VR Skater Delayed Due to PS5 Approval Issues, But 'Sony Has Been Amazing'

No problem and it is good that PS check trophy support because I had my doubts, a game recently released called "Math World" has a trophy for playing a mini game 3 times and it was unobtainable at release. It even has the very rare and much prized counter (which should be mandatory) so quite how it was overlooked one can only guess.
NB. Math world VR has been patched so the plat is now obtainable.

While this is a great stance (on Sony and the Developer) I hesitate to buy a game with such a generic title as "VR Skater", its like buying a game called "First Person Shooter".

Good on them. Far too many PSVR2 games incoming with trophy challenge issues (Before Your Eyes, Resi Village (doesn’t even have trophies!), Light Brigade)

Who ever did this at Sony should be awarded the champion of gamers medal brought to by Doritos at the next knightlys

@thedevilsjester Games with generic titles always ended up being the most fun and memorable imo. Examples are EA's Skate Series, From's Dark Souls or Cap's Monster Hunter.

@thefourfoldroot1 you mean resi village

@BlueWeezer I don't think Dark Souls falls into the category of generic names (mostly talking about ones that just describe the genre); though to be fair thats only one out of three of your examples.

I find that the name of a game, or book, or movie (or any other form of art) is a good indicator of the level of creativity that you can come to expect from the rest of the product; and while you can have a good product with a generic name (these tend to come from major developers though), the vast majority of them are shovel-ware.

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I do, sorry, had 4 on the mind. I’ll edit.

@thedevilsjester I think a lot of it depends on WHY it has such a generic name - is it just trying to show up high in generic searches (because that's the only way it will sell)? Or is it just focused on outstanding core game play without a lot of stupid gimmicks which don't contribute to the experience?

One of those things is relatively easy, so you see a lot of it. The other is hard, but still exists.

@thedevilsjester I always thought Dark Souls was a pretty bland name when I first heard it. It reminded me of "Dark Master" from those old Xbox Live Commercials.

Interesting take, I never really cared for the title of a product as I thought it's main and only purpose was to give the product a name.

@RobN You miss the third option. The team couldn't think of anything more clever, and reached the limit of their creativity with a generic name. This is what I find, most often, to be the case, so as a general rule, I avoid games with names like Shooter or Skater. Adding generic modifiers like, Mobile, VR, etc... doesn't make the titles any more interesting.

To each their own, of course, but if they had mashed the keys on the keyboard, I would be more interested in the game then just naming it "${PLATFORM} ${GENRE}"

Ngl I'm surprised that we haven't gotten another game that took advantage of the Skateboard controller from the Tony Hawk Ride game. That was fun as hell back then.

@Nepp67 It would certainly be interesting with a controller like that playing in VR.

I imagine I would patronise people if I went into any sort of detail, but I think we should all probably know that any company's approval process isn't simply just a yes-and-no. Seems that in this case, Shuhei Yoshida or Shawne Benson (head of PlayStation third party) have been a bit more proactive in the process here.

Omg, this has motion sickness written all over it.