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Re: PS5 Price: Sony Emphasising Value for Next-Gen Format

Stragen8

@Consolegamer123 The CEO before Jim Ryan moved over to the PS Now department to focus on that, so I’d assume he wouldn’t have done that unless they see big promise and growth in that area? And besides marketing and some big PS4 games rotating every few months, there hasn’t been any other substantial change that I’m aware of yet.

Re: PS5's Media Remote Is Super Slick, Includes a Microphone

Stragen8

Never really understood these too well, but maybe this will be the generation I finally try one out.
I have a Sony TV (the OG 3D tv....yeah...that worked out well for me) Sony soundbar and PS4 and I generally only use the PS4 remote to do everything but turn on the TV. I guess having the controller fall asleep is a bit annoying, but other than that idk.

Re: PS5 Price: Sony Emphasising Value for Next-Gen Format

Stragen8

Maybe they will continue to rebrand PSNow (add more first party PS4 games around the ps5 launch) and throw in a 3 month subscription with the consoles to help entice consumers as an alternative to game pass.

They couldn’t of had the last CEO step down and take over PSNow role for nothing. I feel like it’s gonna get a big overhaul around launch.

Re: Poll: How Much Do 'True' Gameplay Trailers Matter to You?

Stragen8

@andreoni79 It was an awesome trailer! But when I played the game I felt like it wasn’t at all what the trailer conveyed.
I found a Wikipedia article on it actually:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Island_Reveal_Trailer

“ The lack of gameplay information was also criticized. Laura Parker found the trailer disconnected from the actual game, with the trailer being misleading by not showing any in-game information, and with the game failing to deliver the same emotional effect as the trailer.[22] Daemon Hatfield from IGN similarly thought that the trailer was not useful in assessing the game's quality and expressed concerns that the game would not be as entertaining and interesting as the trailer.[27] Upon release, many reviewers thought that the trailer had set expectation too high for the actual game, and that the game ended up not meeting expectations.[23”

Re: Poll: How Much Do 'True' Gameplay Trailers Matter to You?

Stragen8

I’ve hated these CGi cutscenes that don’t represent the final games at all, that we’ve been getting this generation.

Dead Island was the worst offender of this back in the day, and ever since I’ve hated them.

Diablo’s are pretty cool, but other then that, just give me gameplay trailers. Not things that make me want something that doesn’t exist.

Re: Resident Evil Resistance Content Roadmap Reveals Very, Very Little

Stragen8

I’m loving Resistance. Been meaning to finish RE3 but Resistance has been way too addicting.
Takes a bit to get used to the gameplay but after that it’s fantastic! Obviously more fun with friends, but still, I’d recommend it.

Need some balancing still though. And hopefully they can push out new content on a more frequent basis!

Re: Soapbox: I Wish I Was Growing Up with Games Now

Stragen8

Idk, I look at my younger siblings and they play significantly fewer titles than I did growing up. (GameCube through end of PS3) And not due to lack of money or whatever, just due to the massive time investment games today are.

This is a good and bad thing I guess, but I’m happy I got to put in a game, experience it from start to end, and then get to experience something else. Seems like today’s games aren’t built to ‘satisfy’ with an ending. Just keep going on and on.

Re: Guitar Training Tool Rocksmith Could Be Tuning Up on PS5

Stragen8

@M1359 It has something for all levels. There’s a lot geared towards beginners (they have ‘arcade games’ that are things like learning to pluck certain strings etc) but then there’s the actual songs transcribed note by note which if you’re already an intermediate player you can hop right into at performance level - if you’re a beginner it will dumb down the song and progressively add more complex notes until it builds to the actual song.

They also have a really cool ‘session’ mode which basically allows you to jam with an AI band. It actually works really well!

Re: Resident Evil PS5 Rumours Just Won't Go Away

Stragen8

I mean, with the type of BOW that Eevie was and the ending of Revelations 2, I could totally see a new bio weapon looking something like a witch or vampire.

At least vampires still bite people’s necks so we’d still get some cool ‘You Are Dead’ scenes haha