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Re: Parkitect: Deluxe Edition Brings More RCT-Like Action to PS5, PS4

Bez87

@Intr1n5ic very much higher than both. But in its own way.

Planet coaster is a great edition to the 3d space with less limitations, but with 3d comes alot more complexity.

This game is the master piece or the perfection of what roller coaster tycoon tried to be back then.

Well worth a try if you enjoyed rct2 and the openrct.

The unique aspect of parkitect is the fact that decoration is important and isn't just a tool to make your parks look good.staff paths and back room areas give negative attraction and you have to cover them up and if you look on you tube there are some very clever ways.

You have to get the supplies to the shops and this can be a negative on the park unless designed correctly.

Its brilliant

Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for July 2024?

Bez87

Wait isn't among us a free mobile game?

I swear me and my kids played this last year on tablets and mobile.

Non of then are worth my time, I'll give nhl a try just because I did used enjoy hockey games but I could take it or leave it.

I'll wait to see what extra has to offer.

Signed up for premium aswel only because it was cheap for the remainder of my subscription but wow such a let down.

Re: Round Up: Concord PS5 Previews Seem Torn on Sony's New Shooter

Bez87

The reality of this game is the fact thr trailers. The talk, the preview have all made it clear...

It's not got anything in it that says I'm here I'm new and I'm ready to compete.

It's a game what's been done a million times and probably better. Will it stick for habit yeah, will it stay probably not. The fact is they haven't made this game a single player game on the side which would be the selling point for many ps5 owners.

Helldivers 2 works because your a solider, you can play by yourself and even mulitplayer, your just fighting along side your conrads, for a common goal, your in the army.

This game is a 5v5 hero shooter so even if the gameplay is good, then you may not like the characters. This game has to much you could dislike about it and not want to play. To many elements which can decide whether you play or not

Re: Poll: Can a Game's Brutal Difficulty Put You Off Playing It?

Bez87

I put them off because of time these days, I dont want to spend the time working out every pattern of a boss just to be able to beat them anymore.

It also comes down to what does it mean for a game to be on hard difficulty?

Like bullet spongey enemies?
25 more enemies?
Only 1 way to kill them enemies?

What i truly want to see from games is, AI which act like a true professional in whatever they practise in.

Thats immersion for me.

Going into a battle with swords, I want them to be as catious as I am and think before just going through the motions.

I want soliders on the battle field to think of where they are going and not just run at me, provide cover fire, flank, like a real solider would, 1 shot to my head im done but the aiming as precise as a true army vet would be from that distance and not just a lock on and I'm done because I poke my head out from 500m away.

That to me is a true testament to a games difficulty

Re: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Is Still in Development, Ubisoft Assures

Bez87

Technically Agent was still in development up until just the last couple of years (can't remember when exactly but I remember it wasn't that long ago haha)

Wither way I'm not that bothered, was the game good for its time? Yea.

Is it worth waiting this long for a sequel? Probably not.

The problem is games are good because of the right time and the right place and we've moved on.

So unless it does come and it blows everything out the water as did balders gate did, then it probably isn't worth the effort.

I mean look at shenmue, those first 2 games were just epics for the time, I still enjoy every year sitting through those games but the 3rd game, I enjoyed but its a game which should of come not long after 2.

Look at beneath a steel sky , what an epic point and click game from back in the 90s such amazing story telling. But did we need them to make a follow up to it in 3d, years later? No not really, id of much rather them just remaster the original and leave it alone.

Sequels should be the next game on from it within a few years.

Not 10 plus years.

Re: Silly Speculation Alleges Sony May Have Signed Secret PS5 Exclusivity for Black Myth: Wukong

Bez87

You can't ever doubt Microsoft to throw a few small comments to get people to rally against a rival company.

When they know full well the worst decision they ever made was to make a under powered console for a cheaper price and make it mandatory that everyone has to develop for both.

They can try all they like but every decision and every word they spoke is always digging a bigger whole for themselves to get out of

Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 534

Bez87

@Kanji-Tatsumi going into that game after 7 as a teenager, I just couldn't do it, I just remember really disliking the whole setting and characters.

Also I think the story and the connection in 7 for me was so spot on and I just never connected with the world or the story of 8

Re: Sony Is Allegedly Pulling PSVR2 Funding, Report Claims

Bez87

Hmmmm where is the vote for I didn't buy the psvr2, I've been waiting to see how it was supported.

Because that's where I stood, I really enjoyed some experiences on PSVR.

The 1 and only game what truly told me VR is the future was the batman game, but since that game all we've really had are fps games and nothing on the detective side and slow pace. Due to the motion sickness, i got from fos games.

But seeing how good the PSVR2 tech was, I truly had an interest to see where it would go and if they actually supported it.

This article actually baffles me to be fair.

PlayStation are cutting funding??

Did PlayStation ever even put funding into it.

I mean I've seen nothing from them apart from the Horizon game, so their cutting non existent funding??

What a waste of great tech. Who makes great tech and doesn't fund a few internal studios to make games for it and instead throw money at some ok games what are just ports from the meta quest vr headset.

But it doesn't surprise me, PlayStation are known for this utter rubbish approach to secondary hardware

Re: FromSoftware Boss Twists the Bloodborne Knife, Says It's 'A Special Game for Me'

Bez87

@IamJT 1.4m isn't bad considering there was less than 10m PS5 at the time of those statistics.

Bloodbourne 7m, when there was 35m ps4s

We are talking though of a Sony owned ip game and not fromsoft themselves.

7m probably wasn't high enough for Sony at the time cost vs sales.

But 7m is the best fromsoft has ever done before elden ring.

In away bloodbourne made sure FromSoft had the money to invest in the making of Elden Ring. They may of never been able to without bloodbourne

Re: FromSoftware Boss Twists the Bloodborne Knife, Says It's 'A Special Game for Me'

Bez87

@IamJT @DonkeyFantasy @WhiteRabbit

To WhiteRabbit
"There are some IP that don’t even hit 5 million and they’re multiplatform.
7+ million for a game being locked to a single platform is incredible. To downplay it is disingenuous."

Give me some examples on the scale of a FromSoft development costs and then add the money Sony would of had to put up to secure a multiplatorm developer to make the deal.
Then think how long it's been since BloodBourne and we are still only at 7m.
You claim about 1 console?
But until this generation cross generation games weren't a thing at all, we left the consoles behind each time, maybe the odd game and a few months after release but nothing on the scale of it is today. Also games didn't cost as much

I'mnot dissing the game nor dislike the game and I wouldn't mind a new one at all.

But I'm being the devil's advocate. If you read on you'll get some statistics.

To DonkeyFantasy
"After the success of Elden Ring I can see a Bloodborne remake/sequel selling a lot better than the original, which at the time still felt pretty niche.
Elden ring even helped them shift loads more copies of armoured core"

I'm definitely not disagreeing with that Elden Ring Haa completely changed the ball game and this may spark a revision of a BloodBourne Remake or Sequel or Both.

My point is the fact it's taken this many years to reach just 7m players and reality is, even though loud, it's only a minority and not a majority of its players and given this point, PlayStation probably see the numbers and thought is it really worth an investment.

People may love FromSoft now, but their games have only become mainstream triple A money makers after Elden Ring. So we will see if it moves the needle. But take a look at these statistics and then you make your own mind up about why we've never got one.

Statistics from IamJT

"Only 68% of people beat the first boss, and less than 50% completed the game according to trophy data. I dunno I think bloodbourne has a strong following but it won't be a big seller. Maybe because of how much people have been talking about it post release it will bump to 10M on a remake."

These figures and it's probably even worse than that at the time (before Elden Ring)
This is exactly why PlayStation didn't bother making a sequel and haven't as of yet and why there has been 0 response to a remake of the game, because reality is not many people made it passed the first boss. 68% it was probably higher and that's out of the 7m people which is very high % to greenlight a sequel.

Either way just here to play devil's advocate but do agree Elden Ring has changed the game.

I have no doubts though that if BluePoint wasn't making their own original game that they would make a remake of Bloodbourne.

When you combine the success of demon Souls Ps5 and Elden Ring I think that would be a sure bet.

Re: FromSoftware Boss Twists the Bloodborne Knife, Says It's 'A Special Game for Me'

Bez87

As much as people desperately want a new bloodbourne and claim how good it is.

But in the real world, it only sold 7.2million as you have wrote.

I just dont think for Sony that number solidifies a reason to invest alot more money into a sequel or remaster.

Esp from a third party company where there are extra costs on top for locking down a company for an exclusive outside of their wheel house.

Maybe blue point are making a sequel, maybe not but I just dont see it happening.

7m sold is a minority and not everyone of that 7m liked it.

Yes its a great game but sales wise not really.

Re: PlayStation Studios' Bluepoint Games Still Working on Its Mysterious 'Original Title'

Bez87

@PuppetMaster not really, ps5 came out mid covid and they literally launched demon souls on launch, with support. Covid probably didn't effect them much, the game they had been working on wss already finished and they had a break and worked from home anyway with patches.

They may of gave a helping hand on ragnarok but probably no more than all the teams putting their ideas together.

But reality is
, its only been 3 years since their last game. Games are taking around 4 or 5 years to make now, plus if its an original game then that means they would of had to spend a year pre production, script, and all the other things what come with an original game.

They probably didn't really have the freedom before Sony bought them

Re: These Are All the PS5, PS4 Announcements from the Latest Nintendo Direct

Bez87

@get2sammyb I know I know but a man can dream. Hahahaha I guess I'm stuck with palworld haha.

But it is true though the latest pokemon game is ment to be a master piece but the game just cannot run on the switch. So wasted.

I guess I'll just settle for third place Xbox games coming over. Wouldn't mind a gears of war remaster on ps5 if it is coming like rumoured.
Still remember playing that on Xbox 360 waiting for ps3 to hurry up. Haha

Edit: on topic, it's a good solid set of games.

People are always going to moan whatever. I think it comes down to them wanting triple A blockbusters time after time after time.

Probably due to those years where all the big hitters came out all at once.

Re: These Are All the PS5, PS4 Announcements from the Latest Nintendo Direct

Bez87

Ace attorney is a good shout.

But I truly wouldn't mind them bringing pokemon over, how that franchise would shine with the ps5 or even the ps4 tech behind it.

That series is wasted on Nintendo, esp the newest one, that game is the ultimate perfect pokemon game, if it actually ran and so I still have no need to dust off my switch.

Fingers crossed the switch 2, is alot more powerful.

Re: Paradox Cancels Sim Life by You After Repeated Early Access Delays

Bez87

@Hyena_socks I've been following the game since it got announced.
By the end it really wasn't looking interesting or ambitious.

Character models were awful and were getting worse, turn out they used generic models.
The world looked empty even in their previews.

Every video they did, all they did was show off the same old things.

The actions you did were basic the sims 2 style, they didn't even put in a queue system.

They claimed the world was open world and 0 rabbit holes but many pointed out that was easy because there was about 3 people in the world at any given time.

The UI looked very outdated.

The hype was massive when announced but it never seemed to progress at all, it really seemed to actually get worse.

Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for June 2024?

Bez87

I truly don't understand premium.

But I truly truly don't understand is Playstations out of touch thinking with this service.

Extra is a great service and serves a great purpose but premium should be just an absolute beast of nostalgia and yet they treat it like just another essential couple of games a month service.

To add more insult to injury, they are putting psvr2 games behind the premium pay wall?
They should all be on extra.

Playstation the 1 company who can make amazing secondary tech and never actually support it.

They really need to either put everything they have into their secondary tech or just dont even bother.

Shame the success they had with psvr 1 and this is what they do.

Re: The Rest of 2024's PS5 Release Schedule Is Finally Filling Up, and It's Looking Good

Bez87

Literally no one can say there are no games coming, I've just counted 11 games half are what I truly want to play the other half are games I'd love to give them a chance but money is tight.

There is literally a few games for every genre.

Good lot of games to see the year out and we get astrobot.

Then next year we already from March onwards we start getting the ps exclusive big hitters.

Re: Star Wars Outlaws Has a Meaty 30-Hour Main Story

Bez87

Actually just listened to kinda funny and Greg was really impressed with it. Even making the uncharted reference as a positive.

I think these days alot of journos are looking at every game to be a masterclass and a complex system for it to be good.

When reality is. A decent story a fun gameplay loop and that's all we want.

We don't need every game to be a complex masterclass.

Trailer sold me and Greg has cemented my hype for this game

Re: Ex-PS5 Exec Shawn Layden Isn't Holding Back His Feelings on Xbox

Bez87

It truly doesn't matter whether he ment xbox or playstation.

The fact is Phil is slimy all on his own.

Playstation have only ever done deals just like they all do, they have only ever bought developers who they had a history with or a brand new studio.

Xbox under Phil, has bought the rights for an exclusive tomb raider game, he didn't just buy bethesda then went and bought the entire parent company so no one else could have any developer within it.

Doesn't just go out and buy one of the call of duty developers, but buys entirety of Activision.

Playstation sees something in hellblade and puts up some of the money for development and exclusive right of an unknown game about mental health.

It does well so Phil jumps in and buys them out.

Yea Phil no more slimy business, your parent has out its foot down for spending anymore money and making sure you sell the games everywhere because your already losing them money on game pass and are down 100 billion. Well done Phil.

After 10 years of nothingness, xbox fans finally got a few games to show off at a conference.

Re: Scathing Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Previews Unfavourably Compare Gameplay to PS Vita's Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Bez87

Not sure what anyone actually expected?

Have ubisoft pulled the wool over people's eyes?

Safe and basic is exactly what they do.

Come on assassin's creed has basically been the same gameplay loop since forever and the only draw for those games is if your interested in the settings they are based.

I mean the only game they dared to venture into was a bare bones version of the ship battles from black flag and look what happened.

They have to play safe

Re: PS5 Fans Beg Sony for a More Fulfilling Livestream in the Aftermath of Xbox Show

Bez87

I think people are forgetting one very important thing.....

Xbox hasn't shown up for years and years, the amount of publishers they bought, it was going to happen at some point.

I'm glad Xbox finally delivered something because each year we all wait and see if Xbox is worth it and every year let down after let down.

Just shows though, that people have very short term memories about these things.

And for Xbox really for its consoles its a little to late in my mind.

But I think a show like this should put PlayStation under pressure.

In my mind if you ain't got anything to show from your own studios then don't show anything at all.

That PlayStation Showcase was an absolute joke and then the state of play was a third party mess.

We are at a time that many publishers have their own shows so if PlayStation pr Xbox have any shows, it should always be about their developers with a sprinkling of third party partnerships.

Not shows which are majority third party with 1 or 2 games.

The problem PlayStation have created is they've taken the whole showing games to early to the extreme and giving us nothing to get hyped about.

They mistake our frustration and think it's because the games aren't coming sooner, when in fact the frustration is we don't know what coming at all, apart from rumours and educated safe predictions.

Think from my own wants and PlayStation fans is a show which just talks and shows snippets from future games.

Like it's E3 season, we should have a vague knowledge of what's coming the following year, even if it's just a title screen or anything.

All we know is astrobot is coming September and that's as far as we get on first party.

Re: Metal Gear Solid 3 PS5 Remake Given New Trailer, But No Release Date

Bez87

@UltimateOtaku91 Considering Xbox every year don't show any games I guess it had to happen sooner or later.

Alot were 3rd party showings though.

But still think PlayStation has took the foot off the gas, even if games are coming from next year, at what point do PlayStation pull the trigger to keep PlayStations sales up.

I guess though PS5 are selling like hot cakes still so are they just holding out until sales start to dip and then throw out the announcement we all know are coming.

The strange one from Xbox was the whole new hardware, that was a strange one.

No disc version is a bit late, esp when the console isn't selling well so now they've added another SKU to their line up.

While PlayStation smartly decided too, streamline and make 2 SKU with a detachable disc drive.

Re: French Turn-Based RPG Expedition 33 Announced for PS5 in Promising Debut Trailer

Bez87

@itsfoz I dont think they will and alot of the games are actually multiplatform.

Its just seems Microsoft put their hands in their pocket and paid for them to be shown.

Just shows this due to mgs being shown off here when it was revealed at playstation and both game fest and state of play were basically indie showcase.

It doesn't really matter though. Ps5 is selling regardless but I think it may slow down if they don't get their act together and pull off showcases like this.

Re: That Bad Ass Power Rangers Beat-'Em-Up Is Probably Morphin' to PS5, PS4

Bez87

@Kidfunkadelic83 its actually regarded as one of the best. But that could be due to the lack of any good power ranger games.

I did used to have it on an emulator on PC.

But have a look I mean these days it won't feel that great but back then, aa a kid playing at normal Jason going through the school grounds fighting putties and then things got intense then they would morph, I thought it was incredible that a game could do that.

It was like a game called cruise for a corpse.
On a cruise ship and you had to investigate a murder and you had to meet people at a certain time and time advanced once you solved or spoke to someone, blew my mind.

And the one what truly blew my mind was flashback, if you made it through the first areas and you could go in a subway and I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact you could actually get on the train and travel different places hahaha.

An era most kids will never experience, because games now do all that and more off the bat and we expect them to.

Re: That Bad Ass Power Rangers Beat-'Em-Up Is Probably Morphin' to PS5, PS4

Bez87

Its Might Morphin Time!!!!!! I've got everything crossed for it to be good. Because you cant beat the SNES game back in the day, doing half the level and then morphin, I used to lose my sh** when it happened because I didn't think video games could do that, blew my mind.

I mean still a retro so its one step closer to my dream of having a full blown triple A third person action game of the original power rangers.

I mean we are getting a true TMNT triple A game so my dreams aren't lost yet.

Re: Black Myth: Wukong's Physical Editions Won't Have Actual Discs at Launch, Just Digital Codes

Bez87

@PerpetualBoredom By kids? Easily. Taking games from the shelf, shoving them into the console, throwing the box down, getting bored, get another game, throw game on side, repeat.

I've had a good few kids and what I've learnt over the years is, it doesn't matter what or how you teach them, some children will obey and understand and some kids will say yes but ain't listening one little bit.

So I've had a few game boxes broke and a few discs scratched and I got fed up. So my last full collection of games was the ps4 and ps5 is basically all digital, it's hard to let go but means my kids can switch on their ps5 and just play.

Plus I can just control what games they have and don't have and when they are ready I can just unlock another game for them.

They aren't being naughty by damaging the games they are just being kids in a generation where everything is just instant and growing up in a world where music and films are now just online, so they never really understood taking care of physical games.

God only knows how much I tried.

Re: Some PlayStation Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over LEGO Horizon Being on Switch

Bez87

Its called business.

Lego a more kid friendly game

Of course your putting a global brand for kids on switch.

Think how much money playstation are going to make.

Its not a true first party game, its a collaboration with Lego.

Put it on everything.

Xbox fan boys can say what they want, unfortunately no one is buying xbox so its not financially viable.

Re: Reaction: Summer Game Fest 2024 Showcases AAA's Endless Winter

Bez87

@Shepherd_Tallon yep totally hit the nail on the head, we are literally foaming at the mouth for news every single day and by the time announcements come we probably already knew what it was.

On a more positive note I've found a 23min gameplay video which has been released with the trailer for the monkey ninja game Black myth and my god it looks as good as the cgi trailer in the game play.

Well worth checking out

Re: Black Myth: Wukong's Physical Editions Won't Have Actual Discs at Launch, Just Digital Codes

Bez87

If the game plays with the level of graphics wise as the trailer im in disc or no disc.

But I am at heart a collector but unfortunately I'm old and have kids and ive found my disc collection is becoming very damaged and have had to resort to buying all digital so the kids don't have to touch any discs.

Its a shame but thats the way of the world.

Edit; just reading comments you all need to get over yourselves, no money because of this?

Jesus this isn't the first time this has happened.

God Of War im pretty sure did the same.

Didn't call of duty?

Hasn't many out the disc in just for it to unlock a download.

If the game is good, the game will sell

At least they have come out and said they are having a problem and its their first console release.

Alan Wake 2 didn't even bother with a disc version until now.

Re: Reaction: Summer Game Fest 2024 Showcases AAA's Endless Winter

Bez87

The games were half decent. The problem isn't the show itself The problem is we are now a 24/7 news and announcement and leaks.

All the way through the year there are announcements and shows.

Back in E3 days any big announcements were held until E3, Gamescom and TGS.

We actually made calculated predictions of which show would have what games.

But now its a free for all, all year round.

Reality a all year announcement world makes any hype wash away.

Re: You'll Be Able to Test Ride Skate on PS5, PS4 Later This Year

Bez87

I still don't quite get the build up for skate?

What was the whole m corp for a skating game?

To top it off, the game looked pretty awful,

Skate was always the top end graphics and leaning towards realism, this trailer didn't look much better.

Free to play aswel and we are years away?

I just dont think its worth it in the end.

Riders Republic has a quite robust skate section, that game looks better than this trailer

Re: Poll: Was Summer Game Fest 2024 Great or a Letdown?

Bez87

The fact and reality remains that we have 0 idea of what bug hitters are hitting us next year.

Thats what E3 used to be all about, getting us hyped for the next year and updates of what's still to come.

But now we know.
State of play let down, game fest let down, next lot probably will be games we already know what are coming this year and then let down.

Astro the only game which stood out at state of play.

Game fest not much for how long it was, so many indies and then they have an indie show after.

Power rangers looked like a great retro tmnt beat em up, black myth monkey game looks absolutely amazing but will that be the graphics of the gameplay if it is I'm all in but if this is just an advert for a generic game then meh.

I did like the koala prison break game might have a blast with my kids with that one.

Alan wake dlc not bad but predictable.

Everything else seemed to blend into one there all the same games but a different skin. But that maybe because work is slow, im tired and im quite ill.

I may have to re look at what was shown when im not let down.