Poll: Should Sony Do More PS5 Director's Cuts?

Make a Director's Cut for Sackboy: A Big Adventure! I will see how it would be like.

@Milt Oh, how about a director's cut of Spider-Man Miles Morales as well, that would be amazing!

Updates should be free im happy to pay for DLC though

Seems more and more like Sony wants to make movie experiences instead of games.

Wow.... Tlou2 director's cut Got max votes... People pissing on it when released... Surprised

BTW I like the game

I'm fine with paying for upgrades on games and director's cuts and things like that. I have no problem paying and supporting the developers of games that I like.

Plus I look at it this way: I'm paying $40 (Canadian) for the Ghost of Tsushima Director's Cut which has an additional ~15 hours of content. That equals to $2.66 per hour for the price of entertainment.
If I went to a movie theatre it's $10 for a two hour movie. That's $5 per hour for the price of entertainment.
So really, video games are a cheaper form of entertainment when the amount of content is considered.

I’m not sure Bloodborne would really suit a ‘director’s cut’ because I honestly can’t think of a realistic area to expand on in that sense. You’d be better doing just another expansion that takes you to a new set of areas similar to the rest of the Souls games.

I find it kind of off that games with a single narrative look to add a director's cut to the game. If the game has a lot of different levels then maybe it can fit in.

Take GoT, that one kind of makes sense because the whole game is basically broken into 3 levels, so adding a 4th is possible without breaking the narrative.

However, TLoU:2 doesn't make any sense because the game has one linear narrative. If they were to add or subtract from what is currently there then it could break the flow of the game.

But really, all I want is more haptic feedback and adaptive triggers in my games. After playing Astro's Playroom and Rift Apart, there's no going back. I'd pay for that. Hahaha!

@nessisonett after watching people play it at 60fps and then booting it back up on my console, I'd pay at least 20 blood echoes for a frame bump alone!

I voted for Bloodborne but I was really tempted to say Uncharted 4: A thief's end because that game could do with a bit of ray tracing, haptic feedback, ultra-speed SSD, adaptive triggers and 4K 60fps HDR

The problem with Director's Cuts is that it can stifle innovation. If there are a few, maybe it's fine. E.g. one for Bloodborne would be awesome. But if it becomes a major trend, we could end up with a big % of games that are either remasters, remakes or directors cuts. Even these revised versions require a lot of Dev resources.

Directors cut of Hot Shots/Everybody’s Golf.

Bloodborne is the only one that makes sense.
Any more than that and it's just a cash grab to fill the gaps of all the games delayed until 2022.

@CynicalGamer exactly i would rather they made their next game rather than directors cuts

Weird to see people make such a big fuss over these Director's Cuts, have we all suddenly forgot the existence of Definitive Editions & Game of the Year Editions? Or do we just pretend those don't exist simply to have a reason to complain about something?

I think BB is remake territory at this point. I really it’s too old for a director’s cut now too. The other games you mentioned don’t speak to me that much.

Questions knocking around my head: Will this just be a thing while the majority transition to the new generation, or will native PS5 titles also end up with DC releases? If the latter, are we going to end up getting directors cuts of Goty editions? Or will DC effectively be the new name for goty editions? And why should I buy a game day one when I know there’ll be a suped up version a year down the line?

Also, why didn’t they call it something that better reflects what it is, instead directors cut, which it clearly isn’t.

I guess we'll first have to see if the first two Director's Cuts are any good.

I can't imagine they will be doing this too much longer. I see TLOU2 getting one but that's it. I'm fine with them though as long as they add something of value like the Ghost of Tsushima one. If its just a 60 fps 4k boost then I'm not interested in paying just for that.

Enough director's cuts and remakes. Let's see some new games. I've never seen a lazier time in my 33 years of gaming.

I agree with it but at a minimal cost.

HZD should get a free PS5 update that at least puts it on par with the PC release. Beyond that, I'm not interested in touched-up versions of games I already own and can play on that device.

With that said, I think Sony will lean heavily on "Director's Cut" versions of games in order to soften the blow of extended first-party software droughts.

@anon_pel222 Bb is the top tho?

I love the idea of a ‘director’s cut’ provided it is as advertised. As in, things are added that had to be cut due to time constraints or maybe some developer diaries giving some more insight into development or a level or scene that was controversial in-house and ultimately cut. It should offer something beyond a bump to 60fps and some higher res textures. That’s a ‘remaster’ or ‘definitive edition’ or what have you. I expect a ‘director’s cut’ to be something with a more personal touch.

I wonder how many people are going to buy into these Directors Cuts. If there is more content included combined with value it's a no brainer. What I don't like is features like Dualsense support being something that you have to buy instead of getting a free update. Let's see how this experiment goes.

Yes, but they should ditch the term “director’s cut.” It’s a goofy, cheapening misnomer.

As in film, “director’s cut” propagates the “auteur” fallacy, which diminishes the often more-significant contributions of literally every other individual who collaborated on a project, all to to feed the ego of the director and create a marketable cult of personality around them.

Many of the big name “directors” are megalomaniacal climbers who got ahead by taking disproportionate credit for the work of other more talented people who typically get lip service at best.

They/we should just call them expanded. It’s more accurate and less fraught with desperation to ape the worst aspects of the film world.

I honestly don't want more content added in to Bloodborne if the creator isn't around to do it.

Votes Days Gone, needs to continue the story

@Milt No thanks, they are a pawn of the CCP now.

LOL, of course my comment was immediately followed by someone propagating sole creator auteur cult of personality BS.

I think PS4>PS5 upgrades should be free. I already own the game, I shouldn't have to pay for a resolution pack/optimization.
Actual extra content like an expansion for the story? No problem paying for that separately.

I put Days Gone. I think that would benifit the most from an upgrade.

@figboot you make a lot of excellent points here but the overall direction of a creative project is often overwhelmingly steered by a singular vision enacted by a small few or one. Even in the most collaborative environment, there is a leader and there is still a final say. That doesn’t take anything away from the hard work and accomplishments of the team, and a good leader will make that known. However, a good team will also recognize and appreciate the importance of a strong leader and vision.

@bpomber last time I posted about these paid upgrades I used the same sense you did.

And some clown called me a Sony Pony who shills for Sony 😂 but the stance is completely valid. Bravo sir 👏🏻

None of those games listed need a directors cut

None of the first set of answers applied, from a purely selfish point of view i don't want any directors cuts as it delays the chance of these games appearing on PS Plus.

See, I don't necessarily MIND Director's Cuts...but...don't tack on the "PS5 Tax" for upgrades.

Death Stranding got it right. You pay $10 for the extra stuff and the upgrade is free.

Ghost of Tsushima got it wrong. Should be $20 to upgrade vanilla to Director's Cut and no charge for PS5 upgrade.

Bloodborne for the Soulsborne fans. Game needs a true update. Can't think of many others off the top of my head.

Only gamers would expect directors cut to be given for free lol god this hobby annoys me sometimes.

@GamingFan4Lyf
Actually the upgrade for Death Stranding isn't free. You still need to pay the $10 to get the Directors Cut content along with the PS5 tax. You don't just get the upgrade to the new hardware version no questions asked. I know kind of a technicality but just being clear.

But it is cheaper and more straightforward than Ghost which is nice, although that makes me question if the Death Stranding content is really all that substantial.

No. Its nonsense. Before PS5 and Series X were released both platform holders said all this power will allow for new ideas and innovation, along with new ips and gameplay concepts....so far after 9 months I've seen very little of this. Its remakes, remasters, upgrades both free and paid for and hardly anything that looks to be fresh or new...its more bollocks and *****. AAA games will hardly ever takes risks due to costs and investors. Death Stranding was actually a great game that tried new things in both story and design and yet half the people disliked it....scared of new concepts...

Service games, online multiplayer rubbish with hidden or open charges....

Gaming is quite the bore fest this past year and looking at future releases it seems to be not getting much better....

@bpomber Think we should be focusing on quality rather than quantity no? I think it’s fair to say you’ll buy the expansion, but this kind of thinking is the reason bloated games like Valhalla can continue to churn out tag lines about hours of content even though most of it is mindless. Movies are by nature meant to be tight, controlled pieces on entertainment. They can have more emotional depth and narrative than most video games within a 2 hr period, they don’t need to be 15 hrs long. Valhalla still can’t compete with a single season of Last Kingdom. Not to say games can’t compete, of course they can and do, but we need to stop justifying money spent by hours used up, as it leads to filler and padding and little pushes towards more microtransactions in games that promise it’s worth it because you’ve spent 60 hrs of grinding in it::

Since it's now confirmed that Horizon Zero Dawn and Genshin Impact take place in the same world, how about a Horizon Zero Dawn Directors Cut that adds some playable Genshin characters.

@ShadowofSparta which is why I started off my comment by saying I don't mind paying for things that I like.
I don't like AC Valhalla so I wouldn't pay anything for an upgrade or director's cut for that game. But for a game like Ghost of Tsushima that I really like, I will gladly pay for more of it. Especially since the value is better than that of seeing a movie.
It's a mix of quantity and quality. Seeing a movie that I like in theatres has a higher cost of entertainment per hour than buying and playing a game that I like.

I’d really like an Uncharted 4 upgrade. I played it again after finishing TLOU2 and damn it’s jarring going back to 30fps at first. Forget a directors cut, it doesn’t need changes, just frame rate update would be nice.

@Mezzer I wouldn’t say the problem with death stranding was caused by a fear of new concepts. The entire game was a fetch quest with online elements. There’s nothing new to fear here. I think a lot of people disliked the game because it was pretentious and boring. You’d have to really be sold on Kojima to enjoy it. I consider my tastes fairly eclectic, and after roughly 30 hours with the game I called it a day. And I enjoy ‘walking simulators’ like layers of fear and observer, which most consider boring games.

Last of Us Part 2 is inevitable for a "directors cut" but it's a silly name for them. Last of Us Part 2 will have the factions add on but I doubt anything else in the main story. I would love to see more from the scars faction though.

I'm tired of remakes. A director's cut is just a remake. Just make new games or make a sequel. These are all minimal effort decisions and work to cash in on consumers and collectors. If it's a way to bring a game from generation to generation just make it a free upgrade like smart delivery. I'm not supporting games I've either already bought and played or games I already decided on not buying and playing.

Demon's Souls DC, with that broken Archstone fixed for another amazing world.

They should really be looking to have a cut off point with these directors cuts and generally focus on the current generation

Nope. Not as a new full-priced game, anyway. And certainly not as a new full-priced game that becomes the only one available in the digital store. Seems like a real lazy and ***** way to keep prices evergreen.

I don't see the value in them, I'm very unlikely to buy a directors cut of a big open world game I've already finished and own. Also I'm not paying just to play a next gen version of a game when so many third parties are doing free updates, it just screams of Sony trying to ring more money out of their customers

Death Stranding earns it from what has been shown but GoT should get a free next gen upgrade with the DLC being what you pay for and personally having now played SM Remastered that should have been a free upgrade.

I would love to see Bloodborne get an upgrade free or not because that having 60fps is the dream.

@The_New_Butler Yeah, some of the stuff added does seem to be...well...out of place.

I will be interested to see it.

I already finished Death Stranding once, but the finished save file was lost in a system format (where I forgot I didn't have PS+ for backups).

So jumping into the PS5 version with extra stuff for $10 feels like a nice time to replay the game - especially since new games (of interest to me) aren't really coming around for a little while.

Of the mentioned games, Bloodborne is the one that could definitely use improvements in the graphics department.
Honestly, I would love to see a Remake a la Bluepoint for this awesome game.
But I would settle for a quick Director's Cut to elevate it to next gen, and maybe introduce some of the bosses and story lines that were excluded from the final release, if it would mean getting From Software to start working on Bloodborne 2 (as a sequel) or a new IP but based on Bloodborne's combat style and Lovecraftian setting (instead of another Dark Souls based game like Elden Ring).

The name directors cut is some focus group tested bs! It implies there was original content that was cut to make the product and with that added back, there is recontextualised meaning added. These are game of the year editions with additional bespoke content dlc content that doesn't change meaning or story in the main game.

@ATaco that is utter tosh

It is time to look ahead. Let them show us some next-gen games.

How about all titles as long as the content is good and all on disc otherwise dont waste any plastic on it.

I might buy the Death Stranding one just because I never bought it on PS4 to begin with. Otherwise though I think this is just a silly way to rerelease previous gen titles to patch over the lack of actual new, native PS5 games. It's fine, I'm sure some people will enjoy them but I'll mostly ignore them.

@nessisonett Every part of DLC on the disc with the performance upgrade i dont see the issue especially for the people who never played it.

@3MonthBeef I had more choice then ever on PS5 with the amount of new titles on release. On the PS3 i had the choice of 3 titles or something. I dont even remember what the PS4 had because i did not get it on the release date.

@ShadowofSparta If you cut 50% of the content with AC i think you wont lose anything special. Most of the game is busywork and quite boring but if you play the story thats what i had with Syndicate if they had removed the busywork and added the DLC the Jack the Ripper one you would have a complete story with way more diverse gameplay and fun in the end.

@JustPlainLoco Same thing different name i know what you mean.

@Flaming_Kaiser That wouldn’t be a director’s cut. That would just be Bloodborne remastered.

@David187 You probably assume I mean literally, which I don't. Though I do mean games that almost look like they could be movies. I don't really think it's a negative term but their games do usually have a grandiose "movie" quality to them. Less and less are we seeing quirky little experiences from Sony. Astro's playroom was fun but it was literally just a tech demo.

Better than remasters! At least it adds some content and not just "4k"

No, they are basically just ports and I'm already fed up with Nintendo bombarding us with ports as it is

The Order 1886 needs a directors cut which contains the end of the game.

NO Just make NEW PS5 ONLY games PLEASE SONY!!! They seem to sell amazingly well(the PS5 ONLY games) so forget about the past and just make new games (and not for PS4 to) Saying that I still haven't played Death Stranding or Ghost of Tsushima or The Last of Us 2 so i am not sure if i will get the newer version or not(I don't want to encourage SONY to waste their time on older games really)

@figboot I think you should take a chill pill dude

Lair and Haze directors cut FTW!

A Bloodborne director's cut for PS5 (with 60fps) with an expansion like Iki Island for GoT would definitely turn a lot of heads.

@Nepp67 when I was writing the comment tlou2 was at 32 ... That's why I surprised😆

Nah. Director’s Cuts are the new “GOTY edition” and stand directly in contrast with the direction the industry is currently going in. I mean sure, capitalism blah blah blah, but anti-consumer is what it is no matter how you try to justify it. Sony’s taking a lot of swings with a lot of misses this gen on their victory lap, and we’re in a time where being choosy about what companies you support is difficult because of shortages. It’s not like there’s direct competition to the PS5 sitting on store shelves anywhere (at least in my experience). So Sony will continue to pull this stuff while selling out consistently. All we can really do is not directly support their greedier practices; i.e. buy this kind of stuff second hand or on sale. 🤷

I love the idea but knowing how the industry will move, they will quickly pervert it into something awful. Maybe not Sony but just wait till EA or 2K give you the Director's Cut of some crappy game just to make a buck. It will become the Game of the Year Edition of this generation.

I don't have problem with director cut as long as the upgrades are only $10, the 60 fps patch should be free though, like ghost of tsushima, ratchet ps4, days gone, and others.

No thanks, I'd rather the time, money and effort be put into new entries in a series. Fact is a lot of PS4 games still look great, a patch that ups the resolution and frame rates is good enough.

@vict0RGM blood borne did get dlc , i doubt they would make any new content for this game after so long though. a ps5 update would still be nice though.

I vote for a Killzone trilogy director's cut. They all felt cut short story wise. I'm just ignoring the ps4 launch title here.

Don't like it, don't buy it. It's that simple.

Gamers gotta moan though, it's all some bloody well seem to do!

If the developers are making new content than why shouldn't you be charged? I swear some gamers won't be happy until every single game is free and even then they'd find something to bitch about.

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I think unlocking frame rate on any PS4 game should come as a free patch but if they are making native PS5 ports that take a lot of work I don’t mind paying a small fee if the benefits are worth it.

Directors cut doesn't make sense if its an expansion or something new being added to the game.

@nessisonett I really dont care what they call it.

@Flaming_Kaiser But the Director’s Cut things for the other two games have extra content. Without extra content it’s a remaster. That’s the difference.

@3MonthBeef It's been that way since the late 90s at least. Remember the era, especially on PC games of the "bullshots" on boxes and websites?

Backlogs aren't part of that so much though. It's mostly about collecting games you know you want to play, collecting games from the past you didn't have in your library but might want, good sales, and having less time to play than you imagine you have to play because we're all still 14 in our minds, even if our mental age of 6 (and a half!) And our actual age is (censored).

No!

Stop remastering games.

@Jackpaza0508 uncharted 4 directors cut would be phenomenal! That's definitely a DC version of a game I'd pay $10 for the upgrade. Especially with the 4K 60fps, adaptive triggers & super fast loading. Uncharted 4 is the perfect candidate imo simply because it was already made with PS4 pro in mind so I'm assuming it wouldn't be a drastic challenge to make it run at 4K 60fps on PS5 with the other upgrades as well

Or as they were previously known - GOTY editions.

Essentially DLC packaged into one package, under a different name. Certainly not against it, but it’s a marketing term rather than something new.

Can we please have a shirtless Nate in a director's cut, 5 games with him including Golden Abyss on Vita and still not a glimpse of his body!! Seriously though I remember reading an article about things that were cut from the game including a young Nate and Sam having a play sword fight in the house they break into, that would use the same controls as the fight at the end!

@JustPlainLoco gamers will always find something to complain about no matter how silly it is.

@Col_McCafferty exactly. Even then they wouldn't be happy.

Uncharted 4 Among Thieves is great.

@trev666 Im sorry but Sony has a massive output with great firstparty titles so i dont really understand what you are trying to say.

@Wraggadam I hate GOTY editions if you want to change it make it a complete edition then.

@tameshiyaku I want KZ3 i love that multiplayer so much. 😁

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah, that multiplayer was great and easier to get into compared to kz2. Also loved the campaign with the move sharpshooter. Just the story felt very incomplete.

@tameshiyaku KZ2 was so unbalanced a pro team against normal team and you could not even leave the spawn. Operations was my favorite mode and ihad so much fun with mêlee kills and even more fun when i was a cloaked sniper the rage was so much fun. The sound when you got after a kill i the feel of the guns so heavy i loved it. The game was brilliant i loved everysecond of it i even Platinum it. Such a pity they went for the COD feel with the latest one. 😢

@Flaming_Kaiser yeah, that last one was a pretty forgettable technical showcase. Feel like getting out my PS3 again

@tameshiyaku Online is gone with KZ3 so no more operations. 😢

I really was let down with the PS4 game and it was dead i think that was mostly because of the gameplay. Why make it a COD copt. The community of COD will not stay and you will alienate the fans such a waste. The gameplay is what made KZ so special to play for me.

Absolutely. I voted for Bloodborne, but that would never happen.