It was a buggy mess with poor design decisions, such as the bewilderingly bad save system - which doesn't work. It bore no relation to the Underworld games, which were underground open-world games with multiple factions to interact with and non-linear design - Ascendant has none of these, really, or at least cheaply done. Ascendant was being worked on by several veterans from Looking Glass and Irrational, so the pedigree was there. Underworld Ascendant is the Kickstarter crowdfunded proposed sequel to the Ultima Underworld games by Looking Glass - which started the "immersive sim" genre and lead to System Shock and Thief at Looking Glass, and then outward to Bioshock, Deus Ex, Dishonored, Prey and more. Probably the least-known game on this list, but if you do know it, you're angry with it. What if you want to play the best Spider-Man game a few years from now? You will, and you won't be able to. Licenses move on, and they'll never get re-released. But as licensed console exclusives, they'll be dead by the end of the generation. Yes, these publishers helped finance the games to make them great. Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 was announced, and that'll be published by Nintendo, so it's a Switch exclusive despite the Ultimate Alliance name being owned by Activision. Spider-Man was published by Sony, so is a PS4 exclusive. Then we have the licensed games - specifically, Marvel. Why? GTA5 and GTA Online were fantastically successful on PC! And no release date or confirmation of the PC version. And yet here we are - Red Dead Redemption 2, once again Rockstar, does not launch on PC for no reason whatsoever. What we DO expect to see on PC are a) third-party games, and b) licensed games not owned by console publishers. Those are internally-owned and developed IPs. We're reasonable - we do not expect Super Mario Odyssey or God of War to appear on PC just yet. Things were getting better - Microsoft made all their Xbox exclusives start coming to PC (although we're still waiting on Halo), and Playstation Now allowed us to legally try Sony games like Bloodborne. We understand you console manufacturers have to have a little pissing contest now and again, but leave the PC out of it. Look, gaming industry, we thought we were past this. but then again, what games are coming to it anymore? Now instead of just installing Steam, us gamers have a dozen different clients installed for probably just a couple of games each way. As PUBG and Quake III Arena learned, Epic are good at taking other people's ideas and making it better and more popular. it has a load of exclusives already, games are jumping to it from Steam, and the profits split is better. Worst of all, a true competitor appeared in the form of the Epic Games Store - which has the backing of the biggest game in the world, Fortnite, the biggest graphics engine, Unreal, and one of the richest publishers in the world, Tencent. Bethesda kicked off their own digital launcher, starting with Fallout 76 and probably continuing to Rage 2. Blizzard's started getting major non-Blizzard games, such as Destiny 2 and Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (COD had previously been a Steam exclusive). Ubisoft may have their own launcher, Uplay, but you can still buy the publisher's games on Steam.Ģ018 was different, as it seemed all major publishers were jumping Valve's ship. The loss of EA to Origin was always a bitter pill, but we felt that more as EA being greedy and controlling rather than a sign of a larger problem. Click on the image below for a larger version.2018 was the year where Steam, the biggest platform in the world, finally faced true challenges. If you’re riding high on the Marvel excitement train the way we are, you won’t want to miss our exclusive look at the game, which headlines the new June issue of Game Informer. We got exclusive hands-on access with a bevy of heroes, saw some brand-new playable characters, and spoke with all the involved teams about how this unlikely team-up came to be. The new Switch exclusive releases on July 19, and we had the opportunity to visit Nintendo’s North American headquarters and experience the game for ourselves. Now an unexpected partnership between Marvel Games, Nintendo, and Koei Tecmo/Team Ninja is bringing Ultimate Alliance back to life. Then, like they were snapped out of existence, the series disappeared. More than a decade ago, the X-Men Legends and Marvel Ultimate Alliance games lit up our gaming screens, fulfilling the fantasies of comic book fans everywhere with the chance to build our own superhero teams and beat down the bad guys in rollicking action/RPG adventures.
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