Michael Cripe is a freelance contributor with IGN. Moon launched its newest tweaks with a hotfix that released yesterday. We gave this early slice a 7/10 in our review, calling it a “compelling and unique action-RPG” that still has some kinks to work out. No Rest for the Wicked launched in early access on April 18, 2024. He hopes those who criticize early access at least see the value in a method that allows “developers to truly perfect a product over time.” While Xbox and PC both offers avenues for developers to release early access versions of their games, Mahler hopes PlayStation and Nintendo eventually begin to implement similar offerings. And if you don't know that it's okay to bring in certain features and scope after the fact, you'll just end up cutting before you hit the market.” THOMAS MAHLER: EARLY ACCESS IS ONE OF THE BEST DECISIONS WE COULD'VE MADE. “Shipping games is always incredibly difficult and stressful and most of the time it means making quite drastic compromises, especially if your product is trying to accomplish something new. Mahler elaborates, saying that more substantial issues can’t always be fixed by post-launch updates and DLC. The latter location was notorious for causing frame stuttering issues upon Dark Souls’ original release. Mahler points to Lost Izalith as one offender, though longtime Souls enjoyers have also taken issue with the layout of areas like the Demon Ruins and Blighttown, too. While Dark Souls is often thought of as a turning point for FromSoftware, some late-game areas have been known to be criticized by many in the past.

“Instead of From rushing to ship a boxed product in a somewhat unfinished state, they probably would've been able to look at the second half of that game and still fully form and polish the less polished areas like Lost Izalith, etc.” “Imagine Dark Souls 1 would've been in Early Access,” Mahler adds. The example he uses is 2011’s Dark Souls. The Moon CEO takes his appreciation for early access one step further by suggesting that some past video games might have benefited from early access if it would have been an option. launch into Early Access even if the studio…- thomasmahler April 24, 2024 I see some people are still irked about why games like Wicked, Hades 2, Larian's new game, etc.

We're not even a week into Early Access and it's already pretty clear that going with EA is one of the best decisions we could've made ?❤️ And I mean actual users, not a Focus Testing Group.” “Speaking from our own experience, there is just no way we could have ever shipped Wicked 1.0 without being able to see all the data we're seeing now and getting all the feedback from users.

Here is the full PS Plus May 2024 lineup.“I think as games become more and more complex and sophisticated, we'll see some form of Early Access happening more and more often,” Mahler explains. You will also be getting an EA Sports FC 24 Ultimate Team Starter Pack on the PS Store and football-sim will be available longer than the rest, until Monday, June 17, 2024. The four PS Plus Essential games are EA Sports FC 24, Tunic, Ghostrunner II, and Destiny 2 Lightfall. For the PlayStation Plus May 2024 games, the official reveal on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, followed by the games releasing to everyone on Tuesday, May 6, 2024. The PS Plus Essential monthly games lineup has four games across PS5 and PS4 in a bumper month for the tier. The four games will be released on Tuesday, May 6, 2024.The announcement on Wednesday, sees EA Sports FC 24 joining the service.PS Plus May 2024 has four PS5 and PS4 games for the Essential Tier.PlayStation Plus Kes Eylers-Stephenson The PlayStation Plus May 2024 has been revealed for PS5 and PS4 and it includes a bumper four games! With EA Sports FC 24 headlining Sony's subscription service at the Essential tier, what else has been added?

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