Starfield – bigger than Halo? (pic: Microsoft)
The Wednesday letters page thinks a Morrowind remake would be impossible, as one reader wants to bring back Final Fight.
To join in with the discussions yourself email [email protected]
Stars the limit
Everyone knows what a washed-up mess Halo is at the moment, to the point where I don’t think it can ever get back to where it was. I certainly don’t ever see it being the reason you’d buy an Xbox again. However, I think Starfield will be – if it isn’t already.
There was an interesting point Phil Spencer made a while back, where he said that even though the Xbox 360 is seen as the golden era of Xbox ,the Xbox One and Xbox Series X/S have outsold it. So if Starfield is as massive as it seems it’s going to be, then could it end up being the biggest individual exclusive Microsoft has ever had?
I assume the current record holder is one of the early Halos, but considering how much gaming has grown since then I’m sure Starfield could beat it. People complain about the Activision Blizzard buyout, but I think it’s becoming obvious that Bethesda was a very smart, and much less controversial purchase. It doesn’t hurt that personally I’m much more interested in Starfield.
Plus, we literally can’t be flooded by sequels afterwards, because it takes so long to make! Although I do wonder what Microsoft will try to do about that. Lots of spin-offs by different developers? I bet there’ll be a separate space shooter and some kind of city builder at the very least.
Tango
PS: It’d be even bigger if it was multiformat!
Baldur’s Gate 2077
So it’s not sounding good for Baldur’s Gate 3, is it? Review copies at the last minute and no pre-loads? Sounds to me like they’ve only barely finished it and it’s going to only just make the release date. I sense a Cyberpunk 2077 style disaster coming, in terms of bugs and performance issues. I hope I’m wrong but what else would explain what’s going on?
What was so important with hitting a release date this Thursday though? Maybe if it was just before Christmas I could understand but who cares when exactly it comes out, compared to it working properly and not needing weeks of patches to work? Especially with a PC game, it’s a 100% digital only so all you’d need to do is email people and it’ll be a bit longer. No one will be kept in the dark.
Once again we’re going to have stories of broken games at launch and broken PC games in general. I hope I’m wrong but I fear Baldur’s Gate 3’s reputation is not going to be good out of the gate.
Ricing
Free games
It’s funny to think that no matter how much Microsoft goes on about Game Pass there’s still not that many people that are into it. I get the argument about not having enough time for all the games, but not really any of the other excuses.
I’ll be there day one, playing Starfield for ‘free’ and thinking it very strange that people are out there paying £60 for it. You could have Game Pass Ultimate for a whole year and it’d barely cost more than that. Each to their own but for me, as an Xbox owner, buying individual games is already starting to fee outdated and when I do need to buy a third party game it’s kind of a shock how damn expensive they are.
Khanrite
E-mail your comments to: [email protected]
Complicated remake
I would also prefer a Morrowind remake to Oblivion, in theory, but I don’t think there’s any way it would be like it used to, not for anything other than a quick remaster. Morrowind is complicated, difficult to understand, and very hard. It’s like Skyrim with an immersion sim added on top and an old school 90s role-playing game in terms of uncaring difficulty.
I’d enjoy it out of nostalgia but it’s not a game any new player would engage with, I don’t believe. That’s the problem with a remake, you’ve got to acknowledge that it’s actually a new game being made for the modern era and there’s a reason most of the features in Morrowind aren’t part of even Skyrim, and that game’s already over 10 years old.
It would be Morrowind in name only and to be honest it’s probably just best to push on with The Elder Scrolls 6, rather than have people complaining forever about a remake that wasn’t 100% like the original.
Stepbens
Approaching perfection
Well, Sony is allowing up to 8TB SSD. Why, I don’t know but I’ve just seen in Argos a 2TB SSD with heatsink that’s been reviewed as perfect for PlayStation 5, which means you should be able to fit seven or eight games on at a time and it’s under £200.
Also, I hear the update has Dolby Atoms available, which I can’t wait for so I can use my Dolby Atoms soundbar and rear speakers while gaming. Let’s hope they bring out Dolby Vision in the next few months and then gaming will be perfect. As for the SSD I’m going to buy a 2TB one; 8TB is a little crazy if you ask me.
David
Infinite Fight
I looked it up and I’m kind of shocked how many Double Dragon games there actually are. They keep knocking them out, huh? To me it was always the plain vanilla of the genre and Streets Of Rage and Final Fight were much cooler.
It makes me wonder why we haven’t had a new Final Fight recently. As far as I know Streetwise in 2006 was the last one, although that was at least an attempt to make it 3D. It was a horrible fail but they did try. The problem is that then convinced Capcom never to make another one again, 2D or 3D. Seems a shame.
If were them I’d do a new on that was a kind of Capcom All-Stars style cameo game. Where you were punching your way through a multiverse of Capcom games, from Ghosts ‘N Goblins to Resident Evil. You could fight the other franchises but also unlock characters from the as well to play as.
It doesn’t look like we’re getting a Marvel Vs. Capcom again anytime soon, so I’d love something like this. Capcom has such an interesting collection of games and character, even more than Nintendo I’d say.
Grackle
Change of plan
If Sony’s PC ports continue to sell badly I wonder if they were decide to reverse their decision to release them at all? It always seemed a strange decision to me, that undermines the purpose of the console and to find out they don’t even make much money… I really don’t see the point.
You could argue that Ratchet & Clank doesn’t seem a very PC style of game but I don’t think Spider-Man 2 is really, and yet are they going to release that in a year or so too, so that the PlayStation 5 is not the only place you can get it? I wouldn’t if I was them.
Fullet
More: Trending
Switching to cloud
The thing I’m most interested with Nintendo at the moment is what they’re going to do about cloud gaming. Because the Switch is underpowered they’ve actually experimented quite a bit already with cloud versions of third party games, so it’s not as if they’re turn a blind eye to it all, as they do sometimes.
Nintendo Switch Online is also a pretty good value subscription service too, even if none of it so far involves cloud gaming. I imagine that’s where it will star though. Perhaps some options with the new console to stream games rather than play them natively.
There is probably a limit to how far Nintendo will go though, as being portable the Switch is extra prone to the vagaries of Wi-Fi connections, and I’m sure they don’t want to be blamed every time someone playing wanders out of range.
Knowing Nintendo they won’t do the obvious thing but I’m interested to see what they do do, and if they can even use it to affect gameplay in some way that other developers haven’t thought of yet.
Raylston
Inbox also-rans
The only alternatives I can think of are Stargate and Superman, which are already taken. So we’re stuck with Baldurfield and Spider Bros. I’m afraid.
Anon
If Square Enix has to finish Final Fantasy 7 Remake and then make three more games to cover the whole of Final Fantasy 6 I’m not sure I’m even going to be around when it’s finished. It’s madness how long it takes to make games nowadays.
Thales
This week’s Hot Topic
The subject for this weekend’s Inbox was suggested by reader Gain2, who asks what is your favourite game that does not have a sequel?
Even if they’re not that that successful, most games get sequels at some point, but which is your favourite that never did? Why do you think it never got a follow-up and does it at least have a spiritual sequel or something similar?
Do you feel it’s too late for a sequel now and if not, how would you like it to look and play? If it’s a game with its first sequel coming up soon, how do you hope it will have evolved from the original?
E-mail your comments to: [email protected]
The small print
New Inbox updates appear every weekday morning, with special Hot Topic Inboxes at the weekend. Readers’ letters are used on merit and may be edited for length and content.
You can also submit your own 500 to 600-word Reader’s Feature at any time via email or our Submit Stuff page, which if used will be shown in the next available weekend slot.
You can also leave your comments below and don’t forget to follow us on Twitter.
MORE : Weekend Hot Topic: Your most anticipated video game ever
Follow Metro Gaming on Twitter and email us at [email protected]
To submit Inbox letters and Reader’s Features more easily, without the need to send an email, just use our Submit Stuff page here.
For more stories like this, check our Gaming page.
Sign up to all the exclusive gaming content, latest releases before they’re seen on the site.
This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.
The Wednesday letters page thinks a Morrowind remake would be impossible, as one reader wants to bring back Final Fight.
