Topic: Next Playstation Showcase/SOP

@graymamba

Just in time for RE9, Crimson Desert, Wolverine, Phantom Blade 0, GTA VI... Have fun!

@Werehog Oh to dream, dear Rog. If Vol 2 was to arrive I could truly begin to sunset the old PS3 for good 😊

Very very… very good show! Best games show that I’ve seen since… maybe the classic e3’s.

Yeah they finally did it, wow. Great show, I ate super well.

@graymamba Yup! I think that sums it up for me too. Haven't had a gaming christmas like that in a long time. The Konami segment was a stroke of genius on Sony's end.

Can’t say I was expecting Neva DLC. Excellent show, glad I watched!

Really good show, nicely paced with lots of great looking content.
Shame no VR games which breaks my heart but lots of flat shizzle to look forward to.

The GoW 2.5D game looks a bit iffy though, so waiting on reviews for that one.

@CaptD I think they’ve purposely gone for the old-school pixel-art as a sort of metaphor for taking the story right back tbh. Maybe I’m reading too much into it but if they wanted it too look like Belmonts Curse (which was absolutely stunning btw) theres no reason why it wouldn’t. It wasn’t what I was expecting (I was actually expecting something a bit more like Belmonts Curse tbh) but I found it… I don’t know if charming is the right word but something like that.

@Herculean Konami are putting in work fair play… so glad they broke that pachinko addiction that had for around a decade.

I don’t know if it’s already been suggested/speculated… but the God of War Trilogy: Remake is Bluepoints new gig right?

@graymamba yeah that was my thought as well. It makes the most sense. I posted on the article how they've been already working closely with SM for years now and after their live service game in the IP was cancelled it would be an ideal project they could quickly pivot to.

Yeah it really does mate… almost as much sense as Days Gone 2 would be for Bend 😉

@graymamba I'd be a bit less certain on that one but also completely unsurprised if that was the case. Do we know how the PC port and Remaster did? If they sold reasonably well it would help the cause.

@BearsEatBeets the PC port did really well tbh… probably due to it being the first Sony First Party game that made the jump, so there was that fascination aspect at the time. Don’t think the Remaster did that well though, mores the pity.

They are making a movie though, so that could help the cause.

@graymamba wouldn’t we have seen BluePoint cast on the screen? Not saying you’re wrong, but I recall they’ve been working on a new IP. I think this project is primarily Santa Monica.

@Enriesto maybe… but I wouldn’t personally task Santa Monica with remakes when game development is ballooning beyond six years. I’d like to think Santa Monica themselves are concentrating on Barlog’s game and the next ‘real’ God of War game. The Santa Monica branding would always front any God of War spin-off/remaster/remake though, even if they weren’t actually developing it.

@graymamba I didn't know they were doing a movie, that bit of news must have passed me by.

One of my main doubts is one of the creative leads of the original (can't remember the name) left the studio and there seemed to be some issues so not sure about the studio's desire for the IP.

Still, similar to Bluepoint, Bend would need to quickly pivot to a new project after the other game was cancelled and unless they had plenty of other fleshed out ideas a Days Gone sequel would be the most logical. Greenlighting a movie clearly shows some faith in the IP then. Hopefully if it is the case they might be able to make up for some of the lost time wasted on the other project and get it done a bit sooner than something else.
I always wanted to see how the teaser ending was going to play out in a sequel.