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To me thats not postive, it tells me the game lacks focus and its trying to be everything for everybody and often than not it does none of it well.

Eh? That's like saying because Halo has on-foot shooting and then you can embark a vehicle to fly or drive around lacks focus.

It's simple really, you'll follow a nobody that got mixed into an impossible to win war, goes into flight academy, from locker equipment, to NPC chitchats on a ship, to boarding a ship, flying faster than light, landing on a space station or surface of a planet, do a run and gun mission, etc. I'm not sure what's hard to grasp here.

If SQ42 actually exists and if it's actually released one day and if it's actually good, I'll buy it and play it

I'll never have any interests in Scam Citizen and SQ42 will have no impact on that

That's a totally fair take

Some peoples never cared for the MMO, just like now there's MMO players who don't care about SQ42. But this constant fight between both ressources, MMO players whining that they are bringing in the most cash into the project while CIG puts too much focus on SQ42, or SQ42 backers who think the MMO is a distraction and shouldn't have happened...

Let's just say that I think SQ42 HAS to launch, I think that was the plan with bringing back peoples to UK to focus on SQ42 with the new director and get to the finish line once and for all for that project.

 

[Redneckerz]

Let's just say that I think SQ42 HAS to launch, I think that was the plan with bringing back peoples to UK to focus on SQ42 with the new director and get to the finish line once and for all for that project.

Of anything that Chris Roberts in this adventure has shown, SQ42 is the only thing that actually is claimed to be near the finish line. Its also the only thing that could run on the current-gen consoles.

I think the biggest issue for them now is when to release it in 2026, considering GTA VI is going to be the game that drags all the attention away. And 2027? SQ42 will be beyond the curve.

 

[Fafalada]

I read a lot of time ago they didnt discard a possible ps4 port. It was no officially announced but they had that in mind.

That's just PR bs - not unlike the claims they made about engine changes to skirt legal issues.

Their tech stack is built on FP64 - and PS4/X1 CPUs have like a 4x performance penalty running in that mode (and for a PC exclusive, those CPUs were pretty bad without that penalty already). Not to mention they were basically relying on SSD to get anything resembling playable performance a decade ago - a port for last gen would have to be a complete rewrite to make it run.

Eh? That's like saying because Halo has on-foot shooting and then you can embark a vehicle to fly or drive around lacks focus.

Halo released like 5 games in the time SQ42 'might' release one (and I'm not convinced yet it will).
I do agree lack of focus isn't the right word - Robert's cinema ambitions are dominating majority of their public showcases, it's always been clear he wasn't out to build games but 'cinematic experiences'.
Lack of focus would be a description for the Minds Eye - where Benzies literally wanted everything from every 3rd person adventure game ever made inside his magnus opus.

 

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Of anything that Chris Roberts in this adventure has shown, SQ42 is the only thing that actually is claimed to be near the finish line. Its also the only thing that could run on the current-gen consoles.

I think the biggest issue for them now is when to release it in 2026, considering GTA VI is going to be the game that drags all the attention away. And 2027? SQ42 will be beyond the curve.

GTA 6 is not on PC so it doesn't really matter for 2026

Even months later at one point peoples will get over GTA 6. They just have to not launch near it.

 

[Redneckerz]

GTA 6 is not on PC so it doesn't really matter for 2026

Ehm, yes it does matter because like, that's the biggest game of 2026. The amount of time folks will spent on there will be ungodly.

Even months later at one point peoples will get over GTA 6. They just have to not launch near it.

I feel you want to make an argument for something i have no interest in. So yes, ofcourse.