@NotSoCryptic I pre-ordered and played MW2 (and have played the series since before Modern Warfare was even a brand). MW2 was ass. Warzone was ***** garbage. DMZ was a solid blueprint but they abandoned it without even trying to let it live up to its potential.
And yeah... 3 new innovations in the industry isn't a lot. No argument. But it's 3 more innovative play modes/trends than CoD has introduced to the industry over that time.
CoD hasn't done a damn thing that has impacted the broader industry from a design or gameplay perspective in... Years. THAT'S sad when we're talking about the biggest IP over that time. They are, and have been for coming up on 2 decades, industry leaders only in sales.
As someone who used to love CoD, I eventually shifted to more open world FPS titles like Crysis and FarCRy because I generally like them better. My issue isn't with CoD's storyline being open. That could be great if done well (though we know how MW3 went). My issue is how gotdamm stale the rest of the package feels.
The MP is always so focused on tweaking minor ***** but then ends up feeling just as frustrating and frantic every release. It' never truly changes in a manner that makes it feel more fair nor more fun. It's been the same damn package (to the average player) for like 15 years. No, Activision, I actually DON'T want to keep paying for the same rehashed maps and assets every friggin time I buy one. It's a slap in the face.
As the rest of the industry has evolved and created all sorts of new genres and gameplay elements, CoD just sits there twiddling it's thumbs doing the same ***** year in and year out. It's exhaustingly boring. And when they DO bring something new, it's not even an original idea. It's an idea they've stolen from someone else and then somehow executed worse (see: Warzone; see also: DMZ). You'd think all the money they make could buy an original ***** idea every so often.
I appreciate you calling out the competition entertainment faces every moment of it's existence: it's not just against explicit market rivals, it's competition across literally every other thing you could do with your time.
People seem to not understand that our attention is limited. Companies must do everything in their power to get it and keep it. It's far too easy to switch modes and just do something else entirely.
Sony doesn't only compete with other videogame studios. It's also competing against the movie studios, music, bars, every attention sucking app on your phone, the entirety of the internet, the hiking trail across town, that book you've been meaning to finish... Literally everything.
They need to make compelling product to be worthy of the masses carving out time and sitting down and enjoying their game titles. That doesn't change if Xbox games show up on the PS5, which is all the rumors are suggesting.
But excuse me... WHERE THE ***** IS POWER STONE, CAPCOM?!?! That game gussied up with modern effects and physics for the destructable environments would be BONKERS fun.
Or at least throw together a remastered compilation and toss it up on PSN/eShop.
@danzoEX Me. Final Fantasy 16 is the first game in the entire series that has ever looked remotely interesting to me... and it still didn't convince me to buy it. Never played a single one. They collectively do not interest me in the slightest.
Take inspiration from the Portal and blend it with the dedicated hardware capabilities of a PS4-scale PSP/Vita. Let it play all the existing PS4 library day 1, giving it a huge catalog, then let developers choose to support it with PS5 game patches, dedicated Remote Play capability for any other PS5 software, and then new unique software.
I'd think a decent-sized 1080p 60hz touchscreen, 5+ hour battery minimum, and a full suite of PS5 controller tech like the triggers (this time using Hall effects) and haptics... would be awesome.
Call it the PSP+ (for PlayStation Portable Plus or PlayStation Portal +, take your pick). Move away from Vita. That thing left a bad taste in the market's mouth, unfortunately (I had one, don't look at me lol). But having something that can compete directly with the ever-growing portable PC market and the inevitable Switch 2 makes complete sense.
The problem these games run into for me is that I don't often revisit games. So telling me "hey, there's 6 seasons of bonus content coming" just makes me want to wait 'til it's all out and I can buy the game patched, and for less than full retail price. I am completely disincentivized as a consumer to spend $70 now and HOPE the rest of the stuff is good or that it gets the ample support they plan for. I'd MUCH rather wait and see. It's not like I don't have other stuff to play.
I'm planning to buy into a VR platform this year, so if they can showcase some stellar VR titles (don't even have to be exclusives for my tastes) to help me decide if I should go PSVR2 or Quest 3... that'd be awesome. Because I am very torn.
I'm not a big Deus Ex fan. Just never got into them, though I tried. So while I may not be upset like fans are, I'm simply surprised. You'd think after the success of Cyberpunk that a company would see the potential to add to the market with another deep, sprawling, sci-fi RPG. Feed off some of that energy/interest.
Their overuse of dramatic, over the shoulder/on the ground camera angles and scenes is a massive red flag. They're refusing to show much legitimate gameplay, instead focusing on what will surely be cutscenes and the third person elements you see when at port, because they want people to think it's more like an Assassin's Creed game. Very VERY leery of this one.
I haven't enjoyed taking my sweet time in an RPG like this in ages. It's so refreshing to be satisfied by almost every little side quest and job I find myself getting distracted by.
@pharos_haven Going day one on Game Pass and costing them LOADS of $60-70 purchases is far far different than going to PS+ Extra months and months after the bulk of the game's sales have tapered off.
Plus, I wasn't the one to make the business decision for going to either service. While I think they can be dumb business decisions, I have no requirement to spend more money than I have to as a consumer. I took advantage of their decision. That's their fault for giving me the opportunity.
It would be outright stupid of me to have paid for the game when I could access it at no extra cost to myself. That's called wasting money.
Outriders was solid, I just think they made a terrible decision to put it on GamePass. It likely cost them loads of money, because I actually think it would have sold fine thanks to positive word of mouth.
I played it on PS+ Extra and enjoyed it quite a bit. A good, "turn off your brain and shoot stuff" sort of game. It did some things really well that I think a lot of other looter shooters and ARPGs could take note of (like the cosmetics, the upgrade system, the ease of respeccing)... I am looking forward to the sequel, if it ever comes, for sure.
@mvhess Alright. But they made the choice to do that when they didn't have to. They could have built the system to not require a dongle. They chose not to.
To be clear: all these EQ preset features are exclusive to the Pulse hardware, yes? Because they seem like they'd be nice to have for other headsets, even if the settings weren't stored on-device. I only use my Turtle Beach headset with my PS5. I'd love to adjust some of that stuff and then... have the PS5 save it for when I connect my headset.
@Triumph741 "I don't trust this dev because their last release was awful. I won't buy their titles until the next title they release. That'll teach em!"
That thinking is what allows them to keep releasing underwhelming titles.
I must be one of the only people who thinks this looks absolutely atrocious for a PS5 exclusive release. I just... don't get the hype. Sure, it's got a fun sense of humor, but... everything looks bland af and the environments look empty. It has a lot of particle effects flying around but otherwise it looks stilted as hell in the animations. And the gun designs are generic and boring, too. It just does nothing for me aesthetically.
And yes, I played the first Helldivers AND I love TPS titles AND co-op games AND PvE games. It should literally be right up my alley and it's just... not exciting me in the slightest.
@NinjaNicky "No reason" except for, you know, all the additional animating, lighting, presentation, and framing work that goes into it. But yeah. No reason at all.
If they don't begin addressing the itemization and stats, then it's still not worth me putting my time back into.
I ran a rouge into the low 70s right at release and then they nerfed the utter hell out of my character right before season 1, which completely turned me off of the entire game (this as someone with probably close to a thousand hours in D3 across platforms).
I hear it's better progression-wise, but it's boring AF loot-wise, which is half the fun for me.
This looks like it has "sleeper hit" or "cult classic" written all over it. It looks like a B-tier TLOU blended with God of War or something. I'll prolly buy it for bottom dollar a few years from now and enjoy it quite a bit.
I bought it without finishing the main game. I started Cyberpunk a few weeks after 2.0 dropped and it has been a FANTASTIC experience. I seriously love it. Easily a top 3 RPG for me (sitting alongside the ME trilogy - which I consider a singular experience, and Witcher 3). I am nearing 50 hours and barely feel like I've scratched the surface.
@riceNpea Maybe if you stopped reading the headline after the first 2 words. But for those of us who read the entire thing, understand contextual clues like - oh, I dunno - the rest of the words OR the giant image below it... Nah. We weren't confused.
What's funny to me about Sony's move into GaaS is that Bend extending the Days Gone IP with some sort of multiplayer/co-op/PvPvE utilizing the horde technology they built would have been AMAZING. But instead Sony shelved what Bend wanted to do with DG and made them create an all new IP. All the while, Sony is creating brand new IPs for GaaS from other studios.
Makes zero sense to me, personally. Being able to battle all those zombies and survive together/fight against other survivors could have been extremely cool and unique within the GaaS space. Plus, it would keep the DG brand out there and likely pump sales of the original game up, building support for the proper sequel they envisioned.
What's wild to me about Sony's lack of first-party VR support is that before they brought them in house, Insomniac was diversifying its portfolio and releasing quite a few VR titles. Instead of bringing them in and letting them keep working on those titles, they turned them into a Marvel game machine.
Sony should have AT LEAST 3 studios working on mid-large gauge VR titles. There is no reason PSVR2 hasn't had it's own Half Life: Alyx or Asgard's Wrath 2 type release by now.
And this is coming from someone who REALLY wants one.
What's sad is no one, and I mean no one, was asking for a live service version of Factions. No one. All we wanted was an expanded and improved version of the first. The first was VERY FUN. It had LOADS of potential in regards to ways it could be fleshed out, expanded upon, and deepened.
Only the top brass wanted to make it into such a large product that it'd require constant attention.
Factions is an old school mp experience in that people played it because it was fun. Not because it had constant hot new skins or because you could drop the gritty on your slain foes.
Had Sony and Naughty Dog been reasonable with what they were building and simply made an old school, fun-first mp mode that they built out, supported with some new maps and modes every few months for a few years, and maybe sold some xp boosters or ***** for ongoing revenues... literally no one would have complained. It would have sated long term fans and possibly attracted a new audience.
With THAT kind of title, they could have done something reasonable that wouldn't have forced a studio shift, satisfied fans, and had at least some form of long form revenue stream to boot (it's a business, I don't fault them for seeking more money).
Sony did this to them. ND did this to themselves. And Bungie ***** em both. Hard.
@AlienigenX What did you map them to? (I never played Unplugged.)
I switched mine to LT, R D-pad, Square, RT and it works much better for me. But I'm interested to know if there's an "established" scheme from another simiar game that's even better.
I think people forget that it'd be Marvel helping make these decisions nowadays and Spider-Man is an EXTREMELY unique case as a Marvel property, because of how many rights Sony (big Sony, not just videogame Sony) owns from back when they first bought the movie rights (they got a lot of other multimedia rights along with the film ones).
Marvel will want its titles selling as many copies as possible, and therefore want them on every platform it makes sense to have them on.
Microsoft owns no specific rights to Blade the way Sony owns Spidey rights, therefore it's almost assured that the game will release across platforms. I'm sure Microsoft may get marketing rights and maybe even be allowed to put it on Game Pass day one, but I HIGHLY doubt it is exclusive to Xbox.
Free Ragnarok DLC? Rise of Ronin and Black Myth release dates? Jet Set? Crazy Taxi? Light No Fire? Blade? Stealth The Finals release? Monster Hunter? FF DLC? Den of Wolves? Space Marine 2 release date? First Berzerker? Jurassic Park? Whatever the ***** OD is gonna be? Visions of Mana? No Rest for the Wicked? Exodus?
*****. That's not even close to everything. Just the ***** that piqued MY interest.
Hot damn. I don't know what people want out of a show like this except stuff like this. I thought that was probably the best one ever.
I think people go in with expectations of what they want, so when it's not there they get pissed due to self-manufactured hype/hope. I go in with no expectations and get blown away.
Sad to hear the devs didn't take advantage of the advanced hardware and really upgrade the game from the last-gen version. I had this on my list, but I'm not going to bother anymore.
@KennethKoerperich88 It upsets me that I am the same way. Have never enjoyed a turn-based game long term. I've tried over the years but it always bothers me. Sucks, because so so many good things about BG3.
I was VERY close to buying Lego Drive on Black Friday, so this is a great get for me. I also always liked what I saw of Sable since it was revealed for Xbox.
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Re: Poll: How Do You Feel About All of the Xbox Multiplatform Rumours?
If it means I can play the next Perfect Dark without spending hundreds on hardware, then I'm all for it. Avowed will be a nice bonus.
Re: Rumour: Call of Duty Games Will Feature Open World Campaigns Starting This Year
@NotSoCryptic I pre-ordered and played MW2 (and have played the series since before Modern Warfare was even a brand). MW2 was ass. Warzone was ***** garbage. DMZ was a solid blueprint but they abandoned it without even trying to let it live up to its potential.
And yeah... 3 new innovations in the industry isn't a lot. No argument. But it's 3 more innovative play modes/trends than CoD has introduced to the industry over that time.
CoD hasn't done a damn thing that has impacted the broader industry from a design or gameplay perspective in... Years. THAT'S sad when we're talking about the biggest IP over that time. They are, and have been for coming up on 2 decades, industry leaders only in sales.
I won't apologize for wanting more from them.
Re: Rumour: Call of Duty Games Will Feature Open World Campaigns Starting This Year
As someone who used to love CoD, I eventually shifted to more open world FPS titles like Crysis and FarCRy because I generally like them better. My issue isn't with CoD's storyline being open. That could be great if done well (though we know how MW3 went). My issue is how gotdamm stale the rest of the package feels.
The MP is always so focused on tweaking minor ***** but then ends up feeling just as frustrating and frantic every release. It' never truly changes in a manner that makes it feel more fair nor more fun. It's been the same damn package (to the average player) for like 15 years. No, Activision, I actually DON'T want to keep paying for the same rehashed maps and assets every friggin time I buy one. It's a slap in the face.
As the rest of the industry has evolved and created all sorts of new genres and gameplay elements, CoD just sits there twiddling it's thumbs doing the same ***** year in and year out. It's exhaustingly boring. And when they DO bring something new, it's not even an original idea. It's an idea they've stolen from someone else and then somehow executed worse (see: Warzone; see also: DMZ). You'd think all the money they make could buy an original ***** idea every so often.
Re: PS5, PS4 First-Party Devs Won't Get Complacent Even if Competition Degrades
I appreciate you calling out the competition entertainment faces every moment of it's existence: it's not just against explicit market rivals, it's competition across literally every other thing you could do with your time.
People seem to not understand that our attention is limited. Companies must do everything in their power to get it and keep it. It's far too easy to switch modes and just do something else entirely.
Sony doesn't only compete with other videogame studios. It's also competing against the movie studios, music, bars, every attention sucking app on your phone, the entirety of the internet, the hiking trail across town, that book you've been meaning to finish... Literally everything.
They need to make compelling product to be worthy of the masses carving out time and sitting down and enjoying their game titles. That doesn't change if Xbox games show up on the PS5, which is all the rumors are suggesting.
Re: Capcom Currently Polling Player Interest for Sequels to Okami, Dino Crisis, More
Okami, obviously.
But excuse me... WHERE THE ***** IS POWER STONE, CAPCOM?!?! That game gussied up with modern effects and physics for the destructable environments would be BONKERS fun.
Or at least throw together a remastered compilation and toss it up on PSN/eShop.
Re: Poll: Will You Be Watching the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth State of Play?
@danzoEX Me. Final Fantasy 16 is the first game in the entire series that has ever looked remotely interesting to me... and it still didn't convince me to buy it. Never played a single one. They collectively do not interest me in the slightest.
I'm knee deep in Cyberpunk. So I'm good to go.
Re: Face Your Demons in Supernatural RPG The Thaumaturge on PS5
I wish I liked turn-based games. Cause this setting looks real cool to me.
Re: Rumour: A New PlayStation Handheld Console Reportedly in the Works
Take inspiration from the Portal and blend it with the dedicated hardware capabilities of a PS4-scale PSP/Vita. Let it play all the existing PS4 library day 1, giving it a huge catalog, then let developers choose to support it with PS5 game patches, dedicated Remote Play capability for any other PS5 software, and then new unique software.
I'd think a decent-sized 1080p 60hz touchscreen, 5+ hour battery minimum, and a full suite of PS5 controller tech like the triggers (this time using Hall effects) and haptics... would be awesome.
Call it the PSP+ (for PlayStation Portable Plus or PlayStation Portal +, take your pick). Move away from Vita. That thing left a bad taste in the market's mouth, unfortunately (I had one, don't look at me lol). But having something that can compete directly with the ever-growing portable PC market and the inevitable Switch 2 makes complete sense.
Re: Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League (PS5) - Rocksteady's Big Gamble Just About Pays Off
The problem these games run into for me is that I don't often revisit games. So telling me "hey, there's 6 seasons of bonus content coming" just makes me want to wait 'til it's all out and I can buy the game patched, and for less than full retail price. I am completely disincentivized as a consumer to spend $70 now and HOPE the rest of the stuff is good or that it gets the ample support they plan for. I'd MUCH rather wait and see. It's not like I don't have other stuff to play.
Re: Neon-Soaked Cyberpunk Shooter ArcRunner Revealed for PS5, PS4 Release in April
Had my eye on this on Steam. This sort of game is right up my alley. Hopefully the price is decent.
Re: Hands On: Suicide Squad Takes a Lot of Getting Used to, and It May Not Be Worth It
@Nowings It definitely takes place in the same universe as the Arkham series. They've said that multiple times.
Re: Talking Point: What Can We Expect in the Next State of Play Show?
I'm planning to buy into a VR platform this year, so if they can showcase some stellar VR titles (don't even have to be exclusives for my tastes) to help me decide if I should go PSVR2 or Quest 3... that'd be awesome. Because I am very torn.
Re: Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Sounding Like the Scoundrel Simulator We Always Wanted
Please explain what part of the Jedi Suvivor narrative is "meandering."
Re: Deus Ex Game Reportedly Cancelled, Almost 100 Devs Laid Off
I'm not a big Deus Ex fan. Just never got into them, though I tried. So while I may not be upset like fans are, I'm simply surprised. You'd think after the success of Cyberpunk that a company would see the potential to add to the market with another deep, sprawling, sci-fi RPG. Feed off some of that energy/interest.
Re: Ubisoft Is Committing to a Full Year of Skull and Bones Content
Their overuse of dramatic, over the shoulder/on the ground camera angles and scenes is a massive red flag. They're refusing to show much legitimate gameplay, instead focusing on what will surely be cutscenes and the third person elements you see when at port, because they want people to think it's more like an Assassin's Creed game. Very VERY leery of this one.
Re: Cyberpunk 2077's New Patch Aiming to Release Next Week
I haven't enjoyed taking my sweet time in an RPG like this in ages. It's so refreshing to be satisfied by almost every little side quest and job I find myself getting distracted by.
Re: Outriders Dev People Can Fly Reportedly Hit by Layoffs
@pharos_haven Going day one on Game Pass and costing them LOADS of $60-70 purchases is far far different than going to PS+ Extra months and months after the bulk of the game's sales have tapered off.
Plus, I wasn't the one to make the business decision for going to either service. While I think they can be dumb business decisions, I have no requirement to spend more money than I have to as a consumer. I took advantage of their decision. That's their fault for giving me the opportunity.
It would be outright stupid of me to have paid for the game when I could access it at no extra cost to myself. That's called wasting money.
Re: Outriders Dev People Can Fly Reportedly Hit by Layoffs
Outriders was solid, I just think they made a terrible decision to put it on GamePass. It likely cost them loads of money, because I actually think it would have sold fine thanks to positive word of mouth.
I played it on PS+ Extra and enjoyed it quite a bit. A good, "turn off your brain and shoot stuff" sort of game. It did some things really well that I think a lot of other looter shooters and ARPGs could take note of (like the cosmetics, the upgrade system, the ease of respeccing)... I am looking forward to the sequel, if it ever comes, for sure.
Re: TMNT: The Last Ronin Dev Reportedly Cut in Half After Layoffs
This sucks, surely, but just a note... this storyline/premise has nothing to do with the recent movie. It's an adaptation of a recent comic book arc.
Re: PS5 Audio Experience Upgraded with New Equalizer, Sidetone Features
@mvhess Alright. But they made the choice to do that when they didn't have to. They could have built the system to not require a dongle. They chose not to.
Re: PS5 Audio Experience Upgraded with New Equalizer, Sidetone Features
@mvhess You'd think that, but this is Sony. They require a dongle to use Bluetooth in 2024. They don't always make the most sensible design decisions.
Re: PS5 Audio Experience Upgraded with New Equalizer, Sidetone Features
To be clear: all these EQ preset features are exclusive to the Pulse hardware, yes? Because they seem like they'd be nice to have for other headsets, even if the settings weren't stored on-device. I only use my Turtle Beach headset with my PS5. I'd love to adjust some of that stuff and then... have the PS5 save it for when I connect my headset.
Is that possible?
Re: Focus Entertainment Inexplicably Rebranding to PulluP Entertainment in April 2024
That's cute. Good for them. But I'd think as they got older, they'd grow out of PullUps. My son is almost done wearing his!
Re: Suicide Squad Episodes, Characters, and Locations Coming After Launch
Wtf are they smoking?
Re: Return to Oblivion in New The Elder Scrolls Online Expansion Gold Road
@Triumph741 "I don't trust this dev because their last release was awful. I won't buy their titles until the next title they release. That'll teach em!"
That thinking is what allows them to keep releasing underwhelming titles.
Re: Join Earth's Last Line of Offence with Helldivers 2 PS5 Gameplay Launch Trailer
I must be one of the only people who thinks this looks absolutely atrocious for a PS5 exclusive release. I just... don't get the hype. Sure, it's got a fun sense of humor, but... everything looks bland af and the environments look empty. It has a lot of particle effects flying around but otherwise it looks stilted as hell in the animations. And the gun designs are generic and boring, too. It just does nothing for me aesthetically.
And yes, I played the first Helldivers AND I love TPS titles AND co-op games AND PvE games. It should literally be right up my alley and it's just... not exciting me in the slightest.
Re: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's Gameplay Launch Trailer Teases Big Superhero Battles
I mean... if I wanted to play this sorta game I could buy Agents of Mayhem for a fraction of the cost and NOT deal with live service elements.
Re: Smite 2 Is the Sequel to the Super Popular MOBA, and It's Coming to PS5
Absolutely incredible sub-header.
Re: Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Gets a Complete Edition with All Three DLC Expansions Included
@riceNpea Maybe a physical release of what you got, which would be the Digital Deluxe edition?
Re: Cyberpunk 2077 Sequel's Development Is Officially Underway
@NinjaNicky "No reason" except for, you know, all the additional animating, lighting, presentation, and framing work that goes into it. But yeah. No reason at all.
Re: Diablo 4 Season 3 Set for the 23rd January
If they don't begin addressing the itemization and stats, then it's still not worth me putting my time back into.
I ran a rouge into the low 70s right at release and then they nerfed the utter hell out of my character right before season 1, which completely turned me off of the entire game (this as someone with probably close to a thousand hours in D3 across platforms).
I hear it's better progression-wise, but it's boring AF loot-wise, which is half the fun for me.
Re: Latest Banishers PS5 Trailer All About Love, Death, and Sacrifice
This looks like it has "sleeper hit" or "cult classic" written all over it. It looks like a B-tier TLOU blended with God of War or something. I'll prolly buy it for bottom dollar a few years from now and enjoy it quite a bit.
Re: Cyperpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty Boasts Impressive Attach Rate, Deemed Commercial Hit
I bought it without finishing the main game. I started Cyberpunk a few weeks after 2.0 dropped and it has been a FANTASTIC experience. I seriously love it. Easily a top 3 RPG for me (sitting alongside the ME trilogy - which I consider a singular experience, and Witcher 3). I am nearing 50 hours and barely feel like I've scratched the surface.
Re: Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Previews Are Far from Positive
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Re: Apex Legends Fans Are Absolutely Irate with the Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Event's Pricing
I've never fully understood cosmetics in an FPS. Fortnite? I get it. But CoD or Apex? You couldn't get me to buy a cosmetic with a gun to my head.
Re: Football Fans Anticipate an Update on PS5's EA Sports College Football This Coming Week
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Re: Football Fans Anticipate an Update on PS5's EA Sports College Football This Coming Week
@riceNpea Maybe if you stopped reading the headline after the first 2 words. But for those of us who read the entire thing, understand contextual clues like - oh, I dunno - the rest of the words OR the giant image below it... Nah. We weren't confused.
Re: Days Gone Dev on New PS5 Exclusive: We're Cooking
What's funny to me about Sony's move into GaaS is that Bend extending the Days Gone IP with some sort of multiplayer/co-op/PvPvE utilizing the horde technology they built would have been AMAZING. But instead Sony shelved what Bend wanted to do with DG and made them create an all new IP. All the while, Sony is creating brand new IPs for GaaS from other studios.
Makes zero sense to me, personally. Being able to battle all those zombies and survive together/fight against other survivors could have been extremely cool and unique within the GaaS space. Plus, it would keep the DG brand out there and likely pump sales of the original game up, building support for the proper sequel they envisioned.
Re: Dev Behind PSVR2's Firewall Ultra Blames the Lack of Virtual Reality Support for Closure
What's wild to me about Sony's lack of first-party VR support is that before they brought them in house, Insomniac was diversifying its portfolio and releasing quite a few VR titles. Instead of bringing them in and letting them keep working on those titles, they turned them into a Marvel game machine.
Sony should have AT LEAST 3 studios working on mid-large gauge VR titles. There is no reason PSVR2 hasn't had it's own Half Life: Alyx or Asgard's Wrath 2 type release by now.
And this is coming from someone who REALLY wants one.
Re: Stare Wistfully at The Last of Us Online PS5 Multiplayer Menu Screen
@Truegamer79 Someone doesn't know their God of War history very well.
Re: The Last of Us Multiplayer Project Is Officially Cancelled
What's sad is no one, and I mean no one, was asking for a live service version of Factions. No one. All we wanted was an expanded and improved version of the first. The first was VERY FUN. It had LOADS of potential in regards to ways it could be fleshed out, expanded upon, and deepened.
Only the top brass wanted to make it into such a large product that it'd require constant attention.
Factions is an old school mp experience in that people played it because it was fun. Not because it had constant hot new skins or because you could drop the gritty on your slain foes.
Had Sony and Naughty Dog been reasonable with what they were building and simply made an old school, fun-first mp mode that they built out, supported with some new maps and modes every few months for a few years, and maybe sold some xp boosters or ***** for ongoing revenues... literally no one would have complained. It would have sated long term fans and possibly attracted a new audience.
With THAT kind of title, they could have done something reasonable that wouldn't have forced a studio shift, satisfied fans, and had at least some form of long form revenue stream to boot (it's a business, I don't fault them for seeking more money).
Sony did this to them. ND did this to themselves. And Bungie ***** em both. Hard.
Re: Hands On: Fortnite Festival Rekindles Fond Memories of a Forgotten PSP Favourite
@AlienigenX What did you map them to? (I never played Unplugged.)
I switched mine to LT, R D-pad, Square, RT and it works much better for me. But I'm interested to know if there's an "established" scheme from another simiar game that's even better.
Re: Could Marvel's Blade Come to PS5? Bethesda Declines to Comment
I think people forget that it'd be Marvel helping make these decisions nowadays and Spider-Man is an EXTREMELY unique case as a Marvel property, because of how many rights Sony (big Sony, not just videogame Sony) owns from back when they first bought the movie rights (they got a lot of other multimedia rights along with the film ones).
Marvel will want its titles selling as many copies as possible, and therefore want them on every platform it makes sense to have them on.
Microsoft owns no specific rights to Blade the way Sony owns Spidey rights, therefore it's almost assured that the game will release across platforms. I'm sure Microsoft may get marketing rights and maybe even be allowed to put it on Game Pass day one, but I HIGHLY doubt it is exclusive to Xbox.
Re: Poll: Was The Game Awards 2023 Worth Watching?
There were some banger announcements.
Free Ragnarok DLC? Rise of Ronin and Black Myth release dates? Jet Set? Crazy Taxi? Light No Fire? Blade? Stealth The Finals release? Monster Hunter? FF DLC? Den of Wolves? Space Marine 2 release date? First Berzerker? Jurassic Park? Whatever the ***** OD is gonna be? Visions of Mana? No Rest for the Wicked? Exodus?
*****. That's not even close to everything. Just the ***** that piqued MY interest.
Hot damn. I don't know what people want out of a show like this except stuff like this. I thought that was probably the best one ever.
I think people go in with expectations of what they want, so when it's not there they get pissed due to self-manufactured hype/hope. I go in with no expectations and get blown away.
Different strokes...
Re: Sci-fi RPG Exodus Looks Alright, Alright, Alright on PS5
Gives me Mass Effect vibes. Definitely keeping an eye on this.
Re: Ori Dev's Action RPG No Rest for the Wicked Announced for PS5
Love me a good action RPG. This looks real real good.
Re: Mini Review: Arashi: Castles of Sin Final Cut (PSVR2) - Solid VR Swordfighter Is Rough Around the Edges
Sad to hear the devs didn't take advantage of the advanced hardware and really upgrade the game from the last-gen version. I had this on my list, but I'm not going to bother anymore.
Re: Baldur's Gate 3 Player Stats Show Crazy Completion Rate, Most Popular Romance, Class, and More
@KennethKoerperich88 It upsets me that I am the same way. Have never enjoyed a turn-based game long term. I've tried over the years but it always bothers me. Sucks, because so so many good things about BG3.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for December 2023?
I was VERY close to buying Lego Drive on Black Friday, so this is a great get for me. I also always liked what I saw of Sable since it was revealed for Xbox.
Solid month for my tastes.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for December 2023 Announced
I was SOOOO close to buying Lego 2K Drive on Black Friday. I am VERY happy with this month for that alone.