OmegaStriver

@sjbsixpack Games having to work on a PS4 have an effect on world building, animation and AI. Don’t think otherwise. The PS4 hinders the PS5.

I’ve been enjoying it. I’ve been playing co-op with one of my kids. I talked to a dev last night on Twitter and he said that soon the flashlight with be getting improved to work better with the dark graphics settings. Currently, dark looks good but the flashlight is too weak. He also said they will be adjusting the normal and gritty colors as well, or at least with one of them.

The amount of negativity people have with this game boggles my mind. I think it’s probably a Days Gone situation again.

@4kgk2 Yeah, and TLoU already got remastered before it was updated again. Sony plans on doing a GoT show, so there is a good chance they would want some new GoT game media to go with it.

@4kgk2 They could remaster Killzone Shadows Fall, Infamous Second Son, Bloodborne, Ghost of Tsushima, God of War, TLoU2, Dreams, Days Gone, pretty much every single PS4 game they released.

You can say it’s unlikely but I sure as hell never imagined they would have done the amount of remasters and remakes they’ve already done, so, it’s definitely possible.

@Vil If Sony is actually remastering Horizon you better believe that remasters are going to make up so many of these upcoming singleplayer games that Sony assures us they are invested in.

@Ken_Kaniff I love singleplayer games, but I really enjoy multiplayer games as well. I enjoy playing them with my kids and my buddies. I’ve loved playing Borderlands 3 and Dying Light 2 with my kids recently for example. A big issue I currently have with multiple games, is that even though I have quite a bit of time to game, I don’t have time for all these battlepasses. I play games with my family more than we watch tv, but these battlepasses just require too much time. Granted, that’s a me problem. I usually play Fortnite with my kids, but so far, I’m skipping this season.

I’ve heard they are lying about the DDOS attack just to get people on their side. The claim is they’ve just done a bad job transitioning everything over and claiming this helps them to save face.

This info could be wrong as well. Considering we’ll never truly know the truth, it is what it is and I don’t really care.

@Dezzy70 Basically with Sony pushing into the PC market you need to just forget about true PS5 games. They want that PC money and realize a majority of PC owners still utilize a HDD and will force their own developers to create games that work well with HDDs.

So, bare minimum expect this to effect world building. Forced walking, crawling, squeezing, elevators, and the use of certain large backdrops to hide load screens will continue to be used. It’s going to be a long time before you actually see a “true PS5” game going forward. It will probably be sometime into the PS6’s life cycle.

You look through my history on here and you’ll see I’ve been very displeased with Sony’s direction versus their history.

I sure as hell will NOT be buying a PS6 day 1 like i did every single past PlayStation console.

@jrt87 Hell, I’ve haven’t owned an Xbox since the 360, but I recently bought a Series X and Steamdeck because of my displeasure of Sony’s current path.

Again, I haven’t felt the need to get another system in over a decade…. but the current Sony pushed me towards them. I even owned the PSP and Vita, now, a Steamdeck.

Sony is annoying the absolute hell out of me.

Some people love to bash the PS3 but I think that’s when they were at their absolute best.

Do you remember when they introduced a brand new series called Uncharted, or Resistance, or Infamous, or Little Big Planet, or Motorstorm, or a game called TLoU, or Puppeteer, and others I just can’t remember right now?

I despise how far Sony has fallen while many people still praise how great they are. I hope Microsoft can actually start delivering good games next year from all those purchases and give Sony a swift kick in the ass.

Man, I sure do miss how I felt about Sony from 1994-2018.

Sony sure is losing me as fan with the business path it’s taken in the last 4 years.

They aren’t even recognizable as the company that made me love the PS1-3.

The best we can hope for is that the best devs aren’t wasting their talent on this like Naughty Dog did.

@Deformedpye I’m thinking this is a co-op DLC where you can play as Silens and the other guy as they both have their own tools and combat styles, or a solo Silens dlc side story dlc.

Slightly off topic but Plague Tale Requiem was the final push for me to get an Xbox for GamePass. I planned on getting a Series X next summer but saw that this game was coming day one to GP so I decided to go ahead and buy one. I planned on buying it for my PS5 but figured I might as well go ahead and pick a Xbox. So, GP in a way will really start paying for itself once this releases. Granted, I’ve enjoyed the Xbox games I’ve missed as well. The last Xbox I owned was the 360, so I have some catching up to do.

Just a general fyi, I still play my PS5 daily.

@Grumblevolcano I have a Steamdeck and it’s pretty awesome.

Im not being sarcastic; it feels like PC gets way more action from Sony than the PS5 does. Other than the VR2, it feels like a majority of PlayStation news is PC focused.

So, doubling the requirements to level up at this point only punishes new players and makes it that much harder to play without upgrades for a longer period of time……. great idea.

For those that don’t know, characters have specific move upgrades that are locked to later levels. So, this means new players will be handicapped for a longer period of time.

I was fine with the original games length. As long as a game is good I don’t care if it’s short.

I rather play a fantastic 5 hour game than a mediocre 40 hour game.

@RogerRoger Thats all good. Sweet.

Can we switch characters during a play through or is it one at a time?

Most times the games that do different perspectives as a big deal typically only have minor differences from each other. So, I can see myself possibly playing through more than once if you can only do one character at a time, otherwise I’ll probably just beat it once.

@KaijuKaiser What games are Sony releasing in the next six months? I know GoW2 is one.

Unless they have a ton out of the blue games I just don’t see it happening this year now. There has been quite a bit of PlayStation news that would have been suitable for a show but they’ve released it in small YouTube trailers.

I see a state of play next month though just to highlight GoW2 some more.

I’m not happy with that news. It sounds like they are already ignoring it.

Well, that was more tame than Mortal Kombat and kinda similar that the Witcher.

It shouldn’t happen but I hope Sony keeps moving toward a simultaneous release for their game releases for PlayStation and PC.

I hope the PS5 is the last PlayStation I had to buy. It would be nice to just buy a PC and be done with it.

PlayStation for well over a decade has been enough for me not including a Nintendo, but recently, with Sony focusing more and more on things that don’t interest me, I’ve bought a Series X and Steamdeck to fill in the gap. Not to mention it takes so much more time for games to release and then that gap is even longer when they release games I don’t really care about like TLoU Remake.

Lol, I bet that Anthem engine will be used one way or another.

@riceNpea The big difference here is that not all characters are exactly the same, like in Fortnite. So, it’s pay to win. If it was just cosmetics, it would be fine.

I see myself trying this game for a few hours and then noping out.

@theMEGAniggle Some of the videos have time stamps from 2017, 18, 19, and 21.

Some them also contain info about it running on a PS4 dev kit, and various computer GPU’s, like the 2080.

It all depends on which ever leaked footage you watch.

Also, all these appear to be stolen from a corporate site called Slack I believe. I can’t remember exactly, I read that a few hours ago.

@pharos_haven I thought the game was very good overall including its multiplayer. I really enjoyed my time with it and still don’t regret buying it day one.

I enjoyed the world, the story, the characters and it’s voice actors, the gameplay, and the idea of what they were trying to achieve overall. I play the multiplayer a ton with my kids before I took a run at beating it. So, I got real familiar with the levels. I loved how they changed depending on what part of the day you visited them.

The only negative I had was that when it all came down to it, there was only one way to beat it when it seems like there would be multiple ways to do it.

One last note; the multiplayer is another side to the game’s story.

I don’t know what’s wrong with me. I’m looking forward to this game but I’m nowhere near as hyped as everyone else in here, and I loved the first one.

It’s kinda funny how so many games follow a pattern. Soon there will be plenty of space games and samurai games available.

I thought it looked pretty interesting. As long as it reviews decently well I’ll want to play it.

Better than I expected.

I enjoyed: GoW, Tekken 8, Hogwarts, and Project Eve. The rest was meh, games that are a generation or two behind. It’s probably due to their engines though. Japanese games used to be the ones that pushed everything forward. You would think small sandbox’s and corridors worlds would look better.

@get2sammyb

“Well it’s always good to go in expecting the worst.”

Sony’s new catchphrase lol.

That kinda fits with Sony nowadays.

I’m imagine I have an uncommon opinion on the subject of how I want a majority of games to go.

I want improvements to animation, small details, AI and general world improvement. That doesn’t mean I want bigger worlds. It feels like it’s to the point to where we are getting games now over and over that are very similar to each other. The biggest difference being a different protagonist and world.

Back in the day, games really felt like they were improvements over the previous edition. Now, they are less improved and just slightly different.

The person from ThatGamer preview sounds like they would be real fun at a party.

My kids and I watched the Marvel one and I was surprised by how many phone games were shown. The next day, we starting watching the Ubisoft show. When they got to their 2nd or 3rd phone game I just shut it off and would look it up after it was over and decided to play Rocket League instead. I don’t give a damn about phone games.

GRANTED, I’m getting to the point to where I’m accepting that hardcore gamers are NOT the focus in the entirety of gaming anymore. I find myself getting more and more disappointed year after year with being a long time video game fan. Even with Sony it feels like they care more about their PC and PS4 owners than they do with their PS5 owners.

When it comes down to it, hardcore or traditional gamers, whatever you want to call us are NOT the focus anymore.

Good, wished it would have happened already.

Interested? Yes, but have low expectations. I love Amy but we’ll just have to wait and see. I’m thinking 2025-26 release date.

My kids and I are really looking forward to this. I hope it turns out well. If it does, I’ll buy it first week.

Lol. Microsoft trying to prove they are not forming a video game monopoly and all these people screaming buy everything and make it exclusive.

Also, there is a difference between Sony buying smaller studios and Microsoft buying big publishers and their studios.

Also, people saying Sony made many games exclusive but the truth is Microsoft passed up on many of the opportunities, like, Spider-Man for instance. The games only exist because Sony gave them the go ahead.

There is so much disinformation going around.

I don’t see them really bringing it down in the future. It doesn’t effect their sales, so, they don’t care. They don’t care if you have room for other games.

It would be awesome if they went for smaller games that are around 39.99$

@LiamCroft Just looked it up, it’s likely to come to GamePass. The director/owner/whatever said he’s buddies with Phil and could see it coming after it gets a little time to sale traditionally. So, I imagine it will probably be on it within 6 months after release. So, I can wait.

You were right though. I had read on other sites it was coming. I guess they were wrong. Plague Tale and High on Life will be nice though.

I’ve been catching up on some titles I missed. Gears of War Judgement, I am Fish, Killer Instinct, Forza Horizon 5, State of Decay 2, Sunset Overdrive, and Sea of Thieves mostly. On my PS5, I’ve been enjoying Dying Light 2 especially since I waited for all of the patches. Been playing Rollerdrome, and Midnight Fight Club or whatever it’s called. Borderlands 3 is waiting for me as well.

That all sounds like a ton, but I haven’t spent that much time on any of them. Life gets in the way. I definitely have enough to keep me busy until GoW2. Then that will be my focus, except for when I game with my kids. I spend a lot of time on Rocket League, Apex, and Fortnite with them.

@Would_you_kindly. I with you, but, you have to accept this isn’t the Sony that made the PlayStation super successful. The people that focused on their hardcore fan base are gone. I dislike all the changes that are occurring with PlayStation. I don’t like how Sony is silent with their customers. I don’t like that the PS5 is not their focus, it’s PC and PS4. I don’t like how the best talent is wasted on remakes/remasters. I don’t like that PlayStation is starting to focus on GaaS and micro transactions. I dread to see the state of gaming by 2032.

That all sounds very negative but I’m in pretty good spirits. I don’t like all that crap I mentioned, but, it is what it is. PlayStation has been enough for me since I sold my 360 and bought a PS3. Now though, PlayStation doesn’t release enough that interests me or keeps me busy. I beat all of PlayStation’s 2022 releases months ago, not including Stray. I beat it soon after it released. I’m mostly waiting for the next big experience. That’s GoW2. There is nothing about TLoU that interests me. I beat it multiple times 8 or so years ago.

So, I find myself waiting for the next big thing. To fix that, I bought a Series X to fill in the time that PlayStation leaves open. It’s been really nice catching up on so many games I’ve missed. Now with GamePass I don’t have to buy Plague Tale 2, The Calisto Protocol (edit: calisto is not coming day one) and High on Life when they release.

My advice is just to quit caring as much. Accept that what made us enjoy the PlayStation just doesn’t exist like it use too. Their most dedicated fans are not their focus. It’s crazy that they’ve dominated the video game market yet they are trying their best to mimic Microsoft’s Xbox strategy.

People will read all this and think I’m crazy or whatever but I have a buddy that’s so pissed that GoW2 is not a true PS5 game that he refuses to buy it until it goes on sale. He says F them. His PS5 can collect dust. Like I said, I’m to the point to where, it is what it is. I’m buying it. Probably will end up splitting it with him so neither of us have to pay full price.

Well, this helped me to kill some time. Thanks.

I wish I was a fan of space games but most do nothing for me.

Still a definite waste of talent of one of the best studios out there.

It already takes years for new games to release and now those years are delayed further by using some of the best in the industry on what should have been an outsourced project. I don’t care that this started as another studios project that failed, it shouldn’t have gone to Naughty Dog. You’ll probably want to respond that it was a good training project for the PS5. The PS5 is very similar to the PS4. Please don’t buy into that these people needed training. Then you hear it was a good project in between projects. If that’s the truth, Naughty Dog leadership needs to be fired.