outrageous, free dlc and someone moaning hahaha it's brilliant.
You know this comes from the gamers coming up now from the tablets, where the attention span is tiny and they switch games every few minutes.
And glad he's got help now, but having more people involved I think he has every right to charge for dlcs, he has more reason to than say EA, Ubisoft and the rest.
But maybe his game won't ever get dlc, he'll probably make his next game.
So because you have to wait for the 1 man band to make dlc and updates that he shouldn't charge because of the waiting?
Cant believe someone would write well aslong as any updates and dlc are free I'll keep playing basically.
Makes me sick, these types of creators (literally just himself) are probably the only ones who truly deserve the money for dlc.
Rich or not off this game, he dedicated all of his free time creating this master piece of a game without any real help at all, im pretty sure he did it all by himself.
There only a few out there with this much talent and guts to do it and they deserve all the money they are given.
History just shows that games like this just dont last or work.
From what I've seen and read the game works when everyone works together. Which unless compelling enough never works and dies a slow painful death.
Helldivers worked because you are basically a run of the mill infantry solider and your just set out to kill, simple and fun.
This game, way to many characters to get a grip with, clear favourites will emerge and then the game will die, because no one will be bothered to keep up or they can just play overwatch for free.
Its that simple. They are trying to tell a single player story with breaks of 5v5 hero shooter.
I know the poll.here isn't a solid indication but even here its a pretty big no, its not even close.
@AverageGamer thats still in the works but its a long time off that game.
On topic.
Its a pass from me, the new movie was OK but for myself the art style is just so off.
Either stick with the actual comics or stick with the 90s cartoon which depict the characters perfectly.
Unfortunately for many iconic cartoons they all seemed to peak in the 80s 90s.
TMNT 90s Spiderman 90s X men 90s Batman 90s
TMNT specifically, they've always been so off that nothing has come close to the original cartoon and non of them have ever touched on the actual source material. Such a shame.
But this game looks awful, it looks like yester years when we would get the tie in movie games C grade.
I mean even now the original love action movies are far better and believable than what we get now.
Bring on the the last ronin game and hopefully we get a game which this franchise deserves.
When the cut scenes looked ten times better and more interesting than the gameplay itself I'm gonna pass.
Give me a single player third person action adventure game of which PlayStation is known for set in that world. With the humour and you probably would of got a stellar game.
But a 5 v 5 hero shooter with cut scenes, I'm out.
@Intr1n5ic exactly my thoughts, you've hit the nail on the head.
These games are just miles better on pc plus you can change all of the keys to suit your own play style which I have done with most of the games you've mentioned.
Its the reason why I have a pc. I did spend 4 grand on mine but that was over 6 years ago now.
You could build a decent pc for 1k I think. I'd do some research, you should be able to get a ps5 level pc these days for that, maybe a little lower but for these games it's well worth it and enough.
@Kidfunkadelic83 I'm in agreement, many may of liked the turn in gameplay but for me the whole attraction to the game was the bad ass fighting and the underground tournaments.
I tried playing the new ones but the fighting for myself was so dull and boring. I can't ever play one again.
Unfortunately can't comment on the controller config, I exclusively play these games on pc for that exact reason, ive never been comfortable playing with controller but thats due to always having the option of a pc.
@Intr1n5ic very much higher than both. But in its own way.
Planet coaster is a great edition to the 3d space with less limitations, but with 3d comes alot more complexity.
This game is the master piece or the perfection of what roller coaster tycoon tried to be back then.
Well worth a try if you enjoyed rct2 and the openrct.
The unique aspect of parkitect is the fact that decoration is important and isn't just a tool to make your parks look good.staff paths and back room areas give negative attraction and you have to cover them up and if you look on you tube there are some very clever ways.
You have to get the supplies to the shops and this can be a negative on the park unless designed correctly.
The reality of this game is the fact thr trailers. The talk, the preview have all made it clear...
It's not got anything in it that says I'm here I'm new and I'm ready to compete.
It's a game what's been done a million times and probably better. Will it stick for habit yeah, will it stay probably not. The fact is they haven't made this game a single player game on the side which would be the selling point for many ps5 owners.
Helldivers 2 works because your a solider, you can play by yourself and even mulitplayer, your just fighting along side your conrads, for a common goal, your in the army.
This game is a 5v5 hero shooter so even if the gameplay is good, then you may not like the characters. This game has to much you could dislike about it and not want to play. To many elements which can decide whether you play or not
I put them off because of time these days, I dont want to spend the time working out every pattern of a boss just to be able to beat them anymore.
It also comes down to what does it mean for a game to be on hard difficulty?
Like bullet spongey enemies? 25 more enemies? Only 1 way to kill them enemies?
What i truly want to see from games is, AI which act like a true professional in whatever they practise in.
Thats immersion for me.
Going into a battle with swords, I want them to be as catious as I am and think before just going through the motions.
I want soliders on the battle field to think of where they are going and not just run at me, provide cover fire, flank, like a real solider would, 1 shot to my head im done but the aiming as precise as a true army vet would be from that distance and not just a lock on and I'm done because I poke my head out from 500m away.
That to me is a true testament to a games difficulty
Technically Agent was still in development up until just the last couple of years (can't remember when exactly but I remember it wasn't that long ago haha)
Wither way I'm not that bothered, was the game good for its time? Yea.
Is it worth waiting this long for a sequel? Probably not.
The problem is games are good because of the right time and the right place and we've moved on.
So unless it does come and it blows everything out the water as did balders gate did, then it probably isn't worth the effort.
I mean look at shenmue, those first 2 games were just epics for the time, I still enjoy every year sitting through those games but the 3rd game, I enjoyed but its a game which should of come not long after 2.
Look at beneath a steel sky , what an epic point and click game from back in the 90s such amazing story telling. But did we need them to make a follow up to it in 3d, years later? No not really, id of much rather them just remaster the original and leave it alone.
Sequels should be the next game on from it within a few years.
You can't ever doubt Microsoft to throw a few small comments to get people to rally against a rival company.
When they know full well the worst decision they ever made was to make a under powered console for a cheaper price and make it mandatory that everyone has to develop for both.
They can try all they like but every decision and every word they spoke is always digging a bigger whole for themselves to get out of
Hmmmm where is the vote for I didn't buy the psvr2, I've been waiting to see how it was supported.
Because that's where I stood, I really enjoyed some experiences on PSVR.
The 1 and only game what truly told me VR is the future was the batman game, but since that game all we've really had are fps games and nothing on the detective side and slow pace. Due to the motion sickness, i got from fos games.
But seeing how good the PSVR2 tech was, I truly had an interest to see where it would go and if they actually supported it.
This article actually baffles me to be fair.
PlayStation are cutting funding??
Did PlayStation ever even put funding into it.
I mean I've seen nothing from them apart from the Horizon game, so their cutting non existent funding??
What a waste of great tech. Who makes great tech and doesn't fund a few internal studios to make games for it and instead throw money at some ok games what are just ports from the meta quest vr headset.
But it doesn't surprise me, PlayStation are known for this utter rubbish approach to secondary hardware
To WhiteRabbit "There are some IP that don’t even hit 5 million and they’re multiplatform. 7+ million for a game being locked to a single platform is incredible. To downplay it is disingenuous."
Give me some examples on the scale of a FromSoft development costs and then add the money Sony would of had to put up to secure a multiplatorm developer to make the deal. Then think how long it's been since BloodBourne and we are still only at 7m. You claim about 1 console? But until this generation cross generation games weren't a thing at all, we left the consoles behind each time, maybe the odd game and a few months after release but nothing on the scale of it is today. Also games didn't cost as much
I'mnot dissing the game nor dislike the game and I wouldn't mind a new one at all.
But I'm being the devil's advocate. If you read on you'll get some statistics.
To DonkeyFantasy "After the success of Elden Ring I can see a Bloodborne remake/sequel selling a lot better than the original, which at the time still felt pretty niche. Elden ring even helped them shift loads more copies of armoured core"
I'm definitely not disagreeing with that Elden Ring Haa completely changed the ball game and this may spark a revision of a BloodBourne Remake or Sequel or Both.
My point is the fact it's taken this many years to reach just 7m players and reality is, even though loud, it's only a minority and not a majority of its players and given this point, PlayStation probably see the numbers and thought is it really worth an investment.
People may love FromSoft now, but their games have only become mainstream triple A money makers after Elden Ring. So we will see if it moves the needle. But take a look at these statistics and then you make your own mind up about why we've never got one.
Statistics from IamJT
"Only 68% of people beat the first boss, and less than 50% completed the game according to trophy data. I dunno I think bloodbourne has a strong following but it won't be a big seller. Maybe because of how much people have been talking about it post release it will bump to 10M on a remake."
These figures and it's probably even worse than that at the time (before Elden Ring) This is exactly why PlayStation didn't bother making a sequel and haven't as of yet and why there has been 0 response to a remake of the game, because reality is not many people made it passed the first boss. 68% it was probably higher and that's out of the 7m people which is very high % to greenlight a sequel.
Either way just here to play devil's advocate but do agree Elden Ring has changed the game.
I have no doubts though that if BluePoint wasn't making their own original game that they would make a remake of Bloodbourne.
When you combine the success of demon Souls Ps5 and Elden Ring I think that would be a sure bet.
@PuppetMaster not really, ps5 came out mid covid and they literally launched demon souls on launch, with support. Covid probably didn't effect them much, the game they had been working on wss already finished and they had a break and worked from home anyway with patches.
They may of gave a helping hand on ragnarok but probably no more than all the teams putting their ideas together.
But reality is , its only been 3 years since their last game. Games are taking around 4 or 5 years to make now, plus if its an original game then that means they would of had to spend a year pre production, script, and all the other things what come with an original game.
They probably didn't really have the freedom before Sony bought them
@get2sammyb I know I know but a man can dream. Hahahaha I guess I'm stuck with palworld haha.
But it is true though the latest pokemon game is ment to be a master piece but the game just cannot run on the switch. So wasted.
I guess I'll just settle for third place Xbox games coming over. Wouldn't mind a gears of war remaster on ps5 if it is coming like rumoured.
Still remember playing that on Xbox 360 waiting for ps3 to hurry up. Haha
Edit: on topic, it's a good solid set of games.
People are always going to moan whatever. I think it comes down to them wanting triple A blockbusters time after time after time.
Probably due to those years where all the big hitters came out all at once.
But I truly wouldn't mind them bringing pokemon over, how that franchise would shine with the ps5 or even the ps4 tech behind it.
That series is wasted on Nintendo, esp the newest one, that game is the ultimate perfect pokemon game, if it actually ran and so I still have no need to dust off my switch.
Fingers crossed the switch 2, is alot more powerful.
@Hyena_socks I've been following the game since it got announced. By the end it really wasn't looking interesting or ambitious.
Character models were awful and were getting worse, turn out they used generic models. The world looked empty even in their previews.
Every video they did, all they did was show off the same old things.
The actions you did were basic the sims 2 style, they didn't even put in a queue system.
They claimed the world was open world and 0 rabbit holes but many pointed out that was easy because there was about 3 people in the world at any given time.
The UI looked very outdated.
The hype was massive when announced but it never seemed to progress at all, it really seemed to actually get worse.
But I truly truly don't understand is Playstations out of touch thinking with this service.
Extra is a great service and serves a great purpose but premium should be just an absolute beast of nostalgia and yet they treat it like just another essential couple of games a month service.
To add more insult to injury, they are putting psvr2 games behind the premium pay wall? They should all be on extra.
Playstation the 1 company who can make amazing secondary tech and never actually support it.
They really need to either put everything they have into their secondary tech or just dont even bother.
Shame the success they had with psvr 1 and this is what they do.
Literally no one can say there are no games coming, I've just counted 11 games half are what I truly want to play the other half are games I'd love to give them a chance but money is tight.
There is literally a few games for every genre.
Good lot of games to see the year out and we get astrobot.
Then next year we already from March onwards we start getting the ps exclusive big hitters.
It truly doesn't matter whether he ment xbox or playstation.
The fact is Phil is slimy all on his own.
Playstation have only ever done deals just like they all do, they have only ever bought developers who they had a history with or a brand new studio.
Xbox under Phil, has bought the rights for an exclusive tomb raider game, he didn't just buy bethesda then went and bought the entire parent company so no one else could have any developer within it.
Doesn't just go out and buy one of the call of duty developers, but buys entirety of Activision.
Playstation sees something in hellblade and puts up some of the money for development and exclusive right of an unknown game about mental health.
It does well so Phil jumps in and buys them out.
Yea Phil no more slimy business, your parent has out its foot down for spending anymore money and making sure you sell the games everywhere because your already losing them money on game pass and are down 100 billion. Well done Phil.
After 10 years of nothingness, xbox fans finally got a few games to show off at a conference.
Come on assassin's creed has basically been the same gameplay loop since forever and the only draw for those games is if your interested in the settings they are based.
I mean the only game they dared to venture into was a bare bones version of the ship battles from black flag and look what happened.
Not interested nit a cartoon version of dragon age.
But what can you do, bioware aren't the same bioware, they are a slowly dying developer and it's so unfortunate because there games were the best you could get for story telling for a long time.
The question really is "if Xbox didn't buy out that entire company would tango games still be going?"
Because reality is that company wasn't for sale, it's just they paid a premium to get what they wanted and now Microsoft are impatient and want a return
I think people are forgetting one very important thing.....
Xbox hasn't shown up for years and years, the amount of publishers they bought, it was going to happen at some point.
I'm glad Xbox finally delivered something because each year we all wait and see if Xbox is worth it and every year let down after let down.
Just shows though, that people have very short term memories about these things.
And for Xbox really for its consoles its a little to late in my mind.
But I think a show like this should put PlayStation under pressure.
In my mind if you ain't got anything to show from your own studios then don't show anything at all.
That PlayStation Showcase was an absolute joke and then the state of play was a third party mess.
We are at a time that many publishers have their own shows so if PlayStation pr Xbox have any shows, it should always be about their developers with a sprinkling of third party partnerships.
Not shows which are majority third party with 1 or 2 games.
The problem PlayStation have created is they've taken the whole showing games to early to the extreme and giving us nothing to get hyped about.
They mistake our frustration and think it's because the games aren't coming sooner, when in fact the frustration is we don't know what coming at all, apart from rumours and educated safe predictions.
Think from my own wants and PlayStation fans is a show which just talks and shows snippets from future games.
Like it's E3 season, we should have a vague knowledge of what's coming the following year, even if it's just a title screen or anything.
All we know is astrobot is coming September and that's as far as we get on first party.
@UltimateOtaku91 Considering Xbox every year don't show any games I guess it had to happen sooner or later.
Alot were 3rd party showings though.
But still think PlayStation has took the foot off the gas, even if games are coming from next year, at what point do PlayStation pull the trigger to keep PlayStations sales up.
I guess though PS5 are selling like hot cakes still so are they just holding out until sales start to dip and then throw out the announcement we all know are coming.
The strange one from Xbox was the whole new hardware, that was a strange one.
No disc version is a bit late, esp when the console isn't selling well so now they've added another SKU to their line up.
While PlayStation smartly decided too, streamline and make 2 SKU with a detachable disc drive.
@itsfoz I dont think they will and alot of the games are actually multiplatform.
Its just seems Microsoft put their hands in their pocket and paid for them to be shown.
Just shows this due to mgs being shown off here when it was revealed at playstation and both game fest and state of play were basically indie showcase.
It doesn't really matter though. Ps5 is selling regardless but I think it may slow down if they don't get their act together and pull off showcases like this.
@Kidfunkadelic83 its actually regarded as one of the best. But that could be due to the lack of any good power ranger games.
I did used to have it on an emulator on PC.
But have a look I mean these days it won't feel that great but back then, aa a kid playing at normal Jason going through the school grounds fighting putties and then things got intense then they would morph, I thought it was incredible that a game could do that.
It was like a game called cruise for a corpse. On a cruise ship and you had to investigate a murder and you had to meet people at a certain time and time advanced once you solved or spoke to someone, blew my mind.
And the one what truly blew my mind was flashback, if you made it through the first areas and you could go in a subway and I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact you could actually get on the train and travel different places hahaha.
An era most kids will never experience, because games now do all that and more off the bat and we expect them to.
Its Might Morphin Time!!!!!! I've got everything crossed for it to be good. Because you cant beat the SNES game back in the day, doing half the level and then morphin, I used to lose my sh** when it happened because I didn't think video games could do that, blew my mind.
I mean still a retro so its one step closer to my dream of having a full blown triple A third person action game of the original power rangers.
I mean we are getting a true TMNT triple A game so my dreams aren't lost yet.
@Malaise of course its a tactic. It may of been a great game but unfortunately it didn't sell brilliantly and remedy them sells are still in the red over this game, they haven't a made profit. So part wring up with someone and making some extra money maybe the only way.
@PerpetualBoredom By kids? Easily. Taking games from the shelf, shoving them into the console, throwing the box down, getting bored, get another game, throw game on side, repeat.
I've had a good few kids and what I've learnt over the years is, it doesn't matter what or how you teach them, some children will obey and understand and some kids will say yes but ain't listening one little bit.
So I've had a few game boxes broke and a few discs scratched and I got fed up. So my last full collection of games was the ps4 and ps5 is basically all digital, it's hard to let go but means my kids can switch on their ps5 and just play.
Plus I can just control what games they have and don't have and when they are ready I can just unlock another game for them.
They aren't being naughty by damaging the games they are just being kids in a generation where everything is just instant and growing up in a world where music and films are now just online, so they never really understood taking care of physical games.
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Re: Stardew Valley Creator Swears on Barone Family Name Never to Charge for DLC, Updates
@themightyant @PuppetMaster
outrageous, free dlc and someone moaning hahaha it's brilliant.
You know this comes from the gamers coming up now from the tablets, where the attention span is tiny and they switch games every few minutes.
And glad he's got help now, but having more people involved I think he has every right to charge for dlcs, he has more reason to than say EA, Ubisoft and the rest.
But maybe his game won't ever get dlc, he'll probably make his next game.
Re: Stardew Valley Creator Swears on Barone Family Name Never to Charge for DLC, Updates
I'm more concerned about the post before.
Is this the new norm of privileged gamers??
So because you have to wait for the 1 man band to make dlc and updates that he shouldn't charge because of the waiting?
Cant believe someone would write well aslong as any updates and dlc are free I'll keep playing basically.
Makes me sick, these types of creators (literally just himself) are probably the only ones who truly deserve the money for dlc.
Rich or not off this game, he dedicated all of his free time creating this master piece of a game without any real help at all, im pretty sure he did it all by himself.
There only a few out there with this much talent and guts to do it and they deserve all the money they are given.
Re: Poll: Are You Playing the Concord Open Beta?
History just shows that games like this just dont last or work.
From what I've seen and read the game works when everyone works together. Which unless compelling enough never works and dies a slow painful death.
Helldivers worked because you are basically a run of the mill infantry solider and your just set out to kill, simple and fun.
This game, way to many characters to get a grip with, clear favourites will emerge and then the game will die, because no one will be bothered to keep up or they can just play overwatch for free.
Its that simple. They are trying to tell a single player story with breaks of 5v5 hero shooter.
I know the poll.here isn't a solid indication but even here its a pretty big no, its not even close.
Re: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutants Unleashed Kickflips onto PS5, PS4 in October
@AverageGamer thats still in the works but its a long time off that game.
On topic.
Its a pass from me, the new movie was OK but for myself the art style is just so off.
Either stick with the actual comics or stick with the 90s cartoon which depict the characters perfectly.
Unfortunately for many iconic cartoons they all seemed to peak in the 80s 90s.
TMNT 90s
Spiderman 90s
X men 90s
Batman 90s
TMNT specifically, they've always been so off that nothing has come close to the original cartoon and non of them have ever touched on the actual source material. Such a shame.
But this game looks awful, it looks like yester years when we would get the tie in movie games C grade.
I mean even now the original love action movies are far better and believable than what we get now.
Bring on the the last ronin game and hopefully we get a game which this franchise deserves.
Re: Concord Beta: How to Access, Start Times, and What You Can Play
When the cut scenes looked ten times better and more interesting than the gameplay itself I'm gonna pass.
Give me a single player third person action adventure game of which PlayStation is known for set in that world. With the humour and you probably would of got a stellar game.
But a 5 v 5 hero shooter with cut scenes, I'm out.
Re: Suicide Squad Season 2 Frozen Days From Launch, Defrosting 25th July
Are people even still playing?
I'm still scratching my head over this game.
End goal.is just an endless shooter?
Live service offering are secondary characters with 0 real story
Re: Parkitect: Deluxe Edition Brings More RCT-Like Action to PS5, PS4
@Intr1n5ic exactly my thoughts, you've hit the nail on the head.
These games are just miles better on pc plus you can change all of the keys to suit your own play style which I have done with most of the games you've mentioned.
Its the reason why I have a pc. I did spend 4 grand on mine but that was over 6 years ago now.
You could build a decent pc for 1k I think. I'd do some research, you should be able to get a ps5 level pc these days for that, maybe a little lower but for these games it's well worth it and enough.
Re: Next Like a Dragon Title a Surprise for Fans, RGG Studio Teases
@Kidfunkadelic83 it felt really satisfying and I felt like it went well with the slower mini games and story
Yes the boss fights were chaos and its just my turn your turn, your turn. I nearly fell asleep
Re: Next Like a Dragon Title a Surprise for Fans, RGG Studio Teases
@Kidfunkadelic83 I'm in agreement, many may of liked the turn in gameplay but for me the whole attraction to the game was the bad ass fighting and the underground tournaments.
I tried playing the new ones but the fighting for myself was so dull and boring. I can't ever play one again.
Re: Parkitect: Deluxe Edition Brings More RCT-Like Action to PS5, PS4
@Intr1n5ic let me know what you think.
Unfortunately can't comment on the controller config, I exclusively play these games on pc for that exact reason, ive never been comfortable playing with controller but thats due to always having the option of a pc.
Re: Parkitect: Deluxe Edition Brings More RCT-Like Action to PS5, PS4
@Intr1n5ic very much higher than both. But in its own way.
Planet coaster is a great edition to the 3d space with less limitations, but with 3d comes alot more complexity.
This game is the master piece or the perfection of what roller coaster tycoon tried to be back then.
Well worth a try if you enjoyed rct2 and the openrct.
The unique aspect of parkitect is the fact that decoration is important and isn't just a tool to make your parks look good.staff paths and back room areas give negative attraction and you have to cover them up and if you look on you tube there are some very clever ways.
You have to get the supplies to the shops and this can be a negative on the park unless designed correctly.
Its brilliant
Re: Parkitect: Deluxe Edition Brings More RCT-Like Action to PS5, PS4
@Intr1n5ic probably the greatest theme park game ever made.
Its been out many many years on pc and its grown so much.
Its absolutely amazing, they finally cracked the point of theme park games where the attractiveness of the park actually matters
Re: Days Gone Team Apologises for 'False Hope' of PS5 Sequel After Misleading Headlines, Comments
I truly hope its a single player game and nota live service game.
I swear I remember them saying something about a multiplayer game when they announced they was working on a new ip, but I think I may of dreamt it.
Days gone does deserve a sequel, it was a great game in the end.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Essential Games for July 2024?
Wait isn't among us a free mobile game?
I swear me and my kids played this last year on tablets and mobile.
Non of then are worth my time, I'll give nhl a try just because I did used enjoy hockey games but I could take it or leave it.
I'll wait to see what extra has to offer.
Signed up for premium aswel only because it was cheap for the remainder of my subscription but wow such a let down.
Re: Round Up: Concord PS5 Previews Seem Torn on Sony's New Shooter
The reality of this game is the fact thr trailers. The talk, the preview have all made it clear...
It's not got anything in it that says I'm here I'm new and I'm ready to compete.
It's a game what's been done a million times and probably better. Will it stick for habit yeah, will it stay probably not. The fact is they haven't made this game a single player game on the side which would be the selling point for many ps5 owners.
Helldivers 2 works because your a solider, you can play by yourself and even mulitplayer, your just fighting along side your conrads, for a common goal, your in the army.
This game is a 5v5 hero shooter so even if the gameplay is good, then you may not like the characters. This game has to much you could dislike about it and not want to play. To many elements which can decide whether you play or not
Re: Poll: Can a Game's Brutal Difficulty Put You Off Playing It?
I put them off because of time these days, I dont want to spend the time working out every pattern of a boss just to be able to beat them anymore.
It also comes down to what does it mean for a game to be on hard difficulty?
Like bullet spongey enemies?
25 more enemies?
Only 1 way to kill them enemies?
What i truly want to see from games is, AI which act like a true professional in whatever they practise in.
Thats immersion for me.
Going into a battle with swords, I want them to be as catious as I am and think before just going through the motions.
I want soliders on the battle field to think of where they are going and not just run at me, provide cover fire, flank, like a real solider would, 1 shot to my head im done but the aiming as precise as a true army vet would be from that distance and not just a lock on and I'm done because I poke my head out from 500m away.
That to me is a true testament to a games difficulty
Re: Beyond Good & Evil 2 Is Still in Development, Ubisoft Assures
Technically Agent was still in development up until just the last couple of years (can't remember when exactly but I remember it wasn't that long ago haha)
Wither way I'm not that bothered, was the game good for its time? Yea.
Is it worth waiting this long for a sequel? Probably not.
The problem is games are good because of the right time and the right place and we've moved on.
So unless it does come and it blows everything out the water as did balders gate did, then it probably isn't worth the effort.
I mean look at shenmue, those first 2 games were just epics for the time, I still enjoy every year sitting through those games but the 3rd game, I enjoyed but its a game which should of come not long after 2.
Look at beneath a steel sky , what an epic point and click game from back in the 90s such amazing story telling. But did we need them to make a follow up to it in 3d, years later? No not really, id of much rather them just remaster the original and leave it alone.
Sequels should be the next game on from it within a few years.
Not 10 plus years.
Re: Silly Speculation Alleges Sony May Have Signed Secret PS5 Exclusivity for Black Myth: Wukong
You can't ever doubt Microsoft to throw a few small comments to get people to rally against a rival company.
When they know full well the worst decision they ever made was to make a under powered console for a cheaper price and make it mandatory that everyone has to develop for both.
They can try all they like but every decision and every word they spoke is always digging a bigger whole for themselves to get out of
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 534
@Kanji-Tatsumi going into that game after 7 as a teenager, I just couldn't do it, I just remember really disliking the whole setting and characters.
Also I think the story and the connection in 7 for me was so spot on and I just never connected with the world or the story of 8
Re: Sony Is Allegedly Pulling PSVR2 Funding, Report Claims
Hmmmm where is the vote for I didn't buy the psvr2, I've been waiting to see how it was supported.
Because that's where I stood, I really enjoyed some experiences on PSVR.
The 1 and only game what truly told me VR is the future was the batman game, but since that game all we've really had are fps games and nothing on the detective side and slow pace. Due to the motion sickness, i got from fos games.
But seeing how good the PSVR2 tech was, I truly had an interest to see where it would go and if they actually supported it.
This article actually baffles me to be fair.
PlayStation are cutting funding??
Did PlayStation ever even put funding into it.
I mean I've seen nothing from them apart from the Horizon game, so their cutting non existent funding??
What a waste of great tech. Who makes great tech and doesn't fund a few internal studios to make games for it and instead throw money at some ok games what are just ports from the meta quest vr headset.
But it doesn't surprise me, PlayStation are known for this utter rubbish approach to secondary hardware
Re: FromSoftware Boss Twists the Bloodborne Knife, Says It's 'A Special Game for Me'
@IamJT 1.4m isn't bad considering there was less than 10m PS5 at the time of those statistics.
Bloodbourne 7m, when there was 35m ps4s
We are talking though of a Sony owned ip game and not fromsoft themselves.
7m probably wasn't high enough for Sony at the time cost vs sales.
But 7m is the best fromsoft has ever done before elden ring.
In away bloodbourne made sure FromSoft had the money to invest in the making of Elden Ring. They may of never been able to without bloodbourne
Re: FromSoftware Boss Twists the Bloodborne Knife, Says It's 'A Special Game for Me'
@IamJT @DonkeyFantasy @WhiteRabbit
To WhiteRabbit
"There are some IP that don’t even hit 5 million and they’re multiplatform.
7+ million for a game being locked to a single platform is incredible. To downplay it is disingenuous."
Give me some examples on the scale of a FromSoft development costs and then add the money Sony would of had to put up to secure a multiplatorm developer to make the deal.
Then think how long it's been since BloodBourne and we are still only at 7m.
You claim about 1 console?
But until this generation cross generation games weren't a thing at all, we left the consoles behind each time, maybe the odd game and a few months after release but nothing on the scale of it is today. Also games didn't cost as much
I'mnot dissing the game nor dislike the game and I wouldn't mind a new one at all.
But I'm being the devil's advocate. If you read on you'll get some statistics.
To DonkeyFantasy
"After the success of Elden Ring I can see a Bloodborne remake/sequel selling a lot better than the original, which at the time still felt pretty niche.
Elden ring even helped them shift loads more copies of armoured core"
I'm definitely not disagreeing with that Elden Ring Haa completely changed the ball game and this may spark a revision of a BloodBourne Remake or Sequel or Both.
My point is the fact it's taken this many years to reach just 7m players and reality is, even though loud, it's only a minority and not a majority of its players and given this point, PlayStation probably see the numbers and thought is it really worth an investment.
People may love FromSoft now, but their games have only become mainstream triple A money makers after Elden Ring. So we will see if it moves the needle. But take a look at these statistics and then you make your own mind up about why we've never got one.
Statistics from IamJT
"Only 68% of people beat the first boss, and less than 50% completed the game according to trophy data. I dunno I think bloodbourne has a strong following but it won't be a big seller. Maybe because of how much people have been talking about it post release it will bump to 10M on a remake."
These figures and it's probably even worse than that at the time (before Elden Ring)
This is exactly why PlayStation didn't bother making a sequel and haven't as of yet and why there has been 0 response to a remake of the game, because reality is not many people made it passed the first boss. 68% it was probably higher and that's out of the 7m people which is very high % to greenlight a sequel.
Either way just here to play devil's advocate but do agree Elden Ring has changed the game.
I have no doubts though that if BluePoint wasn't making their own original game that they would make a remake of Bloodbourne.
When you combine the success of demon Souls Ps5 and Elden Ring I think that would be a sure bet.
Re: FromSoftware Boss Twists the Bloodborne Knife, Says It's 'A Special Game for Me'
As much as people desperately want a new bloodbourne and claim how good it is.
But in the real world, it only sold 7.2million as you have wrote.
I just dont think for Sony that number solidifies a reason to invest alot more money into a sequel or remaster.
Esp from a third party company where there are extra costs on top for locking down a company for an exclusive outside of their wheel house.
Maybe blue point are making a sequel, maybe not but I just dont see it happening.
7m sold is a minority and not everyone of that 7m liked it.
Yes its a great game but sales wise not really.
Re: PlayStation Studios' Bluepoint Games Still Working on Its Mysterious 'Original Title'
@PuppetMaster not really, ps5 came out mid covid and they literally launched demon souls on launch, with support. Covid probably didn't effect them much, the game they had been working on wss already finished and they had a break and worked from home anyway with patches.
They may of gave a helping hand on ragnarok but probably no more than all the teams putting their ideas together.
But reality is
, its only been 3 years since their last game. Games are taking around 4 or 5 years to make now, plus if its an original game then that means they would of had to spend a year pre production, script, and all the other things what come with an original game.
They probably didn't really have the freedom before Sony bought them
Re: These Are All the PS5, PS4 Announcements from the Latest Nintendo Direct
@get2sammyb I know I know but a man can dream. Hahahaha I guess I'm stuck with palworld haha.
But it is true though the latest pokemon game is ment to be a master piece but the game just cannot run on the switch. So wasted.
I guess I'll just settle for third place Xbox games coming over. Wouldn't mind a gears of war remaster on ps5 if it is coming like rumoured.
Still remember playing that on Xbox 360 waiting for ps3 to hurry up. Haha
Edit: on topic, it's a good solid set of games.
People are always going to moan whatever. I think it comes down to them wanting triple A blockbusters time after time after time.
Probably due to those years where all the big hitters came out all at once.
Re: These Are All the PS5, PS4 Announcements from the Latest Nintendo Direct
Ace attorney is a good shout.
But I truly wouldn't mind them bringing pokemon over, how that franchise would shine with the ps5 or even the ps4 tech behind it.
That series is wasted on Nintendo, esp the newest one, that game is the ultimate perfect pokemon game, if it actually ran and so I still have no need to dust off my switch.
Fingers crossed the switch 2, is alot more powerful.
Re: Helldivers 2 Players Save Sick Kids, Developer Arrowhead Donates to Save the Children
Outrageous, yet again those pesky kids win and we are without the bombs.
Let's hope we never go to actual galactic war because we would all be killed for this decision
Re: Paradox Cancels Sim Life by You After Repeated Early Access Delays
@Hyena_socks I've been following the game since it got announced.
By the end it really wasn't looking interesting or ambitious.
Character models were awful and were getting worse, turn out they used generic models.
The world looked empty even in their previews.
Every video they did, all they did was show off the same old things.
The actions you did were basic the sims 2 style, they didn't even put in a queue system.
They claimed the world was open world and 0 rabbit holes but many pointed out that was easy because there was about 3 people in the world at any given time.
The UI looked very outdated.
The hype was massive when announced but it never seemed to progress at all, it really seemed to actually get worse.
Re: Yet More Leaked Wolverine PS5 Gameplay Has Appeared Online
@Ravix I've watched the footage and ive seen some others.
I can confirm the claws are retractable and it seems like they are aiming for a diverse set of combos of claws and punches.
Won't say anymore.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for June 2024?
I truly don't understand premium.
But I truly truly don't understand is Playstations out of touch thinking with this service.
Extra is a great service and serves a great purpose but premium should be just an absolute beast of nostalgia and yet they treat it like just another essential couple of games a month service.
To add more insult to injury, they are putting psvr2 games behind the premium pay wall?
They should all be on extra.
Playstation the 1 company who can make amazing secondary tech and never actually support it.
They really need to either put everything they have into their secondary tech or just dont even bother.
Shame the success they had with psvr 1 and this is what they do.
Re: Poll: How Would You Rate Summer Game Fest and Its Surrounding Shows as a Whole?
Its funny because we are now all praising xbox.
But reality is they've bought that many true third gen developers they really couldn't fail.
Not only that but its been 10 years xbox have been promising games, so it finally happened but it took 100 billion to get to a decent showcase.
Re: Listed Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Release Date 'Incorrect', Says GameStop
@Ravix it was you wasn't it? 🤔 hahaha
Re: The Rest of 2024's PS5 Release Schedule Is Finally Filling Up, and It's Looking Good
Literally no one can say there are no games coming, I've just counted 11 games half are what I truly want to play the other half are games I'd love to give them a chance but money is tight.
There is literally a few games for every genre.
Good lot of games to see the year out and we get astrobot.
Then next year we already from March onwards we start getting the ps exclusive big hitters.
Re: Star Wars Outlaws Has a Meaty 30-Hour Main Story
Actually just listened to kinda funny and Greg was really impressed with it. Even making the uncharted reference as a positive.
I think these days alot of journos are looking at every game to be a masterclass and a complex system for it to be good.
When reality is. A decent story a fun gameplay loop and that's all we want.
We don't need every game to be a complex masterclass.
Trailer sold me and Greg has cemented my hype for this game
Re: Ex-PS5 Exec Shawn Layden Isn't Holding Back His Feelings on Xbox
It truly doesn't matter whether he ment xbox or playstation.
The fact is Phil is slimy all on his own.
Playstation have only ever done deals just like they all do, they have only ever bought developers who they had a history with or a brand new studio.
Xbox under Phil, has bought the rights for an exclusive tomb raider game, he didn't just buy bethesda then went and bought the entire parent company so no one else could have any developer within it.
Doesn't just go out and buy one of the call of duty developers, but buys entirety of Activision.
Playstation sees something in hellblade and puts up some of the money for development and exclusive right of an unknown game about mental health.
It does well so Phil jumps in and buys them out.
Yea Phil no more slimy business, your parent has out its foot down for spending anymore money and making sure you sell the games everywhere because your already losing them money on game pass and are down 100 billion. Well done Phil.
After 10 years of nothingness, xbox fans finally got a few games to show off at a conference.
Re: Listed Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater Release Date 'Incorrect', Says GameStop
On topic.
If this is a mistake then where does a post like this even come from?
There is no smoke without fire.
So in my mind they must know something otherwise no one would make a post like that.
Re: Criticised Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Demo Merely an 'Amuse-Bouche' of the Full Experience
Well I thought the gameplay demo looked good and I dont mind a game being safe aslong as its fun and the story is compelling.
And its about time we had a star wars game where its unknowns and not just jedi's
Re: Helldivers 2 Trolley Problem Forces Players to Choose: Save Sick Kids or Anti-Tank Mines?
I say the children are alot of hard work and mines blow sh** up.
Plenty of time for making babies after the war is over.
Just incase you didn't know I say save the mines!!!
Re: Scathing Star Wars Outlaws PS5 Previews Unfavourably Compare Gameplay to PS Vita's Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Not sure what anyone actually expected?
Have ubisoft pulled the wool over people's eyes?
Safe and basic is exactly what they do.
Come on assassin's creed has basically been the same gameplay loop since forever and the only draw for those games is if your interested in the settings they are based.
I mean the only game they dared to venture into was a bare bones version of the ship battles from black flag and look what happened.
They have to play safe
Re: Dragon Age: The Veilguard Reveal Has Utterly Torn Fan Opinion as Trailer Gets Slaughtered
Not interested nit a cartoon version of dragon age.
But what can you do, bioware aren't the same bioware, they are a slowly dying developer and it's so unfortunate because there games were the best you could get for story telling for a long time.
Re: Xbox Explains Why It Shuttered Beloved Hi-Fi Rush Developer
The question really is "if Xbox didn't buy out that entire company would tango games still be going?"
Because reality is that company wasn't for sale, it's just they paid a premium to get what they wanted and now Microsoft are impatient and want a return
Re: PS5 Fans Beg Sony for a More Fulfilling Livestream in the Aftermath of Xbox Show
I think people are forgetting one very important thing.....
Xbox hasn't shown up for years and years, the amount of publishers they bought, it was going to happen at some point.
I'm glad Xbox finally delivered something because each year we all wait and see if Xbox is worth it and every year let down after let down.
Just shows though, that people have very short term memories about these things.
And for Xbox really for its consoles its a little to late in my mind.
But I think a show like this should put PlayStation under pressure.
In my mind if you ain't got anything to show from your own studios then don't show anything at all.
That PlayStation Showcase was an absolute joke and then the state of play was a third party mess.
We are at a time that many publishers have their own shows so if PlayStation pr Xbox have any shows, it should always be about their developers with a sprinkling of third party partnerships.
Not shows which are majority third party with 1 or 2 games.
The problem PlayStation have created is they've taken the whole showing games to early to the extreme and giving us nothing to get hyped about.
They mistake our frustration and think it's because the games aren't coming sooner, when in fact the frustration is we don't know what coming at all, apart from rumours and educated safe predictions.
Think from my own wants and PlayStation fans is a show which just talks and shows snippets from future games.
Like it's E3 season, we should have a vague knowledge of what's coming the following year, even if it's just a title screen or anything.
All we know is astrobot is coming September and that's as far as we get on first party.
Re: Metal Gear Solid 3 PS5 Remake Given New Trailer, But No Release Date
@UltimateOtaku91 Considering Xbox every year don't show any games I guess it had to happen sooner or later.
Alot were 3rd party showings though.
But still think PlayStation has took the foot off the gas, even if games are coming from next year, at what point do PlayStation pull the trigger to keep PlayStations sales up.
I guess though PS5 are selling like hot cakes still so are they just holding out until sales start to dip and then throw out the announcement we all know are coming.
The strange one from Xbox was the whole new hardware, that was a strange one.
No disc version is a bit late, esp when the console isn't selling well so now they've added another SKU to their line up.
While PlayStation smartly decided too, streamline and make 2 SKU with a detachable disc drive.
Re: French Turn-Based RPG Expedition 33 Announced for PS5 in Promising Debut Trailer
@itsfoz I dont think they will and alot of the games are actually multiplatform.
Its just seems Microsoft put their hands in their pocket and paid for them to be shown.
Just shows this due to mgs being shown off here when it was revealed at playstation and both game fest and state of play were basically indie showcase.
It doesn't really matter though. Ps5 is selling regardless but I think it may slow down if they don't get their act together and pull off showcases like this.
Re: Metal Gear Solid 3 PS5 Remake Given New Trailer, But No Release Date
Anyone else watching the conference, I mean have playstatiom become lazy, or Microsoft pay the most money to be shown
Re: That Bad Ass Power Rangers Beat-'Em-Up Is Probably Morphin' to PS5, PS4
@Kidfunkadelic83 its actually regarded as one of the best. But that could be due to the lack of any good power ranger games.
I did used to have it on an emulator on PC.
But have a look I mean these days it won't feel that great but back then, aa a kid playing at normal Jason going through the school grounds fighting putties and then things got intense then they would morph, I thought it was incredible that a game could do that.
It was like a game called cruise for a corpse.
On a cruise ship and you had to investigate a murder and you had to meet people at a certain time and time advanced once you solved or spoke to someone, blew my mind.
And the one what truly blew my mind was flashback, if you made it through the first areas and you could go in a subway and I just couldn't wrap my head around the fact you could actually get on the train and travel different places hahaha.
An era most kids will never experience, because games now do all that and more off the bat and we expect them to.
Re: That Bad Ass Power Rangers Beat-'Em-Up Is Probably Morphin' to PS5, PS4
Its Might Morphin Time!!!!!! I've got everything crossed for it to be good. Because you cant beat the SNES game back in the day, doing half the level and then morphin, I used to lose my sh** when it happened because I didn't think video games could do that, blew my mind.
I mean still a retro so its one step closer to my dream of having a full blown triple A third person action game of the original power rangers.
I mean we are getting a true TMNT triple A game so my dreams aren't lost yet.
Re: Horror Hit Alan Wake 2 Is Getting a Retail PS5 Release Because You Wouldn't Shut Up About It
@Malaise of course its a tactic. It may of been a great game but unfortunately it didn't sell brilliantly and remedy them sells are still in the red over this game, they haven't a made profit. So part wring up with someone and making some extra money maybe the only way.
Re: Black Myth: Wukong's Physical Editions Won't Have Actual Discs at Launch, Just Digital Codes
@PerpetualBoredom By kids? Easily. Taking games from the shelf, shoving them into the console, throwing the box down, getting bored, get another game, throw game on side, repeat.
I've had a good few kids and what I've learnt over the years is, it doesn't matter what or how you teach them, some children will obey and understand and some kids will say yes but ain't listening one little bit.
So I've had a few game boxes broke and a few discs scratched and I got fed up. So my last full collection of games was the ps4 and ps5 is basically all digital, it's hard to let go but means my kids can switch on their ps5 and just play.
Plus I can just control what games they have and don't have and when they are ready I can just unlock another game for them.
They aren't being naughty by damaging the games they are just being kids in a generation where everything is just instant and growing up in a world where music and films are now just online, so they never really understood taking care of physical games.
God only knows how much I tried.
Re: Some PlayStation Fans Are Losing Their Minds Over LEGO Horizon Being on Switch
Its called business.
Lego a more kid friendly game
Of course your putting a global brand for kids on switch.
Think how much money playstation are going to make.
Its not a true first party game, its a collaboration with Lego.
Put it on everything.
Xbox fan boys can say what they want, unfortunately no one is buying xbox so its not financially viable.