I don't like his face. He has an annoying face. The smug eyes, yes, but the mouth. Not in this capture, but in other ones, he is designed with a stupid looking mouth.
I like corny humor, but this game doesn't strike me as funny even in that way in any video of it that I've seen.
i dunno man i have a lot of games to play. i've done the skip cutscenes thing before and it just feels empty like i'm wasting my time. a story is there to be appreciated. i'm a big gameplay guy but if your story sucks, then what am i doing. it's not like i'm at a loss for good gameplay. i do like rhythm games though
>it's not like i'm at a loss for good gameplay.
i am
this game is unique and apparently there'll never be anything like it again. it's definitely worth it for the game alone
Microsoft is losing money and killed off a couple studios. Tango is one of them.
Not even shifting the staff over to another Bethesda camp, just straight up cut everyone.
I feel like gaming studios are just not sustainable except if the game is not a live service which brings in consistent earnings.
The future will be big studio soulless live service games (gacha, mmorpgs, mobas, etc.) and indie games made by 1-5 people.
Evil Within 1 and 2 were every bit as good as the original RE4. The shitty part is that the market incentive is to make those types of games. Only always online, live service games are capable of perpetually making money and all of those suck dick. It also apparently costs a lot to makes games these days. If you're only looking at profitability, then "trimming the fat" means getting rid of all of the good stuff.
Lovely. So the big publishers will go all in on GAAS and hyper-monetization, and in a few years from now, when we get a whole bunch of Hyena-level flops, they'll fold and we'll have nothing left but pretentious indies by trust-fund hipsters.
shutting down a studio and redirecting the money budgeted for it to shareholder dividends & executive bonuses goes down on paper as a more profitable fiscal quarter than if you just keep developing a game that won't come out for another 2+ years, so people with business degrees will always make that choice. the only exception is a live service game which ideally constantly brings in revenue.
>so people with business degrees will always make that choice
Have you ever noticed how so many gaming and tech companies start circling the drain once the founders step down and get replaced by businessmen with MBAs?
MBAs are designed to turn people into remorseless sociopaths who only care about lines going up - and we've put them in charge of society.
people worry about an AI taking over the world and turning everyone into paperclips when this is already effectively happening. the economic incentives of our society have led us to where brainwashed MBA pigs are put in charge of everything, shut down all productive industries in favor of gaming financialized instruments and hollowing out the base of our economy. they destroy whole industries to divert resources and a billion gallons of water to a nascent so-called AI which is really a glorified auto-correct which will never do anything that a human couldn't do better for a modest wage. and people will post on a chinese cartoon imageboard celebrating the institutional rot because they think a homosexual was employed by the studio, all while their mother dies of poverty and their future is stolen by wealthy devil worshippers
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Anonymous
Well put. All anyone on both sides seems to care about these days is homosexuals getting hired and making propaganda, not about the massive wealth transfer from virtually everyone to the ultra-rich or the death of the middle class.
>REDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year: >· Revenue was $61.9 billion and increased 17% >· Operating income was $27.6 billion and increased 23% >· Net income was $21.9 billion and increased 20%
>Revenue in More Personal Computing was $15.6 billion and increased 17%, with the following business highlights: >· Windows revenue increased 11% with Windows OEM revenue growth of 11% and Windows Commercial products and cloud services revenue growth of 13% (up 12% in constant currency) >· Xbox content and services revenue increased 62%
Tango is 99% japanese and doesn't speak English so it wouldn't work.
I feel like gaming studios are just not sustainable except if the game is not a live service which brings in consistent earnings.
The future will be big studio soulless live service games (gacha, mmorpgs, mobas, etc.) and indie games made by 1-5 people.
They are, look at Capcom or Namco, even Square is fricking up left and right but still in business. These American companies only care about keeping profits up even if they are killing off potential talent.
>give amazing ACTUALLY ORIGINAL indie game no advertising whatsoever and shadow drop it randomly >immediately put it on gamepass, so most of the people who stumble across it will get it for free >blame studio for poor sales
I never played the game but this art style is actually really great. Imagine a Megaman Legends 3 that looked like that. More devs should use that style.
Holy shit does it feel good knowing this ESG trash was such a monumental flop that it killed off its studio. This is revenge for all the shills relentlessly spamming this shit as if it was the second coming of Jetset Radio
FRICKING SUCK IT buttholeS, YOUR GARBAGE IS A STUDIO-KILLING FLOP HAHAHAHAHA
How was Hi fi rush EST you moronic schizo, there was practically no politics and all the music was white coded, hell it's literally based around rock, even the protagonist was a basic "straight white dude" that trannies hate.
Same studio also made ghostwire tokyo which was basically japanese wankery as well.
It's not fair. Meanwhile palworld sold bajillion copies and is thrown together garbage. Games going mainstream sucks mab.
What do you expect? Of course the fan base of this quirky game with a whimpy modern white male protagonist and a stereotypical diversity crew has people that talk like this.
Was she? If so, who cares? She's not an ugly hambeast. If you want to put a cute lipstick lesbian in your game, and your game is fun and good, and has soul, then I'll allow it. Zero sum thinking is for morons.
She wasn't. This is conjecture based on the fact that she's complemented on her technical prowess by another female character and blushes. Twice. Throughout the entire game. There's absolutely no romantic subtext anywhere between those characters or any others in the game.
"alt right"oid here, we were the left before occupy wallstreet. you just don't get it.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
No I get it. I've been where you are. Have you done your "trad cath" arc yet? The Occupy Wallstreet strategy actually worked on you. The way they shut down OWS was they made it about sex and race, not class. And here you are today, fighting about the sexuality of video game characters. You're so deep in the culture war mire that it's going to be near impossible for you to get out. If Hi Fi Rush came out in 2007 and you had tried to complain about it being a lefty game, everyone would have looked at you like you were fricking insane.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Well put. It's tragic how thoroughly the left has gotten coopted and corrupted.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
the frick are you talking about
>we were the left before occupy wallstreet
You were sperm during occupy wallstreet
>billionaires making the pay gap even wider while bailing themselves out from literal theft is fine
enjoy your crash.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>someone called me out for being a moronic child? THEY MUST LOVE BILLIONAIRES!
the alt-right weren't left before occupy wallstreet, they were children.
You literally don't know what left means because you're conflating it with liberal, which is a center-right position. You have never been left.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>we were the left before occupy wallstreet
You were sperm during occupy wallstreet
Was she? If so, who cares? She's not an ugly hambeast. If you want to put a cute lipstick lesbian in your game, and your game is fun and good, and has soul, then I'll allow it. Zero sum thinking is for morons.
Was she? If so, who cares? She's not an ugly hambeast. If you want to put a cute lipstick lesbian in your game, and your game is fun and good, and has soul, then I'll allow it. Zero sum thinking is for morons.
>How is this game woke? >Doesn't it have a gay character? >ONE SINGLE CHARACTER OMG WHO WHY ANYONE CARE YOUR BIG DEAL FRICKN JUST PLAY THOSE GAMES YOU FRICKWIT.
Holy shit does it feel good knowing this ESG trash was such a monumental flop that it killed off its studio. This is revenge for all the shills relentlessly spamming this shit as if it was the second coming of Jetset Radio
FRICKING SUCK IT buttholeS, YOUR GARBAGE IS A STUDIO-KILLING FLOP HAHAHAHAHA
>News of all these studio shutdowns comes out >Nobody gives a frick except for the bit about Tango
Testament to how loved that game was, if there's any silver lining this is the kind of shit that secures a game's legacy. Now Hi-Fi RUSH will just be remembered as that singular amazing new Microsoft IP that came out and was snuffed by the big evil corporation since it'll never get a sequel to potentially ruin/build on what it started.
Same thing happened to Gravity Rush.
That won't be the line on Ganker. The corpo shills infesting this board are already doing "based microsoft" posting. Isn't it amazing how all that alt-right bravado, regardless of the specifics, always just loops around to sucking corporate wiener?
How do you know it's the alt-right posting that? Kissing up to corporations, like so many other formerly right-wing positions, has been utterly co-opted by leftists.
Because they always mention ESG and DEI stuff even though it has objectively cute and attractive characters like pic related, a good soundtrack, a good art style, etc. I don't know how many of them are larping and how many of them are serious and just insane at this point, but Hi-Fi Rush was "woke" I guess because it tried to have some silly, slap stick humor and anyone who tries to smile is "reddit" or something.
there's literally no romance in the game whatsoever, the closest thing there is to any is when peppermint blushes when looking at korsica, hinting that she's a lesbo or at least bi.
you morons act like it was harped on the entire game when there's barely even a single scene where you could say it was confirmed
you homosexuals fricking shitpost about games you've never played like it's breathing
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Anonymous
>hinting that she's a lesbo or at least bi
And that's enough for me not to care about this garbage. Imagine using anime designs to shovel your western homosexual propaganda, studio deserved to die.
alt-right don’t believe in anything, it’s all reactionary, they will instantly flip on their principles based entirely on what the opposite side believes
The left will do the same thing.
The truth is that people find political teamfighting entertaining. It's a spectacle. People "doomscroll" for a reason, seeing shit that makes you mad confers some purpose and excitement.
This is one of the biggest issues I have with our culture and nobody ever talks about the tendency people have to follow real-world issues like you're consuming a fictional narrative.
Legacy is nice an all, but it still hurts to see it get killed before it could do anything. Even if it was going to get ruined in the future it deserved to have a shot at fulfilling it's potential.
Considering so many IPs get fricked up these days, it is somewhat nice that HFR will be kept safe and generally loved.
Except for on Ganker, board is gonna throw a party now that Tango is dead.
Gravity Rush was a fricking Vita game.
Gravity Rush 2 was competing against Horizon Zero Dawn while GR2 was barely marketed and HZD was fricking everywhere.
Gravity Rush 3 would fail as well because the people into Japan Studio stuff moved to Switch or PC when Playstation Americanised.
You know those anons that said they were going to buy the game, but didn't? I wasn't one of them.
I didn't buy it at all or make a nugatory promise to do so.
The game's failure is entirely an absence of marketing and an inactive community.
Lewding the cat on Ganker isn't going to net any new buyers either.
In 8 years, we will have nonstop threads from today's 10 year olds claiming this was the greatest game ever. Much like we have fallout babies claiming 3 and 4 were great games.
>babies claiming 3 and 4 were great games
3 is a good game. And age has nothing to do with it. They are literally mouth breathing normies that watched the show and want to play a halo with a fallout flavor.
Hi Fi relies on millennial nostalgia but it has no gameplay to back it up. It’s just a shitty product. Should’ve made another game were punch people
Palworld had a two year long marketing campaign followed by a two week pre-release hype campaign where they gave out a bajillion limited time keys to streamers. Hi fi rush had no marketing campaign, and the streamers who played it had to buy it.
I honestly don’t get why it’s so praised. Got bored 5 hours in and couldn’t continue. So many gray linear areas between fights. And these in between segments go on for way to fricking long.
>game did well enough for me to vaguely recall it >except it didn't
crash 2.0 in motion. blame usury. the economy working on an exponential was a dumb idea, ive been waiting for the actual crash since 2008. they're artificially propping it up and can't anymore. say goodbye to your homes and welcome to the draft.
oh wait this is news to you morons isn't it.
turns out locking people inside their homes for 2 years & printmaxxing $ to cover the deficit was not such a bright idea after all. the reverberations are being felt year after year until this shitshow economy implodes.
turns out locking people inside their homes for 2 years & printmaxxing $ to cover the deficit was not such a bright idea after all. the reverberations are being felt year after year until this shitshow economy implodes.
The market is the largest it's ever been and investment is at an all time high. A gaming crash is literally impossible under current conditions. There's just way too much capital behind the industry and way too much demand.
>they printed the moneys so now economy doo-doo!
You kids read just enough to know the Weimar had hyper-inflation because of printing funds but you never go that actual extra step to understanding the numbers behind it.
The Weimar printed several times its GDP with a repayment scheme of "rob the rest of the planet after conquering it," and then just kept printing multiple times its GDP afterwards in a purposeful inflation scheme to lower the actual value of their reparations.
It was this plus the flight of large capital from Germany that eventually led to hyperinflation.
Here in the US we've printed nowhere near enough money to even account for the inflation of the past few years - about 30% of price increases are due to actual inflation, the rest is just corporations fricking us in the ass because no one will prosecute them for price gouging.
No, even if you exclude mobage the PC/Console market is still the largest its ever been.
It's only going to get even bigger as SEA gets into PC gaming.
are you moronic
the numbers showing it growing year over year are literally in the post you replied to
I'm down for some direct action against the man (instead of rioters smashing up mom n' pop stores.) What should we do?
You should support a political party on the actual left
Wait, shit, there are none here
You should vote for a viable third party
Wait, shit
You should join a political action group that actually targets monopolies and investment instead of social "issues"
Wait, shit
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>You should vote for a viable third party
RFK Jr. is looking to be the most successful 3rd party candidate since Ross Perot.
Though judging from Perot, it took two decades, a full generation, before his ideas and disgust with both parties finally became politically successful with Trump.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
RFK is the definition of a spoiler candidate, with the irony being he's spoiling Trump instead of Biden as planned
Third parties are by definition not viable in first-past-the-post
The US has been screwed for a long time, the tipping point probably being when the supreme court just decided Bush won despite him losing, and it's probably too late to do anything about it now. Citizens United and caucus and first-past-the-post voting heavily insulate federal politics from the influence of voters.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>the tipping point probably being when the supreme court just decided Bush won despite him losing, and it's probably too late to do anything about it now.
This. So much of the BS we're seeing right now that's wrecking the country is because of the Bush Administration. The zoomers shaping up to be an even worse generation than the boomers all comes down to them growing up under the Bush Administration and the Bush Doctrine.
This is basically the core of it. Gambling on mobile phones is at an all time high. Videogames that are not based on gambling or addiction are at an all time low, releasing flop after flop after flop, with most good games coming from studios that are not publically traded. I wish there was an easy catchy word to divide old school standard "sold and done" games from "live service" gambling skinner boxes. It would help paint the picture of what is happening a lot easier for normies and "investors".
>Gambling on mobile phones is at an all time high
Correct, that market is a whopping 205 billion dollars.
>Videogames that are not based on gambling or addiction are at an all time low
...no, that's wrong. Console/PC gaming is still a nearly 70 billion dollar industry. About even with the global movie industry and 1.5x as big as Hollywood.
>Console/PC gaming is still a nearly 70 billion dollar industry.
a thing about video games, it gets 3000% ROI if done right, whole market makes like a dozen games a year, but returns are still crazy high unless it's a complete flop, I think even Starfield made like 200m of profit, maybe more
most laughed game of 2020 made 350m of pure profit too
>this game was very well-received by practically anyone who played it but because it didn't make us six gorillion dollars we're just going to shut the studio down at the first hurdle
many such cases
>Easily top 3 best games of 2023 >A perfect example of what the industry can achieve when they don't hyperfixate on constant growth and massive all-or-nothing gaas projects >Basically nothing wrong with the game, it accomplishes everything it tries to do >Kill the studio
Meanwhile Blizzard, who destroyed the future of the games industry with WoW, hasn't made a good original title in ages and has decades of scandal to their name will keep trucking along for the rest of human history
>Split up Microsoft, split up Sony, split up EA, split up Activision
An actual honest-to-god leftist. I thought the SJWs had hunted you guys to extinction.
We're still here, screaming into the void that every single problem everyone has with everything is caused by giant companies not being subject to anti-trust enforcement as opposed to gays/chuds/trans/nazis/etc.
No one listens, but we're here.
Sad but true. We've joined the silent majority, ignored because we don't have the right contacts or DEI credentials in a world run by the spoiled children of privilege.
I'd say 'uprising when?' but they've been so successful in their psy-op that now the spoiled grandchildren of privilege are rising up in their fancy universities to support Islamic fundamentalism and a second Holocaust, while the handful of merit scholarship students desperately try to plug their ears and ignore them while they study for finals.
>yes, I too recognize that the problem is monopolies, which is why I will now rant against college kids and do-nothing PR programs
so close and yet so far
We're still here, screaming into the void that every single problem everyone has with everything is caused by giant companies not being subject to anti-trust enforcement as opposed to gays/chuds/trans/nazis/etc.
All of those companies are owned by MS because they were too broke to stay independent. Yeah they should've died standing, instead they're dead on their knees
>All of those companies are owned by MS because they were too broke to stay independent
Absolute nonsense. Publishers don't buy failing studios, they buy studios on the rise so they can milk whatever popular property they made. Often they'll stage hostile takeovers, the most prominent example of this being EA stealing Bioware out from under the doctors.
>Publishers don't buy failing studios, they buy studios on the rise
Maybe back in the day they did. Now they buy you when you're vulnerable after a couple of flops, tear you apart and put you into their live service mill.
that's not how selling companies work, it's no that they were broke it's that most of owners got millions of dollars AND stayed at work, like Todd for example
but if you don't sell, you ahve to invest your own money in the size of purchase price or more, that's an easy decision for majority of companies, zero responsibility and maximum investment
hi-fi rush is objectively one of the only interesting large-studio titles of the last five years. however mid evil within was it doesn't fricking matter they wholly redeemed themselves and only NOW got shuttered.
honestly why did evil fricking within get a second chance but hi-fi rush gets shot in the head without hesitation
The dissolution probably isn't down to HFR, it's all of Microsoft's third-party studios. Microsoft have fricked up across the board, especially with 343 and Redfall. A minor success that mostly sold Game Passes wasn't going to change their minds. It was awful of them to destroy Tango along with the other studios, though
Shills still trying to gaslight this game's "success" even though it's a certified flop is ridiculous. And yeah the brown girl was a dyke for the redhead. The main protagonist was just a walking humiliation ritual made to be as harmless as possible.
i don't mind pepper being a carpet muncher for the reasons you stated but korsica being one is an unforgivable sin. literal sex goddess made for pumping out 6 kids.
>Promising first party franchise dies at the root, by having its entire studio close because it wasn't soulless enough for their overlords >Happened twice to different mega corps >Leeching
Frick off
>Gravity Rush >Promising
Two games and one remaster and still people didn't want that garbage. Reminds me of Senran Kagura >"Series is dead after six shit games? How dare they, it has so much potential, six more games bro"
Speaking of opposite situation, I think Prey is like KCD, didn't show strong result at first but people woke up to it slowly, Prey 2 would do really well
A good game manages to sell enough to keep its studio afloat even when it doesn't sell millions because thanks to its quality it manages to attract a sizeable audience.
A shit game doesn't because people don't buy shit.
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Anonymous
yea, that works, for independent studios that don't need to hit arbitrary KPI set by some exec, they can't to simply let you bet even if you make profit or KPI setter KPI drops
I get why they shutdown Arkane Austin, sort of, Prey was last brilliant game they made.
Why would they shut down Tango? Evil Within 2 was meh, but HiFI Rush was a top tier game.
Nah, don't think I will. I played more videogames than you. I know more about videogames more than you. The fact that you shill for this garbage industry tells me you're zoomer with no taste who hasn't played a single good videogame in your life.
you like souls, DMC or something like Nier? rhythm games.
I think Surge and LOTF least rhythm games out there in the genre, that's why soul gays hate them
People think that having to dodge or parry is the same as having to dodge or parry on prompt with a beat. They are the kind of morons that say sekiro is a ryrhm game.
123 123 123
repeatable actions that lead to replicable results, all souls games are rhythm games, HIFI rush simply made it visually pop up to the music
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
So every real time game is a rhythm game, what a useful term
No seriously, that's called "timing". Rhythm is effectively timing paired with music.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I want morons who say this to get a fricking metronome and tell me these games are played to the fricking beat.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>repeatable actions that lead to replicable results
By that metric, applying to a job or trying to pick up girls is a rhythm game.
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
you figured out humanity, congratulations
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
>humanity is all about rhythm and keeping a beat >and I have no rhythm and can't dance
Is it over for me?
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
Then rhythm is meaningless
have a nice day
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
that's the point I'm making, it's in your head, HIFI rush plays like any other action game
Claiming that action games are exactly the same as rhythm games is the most dishonest claim Hi-Fi Rush fans use to shill that game to people who don't like rhythm games (like myself).
That's part of why I will never give that game a chance.
>didn't play but do judge with prejudice
classic moron move
2 weeks ago
Anonymous
I've played rhythm games before so I know what to expect from one, just like if you've played one or a few open world games you don't need to play the newest to know how it works and plays.
Tale as old as time. Microsoft if notorious for burying promising IPs. People are just too young to remember stuff like Crimson Skies, Mechassault, Midtown Madness, and so on.
Whenever a studio like this is shut down for absolutely no good reason save to make an itty bit more profit for shareholders I physically feel myself becoming more fiscally left-wing
Hi Fi Rush was a game ignored by most xbox users so I guess everyone pissed that Tango got the Phil's treatment is just falseflagging as a xbot
Are xbox fans even a real thing?
It's Code Vein all over again: its fans b***h about that game never getting a sequel while ignoring that the only reason they're fans is because either pirated it or bought it at 85% off
>make good game >no battlepasses, no live service, not DLCs, no microtransactions >just make a good single player game >"umm you didn't make us $666 gorillion this quarter?.. heh... too bad... on the graveyard you go" >"your IP? oh, I think I'll hold onto that for next 80 years just in case by the way ;)"
FRICK YOU FRICKING israelite homosexualS
I'LL SPIT IN THE FACE OF ANY Black person MIDWIT NORMALhomosexual WHO DARES TO SAY THE GAMING INDUSTRY ISN'T DEAD
One of the very few games with soul for the past 10 years.
It's no wonder it was only a mild success: majority of consoomers in 2020+, especially zoomers, have no souls, no spark in their eyes, Dod had nothing to do with their creation, they are empty golems, shaped and animated by cancerous modern american culture.
It's only downhill from here.
I don't like his face. He has an annoying face. The smug eyes, yes, but the mouth. Not in this capture, but in other ones, he is designed with a stupid looking mouth.
I like corny humor, but this game doesn't strike me as funny even in that way in any video of it that I've seen.
Here ya go:
It is funny.
Now you have somebody tell you what to think of it
just skip the cutscenes. there's some okay jokes but they're not worth it. it's like complaining an arcade beat em up is badly written
i dunno man i have a lot of games to play. i've done the skip cutscenes thing before and it just feels empty like i'm wasting my time. a story is there to be appreciated. i'm a big gameplay guy but if your story sucks, then what am i doing. it's not like i'm at a loss for good gameplay. i do like rhythm games though
>it's not like i'm at a loss for good gameplay.
i am
this game is unique and apparently there'll never be anything like it again. it's definitely worth it for the game alone
It's the dreamworks face
Bravo Phil, Bravo Microsoft.
Rest in piss Krappa Mikey
It was and always be a mediocre, overhyped game.
what happened
Microsoft is losing money and killed off a couple studios. Tango is one of them.
Not even shifting the staff over to another Bethesda camp, just straight up cut everyone.
I feel like gaming studios are just not sustainable except if the game is not a live service which brings in consistent earnings.
The future will be big studio soulless live service games (gacha, mmorpgs, mobas, etc.) and indie games made by 1-5 people.
This is unsustainable in the long run, there can only be so many successful live service games.
Capitalism is unsustainable. Publishers are making games for their share holders rather than gamers, so AA is now starting to run circles around them.
The gacha coomer shall inherit all. Every vidya will be spending insane amounts of money to pull anime girl pngs
WTF is going on when even successful studios like Tango or Respawn are getting cut?
Evil Within 1 and 2 were every bit as good as the original RE4. The shitty part is that the market incentive is to make those types of games. Only always online, live service games are capable of perpetually making money and all of those suck dick. It also apparently costs a lot to makes games these days. If you're only looking at profitability, then "trimming the fat" means getting rid of all of the good stuff.
Lovely. So the big publishers will go all in on GAAS and hyper-monetization, and in a few years from now, when we get a whole bunch of Hyena-level flops, they'll fold and we'll have nothing left but pretentious indies by trust-fund hipsters.
shutting down a studio and redirecting the money budgeted for it to shareholder dividends & executive bonuses goes down on paper as a more profitable fiscal quarter than if you just keep developing a game that won't come out for another 2+ years, so people with business degrees will always make that choice. the only exception is a live service game which ideally constantly brings in revenue.
>so people with business degrees will always make that choice
Have you ever noticed how so many gaming and tech companies start circling the drain once the founders step down and get replaced by businessmen with MBAs?
MBAs are designed to turn people into remorseless sociopaths who only care about lines going up - and we've put them in charge of society.
people worry about an AI taking over the world and turning everyone into paperclips when this is already effectively happening. the economic incentives of our society have led us to where brainwashed MBA pigs are put in charge of everything, shut down all productive industries in favor of gaming financialized instruments and hollowing out the base of our economy. they destroy whole industries to divert resources and a billion gallons of water to a nascent so-called AI which is really a glorified auto-correct which will never do anything that a human couldn't do better for a modest wage. and people will post on a chinese cartoon imageboard celebrating the institutional rot because they think a homosexual was employed by the studio, all while their mother dies of poverty and their future is stolen by wealthy devil worshippers
Well put. All anyone on both sides seems to care about these days is homosexuals getting hired and making propaganda, not about the massive wealth transfer from virtually everyone to the ultra-rich or the death of the middle class.
>Tango
>successful
It's the current year bro
>Microsoft is losing money
>REDMOND, Wash. — April 25, 2024 — Microsoft Corp. today announced the following results for the quarter ended March 31, 2024, as compared to the corresponding period of last fiscal year:
>· Revenue was $61.9 billion and increased 17%
>· Operating income was $27.6 billion and increased 23%
>· Net income was $21.9 billion and increased 20%
>Revenue in More Personal Computing was $15.6 billion and increased 17%, with the following business highlights:
>· Windows revenue increased 11% with Windows OEM revenue growth of 11% and Windows Commercial products and cloud services revenue growth of 13% (up 12% in constant currency)
>· Xbox content and services revenue increased 62%
Tango is 99% japanese and doesn't speak English so it wouldn't work.
They are, look at Capcom or Namco, even Square is fricking up left and right but still in business. These American companies only care about keeping profits up even if they are killing off potential talent.
So Shinji Mikami's efforts to pass his knowledge to next generation are in vain?
Well at least chai started learning to play guitar incase he was out of the job.
>give amazing ACTUALLY ORIGINAL indie game no advertising whatsoever and shadow drop it randomly
>immediately put it on gamepass, so most of the people who stumble across it will get it for free
>blame studio for poor sales
I hate this timeline
Don't forget that almost everyone loved it and said Xbox should do more A/AA games, but moronic suits get uppity if a game isn't GaaS.
>amazing
stopped reading right there
Loved the game. Played it on gamepass. Shame. Perhaps I'll buy it on a sale someday.
don't, you are literally just giving money to the parent company that killed them
it's now morally preferable to pirate it
you should pirate it instead now since the studio that made it is kill
>indie game
If that were the case, why the frick did they just get fired from a publisher, you moronic homosexual?
>gamepass
>"for free"
You are already mentally cucked. You lost. You are not self-aware enough to understand what you typed.
I mean, $20 for 13 months of gamepass is essentially free
It is now officially morally okay to pirate Hi Fi Rush
It’s not god hand
It was mediocre or as the zoomers call say ,mid . Sorry Marty McFly and funny cat you are not Alexander
combat wasn't game changing but it was fun as frick and super fluid
humor, art style, plot and the overall polish of the game was absolutely worth 30 dollars
No ball buster , no mad midget V , no Alexander? Boooring
>buy studios
>can't actually keep them
Microsoft has never stopped using Extend Embrace Extinguish
I never played the game but this art style is actually really great. Imagine a Megaman Legends 3 that looked like that. More devs should use that style.
Holy shit does it feel good knowing this ESG trash was such a monumental flop that it killed off its studio. This is revenge for all the shills relentlessly spamming this shit as if it was the second coming of Jetset Radio
FRICKING SUCK IT buttholeS, YOUR GARBAGE IS A STUDIO-KILLING FLOP HAHAHAHAHA
Nono you don’t get you le tap le button with le rythm despite the how lenient everything is
Oh my science is that a reference to twin peaks? I hekkin love le caterino
How was Hi fi rush EST you moronic schizo, there was practically no politics and all the music was white coded, hell it's literally based around rock, even the protagonist was a basic "straight white dude" that trannies hate.
Same studio also made ghostwire tokyo which was basically japanese wankery as well.
when you see posts this moronic, it's better to just not give them a (You) as that's all they want
>white coded
What do you expect? Of course the fan base of this quirky game with a whimpy modern white male protagonist and a stereotypical diversity crew has people that talk like this.
The main chick was a lesbian tho?
Was she? If so, who cares? She's not an ugly hambeast. If you want to put a cute lipstick lesbian in your game, and your game is fun and good, and has soul, then I'll allow it. Zero sum thinking is for morons.
She wasn't. This is conjecture based on the fact that she's complemented on her technical prowess by another female character and blushes. Twice. Throughout the entire game. There's absolutely no romantic subtext anywhere between those characters or any others in the game.
Horseshoe theory confirmed. Rightoids are just as bad, if not worse, than lefties. Damn, you really do just become what you hate.
"alt right"oid here, we were the left before occupy wallstreet. you just don't get it.
No I get it. I've been where you are. Have you done your "trad cath" arc yet? The Occupy Wallstreet strategy actually worked on you. The way they shut down OWS was they made it about sex and race, not class. And here you are today, fighting about the sexuality of video game characters. You're so deep in the culture war mire that it's going to be near impossible for you to get out. If Hi Fi Rush came out in 2007 and you had tried to complain about it being a lefty game, everyone would have looked at you like you were fricking insane.
Well put. It's tragic how thoroughly the left has gotten coopted and corrupted.
the frick are you talking about
>billionaires making the pay gap even wider while bailing themselves out from literal theft is fine
enjoy your crash.
>someone called me out for being a moronic child? THEY MUST LOVE BILLIONAIRES!
the alt-right weren't left before occupy wallstreet, they were children.
You literally don't know what left means because you're conflating it with liberal, which is a center-right position. You have never been left.
>we were the left before occupy wallstreet
You were sperm during occupy wallstreet
>How is this game woke?
>Doesn't it have a gay character?
>ONE SINGLE CHARACTER OMG WHO WHY ANYONE CARE YOUR BIG DEAL FRICKN JUST PLAY THOSE GAMES YOU FRICKWIT.
Based as frick.
Lesbians = automatic wokeshit.
Anyone that disagrees is a 2040s republican.
It felt even better when this board wasn't filled with political outrage homosexuals like you.
>CONFIRMED flop
OH NO NO NO NO
Hello, Zelda gay.
>News of all these studio shutdowns comes out
>Nobody gives a frick except for the bit about Tango
Testament to how loved that game was, if there's any silver lining this is the kind of shit that secures a game's legacy. Now Hi-Fi RUSH will just be remembered as that singular amazing new Microsoft IP that came out and was snuffed by the big evil corporation since it'll never get a sequel to potentially ruin/build on what it started.
Same thing happened to Gravity Rush.
it's so sad man, game had SOUL
That won't be the line on Ganker. The corpo shills infesting this board are already doing "based microsoft" posting. Isn't it amazing how all that alt-right bravado, regardless of the specifics, always just loops around to sucking corporate wiener?
How do you know it's the alt-right posting that? Kissing up to corporations, like so many other formerly right-wing positions, has been utterly co-opted by leftists.
homie who do you think you're fooling lmao
Who should we believe, you or our own two eyes? They've become corporate kissups ever since OWS was subverted.
Because they always mention ESG and DEI stuff even though it has objectively cute and attractive characters like pic related, a good soundtrack, a good art style, etc. I don't know how many of them are larping and how many of them are serious and just insane at this point, but Hi-Fi Rush was "woke" I guess because it tried to have some silly, slap stick humor and anyone who tries to smile is "reddit" or something.
Is that the dyke that falls in love with the Black person dyke?
there's literally no romance in the game whatsoever, the closest thing there is to any is when peppermint blushes when looking at korsica, hinting that she's a lesbo or at least bi.
you morons act like it was harped on the entire game when there's barely even a single scene where you could say it was confirmed
you homosexuals fricking shitpost about games you've never played like it's breathing
>hinting that she's a lesbo or at least bi
And that's enough for me not to care about this garbage. Imagine using anime designs to shovel your western homosexual propaganda, studio deserved to die.
*shoots you in the head*
*pisses on your corpse*
*eats your ass*
alt-right don’t believe in anything, it’s all reactionary, they will instantly flip on their principles based entirely on what the opposite side believes
The left will do the same thing.
The truth is that people find political teamfighting entertaining. It's a spectacle. People "doomscroll" for a reason, seeing shit that makes you mad confers some purpose and excitement.
This is one of the biggest issues I have with our culture and nobody ever talks about the tendency people have to follow real-world issues like you're consuming a fictional narrative.
Legacy is nice an all, but it still hurts to see it get killed before it could do anything. Even if it was going to get ruined in the future it deserved to have a shot at fulfilling it's potential.
Considering so many IPs get fricked up these days, it is somewhat nice that HFR will be kept safe and generally loved.
Except for on Ganker, board is gonna throw a party now that Tango is dead.
>Same thing happened to Gravity Rush.
???
I'm pretty sure Gravity Rush got two chances and bombed twice.
Gravity Rush was a fricking Vita game.
Gravity Rush 2 was competing against Horizon Zero Dawn while GR2 was barely marketed and HZD was fricking everywhere.
Gravity Rush 3 would fail as well because the people into Japan Studio stuff moved to Switch or PC when Playstation Americanised.
>IT'S THE MARKETING BRO
Every single time.
Gravity Rush got a bit ass sequel that no one bought.
You know those anons that said they were going to buy the game, but didn't? I wasn't one of them.
I didn't buy it at all or make a nugatory promise to do so.
The game's failure is entirely an absence of marketing and an inactive community.
Lewding the cat on Ganker isn't going to net any new buyers either.
Or maybe it wasn’t a good game? The team made Ookami, God Hand , RE4.
Despite how (you) feel about it, the game is mediocre. Hi Fi is not going to be a cult classic
In 8 years, we will have nonstop threads from today's 10 year olds claiming this was the greatest game ever. Much like we have fallout babies claiming 3 and 4 were great games.
We had non-stop threads from adults saying it was the best game ever when it got released. You can't rewrite history when we were all there for it.
>"adults"
And it will be much like how there are people claiming fallout 3 and 4 were always great now.
You can't rewrite history this quickly. Wait 10 years like they did with Fallout 4 and then maybe newbies will far for it.
>babies claiming 3 and 4 were great games
3 is a good game. And age has nothing to do with it. They are literally mouth breathing normies that watched the show and want to play a halo with a fallout flavor.
Hi Fi relies on millennial nostalgia but it has no gameplay to back it up. It’s just a shitty product. Should’ve made another game were punch people
>[fallout] 3 is a good game
Opinions discarded.
But how does this affect me, the cat fricker community, personally?
I know Ghostwire underperformed, but I thought TEW1 & 2, and Hi Fi did good?
xturds are hilarious
>white coded
I need you to jump off your roof immediately.
It's not fair. Meanwhile palworld sold bajillion copies and is thrown together garbage. Games going mainstream sucks mab.
Palworld was more fun is why.
Palworld bored me to tears after the first two hours and I even tried playing it with le friends.
Palworld had a two year long marketing campaign followed by a two week pre-release hype campaign where they gave out a bajillion limited time keys to streamers. Hi fi rush had no marketing campaign, and the streamers who played it had to buy it.
I honestly don’t get why it’s so praised. Got bored 5 hours in and couldn’t continue. So many gray linear areas between fights. And these in between segments go on for way to fricking long.
>So many gray linear areas between fights.
I think you played a different game
So I guess the game flopped on PS aswell?
Frick, we will never get a Switch version
>game did well enough for me to vaguely recall it
>except it didn't
crash 2.0 in motion. blame usury. the economy working on an exponential was a dumb idea, ive been waiting for the actual crash since 2008. they're artificially propping it up and can't anymore. say goodbye to your homes and welcome to the draft.
oh wait this is news to you morons isn't it.
turns out locking people inside their homes for 2 years & printmaxxing $ to cover the deficit was not such a bright idea after all. the reverberations are being felt year after year until this shitshow economy implodes.
The market is the largest it's ever been and investment is at an all time high. A gaming crash is literally impossible under current conditions. There's just way too much capital behind the industry and way too much demand.
>they printed the moneys so now economy doo-doo!
You kids read just enough to know the Weimar had hyper-inflation because of printing funds but you never go that actual extra step to understanding the numbers behind it.
The Weimar printed several times its GDP with a repayment scheme of "rob the rest of the planet after conquering it," and then just kept printing multiple times its GDP afterwards in a purposeful inflation scheme to lower the actual value of their reparations.
It was this plus the flight of large capital from Germany that eventually led to hyperinflation.
Here in the US we've printed nowhere near enough money to even account for the inflation of the past few years - about 30% of price increases are due to actual inflation, the rest is just corporations fricking us in the ass because no one will prosecute them for price gouging.
>The market is the largest it's ever been
Only if you include mobileslop
No, even if you exclude mobage the PC/Console market is still the largest its ever been.
It's only going to get even bigger as SEA gets into PC gaming.
>Social/casual gaming
The console market peaked in 2008
Consoles have not grown since the pandemic boom ended
are you moronic
the numbers showing it growing year over year are literally in the post you replied to
You should support a political party on the actual left
Wait, shit, there are none here
You should vote for a viable third party
Wait, shit
You should join a political action group that actually targets monopolies and investment instead of social "issues"
Wait, shit
>You should vote for a viable third party
RFK Jr. is looking to be the most successful 3rd party candidate since Ross Perot.
Though judging from Perot, it took two decades, a full generation, before his ideas and disgust with both parties finally became politically successful with Trump.
RFK is the definition of a spoiler candidate, with the irony being he's spoiling Trump instead of Biden as planned
Third parties are by definition not viable in first-past-the-post
The US has been screwed for a long time, the tipping point probably being when the supreme court just decided Bush won despite him losing, and it's probably too late to do anything about it now. Citizens United and caucus and first-past-the-post voting heavily insulate federal politics from the influence of voters.
>the tipping point probably being when the supreme court just decided Bush won despite him losing, and it's probably too late to do anything about it now.
This. So much of the BS we're seeing right now that's wrecking the country is because of the Bush Administration. The zoomers shaping up to be an even worse generation than the boomers all comes down to them growing up under the Bush Administration and the Bush Doctrine.
This is basically the core of it. Gambling on mobile phones is at an all time high. Videogames that are not based on gambling or addiction are at an all time low, releasing flop after flop after flop, with most good games coming from studios that are not publically traded. I wish there was an easy catchy word to divide old school standard "sold and done" games from "live service" gambling skinner boxes. It would help paint the picture of what is happening a lot easier for normies and "investors".
>Gambling on mobile phones is at an all time high
Correct, that market is a whopping 205 billion dollars.
>Videogames that are not based on gambling or addiction are at an all time low
...no, that's wrong. Console/PC gaming is still a nearly 70 billion dollar industry. About even with the global movie industry and 1.5x as big as Hollywood.
>Console/PC gaming is still a nearly 70 billion dollar industry.
a thing about video games, it gets 3000% ROI if done right, whole market makes like a dozen games a year, but returns are still crazy high unless it's a complete flop, I think even Starfield made like 200m of profit, maybe more
most laughed game of 2020 made 350m of pure profit too
>sink 70 billion into once and done games
>Get like 30 billion back
>"SEE, IT'S A MULTIBILLION INDUSTRY"
Stop throwing money at AAA failures, pls.
Anon that chart is REVENUE
I just wanted more tall red hair scottish girl
so can i pirate it now?
It has denuvo
hi-fi bros................. I'm not feeling too good........
one last time i guess..........
God I hate this stupid game , the stupid music and everything it represents
Mental illness
If any spurned staff want to leak a denuvo free version now I would really appreciate it.
Disgusting looking Ganker tumblr trash
Post good video game art. Do it. Post something you like.
>this game was very well-received by practically anyone who played it but because it didn't make us six gorillion dollars we're just going to shut the studio down at the first hurdle
many such cases
>Easily top 3 best games of 2023
>A perfect example of what the industry can achieve when they don't hyperfixate on constant growth and massive all-or-nothing gaas projects
>Basically nothing wrong with the game, it accomplishes everything it tries to do
>Kill the studio
Meanwhile Blizzard, who destroyed the future of the games industry with WoW, hasn't made a good original title in ages and has decades of scandal to their name will keep trucking along for the rest of human history
Mid-Fi Rush
Gee, it's almost like letting a publisher grow to such an enormous size that it controls a third of the market is bad.
Maybe we SHOULDN'T just allow megapublishers to buy up every single dev studio on the face of the earth for vertical integration?
Split up Microsoft, split up Sony, split up EA, split up Activision
>Split up Microsoft, split up Sony, split up EA, split up Activision
An actual honest-to-god leftist. I thought the SJWs had hunted you guys to extinction.
You'd be surprised about how many motherfrickers are against monopolies.
Sad but true. We've joined the silent majority, ignored because we don't have the right contacts or DEI credentials in a world run by the spoiled children of privilege.
I'd say 'uprising when?' but they've been so successful in their psy-op that now the spoiled grandchildren of privilege are rising up in their fancy universities to support Islamic fundamentalism and a second Holocaust, while the handful of merit scholarship students desperately try to plug their ears and ignore them while they study for finals.
>yes, I too recognize that the problem is monopolies, which is why I will now rant against college kids and do-nothing PR programs
so close and yet so far
what have you done to fight the big man anon?
I'm down for some direct action against the man (instead of rioters smashing up mom n' pop stores.) What should we do?
We're still here, screaming into the void that every single problem everyone has with everything is caused by giant companies not being subject to anti-trust enforcement as opposed to gays/chuds/trans/nazis/etc.
No one listens, but we're here.
All of those companies are owned by MS because they were too broke to stay independent. Yeah they should've died standing, instead they're dead on their knees
>All of those companies are owned by MS because they were too broke to stay independent
Absolute nonsense. Publishers don't buy failing studios, they buy studios on the rise so they can milk whatever popular property they made. Often they'll stage hostile takeovers, the most prominent example of this being EA stealing Bioware out from under the doctors.
>Publishers don't buy failing studios, they buy studios on the rise
Maybe back in the day they did. Now they buy you when you're vulnerable after a couple of flops, tear you apart and put you into their live service mill.
that's not how selling companies work, it's no that they were broke it's that most of owners got millions of dollars AND stayed at work, like Todd for example
but if you don't sell, you ahve to invest your own money in the size of purchase price or more, that's an easy decision for majority of companies, zero responsibility and maximum investment
Honestly, a shame. One of the few recent games that has soul
Studio hasn’t made a single with game worth playing since clover died and no amount of soifacing millennials will change that
More people need to callout trash companies like tango
hi-fi rush is objectively one of the only interesting large-studio titles of the last five years. however mid evil within was it doesn't fricking matter they wholly redeemed themselves and only NOW got shuttered.
honestly why did evil fricking within get a second chance but hi-fi rush gets shot in the head without hesitation
Trash game made by trash studio got what it deserved tbh
They actually did. Tango has been hiring big until December last year.
I really wonder what changed, I guess Xbox is Activision now.
it was Starfield flopping
I honestly don't think ti's even conspiracy at this point, they wasted so much money on marketing Tango could make 5 games on it
he never scored
HAHAHAHAHAHA
GET FRICKED
>Director: John Johanas
>Writers: John Johanas, Morten Brunbjerg
Good riddance to bad rubbish.
The dissolution probably isn't down to HFR, it's all of Microsoft's third-party studios. Microsoft have fricked up across the board, especially with 343 and Redfall. A minor success that mostly sold Game Passes wasn't going to change their minds. It was awful of them to destroy Tango along with the other studios, though
>ugly haircut
>dyke
>brown
>somehow not woke
??????
Don't forget the one mechanical leg disability that leftard love so much
Shills still trying to gaslight this game's "success" even though it's a certified flop is ridiculous. And yeah the brown girl was a dyke for the redhead. The main protagonist was just a walking humiliation ritual made to be as harmless as possible.
i don't mind pepper being a carpet muncher for the reasons you stated but korsica being one is an unforgivable sin. literal sex goddess made for pumping out 6 kids.
Reminder: hi fi rush "fans" just want to have sex with 808 and there is always a high chance they didn't even play the game.
Make way for GAAS baby the true future of gaming
I didn't buy Hi-Fi Rush even when I like action games immensely because I don't like rhythm games a single iota.
It seems I wasn't the only one.
You wanna talk about it?
>Gravity Rush gays leeching the Tango closure shitstorm to play victim again
I'm so glad that overrated dogshit franchise never took flight.
>Promising first party franchise dies at the root, by having its entire studio close because it wasn't soulless enough for their overlords
>Happened twice to different mega corps
>Leeching
Frick off
>grashitty rush
>promising
have a nice day
>Gravity Rush
>Promising
Two games and one remaster and still people didn't want that garbage. Reminds me of Senran Kagura
>"Series is dead after six shit games? How dare they, it has so much potential, six more games bro"
Speaking of opposite situation, I think Prey is like KCD, didn't show strong result at first but people woke up to it slowly, Prey 2 would do really well
>Waaaaaa, why didn't it sell a bajillion copies, it must be trash
You are the kind of cancer killing games
It IS trash homie, if it wasn't it would've sold well.
A good game manages to sell enough to keep its studio afloat even when it doesn't sell millions because thanks to its quality it manages to attract a sizeable audience.
A shit game doesn't because people don't buy shit.
yea, that works, for independent studios that don't need to hit arbitrary KPI set by some exec, they can't to simply let you bet even if you make profit or KPI setter KPI drops
Today feels similar to that day as well. Sucks liking both Gravity Rush and The Evil Within. At least I never liked Microsoft to begin with.
go nig
go broke
Oh nice, I can get the game with no remorse now.
I get why they shutdown Arkane Austin, sort of, Prey was last brilliant game they made.
Why would they shut down Tango? Evil Within 2 was meh, but HiFI Rush was a top tier game.
Because 3 out of their 4 games were flops. Also Prey is a baby's first imsim, basic as shit and full of gays and uggos
>sell your soul to the woke gaijin ideology in the name of ESG score
>they still throw you out like a used condom
you get what you fricking deserve
>sell your soul to the woke gaijin ideology
There's nothing "woke" about this game you fricking /misc/ schizo.
don't bother arguing with them. they'd rather see no games at all than a 'woke' game.
>they'd rather see no games at all than a 'woke' game
Yeah I would, what's wrong with that?
you don't care about videogames, you just care about your political shitflinging.
Yes, you're unironically 100% correct. I wish this whole shitty woke industry would crash and burn.
Then get off the videogames board you fricking demoralizing homosexual.
No, I'm in sync with the industry.
Nah, don't think I will. I played more videogames than you. I know more about videogames more than you. The fact that you shill for this garbage industry tells me you're zoomer with no taste who hasn't played a single good videogame in your life.
Big if true
Thank you based Microsoft for making Reseteragays seethe so much today
>Games becoming more soulless is good actually because some trannies seethe about it too
You're part of the problem.
They're seething over Redfall not getting ported to their PS5s, not over Hi-fi Rush.
>woke trash flopping
Good
F
Globohomosexual the game
Ugly Art = Ugly Game = Dead Studio
I’m convinced you have to be a literal homosexual to actually like this game. No normal straight person would look at this and think it looks cool
somebody have the picture of all the upcomming microsoft games?
to see how it is unexiting, lame, and they probably will fire everybody there as well?
>white guy is a moron
>lesbian with dumb hair #1
>lesbian with dumb hair #2
>token black guy made to cater to the gays who are into "bears"
>gato sexo
I don't like rhythm games
I bet you likes rhythm games and have no clue it's rhythm games
I don't like Sekiro either
you like souls, DMC or something like Nier? rhythm games.
I think Surge and LOTF least rhythm games out there in the genre, that's why soul gays hate them
Great cope
your inability to see timing patterns is sad. hell, From used same damned timing for 8 games straight.
I loved the Surge and it's sequel, but what was rhythm game about it? You dodged instead of parrying, like a true souls game.
People think that having to dodge or parry is the same as having to dodge or parry on prompt with a beat. They are the kind of morons that say sekiro is a ryrhm game.
123 123 123
repeatable actions that lead to replicable results, all souls games are rhythm games, HIFI rush simply made it visually pop up to the music
So every real time game is a rhythm game, what a useful term
No seriously, that's called "timing". Rhythm is effectively timing paired with music.
I want morons who say this to get a fricking metronome and tell me these games are played to the fricking beat.
>repeatable actions that lead to replicable results
By that metric, applying to a job or trying to pick up girls is a rhythm game.
you figured out humanity, congratulations
>humanity is all about rhythm and keeping a beat
>and I have no rhythm and can't dance
Is it over for me?
Then rhythm is meaningless
have a nice day
that's the point I'm making, it's in your head, HIFI rush plays like any other action game
Considering it's effectively turn based, you're wrong
Claiming that action games are exactly the same as rhythm games is the most dishonest claim Hi-Fi Rush fans use to shill that game to people who don't like rhythm games (like myself).
That's part of why I will never give that game a chance.
>didn't play but do judge with prejudice
classic moron move
I've played rhythm games before so I know what to expect from one, just like if you've played one or a few open world games you don't need to play the newest to know how it works and plays.
FIRE PHIL SPENCER HOLY FRICK
>buy a million studios
>make no fricking games
>can them
How long before MS stops making consoles entirely?
Tale as old as time. Microsoft if notorious for burying promising IPs. People are just too young to remember stuff like Crimson Skies, Mechassault, Midtown Madness, and so on.
FFXVI keeps winning, even against it's own legacy predecessor. How did Clive manage to pull it off, Ganker?
>L3 + R3: Accept the Truth
WTF? Is that real? Holy fricking slop! No wonder it flopped.
Can we stop pretending Hi-Fi was anything but alright?
in an open world nightmare a normal action adventure games seems abnormal
I really do feel bad for people who can't enjoy a super well rounded original game nowadays
I genuinely pity you
I didn't hate Ghostwire, but it didn't have enough enemy variety, they really could use more of folklore
>Good riddance
Fix'd
Can they put it on a deeper discount now?
>Make a based game
>Shareholders need their yachts rewaxed so your studio gets shut down
God I FRICKING LOVE acquisitions
Whenever a studio like this is shut down for absolutely no good reason save to make an itty bit more profit for shareholders I physically feel myself becoming more fiscally left-wing
I liked HFR, I just wish Chai had more going for him as an action game character.
It's the first game in the series- it's less DMC4/5, more Viewtiful Joe. I thought the simplicity was fine and worked for it.
Embracer Group (& Friends)!
Hi Fi Rush was a game ignored by most xbox users so I guess everyone pissed that Tango got the Phil's treatment is just falseflagging as a xbot
Are xbox fans even a real thing?
It's Code Vein all over again: its fans b***h about that game never getting a sequel while ignoring that the only reason they're fans is because either pirated it or bought it at 85% off
Good riddance.
>make good game
>no battlepasses, no live service, not DLCs, no microtransactions
>just make a good single player game
>"umm you didn't make us $666 gorillion this quarter?.. heh... too bad... on the graveyard you go"
>"your IP? oh, I think I'll hold onto that for next 80 years just in case by the way ;)"
FRICK YOU FRICKING israelite homosexualS
I'LL SPIT IN THE FACE OF ANY Black person MIDWIT NORMALhomosexual WHO DARES TO SAY THE GAMING INDUSTRY ISN'T DEAD
One of the very few games with soul for the past 10 years.
It's no wonder it was only a mild success: majority of consoomers in 2020+, especially zoomers, have no souls, no spark in their eyes, Dod had nothing to do with their creation, they are empty golems, shaped and animated by cancerous modern american culture.
It's only downhill from here.
>Dod
God.
I am so mad I missed the key.