I can just sell it on easily if there’s a problem. I feel the companies that actually make an effort and don’t take their customers for granted should be rewarded. That’s why I’m getting a Switch 2 and I’d be interested to know who else is too.
War without end. The idea of sending Kratos back to Greece, whether it’s a prequel or whatever, seems completely pointless to me. The whole reason the new games are good is because they completely rethink the dumb edgelord attitude of the originals and make Kratos seem like a real character. Even if they’re planning to remake and retcon the originals that seems pointless. The series is good because Kratos’ character shows growth and messing with that seems a very bad idea.
I can understand they might be worried that there’s nowhere to really go with the series though. I don’t think anyone’s all that interested in Atreus and I’m not sure what a game set in Egypt would be about. Is he just going to kill another set of gods for whatever reason?. In reality, you’d have say that the story for everyone had reached a natural end and there doesn’t need to be another game. Except there has to be because it sells and so, like everything else, it can never really end.
Necessary evil. Not for the first time I find myself hoping that Monster Hunter is a big hit, while having absolutely no interest in playing it myself. I’ve never liked the games and no matter how well this one reviews I can’t imagine myself getting it. It’s the only major Capcom franchise I’ve never liked and yet somehow it’s their most successful. There’s lots of reasons I don’t really like it but the main one is that the combat is so awkward and clunky. It’s the literal opposite of all of Capcom’s other action games and for a while I really resented it. Then I realised that the success of the games were helping to pay for the stuff I do like, like Resident Evil, the new Onimusha, and hopefully the rumoured new Devil May Cry.
So my attitude about the game kind of changed and now I consider myself to be technically a Monster Hunter fan. Not because I enjoying playing it but because I want it to succeed so it can fund the games I do like. Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk. Business as usual. I think it’s a lesson to all publishers that if even a giant company like Take-Two is leaving the PC version till after, when they can make a proper job of it, you probably should too. So many PC versions of console games are terrible at launch, just because they’re rushing them out to come out at the same time as the console versions. Although even separate releases, like for Sony games, are often bad too, even though they’ve had plenty of time to get them right.
Games not working at launch might still be a hot issue for consoles but it’s just par for the course on PC and I’m sick of it. I’d like to think Rockstar will do a decent job now but, to be honest, I think their beef is more that they hate mods, so they probably want to delay the release so they can concentrate on stopping them after the console versions are already out and sorted. Colbat84. To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video.
Up Next. Maximum anticipation. I’m still waiting for the first third party company to ‘accidentally’ reveal something about the Switch 2, and what Nintendo’s response to that will be. I think not having the Nintendo Direct until April is a great idea. The reveal showed so little that people are now busy imagining and speculating and generating more and more hype. This is why I think the modern preference to not announce a game properly until very close to release is such a bad idea. The earlier you know the more anticipation there is. It’s only hearing about the game a hundred times, and getting sick of it before it’s out, that’s a problem and that definitely isn’t an issue at the moment!.
