You said this before. If a game launches in a poor state, isn't this behaviour what you want to promote? This will motivate publishers to change behaviour and only release games in a better state.
I said it's complicated for a reason lol =P
It's complicated if you're trying to reconcile the problem from two irreconcilable positions.
id say its fine for crossgen or multiplat games to realease with some bugs or performance issues and patched later, but i feel its criminal for first party games, exlcusives targeting one machine for example forbidden west releasing with a blurry performance mode and grass popin bugs, halo infinite in that state and how it looked, some nintendo switch only games with horrid performance, i just dont quite get how developers could release such games or any exclusive games in such states when theyve had years to work on just a specific machine. PC games and multiplats are another question that i think will always be broken and never solved.
My experience on a pure technical level with Halo Infinite was better than Elden Ring, but ER won game of the year from many publications and events. Clearly just the technical performance isn't the only criteria by which games are judged.
halo infinite performed better than elden ring but as i said thats what you would expect from a first party game focused on one platform but halo infinite's Achilles hill is how it looked people expected much better from a first party game they wanted to play on their brand new series x consoles but the way halo infinite looked was dissapointing some even say halo 4 had much better art direction and overall look, in short infinite looked flat and elden ring even though performs like shit it got a pass because people enjoyed playing it, some companies get a pass no matter how bad their game performs sometimes life isnt fair but its how it is especially japanese companies everything comes second to fun and gameplay
Halo Infinite was in development for five platforms. All of them quite different.
Halo suffered from way too much scope, and that is likely a major culprit in it's failure to deliver on several fronts.
Did it really fail in all that?
It's a good game, but it failed to critically live up to the expectations of what a flagpole tent game should look like.
yes but all those platforms are using the same developing environment, direct x, gdk, horizon forbidden west came out on ps4 and ps5, spider man ps4 ps5, ragnarok ps4 ps5, gt7 ps4, ps5 and psvr2 all look good and some people even though forbidden west would be impossible on ps4 but all games perform flawless even pc ports perform good, 343 simply didnt do a top job on infinite unless there's a major tools and optimization problem on xbox platforms but that also doesnt make sense when u factor in playground games horizon 5 runs and looks like magic from xbone to series and pc
thats what i mean, if you put killzone 2 a ps3 game side by side with halo infinite, killzone simply looks technically and artistic better, even though ininite has much more going on per frame it all doesnt add up because of how they used the technologies and the art direction all together just adding up more pixels and polygons didnt save how it looked, and i think that is unacceptable for exclusives this day and age, now people demand top quality production with flawless gameplay and all at 60fps... times are hard
Its a story definitely well repeated.
It's important for us to judge games as they were designed to be. Playstation is targeting older male audience, and many of us who grew up with playstation, the games continued to cater to that market. Many of their graphics appeal to an older audience, with an aim for getting as close to realism as possible.
Usually sales start well and then stop suddenly if there is an issue. Its hard to pinpoint the cause of low sales when a game doesnt sell. Is it something wrong with the game or lack of interest? You need people to buy and complain
its alright however the audience they are targeting but infinites art direction simply doesnt cut it, i mean nobody says it should look dark as killzone 2 thats not the point the point is why is it flat, disney caters for kids but the production and care that goes to present a childish animation film is second to none, ratchet and clank another example of a childish games looks like a pixar film, some nintendo games even though their targeted audience and low speced machine always deliver in art direction, halo infinite could have still been fun as the old school halo games and still looked beautiful, from a guy who grew up playing time splitters on ps2 days on end i believe infinite didnt get that love
Yea, and this is what I would criticize halo about. Animations are for general audiences, but Disney animations are incredible visual experiences.
it doesnt seem like they even tried on the animations! and even some last gen games had better lighting, killzone shadow fall looks miles ahead compared to infinite like theres alot of games last gen with better lighting, i dont get how it ended up looking like that, if 343 really gave everything they have and thats it! then im intrigued. Id forgive multi plat titles and small studios or the usual broken japanese dev game but first party titles are unforgivable either looking that bad or performing bad.
