Max_the_German

@Legacy2K The perversity of this live service strategy is: Sony is developing several games, knowing that most of them will fail hard (tbf, Concord failed even harder), and devs will get the feeling of wasting several years of their lives. But as long as one or two games stick to the wall, Sony‘s expectations are met.

@OldGamer999 Yeah, lesson learned. Hermen will certainly kill Fairgame$, won’t he?

Now it’s a dead PlayStation IP, so we can finally get a DaVeers cameo in Astro Bot.

This statement from Microsoft is remarkable, because one party is lying or at least pouring petrol into the fire.

@madmaxrules Your comment painfully hit my heart.

Please help me, I’m not sure that I get this right:
You collect XP by committing suicide? Is this normal in these Hero shooters, or just bad game design?
If this would be the case with Soulslikes, I‘d be maxed out in a blink.

The internal chatter might be positive, but this was probably also the case for Concord.
And now seeing the reaction by the market (and in comment sections like this) and Sony’s move, I’d be very surprised if Raymond and her team are not intimidated.

Helldivers 2 was a great success. The first and only success for Big Jimbo‘s Live Service strategy?

@Cherip-the-Ripper You mean, also a physical pain?

@DennisReynolds „Cheaping art“: Most of the entertainment products out there, especially video games, are not art but kitsch. AI is great to create kitsch, it‘s quick and cheap.
I see the main problem in that studios are fine with creating kitschy video games. Generic woodlands, cities, enemies, bland dialogs. AI can help to create these parts, and the devs can improve them to get something more artistic and original than without AI.
And for the other studios which already create games of high artistic value by hand, nothing changes.

@hoffa007 ???

I think, they missed the chance after the beta tests to make a longer break, to rework stuff and keep the public impression that they are in control of their product.
Now the public disaster is complete, and both the devs and SIE look helpless and out of control.
What’s clear: They have to do something. This current limbo is highly dangerous to the future prospects of this game and rhe studio in total.

@Thumper A physical is not yet announced, but I find it very likely, as a typical Chrismas gift game. And these copies will prominently sit in a shelf in the stores where grandma will get her gifts.

To all the stinkers here in the comments: You are not the target group for this re-release. There are many new 8-year-olds every year who haven’t played this game in the past and ask their parents and grandparents for a PS5 game for Christmas. This game is perfect for this!

@Ssimsim Please correct me if I’m wrong. Studios like Firewalk usually don’t have the money to start development of these big scale games. They need a publisher who funds it, and the publisher pushes the game in a commercial viable direction.
Did Firesprite start development without publisher, was Sony the publisher from the beginning?

@get2sammyb No. 250k is a disaster, 25k is a nightmare and bitchslap.

I made some harsh comments on this game. But actually, I feel pity for the devs, being forced to make a copycat and haven’t been able to give it a soul and identy.

Great lineup. But I will stick to my PS5 backlog and the new Switch games Zelda and Animal Well (my LRG physical edition announced for October 7).
I assume that Astro Bot will drop in price quite significantly on Black Friday, so waiting herefor is hard but reasonable.

When people will discuss the PS5 in ten years, they will say „The defining game for PS5 was Astro Bot.“ So remarkable is this game in so many aspects.

So it basically looks the same as the standard model, but bigger?

@yazzika That‘s a polite euphemism.

@TheTraditional The whole setup and presentation of this monstrosity called „Fairgame$“ makes me want to avoid any articles, videos and other media surrounding it.

F2P would be too drastic imo. The game’s substance seems too be very solid, and that’s what counts in the long run.

Instead, Sony could push its higher PS Plus tiers by bringing Concord to them.

The poor people out there who already spent money on it could get free cosmetics and 3 months of PS Plus Premium access.

And I won’t waste my time with it.

Dear Hermen,

Step down.

Best
Max

That‘s a real surprise to me. 10m is massive, most devs and publishers would kill for these numbers.

Killzone 2 was claimed photorealistic. So this game must be literally indistinguishable from reality.

This game will surpass AC, same as Foamstars did with Splatoon and Immortal Fenyx Rising did with Breath of the Wild.

Correct, Microsoft MUST tell me NOW. I bought a PS5, it’s my f*cking right. Or maybe not.

No wonder Sony doesn’t make it F2P. But the customers don’t care how much it costed to develop, they pay what it is worth it to them.

I know, my following statement is not political mainstream these days, and so I ask you not to outrage:

Having restrictions can have a special charm. That‘s why people buy two Pokemon editions or start a MH game for a second time. Restrictions and the successful mastering to overcome them are an important part of art. It’s not always appreciative to have all the opportunities all the time.

I would even prefer if games would only include an original dub, to reduce the localisation costs. But then it should be very authentic, e.g. A Plague Tale in 15th century Provence dialect. And subtitles should be readable, i.e. much larger than they are today in most games.

Yes, the competition for core games is tough, they are expensive to make, and core gamers are demanding.

And the worst thing: There is no save formula for success! The closest kind for that is the „Ubi formula“, and even that doesn’t always work.

No, I think you need teams of very talented people and the patience to finance them for many years, plus the absence of commands like „create the next entry of this or that IP“ and „play it save“. Probably the opposite of what Lars Wingefors is willing to do.

Imagine this show would only consist of the top 30-45 min. People would consider it a good or even great show. But it is plagued by mediocre filling stuff. And Geoff earns quite a pile of cash with this filler stuff. Too sad!

This game with an archaeologist looks promising.

@PaperAlien You description fits to this (btw great) review by Eurogamer:

https://www.eurogamer.net/black-myth-wukong-review

@get2sammyb And we will probably see some announcements in that direction at Gamescom. At the moment, Xbox is not the worst publisher of PS5 games.

Why is nobody talking about Judas? Probably one of the most impactful upcoming games.

@KundaliniRising333 They did an analysis, and they guess it is FSR2 upscaling (more specifically FSR3.1 upscaling, and not TSR due to performance) PLUS FSR3 frame generation from 30 to 60 fps!!

I don’t want to imagine playing a fast Soulslike with basically 30 fps and extra lag due to frame generation, and with bad picture quality.

Here my theory:

Maybe there is Until Dawn 2 in the making. And this remake served as an entry point for the devs to create the engine, the aesthetics and the mechanics, after so many years. UD2 would be a full-price title, so UDR should also be (unlike Metroid Prime Remastered).

Plausible in your eyes?

@Intr1n5ic Agreed, but a price is principly independent of the production costs. It is what people are willing to pay for it. So even if it would be only a remaster, Sony could demand 60 quids, and there would be people willing to pay.

Where is the problem? Nobody is forced to buy it, and the original is still available at a dirt cheap price.

There are enough people out there who have much more money than time for gaming, and this game is great for them.

@NotTelevision My free time is more valuable to me than a 5er. There are too many great games out there to waste your time (and money) with mediocre or bad ones.

CAUTION! Quality alert

That‘s the studio‘s founder: https://www.xing.com/profile/Ivan_Mirkovikj2

This is a game he was working on as a director: https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11410466/

And here are the critics for this game:
Metacritic: https://www.metacritic.com/game/past-cure/critic-reviews/?platform=playstation-4
PushSquare: https://www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps4/past_cure

@Jaz007 Both 1st and 3rd person:

https://www.elysiumgamestudio.com/presskit

They should shift the Gamescom to the old June E3 time slot to become more relevant.

But this is probably easier said than done, because there are other, well established trade fairs in this venue which protect their traditional time slots.

@BamBamBaklava89 Your assessment is harsh and fair.

@NotTelevision „Honestly the dialogue isn’t much worse than Death Stranding.“

Is that meant as a praise for this game?

That‘s the new AA standard these days. People here often complain about 70 USD price tags, iterations of the same IPs over and over again, super safe gameplay mechanics, and long development times. And here comes a game which uses UE5 to its fullest to hide its limited budget, and people start complaining about its janky look.

Remember, there is no free lunch!