Whoever it was at Sony that caught sight of Concord and thought it looked good enough to buy the actual studio that was making it shouldn't have a job at Sony anymore. That person or those people are a massive liability to the gaming division and their judgment can't be trusted.
I heard that some of the dialogue has been altered to make the characters more endearing and likeable than they were in the original. Is this true? If so, that's a horrible change to make. One of the best things about Until Dawn (2015) was how downright awful and hostile to each other some of the characters were, to the point of hilarity. Smoothing over the rough edges of Emily and Mike is a cowardly thing to do.
Xbox isn't a global brand resulting in poor console sales and Microsoft has conditioned its player base into not buying video games because of Game Pass. There, done. It's pretty simple.
Nearly everybody saw that this game would fail after watching just one minute of its awful SoP trailer three months back. If nobody at Sony could foresee this then PlayStation as a brand is in trouble.
The folks working on Fairgame$ must be crapping themselves right now, right? Seeing as how their game was even worse received when it was announced than Concord.
Absolute pretentious twaddle. One of the worst games I've ever played, and I do not say that with hyperbole. I wanted to claw my face off by the last episode.
That showcase felt like the first real glimpse into Sony's GaaS-centric future, and it made for a really depressing sight. CG trailers and sci-fi shooters everywhere, but little in the way of gameplay and games with their own distinct personality to stand out from the crowd.
This showcase was a flop through and through. It so easily could've been a slam dunk given how quiet Sony's been the past couple of years, but they well and truly botched it here.
This is absolutely wonderful news. Microsoft buying up publishers in order to paper over the cracks of its own mismanagement shouldn't be tolerated anyway. Activision games will remain multiplatform and that's great for the consumer.
One of Sony's biggest sins was never localising any of the Boku no Natsuyasumi games. They look amazing for anyone who cherishes atmosphere in video games and the escapist value the medium has to offer.
I wish it was for nothing, rather than the £70 it's priced at.
But yeah, it's a total cash grab. Just a completely unnecessary remake of a game that's still fresh in everyone's mind. This could also be the start of a worrying trend too as we see successful games that came out less than ten years ago get remade just because it's the easiest money ever.
Shawn wasn't perfect (his treatment of the Gravity Rush series caused much consternation with me), but he's a darn sight better than Ryan/Hulst, who both seem dead set on turning the first-party studios' output into a Ubisoft factory of formulaic, by-the-numbers AAA blockbusters.
I've played it for a couple of hours and it's about a 6 or so. I probably won't finish it.
The Oddworld series never really felt like it recaptured the glory days of the very first game. There was a lot of buzz in the UK surrounding Abe's Odyssey on the PS1 if memory serves.
A remake of the first TLoU... how creatively bankrupt can you get? The original isn't even an old game, it got an excellent remaster last gen and it plays great. Why would it need a remake?!
Wtf is going on at Sony right now. This is embarrassing.
As someone who loves the Gravity Rush series, it hurts reading this. Sony is making record profits as a company and yet only now do they see fit to let all these talented people go. It's depressing. AND they're losing a studio at a time when Microsoft is acquiring any developer they can get their mitts on.
Anyway, he's a fantastic artist. Good luck to him in the future.
As someone who loved Rescue Mission, I've been looking forward to this more than Miles, Demon's Souls and Sackboy. Super glad to see it turned out well!
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Re: PS5, PC Flop Concord Never Returning, Studio Closed Down
Whoever it was at Sony that caught sight of Concord and thought it looked good enough to buy the actual studio that was making it shouldn't have a job at Sony anymore. That person or those people are a massive liability to the gaming division and their judgment can't be trusted.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Fandom Reaches Inevitable Conclusion with $20,000 Astarion Sex Doll
This is vile. Absolute degeneracy.
Do they do Karlach sex dolls as well?
Re: Until Dawn Is One of Sony's Worst Performing PC Ports to Date
What a shambles. I hope Sony cools it with the pointless remakes after this and Horizon.
Re: Until Dawn (PS5) - Killer Teen Slasher Snags a Pricey New-Gen Remake
I heard that some of the dialogue has been altered to make the characters more endearing and likeable than they were in the original. Is this true? If so, that's a horrible change to make. One of the best things about Until Dawn (2015) was how downright awful and hostile to each other some of the characters were, to the point of hilarity. Smoothing over the rough edges of Emily and Mike is a cowardly thing to do.
Re: Microsoft Is Investigating Why Devs Are Prioritising PS5 Over Xbox
Xbox isn't a global brand resulting in poor console sales and Microsoft has conditioned its player base into not buying video games because of Game Pass. There, done. It's pretty simple.
Re: Astro Bot (PS5) - One of the Greatest PlayStation Platformers of All Time
More of these kinds of games please Sony.
Re: PS5, PC Shooter Concord Dead on Arrival, Is Being Taken Offline This Week as Dev 'Explores Options'
Nearly everybody saw that this game would fail after watching just one minute of its awful SoP trailer three months back. If nobody at Sony could foresee this then PlayStation as a brand is in trouble.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing Concord?
The folks working on Fairgame$ must be crapping themselves right now, right? Seeing as how their game was even worse received when it was announced than Concord.
Re: Reaction: Sony's Billion Dollar Bungie Buyout Is Looking More and More Like a Blunder
Sadly, I think this is pretty much the beginning of the end for Sony.
Re: Nobody Wants to Die (PS5) - Film Noir Meets Cyberpunk in This Stylish Detective Thriller
This looks awesome. This is the kind of game I wish Sony was pushing out more often. Instead they're giving us Concord.
Re: Concord Beta: How to Access, Start Times, and What You Can Play
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Re: Video: Is Concord Destined to Fail?
I didn't buy a PS5 to play this kind of generic, derivative drivel. Hence why I pre-ordered Astro Bot yesterday and not Concord.
Re: Rumour: Xbox Console Exclusive Starfield Is Setting a Course for PS5
Makes you wonder how much money the Xbox division has been bleeding lately for Microsoft to resort to doing this.
Re: Microsoft Bigwig Implies PS5 Is Losing Marketshare to Xbox
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Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Bear% Sex Speedrun Record Set at 50 Minutes, 30 seconds
Usually takes a lot longer than that before you can see the growler.
Re: Sony Delays Six Live Service PS5 Games, But Company Remains Committed to Model
Hey Sony, how about delaying all your live service games... permanently.
Re: Nightmare Simulator Smalland: Survive the Wilds Scuttles onto PS5 in December
@Kidfunkadelic83 That film already had death. You don't remember the ant?
Re: Microsoft One Step Closer to Activision Buyout as CMA Approves of Deal Changes
Leaked emails make explicitly clear that Microsoft want to buy up huge publishers, out spend Sony and consolidate the industry
Regulators: "Nothing concerning here. Approved!"
Re: Xbox Almost Flashed Its Cash At Warner Bros, Sees Nintendo As the Holy Grail
Phil Spencer is an absolute slimeball.
Re: Eternights (PS5) - A Surprisingly Charming Apocalyptic Dating Sim
"Combat doesn't really evolve
Animations are rough
Best not play it with your gran"
That's all well and good, but this is a review for Eternights, not Baldur's Gate 3.
Re: Acclaimed Indie Adventure Kentucky Route Zero Comes to PS5 Next Week
Absolute pretentious twaddle. One of the worst games I've ever played, and I do not say that with hyperbole. I wanted to claw my face off by the last episode.
Re: Like a Dragon Fandom Divided After Hearing Kiryu's New English Voice
I can't fathom playing a Yakuza game with all the characters speaking English. Talk about an immersion destroyer.
Re: Poll: Was This Sony's Best PlayStation Showcase Yet?
That showcase felt like the first real glimpse into Sony's GaaS-centric future, and it made for a really depressing sight. CG trailers and sci-fi shooters everywhere, but little in the way of gameplay and games with their own distinct personality to stand out from the crowd.
This showcase was a flop through and through. It so easily could've been a slam dunk given how quiet Sony's been the past couple of years, but they well and truly botched it here.
Re: Microsoft Dealt Major Blow as UK Blocks Activision Buyout
This is absolutely wonderful news. Microsoft buying up publishers in order to paper over the cracks of its own mismanagement shouldn't be tolerated anyway. Activision games will remain multiplatform and that's great for the consumer.
Re: Destruction AllStars Dev Now Helping Out on Sea of Thieves
Let's be honest here - Destruction AllStars was utter pants.
Re: God of War's Santa Monica Studio 'Spread Out on a Lot of Different Things'
Was it somebody at The Initiative trying to convince him to come work on the latest slab of shovelware per chance?
Re: Give Up a Promising Career as a Pianist to Fight Fascism in Syberia: The World Before
I'm excited to play this. I never bothered with the third game because it's an absolute turd by all accounts, but this entry reviewed very well on PC.
Re: Sonic Frontiers (PS5) - Bold New Gamble for the Series Pays Off
I'm uh... wow.
So it's good?! Miracles never cease.
Re: Mini Review: Signalis (PS4) - Last-Gen Release Has Its Feet in the Future
If you grew up with the PS1 era then this game looks like a wet dream come true.
Re: Test Your PlayStation General Knowledge - Issue 18
14/15. Got the last one wrong.
Typical.
Re: Gravity Rush Also Getting a Movie, It's Claimed
I'd much rather have Gravity Rush 3, but fans of the series will take anything they can get these days.
Re: Summer Vacation Sim Shin-chan Travelling to PS4 on 25th August
One of Sony's biggest sins was never localising any of the Boku no Natsuyasumi games. They look amazing for anyone who cherishes atmosphere in video games and the escapist value the medium has to offer.
Re: Gamescom Opening Night Live Stream Is Somehow Two Hours Long with Over 30 Games
Two hours long with over 30 games and still, somehow, you just know it'll be rubbish.
Re: Poll: Is The Last of Us: Part 1 Really a 'Cash Grab'?
I wish it was for nothing, rather than the £70 it's priced at.
But yeah, it's a total cash grab. Just a completely unnecessary remake of a game that's still fresh in everyone's mind. This could also be the start of a worrying trend too as we see successful games that came out less than ten years ago get remade just because it's the easiest money ever.
Re: Fans of Classic JRPGs Should Keep an Eye on 8-Bit Adventures 2, Heading to PS5, PS4
This actually looks really good.
Re: Balenciaga Will Happily Sell You This Fortnite Shirt for $1,000
I didn't know Ben Shapiro did modelling work on the side. He's absolutely rockin' those shades.
Re: Deathloop (PS5) - Arkane Does It Again in Confident Shooter
Yay, it's out! Now we never have to see it at a PlayStation event ever again.
(Hopefully).
Re: God of War Ragnarok's Camera Is a Single Shot from Start to Finish, Just Like the Last Game
Not thrilled about that tbh. It's a gimmicky narrative choice that they should've abandoned after GoW2018.
Re: Talking Point: Would You Buy a PS5 Remake of The Last of Us?
If I want to play TLoU again, I have an excellent remaster to play that was done in-house. I don't need a remake.
Re: Sony Planning PS Now in India as PS5 Software Struggles
I'm still hoping that the software price hike bites them in the ass globally and they reduce it back to what it was. £70 is extortionate.
Re: PlayStation Fans Are Missing Shawn Layden, And He's Liking All the Tweets
Shawn wasn't perfect (his treatment of the Gravity Rush series caused much consternation with me), but he's a darn sight better than Ryan/Hulst, who both seem dead set on turning the first-party studios' output into a Ubisoft factory of formulaic, by-the-numbers AAA blockbusters.
Re: Oddworld: Soulstorm (PS5) - A Tough Game to Love
I've played it for a couple of hours and it's about a 6 or so. I probably won't finish it.
The Oddworld series never really felt like it recaptured the glory days of the very first game. There was a lot of buzz in the UK surrounding Abe's Odyssey on the PS1 if memory serves.
Re: The Last of Us Is Getting a PS5 Remake Eight Years After Release, Claims Report
A remake of the first TLoU... how creatively bankrupt can you get? The original isn't even an old game, it got an excellent remaster last gen and it plays great. Why would it need a remake?!
Wtf is going on at Sony right now. This is embarrassing.
Re: Gravity Rush Character Designer the Latest Departure from Sony's Japan Studio
As someone who loves the Gravity Rush series, it hurts reading this. Sony is making record profits as a company and yet only now do they see fit to let all these talented people go. It's depressing. AND they're losing a studio at a time when Microsoft is acquiring any developer they can get their mitts on.
Anyway, he's a fantastic artist. Good luck to him in the future.
Re: Feature: 12 PS5, PS4 Indie Games to Get Excited About
Anyone who votes for Goodbye Volcano High should be banned from this site.
(I'm just kidding)
But not really.
Re: Sackboy: A Big Adventure (PS5) - Lovely Launch Game Is LittleBigBrilliant
Reads like a 9.
Re: Hands On: Sackboy: A Big Adventure Is a Papercraft Marvel on PS5
The only thing stopping me from getting this is the £60 asking price.
Re: Astro's Playroom PS5 - A Love Letter to PlayStation's Past
As someone who loved Rescue Mission, I've been looking forward to this more than Miles, Demon's Souls and Sackboy. Super glad to see it turned out well!
Re: Black Desert Online Confirms PS5 Backwards Compatibility After Some Scepticism
Sure is a lot of 'concern' out there when it comes to the PS5 and backwards compatibility.
Re: Interview: PS5's Goodbye Volcano High Is a Reflection of the Uncertain World Around Us
The ultimate nightmare fuel.