Nintendo are the console maker and the publisher, the development teams are the ones responsible for the same old games.
Granted Nintendo are the ones probably telling them which is boring and majority know this.
The fact that the only game Santa Monica have made is God Of War.
I mean look at the gap between the originals and the refresh. Yet they couldn't come up with anything else. Which is fine. But at what end?
Barlog being allowed to make a fresh game and chooses a story about Kratos dead wife in the after World? Its all theyve ever made and they are the studio. Yet we are onto only the second game of ghost and people are already calling for the studio to move on.
And I for one think Yotei is a better sequel than ragnorak. Ragnorak fell apart and seemed rushed hy the end.
Same with Horizon weve had 2 main games and 2 dlc, yet even before the lego game and the live service, people wanted them to move on to.
Yet Santa Monica only make God Of War and we're meant to be hyped for it?
Not to say it wont be good but is that the best they could come up with?
I love God Of War but honestly isn't this just the same as the rest? All Santa Monica basically have done and are going to do, is God Of War games?
Right now it seems we have this new game, a another God of war kratos game The trilogy remaster or remake.
Its just predictable and I want something fresh.
Yet the same gamers will cry we've had enough of Ghost which has only 2 games but the studio has made a variety of games before it. Horizon which has 2 main games and a multiplayer game, plus a lego game for kids, but this studio did come from a different game and genre before it.
Santa Monica main game since the beginning of time has basically been God Of War and now we are just getting more God Of War.
As much as I enjoyed the series, isn't it time to produce something different?
I just feel its such a waste of talent in my opinion and seems by the comments that its different rules for different studios.
I mean the issue for me is everything which was good really were the ones we already knew about. There really wasn't a epic blow my mind reveal.
Even if the God Of War wasn't spoilt before hand, im still like o thanks another game within the god of war universe.
Did we really need another? No honestly did we really need a spin off with Kratos wife? Yea it maybe different, it maybe a cool story but I'd just love to see Santa Monica actually do a fresh ip for once. It just didnt do anything for me.
Honestly feel like Cory Barlog is being wasted.
Until Dawn 2, Seriously could of called it something else because I dont think its going to sell well due to its name and those graphics weren't great for me.
But the games we did know about which showed more, look absolute bangers. So it was good.
But not worth the hype and the cinema showings, I feel sorry for people who went to see it there. Nothing amazing shown off
I just feel like many people who talk about Xbox should go back to exclusives and thats the right move. Are the ones who beg they should re make a game from the passed, even if said game did nothing sales wise but has been made into some sort of legendary classic, when really it was not even close.
This can be said about Xbox. They had the exclusives they the time to redirect themselves into a true rival for good competition.
They did all of that, and still failed which pushed them to go this route.
Changing it back now and keep producing the same old exclusives or even new now, I think its just to late, people have moved on.
This is evident in the sales of the consoles, barely 40m sold across the series x and s.
I think it will destroy them to go back now, theyve already dug themselves this hole without a ladder.
It also has 0 to do with them putting games on PlayStation either, they did that because of how desperate they was, not because they believed everyone should be able to play everywhere like they kept on saying.
They shot themselves in the foot by putting their games on pc day and date and then they shot the other foot by making gamepass and putting day and date aswel, and with the lack of in house exclusive fresh ip to draw people to them, there really is no reason for someone to buy an xbox.
@NoCode23 it really does. Feel that long ago. Id literally just a year before, moved out of my house share with my best friend, where we partied hard for like 5 years and was just settling down with a newborn, in a proper family home, while still trying to maintain a social life. Feels like a life time ago. My Daughter is 14 years old now.
When GTA6 comes out, I believe my youngest will be around the same age as my eldest daughter was when GTA5 came out, I have 5 kids now.
Also when 5 did come out, my PS3 had actually stopped working a day before and I was rushing around to find a replacement, as I deffo didnt have the money to buy a new one, ended up robbing my dads hahaha
Wasn't hard to see that a game made by the masters of story telling cinematic choose your own way adventure games, struggled to make a popular 3v3 live service shooter.
Have non of them learned that we have about 100 of them already, they all need to stick to what they are good at and perfect it
Wasn't hard to see that a game made by the masters of story telling cinematic choose your own way adventure games, struggled to make a popular 3v3 live service shooter.
Have non of them learned that we have about 100 of them already, they all need to stick to what they are good at and perfect it
Could not care less. Im here for the single player experiences from playstation not some odd take on a single player game made into a live service game.
Bring back the days that it was a multiplayer add on to the single player, o yea sucker punch is still killing it with that one.
Got no time for these types of games from playstation, they know what they are good at and should stick to it.
There are enough service games out there already which are amazing.
You both homed in on 1 game. You gave no time to any other game. What does that tell you?
Its nothing about credibility, its about facts.
A console cant survive with 1 successful game and this has been proven by where Xbox is right now.
They have no creative side and they just buy up the industry to give themselves games and I honestly believe the consumers see this and don't bother.
Halo a original bungie game, slated for exclusive to Apple. Microsoft jumped in and basically stole it with enough money, instrad of letting it run its course, when Bungie decided they had finished its story. Microsoft instead of allowing creative freedom, doubled down and bought an entire new team to just carry it on. Giving us pretty much sub par Halo games ever since.
Gears Of War, was actually made by Epic, taken again with money, great games at the beginning, but again bought an amazing team with lots of creative ideas, but they was put on Gears to continue it, giving us sub par games.
Forza, basically is their only successful franchise and has got better, but a racing game does not save you.
We have see from Phil taking over that doubling down and making things exclusives was just to late, that they switched to game pass and that's basically failed aswel.
In your own mind, how do you think it will be pulled off this time?
Pull back exclusives, the same exclusives we've had since the original Xbox and just hope?
There is a reason they started going third party because it wasn't working.
Its to little to late in my eyes, theyve showed me nothing which could bring them back as a competitor.
Star Wars Outlaws, was 1 i really wanted but with the bad press and bugs, I didnt bother. I know they've fixed it up so I may aswel give it ago.
And my all time favourite game from thr point and click era Broken Sword, im actually going to buy this game anyway but was waiting on the second game before I bought both. So I may just play through it now as my yearly throw back game.
@rusty82 maybe your not but you have to realise that the last time we got a GTA game was on the PS3.
Since GTA 3 came out, I was living with my wife, had a baby girl. Then I had another little girl, divorced, had a wild 3 years on my own, met a woman, moved in with woman, had 3 more kids, changed jobs 4 times.
My then little baby is now 14 years old and is about to start doing her GCSE's.
Wolverine will.show its face but only a small trailer with a state of play announcement for it at a later date.
To me Naughty Dog need to show us Intergalactic, they've really lost a step in my eyes this gen. Honestly if intergalactic isn't some masterful epic game, im just going to be hugely disappointed. They lost to much time on the live service.
Honestly I truly hope that Santa Monica and Cory Barlog haven't made a spin off to God Of War, I enjoyed the 2 new games but it just isnt worthy enough for more tales outside of Kratos. Such a waste of talent and widh they'd try something new. We may see a tease for the new game its about time really.
We will get no PS6 news, they wont want to hurt the sales for GTA 6, I expect maybe Feb 27 at the earliest for a ps6 reveal if they are going to release it and then october time launch for the new console. Thats if we are going with the runour that they are sticking with a 27 release. I mean the fact is the PS6 really has to be nailed down by now and leaving it any longer could make it obsolete by the time it comes out and would have to rethink it.
I think Microsoft are deludded, if they think they can even pull it back.
Even with the success of the 360.
Playstation still in the end outsold the 360.
Then the Xbox one totally destroyed them.
Honestly they should of just gave up then and went third party.
Unfortunately Microsoft problem is they have 0 idea and have bought themselves to the top. it isnt the console what is the problem its the games. If microsoft didnt buy all those companies just to have the gsme studios, they would have ip's in which are long passed their due date.
Gears hasn't been great for years, Halo is a former shell of itself Forza has gone and been replaced. Fable had died until playground took over Sea of thieves was a good success but that took a long time of that studio being suppressed.
They just dont have any compelling exciting IP from their own home grown studios. Theyve been riding the Halo and gears coaster since the og xbox
Im actually going to ask for people to replay them again in order 1 after the other.
I honestly think 3, is very underrated and if you play them back to back is as good as 2.
I was in my mind there same that 3 was a bit of a carbon copy of 2 when I played it back in the day but after replaying them, ive realised I was very wrong.
My question for most is how exactly do we have super hero fatigue? When we have had just a handful of top tier games.
Insomanic have only done 2 main spiderman games and a small spin off, with a 3rd coming to round off the trilogy.
We had an avengers game which was pretty poor in its deliverance but the idea was great.
Lets jot talk about kill the justice league.
And we've had the batman trilogy with spin off.
And a couple of decent fighting games.
Its not like we are crammed with souls like carbon copies every other month with the same type of art style, over and over again at every game show.
And like you said rachet the amount of games, surely that is fatigue by now.
And if we take a look at Santa Monica, all they have done is God Of War for nearly 30 years. Seems like even when we thought we may get something fresh from them with barlog, that seemingly seems to be a God Of War spin off game.
I just don't know what people actually want from insomanic, majority didnt care kuch for what they did outside of rachet
Because alot of the actual pc gamers have mid to low end PCs, and probably cant run them on.
Steam shows the specs of all steam players and not alot have high end.
It ain't worth it. Whether people want to deny it but eco systems matter and exclusives do matter.
If all games were on everything like Xbox belie es helps xbox.
It doesn't because there would absolutely no reason to buy a playstation, you would then see a averaged out user base across everything and that isnt good for any business.
Sony has the right idea. Keep the best games for yout system and people will come.
I bet they are kicking themselves for even mentioning the time aspect, when in their mind, it works because its more a story element than a race against time. It probably didnt even enter their thoughts when they mentioned it.
But just shows how the internet will just run with anything for negativities sake.
Its funny listening/reading some talking about how insomanic should do other things and the fatigue or the fact there so much talk about delays.
Lets just bring it back to reality and facts.
Insomanic has never delayed a game when they've announced the release date.
Super hero games have never been so good ever, so fatigue just really isn't a thing within video game superhero games.
We've literally had the Rocksteady Batman games and the insomanic series which are triple A. We've had a few notable ones but literally over the decades.
To the people who say insomanic should do something different their being held back.
Theyve literally made rachet and clank since ps2, they did resistance but it didnt hit like people think it did. Theyve done a few others but nothing really stuck.
Sunset overdrive really didnt sell that well. They've probably made more money getting this Marvel deal than theyve made, with all of their secondary games combined. It just works.
And I find it even more crazy how kuch pressure people put on insomanic and claiming whats taking them so long, when the reality is, insomanic has carried ps5 pretty much its entire life cycle up till now.
Honestly in my eyes, insomanic right now is Sonys Flagship developer whos consistent. I think they beat out naughty.
Even if naughty dogs new game is a hit. It wont sell anywhere near as good as spiderman and wolverine
@nomither6 Just to point out abkut the PS3. It launched a year latter and a bigger price but came with a blu ray player and was 1 of the best at a cheaper price than the competition.
By the end of the generation PS3 outsold the xbox 360, even with a year head start.
Its always been the place to play even in the ps3 generation.
No its awful. I mean if you like the stuck in the ps3 era style of bethesda because theyve never grown since. Then you may be good.
But the sub par graphics, the out dated conversation segments, the fact you load out of the planet and the sheer amount of load screens when ps4 games did a better job and the bland story.
Some will dig it because its bethesda but the reality is, its a bland average game compared to all the newer open world games which came before it.
Lets be honest they aren't worth the price tags even before the proce hike.
Its old tech now, its 6 years old.
And prices are reaching 1k?
I understand the actually prices of parts have increased, but that doesnt relate to the actual parts being outdated.
The prclices should be coming down, not up.
They are skirting the line that the majority of us whether we want to or not will be priced out of gaming all together.
This just doesnt look good for the ps6 or the new xbox hardware.
The entire world is about to be plunged into being priced out of most things and jobs will be scarce with the raise of AI.
I honestly believe we are on a knifes edge and Sony have lost touch of the actual world and they really should of stuck to their price and rode it out because I think sales are going to truly plummet.
As much as I enjoyed the last of us and will enjoy it.
Honestly I'm just dissapointed that Naughty have been non existent for the majority of ps5 and have just heavily relied on making updated versions of their games.
They've truly just dropped the ball this entire generation and I dont know how relevant they maybe if they dont hit it out the park with intergalactic.
It just speaks volumes to me that, insomniac has carried the ps5, and have made amazing games consistently, in short amount of times and that people doubted them over wolverine.
Yet naughty Dog, non existent and a cancelled game, doesnt have people raising eyebrows.
From the small snippets of intergalactic, it just didnt have that wow about it, either and honestly, im just feeling that they have truly missed a few steps because normally their trailers wow us and it just didnt.
The only games which came day n date or close to have been live service games.
Any single player games, have been months or years after.
And playstation have been that sparse with the releases, and even how random those releases have been, I dont quite understand, this whole pc is some how every title.
Its like some how people believe playstation have been doing what day n date for everything. Just because a couple of multiplayer games have come out.
Do we actually think these games cost that much to make, or is it a case of they had it so good for so long that many of the devs, have lost sight of managing projects properly.
Have they got lazy in their budgeting and not thinking until its to late.
@get2sammyb isn't this always the case? Especially with cars.
Im quite sure at many a CES, I've seen many prototype cars being shown off which never saw the light of day.
Sounds more like it was a hobby project and to show it off. They probably never had much intentions behind the scenes to actually put the car on the market.
More of a test run for future projects. They just like teasing them at these type of shows
Hyped. Shenmue is just one of those once in a generation franchise.
Im all in once again. I was there for release of the original, I was there for the release of the sequel. I was day 1 for the HD remakes. I was day 1 for the kickstarter, im day one for the enhanced version. LETS GOOOOOO!!!
Honestly im not sure why everything is always over blown and its always selective.
The games media are acting like this doesnt happen all of the time.
Majority of games are shown off at their best and no one ever asks where is the series s version.
The base ps5 is a very capable machine and the standard, so people should expect it to run fine, until it doesnt run fine.
We all know the pro is the better machine thats just fact, so just expect it to run at a lower res but have quality mode and performance modes, on the base ps5, Like majority of games do.
All I've ever read is how amazing it is and that its doing everything. But I've never heard ehat that everything is.
If it isnt an RPG. Is it a Uncharted like third person adventure but set in an open world? Or more like Horizon without the RPG elements. I guess I'm just going to have to wait for reviews and find out what we can actually do within the world.
@Ainu20 honestly the amount of hours I spent trying to perfect my run on time crisis at home, trying to figure out the quickest way to reload. Was an amazing time.
We had competitions with my mates and even my dad would join in.
I still love nipping to the arcade and giving it ago on the machines. We have an arcade club here and they have a few gun games.
You just still cant believe that tech has moved on but light guns never made the jump, seems a real shame now, that they cant figure it out
Of course its not worth it when you have the better tech with path tracing which is just leaps and bounds better.
On topic of this whole ps6 delay rubbish.
Something cannot be delayed unless it has been announced. I dont quite understand the world we live in now that, rumours and hear say are now classed as news and thay something which jas 0 release date nor has been really talked about by playstation can be delayed.
The funniest thing in all of this is, we've watch the growth of games over the decades and we are striving for emersion and yet, no one has truly invented a replacement on par or better than the home light gun of the 90s.
Never going to get that feeling of beating Time Crisis infront of your own tv at home.
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Re: Hellblade Returns in 2027 with New Game Senua on PS5
@AdamNovice I don't see the logic of them thinking that exclusives are going to save Xbox, they lost the player base, while they had exclusives.
Its mindboggling whats going on over there.
Re: Rumour: Gears of War: E-Day Was Coming to PS5, Xbox Only Just Cancelled Port
@trev666 it really isnt double standards.
The way playstation was releasing on pc was dribs and drabs.
Xbox was already selling day and date on PC and it still wasnt working for them.
Playstation pulling back because its not really worth the squeeze. They arent profiting on the releases.
Xbox on the other hand were drowning in their own mess with exclusives and the way out for them was to release on PlayStation.
Them pulling back now, is suicide, no one was buying the console before, they ain't going to make a come back with gears of war.
PlayStation was already making the profit, pc was extra.
Xbox wasnt making profit with exclusives and bow seems like they will just go back to not making profit
Re: Prepare for 2027's The Wolf Among Us 2 with a PS5 Remaster of the Original
Never played the original and when I was going to, I heard that the frame rate and game was a bit of a mess.
Was very intrigued in the sequel when it was firdt shown but thought maybe id have to bite the bullet and play the first.
This answers both my worries so im all in.
Re: God of War Laufey Voted Best PS5 Game at State of Play
Im just bored of God Of War.
2018 was a great game, Ragnarok was a good sequel but didnt hit the same as 2018.
For me this game just isn't what I want. Time to move on.
Just like many have said about horizon and Ghost.
We've had decades of God Of War.
Im in the opinion that a studio should do 3 maybe 4 games and be done and move onto something fresh.
Yet looks like its God of war for thr next 20 years
Re: 'We Have Many More Stories to Tell with Kratos': Sony Confirms New Games with God of War's Protagonist
@get2sammyb bad example Sammy.
Nintendo are the console maker and the publisher, the development teams are the ones responsible for the same old games.
Granted Nintendo are the ones probably telling them which is boring and majority know this.
The fact that the only game Santa Monica have made is God Of War.
I mean look at the gap between the originals and the refresh. Yet they couldn't come up with anything else. Which is fine. But at what end?
Barlog being allowed to make a fresh game and chooses a story about Kratos dead wife in the after World? Its all theyve ever made and they are the studio.
Yet we are onto only the second game of ghost and people are already calling for the studio to move on.
And I for one think Yotei is a better sequel than ragnorak. Ragnorak fell apart and seemed rushed hy the end.
Same with Horizon weve had 2 main games and 2 dlc, yet even before the lego game and the live service, people wanted them to move on to.
Yet Santa Monica only make God Of War and we're meant to be hyped for it?
Not to say it wont be good but is that the best they could come up with?
Re: Cory Barlog Now Head of Creative at God of War Dev, Guiding the Long-Term Vision of the Series
Gamers are a funny bunch it seems.
I love God Of War but honestly isn't this just the same as the rest? All Santa Monica basically have done and are going to do, is God Of War games?
Right now it seems we have
this new game,
a another God of war kratos game
The trilogy remaster or remake.
Its just predictable and I want something fresh.
Yet the same gamers will cry we've had enough of
Ghost which has only 2 games but the studio has made a variety of games before it.
Horizon which has 2 main games and a multiplayer game, plus a lego game for kids, but this studio did come from a different game and genre before it.
Santa Monica main game since the beginning of time has basically been God Of War and now we are just getting more God Of War.
As much as I enjoyed the series, isn't it time to produce something different?
I just feel its such a waste of talent in my opinion and seems by the comments that its different rules for different studios.
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate State of Play for June 2026?
It was good "ok".
I mean the issue for me is everything which was good really were the ones we already knew about. There really wasn't a epic blow my mind reveal.
Even if the God Of War wasn't spoilt before hand, im still like o thanks another game within the god of war universe.
Did we really need another? No honestly did we really need a spin off with Kratos wife? Yea it maybe different, it maybe a cool story but I'd just love to see Santa Monica actually do a fresh ip for once. It just didnt do anything for me.
Honestly feel like Cory Barlog is being wasted.
Until Dawn 2, Seriously could of called it something else because I dont think its going to sell well due to its name and those graphics weren't great for me.
But the games we did know about which showed more, look absolute bangers. So it was good.
But not worth the hype and the cinema showings, I feel sorry for people who went to see it there. Nothing amazing shown off
Re: Xbox Will Show PS5 Logos at Showcase, But May Adjust Moving Forward as Execs Publicly Contradict Each Other
I just feel like many people who talk about Xbox should go back to exclusives and thats the right move. Are the ones who beg they should re make a game from the passed, even if said game did nothing sales wise but has been made into some sort of legendary classic, when really it was not even close.
This can be said about Xbox. They had the exclusives they the time to redirect themselves into a true rival for good competition.
They did all of that, and still failed which pushed them to go this route.
Changing it back now and keep producing the same old exclusives or even new now, I think its just to late, people have moved on.
This is evident in the sales of the consoles, barely 40m sold across the series x and s.
I think it will destroy them to go back now, theyve already dug themselves this hole without a ladder.
It also has 0 to do with them putting games on PlayStation either, they did that because of how desperate they was, not because they believed everyone should be able to play everywhere like they kept on saying.
They shot themselves in the foot by putting their games on pc day and date and then they shot the other foot by making gamepass and putting day and date aswel, and with the lack of in house exclusive fresh ip to draw people to them, there really is no reason for someone to buy an xbox.
Re: 007 First Light Debuts to 1.5 Million Sales in Just 24 Hours
Im going to grab this game, as soon as I have some spare cash next few weeks. Otherwise id of been there day 1
Re: Of Course There's Already a New GTA 6 Pre-Orders Conspiracy Theory
@NoCode23 it really does. Feel that long ago.
Id literally just a year before, moved out of my house share with my best friend, where we partied hard for like 5 years and was just settling down with a newborn, in a proper family home, while still trying to maintain a social life.
Feels like a life time ago.
My Daughter is 14 years old now.
When GTA6 comes out, I believe my youngest will be around the same age as my eldest daughter was when GTA5 came out, I have 5 kids now.
Also when 5 did come out, my PS3 had actually stopped working a day before and I was rushing around to find a replacement, as I deffo didnt have the money to buy a new one, ended up robbing my dads hahaha
Re: Of Course There's Already a New GTA 6 Pre-Orders Conspiracy Theory
@rusty82 Yeah? What did you think I could do while waiting. Hahahaha
Re: We Have to Talk About Live Service, After Heavy Rain Dev's Online Gambit Is Scrapped
Wasn't hard to see that a game made by the masters of story telling cinematic choose your own way adventure games, struggled to make a popular 3v3 live service shooter.
Have non of them learned that we have about 100 of them already, they all need to stick to what they are good at and perfect it
Re: We Have to Talk About Live Service, After Heavy Rain Dev's Online Gambit Is Scrapped
Wasn't hard to see that a game made by the masters of story telling cinematic choose your own way adventure games, struggled to make a popular 3v3 live service shooter.
Have non of them learned that we have about 100 of them already, they all need to stick to what they are good at and perfect it
Re: Did You Get In? Horizon Hunters Gathering PS5 Beta Invites Rolling Out
Could not care less.
Im here for the single player experiences from playstation not some odd take on a single player game made into a live service game.
Bring back the days that it was a multiplayer add on to the single player, o yea sucker punch is still killing it with that one.
Got no time for these types of games from playstation, they know what they are good at and should stick to it.
There are enough service games out there already which are amazing.
Re: As Xbox 'Reevaluates' Exclusives, Its Hellblade 2 PS5 Port Is Considered a Success
@MonsterMike @MarvinEternus117
You both homed in on 1 game. You gave no time to any other game. What does that tell you?
Its nothing about credibility, its about facts.
A console cant survive with 1 successful game and this has been proven by where Xbox is right now.
They have no creative side and they just buy up the industry to give themselves games and I honestly believe the consumers see this and don't bother.
Halo a original bungie game, slated for exclusive to Apple.
Microsoft jumped in and basically stole it with enough money, instrad of letting it run its course, when Bungie decided they had finished its story.
Microsoft instead of allowing creative freedom, doubled down and bought an entire new team to just carry it on. Giving us pretty much sub par Halo games ever since.
Gears Of War, was actually made by Epic, taken again with money, great games at the beginning, but again bought an amazing team with lots of creative ideas, but they was put on Gears to continue it, giving us sub par games.
Forza, basically is their only successful franchise and has got better, but a racing game does not save you.
We have see from Phil taking over that doubling down and making things exclusives was just to late, that they switched to game pass and that's basically failed aswel.
In your own mind, how do you think it will be pulled off this time?
Pull back exclusives, the same exclusives we've had since the original Xbox and just hope?
There is a reason they started going third party because it wasn't working.
Its to little to late in my eyes, theyve showed me nothing which could bring them back as a competitor.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2026?
Its an absolutely brilliant month for me.
Star Wars Outlaws, was 1 i really wanted but with the bad press and bugs, I didnt bother. I know they've fixed it up so I may aswel give it ago.
And my all time favourite game from thr point and click era Broken Sword, im actually going to buy this game anyway but was waiting on the second game before I bought both. So I may just play through it now as my yearly throw back game.
Just thise 2 for me is worth the cheap entry fee
Re: Of Course There's Already a New GTA 6 Pre-Orders Conspiracy Theory
@rusty82 maybe your not but you have to realise that the last time we got a GTA game was on the PS3.
Since GTA 3 came out, I was living with my wife, had a baby girl. Then I had another little girl, divorced, had a wild 3 years on my own, met a woman, moved in with woman, had 3 more kids, changed jobs 4 times.
My then little baby is now 14 years old and is about to start doing her GCSE's.
Thats how big this game is
Re: What Do You Want from a May 2026 State of Play Showcase?
Wolverine will.show its face but only a small trailer with a state of play announcement for it at a later date.
To me Naughty Dog need to show us Intergalactic, they've really lost a step in my eyes this gen. Honestly if intergalactic isn't some masterful epic game, im just going to be hugely disappointed. They lost to much time on the live service.
Honestly I truly hope that Santa Monica and Cory Barlog haven't made a spin off to God Of War, I enjoyed the 2 new games but it just isnt worthy enough for more tales outside of Kratos. Such a waste of talent and widh they'd try something new. We may see a tease for the new game its about time really.
We will get no PS6 news, they wont want to hurt the sales for GTA 6, I expect maybe Feb 27 at the earliest for a ps6 reveal if they are going to release it and then october time launch for the new console. Thats if we are going with the runour that they are sticking with a 27 release.
I mean the fact is the PS6 really has to be nailed down by now and leaving it any longer could make it obsolete by the time it comes out and would have to rethink it.
Re: 8 PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for May 2026 Announced
I guess its time to relive my childhood and play broken sword reforge
Re: As Xbox 'Reevaluates' Exclusives, Its Hellblade 2 PS5 Port Is Considered a Success
I think Microsoft are deludded, if they think they can even pull it back.
Even with the success of the 360.
Playstation still in the end outsold the 360.
Then the Xbox one totally destroyed them.
Honestly they should of just gave up then and went third party.
Unfortunately Microsoft problem is they have 0 idea and have bought themselves to the top.
it isnt the console what is the problem its the games. If microsoft didnt buy all those companies just to have the gsme studios, they would have ip's in which are long passed their due date.
Gears hasn't been great for years,
Halo is a former shell of itself
Forza has gone and been replaced.
Fable had died until playground took over
Sea of thieves was a good success but that took a long time of that studio being suppressed.
They just dont have any compelling exciting IP from their own home grown studios. Theyve been riding the Halo and gears coaster since the og xbox
Re: Poll: Is Saros Better Than Returnal?
I didnt vote. I can't.
The type of game at its core is the same but the games are really 2 different types.
Returnal is always going to be that hard-core get good type of game with a premise on atmosphere.
Saros is a here's returnals gameplay with some solid upgrades to the core mechanic but a more streamlined arcade style.
Honestly i think if they csn get into a rhythm of hard-core game and a more for the masses type game. Then im good to go.
Re: Poll: Uncharted 4 Turns 10 Years Old, But Is It the Series' Peak?
Im actually going to ask for people to replay them again in order 1 after the other.
I honestly think 3, is very underrated and if you play them back to back is as good as 2.
I was in my mind there same that 3 was a bit of a carbon copy of 2 when I played it back in the day but after replaying them, ive realised I was very wrong.
Re: Wolverine PS5 Updates Still Coming in the Next Few Weeks
@PuppetMaster exactly.
My question for most is how exactly do we have super hero fatigue? When we have had just a handful of top tier games.
Insomanic have only done 2 main spiderman games and a small spin off, with a 3rd coming to round off the trilogy.
We had an avengers game which was pretty poor in its deliverance but the idea was great.
Lets jot talk about kill the justice league.
And we've had the batman trilogy with spin off.
And a couple of decent fighting games.
Its not like we are crammed with souls like carbon copies every other month with the same type of art style, over and over again at every game show.
And like you said rachet the amount of games, surely that is fatigue by now.
And if we take a look at Santa Monica, all they have done is God Of War for nearly 30 years. Seems like even when we thought we may get something fresh from them with barlog, that seemingly seems to be a God Of War spin off game.
I just don't know what people actually want from insomanic, majority didnt care kuch for what they did outside of rachet
Re: These Numbers Explain Why Sony Is Stopping Porting PS5 Games to PC
Because alot of the actual pc gamers have mid to low end PCs, and probably cant run them on.
Steam shows the specs of all steam players and not alot have high end.
It ain't worth it. Whether people want to deny it but eco systems matter and exclusives do matter.
If all games were on everything like Xbox belie es helps xbox.
It doesn't because there would absolutely no reason to buy a playstation, you would then see a averaged out user base across everything and that isnt good for any business.
Sony has the right idea. Keep the best games for yout system and people will come.
Re: Ex-Witcher Dev's Dawnwalker RPG Is 55-70 Hours Long, Despite the Game's 'Time Limit'
I bet they are kicking themselves for even mentioning the time aspect, when in their mind, it works because its more a story element than a race against time. It probably didnt even enter their thoughts when they mentioned it.
But just shows how the internet will just run with anything for negativities sake.
Re: PS Plus Essential Games for May 2026 Announced
@Member_the_game if your a casual, you may aswel hold off every year. For the last few years they've been giving it away free on ps plus every May.
Re: Poll: Are You Sold on Assassin's Creed: Black Flag's PS5 Remake?
Its the inky game in the series is could stomach. Only because of the pirate theme.
Every other game in the series, same old and boring
Re: Wolverine PS5 Updates Still Coming in the Next Few Weeks
Its funny listening/reading some talking about how insomanic should do other things and the fatigue or the fact there so much talk about delays.
Lets just bring it back to reality and facts.
Insomanic has never delayed a game when they've announced the release date.
Super hero games have never been so good ever, so fatigue just really isn't a thing within video game superhero games.
We've literally had the Rocksteady Batman games and the insomanic series which are triple A. We've had a few notable ones but literally over the decades.
To the people who say insomanic should do something different their being held back.
Theyve literally made rachet and clank since ps2, they did resistance but it didnt hit like people think it did. Theyve done a few others but nothing really stuck.
Sunset overdrive really didnt sell that well.
They've probably made more money getting this Marvel deal than theyve made, with all of their secondary games combined. It just works.
And I find it even more crazy how kuch pressure people put on insomanic and claiming whats taking them so long, when the reality is, insomanic has carried ps5 pretty much its entire life cycle up till now.
Honestly in my eyes, insomanic right now is Sonys Flagship developer whos consistent. I think they beat out naughty.
Even if naughty dogs new game is a hit. It wont sell anywhere near as good as spiderman and wolverine
Re: Poll: Do Crimson Desert's PS5 Patches Put Other Devs to Shame, or Is the Game Simply Unfinished?
Clearly the game was finished at launch. The reviews came out, the bugs weren't the problem. It was just a love it or hate type game.
So reality is, they are going above and beyond.
I mean look at the state of minds eye or even cyberpunk, or even bethesda games.
This company are putting all of them to shame.
A crazy big world, many mechanics and it ran even at launch with very little bugs.
Even Cyberpunk, it maybe, beloved by many but reality is the world is pretty bog standard in terms of NPCs and what you can actually interact with.
This game really does feel like its lived in.
They are doing an absolute fabulous job of truly finishing their vision unlike many
Re: 'We Were Forced to Change': Sony CEO Outlines Shift to Entertainment, and Says PS5 Must Be the Best Place to Play
@nomither6 thats not what I said.
Whether opinions are for against 360.
The ps3 still outsold the 360
Re: 'We Were Forced to Change': Sony CEO Outlines Shift to Entertainment, and Says PS5 Must Be the Best Place to Play
@nomither6 Just to point out abkut the PS3.
It launched a year latter and a bigger price but came with a blu ray player and was 1 of the best at a cheaper price than the competition.
By the end of the generation PS3 outsold the xbox 360, even with a year head start.
Its always been the place to play even in the ps3 generation.
Re: Hardware Snoop Tips Rumoured PS6 Handheld to Be a Beast
Can we stop talking about tariffs being a factor?
Yes america has put out tariffs but there have always been tariffs in reality just not to the general public and this only effects america.
The ps5 price increases were happening before this even happened.
The global market is an absolute awful state for every country.
Re: Opinion: Does Starfield Suck? People Keep Telling Me to Skip Its PS5 Release
No its awful.
I mean if you like the stuck in the ps3 era style of bethesda because theyve never grown since. Then you may be good.
But the sub par graphics, the out dated conversation segments, the fact you load out of the planet and the sheer amount of load screens when ps4 games did a better job and the bland story.
Some will dig it because its bethesda but the reality is, its a bland average game compared to all the newer open world games which came before it.
Re: 'It's All a Bit Depressing': Just 13% Think PS5 Is Worth Its New Price
Lets be honest they aren't worth the price tags even before the proce hike.
Its old tech now, its 6 years old.
And prices are reaching 1k?
I understand the actually prices of parts have increased, but that doesnt relate to the actual parts being outdated.
The prclices should be coming down, not up.
They are skirting the line that the majority of us whether we want to or not will be priced out of gaming all together.
This just doesnt look good for the ps6 or the new xbox hardware.
The entire world is about to be plunged into being priced out of most things and jobs will be scarce with the raise of AI.
I honestly believe we are on a knifes edge and Sony have lost touch of the actual world and they really should of stuck to their price and rode it out because I think sales are going to truly plummet.
Re: Is That a The Last of Us 3 Tease in Neil Druckmann's Latest Social Post?
As much as I enjoyed the last of us and will enjoy it.
Honestly I'm just dissapointed that Naughty have been non existent for the majority of ps5 and have just heavily relied on making updated versions of their games.
They've truly just dropped the ball this entire generation and I dont know how relevant they maybe if they dont hit it out the park with intergalactic.
It just speaks volumes to me that, insomniac has carried the ps5, and have made amazing games consistently, in short amount of times and that people doubted them over wolverine.
Yet naughty Dog, non existent and a cancelled game, doesnt have people raising eyebrows.
From the small snippets of intergalactic, it just didnt have that wow about it, either and honestly, im just feeling that they have truly missed a few steps because normally their trailers wow us and it just didnt.
Re: '$1,000+ Consoles Could Become the Norm': PS6's Price Touted to Touch Four Figures
Honestly if it does go beyond 1000.
I think this maybe the last console I buy.
If ps5 gen is anything to go by.
Every game will release on ps5 and ps6, for a good few years after and I have a ps5 pro.
I think for the firdt time in my entire life, im not going to be there day 1.
Can't justify the price. Lets hope this isnt the case and things settle
Re: 'We're Only Talking About the PS5': Saros Director on Cancelled PC Port Reports
But why would they talk about a pc port?
The only games which came day n date or close to have been live service games.
Any single player games, have been months or years after.
And playstation have been that sparse with the releases, and even how random those releases have been, I dont quite understand, this whole pc is some how every title.
Its like some how people believe playstation have been doing what day n date for everything. Just because a couple of multiplayer games have come out.
Re: 'This Is Unsustainable Madness': Modern Video Game Budgets Are Out of Control
Do we actually think these games cost that much to make, or is it a case of they had it so good for so long that many of the devs, have lost sight of managing projects properly.
Have they got lazy in their budgeting and not thinking until its to late.
Re: Sony and Honda Have Abandoned Their PS5-Integrated Electric Car Afeela
@get2sammyb isn't this always the case? Especially with cars.
Im quite sure at many a CES, I've seen many prototype cars being shown off which never saw the light of day.
Sounds more like it was a hobby project and to show it off. They probably never had much intentions behind the scenes to actually put the car on the market.
More of a test run for future projects. They just like teasing them at these type of shows
Re: It Sounds Like PS6 Will Support a Form of FSR Frame Generation
@Exerion76 majority of games now are running at 60fps and higher. If we take the ps5 pro as the base.
So im expecting the ps6 to be aiming at 120fps standard for 99% of games.
Re: Shenmue 3 Enhanced Brings Big Upgrades and Must-Have Collector's Editions to PS5
Hyped. Shenmue is just one of those once in a generation franchise.
Im all in once again.
I was there for release of the original, I was there for the release of the sequel. I was day 1 for the HD remakes. I was day 1 for the kickstarter, im day one for the enhanced version. LETS GOOOOOO!!!
Re: Here Is Crimson Desert Gameplay on Base PS5
Honestly im not sure why everything is always over blown and its always selective.
The games media are acting like this doesnt happen all of the time.
Majority of games are shown off at their best and no one ever asks where is the series s version.
The base ps5 is a very capable machine and the standard, so people should expect it to run fine, until it doesnt run fine.
We all know the pro is the better machine thats just fact, so just expect it to run at a lower res but have quality mode and performance modes, on the base ps5, Like majority of games do.
Re: Opinion: Crimson Desert Could Be PS5 Game of the Year, or a Total Mess
Honestly I have no idea what this game is.
All I've ever read is how amazing it is and that its doing everything. But I've never heard ehat that everything is.
If it isnt an RPG. Is it a Uncharted like third person adventure but set in an open world?
Or more like Horizon without the RPG elements.
I guess I'm just going to have to wait for reviews and find out what we can actually do within the world.
Re: Fan Fave Resident Evil 2 Is Getting a Third Remake, Exclusively in Arcades
@Ainu20 honestly the amount of hours I spent trying to perfect my run on time crisis at home, trying to figure out the quickest way to reload. Was an amazing time.
We had competitions with my mates and even my dad would join in.
I still love nipping to the arcade and giving it ago on the machines. We have an arcade club here and they have a few gun games.
You just still cant believe that tech has moved on but light guns never made the jump, seems a real shame now, that they cant figure it out
Re: Poll: Has PS5's Dynamic Pricing Debacle Changed Your Relationship with the PS Store at All?
I just haven't seen it happen ever at all. Im not saying it isnt happening.
But I've been buying games at discount prices for a long while and I've used many a deals guide from push square and even from users on reddit.
Every single time, the prices quoted are the prices I've gotten them at.
So I just can't really give much interest, when the prices quoted from legit websites and random people on reddit, are the prices I am seeing.
I understand the experiment of logged in or logged out.
But to purchase a game you have to be logged in.
If the dynamic pricing was effecting every single one of us and we were all getting different prices then maybe.
I dont even get the criteria because im not a huge spender either. Yet my prices are in line with everyone else.
Re: As PS6 Delay Rumours Swirl, Fans Debate Ray Tracing's Worth
Of course its not worth it when you have the better tech with path tracing which is just leaps and bounds better.
On topic of this whole ps6 delay rubbish.
Something cannot be delayed unless it has been announced. I dont quite understand the world we live in now that, rumours and hear say are now classed as news and thay something which jas 0 release date nor has been really talked about by playstation can be delayed.
Re: Fan Fave Resident Evil 2 Is Getting a Third Remake, Exclusively in Arcades
@Balosi yes but vr is a bit of a sickness trip if in to long.
And ps3 is going back a few generations to get it and you have to have the camera.
You would just of thought there would of been a better break through, considering how accurate and fun those light guns were back in the 90s.
I understand the whole tv was different so its hard to replicate. But its a shame we dont have that.
I know there is the whole gyro with the time crisis game but you just want the gun.
I guess VR is where its at. But until they can truly get rid of the motion sickness, its always going to be a quick in and out experience for many
Re: Fan Fave Resident Evil 2 Is Getting a Third Remake, Exclusively in Arcades
The funniest thing in all of this is, we've watch the growth of games over the decades and we are striving for emersion and yet, no one has truly invented a replacement on par or better than the home light gun of the 90s.
Never going to get that feeling of beating Time Crisis infront of your own tv at home.
Such a shame.
Re: PS6 Rival Xbox Helix Could Cost as Much as $1,200
No and it probably won't work for xbox.
Like xbox said themselves. Its all about eco system and majority are now embedded into playstation.
PC players are on PC and the problem they may face is if gabe cube comes out at a very competitive price.
Also xbox have planted themselves already as a subscription system. I just think its a little to late for them really.
Re: 'This Should Be Illegal': PS5's Dynamic Pricing Roundly Criticised by Disgusted Sony Fans
What i dont understand is. Your logged out so you cant technically buy the game.
Don't you need a psn account for you to buy the game?
You cant technically get it cheaper.
The experiment needs to be.
2 people who have psn in the same place.
Like the whole push square team checking their prices.
Or
Push square users, we pick a game check the price.
Im just not understanding this logged out or in business, if you cant actually buy the game without being logged in.
100% of the time. When push square gives a list of discounts and i check. They are those prices.
And if it is real, then how exactly is this dynamic pricing even being implemented when its very specific small amount of games