Bionic-Spencer

I really didn’t like Grand Theft Auto 5, so I will probably pass the 6th game by. However, if it’s more like GTA 4 that would be a different story because I thought that was an awesome game and probably my personal favourite title in the series to date!

And here was Microsoft saying that they had the greatest first party AAA lineup because of MW3 for the holidays that they have ever had. (They actually said that). Also, what in the heck has happened to the PS5s Platinum trophy??

After what’s been happening with Bungie of late, I definitely think that the multiplayer Factions 2 is probably a lot better than we are led to believe. You know what Sony and Naughty Dog should do? How about they release what they have so far as a beta so that we, the gamers can make our own minds up. If it’s not worth our time (and eventual money) then we can voice the opinion, rather than have Bungie who have a vested interest in their own title conquering all telling Sony that it’s not worth it. Neil Druckmann is a bit of a controversial so and so, but as far as gameplay goes, I thought the Last of us 2 was pretty good. It was just the story decisions that didn’t work for me personally., so I genuinely think that Factions 2 would have played pretty good.

You can tell from the beginning of Destiny 2 to where it is now that it’s a complete mess. It probably should be now that the Final Shape should be the final chapter in the story and time to move on to pastures new.

I’m sure that Bungie have been screwing over the other studios at PlayStation that we’re making Live Service games. When they were given the powers to stop other developers, who’s to say that they saw the other teams as direct competitors with superior ideas when they probably knew their product was failing..

Well, the majority of Sonys fans don’t want GaaS, so let this be a lesson to Sony to stick to what they know and keep with the single player ethos that has served them so well. I thought at the time that the Naughty Dog Factions 2 was probably far better than what Bungie was doing, but they were given too much power to close games down that they didn’t think met the levels expected. Look at them now…

I went back to Destiny 2 near the end of Season of the Seraph after a very long hiatus and with its awesome storyline I bought into the idea that Bungie had sorted themselves out from when I played Destiny 2 before and bought the Lightfall Expansion. Well, that has been a huge disappointment. Even though Destiny 2 has had problems, the game always had a very high quality of graphics throughout the Planets which really made the whole package feel very accomplished. The Moon, The Dreaming City and Savathuns Homeworld being especially amazing in my opinion. But parts of Lightfall really did feel like Bungie just didn’t have the care anymore with some of the levels looking pretty awful, the underwater parts being particularly crap to say the least. I just feel myself that the quality of the game has tanked massively since Sony bought them out, as if they didn’t think they needed to try anymore. I didn’t like Neptune at all and I found that there was absolutely nothing that made me want to keep going back to the game. I am not in the least bit surprised that there has been a huge drop in player retention and revenues. One saving grace to Lightfall was the fantastic soundtrack. Shame that Bungie saw fit to let Michael Salvatori go, that is madness.. Maybe Sony should get involved a little here, because even though Bungie champion themselves as independent, they will definitely answer to Sony, even though it’s probably very well hidden behind the scenes. I wonder if Sony like seeing the more influential people at Bungie get made redundant.. That $3.6 Billion is starting to look even more of a waste. At this rate, they will just own a name..

As long as Yoshimitsu was included, I was going to be happy!! 😄

What’s most interesting to me now is the ‘’’Centre of Excellence’ that was supposed to be run by Bungie when it came to Live Service titles. Surely the fact that Bungie can’t get their own house in order wont give them much weight or leverage behind their own opinions on other studios working on GaaS. With the rumours building that Sony are pulling back on pay to play titles because of the internal backlash from massively talented single player developers, Bungie just doesn’t feel like a very good fit to Sonys Worldwide Studios anymore at all. Even though Bungie have a degree of independence, being purchased for Billions will give Sony SOME say in proceedings surely.. After fans uproar to Suicide Squad, a game that Sony seemed to want everyone to think was a game from them after the huge state of play reveal and everyone in their right minds hating FairGame$, plus Spider-Man 2 doing awesome numbers, it has to be in Sonys best interests to see what fans really want and going down the GaaS route is a very bad idea. The people that were most up for making as many live service games are slowly being pushed out of SIE, I wonder how long Herman has left. Instead of paying for Bungie, Firesprite and Haven Studios, 2 of which hadn’t even released a game, money would have been way better spent on CD Projekt Red and Remedy and in my own opinion, those developers would have been a perfect fit with the existing studios in Sonys Portfolio and kept the single player, story driven ethos that makes PlayStation the place I want to play my games!

Ubisoft will be Xbox’s next acquisition. They will argue that it would only be fair to own a French company to break through the ‘Market Leaders Domination’. Pfft

I would really hope to see Dead Space 3 remade to the level of which the producer would have like to have seen, because although I still liked the game, it was too far away from the horror levels generated by 1 & 2! I thought there could have been a feel of John Carpenters ‘The Thing’ about the game, with the ice planet and dormant alien DNA, so I would like to see some ideas implemented in like that. That would be able to generate a good level of Horror for sure! I would also love to see a remake of 3 being a huge success and then a 4th game being commissioned to conclude the story.

This would be a great time for Konami to have a collectors edition with a statue of Snake, however I would like to see a physical disc being included in a pack like that though, don’t like the way the industry is moving away from discs in Collectors Sets being removed and replaced by a code. On topic, the game looks outstanding in Unreal Engine 5 and I definitely feel excited to replay this game again as it is probably my favourite entry in the franchise!

The good thing about Sonys business model is this game is being bought by their fans with the full intention of playing, rather than downloading and trying for a few hours because it’s on a subscription service. These numbers are pretty incredible and it’s genuinely worthy of them, so far I have personally enjoyed Spiderman 2 immensely, and I am mostly just sight seeing and taking screenshots!

No thanks, this will be an easy pass.

I would love to see Sony buy CD Project Red, because they would help offset the fact that PlayStation have lost so many RPGs with Bethesdas Xbox exclusivities, but with Herman still loitering, it would not surprise me in the slightest if the next acquisition was another GaaS company.

It’s a real shame that Sony didn’t include a condition for all retro titles that launched on the Premium service to have a requirement for Trophies to be included. I would have loved to have gone for Platinums for both of Namcos releases this month.

I would be utterly amazed if this does come to fruition that it would arrive on PlayStation and once the Activision Blizzard acquisition is completed by Microsoft, it will end all releases of all AB games to the PS4/5 except Call of Duty..

I am very much looking forward to getting my hands on the game, but I have a lot of awesome games to play until release, so I am not chomping at the bit. That’s not to say I’m not hyped, but this has simply just been a really good year for games! 😅

I don’t know what I would do if Sony went all out for Live Service, as the single player experiences that they offer is one of the main reasons why I choose to game on
PlayStation above all else. I think they should let Bungie focus on the Live Service aspects of the business and get all other First Party teams to do what they do best. Honestly, it would actually be for the best for Sony to taste nothing but failure when it comes to live service. Seeing the utterly terrible press that accompanied the reveal of Suicide Squad should be a good learning point, because Rocksteady had a pretty great reputation leading up to this point and one mistake has really hit them hard and the game ain’t even out yet. Other games like Babylons Fall and the Avengers game have been a pure disaster too. Games like Fortnite, Destiny and COD have really got the live service shored up at this Point. The money that will be lost trying to crack the market now could definitely be put to far better use by Sony in creating the AAA story driven extravaganzas that have put them in such a great place in the industry!

Whatever negative that can be said about Jim Ryan, he presided over an absolute giant growth of the PlayStation Brand after a pandemic and then the fallout caused by that with global shortages of components to make PS5 consoles, so on that side he did an awesome job. And contrary to public opinion, I definitely prefer him to Phil Spencer’s lies.

I personally wouldn’t want to see any developer throw their full weight into Live Service titles moving forward. I far prefer single player, story driven titles, and Sony really are good at these in my opinion! I would hate to live in a world where live service took over, so I am more than happy to see these GAAS titles are cancelled before release!

@QuietintheCorner Yep, clarity at its best!

@Loamy Case by Case was just Phil’s way of spinning it that they would look at each game that was coming out and say No to a PlayStation version. I am pretty convinced that there will not be a game made by Bethesda going forward that will be released on PlayStation. And Phil wants as many games played by as many people…

I have been a fan of Capcom since I first played UN Squadron on the Super Nintendo, so to hear that they wouldn’t allow themselves to me acquired by Microsoft is the best news for sure! I think everyone deserves to play as many games from as many developers as possible and I would genuinely have hated above all other developers if there was ever a time where Capcom weren’t making games for all formats!

With all the patter coming from Phil Spencer, I would have thought StarField would still be in the physical chart for the next couple of years. I tried it for a couple of hours myself and couldn’t really get into it Personally at all. On topic it’s great to see Lies of P in the top 3, it’s an awesome game so far!

Sony should probably start announcing a few things that they have been working on lately as far as their AAA teams are concerned. All this news about AB is definitely going to work in Microsoft’s favour, good or bad. Would also like to see a few acquisitions as far as Sony are concerned too. Not because to compete on the acquisition front, but more to keep games that are already available on PlayStation there for the long term. Microsoft ain’t done with acquisitions in their own right and I really wish Sony would look at WB games or CD Project Red, the later especially since going forward, RPGs are going to be thin on the ground for Sony, especially with Bethesda games and Diablo not available very long going forward either. Gaming is looking very poor for the future..

I got the game a week early thanks to the Premium Edition and although it’s a typically awesome entry from NetherRealms, I definitely would say that 10 and 11 are better games. MK1 is also missing some characters that I would have thought were Shoe ins, but it’s still an awesome game like I said. Having Smoke in the lineup really helped aswell!! 😄

I was one of the people who waited to play this game, I always expected Project Red would get this game to the quality they would have wanted, so I’ll probably get to it when the DLC drops!

I went in with very low expectations, but the Separate Ways DLC, Spider-Man 2 trailer, Avatar and The awesome Final Fantasy 7 trailer made this, for me at least, a really good State of Play!

@tallythwack Cheers, I’ll check it out. My TV is a Sony, do I would have thought it would have looked amazing..

I actually switched HDR off on the PlayStation 5 as I found that the colours didn’t look nearly as vibrant with the setting on. I played around with it using loads of different games and I definitely feel HDR off makes everything look way better. It may be down to my TV of course, but it is quite new. On Topic, I am really looking forward to Spider-Man 2. October can’t come quick enough!!

I’m playing Bomb Rush Cyberfunk on PlayStation! I was a huge fan of Jet Set Radio and this is a worthy spiritual successor to that game! On Xbox, yep I’m playing Starfield! So far it’s been quite good, but the menu system is definitely a bit cumbersome. Apart from that it’s a very solid game. It will keep me busy until Spiderman 2.

Square will come out next to say that sales have been ‘disappointing’…

@SlipperyFish yeah, I remember that. I guess that there will be more to come from them, that’s for sure!

I’m not too surprised that there is a price increase coming, but I thought Xbox would have increased their GamePass first. I have Premium at the moment, but I will definitely drop down to Extra moving forward.

I’m actually starting to think now that the reason Bungie shot down the factions 2 multiplayer is because they saw Naughty Dog as too much of competitor that was perhaps doing a lot of things better than expected.. I played Destiny 2 for the first time not too long ago and initially there was a lot to do for myself, definitely felt a bit overwhelmed even, but I would definitely say that the LightFall campaign was the low point of the experience. I would say that they Witch Queen was really good though, definitely my favourite.

As of right now, GAME in the UK still have the Spider-Man 2 Dual Sense pads on their site. Hopefully legit fans can pick them up for the RRP!

Blizzard are doing everything in their power right now to show people how NOT to support a game after release. I did buy Diablo 4, but I haven’t yet played it and with the way things are going, I don’t think I’m going to bother for the time being at all.

I am going to buy the Panels and the Dual Sense Control Pad. Really happy that Sony went with the Option to sell these separately as I would hate to buy a £500+ console again to receive the Collectors Edition design and also to take away from someone wanting to buy this edition as the first console they are purchasing! I have also pre ordered the Collectors Edition of the game, so it’s going to be an expensive release for myself and I am very excited to play the game!! Hopefully Sony do a few more panel releases going forward like this, would really like to have a Naughty Dog inspired release or a God of War theme!

All the best to Evan Wells, but Neil in charge solely? Oh man….

Hopefully it stays very true to the original game, but has the graphics of Red Dead 2! I would definitely be interested in revisiting the game though as I thought the original was amazing. Sadly I wasn’t really a fan of the second game at all, but perhaps I will give that another go in the future.

Good!! I definitely don’t want to have my
Choice made as to which console I play on and Sega games would definitely make me have to think things over!

Amazing, Microsoft buys Bethesda because they were worried about their games getting blocked on the Xbox….. and then they block Bethesda games from being on PlayStation!! You couldn’t make this craziness up! Microsoft smoke some crazy shiz!!

I preordered this a while back, but with the lack of favour towards the game now, with the crazy delays and reboots, I think it best to pass on this game at launch and wait and see what the critics and reviewers think instead.

@ApostateMage I felt the same way. So far through games I have played, Dead Space has looked the best this gen for me. Although impressive, I definitely wouldn’t describe Final Fantasy 16s graphics as spectacular. Gameplay and story from the demo is another thing altogether, that was spectacular!!

I knew all these acquisitions that were being made by these guys would backfire. One acquisition I am a bit worried about is Limited Run. Hopefully that doesn’t get effected by layoffs or closures. I have a copy of Radiant Silvergun that I bought around 6 months ago from them that has yet to be released and I don’t want to lose out on that anytime soon!

I didn’t expect any new announcements from Capcom on this showcase, so it was a great way to see more about games that aren’t too far off! Ghost Trick looked awesome, really looking forward to Exoprimal, anything about Dragons Dogma 2 is a win for sure and although sad news about Pragmata, it’s good to at least know that the game is still on the way. All in all, I honestly enjoyed the showcase!

With so many awesome games out at the moment and for the rest of the year, I am not too upset to see Pragmata is delayed. At least Capcom are keeping us all in the loop, I know it will definitely be worth the wait for sure!

I would like to see Sony announce a proper first party showcase in the future. There is nothing wrong with showing 3rd party upcoming titles, but I really expected to see 10 or so first party titles at Sonys showcase.

Crazy glitches, connection issues, disappearing Boat propeller (we have a boat, the propeller is glitched was one of the most common statements in a boost session I did) deranged drivers killing survivors, simply put the most fun I have ever had in multiplayer gaming!! Used to play with friends every Friday night for 3 hours at a time for well over 2 years and I wouldn’t trade that time for anything. I will personally really miss this game. So good!