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\n\t\tHigh On Life 2 \u2013 biggest than Resident Evil? (Squanch Games)<\/p>\n
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\n\t\tHigh On Life 2 \u2013 biggest than Resident Evil? (Squanch Games)<\/p>\n
The Friday letters page has a good idea for the next Horizon Zero Dawn<\/a> sequel, as one reader has given up on ever tackling their video games<\/a> backlog.<\/p>\n Games Inbox is a collection of our readers\u2019 letters, comments, and opinions. To join in with the discussions yourself email gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Busy month Now, the obvious big one there is Resident Evil, but I can\u2019t help remembering reading that the games don\u2019t actually sell that much, compared to really big games, so I wonder if High On Life 2 will outsell it. Call me a philistine but it\u2019s the one I\u2019m most looking forward to, just because I enjoyed the first one so much and it was so weird and funny. Resident Evil looks okay but kind of a bit too familiar for me, especially with Leon in it.<\/p>\n I think Nintendo<\/a> has messed up Mario Tennis too many times now, for this new one to be a major hit, and I think the others will probably review well but not sell that much. So I don\u2019t know what will be the best in terms of the highest Metacritic score but I do think High On Life 2 has the best chance of being my favourite. Ticking clock With everything that\u2019s going on I have to sadly admit that I do think a delay is looking more and more likely. I\u2019m not going to pretend I know exactly how video games are made but if a year of polish is becoming common for really big games then GTA 6 is going to need at least that, and it already looks as if there\u2019s not time.<\/p>\n Hopefully I\u2019m wrong but I think the next few months are going to be telling. If we don\u2019t hear anything from Rockstar then I think that\u2019ll mean a delay, because it really is about time that they actually said something about what the game is and currently we know almost nothing. Console yourself I\u2019m going to assume that luxury purchases of any kind are suddenly looking like not such a good idea over there at the moment, considering everything that\u2019s going on. But if that\u2019s the main reason then it\u2019s a big problem for games companies, because it means things might not change for a long time. Worrying times. Email your comments to: gamecentral@metro.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n Marketing 101 I\u2019ve barely seen anything from PlayStation. Just a generic live action advert which didn\u2019t mention any consoles, any games, or feature any franchise. Just the basic PlayStation brand. As bad as that was, it\u2019s still better than Xbox<\/a>. I genuinely cannot remember the last time I saw an advert for their brand. It\u2019s amazing that Microsoft can spend billions every year, and barely anything on marketing. Surely that\u2019s a basic tenet of any business. To let people know your product exists. \t\t\t\tExpert, exclusive gaming analysis\t\t\t<\/p>\n Sign up to the GameCentral newsletter<\/a> for a unique take on the week in gaming, alongside the latest reviews and more. Delivered to your inbox every Saturday morning.<\/p>\n No secrets I think keeping it a secret is going to prove a mistake, because people are going to hype themselves up that it\u2019s something good and then be horribly disappointed. I realise Microsoft didn\u2019t announce that there\u2019s a secret, but it leaked and absolutely everything always leaks for Microsoft, so they really should\u2019ve assumed that from the start. Broader Horizons I\u2019m interested to know what new direction they might take though because there was a big effort to push Horizon as the big PlayStation franchise, but that seems to have fallen off lately, after that Lego game flopped and no one played the PlayStation VR2 one.<\/p>\n I hadn\u2019t thought about the series in a long time, which is what made me write this email, and I do feel that pop culture tends to forget things a lot quicker nowadays than it used to be. I would say that Horizon Forbidden West was generally well received but I also think it\u2019s fair to say it didn\u2019t really rock anyone\u2019s idea of what the games are all about.<\/p>\n A lot has been written about how the plot and characters are all kind of boring, even thought the setting is cool, but I\u2019m not sure how easy it is to fix that, beyond getting a different writer.<\/p>\n What I would do though is push for a new gameplay angle and let you control the robot animals. Making it so you can be the robots or giving you a cockpit to climb into would be great, I think. Have some real Mechagodzilla action in there. Just a thought but I think whatever they do it needs to be something major like that, not just better combat or more weapons. \t\t\t\tDon’t miss Gaming news! Add us as a Preferred Source\t\t\t<\/p>\n As a loyal GameCentral reader, we want to make sure you never miss our articles when searching for gaming stories. We have all the latest video games news, reviews, previews, and interviews, with a vibrant community of highly engaged readers.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> and tick\u00a0Metro.co.uk\u00a0to ensure you see stories from us first in Google Search.<\/p>\n \t\t Retirement plan It\u2019s such a stupid number, that only gets bigger over time, that I\u2019ve pretty much resigned to never getting through it and just finishing it off when I retire or something. I hope by that point we can control games with our mind because I don\u2019t know what the state of my hands is going to be by that point. Strange decisions It\u2019s not a disaster, especially when it comes to sales, but it seems sloppy and slapdash, even though they had years to get ready. What makes that really weird is that the Switch 1 was the opposite, and yet that was rushed out in a hurry\u2026 but it and its line-up turned out to be 10 times better.<\/p>\n Maybe they were hurrying to get things out before GTA 6, which was originally going to be out at Christmas, but that wouldn\u2019t have been an issue five years ago, when they first started planning all this out. It also doesn\u2019t excuse the weird choices in terms of what games they\u2019ve released or explain why they haven\u2019t announced anything major for this year yet.<\/p>\n There\u2019s almost no decision they\u2019ve made that doesn\u2019t seem a bad idea. Like, why is Animal Crossing getting a Switch 2 Edition this month? Why wasn\u2019t a new game a priority? I would\u2019ve bet good money that it was, given how long it\u2019s been since the last one. And why do we know absolutely nothing about a new 3D Mario, even though the last one was over eight years ago?<\/p>\n Everyone seems convinced that there\u2019s going to be a Nintendo Direct next month, and there probably will be one, but I agree with the other reader, that they\u2019ll somehow manage to make it as boring and predictable as possible. Remember, this is the company that gave Kirby Air Riders not one but two Directs, all to itself. Inbox also-rans On gaming gifts, I got a Lego Game Boy for Christmas. 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Christmas<\/a> and the new year is behind us now and while there\u2019s not much out this month I\u2019ve been looking through the release schedules and it does seem as if February is going to be pretty busy. I\u2019m not that familiar with some of these games but by my reckoning the interesting ones are Dragon Quest 7 Reimagined, Nioh 3, Mario Tennis Fever<\/a>, High On Life 2<\/a>, Reanimal, and Resident Evil Requiem<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Radar<\/p>\n
Although it\u2019s fun to think there are GTA 6 rumours<\/a> out there that are true I\u2019m not sure there\u2019s much point trying to guess which they are, because Rockstar is never in a million years going to say whether anyone was right or not.<\/p>\n
Tacle<\/p>\n
Interesting to see how console sales are starting to tank in the US<\/a>. There\u2019s no very obvious reason, to me anyway, other than high prices but you would\u2019ve thought the Switch 2<\/a> would\u2019ve been able to get around that as a special case.<\/p>\n
Kouk<\/p>\n
One key reason that Switch sales have done well, and something that doesn\u2019t get mentioned enough, is that they\u2019re the only company that seems to be marketing their console. Over the last two months especially, I\u2019ve seen adverts selling the Switch 2 everywhere: on TV, at the cinema, or plastered on billboards and buses.<\/p>\n
Motiman<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
I bet that secret game for the Developer Direct<\/a> does turn out to be something new from Obsidian, and it\u2019s some weird indie game that everyone\u2019s going to be massively disappointed by.<\/p>\n
Gort<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve seen a few people wonder whether the next Horizon game is going to be a launch game for the PlayStation 6 and I\u2019d have to say that does look pretty likely to me. It\u2019s not been announced yet, which presumably means it\u2019s at least a year or two away, and I would say that means it\u2019s going to be cross-gen at the very least.<\/p>\n
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I can definitely understand where the Reader\u2019s Feature about backlogs<\/a> is coming from. I didn\u2019t buy any new games last year, that were released last year, and I\u2019m still close to a 100 behind where I want to be.<\/p>\n
Kamen<\/p>\n
Very much agree with the Reader\u2019s Feature about Nintendo<\/a> and the Switch 2. I know Nintendo are unpredictable, but I find their whole approach to the console and its games to be weird and poorly thought out.<\/p>\n
Cubby<\/p>\n
On the one hand I respect dbrands for their punk rock attitude. On the other hand\u2026 guys, you make console skins<\/a>. Like GC said, isn\u2019t there a better outlet for your anger than that?
Mesy<\/p>\n
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