Topic: PlayStation 5 --OT--

Anyone else find it strange how they just reveal the design of Thor in a press release, after keeping it hidden in trailer and the game? I was hoping that would be a big moment in the game itself, but nope, here he is.

@Octane I imagine meeting Thor is the 1st thing you do (that’s kinda how the last game ended) so not there’s not much point in avoiding spoilers for that. Odin on the other hand…

@Voltan also odin was talked about more in GOW 2018 as the main evil god compared to thor.

so it makes sense they keep odin in the shadows for now but reveal thor.

I'll be honest I have been far more excited to meet Odin than Thor.

Bit random to reveal Thor like they have though, would have been cool to have it revealed in the game.

@Voltan Probably, but why not reveal him in the trailer in that case?

Anyway, lightning hammer is likely to be the mid-game new weapon you get, just like the chaos blades in the first one.

@Iver You have said in the past that you don't like the controller, UI and are not fussed on the technical improvements that the PS5 offers as well as not being keen on most of the first party games. Those seem like pretty good reasons to switch over to me, I know I did for similar reasons when the PS4 came out.

@Iver Hey, don’t forget about Days Gone! And it’s upcoming sequ….. er, nevermind. 😅

@Iver

@velio84 Do you mean this one?

@velio84 yeah a lot of the Youtubers I have watched discussing their first takes on Deathloop have been very positive. To be fair, I love the Dishonored games and have heard good things about Prey so their next game was always gonna have potential.

“Puzzle FPS” is the vibe I got from the previews and I’m kinda into that.

I'm still unsure over Deathloop. I'll probably get it eventually, but I'll be buying Kena before it.

@JohnnyShoulder Same here. As I see and hear more, I do feel better about Deathloop, but it’s definitely not a day 1 for me. Kena on the other hand looks really great. I’m not sure why it hasn’t been pushed as much by Sony. I really haven’t heard a lot about it. I hope it doesn’t turn into a Concrete Genie situation — a game that Sony knew was probably going to flop commercially so they pulled all marketing and sent it out to die.

@velio84 That’s a good point. It’s possible they stand to lose a lot of investment if the game underperforms. Honestly, I think Deathloop will do just fine. It’ll likely score well with critics and since there is a relative drought of new releases, it’s dropping at just the right time.

@Th3solution Sony is not involved with Kena's production and release in any way as far as I know, and the studio (they're publishing the game themselves) probably doesn't have a huge budget to cover a big marketing campaign.

@Voltan Ah, okay that makes more sense. I thought Sony was publishing it since they highlighted it in their early PS5 state of play, or whatever that showing was. And it is a PlayStation console exclusive if I’m not mistaken, so there’s some kind of support from Sony surely.

I’d at least hope to see it front and center on the PSN store where we currently have Deathloop, Call of Duty, Madden (I can understand those), and Tales of Arise, and Rainbow Six Seige ( …I can kinda understand), and FIST, as well as Horizon Forbidden West and Tiny Tina’s Wonderland pre-orders. Surely they don’t expect FIST to make a lot of PSN money, and those preorders are for games 6 months away. So hopefully Kena is given the opportunity to pop onto the front page after it actually releases, in fact I’ll be really shocked if it doesn’t supplant FIST at that point.

@velio84 I'm really sold on Alan Wake, looking forward to playing it. I haven't been back to Control since playing it on the base PS4 but have the UE edition so will definitely have to check out those haptics to see how good they are.

I'm really intrigued to see what else Remedy are working on as well as I think I read a rumour somewhere they are working on a PS exclusive. There's also the sequel to Control which could I guess be set in The Oldest House again but perhaps branch out into new areas like they did with the DLC. Lots of good things to come.

Glad this nonsense has been disproved: https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2021/09/further-testing-shows-...

Never understood why people thought that more heat coming out of the system is a bad thing. It just means that the heat sink is doing its job.

All the praise for Deathloop I'm seeing on Twitter makes me want to get it sooner than I planned. Also console warriors are currently at their funniest, fighting over whether or not Xbox gets credit for this lol

@Voltan I’d say Xbox ‘get the credit’ because yes, it’s a first-party dev who’s made it. So the whole Flight Simulator, Psychonauts 2 and Deathloop triple whammy is fair game to show off how great their first-party output has been this year. I don’t particularly care about the politics of it all but fair’s fair, they own the dev.