B_Lindz

Laughs in Mario Kart 8 Deluxe

Okay, really though, what on earth is going on with Sony and Xbox this generation? This has got to be one of the most bumbling console generations I have ever seen.

Yeah... this is one of the most disappointing console generations I have ever seen in my life. Keep me posted if Sony releases literally anything other than Spider-Man over the next 2 years.

Well, back to TotK I go!

I am dumbfounded that Sony looked at the WiiU, one of Nintendo's worst selling console of all time, and thought, "Hey! Let's do that!"

I honestly feel bad for the indie games that look absolutely amazing that were a part of this horrendous show.

I've been disappointed by some of Sony's shows, but this is the first show that made me actually mad. Really, after 18 months, that's it? What's a little more dust on my PS5, am I right?

@eltomo A year? That's generous. I give it 3 months, 6 months tops.

This was literally the only announcement that I got really excited about. Sword of the Sea, Neva, and Plucky Squire look great, but this announcement actually got hyped.

Spider-Man and a few indies... everything else kind of sucked. So, like, why did I buy a PS5?

I bought this at launch, but decided to wait to play it due to the bugs and fps drops I experienced while playing the first hour. I think it's finally time to hop back into this one.

I completely agree. If you didn't see in the news earlier this week, Hi-Fi Rush, one of the best games to release this year, was substantially impacted financially because it was a Day 1 game on Game Pass. Games are fundamentally different than movies and music. Though music, tv shows, and movies take time and a lot of money to create, it doesn't even come close to the amount of time and money it costs to create a video game. The whole industry would implode if the future of gaming becomes subscription services.

However, I do think that the future of gaming will start to trend in the direction of smaller games made by smaller production studios, and THAT is a future that I very much look forward to.

@Jaz007 Okay, I thought I was crazy. When I was playing GoW:R I kept thinking, "Am I having a good time? I think I'm having a good time... Am I, though?" I felt like I was just going through the motions. Everything was so slooooooooow. The little bull ride you go on where you pick fruit with that one girl nearly broke me. I still haven't brought myself to finish the game because it takes forever to get anywhere.

In contrast, I picked up Metroid: Dread for almost the same price as GoW:R. Oh my gosh, within minutes, you are being chased down by a robot that impales you through the head if it catches you. It does not slow down. Metroid: Dread is less than half the length of GoW:R, but I felt like my time was never wasted and it was worth every single penny.

@UltimateOtaku91 Sony didn't used to only make AAA games. That's a recent development, starting with the Uncharted series. Back in the PS1-PS3 Era, they made several smaller and double-A sized games. They would only get backlash if the games sucked. If Sony made shorter but polished games then I think they would see great success and praise.

Sure, Sony can still do their AAA games, but they can't just magically make more games. Their money and resources have to come from somewhere. This is one of those "You can't have your cake and eat it too" situations. We either see 1-3 AAA titles per year or we see 0-1 AAA titles per year with several more smaller games per year. Can't have both.

Also, can people stop pointing at Pokémon and saying Nintendo makes crap? I'm sorry, that's like looking at Michelangelo's butt and saying he can't paint with anything but crap. Nintendo has made some of the most polished and down-right impeccable games in the past 6 years. Mario Odyssey, BotW, Metroid Dread and Prime Remastered, DK Tropical Freeze, and the list goes on and on and on. Sony has an incredible list of great games too, but it's a shorter because Sony makes fewer games because their games take so much longer to make.

I have been saying this for years now. The bubble of expenses to create entertainments vs. the cost people are willing to pay for that entertainment is about to burst and collapse. Where things are headed now with AAA gaming is becoming almost completely unsustainable. Sony, as of now, is, my opinion, screwed if they keep putting all of their eggs in the AAA cinematic blockbuster video game basket. I think that is why we are seeing Nintendo and indie devs thriving right now. They are making unique and engaging experiences for millions of dollars less than the one or maybe two titles Sony is pumping out per year. I think games like Hi-Fi Rush hit the absolute sweet spot. A fantastic, polished, and unique game made on a MUCH smaller budget than a AAA game.

This also brings up the issue of what hardware you'll even need to run these smaller games that cost less to make. We won't need a PS5 Pro or a 4090 GPU. Basically every non-AAA game will run perfectly on PS5, Steam Deck, or, hell, even the Switch. Something's gotta give.

Ah yes, the ol' Automated Teller Machine Machine

Ngl, this was my favorite announcement of the Indie Showcase. So hyped and it comes out just in time for my birthday!

You're next Monster Mash

@somnambulance Absolutely agree with everything you said. If people are using the WiiU as a measuring stick for how well this product will sell then it's already a flop. Hahaha!! You hit the nail right on the head when you used the word confusing. That about sums up how I feel about Sony's marketing choices since the PS5 launched, so confused.

@Shstrick Same. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if this new device cost more than Nintendo's next console, which is hard for me to wrap my head around from a marketing perspective.

@FinneasGH ...but you can't play them anywhere. Remote Play doesn't work everywhere. The majority of the world, including 1st world countries, doesn't have the internet bandwidth to support Remote Play consistently. I have great internet and Remote Play still sucks every time I try to use it.

@Uncharted2007 Agreed. Your 99% of people guess is probably more accurate than PushSquare saying 29% want this. What this poll is actually saying is that 29% of PushSquare viewers want this which is a TINY margin of PlayStation fans that keep up with gaming and tech news. I would wager that the VAST majority of PS players that have a PS4 or PS5 don't even know what Remote Play is.

Let me give an example of how much of an echo chamber PushSquare/NintendoLife is. I was chatting with a pretty large group of friends, all of them gamers. I kid you not, not one of them had even heard of the game Hades. Not one. These were all people who own consoles or PCs and game daily, if not weekly. This is what Sony is up against, most people, including gamers, do not keep up with gaming and tech news. Selling a niche product like this is bound to fail.

@Shstrick Oh, I wouldn't be surprised if this cost WAAAAAY more that $120. If the Dualsense Edge is going for $200 then this will easily cost around the $300–$400 mark.

I think the 29% of people who are on board with this Remote Play only device will change their tune when Sony announces the price. I'm guessing it's going to be around $300 if it's real.

I mean, even if this thing was $100 I still wouldn't buy it. I've used remote play on my phone and Steam Deck and it still sucks every time. Crackling audio, dropped frames, and input delay all make the experience just awful, and that's with a 100+ mbps connection.

This ain't even a fetus yet. This baby's still a zygote.

The hard reality of it is that there are so few places throughout the world with internet stability capable of supporting remote play consistently. I've tried Remote Play and I have a good internet connection, but the experience still sucks compared to just playing natively.

I genuinely hate this idea. There are so few places in the world that actually have internet good enough to support a product like this. Switch and Steam Deck show that native play is where the market wants to head. Logitech just made a device like this and it sucks. Just like the PSVR2, the market Sony is trying to corner is way too small for this device to be successful. I want to take my PS4/PS5 games on the go, not stream them.

@Matroska You are not alone. I've tried getting into the RE games multiple and I've never clicked with them either. I can handle scary or challenging games, but I'm realizing I can't handle stressful games. RE stresses me out to the point of no longer enjoying myself.

Seeing all of this makes me wish Sony had taken all of that money they put into the PSVR2 and had instead created a handheld version of the PS5 that allows you to take your PS4 and PS5 games natively on the go. Nintendo, Steam, and smartphones are showing us that the gaming industry is going in the direction of convenience, not luxury.

I think the problem Sony is having with this headset is that the market they are trying to corner is almost non-existent. Console gaming is already budget gaming vs. PC gaming, which costs 3 to 4 times more for the cost of entry. To charge more than the console itself for a headset without a single game included has got to be one of the most asinine marketing moves they could have made, especially with the state of the worldwide economy. Why in the actual hell would someone buy a $550 headset when most people are struggling to put food on the table?

@SlySnake0407 Honestly, I might have liked Citizen Sleep more than Ragnarok.

@UltimateOtaku91 Wish granted!
https://playbackbone.com/products/backbone-one-android/

I love franchises like this that translate to other genres of games. It's exciting to see. It reminds me how the Steamworld franchise experiment with other genres as well.

This game is not for me, but this is easily the best looking and animated mobile game I have ever seen. I know it's standing on P5's shoulders, but still, wow.

@Hydra_Spectre It's not going to ruin the Persona name. It's just a mobile game. Pokémon Go didn't ruin Pokémon, Fire Emblem Heroes didn't ruin Fire Emblem, and Mario Kart Tour didn't ruin Mario Kart. All of those have gacha mechanics. It's just a mobile game. If you don't want it, don't download it.

I've had my PS5 for over a year now and, after playing the very few PS5 exclusive games on it, I'm starting to realize that this new console barely feels next-gen. The PS5 feels like a PS4 Pro Pro and I'd be lying if I said I didn't have some buyer's remorse. I think Sony is going to have a hard time convincing people to buy a PS5 Pro when the PS5 still only slightly justifies existing over the PS4. They play the almost the exact same games...

Holy crap? Wait... what game am I looking at again?

@MFTWrecks So, I have already Platinumed the game with the dualsense controller, so not really.

But I think you're missing the point of my post. I was able to play Astro's Playroom with the Steam Deck. That's insane because the Steam Deck was capable of replicating the touch pad, gyro controls, and rumble. Granted, the rumble and adaptive triggers aren't as good as the dualsense controller, but being able to play the game without sacrificing much is crazy. Sony's own game streaming app can't do the touch pad or gyro without syncing a dualsense to your phone or tablet. The Steam Deck could.

@AdamNovice This app won't, but there's an app called Chiaki that you can use. I got Chiaki up and running on my Steam Deck last night and it works incredibly well.

I got remote play working on my Steam Deck last night so that it has rumble, gyro, and touch pad capabilities. It's not perfect, a few frame hitches here and there, but I was able to play Astro's Playroom without any problems.

Of all of the features being added, I'm most excited for gyro aiming. It is fantastic to see gyro aiming being added to more PlayStation games.

Am I crazy or are runner games getting slower? I feel like the character running in runner games run at a slower pace than they didn't when they got really popular back in the early 2010s. I tried the Sonic runner game a couple of months ago and it, of all things, felt so slow and empty. This looks similar to me.

I think I might be in the minority here, but each trailer that I see of Hogwarts Legacy makes a little less interested in the game. I keep circling back to how all of what they have shown will all be tied together with compelling characters and storytelling and I'm just not seeing it. I could be wrong. I hope I'm wrong.

This articles needs an update. They released a patch that fixed this on PS5 earlier today. It's something like Version 1.03 or something.

I mean, can you blame them?

I was about to write, "I think it's time for this game to quietly die off," but I just looked it up, and, apparently, there are still over 100,000 people playing Overwatch 2 at this moment... I had no idea that Overwatch was still this popular. I'm honestly shocked.

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@Ambassador_Kong Okay, I'm not crazy. Someone else thought of this too. I just watched this with a few friends and as I was driving home I was like, "...but if that whole episode didn't happen would it have changed the plot?" Yes, the episode was beautiful acted and Nick Offerman absolutely crushed his performance, but it didn't move the plot forward. The letter got to me, too. A little too much tell, not show.

I think what caught me off guard the most was that Bill told Joel to protect the ones he loves, but in the game he told Joel not to get to attached to others. The episode had a beautiful message, but thematically it was kind of off the mark.

I'm surprised to see some of these games on PushSquare's top 10 of the year because it felt like just about every game that came out this year got a 7 or an 8 out of 10 from PushSquare other than Ragnarok and Elden Ring.

At the end of the day, all they need to do is port these games to Steam and/or the PS Store. That alone would be massive for video game preservation.

Finally! NITW is one of my favorites. I may or may not have a NITW wallpaper on my phone right now. Haha!

I forgot that 32gb of RAM is considered 'a lot' Hahaha!!

So... are we going to talk about that Bill Clinton thing right there at the end?