I bought Black Ops 4 but it's the game I've played least since MW3. Felt like a value pack of 3 random games thrown together instead of a cohesive package. The battle royale mode was especially bad, IMHO, since it felt too much like a dirty rip-off of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
I read in another article it was supposed to be a 2v2 campaign at first, I guess maybe kinda like Titanfall 1's multiplayer "campaign" (if you ever played that game, it was certainly not anything you could call a real campaign, lol).
I've always been intrigued by the "hero" characters of Black Ops 3 and 4 and wish they had their own big story to blast through (in co-op). Oh well.
@playstation1995 Too bad they didn't make the game available earlier for Memorial Day! Woulda been cool to play thru the campaign this weekend. I already have the game, and hope others enjoy it!
This is the one where you can watch watch people open loot boxes, which I always found hilarious. Fun game if you don't mind the lack of automatic weapons slathered in attachments.
So far, all I know about the PS5 is that it looks like a booster seat you put on a toilet to train toddlers, and that Godfall and Observer are examples of what the games will look like.
As far as first impressions go, that is absolutely HORRIBLE, lol. I'm definitely not blown away and out-of-my-mind excited like with the PS4's reveal. Let's see something!
@TrueAssassin86x Not new info, but a nice summary of the Silent Hill rumors so far. If that game gets announced, it's gonna knock Outriders, Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 outta my top 3 most wanted list!
My dudes, did you not read who's developing this? People Can Fly, the developers of Bulletstorm! That's what made me instantly excited!
I'll admit that it looks generic (if you showed me a screenshot, I'd say, "Oh, that's Destiny") but the third-person view is a welcome change (let's see that gear! Unique head, shirt, legs, and shoe pieces) and the gameplay I've seen so far looks like it'll have abilities not seen in any other looter shooter (time-freeze bubble, warping, etc).
@shonenjump86 I dunno if they have enough money for those sequels! They were already in the hole with KoFXIV, and I'm not sure how much SNK Heroines and Samurai Shodown helped the situation.
They didn't even release Gals Fighters until last month, which is weird because it's a simple Neo Geo Pocket port that was supposed to be a pre-order bonus for the Switch version released last October. That's not even to mention that the PC version of Samurai Shodown doesn't even have a release date yet, which leads me to believe they're on a skeleton crew, even before the pandemic.
I'm guessing they're going to put all of their console eggs in one basket: King of Fighters XV, and then chase the mobile market for more funding.
I didn't like the "real" box art at first, until I understood that "revenge" was the key word for the sequel. The "From the Beginning" trailer showing Ellie morphing from a child to an adult and getting more and more angry is what finally sold me on it.
Check it out if you haven't! I almost guarantee it'll make you like the angry-face box art
@d0x360 Lol, the beginning of 4 with those DeeBee robots in the settlement seemed to take forever. I only got as far as the "At The Doorstep" level before giving up (solo, hardest difficulty) and starting over, dialing it the difficulty way down to normal so I can just enjoy the story. Still need to finish! I heard the story payoff in Gears 5 makes it worth it.
@d0x360 I never played Gears 5 aside from the multiplayer beta...I really wanna play that game as a whole, but need to beat 4 first, lol (since I enjoy the story). I'd say you're right about the refinement, in that Gears requires the most deliberate cover-to-cover movement of all third-person shooters in order to proceed. However, the rest of the genre just "feels" so different to play that Gears is really it's own sub-genre of third-person-shooters, and I guess I tend to like the Uncharted variety better (jumping, easier movement, standard shooter controls, etc). Not a bad thing either way, just a preference, I guess!
Dang, I was hoping for another BLOPS game that focused on the operator characters in the campaign, since they don't have any real story aside from their bios!
Also, I thought the gadgets in BLOPS4 were a good mix-up from the "boots-on-the-ground" gameplay of WW2 (and MW for that matter) so I hope that facet of creativity doesn't go away. For "realism" they could pass these gadgets off as government experiments...?
@eumenes I've tried to like it soooo many times, but yeah...Gears isn't that great of a series, IMHO. I think the production values, world and character design are top-notch (minus the Ugg boots everyone wears, lol), but the gameplay hasn't evolved much since the original. That means clunky movement, bullet sponge enemies and guns lacking impact (feeling and sounding like a sputtering hose or party-popper). I don't think PS players are missing out on a whole lot...
@GoblinKing86 The only times I've played Gears are on PC, haha, including the original over a decade ago!
I guess when I say "exclusive" I really mean "console exclusive" or "brand exclusive," like you're saying. I think of Gears as irrevocably an Xbox-associated product, and having it appear on a PlayStation would be just as shocking as when Crash Bandicoot got kicked to the curb, only to resurface on Xbox and Wii too!
If it weren't for how terrible UE3 games in general ran on PS3, this might've seen the light of day! It would've been shocking to see Gears go multi-platform, kinda like how shocking it was to see Insomniac develop Xbox games!
I think they missed the window to fix this game. There are some clear things that needed an overhaul right from the start, and they should've fixed those right away instead of waiting. The guns being way too similar / uninteresting loot, bullet sponge enemies, lack of live events, etc.
At this point, they'll need to make Anthem into an entirely new game to get people interested again, and everyone agrees that's not a good use of time or money!
@ArmyofOne Yeah, if another $100 more could net you a PS5, and said system is backwards compatible, then you may as well wait! This item is probably aimed at collectors anyway, not so much people like me who are looking to replace the ol' gal PS4 who sounds like a lawnmower at this point in her life.
@AdamNovice It's kinda true...as a PC gamer, you can get so distracted by stuff like the framerate dropping slightly during one cutscene that you stop playing for half-an-hour while you reconfigure all of your settings, update drivers, and read forums, lol. It's why my PC-only buddy has been 100% console this generation, and why I was like that up until recently (I draw the line at games dipping below 30 FPS...that's something that should be behind us, quite honestly).
@Nepp67 Lol, you shoulda posted that to begin with! I mostly remember reading a few initial reports that said the exact opposite, so that's where I was coming from.
For me, I was definitely hoping I could bring my backlog over to PS5 and ditch my loud-ass PS4, lol.
@Spyroescape That's the biggest disappointment for me this last generation...most games couldn't live up to the promise of 1080p, 60 FPS! I expect this next gen will follow suit, since it seems that no matter how much horsepower you give devs, they're gonna somehow fail to work within their means. One can hope otherwise, tho!
It'd be nice to play these games at higher resolutions and framerates on PC!
It would also be nice if you didn't have to re-buy all of your games on PS5 to play them in higher resolutions and framerates. That's the one thing PC (and Xbox One) always has over PS4: whenever you get new hardware, you get to re-discover all of your old games with upgraded graphics without the agony of re-buying everything!
No one replied? You mean those are real people on your staff, and not different characters and personalities you made up??
Er, well...I’m practicing my Mortal Kombat 11 skills for competition at EVO 2020, since it seems anyone can enter from the comfort of their own home! And I’m grinding out the battle pass in Modern Warfare so I can get those tier 90 Mara skins before time runs out. Me-YOW!
@KidBoruto The refund policy says that you can’t ask for a refund once you launch the game. What I was getting at is that PSN should change to let you refund once you’ve played the game, so long as you don’t play for more than two hours. That’s the standard on PC, and Xbox too I think. Dunno about you, but I’ve definitely been in the situation where I’ve researched a particular game and then bought it, only to be put off right away and need a refund. Reasons as simple as wonky controls, a worse framerate than expected, or discovering the playerbase is dead for a multiplayer game.
Aaauugh! This looks fun, but then I remember that I uninstalled this game because of the Resistance mode seeming so unfair! I don't like how much your character level makes a difference in this mode, and that you have to grind out each character and mastermind for a dozen hours before they become competent.
I guess I'm spoiled from Dead By Daylight where an underleveled character with no unlocked abilites still has a good chance of winning single-handedly without their team if you play skillfully. Here, if your entire team can't deal with the mastermind spawning waves and waves of lickers right from the second the match starts, you're never gonna come close to winning!
Saw a lot of negative feedback from the fighting game community too (not ALL bad, but quite a bit), so I wouldn't be surprised even if we weren't in a pandemic. I personally like the new meter system that punishes players who play too defensively because it forces me to switch-up my playstyle and be more aggressive, so hopefully that doesn't change!
@glassmusic I think Apex Legends did a good job pushing the battle royale genre forward ! Just wish they woulda made it more Titanfall-y...especially with those frankly UGLY characters, lol.
I wasn't around for it, but I heard that Fortnite had mechs at one point and it unbalanced the game like crazy, but...I think Apex should still give the idea a go. Something like a three-person beta-titan with someone driving and the others operating the weapons?
Dude, I hope there's a nicely priced PS4 Pro console bundle to coincide with the release! Can't play this with that airplane engine noise in the background, lol.
EDIT: I see they're still $500 all these years later?! Is than pandemic pricing? Geez, I'll just get a PS5 then!
I've watched this so many times, haha! I'm unbelievably stoked for this!
The only thing this game needs now is a better soundtrack...if only the music in the game was more like what's in the last two trailers, it'd be the komplete package.
It's probably too early to ask for another Tomb Raider game, and I think it would be wise for them to "wait and see" with Cyberpunk 2077 before throwing Deus Ex out there again.
When it comes to my personal wishlist, another Final Fantasy Tactics-esque game sounds amazing, especially if they incorporated elements from the recent boom of turn-based games to make something unique. I'm thinking a budget $40 release, to not take away from other projects?
@Feena If you think about it...they could've been working on FF16 since 2009 after FFXIII, at least from a conceptual standpoint. That's the way I've always seen it. There hasn't technically been a "real" mainline game since then...it's all been FFXIII projects (FFXV included), remakes and remasters, or the MMO, so it makes me wonder what they've been cooking up for a battle system.
I don't expect them to be done with anything anytime soon, since they put a lot of focus into all the projects they've done since then, but creatively we haven't seen anything "new" in a loooong time (aside from FFVII's FFXIII-hybrid battles).
I hope they try something new again, and not just stick to tried-and-true methods!
It doesn't seem like much to ask for a re-release with 60 FPS gameplay and an uptick in resolution, but it's telling that the PC versions are HORRIBLE. Like unbelievably bad. I have a PC that's waaaaay more powerful than a PS4, for example, and can't even get a steady 30 FPS @ 900p on FFXIII and FFXIII-2 (Lighting Returns runs perfect, tho). They run worse than on PS3, lol. The cutscene movies also look horrible, but that's probably because they're not the BluRay versions, but then that doesn't explain the massive install sizes.
There must be some kinda porting issue that's prevented them from doing this already.
Insane graphics, but the gameplay hasn't moved an inch since 2007 (Uncharted 1), lol. I'm more interested in more complex A.I. and interaction (i.e. things don't just look pretty, you can smash them or they react with real physics).
Sales-wise, doesn't the pecking order go: Monster Hunter World, Devil May Cry 5, Resident Evil 2? I'm expecting announcements in that order, aside from Resident Evil 8 (which was already in development since before any of those games released).
@carlos82 I was wondering when/if they were gonna add "real" characters, and I feel like they shoulda done this from the start! Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura...and speaking of Danny Glover, that opens up the possibility of having an Predator 2-style city level!
Despite all of this, it doesn't change the fact that pretty all of the matches I've played involve the Predator coming down at some point and getting absolutely annihilated by the humans, then self-destructing. Is this how it's always supposed to go....?
@Nickolaidas Same here! Seems like the only dinosaur game shoot-y we've gotten recently is ARK, and that just didn't cut it for me (just can't invest the hours that survival/crafting games require to get to the good stuff).
I recommend going back and revisiting Turok (2008) and Jurassic: The Hunted if you've never played those (both on PS3), and there's the Turok 1 + 2 remasters on Switch, PC, and X1. Turok 2 has even been updated with waypoints and the ability to grab ledges if you come up short on a jump!
I’m definitely getting this, but I’m disappointed there’s only 3 new characters! I was expecting Takeda from the leaks. Then again, it’s not called “Kombat Pack 2” so I’m sure we’ll hear about that later in the year.
Don’t see myself maining any of the new characters (Fujin is unexpectedly cool, tho), but I loved the story and can’t wait for more!
Didnt see this coming! Saw a guy in a forum once talking about how his uncle works for NetherRealm and the next DLC was gonna be story. Horrible speller, no one believed him. But, turns out he was right...HE WAS RIGHT!!!
Not surprised! Players fighting each other from opposite sides of the world (from Japan to England to Korea to the United Emirates) in games where a bad connection means disaster, I wonder how this will go? I can only hope that it forces fighting game developers to upgrade the online infrastructure of all their games!
An online edition of Marvel vs Capcom 2 would also be fitting!
Anyway, I'm just happy I got to see the Mortal Kombat championships (Final Kombat) right before the quarantine started...
Releasing during summer is also a very bold move...I seem to remember it's a rule that most games don't do this, due to summer activities affecting sales. People going on vacations, spending days at the beach/lake and nights under the stars, etc. If the quarantine is lifted in the summer, I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of people wanting to get out!
Anyway..."Summer release = autumn decrease (in price)!"
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Re: This Is What Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Cancelled Campaign Could Have Looked Like
I bought Black Ops 4 but it's the game I've played least since MW3. Felt like a value pack of 3 random games thrown together instead of a cohesive package. The battle royale mode was especially bad, IMHO, since it felt too much like a dirty rip-off of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds.
Re: This Is What Call of Duty: Black Ops 4's Cancelled Campaign Could Have Looked Like
I read in another article it was supposed to be a 2v2 campaign at first, I guess maybe kinda like Titanfall 1's multiplayer "campaign" (if you ever played that game, it was certainly not anything you could call a real campaign, lol).
I've always been intrigued by the "hero" characters of Black Ops 3 and 4 and wish they had their own big story to blast through (in co-op). Oh well.
Re: PS Plus June 2020 PS4 Game Announced
@playstation1995 Too bad they didn't make the game available earlier for Memorial Day! Woulda been cool to play thru the campaign this weekend. I already have the game, and hope others enjoy it!
This is the one where you can watch watch people open loot boxes, which I always found hilarious. Fun game if you don't mind the lack of automatic weapons slathered in attachments.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with the Way Sony Is Handling the PS5 Reveal?
So far, all I know about the PS5 is that it looks like a booster seat you put on a toilet to train toddlers, and that Godfall and Observer are examples of what the games will look like.
As far as first impressions go, that is absolutely HORRIBLE, lol. I'm definitely not blown away and out-of-my-mind excited like with the PS4's reveal. Let's see something!
Re: Outriders Debuts Monthly Broadcast Next Week with Reveals and More Info
@TrueAssassin86x Not new info, but a nice summary of the Silent Hill rumors so far. If that game gets announced, it's gonna knock Outriders, Cyberpunk 2077 and Baldur's Gate 3 outta my top 3 most wanted list!
Re: Outriders Debuts Monthly Broadcast Next Week with Reveals and More Info
My dudes, did you not read who's developing this? People Can Fly, the developers of Bulletstorm! That's what made me instantly excited!
I'll admit that it looks generic (if you showed me a screenshot, I'd say, "Oh, that's Destiny") but the third-person view is a welcome change (let's see that gear! Unique head, shirt, legs, and shoe pieces) and the gameplay I've seen so far looks like it'll have abilities not seen in any other looter shooter (time-freeze bubble, warping, etc).
I'm pumped!
Re: Talking Point: What PS5 Games Do You Expect at Sony's Next-Gen Reveal Event?
Aaaugh...no date for this reveal? Now I'm all worked up for nothing! Lol
Re: Sony Reiterates Sheer Speed of PS5, Processing Is '100 Times Faster Than PS4'
Quick question: did Sony every say if PS4 games would be upscaled or run faster on PS5?
Re: New Game+ Expo Brings SEGA, Atlus, More Together 23rd June
Tekken 7 season 4, eh? It's almost a sure thing!
https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2020/04/tekken_7_website_teases_a_new_unknown_character
Re: New Game+ Expo Brings SEGA, Atlus, More Together 23rd June
@shonenjump86 I dunno if they have enough money for those sequels! They were already in the hole with KoFXIV, and I'm not sure how much SNK Heroines and Samurai Shodown helped the situation.
They didn't even release Gals Fighters until last month, which is weird because it's a simple Neo Geo Pocket port that was supposed to be a pre-order bonus for the Switch version released last October. That's not even to mention that the PC version of Samurai Shodown doesn't even have a release date yet, which leads me to believe they're on a skeleton crew, even before the pandemic.
I'm guessing they're going to put all of their console eggs in one basket: King of Fighters XV, and then chase the mobile market for more funding.
Re: Random: The Last of Us 2 Fans Love This New Artwork So Much They Made Boxart Out of It
Just still looks like concept art to me!
I didn't like the "real" box art at first, until I understood that "revenge" was the key word for the sequel. The "From the Beginning" trailer showing Ellie morphing from a child to an adult and getting more and more angry is what finally sold me on it.
Check it out if you haven't! I almost guarantee it'll make you like the angry-face box art
Said trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JclKytWG9Ro
Re: Gears of War 3's PS3 Build Confirmed Real by Epic Games
@d0x360 Lol, the beginning of 4 with those DeeBee robots in the settlement seemed to take forever. I only got as far as the "At The Doorstep" level before giving up (solo, hardest difficulty) and starting over, dialing it the difficulty way down to normal so I can just enjoy the story. Still need to finish! I heard the story payoff in Gears 5 makes it worth it.
Re: Gears of War 3's PS3 Build Confirmed Real by Epic Games
@d0x360 I never played Gears 5 aside from the multiplayer beta...I really wanna play that game as a whole, but need to beat 4 first, lol (since I enjoy the story). I'd say you're right about the refinement, in that Gears requires the most deliberate cover-to-cover movement of all third-person shooters in order to proceed. However, the rest of the genre just "feels" so different to play that Gears is really it's own sub-genre of third-person-shooters, and I guess I tend to like the Uncharted variety better (jumping, easier movement, standard shooter controls, etc). Not a bad thing either way, just a preference, I guess!
Re: Rumour: Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Is the Name of This Year's Game
Dang, I was hoping for another BLOPS game that focused on the operator characters in the campaign, since they don't have any real story aside from their bios!
Also, I thought the gadgets in BLOPS4 were a good mix-up from the "boots-on-the-ground" gameplay of WW2 (and MW for that matter) so I hope that facet of creativity doesn't go away. For "realism" they could pass these gadgets off as government experiments...?
Re: Weirdness: Watch a Full Gears of War 3 Playthrough Apparently Running on PS3
@eumenes I've tried to like it soooo many times, but yeah...Gears isn't that great of a series, IMHO. I think the production values, world and character design are top-notch (minus the Ugg boots everyone wears, lol), but the gameplay hasn't evolved much since the original. That means clunky movement, bullet sponge enemies and guns lacking impact (feeling and sounding like a sputtering hose or party-popper). I don't think PS players are missing out on a whole lot...
Re: Weirdness: Watch a Full Gears of War 3 Playthrough Apparently Running on PS3
@GoblinKing86 The only times I've played Gears are on PC, haha, including the original over a decade ago!
I guess when I say "exclusive" I really mean "console exclusive" or "brand exclusive," like you're saying. I think of Gears as irrevocably an Xbox-associated product, and having it appear on a PlayStation would be just as shocking as when Crash Bandicoot got kicked to the curb, only to resurface on Xbox and Wii too!
Re: Weirdness: Watch a Full Gears of War 3 Playthrough Apparently Running on PS3
If it weren't for how terrible UE3 games in general ran on PS3, this might've seen the light of day! It would've been shocking to see Gears go multi-platform, kinda like how shocking it was to see Insomniac develop Xbox games!
Re: ANTHEM's Big Overhaul Is Still a Long Way From Release
I think they missed the window to fix this game. There are some clear things that needed an overhaul right from the start, and they should've fixed those right away instead of waiting. The guns being way too similar / uninteresting loot, bullet sponge enemies, lack of live events, etc.
At this point, they'll need to make Anthem into an entirely new game to get people interested again, and everyone agrees that's not a good use of time or money!
Re: The Last of Us 2 Limited Edition PS4 Pro Console Revealed
@ArmyofOne Yeah, if another $100 more could net you a PS5, and said system is backwards compatible, then you may as well wait! This item is probably aimed at collectors anyway, not so much people like me who are looking to replace the ol' gal PS4 who sounds like a lawnmower at this point in her life.
Re: Bloodborne PC Rumours Are Weak, Wishful Right Now
@GADG3Tx87 Nepp67 already schooled me, lol. I've definitely been misinformed, was basing my comment on some old info...
Re: Mortal Kombat 11 Trailer Focuses on Free Friendships Update
@cashflowx Maybe fighters will have more than one? If not, I'm hoping we'll see more in the future!
Re: Bloodborne PC Rumours Are Weak, Wishful Right Now
@AdamNovice It's kinda true...as a PC gamer, you can get so distracted by stuff like the framerate dropping slightly during one cutscene that you stop playing for half-an-hour while you reconfigure all of your settings, update drivers, and read forums, lol. It's why my PC-only buddy has been 100% console this generation, and why I was like that up until recently (I draw the line at games dipping below 30 FPS...that's something that should be behind us, quite honestly).
Re: Bloodborne PC Rumours Are Weak, Wishful Right Now
@Nepp67 Lol, you shoulda posted that to begin with! I mostly remember reading a few initial reports that said the exact opposite, so that's where I was coming from.
For me, I was definitely hoping I could bring my backlog over to PS5 and ditch my loud-ass PS4, lol.
Re: Bloodborne PC Rumours Are Weak, Wishful Right Now
@Spyroescape That's the biggest disappointment for me this last generation...most games couldn't live up to the promise of 1080p, 60 FPS! I expect this next gen will follow suit, since it seems that no matter how much horsepower you give devs, they're gonna somehow fail to work within their means. One can hope otherwise, tho!
Re: Bloodborne PC Rumours Are Weak, Wishful Right Now
@Nepp67 I'm talking about the PS5 not being 100% backwards compatible, and having to buy "remasters."
Re: Bloodborne PC Rumours Are Weak, Wishful Right Now
It'd be nice to play these games at higher resolutions and framerates on PC!
It would also be nice if you didn't have to re-buy all of your games on PS5 to play them in higher resolutions and framerates. That's the one thing PC (and Xbox One) always has over PS4: whenever you get new hardware, you get to re-discover all of your old games with upgraded graphics without the agony of re-buying everything!
Re: Mortal Kombat 11 Trailer Focuses on Free Friendships Update
Mileena!!! Hopefully this isn't the last we see of her...
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 324
No one replied? You mean those are real people on your staff, and not different characters and personalities you made up??
Er, well...I’m practicing my Mortal Kombat 11 skills for competition at EVO 2020, since it seems anyone can enter from the comfort of their own home! And I’m grinding out the battle pass in Modern Warfare so I can get those tier 90 Mara skins before time runs out. Me-YOW!
Re: Round Up: The Wonderful 101 Remastered Reviews Are Very Divisive
@KidBoruto The refund policy says that you can’t ask for a refund once you launch the game. What I was getting at is that PSN should change to let you refund once you’ve played the game, so long as you don’t play for more than two hours. That’s the standard on PC, and Xbox too I think. Dunno about you, but I’ve definitely been in the situation where I’ve researched a particular game and then bought it, only to be put off right away and need a refund. Reasons as simple as wonky controls, a worse framerate than expected, or discovering the playerbase is dead for a multiplayer game.
Re: Resident Evil Resistance Adds Playable Nemesis with Latest Update
Aaauugh! This looks fun, but then I remember that I uninstalled this game because of the Resistance mode seeming so unfair! I don't like how much your character level makes a difference in this mode, and that you have to grind out each character and mastermind for a dozen hours before they become competent.
I guess I'm spoiled from Dead By Daylight where an underleveled character with no unlocked abilites still has a good chance of winning single-handedly without their team if you play skillfully. Here, if your entire team can't deal with the mastermind spawning waves and waves of lickers right from the second the match starts, you're never gonna come close to winning!
Re: Gorgeous PS4 Fighter Guilty Gear Strive Delayed Into 2021
Saw a lot of negative feedback from the fighting game community too (not ALL bad, but quite a bit), so I wouldn't be surprised even if we weren't in a pandemic. I personally like the new meter system that punishes players who play too defensively because it forces me to switch-up my playstyle and be more aggressive, so hopefully that doesn't change!
Re: Round Up: The Wonderful 101 Remastered Reviews Are Very Divisive
This seems like the kinda game that NEEDS a demo! Either that or PSN needs a refund policy (well, they need that regardless).
I've played plenty of other Platinum games so I can believe it's a solid experience, BUT it looks so weird that I'm not sure I'll really like it!
Re: There Isn't a Single Titanfall Game 'Currently in Development'
@glassmusic I think Apex Legends did a good job pushing the battle royale genre forward ! Just wish they woulda made it more Titanfall-y...especially with those frankly UGLY characters, lol.
I wasn't around for it, but I heard that Fortnite had mechs at one point and it unbalanced the game like crazy, but...I think Apex should still give the idea a go. Something like a three-person beta-titan with someone driving and the others operating the weapons?
Re: The Last of Us 2's Story Is the Focus of This New PS4 Video Diary
Dude, I hope there's a nicely priced PS4 Pro console bundle to coincide with the release! Can't play this with that airplane engine noise in the background, lol.
EDIT: I see they're still $500 all these years later?! Is than pandemic pricing? Geez, I'll just get a PS5 then!
Re: Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath's Gory Gameplay Trailer Shows Off New Characters
I've watched this so many times, haha! I'm unbelievably stoked for this!
The only thing this game needs now is a better soundtrack...if only the music in the game was more like what's in the last two trailers, it'd be the komplete package.
Re: Square Enix Supposedly Ditching Plans for Digital E3-Esque Event
It's probably too early to ask for another Tomb Raider game, and I think it would be wise for them to "wait and see" with Cyberpunk 2077 before throwing Deus Ex out there again.
When it comes to my personal wishlist, another Final Fantasy Tactics-esque game sounds amazing, especially if they incorporated elements from the recent boom of turn-based games to make something unique. I'm thinking a budget $40 release, to not take away from other projects?
Re: Square Enix Supposedly Ditching Plans for Digital E3-Esque Event
@Feena If you think about it...they could've been working on FF16 since 2009 after FFXIII, at least from a conceptual standpoint. That's the way I've always seen it. There hasn't technically been a "real" mainline game since then...it's all been FFXIII projects (FFXV included), remakes and remasters, or the MMO, so it makes me wonder what they've been cooking up for a battle system.
I don't expect them to be done with anything anytime soon, since they put a lot of focus into all the projects they've done since then, but creatively we haven't seen anything "new" in a loooong time (aside from FFVII's FFXIII-hybrid battles).
I hope they try something new again, and not just stick to tried-and-true methods!
Re: Square Enix Supposedly Ditching Plans for Digital E3-Esque Event
@Rob_230 Yeah...where's that FF13 trilogy!
It doesn't seem like much to ask for a re-release with 60 FPS gameplay and an uptick in resolution, but it's telling that the PC versions are HORRIBLE. Like unbelievably bad. I have a PC that's waaaaay more powerful than a PS4, for example, and can't even get a steady 30 FPS @ 900p on FFXIII and FFXIII-2 (Lighting Returns runs perfect, tho). They run worse than on PS3, lol. The cutscene movies also look horrible, but that's probably because they're not the BluRay versions, but then that doesn't explain the massive install sizes.
There must be some kinda porting issue that's prevented them from doing this already.
Re: PS5 Unreal Engine 5 Gameplay Demo Finally Shows Us What Next-Gen Games Look Like
Insane graphics, but the gameplay hasn't moved an inch since 2007 (Uncharted 1), lol. I'm more interested in more complex A.I. and interaction (i.e. things don't just look pretty, you can smash them or they react with real physics).
Re: Capcom Plans to Release Multiple 'Major' Games Before April 2021
Sales-wise, doesn't the pecking order go: Monster Hunter World, Devil May Cry 5, Resident Evil 2? I'm expecting announcements in that order, aside from Resident Evil 8 (which was already in development since before any of those games released).
Re: Predator: Hunting Grounds Brings Back Arnold Schwarzenegger's Dutch in New DLC
@carlos82 I was wondering when/if they were gonna add "real" characters, and I feel like they shoulda done this from the start! Carl Weathers, Jesse Ventura...and speaking of Danny Glover, that opens up the possibility of having an Predator 2-style city level!
Despite all of this, it doesn't change the fact that pretty all of the matches I've played involve the Predator coming down at some point and getting absolutely annihilated by the humans, then self-destructing. Is this how it's always supposed to go....?
Re: Reaction: Sony Needs to Show Us a True, Next-Gen PS5 Exclusive After Lukewarm Inside Xbox
@Nickolaidas Same here! Seems like the only dinosaur game shoot-y we've gotten recently is ARK, and that just didn't cut it for me (just can't invest the hours that survival/crafting games require to get to the good stuff).
I recommend going back and revisiting Turok (2008) and Jurassic: The Hunted if you've never played those (both on PS3), and there's the Turok 1 + 2 remasters on Switch, PC, and X1. Turok 2 has even been updated with waypoints and the ability to grab ledges if you come up short on a jump!
Re: Mass Effect Trilogy HD Remaster Is Finally Happening, Apparently
1 > (2+3)x10
IMHO
Re: Footage Emerges of Cancelled Prince of Persia Reboot, Looks Rad
Nice, I definitely like the God-of-War vibe. Some people would say "rip-off", I think "inspired" (especially with time-manipulation thrown in there)!
Re: Mortal Kombat 11: Aftermath Is a Story Expansion Coming Later This Month
I’m definitely getting this, but I’m disappointed there’s only 3 new characters! I was expecting Takeda from the leaks. Then again, it’s not called “Kombat Pack 2” so I’m sure we’ll hear about that later in the year.
Don’t see myself maining any of the new characters (Fujin is unexpectedly cool, tho), but I loved the story and can’t wait for more!
Re: Mortal Kombat 11 Story DLC Reveal Coming Tomorrow
Didnt see this coming! Saw a guy in a forum once talking about how his uncle works for NetherRealm and the next DLC was gonna be story. Horrible speller, no one believed him. But, turns out he was right...HE WAS RIGHT!!!
Re: PS Plus Members Launch Petition Against 'Dumbfounding' May 2020 PS4 Games
Compared to XBOX Games Pass getting Gears Tactics and Streets of Rage 4...yeah, of course this is bad, lol.
Re: Evo 2020 Cancelled Due to Coronavirus, Online Event Planned Instead
Not surprised! Players fighting each other from opposite sides of the world (from Japan to England to Korea to the United Emirates) in games where a bad connection means disaster, I wonder how this will go? I can only hope that it forces fighting game developers to upgrade the online infrastructure of all their games!
An online edition of Marvel vs Capcom 2 would also be fitting!
Anyway, I'm just happy I got to see the Mortal Kombat championships (Final Kombat) right before the quarantine started...
Re: Of Course Assassin's Creed Valhalla Brings Back the Worst Part of the Series
I really respect when a company tries to improve on something that was "bad" instead of abandoning it, especially when it comes to story.
Re: PS4's Ghost of Tsushima Delayed into July 2020, Extra Time Will Be Used for Finishing Touches
Releasing during summer is also a very bold move...I seem to remember it's a rule that most games don't do this, due to summer activities affecting sales. People going on vacations, spending days at the beach/lake and nights under the stars, etc. If the quarantine is lifted in the summer, I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of people wanting to get out!
Anyway..."Summer release = autumn decrease (in price)!"