The most important point for me is a whether Sony offer a physical option or not. If they force us to go digital only I'm far more likely to build a digital library on Steam than Playstation.
I think Sony are a bit concerned and they should be. I also think putting their exclusives on PC was a bit mistake. With no physical options or exclusive 1st party games they've willingly whittled down all selling points they had from my perspective.
This is where I'm going once there's no physical option from Playstation. Games on PS5 have actually been quite good for running from the disc.
But if I have to buy digital only, Steam is where it's at. I'm lucky I haven't built up a massive playstation digital library outside of the subscription, which I'm happy to let go.
The prices on Playstation store are awful compared to Steam. Plus, no extra cost to play online games either. You'd have to be pretty devoted to Sony to stick with them going forward without a thriving/cheap second hand market.
This kind of thinking only shows how little respect companies like Microsoft have for video games. Video games, TV, music, short form video and cinema are all different forms of entertainment. News flash, not one of them can capture everyone's attention.
If Microsoft want eyeballs in the short form video space they got into the wrong platform.
Idiots.
All this does is show that they have no interest in making anything of worth, all they care about is market share and control.
This is like someone in the music industry complaining that they're competing with art galleries. Just stick to what you're good at, treat your customers with respect and provide good quality products at the best possible value. Trying to start a fist fight with the wind, idiots.
If Xbox made better games than Sony and Nintendo, didn't have ads on the os menu, didn't try to force konnect in my home and push things like locking games to a console to kill the secondhand market and physical games, I might have considered them over the competition.
It's embarrassing that they don't acknowledge why so few people want to invest in their ecosystem. They've only had a negative impact on the gaming industry, it's that simple.
It's baffling to me that anyone would stick up for a company that is so intent on controlling and destroying a hobby they love so much. I suppose there's probably some kind of Stockholm syndrome thing going on with people who still stand by Microsoft.
Nah, I got a 30th anniversary pro, so now I'll try and fall in the pro cycle. But Sony will have to work for my money next gen. The prices, lack of innovation and move towards digital this gen have made me very wary going forward.
If things don't improve I'll just make the switch to PC where this old whale will be sailing the high seas and building a more reliable steam library of games if there's no proper physical option anymore.
It's a good game and I'm definitely enjoying it, but I think the difficulty is in a lot of the wrong places. There's way to much backtracking over long sections of the map through tedious performing sections when you die, particularly the red bouncy flower things. I can get through them, but it's not something I enjoy doing over and over very much. I wonder if the game would be much better if you could just save at the begining of each screen, or at least have 1 portable bench you can use once between main benches.
The whole subscription model is a trap designed to control what we play and how we play it.
It doesn't progress the industry in the favour of customers at all or encourage creativity from developers. The way MS has treated so many of the developers they've spent fortunes taking out of the industry and shutting down was inevitable. They're not interested in making interesting or fun games for us, they simply want to control the industry.
This is why it's important for consoles to reduce in price as a generation goes on. Adults with disposable income will prop up sales for a year or two with the younger gamers joining in as the prices drop, thus future safing the coming generations of punters as they grow up and start to have disposable income themselves.
It's also why it's important to have physical copies of games in the wild that people with less money can find down the line and latch onto franchises to help build company and brand loyalty.
It's insane that there's no cheaper option to play online. £70 a year to play online is disgusting really, especially when PC is still free to play games online. There should be an option to play online for £10 a year that doesn't include the extra games. I don't play any of the ps+ games anymore, I've got more than enough games to play already. Once a year I have to fork out an unnecessary amount of money to play games I've already paid a lot for in the way they were intended. All this does is leave a bad taste in the mouth on an annual basis, making me feel less enamored with Sony as time passes. That's not how you build a brand loyalty or a positive relationship with customers that you want to keep around for many years.
They'd do well to look at how From Software and even Square approached the souls and final fantasy progression.
Keep the core mechanics with some gradual development whilst introducing new stories and characters. If they keep going back to the same world and lore it'll become stale before the sequel even comes out.
I got a pro with the mindset that I'll wait a lot longer to jump into the PS6 generation. There's been so few genuine PS5 games this gen, being asked to buy a new console at this point seems like a slap in the face.
I'm not sure what they can do to be honest, they need to keep growing and making money, but what the industry really needs is to slow down and focus on making better games with what we have already, and on more manageable budgets.
Publishers and developer complain if their games don't sell well on release, whilst giving us no incentive to buy early. It's a shame for games like Death Stranding 2 and MGS3 Remake. I'll just wait until I see them cheap in a sale and play them when they're finished patching them. I'll at least try to buy them new so they get some money.
Basically, random guy says sky is blue. Everyone can see they've lost the plot in pursuit of an unrealistic goal. Anyone with any sense could tell you that successful live services start small and grow if they catch on or find a community.
Going in big on a bunch of gaas, try to manufacture a Zeitgeist was never going to happen. It was a fools errand from the off. Jim Ryan really did a number on Sony. The guy got away with murder, taking such a massive wage to tank the company the way he did.
"She then points to how, in the last five years, Helldivers 2, MLB The Show, Gran Turismo 7, and Destiny 2 have all started to contribute "to sales and profit in a stable manner"."
So actually, all they needed to do was make good games first, then build on them without intrusive forms of monetisation that aren't forced down the players' throats in every menu. That's some blue sky thinking right there.
@UltimateOtaku91 it'll be interesting to see how you feel about game key cards when the sell on value drops and you get half the money from selling them on when shops realise collectors don't want them.
Being able to turn the overworld map music off is very much appreciated. They've committed the cardinal sin of using music with a vocal loop in a common area of a game. Any song that loops in this way becomes unbearable for me eventually.
4 of the 6 games would have traditionally been on playstation platforms anyway, so all this really shows is how aggressive, greedy and irresponsible Microsoft have been, buying up all these developers and publishers.
You could argue that they've actually just still taken a number of games away from the platform, by either blocking Playstation versions, closing talented studios or cancelling interesting projects that would have come out on multiple platforms originally.
Been using my 30th anniversary Pro console and bundle since last September and don't regret opening it at all. It's the nicest luxury tech I've ever had, they should just make loads more of the bundles, I'm sure they'd sell millions of them. The PS5 pro should have just looked like this as standard imo.
I kind of enjoyed the first game, but it took me three bites of the cherry to get through it. The game felt very repetitive, so I had to take long breaks before I was ready to go back to it each time over an 18 month period.
I'm sure the sequel will be more of the same, so I'm in no rush to play it when there's so much else to play. I'll probably just borrow it from a friend in a year or so when I'm ready to stomach another map-mopper again. I'm sure it'll sell just fine though, and I'm glad so many people are getting what they want from it. Some of my friends live for this style of open world game, and it makes their year, so I'm glad they've got this to look forward to.
I still haven't finished the first game and it's also a bit too expensive for me right now, but I do want to support this kind of thing, so I'll make sure to buy a new copy when it's down to around £40.
Gaming has become more about the distribution and engagement than the quality and fun of the games. It's pretty rubbish. Oddly, there's more great games to play than ever. Strange times.
@Nepp67 yeah, I can't really express the range of joy to disappointment I felt when I saw the Duskbloods reveal. I'm sure it'll be interesting, but I just can't be bothered to join that boring online loop you have to fall into with online games like this.
Conflicted with this one. I don't like to see anyone fail, especially FromSoftware, but I really don't want to see more games like this coming from the studio.
I hope I'm wrong, but I'd be lying if I didn't secretly think that Elden Ring might be their last great game. It seems to happen to so many studios once they get a massive success like ER has been. We'll see, they haven't let me down yet, but this is the first game they've released in nearly 20 years that I have no interest in. I hope they don't stray too far from what got them to where they are today.
The real story here is that it appears journos have become tired or writing X (formally Twitter) haha. Meanwhile, everyone else still just calls it Twitter.
The second game's story has always been a bit whack. Eli leaving Dina and the baby for more revenge the second time was just silly. The core mechanics and gameplay were really good, but the lengths Eli went to to ruin everything for everyone was unbelievable.
It's no coincidence that the original team rejected the stupid idea of traveling across a country full of death and danger to kill one person, putting everyone around them at risk in the first game, for Neil D to take all the credit and then fall back on the same rejected story for the sequel.
I think Sony needs to conduct an investigation into decision making and investments made over the last decade, as it seems like something very dodgy has gone on or at the very least negligent. They could've taken almost anyone from the comments section on this site and they would've helped them avoid all these incredibly naive blunders they've walked face first into.
It's a really sad state of affairs. So much time and money wasted. Anyone and their dog could tell you that successful live service games start small and grow alongside their success and player base. Throwing hundreds of millions at projects trying to manufacture a gaming zeitgeist is beyond foolish. We all know what happens to fools and their money.
It's almost like selling a 20 hour shooting game on an empty disc for £70 has put people off. Who knew?!
I bought Eternal day 1 for £40 five years ago and enjoyed the hell out of it. They then try to release an inferior prequel for nearly twice the price and wonder why people aren't interested. People's pay has barely increased at all, why do they think we suddenly have all this extra money to spend on inferior digital rentals? Fools.
I don't get it. How can comments sections like this be so one sided, yet reports show physical media purchases are in such decline?
Loud minority is definitely a possibility, but even then it seems odd that so many are upset with the complete swing towards digital. All we can do is vote with our wallets, and hope there's enough of us to force a re-think.
Managed to get a copy, and for £40! Best game so far this year by a long way. Treats you with respect too. There is hope for the industry yet. The gaming community has a responsibility to support games like this if we want to send a message to the grubby publishers ruining everything at the moment.
They've been talking about dlc, but I really hope they don't. They should just focus on a sequel or new game.
Sony should pull an absolute baller move and drop their prices back down to £60. It could end up giving them even more control over the market. It would never happen, but would definitely cause a huge shift in their direction.
It's an interesting time in gaming history. I know it's probably my last engagement with a modern console generation, before moving over to PC, Steam, and the high seas. I wonder if it will work out for them. I just can't see it with wages not rising with inflation and the cost of living being so awful at the moment.
I predict a whole generation of kids growing up exclusively on free to play games and the current console providers being mostly irrelevant in 20 years. Parents will not be buying kids games for £75, it's just not going to happen.
I think it's time they make online play free again. It's simply not fair that we have to pay £70 year just play games we've already paid for online.
At the very least, there should be an online only option for £5 or something. Having access to important elements of games we've already paid money for should not be profited off of by Sony. It should only cover the cost of running the servers.
The 5-6 gen switch will definitely be an interesting one. I have no intention of buying in early, because I want to wait and see where Sony go in regards to disc drives, physical media and the games they make.
If they force everyone to go digital with loads more wasted time, money and effort on live service games and releases still taking 5+ years make, then I'm going to sit it out and probably move over to pc or stick with Nintendo.
Sony have some important choices to make and I don't think they're going to make the ones I'm hoping for if I'm honest.
Yeah, it's great. Probably the most fun I've had with a game this year. It's a shame that one of the best PSVR2 games will be lost once the online is shut down. They should definitely release a standalone version with everything on the disc that doesn't require online or any updates.
I bought a copy to put in a picture frame in my gaming room. Glad I did now, but I still don't think it'll ever get to Stadium Events levels of insanity. Even so, it's the biggest flop in video game history, of course a sealed copy is going to be worth something as a curiosity eventually.
I don't think this will flop or be a huge hit. It will simply be something that happens and be of little interest to most.
I suppose that one of the key factors will be if it's free or not. Saying that, I don't see this as something the kids will flock to and I don't see the older demographic being prepared to pay for it either.
Personally, it's disappointing that Guerilla has put so much time, effort and resources into an IP and type of game I have no interest in. The whole world, clothing design and style is so naff. The studio is talented, but essentially dead to me now. I don't think they'll ever make a game I'm interested in again. HFW is the last I'll buy in that franchise, I'm still struggling to get through it 3 years after release.
I picked one up in the first sale and have enjoyed it a lot. It's definitely worth it, but it still feels like they are only really 60% there, especially when it comes to comfort and using it for more than 30 minutes at a time.
I've enjoyed collecting the physical library for it though. It's nice to have a collection that's actually quite easy to complete, and if it's the first time you've ever properly tried it the amount of games on offer is easily enough to warrant a spending £300-400.
I don't think it'll ever be valuable as a collectors item, but it will definitely be a neat curio in the future.
A lot of people forget just how mind blowing the online in Demon's Souls was as the time. Having someone invade your game in a single player RPG and then realise that it's actually other players was amazing. Bear in mind this was pre-Journey, and I personally managed to import an Asian copy so there were no guides or information on how the game worked or the depths of its mysteries. To this day it's one of the best gaming experiences of my life.
You also have to remember that there was no matchmaking and each interaction with another player either as a blue or black phantom was really meaningful and something quite special. It also meant that the game was different every time you played it because of this.
The world tendancy was also really clever. The fact that the game would get harder if the invaders were winning was genius and a mechanic that should really be explored more. Then you had other fresh ideas like the assassin who kills the NPCs in the hub area if you don't sniff him out and kill him first, heck even being able to kill NPCs yourself was completely new at the time. Being summoned as a boss in other players' games. All of these things introduced by Demon's Souls on top of the concept of constant auto-saving, so your actions have meaning with no going back. As a game it has arguably had the biggest influence on the industry in the past 15 years with the new ideas it introduced and should be given credit for it.
I kind of wish they would go back to the no matchmaking model for one release, because as soon as it was possible to play with friends and team up, it killed the flow of the chance encounters if you want to play the way online was originally intended in the souls games.
I have my stuff mostly physical and didn't even notice, so it's good to know that I'm generally set up in a way that isn't affected by this bull$hlt. Still, they really should patch in games to run without a connection, such as GT7. It's crazy that the game won't work at all if there's no connection.
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Re: Valve's Steam Machine May Not Be As Affordable As a PS5
The most important point for me is a whether Sony offer a physical option or not. If they force us to go digital only I'm far more likely to build a digital library on Steam than Playstation.
I think Sony are a bit concerned and they should be. I also think putting their exclusives on PC was a bit mistake. With no physical options or exclusive 1st party games they've willingly whittled down all selling points they had from my perspective.
Re: Poll: Does the Steam Machine Pose a Threat to PS5?
This is where I'm going once there's no physical option from Playstation. Games on PS5 have actually been quite good for running from the disc.
But if I have to buy digital only, Steam is where it's at. I'm lucky I haven't built up a massive playstation digital library outside of the subscription, which I'm happy to let go.
The prices on Playstation store are awful compared to Steam. Plus, no extra cost to play online games either. You'd have to be pretty devoted to Sony to stick with them going forward without a thriving/cheap second hand market.
Re: Talking Point: Is PS5 Really in Competition with TikTok?
This kind of thinking only shows how little respect companies like Microsoft have for video games. Video games, TV, music, short form video and cinema are all different forms of entertainment. News flash, not one of them can capture everyone's attention.
If Microsoft want eyeballs in the short form video space they got into the wrong platform.
Idiots.
All this does is show that they have no interest in making anything of worth, all they care about is market share and control.
Re: 'Our Biggest Competition Isn't Another Console': Xbox Doubles Down on Multiformat After Halo PS5 Shock
This is like someone in the music industry complaining that they're competing with art galleries. Just stick to what you're good at, treat your customers with respect and provide good quality products at the best possible value. Trying to start a fist fight with the wind, idiots.
Re: Xbox Boss Believes Sony's Strategy of Console Exclusives Is 'Antiquated'
If Xbox made better games than Sony and Nintendo, didn't have ads on the os menu, didn't try to force konnect in my home and push things like locking games to a console to kill the secondhand market and physical games, I might have considered them over the competition.
It's embarrassing that they don't acknowledge why so few people want to invest in their ecosystem. They've only had a negative impact on the gaming industry, it's that simple.
It's baffling to me that anyone would stick up for a company that is so intent on controlling and destroying a hobby they love so much. I suppose there's probably some kind of Stockholm syndrome thing going on with people who still stand by Microsoft.
Re: Talking Point: PS6 In 2027 - How Do You Feel About Sony's Next-Gen Console?
Nah, I got a 30th anniversary pro, so now I'll try and fall in the pro cycle. But Sony will have to work for my money next gen. The prices, lack of innovation and move towards digital this gen have made me very wary going forward.
If things don't improve I'll just make the switch to PC where this old whale will be sailing the high seas and building a more reliable steam library of games if there's no proper physical option anymore.
Re: PS6 May Go Uncontested as Rumours of Next-Gen Xbox Cancellation Spiral
If there's no direct competition, I don't see the point in releasing the PS6 for a good few years.
The industry could really benefit from slowing down a bit and becoming more sustainable in development and affordable for customers.
Re: Poll: What Review Score Would You Give Hollow Knight: Silksong?
It's a good game and I'm definitely enjoying it, but I think the difficulty is in a lot of the wrong places. There's way to much backtracking over long sections of the map through tedious performing sections when you die, particularly the red bouncy flower things. I can get through them, but it's not something I enjoy doing over and over very much. I wonder if the game would be much better if you could just save at the begining of each screen, or at least have 1 portable bench you can use once between main benches.
Re: 'The Tension Is Hurting a Lot of People': Ex-Bethesda Boss Speaks Out on Subs Like Xbox Game Pass
The whole subscription model is a trap designed to control what we play and how we play it.
It doesn't progress the industry in the favour of customers at all or encourage creativity from developers. The way MS has treated so many of the developers they've spent fortunes taking out of the industry and shutting down was inevitable. They're not interested in making interesting or fun games for us, they simply want to control the industry.
Re: PS5's High Price Becoming a Serious Headache for Publishers
This is why it's important for consoles to reduce in price as a generation goes on. Adults with disposable income will prop up sales for a year or two with the younger gamers joining in as the prices drop, thus future safing the coming generations of punters as they grow up and start to have disposable income themselves.
It's also why it's important to have physical copies of games in the wild that people with less money can find down the line and latch onto franchises to help build company and brand loyalty.
It's insane that there's no cheaper option to play online. £70 a year to play online is disgusting really, especially when PC is still free to play games online. There should be an option to play online for £10 a year that doesn't include the extra games. I don't play any of the ps+ games anymore, I've got more than enough games to play already. Once a year I have to fork out an unnecessary amount of money to play games I've already paid a lot for in the way they were intended. All this does is leave a bad taste in the mouth on an annual basis, making me feel less enamored with Sony as time passes. That's not how you build a brand loyalty or a positive relationship with customers that you want to keep around for many years.
Re: Clair Obscur Will Become a Franchise, Expedition 33 the First Game
They'd do well to look at how From Software and even Square approached the souls and final fantasy progression.
Keep the core mechanics with some gradual development whilst introducing new stories and characters. If they keep going back to the same world and lore it'll become stale before the sequel even comes out.
Re: 'There's No Real Need for a PS6': Industry Veteran Weighs in on Next-Gen Debate
I got a pro with the mindset that I'll wait a lot longer to jump into the PS6 generation. There's been so few genuine PS5 games this gen, being asked to buy a new console at this point seems like a slap in the face.
I'm not sure what they can do to be honest, they need to keep growing and making money, but what the industry really needs is to slow down and focus on making better games with what we have already, and on more manageable budgets.
Re: 'The Number of Live Service Games Is Not Important': PS5 Boss Gives Rare Insight into Strategy
I didn't know Bluepoint had a live service game cancelled. That would explain them falling off the face of the planet. Was this general knowledge?
Re: Metal Gear Solid Delta's Dismal PS5 Pro Support Could Use a Rethink
Publishers and developer complain if their games don't sell well on release, whilst giving us no incentive to buy early. It's a shame for games like Death Stranding 2 and MGS3 Remake. I'll just wait until I see them cheap in a sale and play them when they're finished patching them. I'll at least try to buy them new so they get some money.
Re: 'They Don't Know What They're Doing': Analyst Sticks the Boot in Sony's 'Clueless' Management
Basically, random guy says sky is blue. Everyone can see they've lost the plot in pursuit of an unrealistic goal. Anyone with any sense could tell you that successful live services start small and grow if they catch on or find a community.
Going in big on a bunch of gaas, try to manufacture a Zeitgeist was never going to happen. It was a fools errand from the off. Jim Ryan really did a number on Sony. The guy got away with murder, taking such a massive wage to tank the company the way he did.
Re: Sony Admits PS5 Live Service Push Is Not Going Smoothly
"She then points to how, in the last five years, Helldivers 2, MLB The Show, Gran Turismo 7, and Destiny 2 have all started to contribute "to sales and profit in a stable manner"."
So actually, all they needed to do was make good games first, then build on them without intrusive forms of monetisation that aren't forced down the players' throats in every menu. That's some blue sky thinking right there.
Re: GTA 6 Might Require Age Verification, as GTA Online Checks Leak
Oooof, I am not comfortable scanning important personal ID to companies like this.
Re: PS5 Is the Only Console with a Proper Physical Copy of Cronos: The New Dawn
@UltimateOtaku91 it'll be interesting to see how you feel about game key cards when the sell on value drops and you get half the money from selling them on when shops realise collectors don't want them.
Re: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Patch 1.4.0 Brings Battle Retry, Better UI, Teases 'More to Come'
Being able to turn the overworld map music off is very much appreciated. They've committed the cardinal sin of using music with a vocal loop in a common area of a game. Any song that loops in this way becomes unbearable for me eventually.
Re: Eye-Opening PS5 Sales Data Reveals Why Microsoft Is Porting Xbox Games
4 of the 6 games would have traditionally been on playstation platforms anyway, so all this really shows is how aggressive, greedy and irresponsible Microsoft have been, buying up all these developers and publishers.
You could argue that they've actually just still taken a number of games away from the platform, by either blocking Playstation versions, closing talented studios or cancelling interesting projects that would have come out on multiple platforms originally.
Re: PS5 30th Anniversary Console Gets a 'Limited Restock' in September
Been using my 30th anniversary Pro console and bundle since last September and don't regret opening it at all. It's the nicest luxury tech I've ever had, they should just make loads more of the bundles, I'm sure they'd sell millions of them. The PS5 pro should have just looked like this as standard imo.
Re: 'It's Not About Checking Off a Map, It's About Engaging with What Excites You': Ghost of Yotei PS5 Gameplay Stuns
I kind of enjoyed the first game, but it took me three bites of the cherry to get through it. The game felt very repetitive, so I had to take long breaks before I was ready to go back to it each time over an 18 month period.
I'm sure the sequel will be more of the same, so I'm in no rush to play it when there's so much else to play. I'll probably just borrow it from a friend in a year or so when I'm ready to stomach another map-mopper again. I'm sure it'll sell just fine though, and I'm glad so many people are getting what they want from it. Some of my friends live for this style of open world game, and it makes their year, so I'm glad they've got this to look forward to.
Re: Sony Still Does Physical Gaming Properly, Death Stranding 2 Fully Playable from Disc
I still haven't finished the first game and it's also a bit too expensive for me right now, but I do want to support this kind of thing, so I'll make sure to buy a new copy when it's down to around £40.
Re: Fans Can't Believe PS5 Has Made More Profit Than All Previous PlayStations Combined
It's almost as if the massive price rises this generation weren't justified.
Re: The Outer Worlds 2 Is an $80 Game on PS5, as Xbox Continues to Push Game Pass
Gaming has become more about the distribution and engagement than the quality and fun of the games. It's pretty rubbish. Oddly, there's more great games to play than ever. Strange times.
Re: Elden Ring Nightreign's Enormous Success Continues, Now Over 3.5 Million Sales
@Nepp67 yeah, I can't really express the range of joy to disappointment I felt when I saw the Duskbloods reveal. I'm sure it'll be interesting, but I just can't be bothered to join that boring online loop you have to fall into with online games like this.
Re: Elden Ring Nightreign's Massive Success Proves There's a Future for Online Souls
Conflicted with this one. I don't like to see anyone fail, especially FromSoftware, but I really don't want to see more games like this coming from the studio.
I hope I'm wrong, but I'd be lying if I didn't secretly think that Elden Ring might be their last great game. It seems to happen to so many studios once they get a massive success like ER has been. We'll see, they haven't let me down yet, but this is the first game they've released in nearly 20 years that I have no interest in. I hope they don't stray too far from what got them to where they are today.
Re: Borderlands 4 Boss Writes Grovelling Apology for Implying 'Real Fans' Will Pay $80 for PS5 Game
The real story here is that it appears journos have become tired or writing X (formally Twitter) haha. Meanwhile, everyone else still just calls it Twitter.
Re: TV Show Review: The Last Of Us (HBO) Season 2 Episode 7 - Great Game Makes for Okay TV
The second game's story has always been a bit whack. Eli leaving Dina and the baby for more revenge the second time was just silly. The core mechanics and gameplay were really good, but the lengths Eli went to to ruin everything for everyone was unbelievable.
It's no coincidence that the original team rejected the stupid idea of traveling across a country full of death and danger to kill one person, putting everyone around them at risk in the first game, for Neil D to take all the credit and then fall back on the same rejected story for the sequel.
Re: PS5, PC Live Service Fairgames Is a 'Super Clunky' Cross Between Fortnite and The Division
I think Sony needs to conduct an investigation into decision making and investments made over the last decade, as it seems like something very dodgy has gone on or at the very least negligent. They could've taken almost anyone from the comments section on this site and they would've helped them avoid all these incredibly naive blunders they've walked face first into.
It's a really sad state of affairs. So much time and money wasted. Anyone and their dog could tell you that successful live service games start small and grow alongside their success and player base. Throwing hundreds of millions at projects trying to manufacture a gaming zeitgeist is beyond foolish. We all know what happens to fools and their money.
Re: Rockstar Quietly Increases Prices of Red Dead Redemption Games on PS4
This is what they've all wanted all along. Complete control of all the content and prices. It's exactly why an all digital industry is so bad for us.
Re: Inquiry Already Underway Over Lacklustre DOOM: The Dark Ages Opening
It's almost like selling a 20 hour shooting game on an empty disc for £70 has put people off. Who knew?!
I bought Eternal day 1 for £40 five years ago and enjoyed the hell out of it. They then try to release an inferior prequel for nearly twice the price and wonder why people aren't interested. People's pay has barely increased at all, why do they think we suddenly have all this extra money to spend on inferior digital rentals? Fools.
Re: Rumour: DOOM: The Dark Ages PS5's Physical Edition May Require a Download to Start
I don't get it. How can comments sections like this be so one sided, yet reports show physical media purchases are in such decline?
Loud minority is definitely a possibility, but even then it seems odd that so many are upset with the complete swing towards digital. All we can do is vote with our wallets, and hope there's enough of us to force a re-think.
Re: Expedition 33 Is Increasing in Popularity with Each Successive Week
Managed to get a copy, and for £40! Best game so far this year by a long way. Treats you with respect too. There is hope for the industry yet. The gaming community has a responsibility to support games like this if we want to send a message to the grubby publishers ruining everything at the moment.
They've been talking about dlc, but I really hope they don't. They should just focus on a sequel or new game.
Re: PS5 Pro Is No Longer the Most Expensive Console You Can Buy
My PS5 Pro really is looking like my last Playstation console. It don't see how this is sustainable. Sad times.
Re: Xbox Now Selling PS5 Games for $80, Joins Switch 2 in Price Increase
Sony should pull an absolute baller move and drop their prices back down to £60. It could end up giving them even more control over the market. It would never happen, but would definitely cause a huge shift in their direction.
It's an interesting time in gaming history. I know it's probably my last engagement with a modern console generation, before moving over to PC, Steam, and the high seas. I wonder if it will work out for them. I just can't see it with wages not rising with inflation and the cost of living being so awful at the moment.
I predict a whole generation of kids growing up exclusively on free to play games and the current console providers being mostly irrelevant in 20 years. Parents will not be buying kids games for £75, it's just not going to happen.
Re: Expedition 33 Dev Working Around the Clock to Re-Stock Boxed PS5 Copies
Currys has physical copies for £40🙂↔️
Re: State of Play Set for Wednesday, 20 Minutes of Borderlands 4 Gameplay
Does anyone actually like Borderlands? Of all the IPs to survive with four entries, bizarre.
Re: PS Plus Price Hikes Strike Even More Countries
I think it's time they make online play free again. It's simply not fair that we have to pay £70 year just play games we've already paid for online.
At the very least, there should be an online only option for £5 or something. Having access to important elements of games we've already paid money for should not be profited off of by Sony. It should only cover the cost of running the servers.
Re: Nintendo Is Displaying Hubris Which Would Make Even PS3 Era Sony Blush
They are probably charging all these switch 2s with the spinning body of Iwata-san. He would have never let something like this happen.
Bowser really has lived up to his name too. Sad.
Re: Kids Aren't Dreaming of Owning a PS6, Says Netflix Games Boss
The 5-6 gen switch will definitely be an interesting one. I have no intention of buying in early, because I want to wait and see where Sony go in regards to disc drives, physical media and the games they make.
If they force everyone to go digital with loads more wasted time, money and effort on live service games and releases still taking 5+ years make, then I'm going to sit it out and probably move over to pc or stick with Nintendo.
Sony have some important choices to make and I don't think they're going to make the ones I'm hoping for if I'm honest.
Re: PSVR2 Owners, It's Time to Immerse Yourself in the Headset's Best New Game
Yeah, it's great. Probably the most fun I've had with a game this year. It's a shame that one of the best PSVR2 games will be lost once the online is shut down. They should definitely release a standalone version with everything on the disc that doesn't require online or any updates.
Re: PS5 Mega-Flop Concord Is Reaching Absurdly High Prices on eBay
I bought a copy to put in a picture frame in my gaming room. Glad I did now, but I still don't think it'll ever get to Stadium Events levels of insanity. Even so, it's the biggest flop in video game history, of course a sealed copy is going to be worth something as a curiosity eventually.
Re: Horizon Online Snaffles Bungie's Design Lead As Guerrilla Builds All-Star Team Around Live Service PS5 Game
@Toot1st it's a cute way of saying steal.
Re: Horizon Online Snaffles Bungie's Design Lead As Guerrilla Builds All-Star Team Around Live Service PS5 Game
I don't think this will flop or be a huge hit. It will simply be something that happens and be of little interest to most.
I suppose that one of the key factors will be if it's free or not. Saying that, I don't see this as something the kids will flock to and I don't see the older demographic being prepared to pay for it either.
Personally, it's disappointing that Guerilla has put so much time, effort and resources into an IP and type of game I have no interest in. The whole world, clothing design and style is so naff. The studio is talented, but essentially dead to me now. I don't think they'll ever make a game I'm interested in again. HFW is the last I'll buy in that franchise, I'm still struggling to get through it 3 years after release.
Re: Talking Point: Is Forza Horizon 5's PS5 Price Point Too High?
It'll bring the prices down they said, it's so convenient they said. Here's your rosey digital future. Enjoy!
Re: Talking Point: Is PSVR2 Worth Buying In 2025?
@gaston yeah, I have all that. It's fine, but I still feel like we're a while away from complete comfort.
Re: Talking Point: Is PSVR2 Worth Buying In 2025?
I picked one up in the first sale and have enjoyed it a lot. It's definitely worth it, but it still feels like they are only really 60% there, especially when it comes to comfort and using it for more than 30 minutes at a time.
I've enjoyed collecting the physical library for it though. It's nice to have a collection that's actually quite easy to complete, and if it's the first time you've ever properly tried it the amount of games on offer is easily enough to warrant a spending £300-400.
I don't think it'll ever be valuable as a collectors item, but it will definitely be a neat curio in the future.
Re: Bad Handling of Demon's Souls PS3 Meant Sony Missed Out on Dark Souls Publishing
A lot of people forget just how mind blowing the online in Demon's Souls was as the time. Having someone invade your game in a single player RPG and then realise that it's actually other players was amazing. Bear in mind this was pre-Journey, and I personally managed to import an Asian copy so there were no guides or information on how the game worked or the depths of its mysteries. To this day it's one of the best gaming experiences of my life.
You also have to remember that there was no matchmaking and each interaction with another player either as a blue or black phantom was really meaningful and something quite special. It also meant that the game was different every time you played it because of this.
The world tendancy was also really clever. The fact that the game would get harder if the invaders were winning was genius and a mechanic that should really be explored more. Then you had other fresh ideas like the assassin who kills the NPCs in the hub area if you don't sniff him out and kill him first, heck even being able to kill NPCs yourself was completely new at the time. Being summoned as a boss in other players' games. All of these things introduced by Demon's Souls on top of the concept of constant auto-saving, so your actions have meaning with no going back. As a game it has arguably had the biggest influence on the industry in the past 15 years with the new ideas it introduced and should be given credit for it.
I kind of wish they would go back to the no matchmaking model for one release, because as soon as it was possible to play with friends and team up, it killed the flow of the chance encounters if you want to play the way online was originally intended in the souls games.
Re: PSN Downtime Raises Fresh Questions About PS5's Future Functionality
I have my stuff mostly physical and didn't even notice, so it's good to know that I'm generally set up in a way that isn't affected by this bull$hlt. Still, they really should patch in games to run without a connection, such as GT7. It's crazy that the game won't work at all if there's no connection.