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The question is if they can keep the momentum up, and considering the word on the ground is mixed at best it may drop off faster than you think. It feels like everyone is calling this a success prematurely just to spite a certain group of people.

Wow even the most negative review sounded glowing. Can’t wait for this.

This is why I don’t consider myself a tech fan. Because the price of the products are getting too much yet people still keep buying them. When is it going to get too much if $700 isn’t?

They never learn do they. But in all seriousness why even do this? people hate having to sign up for things they don’t want, and it’s not like the people who sign up are going to engage much with what Sony do so it serves no marketing purpose. So just don’t do it.

What’s the twist?

@johnedwin I’ve played consoles my whole life, but with Sony and Microsoft releasing most of their games on PC now, why bother with consoles anymore?

At this point I just don’t see the point in consoles. You can get a decently powerful gaming pc at this price and it plays most thing on consoles anyway. You might as well just bite the bullet and get a gaming pc.

I have to ask, why bother with making a PS5 Pro? It made sense to do a Pro model for the PS4 because that was an underpowered system when it came out; something that was done by design to cut costs after the PS3 blew up in their faces.

The PS5 is supposed to be decently powerful already, and people still haven’t gotten everything they can out of it. So why doe a Pro model need to exist?

@somnambulance for a game as revered as Silent Hill 2 that’s not a good thing. It worked well enough for Alone in the Dark because, despite its importance, it was seen largely as an old clunky game that hadn’t aged well. Silent Hill 2 is a far more beloved title that deserves more care.

I keep telling people, Sony does as well as they do because they know how to market their games.

@MrList why?

They could have just made a traditional schmup. Why’d they go and ruin it?

Roper? Tf is a Roper.

@Undeadcop don’t necropost

I’m just glad it has local multiplayer. Even if it’s limited it’s still better than not having it at all.

@Undeadcop tantrum? I was just saying the direction didn’t seem like a good fit for the series. Your the one throwing the tantrum.

Well that sucks.

I hope they stick the landing with this, but I have concerns that the game may have so much variety that it becomes a cluttered mess, or that many of its ideas don’t get fleshed out. 80 levels is a lot to try and make interesting.

@Undeadcop no not really. But based on what I know Silent Hill isn’t a combat focused game. It has combat, but it’s meant to be clunky and something you try to avoid.

The added emphasis on combat is already a misstep. Silent Hill was never about the combat, it was always about the puzzles and the story. The main characters are meant to be every men with no combat experience, that’s why the combat was so clunky. Seeing James make leg shots like Leo from RE4 just seems wrong.

@daveofduncan thank you for proving my point

That’s a lot of levels to try and make interesting. Wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of those are shorter mini game style levels to inflate the number. Mario Wonder did something similar with the badge levels.

I find the disparity between the comments on this site and literally everywhere else fascinating. I love how everyone here is saying “just suck it up, you had to do it for all these other companies, why you complaining now.” Completely ignoring that they did complain about that, and that forcing players to sign up for a service they don’t want despite their being no reason to do so, is a trashy practice that shouldn’t be defended. Has the system broken you this badly?

@Arnna it doesn’t, just was expecting higher based on the subtitle. Like a 9 or something.

Huh, was expecting a higher score based on the subtitle. Feel a bit ripped off.

Oh, that’s not good. Though I think this should be a sign that maybe open world games have lost their lustre. Seriously there’s way too many these days.

I’m just glad they finally got the Purple Comet Attack right

@kedireturns wasn’t saying it wasn’t. Just stating the facts of the matter.

@ShogunRok you may be right. Having that kind of discrepancy is actually fairly common for PlayStation. The consoles sell well into the hundreds of millions but the best selling games usually only crack the 10 million range, maybe more depending on how big a game it is. So yeah maybe it’s not wise to correlate the lower sales to a lower install base, there are probably more factors at play here.

I mean fewer people own ps5’s compared to PS4’s so it makes sense it wouldn’t sell as well, but that’s not a good sign considering the budget for this was probably way higher. It’s going to need to sell way more copies than Remake to make a profit.

@Triumph741 I ain’t complaining. 8 is a great score, was just expecting higher.

Really only an eight? Thought it would be higher.

I don’t know why they didn’t to begin with. If you’re going to release the game on pc the same day as the console version then it’s not really an exclusive at that point. Console exclusives are already becoming less and less important as the console tech is virtually identical between machines these days, so really what’s the point.

I think I finally figured out why I never liked these. It isn’t the games, it’s the format. It’s just a trailer playlist with nothing to sell the games. It’s boring to watch and since they upload the trailers straight to YouTube after anyway, what’s the point in watching this.

I legitimately do not know what Kojima is trying to do here. It’s a super serious game dealing with themes of connection and death, and then you’ve got talking puppets and a guy fighting a baby talking robots with a guitar that fires electricity. I know Kojima is known for being eccentric in his games, but this feels like he’s reached a point where it’s stopped being charming and is just weird for the sake of it.

Who would have thought a PlayStation exclusive would sweep the awards of PlayStation focused blogs.

The financial leaks in particular were particularly eye opening.

Wasn’t interested in this, and the leaks only fuelled that disinterest. This thing just pissed off a lot of people.

@Camlambelot I won’t deny it looks good. I mean it better with the amount of money spent on it. It’s too bad the writing couldn’t hold it all together.

This has been a really bad time to be a LOTR fan. First Rings of Power craps all over the lore, and now we have two video games in the running for worst game of the year. Tolkien must be spinning in his grave.

They’re going to censor the hell out of this game aren’t they?

@Tidus_g 2 games? That’s it just 2? Here’s the the ring, of the games you mentioned only one Spider-Man 2, is a true exclusive. The other 2 are on, or will be on PC. Which raises the issue of why even buy a console when everything on it will eventually come to PC anyway. At this point the only reason to buy consoles is brand loyalty.

Good. It was going to suck anyway.

It baffles me that the PS5 is doing as well as it is. For all the issues Xbox has In regards to software, let’s be honest Sony isn’t exactly doing much better. The amount of big exclusives coming out have slowed to a trickle in recent years. Feels like people are just going to PlayStation because they got a PS4 and that’s what they’re used to. Really hope both companies get their act together so we can get more games coming out.

I hope Microsoft d get their act together and start being more competitive. I know people say they should just go third party but that would leave Sony without any competition which would be disastrous for everyone.

They’re really going through with this? This will go over well.

Impalement? Uh oh.

Sony is doing well, if history is any indication this can only end badly.

You know we always see how many units a game sold but I’m curious how much actual money it made. As gaming budgets have ballooned in recent years we’ve seen games have to sell millions of units just to break even. I wish we had more transparency on game budgets. So we have a better idea on how successful a game actually is.

Well there goes my interest in this series.