@Rob_230 The way it is now, yes. You cant do those visuals on PS4. I imagine a PS4 version would have been very compromised visually if not in other ways.
@Kang81
Everything you just mentioned is correct plus in general games especially of the AAA ilk are so much more difficult and expensive to develop these days. The more technical the games get the more things can vastly go wrong in the code, including a lot of things not even the developers could have anticipated. Back in the 90s a group of just 20 developers making a hyped up epic was the norm (nowadays most AAA developers are at least pushing 1000) and code was so much easier to vet for issues because the scale of games back in the day was much more contained (don't believe me look up games from your childhood and aside from RPGs they will all be much shorter than you remember) as a result games were so much easier and cheaper. Not to mention now you got entitled idiots online expecting literally every single game regardless of size or budget to be some sort of industry pusher and it makes me feel bad to be a developer in this day in age. My point is there is no single answer to the inconsistent state of things and the typical twitter assessment of "hurr durr game developers lazy hurr durr" is stupid as there is so much more to it than that.
@ItsBritneyB_tch While I don't usually care about PC vs console, Beat Saber is one of those games that is absolutely transformed on PC with the custom songs mod. Unlimited song options made by the community for free can't be topped so I recommend going that route if you can.
Internet: OH MY GOD GTA 6 IS COMING OUT NEXT WEEK!
Youtubers: Proceed to make 20 minute long videos with clickbaity titles implying GTA 6 was just announced which people some how always fall for despite these channels doing this at least once a week
@KaijuKaiser People seem to forget that gaming is still the cheapest it has ever been. I saw a post that made a splash on Reddit of some store catalog from 1996 that listed new games for 50 dollars and the comments were full of idiots going "oh games were so much cheaper" and they didn't understand no matter how much I tried to explain inflation to them.
Have been busy the last few weeks but I am finally almost at the end of God of War Ragnarok after having had it in my posession for the last two months. Too much going on lately to marathon it.
@pyrrhic_victory Does nobody read, it says right there its a 2 week delay due to a ratings classification issue. You cant produce an entire port in 2 weeks.
@IamJT It's because in todays internet lingo "Boomer" is basically shorthand for anything that is roughly more than 20 years old. I don't get it either but knowing that the PS2 is now considered retro makes me feel old as hell and I'm not even 30 yet.
@Green-Bandit
I would probably be a MAC user if:
1. They weren't so overpriced (I'm sorry but Apple overcharges the ever loving s--t out of it's customers) and;
2. If they had anything close to the support of PC's.
@deadfred77
It's a personal preference thing but I have always loved the look and feel of 90s fps games and I am all for the "boomer shooter" (not a fan of that name) gameplay revival. It's takes a lot of effort to recreate the look of that era while making it still modern.
Warner Bros has kind of been killing it this year so far. Between this, the Last of Us tv show and the new Evil Dead. I hope the momentum keeps up after they have had a rough couple years.
Will this be a free upgrade from PS4 to PS5? I haven't played the game yet and if possible I would just buy the PS4 version and upgrade straight to PS5 to save a little bit of money if that's the case.
@SillyBoyJudas
Step 1: Wait until the entire season has released
Step 2: Get a free trial
Step 3: Binge or semi-binge the whole thing
Step 4: Cancel before free trial ends and you get charged
Step 5: ???
Step 6: Profit
The cost issue is applicable to most mediums now. Movies and TV are encountering the same issue where costs are ballooning too much to be continuously feasible. Either audiences need to welcome more cheaper projects with open arms or the future of most entertainment will be very uncertain. There's a reason why sequels and remakes are so prevalent. Because they are almost always guaranteed to be at least somewhat profitable.
I will never understand the hate for the Order. Yes it's a short game but not every game needs to be a 300 hour endurance test. Meanwhile Resident Evil 7 was also a full price game that was just as long as the Order was and yet that somehow got a free pass.
@Keyblade-Dan
Horizon as an animated show would be the only way you could even do that setting justice. I don't know what Netflix is smoking, thinking making their Horizon show live action is a good idea.
@Zuljaras Maid of Sker is such an underrated game. The N64 port of Starcraft was also technically impressive. The N64 had a surprising number of decent ports of PC games.
@GrimReaper
Ugh another movie where characters are sitting in a room talking. Ugh another song that's made up of instruments and sound vibrations. Ugh another book that's composed of nothing but typed words.
@Browny
This is the same network that aired Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, and other shows that were well known for killing off main characters suddenly. I think viewers will handle it a lot better than the man children did with the game.
@RobN
These are what are known as SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). The goal of this lawsuit isn't to win (it will eventually get thrown out and they damn well know it), it's the fact Monster has vastly more money than the defendants and will drain their defendants finances strategically via legal fees by dragging this out as long as possible which is their true goal. It's BS and should be illegal, John Oliver had a great segment on this with his tv show as he was a victim of this disgusting practice himself.
@Bentleyma
XIII wasn't even a bad game by any classification, people just didn't like it was linear (even though 10 was often just as linear but that somehow gets a free pass) and maybe the story wasn't amazing but most of the series doesn't have a particularly good story either don't @ me. It's graphics have also held up surprisingly well for an almost 15 year old game.
@MrMeeeseeeks
And yet when period dramas show exactly how racist, sexist or homophobic the time period was people like you still complain either that is somehow "woke" or that "it wasn't actually THAT bad".
@TheCollector316 I would prefer not to set completely insane expectations and then get irrationally angry as if I was entitled to that completely insane nonexistent thing like 99.9 percent of the internet.
I never cared much for E3 as it has been an extremely dated concept for a long time now. I would prefer just getting surprise game announcements all year around instead.
@suprnova23 MGS 3 is a good game but aspects of it have not aged well, I would know I played it again not too long ago. Even if it aged like fine wine it still is a lot of work to redo an entire game from the ground up even if just visually.
@rawzeku
I am still unable to figure out why Konami just doesn't release a collection of the first four games. It shouldn't be very expensive to do and it would likely sell well, I would buy a copy. MGS4 alone has been stuck on the PS3 for 15 years and good luck playing MGS1 these days without either emulation or a PS3 either.
I think they could have worded this whole thing a lot better. Depicting flying in open world games (especially an open world this detailed) can be extremely taxing on hardware. If you noticed in the base game you were restricted fairly low when flying due to accommodating PS4 hardware. Whereas when you are in the skies it could be a nightmare for draw distances. So I get what they were trying to say but most did not.
I am so sick of this "PS5 Pro" chatter. They were going on about this since the PS5 was barely even out as if theres a guarantee something like that will even exist. Considering the PS4 Pro didn't even sell all that well compared to the base model to begin with?
@Mince
The PS4 is now ten years old, its time to move on. This isn't even the first notable instance of next gen only DLC. Wolfenstein The New Order which was on PS3 and 4 had an expansion The Old Blood, which was PS4/Xbox One only. And yet nobody complained back then because it wasn't essential to the base experience. Sony had no obligation to put Forbidden West or God of War Ragnarok on PS4 to begin with but they did it anyway so thats actually more pro consumer than anything else.
@Phantasystar77 The difference is that Sony has never been deceptive or straight up lied about what exclusives there are. FF7 Remake was a year long timed exclusive and that was told to us from day 1, they are not holding that game from being released on Xbox if Square so chooses. Street Fighter was also never told as anything but a PS4 console exclusive. Meanwhile Microsoft not only lies about Redfall and Starfield having been at one point in development on PS5 but try to push the whole "we aren't withholding any games, we want to get as many games out to as many people as possible" which is total BS. I have no issue with Xbox having exclusives or any platform for that matter as exclusives encourage competition and higher overall standards, it's the lies and the fake ass image I take issue with as do many here.
Considering tweeting that could potentially open you up to lawsuits and I imagine Tony Todd is more intelligent than that, I am not unconvinced this is a marketing stunt from Insomniac.
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Re: Final Fantasy 16 Was Planned for PS5 and PS4, But the Last-Gen Version Would Have Taken Too Long
@Rob_230
The way it is now, yes. You cant do those visuals on PS4. I imagine a PS4 version would have been very compromised visually if not in other ways.
Re: Ghostrunner 2 Resurfaces with Sleek PS5 Gameplay Trailer
The first Ghostrunner was one of my favorite games in recent memory, almost like if Mirrors Edge and Superhot had a baby.
Re: Prince of Persia: Sands of Time Remake Back at Concept Stage After Total Reboot
@Kang81
Everything you just mentioned is correct plus in general games especially of the AAA ilk are so much more difficult and expensive to develop these days. The more technical the games get the more things can vastly go wrong in the code, including a lot of things not even the developers could have anticipated. Back in the 90s a group of just 20 developers making a hyped up epic was the norm (nowadays most AAA developers are at least pushing 1000) and code was so much easier to vet for issues because the scale of games back in the day was much more contained (don't believe me look up games from your childhood and aside from RPGs they will all be much shorter than you remember) as a result games were so much easier and cheaper. Not to mention now you got entitled idiots online expecting literally every single game regardless of size or budget to be some sort of industry pusher and it makes me feel bad to be a developer in this day in age. My point is there is no single answer to the inconsistent state of things and the typical twitter assessment of "hurr durr game developers lazy hurr durr" is stupid as there is so much more to it than that.
Re: Surprise! Beat Saber Is Available for PSVR2 Right Now, Free Upgrade for PSVR Players
@ItsBritneyB_tch
While I don't usually care about PC vs console, Beat Saber is one of those games that is absolutely transformed on PC with the custom songs mod. Unlimited song options made by the community for free can't be topped so I recommend going that route if you can.
Re: Days Gone 2 Could Have Released 'a Month Ago', Says Game Director
@daveofduncan
I will never understand the love for this game, the gameplay was formulaic at best and the story wasn't even all that interesting.
Re: Warhammer 40k's Blood-Soaked Boomer Shooter Gets Extended Gameplay Trailer
@KaijuKaiser
If you know it's a game you will enjoy, just play it. Trophies are worthless in the end.
Re: Warhammer 40k's Blood-Soaked Boomer Shooter Gets Extended Gameplay Trailer
@Olmaz
Okay boomer shooter
Re: Is GTA 6's Rumoured Real-Life Star Teasing or Trolling?
Random Rockstar developer sneezes
Internet: OH MY GOD GTA 6 IS COMING OUT NEXT WEEK!
Youtubers:
Proceed to make 20 minute long videos with clickbaity titles implying GTA 6 was just announced which people some how always fall for despite these channels doing this at least once a week
Re: Horizon Vocalist Receives Abuse Over the Use of Her Voice
@Shepherd_Tallon
It's always a fear of change. They can't stand that gay people can be visible in society now and it drives them insane.
Re: SEGA Could Join Sony in Raising Its Game Prices to $70
@KaijuKaiser
People seem to forget that gaming is still the cheapest it has ever been. I saw a post that made a splash on Reddit of some store catalog from 1996 that listed new games for 50 dollars and the comments were full of idiots going "oh games were so much cheaper" and they didn't understand no matter how much I tried to explain inflation to them.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 476
Have been busy the last few weeks but I am finally almost at the end of God of War Ragnarok after having had it in my posession for the last two months. Too much going on lately to marathon it.
Re: You'll Have to Wait a Little Longer for Amnesia: The Bunker's Underground WW1 Horrors
@pyrrhic_victory
Does nobody read, it says right there its a 2 week delay due to a ratings classification issue. You cant produce an entire port in 2 weeks.
Re: Warhammer 40k's DOOM-Style PS5, PS4 Shooter Actually Looks Sick
@IamJT
It's because in todays internet lingo "Boomer" is basically shorthand for anything that is roughly more than 20 years old. I don't get it either but knowing that the PS2 is now considered retro makes me feel old as hell and I'm not even 30 yet.
Re: Sorry, But the Drama Over Xbox's Activision Buyout Ain't Over Yet
@Green-Bandit
I would probably be a MAC user if:
1. They weren't so overpriced (I'm sorry but Apple overcharges the ever loving s--t out of it's customers) and;
2. If they had anything close to the support of PC's.
Re: Warhammer 40k's DOOM-Style PS5, PS4 Shooter Actually Looks Sick
@deadfred77
It's a personal preference thing but I have always loved the look and feel of 90s fps games and I am all for the "boomer shooter" (not a fan of that name) gameplay revival. It's takes a lot of effort to recreate the look of that era while making it still modern.
Re: HBO's The Last of Us Has Been an Unfathomably Big Hit
@naruball
What? The internet jumping to conclusions? Wow that never happens!
Re: HBO's The Last of Us Has Been an Unfathomably Big Hit
@Mostik
Far Cry 5's Hour of Darkness dlc already did the "Far Cry in Vietnam" thing.
Re: Hogwarts Legacy's Arachnophobia Mode Magics Scary Spiders into Cuddly Critters
@NEStalgia
Nothing is scarier than a movie that killed the careers of every single actor that was in it
Re: Hogwarts Legacy's PS5 Sales Are Magical, and It's Out Now on PS4 Too
Warner Bros has kind of been killing it this year so far. Between this, the Last of Us tv show and the new Evil Dead. I hope the momentum keeps up after they have had a rough couple years.
Re: Hogwarts Legacy on PS4 Looks and Runs Better Than You Might Think
Will this be a free upgrade from PS4 to PS5? I haven't played the game yet and if possible I would just buy the PS4 version and upgrade straight to PS5 to save a little bit of money if that's the case.
Re: Here's Your First Look at Anthony Mackie's Twisted Metal TV Show
@SillyBoyJudas
Step 1: Wait until the entire season has released
Step 2: Get a free trial
Step 3: Binge or semi-binge the whole thing
Step 4: Cancel before free trial ends and you get charged
Step 5: ???
Step 6: Profit
Re: The Last of Us' Busted PC Port Is on the Up with 25GB Patch
They are just in damage control to make sure Joel doesn't get cancelled after his old blackface photos leaked
Re: Can You Put a Price on a Quality RPG? Yes, and It's Rising All the Time
The cost issue is applicable to most mediums now. Movies and TV are encountering the same issue where costs are ballooning too much to be continuously feasible. Either audiences need to welcome more cheaper projects with open arms or the future of most entertainment will be very uncertain. There's a reason why sequels and remakes are so prevalent. Because they are almost always guaranteed to be at least somewhat profitable.
Re: The Order 1886's Dev Ripped Apart by Facebook Owner After Acquisition
I will never understand the hate for the Order. Yes it's a short game but not every game needs to be a 300 hour endurance test. Meanwhile Resident Evil 7 was also a full price game that was just as long as the Order was and yet that somehow got a free pass.
Re: Expect Some Animated Adaptations of PS5, PS4's Biggest Franchises
@Keyblade-Dan
Horizon as an animated show would be the only way you could even do that setting justice. I don't know what Netflix is smoking, thinking making their Horizon show live action is a good idea.
Re: Atari Has Acquired the Rights to One of PS1's Worst Ever Games
@iamtheju
I have a physical copy of Bubsy 3D that I got for free and I still want my money back so no I am not buying that on PS5.
Re: Scalped PS5 Prices Plummet as Retail Stock Surges
@Amnesiac
Australians have the strangest nicknames for most things, sorry not sorry.
Re: Ghostwire: Tokyo Is 'Quantifiably' Better on PS5 Than Xbox Series X|S, Says Digital Foundry
"quantifiably worse than the PlayStation 5 version, which wasn't great to begin with."
Really? I remember it running pretty much flawlessly on PS5.
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 472
@Zuljaras
Maid of Sker is such an underrated game. The N64 port of Starcraft was also technically impressive. The N64 had a surprising number of decent ports of PC games.
Re: Boomer Shooter Fans, Serve the God-Emperor of Mankind on PS5, PS4 in Warhammer 40K: Boltgun
@Beerheadgamer82
90s homage shooters like this are usually 20 dollars or less. I would know I play them all.
Re: Watch 25 Minutes of Final Fantasy 16 PS5 Gameplay in Glorious 4K
@GrimReaper
Ugh another movie where characters are sitting in a room talking. Ugh another song that's made up of instruments and sound vibrations. Ugh another book that's composed of nothing but typed words.
Re: The Last of Us HBO Exec Touches on Joel's Fate in Season 2
@Browny
This is the same network that aired Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, and other shows that were well known for killing off main characters suddenly. I think viewers will handle it a lot better than the man children did with the game.
Re: Random: Monster Energy Thinks You Might Confuse Its Drinks with Monster Hunter
@RobN
These are what are known as SLAPP lawsuits (Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation). The goal of this lawsuit isn't to win (it will eventually get thrown out and they damn well know it), it's the fact Monster has vastly more money than the defendants and will drain their defendants finances strategically via legal fees by dragging this out as long as possible which is their true goal. It's BS and should be illegal, John Oliver had a great segment on this with his tv show as he was a victim of this disgusting practice himself.
Re: Almost Every Mainline Final Fantasy Game Will Soon Be Playable on Current PlayStation Consoles
@Bentleyma
XIII wasn't even a bad game by any classification, people just didn't like it was linear (even though 10 was often just as linear but that somehow gets a free pass) and maybe the story wasn't amazing but most of the series doesn't have a particularly good story either don't @ me. It's graphics have also held up surprisingly well for an almost 15 year old game.
Re: Jack Black Calls for Red Dead Redemption Movie, Story 'Even Better Than The Last of Us'
@MrMeeeseeeks
And yet when period dramas show exactly how racist, sexist or homophobic the time period was people like you still complain either that is somehow "woke" or that "it wasn't actually THAT bad".
Re: Next-Gen Shooter Neo Berlin 2087 Is Baffling PS5 Owners
Ah yes give me more of that Euro-jank. Inject it into my veins
Re: US Justice Department, Activision Blizzard Settle Following Esport Wage Suppression Accusations
@Tasuki
This has nothing to do with that and that acquisition is a blatant monopoly attempt, get ratioed.
Re: Rumour: Unannounced Sony Hardware in the Works, Releasing Before PS5 Pro
@TheCollector316
I would prefer not to set completely insane expectations and then get irrationally angry as if I was entitled to that completely insane nonexistent thing like 99.9 percent of the internet.
Re: Rumour: Unannounced Sony Hardware in the Works, Releasing Before PS5 Pro
It's not going to be a Vita 2, jesus christ people
Re: E3 2023 Has Been Officially Cancelled
I never cared much for E3 as it has been an extremely dated concept for a long time now. I would prefer just getting surprise game announcements all year around instead.
Re: Square Enix Honours Final Fantasy 7's Legacy with Set of Tacky NFT Trading Cards
@HotGoomba
You and I know damn well it is inevitable.
Re: Konami's Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake Reportedly Out Next Year
@suprnova23
MGS 3 is a good game but aspects of it have not aged well, I would know I played it again not too long ago. Even if it aged like fine wine it still is a lot of work to redo an entire game from the ground up even if just visually.
Re: Konami's Metal Gear Solid 3 Remake Reportedly Out Next Year
@rawzeku
I am still unable to figure out why Konami just doesn't release a collection of the first four games. It shouldn't be very expensive to do and it would likely sell well, I would buy a copy. MGS4 alone has been stuck on the PS3 for 15 years and good luck playing MGS1 these days without either emulation or a PS3 either.
Re: Clouds Are One Reason Why Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Is PS5 Only
I think they could have worded this whole thing a lot better. Depicting flying in open world games (especially an open world this detailed) can be extremely taxing on hardware. If you noticed in the base game you were restricted fairly low when flying due to accommodating PS4 hardware. Whereas when you are in the skies it could be a nightmare for draw distances. So I get what they were trying to say but most did not.
Re: No, the PS5 Slim Didn't Leak Earlier Today
I am so sick of this "PS5 Pro" chatter. They were going on about this since the PS5 was barely even out as if theres a guarantee something like that will even exist. Considering the PS4 Pro didn't even sell all that well compared to the base model to begin with?
Re: Clouds Are One Reason Why Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores Is PS5 Only
@Mince
The PS4 is now ten years old, its time to move on. This isn't even the first notable instance of next gen only DLC. Wolfenstein The New Order which was on PS3 and 4 had an expansion The Old Blood, which was PS4/Xbox One only. And yet nobody complained back then because it wasn't essential to the base experience. Sony had no obligation to put Forbidden West or God of War Ragnarok on PS4 to begin with but they did it anyway so thats actually more pro consumer than anything else.
Re: PS Plus' Day One Addition in April Mixes Mario Maker with DOOM
@OScube
Shame as it is really good food, I have spent more time in Dreams and the Far Cry map editor than most other games.
Re: Hitman: World of Assassination Unveils Spring Content Roadmap
@AFCC
We have a John Wick game, it's called Max Payne.
Re: Microsoft Thinks It Hasn't 'Pulled Any Games' from PS5, PS4
@Phantasystar77
The difference is that Sony has never been deceptive or straight up lied about what exclusives there are. FF7 Remake was a year long timed exclusive and that was told to us from day 1, they are not holding that game from being released on Xbox if Square so chooses. Street Fighter was also never told as anything but a PS4 console exclusive. Meanwhile Microsoft not only lies about Redfall and Starfield having been at one point in development on PS5 but try to push the whole "we aren't withholding any games, we want to get as many games out to as many people as possible" which is total BS. I have no issue with Xbox having exclusives or any platform for that matter as exclusives encourage competition and higher overall standards, it's the lies and the fake ass image I take issue with as do many here.
Re: Marvel's Spider-Man 2 PS5 Releasing in September, Massive Ad Campaign Planned
Considering tweeting that could potentially open you up to lawsuits and I imagine Tony Todd is more intelligent than that, I am not unconvinced this is a marketing stunt from Insomniac.