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@Constable_What...... MGS2 not bombing is due to Kojima being at the top of the game and us being enthralled by a superstar dev. Similar to Maradona getting away with nonsense because of his Godly footballing skills. We moan at Neymar for diving cause he has not really achieved to his potential yet we let Ronaldo CR7 get away with because of his higher standing.

So no MGS2 was anything bu great, the first level is definitely out of this world whereas the rest of the game ever the opening level with Snake tanks.

It's the same reason the game ranks low and why the is constant request for MGS remake and not Sons Of Liberty. MGS2 survived because of the success of MGS.

Death Stranding showed Kojima that we still hold him in high regards but he will not get away with another Raiden moment hence the sales.

@nessisonett...... Oh snap.... Hope I didn't spoil anything for you... Sorry about that

You feel the love the devs had for this game.

Also the best part for me is how Alexoius does not take himself oh so serious even though his life has mostly been a f up.

Yeah Ubi need to give the team that made odyssey a crack at Far Cry. I heard they made Fenix Rising and a lot of people who have played it says it is good, so this team is very talented.

By the way have you done the lead up story to the 100 hands tournament........all I can is that...........Oh my God this dev team knows how to f a person up with emotions.

For me AC oddysey is the Greek Mythology game I have always wanted ever since I was completely jaw dropped by Gerlad Butler and his 300 Spartans at the hot gates.......

@Boucho11... Just as an interest which Open world gaming world is exciting or interesting as I find all open world games world's and also gaming worlds boring in general once the Main story finishes, even the Witcher 3 world's is boring once you finish with the story and so is God of War.

Other that Horizon Zero Dawn's world because of the magnificently rendered mechnosaurs which is amazing even with no story a lot of open world game's are pretty boring.

@BoldAndBrash..... As a newbie to the series ( Odyssey is my initiation), I can say to old fans and loaysl fans of the series that what changed it from the original series first run was FAR CRY PRIMAL. Every AC game starting with Origins is a derivative of Far Cry Primal.

Also the original creator of the series now runs the studio that released Ancestors a human Odyssey.

@xcleverfoxx..... Ubisoft needs to upgrade the team that did Odyssey to high status in the organization. I just finished oddey last and already I really miss Alexios. Apart from Snake and gent47, Alexios is one of the Video game's protagonist that I really connected with. Also the team deserve massive applause for the world building, I have never felt in a world like I did in Odyssey, e.g. GTA is usually big in terms of world building but it never give you they feeling that you are Ina real world, it always feels gamey. They literary put Greece in a video and it feels like you really are in Greece. Oh and Socrates is just Golden.

Also Ubisoft needs to give the team that made Valiant Hearts a crack on their bigger franchises like far cry

@nessisonett... YEAH THE Gates OF ATLANTIS With Pythagoras is amazing and very well done and executed in AC oddssey. The Minotaur storyline just pulls heart strings

@ATaco.... The biggest problem in gaming is the PC community. Gaming to them is about fretting over GPS, Resolution, refresh rates, ram, process and so on. PC gaming is about being concerned about the hardware more than the actual game, being concerned that the games runs smooth instead of being concerned about the game being good or being up to an adequate standard, its the PC crowd that gave rise to Beta testing and early access nonsense in gaming, I mean PUBG was not a game in the traditional game sense, the whole game is a early access beta unfinished software and the PC crowd made it popular and did the dev release a finished game? Nope PUBG is still an unfinished that was released with the publisher making full profit on work they did not finish.

The CDPR dev can lie about being forced to release but they are lying as they committed to 2020 release to the management, this game was supposed to release in 2022 but after funding the game for 8 years of development there was no way management were going to fund the game for a further 2 years hence they took the gamble willingly knowing very well that the gaming community does not have quality standards cause if we did then Fortnite, Fifa, COD would stop selling like hot cakes long ago.

It must be depressing to other devs and publishers as Fortnite, COD and Fifa are currently the cheapest games to make as they require no effort or risk, just shiny textures and monopolistic licensing deals.

Why risk your money and creative risk when EA Canada easily sells 20 + million copies each by selling shinny graphics.

CP2077 is also a visual corridor splenderbut a shallow game by CDPR's Witcher 3 standard.

@get2sammyb.... If Sony secures Black Myth then they will break the internet on the 29 th an Xbox will be in real trouble and all Zenimax Studios will be under pressure to produce a matching blockbuster which may lead to the Xbox cheque book being open again.

If it's the inverse with Xbox securing Black Myth then GAMEPASS will start to look like something realty good to get.

But the likely scenario is that it will be avaible on GP and we will have to pay $70 for it with neither company able to secure GameScience, they look like the next big think to come out of Asia.

In another topic, it will be a real shock if Epic and Sony actually made the UE5 showcase title a fully fledge game..........

@NEStalgia..... MILES Morales winning best character instead of Abby (panderic to the gaming macho crowd) and CP2077 being nominated(pandering to the PC Master race as it's currently the PC graphics card advertiser and hence only game that make PC relevant because of the high textures) invalidates everything you just said and also invalidates the awards. This makes the awards controversial.

Also Ghosts can't hold a candle to Ori's soundtrack, but then Ori did not get endorsed by a whole city so there is that.

Like i said before, out of all awards shows for games released last year the DICE awards are a disgrace, Apart from TLOU, FF7R, GOT and Hades, every other nominee is nominated in a category they have no chance of winning, I mean really is Dirt5 the best racing game released in 2020?

So I expected more from DICE by they are always controversial like awarding Untitle Goose Game game if the year as there is no release year where Untitle d Goose Game become game of the year, that just Dice being controversial like the Oscar's blatantly denying Leonard Di Caprio his deserved Oscar's of over 30 years, still unbelievable that Leonard only has an Oscar for the Revenent.

@Constable_What.....
But Raiden is still a ***** protagonist to play...... The controversy with MGS2 is not the story as we really could give a sh** about story in 2001/2002 we got pissed because Kojima knew we want to play as Snak3 so bad but He gave us Raiden. THERE'S 4th wall and then there is BS and Riaden is still BS to this day Except in MGS Rising

@Akurusu..... That's reaching and you know it.

I can tell immediately from anyone playing TLOUS II is a top notch superior games, just like you can tell that Cyberpunk is an overhyped graphically intense game that is at best generic without playing CP2077.

Everyone who likes Hades always mentions that you have to play it to get it...... Which says a lot about the game.

We must also remember that the PC Master besides foaming over GPS, pixels, over clocking, refresh rate, cooling systems, ram, processors, SSD and so on only have crumbs to pick from for games, hence anything that comes along slight better than the rest of the drivel get overhyped to the Alpha Centeuari star system.

For example Kentucky Route Zero and Disco Elysium will never get the same fever they got from the PC croud from the PS community and this is because PS community is used to high quality and best of the class gaming.

Pc gaming has the best hardware period but the games are not up to scratch, whereas PS may lack in hardware compared to PC but when it comes to games Playstation is the G. O. A. T system of gaming, the amount and quality of games on Playstation has not competition in the entire industry for the past 25-27 years of gaming

@TuckNorris85... Maybe that was the point........ To actually get the player to be emotionally invested so as to invoke feeling of anger thus fostering the games theme that revenge is never really a good thing in the skeem of things unless you want to burn the whole world.

In contrast to most game characters who are mostly there to service the player either by being part of the story or being a supporting character.

The other character in video game history which I can remember who does not service the interest of the player is Trico from The Last Guardian.

In votrast everyone video game protagonist just jocks us the players(i.e. They are there to give us video game BJ's, stroke our egos and only exist to keep us in ganged and don't they own personality).

Contrast that to both Abby and Trico, who do their own thing in their own time and really don't care about the players' intentions.

This is what makes them stand out as video game character's

@ecin..... I agree too, out of all awards shows/ceremonies these DICE awards are the lamest..... The variety of nominations is shocking....... There is no way in terms of characterisation Miles Morales is better than Abby

@sawaoyamanaka....... Yep I have to agree there.... I think the Dice Awards should be stripped of the oscars' status, out of all awards ceremonies for games released last year this list of nominations feels like doctor it's like they chose their favorite in each category and grouped their favourite with games that have no chance of winning. In terms of Character in don't think any game character tops Abby yet Miles take it..... I mean come on......... The Dice awards are a little underwhelming

@thefourfoldroot...... You sound like you have financial interest at JP Morgan hence why you are sad this did not go through.

The only way that this can be viewed as even slighty okay is if you have financial interest in the ESL, other than that, no other reason or excuse justifies it, even the corruption of FIFA and the different FA's around the world.

PS: You cannot watch WWE wrestling and not have a favorite wrestler and claim that you are a fan of the sport, you must have a favorite. Which is the same with soccer if you don't support a team then you not a Soccer fan but a Casual (i.e you like cause everyone likes it or you like cause it's in vogue) just like in video games. Which means you don't watch much soccer or are not a soccer fan cause you would have already come across a team that clicks with you. It's just same also in video game you play game yearly for 5 to 10 years and not come across a game you like a lot more than the others you have played cause then you are not a gamer, you adjust a causal going through fads......

@thefourfoldroot....... Please stop talking about football/soccer as clearly it is not your sport and you are not a fan...... Everybody has explained the situation to you yet you keep on moving the goal post.

No soccer fan takes any competition seriously which their supported team does not work hard for or gets invited........ Those are friendlies and not competitions.......

There is a reason why nations have to qualify for a world cup and not participate on invitation.

So just rather talk about games as clearly soccer is not your passion and following.

This is bad for soccer not matter how you or anyone spins it.

@QueenKittenWrite.... That is precisely why everybody is up in arms.... They are trying to turn football into NBA or NFL, no competition just novelty.......
If want sports entertainment I don't watch NBA or NFL, I watch WWE.....

@ShogunRok
That most probably correct what you and Liam are saying.... I live in South Africa we don't have a scalper problem however the Ps5 has been sold out since launce and outsells immediately on availability, unless you check availability of the store online you will not find one by going into a store unless by some chance of being there the right time, this also shows a slight indication that it will be even more in demend once availability is a bit stable, Sony may actually Surpass the Ps2 sales with 2 machines or 3(if Ps5 pro launches whin next 3.5 years, as we are unlikely to see the Ps4 disappear for the next 4.5 years.

@2cents
Yep I am making it my new background too.... It's so cool, they just needed to put a Ps5 in his hands with the caption "It prints Money".... Lol

@LiterallyDoNotCare.... Lol demon Sauls...... Yep atleast now Sony and Fromm Software will realize that they NES to put in an easy mode for other types of games..... Not everyone has time to waste on a game to "Get Gud"...... Sure the "Get Gud" croud are pissed.....

This means atleast we will get a Very Good EldenRing and not a "Get Gud" too oriented..... Lol

@Paranoimia...
Because VR is new market that nobody currently owns and Sony are currently leading it with the PSVR with gaming about to go streaming and completely non-physical or online the next boom in gaming is the VR, not a lot of people were intreasted in VR lasy gen but I can tell you PSVR2 will easily sell past 10 million copies this will make devs to shift focus to VR you can already see some big dev experimenting on it e.g IO Interactive with Hitman 3.

Whereaa hand held is completely owned by Nintendo and trying gain a market share from the switch is fruitless hence it did not make sense to contine with Playstation Mobile and to miss out on VR would be foolish and stupid seeing as that is what gaming will go to.

@Col_McCafferty...... The gaming industry has done a crime on AC Odyssey, you can critisise everything about the game but the world building is a technical achievement that should be standard going forward.

It is the first 3d game where every piece of land you see on the screen you can go to.

Open world games should be like at minimal AC odyssey world.

It's a double edged sword. On one hand kudos to the guy for the fix and R* for acknowledging him....

On the other hand it means this whole fix after launch and bug fixes is actually nonsense, this game is now 3 generations old yet R* did not attempt to fix the horrible load times. If R* are this lazy what about the games that actually release in game breaking buggy states........

@NEStalgia....... But ps3 sold 83-86 million whereas 360 sold 63 at best 75 million with a full year ahead of launch. So except for US where all American products due tend to dominate forereign e.g. IPhone is dominant in the US more than any market which is what makes US super rich as they super circulate more money locally in the US and more more local goods than any country worlwide , Europe and everywhere else ps3 beat 360.

So what ps3 lost most was the US market, hence Sony's push towards US in the Ps4 gen even culminating with HQ moving to the US.

@NEStalgia..... I would like to correct you on the ps3. Sony did not give the middle finger to the devs, the IBM-Sony power pc cell architecture took time to develop tools for, X360 was same architecture as Xbox hence the quicker release of the 360, when Ms launched Sony where way behind, the ps3 was technically supposed to launched in 2008. Essentially the Ps3 launched without dev tools because it was forced launched as they could not afford to launch 2 years late. So the Sony engineers had to work with devs when making a game almost like teaching them from scratch how to program the games on the system as Mark Cerny has elaborated it took the ps3 6 to 12 months to triangle whereas ps5 is less than 1 month, ps1 being 1 month, ps2 and Ps4 being 2-3 months.

The price of the ps3 was not a rip of also as the power pc system including Nvidia graphics card was expensive but also the Sony developed blue-ray was new and the ps3 was still the cheapest blueray player on the market.

So because of MS early launch ps3 suffered as follows:

Expensive new tech - power pc+blueray+ps1+ps2
Rediculed innovation - six axxis
Needing to match what Microsoft did - i.e. Success of Bungie's Halo led to people wanting to see Sony response or reaction to Halo - which is why there was pressure with no games being showcased for launch for the consol ( cause devs had to decipher the cell architecture, because of no dev tools available ), so everybody wanted to see Sony's answer to Halo

This led to Ken Kutaragi to say (probably under immense pressure from gamers, management and investors) that the Ps3 can launch with any game for a year and people will still buy it, which made gamers pissed and nailed their decision to get the 360 on launch hence 360's early moment.

The 360/Ps3 Era actually casts a bad reflection on both Microsoft and Xbox because they launched first yet they sold the least consoles at the end.

Also Microsoft's selling noise and marketing has been top notch since the very first Xbox and the are very good at focasting or selling what might come up for Xbox in the future very well since the from 1999/2000 when we first saw marketing of the Xbox and the have delivered in some of those promise and foaled in others.

So yeah interesting, but I think the nex gen will be defined by the next 18-24 months.

So the the Ps3 misfortune launch was not due to ARRONGANT SONY, it was Sony trying to innovate but system R&D and Architecture cost them time to optimize the system for the dev, which led to a domino of events hence the things that happened to the Ps3 launch.

Funny thing is that Sony had had BC on two consoles and 1 and all of a sudden its a popular thing when Sony does not include it on the Ps4.

@JohnKarnes.... No I am not nocking your comment down.

I was just implying that the free work Hello have done since the dismally launch deserves to be enjoyed by the masses, but the game in its current state will not get or be able to build a huge gamers community/ large following.

The initial survival premise of the game is very nice, but after the 3rd planet were all you do is mine minerals to build advance tech or fuel, it feels like you have seen the entire game as that is exactly what you will be doing on the 4th planet, the 5th and so on, so it basically becomes a fuel minung/grinding game with the point being how far your space craft can go before you run out of fuel and need to mine again for some.

That is pretty boring, generic and repetitive.

Also the game has a narrive error / or its logic does not make sense, as you have very advance tech, yet all you do is to go plane to planet mining basic minerals, after a while the exploration becomes pointless and the game play become tedious and tiring.

I think a game such as Eve Online does a better job for a space exploration /simulation game.

Surely some advance civilisation built the tech you are using, so where are they? Cause surely they would have been able to colonize some star system and terraform the planets.

This is just advanced space ship exploring Dinosaur Era planets, literally all planets have pre-historic or pre-civilisation or pre-humanity life forms, yet the tech suggest a human type of intelligence yet its totally absent from the entire universe.

Hence the game needs a serious story to tell as its Wonderer/ Explore premise just does not cut it at the moment.

@thefourfoldroot..... But it means a shed lot more people will hold out for the 3 and half years, I mean what do you gain by paying $70 now as opposed to $5 - $20 with all bells and whistles in 3 years time. I mean anyone playing HZD on PC for the first time today is getting the same experience as people who played it for the first time in 2017, only different is that the 2017 people made Sony rich by buying the Ps4, buying the game and subscribing to PS+, PS Now. The 2020 people don't need to give Sony a thing, heck they can even get the game for free via pirating.

There is some guy on this comments section who mentioned that for the Ps4 install base, the 1st party games are not selling much and his comment now sounds truer than ever.

It's like Sony are saying we're are not buying enough copies of the blockbuster 1st party releases.

I can bet you that if HZD, Days Gone or a majority of Sony 1st party games were selling 40-60 million copies per release then we would not been having a this discussion.

@Serialsid......... @Matroska is correct.......

You are justing making up the reasons for Joel to your narrative that he kills because he has no choice or that anything he does in the game he is forced to and its a total lie.

By the final chapter of the game both you the gamer/player and Joel have learned one thing and it is that Ellie is not some scared, naive, little girl who cannot take care of herself, i.e. She can handle the truth as opposed to Joel who cannot handle the truth.

That is exactly why he lied to Ellie, because he knew what he has just did was wrong and he was not man enough to tell Ellie, you can clearly see and feel Ellie's distrust of him as the game rolls the final scene.....

So the events of part 2 are exactly what Joel has setup to know happen to him by his actions in Part1.

People are angry because a white male got killed by a transgender person. That is what everybody does not want to admit and keep hiding behind "it's a bad story", yes it is a bad story because it does not confirm to the White male is a Superhero even if he does bad selfish things to people or even kills them.

I am not sure if the reaction would have been the same if Ellie was killed instead of Joel, I think it would have accepted by the so called haters of part2, which ironically proves Naughty Dog right actual nails what they were trying to achieve.

This game was released now 8 months ago, all games from 2020 don't get this much conversation, even Cyberpunk2077 is not talked about this much unless people are moaning about the updates.

It shows Naughty Dog's genius, my mind boggles at the thought of what they can come up with next.

@Rob_230........ It is concerning and it is right now one serious profit or return on investment war.

Because the DRM and Live Service projections are not going as per the predictions of speculators in the game industry, now the content creators/game developers/studios have become hot property. Hence they being bought right, left and center like slaves during the slave trades periods.

And all for one this, not to enhance game, not expanse and advance the medium or industry. All of this is just for profiteering.

I mean EA bought a lot of high profile and critically acclaimed studios over the last 15 years, yet the only studio that gets given way more than enough resources to continuously release a game for EA is EA Canada who develop FIFA. All of those studios EA bought have been reduced to shells with most if not all closed down.

So EA has not been able to make Need For Speed a cash cow just like FIFA and have been lazy and releasing bad Needs for Speed games, and the gamers responded accordingly by not buying them and playing other racing games, so what does EA do to solve this problem, they don't innovate or revive the series, they buy the competition. Codemasters are now dead along with about 5 racing type games including a formula 1 racing game. It must be a nightmare if you are Slightly Mad Studios to make an effort to run away from EA only to be back right inside the big firm.

Cause EA will not priotize any other racing game(s) over Need For Seed, so Code masters will be bogged down with trying to make need for speed profitable and closer to being like FIFA Ultimate Team.

They have not given Criterion permission or resource to make the Burnout games, so I don't see that changing with Code masters.

It's the same with Microsoft, they took are high profile Studio in RARE who had critically acclaimed IPs. Can you even call Rare a developer this days or it just a shell company of Microsoft Xbox division.

This is what scares me about these buyouts even from Sony, for example if they do buyout say Bluepoint, do you see them allowing them to make anything except Remaster?

The company that will really shift the gaming landscape is the company that will buy Rockstar and make GTA exclusive to them.

People will buy a gaming system only for GTA.

@IonMagus.... You sound like an Xbox troll or either have shares at Sony to be this hesterically paranoid about MS buying Zenimax...

You make it like Zenimax games have been burning up the charts in the last gen.

NAME 10 Zenimax games that have sold more than 15 miliion in the past generation.

Here is the list of games that consistently top the charts(i.e. People like them a lot hence buy them in droves) and these are the games that make huge physical and online sales money in gaming:
GtA
FiFA
CoD
FORTNIGHTE
and to a certain extent Witcher

Sony 1st part games have been 10million + sellers in the past generation bar a few exceptions.

No Zenimax games have sold half of the games sold by the games mentioned above. Their games are mostly 1 million sellers and most even don't struggle to reach 1million, at most if they are good they sell 5 million with 10 million being a stretch and none of them are masterpieces or system sellers. They are good to have if they are available otherwise they really don't matter much if only available to Xbox.

e.g. It would be nice to have Deus Ex or Thief or Dishonored, but it really does not feel like a loss to not have them. By the way I have not played those game this Gen and I don't feel like I missed out on anything special. People are not playing FALLOUT 4 or Skyrim v or Thief or Dishonored on their Ps5. They are playing COD, fifa and will all soon be re-buying GT5 again on PS5 and its the same on Xbox SX.

If these games were locked to MS then we would have a serious real problem on PS.

Now if people are looking for Sony's answer to the Zenimax deal(which was before the Zenimax deal) , then that company filling the gap/hole is non other than Square Enix, sure they will still release multiplaform games but they have more exclusive work being done with Sony.

@LordSteev.... Nope your argument was an over-simplified version of "OH, ANOTHER WOKE STUDIO, DEFINITELY NOT GONNA BUY ANYTHING FROM THEM, ALL THEIR GAMES ARE GOING TO BE DUDS AND BORING VAPORWARE"

Thats the over-simplification I got from your comment.

Nothing in the article mentions their future work or upcoming titles, just the work environment they want to foster and your total take from the entire article is that they are not gonna produce a masterpiece cause masterpieces only happen in non-inclusive, non-balance, individualistic and non-team work based studios......

That is a Donald Trump view of the world

@thefourfoldroot... The problem with both your arguments is that they are paper arguments in that they are not based on reality, they are almost thought-experiement arguments of what if scenarios.

Name one company or institution that embraces inclusivity, balance and team work that has gone to the ground or closed down.

I can name you one, Google with is in the top of tech companies worldwide.

Also going to hiring, which company in the world world hire anyone not based on skill/talent unless you are talking about politics or politically linked companies.

First you must have the talent/skill but then you must be able to live/operate within the company culture which in a company owned by honest people with integrity, that company culture would include inclusivity, balance and team work.

What you guys are referring to is more akin to your Simon Cowel with AGT, that news anchor who a lot of ladies came forward accusing of sexual harrassment forgot his name and Billy Cosby and the guys just recently fired by Ubisoft. All those guys are talented but they are doosh BAGS who did what they wanted and abused people and the companies they worked for encouraged their bad behavior and attitudes because they knew they could not be touched because they were the "TALENT" until someone blew the whistle to the public and the companies got embarrassed and fired those guys except for Simon Cowell of course.

We gamers have given Ubisoft grief about how they have let this go on for years, but you guys come on here and be like "IT'S NOT SO BAD AS LONG AS WE KEEP THE TALENT HAPPY"

So no both you arguments belong in the 60's or late nineties or eerly 200s not in 2021.

As such I belive London Studio will produce masterpiece particularly because of this culture of inclusivity, balance and team work that they are pushing forward.

PS: The biggest company in gaming know for encouraging and pushing for inclusivity, balance and team work is non other than BIG Boy SONY, as we've heard devs left, right and center singing their praises about how magnificent it is to work for or with Sony who give their studio complete freedom. Which is what I m getting that London studio is aiming for from this article.

So nope I totally disagree with both of you, and it is an outdated view of the world and the workworld.

@LordSteev...... Your response does not make sense. It's like you are making it up to justify your initial implication as there is not a single work environment that matches what you have just described in your response. It's always a concerted effort were everyone's ideas are heard but the final decision is taken by the team leaders or directors with the whole team in agreement.

What they are describing sounds more like what we have heard of companies like google and media Molecule of how inclusive, balanced and team spirit oriented they are and we know Google is a top tech company and Sony has not closed Media Molecule and their games are critically acclaimed.

What you seem to be pushing for is more of a Ubisoft type of environment before resently when those scoundrels/weasel directors were fired. It was their way or the highway cause they were more experienced as you say, but that resulted in a sexism environment full of sexual harassment, crunch and general boys club attitude with no creativity and you either had accept the crappy environment and treatment or leave. This also resulted in monotonous, boring, predictable and bloated games filled with filler and mtx and loot boxes which we gamers are complaining about.

So now which masterpiece has Ubisoft released in the last 10 years as according to your logic that toxic environment is what produces masterpieces, yet games like DREAMS completely make your argument silly.

@JohnKarnes...... Now if Hello game can add a serious story to the game, something to work towards too, almost like a current open world game hand holding, cause the universe in NMS is too vast for just wondering around planet to planet as after a while it get boring and tedious.

Also the universe is too non-civilised, as it would be nice to find a colonized world that has already been terratormed with communities living instead of each planet being a varion of the Dinosaur Era on earth, it really get boring quick as you explore for no purpose and the immersion is broken by each world being barren. I mean it's universe of advance spaceships yet no has terraform any world like the humans have the earth yet the humans tech is less advanced than the tech of the space ship and other tools, it totally breaks immersion.

@NEStalgia... 100% correct. And Yep GTA online is more suited for a mobile on the go console like the switch where you can dip for the few minutes you get while traveling on a bus or taxi or train or while trying to kill time on the road. But yep the casual western crowd like it for home consoles.

Talking about board games. One thing I would like is if CDPR releases a fully fledged open world Gwent game, where there is an open world game with npc's and they stories and you interact with the world but the whole point of the game being the Gwent card game. It would be my most played game.

Monster Hunter is also an incredible game that the west audience has slept on in my opinion.

@NEStalgia...... I think above all or most games it has the most relaxed easy go lucky feel in that you can quickly play it for 5 minutes or be immersed for hours. So it's easy to dip in and out cause it takes seconds to see something interesting in the games' world.

It is almost like the Fifa or Pes of open world games in terms of quick pick up and play bar it's loading times of course.

@Coltaine22..... You are correct both FIFA and PES don't change but reiterate some features then remove them and add them yearly.

I must admit I am also part of that football sports crowd. I suppose it's the love and addiction to the actual sports and the replayability of both games. A lot of game do boast about replayability and fun and hours of game play, but no game come anywhere near close Fifa and Pes in term of replayability and hour spent on a game, a can bet a rough estimate that eash user of FIFA or Pes spends 500+ hours on these game per year.

@LordSteev...... Nah.... I'm not here for an argument or trying to start one. It's just that from your comment you seem to be implying that game studios that have / or aim to have a harmonious/happy work ethos or ethic and environment do not produce masterpieces or gen defines or even GOTY type of games.

I think your comment is coming from the recent reports of crunch culture from studios like naughty dog and Rockstar, CDPR and those studios have Chun masterpieces like they have a conyevor belt for them.

However, a lot of the ps1 Era games were not done under toxic environments as we now have. A lot of indie studios have very much the type of environment being aim for by London studio and we know a lot of masterpieces released by indies.

So really I don't think your comment is a correct one. In fact I would say in game development studios toxidity stifles creativity.

@LordSteev... Final Fantasy 7 was made by a team that was super postive and enjoyed each other's company at lunch and still created a G. O. A. T masterpiece that is FF7 and FF8.

It is absurd to think that genius or timeless production only happens in toxic or hostile environments.

Greatness or timelessness masterpiece are produced both in hostile/toxic environments and also in harmonious/hapr environments.

Dreams is 100% proof of this, Media Molecule is way far from being what you would consider a toxic studio and Dreams was produced and released full without bugs without a single second of crunch.

So No, your assessment is entirety not correct

@Ken_Kaniff... How can we as fans make noise to let Sony know that if there is one franchise we want them to revive is The Getaway, also since the Studio making Wipeout and Ridge Racer is no longer making them, how about they revive the Rollcage racing serious since they own the license to that game....... Oh yeah and somebody need to revive the Jackie Stuntmaster IP or atleat give us a Remaster to the Ps1 game

@Amusei... Oh GTA 4 has the best Rain effects in the entire series....... In terms of story I like the Ballad of Gay Tony better than Niko's Story.

I really wish Rockstar worud make a mainline story involving Gay Tony or another Gay Gangster or gay Gang linked ganstar/protagonist or even continue the Gay Tony storyline.... ... It just adds a whole twist to the whole violence going on in the game.......

In fact I would like a protagonist who is gay or lgbt+, it would just add flavor and a twist to the whole madness of the GTA universe

@Vladspartan.... Man this is the comment of the day.

Dam give life its God damn lemons back

@Phelan... 100% correct, the Original GT3 and GTA San Andreas where the last GTAs where Rockstar focused on the plot, the rest of the time they have been busy with attention to detail of the world's which is amazing from GTA4 and its DLCs to Gta 5.

But now we need GTA to go beyond and top the plot of both Gta3 and GTA San Andreas............ I loved how the world was tied to the plot in San Andreas and absolutely love the 3 massive districs the world was slit to........ I want GTA to match the top the super big world of San Andreas and also to bring back the RPG elements (your physicality and health being affected by what you do in the world like in San Andreas) and open up the real estate so we can buy more house and be able to own more business and have more activities and this must be on the offline version instead of locking this in GTA online, they can do other things for the new GTA online

@invictus4000... Nope.

Some of my Favorite game(s) :
MGS
Alone in the dark
Witcher 3
Elders Scrolls V Skyrim
Super Mario 64
TUROK EVOLUTION
Elevator Action
Ballad of Gay Tony
Roll Cage Stage 2
Jackie Chan Stuntmaster
Karateka
Tekken 3
Tekken Tag Tournament
Hitman 2 Silent Assassin......

@Discol76... The fans made Sony to believe in it. It is the current market leader in the VR headset market, which means more publishers will develop games for it since it part of the Playstation family brand and growing.

Also coincidentally, PSVR is the reason PSP/VITA was discontinued. PSP/VITA has been chasing Nintendo DS's market dominance in the mobile market, so Sony were really just testing the waters with the PSVR and hit jackpot. Remember there are some really big boys in the VR headset space such as Nvidia, Facebook etc and Sony managed to beat them all with the PSVR, so when Sony saw the PSVR performance, they had to re-evaluate since they would have been the only platform holder to have Home console, mobile console and a VR headset/console in the market all at the same time.

So the decision was either to continue chasing Nintendo on the mobile market, to have 3 consoles out at the same time which will all need software investment and support, or to fully push the new platform in the market that does not have a leader in which the PSVR is currently blasting it. And the decision was a no brainer in favor of the PSVR.

I mean we have taken time to take to VR but the PSVR just make adsorption just so easy, you will find that PSVR2 will the buzz in the coming 5 to 6 years to the point that it maybe the last remain physically playstation console when everything goes online.

@GKO900.... They did learn their lesson. They learned that the PSVR is the number one leading VR headset in the entire market beating everything in sight, so they wanna double down on it before anyone gains traction.

PSVR is the reason SONY canned/discontinued the Mobile Playstation (PSP/VITA), as they have been chasing Nintendo in this market for years, so they were just trying their luck on the VR headset market and hit a jackpot, VR has taken time to take off but the PSVR which was the last kid to the market is now the big boss of the VR market which is what Sony wanted with the PSP but could not dethrone Nintendo.

PSVR may actually be the last remain physical home console with companies money to servers and storefronts and ecosystems cause looking forward when the physical home consoles get descontinued for mobile and servers, the VR headsets will be the last consoles to physically sit in your room while playing a game.

@djlard..... But you don't buy console game in enough numbers to keep the companies make them profitable to keep existing. You only buy game on discounts and sales and you also mourn about PS5 price games.

So what must devs do? Wait for you to wait for a sale or discount to buy the game.

Mobile gaming is cheap to make cost wise and very much profitable compared to console gaming for gaming companies.

If you want them to stop focusing on mobile the each release must sell like FIFA or COD,

@invictus4000... If you want the original FF7 game then there is the ps1, PsNow and the HD Remakes and also mobile remakes, or try the Ps1 emulators if you so want to play the game in its original Ps1 form.

We can't have a global multimillion company bowing down to self entitled, rose tinted wishes of an "apparent" original fanbase of the Ps1 game.

I certainly don't want a Ps1 visual upgrade on my Ps4 or PS5. Square made the right choice with Ps4 FF7 remake and we gamers who spoke with our wallets and bought it, Told square in hard Cash terms that they made the right call. F the original self entitled fan base as they are stuck in the past and holding games back.

The fan base of Bloodmoney cry blue murder when IO release a Hitman that does not play like bloodmoney yet the Hitman reboot Triology has barely made 5 million sales combined for all 3 games forcing IO to completely abandon the franchise to keep aflout otherwise they risk closing down for keeping the core fanbase happy.

I am glad Square is ditching the "supposed original hardcore FF7 ps1 fanbase" and this fanbase is force to play what square releases or abandoned the franchise, we will keep supporting all releases of FF7R until the entire story of the origin al is complete and you can keep mourning like entitle brats about "this is not what we wanted for our rose tinted FF7 ps1 remake"

So either you play what released on Ps4 or PS5 or look for a ps1 on ebay or try emulators or the HD remakes if you want the original FF7 Ps1 game experience

@ILikeStake... But Demon Souls and SOTC are combat based games that's don't have much story its just fighting till the games ends. So there really was nothing Bluepoint could add to both games hence they are just visual upgrades. Also SOTC is only being raved about because no one played it on the Ps2 so the remake was kind of like a new game.

Also Both remakes were also not done by the original developing studio hence Bluepoint could not or did not add anything to the games, kind of like the Crash remakes not being made by Naughty Dogs, the remake studio would not know what made the original game special hence would not want to mess with the games original fanbase. I think Demons Souls remake becomes a different game if done by Fromm Soft, there is nothing Bluepoint could add as they would not understand what made the game special hence the only thing they can do is just a visual upgrade, same with SOTC whereas FF7 is Square Enix's baby in that it's what we essentially know them for, they are the Final Fantasy gaming company, whereas Bluepoint have not done a game except for visual upgrades

Also the sales of Demons Souls Ps5 remake means you will never see a Bloodborne Remake, this was Sony testing if the Soulsborne IP's has gained popularity and it turns out they have not because the are boring, same reason Fromm Software is now putting a serious story/narrative to their combat style with Elden Ring.

Whereas FF7 is completely a story based game in that if you remove the story the game falls flat, It would have actually bombed and tarnished the name and reputation of the original Ps1 FF7 if it was just a visual upgrade.

Also the remakes of RE2 and RE3 and Crash Bandicoot Insane Triology have shown that gamers have a lot of rose tinted glasses for their eyes on games, those games never reached the sale heights or critical acclaim of the original games. This shows that the magic of the Ps1 launches can never be recreated, i.e. RE2 on Ps1 is a once off and can never be recreated which is the same for FF7 ps1. That's is why Resident Evil Village is continuing from the RE Biohazard formula and not the remakesbformula. If you want the magic the ps1 game brings on a Ps4 or Ps5 or modern pc it just would not work as just a visual upgrade, because the magic of FF7 ps1 comes from the fact that the game was specifically created the way it was created specifically to run on ps1 tech. If Square had Ps4 or Ps5 tech in 94-97 then FF7 ps1 would have turned out differently to what was released on Ps1.

It's kind of the same reason Valve will never ever make Half Life 3 and only did HL Alyx, its better to quit while you are on top/let an IP die while it is highly regarded, cause if you release it you will have a lot of people wanting tailor made experiences of the new game because they have rose tinted opinions or views of the previous games.

A quick example of this is Shuenme 3, people hacked on about how they want the remake or continuation of the original Dreamcast game the way it was on the dreamcast, and when the game was released as originally wanted by the fans the same fans said the game feels outdated or 2000ish and needs to be modernized.

@Serialsid.... I am definitely sure you are not a parent and pretty sure you blazed through the 1st game without understanding it and are just on hype band wagon of the 1st game since its held in high esteem.

Your entire comment or argument falls flat because Ellie is not Joel's daughter. Essentially they are strangers.

Joel's daughter died at the beginning of the game cause Joel could protect her cause is a weasel of a man and an excuse of a father.

In fact Joel met Ellie because Joel was smuggling/pimping /human trafficing Ellie for money.

And when he was supposed to do the final delivery, he backstabbed everyone for his weasel selfishness.

So Joel is an irresponsible Father, a cheat and cheapskate who will use anyone for quick cash and his survival, doesn't think twice about human trafficking young girls, children, kills and backstabs people, then the events of the Last Of Us Part2 are very much what should have happened to low life Joel.