Metaphor: ReFantazio – a third off at the moment (Atlus)
The Friday letters page is adamant it doesn’t want the PlayStation 6 anytime soon, as one reader is dubious about Avowed being a hit.
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Grey Friday
So it looks like all the optimism over this being a good Black Friday have come to nothing already. I don’t think Sony has started their sale yet but £40 off an Xbox? That is so bad I’m not sure why they even bothered. I also don’t understand why it’s so little, unless they just haven’t got many to sell anymore, and they don’t think it’s worth? After all, I can’t imagine Microsoft is churning them out as quickly as they used to, not given what we know about the demand.
Nintendo’s Switch deals are barely any better but at least they have made a small effort, which is more than they usually do. The Amazon sales are terrible though. Just Star Wars Outlaws, as everyone already predicted, and, as usual, EA Sports FC 25.
I would recommend one game on sale though and that is Metaphor: ReFantazio, which is currently 30% off at most places. It doesn’t strike me as a game likely to sell well in the UK, so I’m not surprised to see it cheap so quickly but it really is a fantastic game and probably my favourite of the year. So, if more people get to play it because of Black Friday at least something good will have come of it.
Gandalf
The opposite of hype
I hate to prejudge anything but that Avowed game does not look impressive. Maybe it’ll turn out well, but I cannot see it being popular at all. I don’t know what the opposite of hype is but this game has definitely got it. When I saw the preview I didn’t understand what it was at first and then I vaguely remembered the Skyrim clone-looking reveal teaser.
And they want £70 for this? I think the only reason they moved its release date to February is because they know it would’ve been half price during Black Friday before you could blink. From what I can see this should have been a double-A game for at least £20 cheaper, and then people might have taken a look at it and been interested. But for the same price as Call Of Duty or EA Sports FC? It’s not happening.
The problem is this puts companies off from making new IPs that aren’t sequels but what chance did this have being so generic and unexciting?
Focus
Dead month
That Reader’s Feature recently, about how few new games are being released this month, was dead right. Now that S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 is out there’s nothing out for the whole year now, beyond Indiana Jones. There’s basically been no big name games out for the whole of November, just a handful of mid-level ones, none of which I can imagine selling all that well.
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