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@Ralizah yep this is exactly why my launch psvr2 has been collecting dust for over a year now. I realized a lot of vr enthusiasts have such a low bar for a good game as long as it is in vr. For months I was hearing how Vertigo 2 was one of the best games ever made and when it finally came out to psvr2 it was just some mediocre indie. Made me reflect and I noticed I was just buying games for my psvr2 just so I could find something worth while to actually play on it. So I have a new rule when it comes to vr games; if I wouldn’t play it on a regular screen then I won’t play it with vr. Turns out in the past year no vr game that released on psvr2 has been worth it due to that rule. The headset just has no worthwhile games

@Shadeon_Koopa based on playing through all of low rank and high rank. Master rank is now saved for the inevitable dlc expansion

@ShogunRok @rjejr 156 concords

Definitely a shame that new Twisted Metal game was cancelled and can't capitalize off of this show's success

@MKD88 housemarque is a 1st party studio of Sony’s now

@Judal27 no video but the ability and moveset break down screen got leaked.

@Jedge396 I honestly think they just don't want to admit they were wrong. Before Concord came out they wrote an article praising that game but then a few days later wrote an article saying Rivals was just a cheap Overwatch clone that would fail.

@Judal27 his kit leaked a while back. Definitely a more strategic DPS

@nomither6 There already is a NYC Midtown map in the game and another map based on Central Park being added with this update.

@Jedge396 they were pretty negative about it in their previews so that might have something to do with it

@PuppetMaster Also I remember reading somewhere that out of those 5 hours over 2.5 hours were cutscenes.

@donv2135 the headset saw only a slight sales boost. Estimates still have it selling less than 1 million units worldwide. I bought it day one and feel really burned by Sony. Also notice how out of the 10 comments on this article you are 7 of them. Maybe take it a bit easy

@UltimateOtaku91 yeah the games were fun but not massive successes. They also told a complete story so a 4th would either feel superfluous or ended on another cliffhanger that definitely wouldn’t have gotten resolved. Probably would have ended up like Killzone Shadowfall in that it wasn’t bad, just not really worth it

The devs mentioned this in their discord a few weeks back but didn't feel like it was big enough to make a full announcement for

@ThomasHL It is because the cost to run the servers has increased exponentially. Most companies no longer have their own datacenters to maintain servers anymore but instead rent them from a huge conglomerate that essentially has a monopoly on renting servers. They have bought out most of their competitors and the result is now they can charge absurd amounts for a company to rent the servers. Game publishers can no longer afford to keep the servers going if the game isn't making them a profit.

@__jamiie they didn’t choose against it. Most of the studios that made those vr1 first party games got shut down or bought out by the competition. Those that remain were given the freedom to port the games over if they wanted but Sony wasn’t going to pay for it

@Ilyn the problem is that without first party support fewer people buy the headset, as seen with the psvr2. With fewer headsets sold the third party games that do release for the headset sell worse and then eventually these developers don’t make games for the headset anymore. We have already started to see this with the psvr2 and vr devs. The developers of toss said the psvr2 version of the game is not getting any of the content updates because it sold so portly compared to other platforms. The devs for vr chat said it will never bring it to psvr2 because the install base is so low that it isn’t worth the effort. You can’t make a gaming device and just expect other devs to make games for it while you do nothing. That is how game platforms die.

@Max_the_German considering firesprite was working on the cancelled live service twisted metal, I am sure it was going to have be capability. Most likely the reason it was killed off first in this live service purge last year is that the psvr2 sold so poorly so cancel the game with the least potential to sell well since not many people bought the headset

@themightyant the only sales figures for veilguard in the public is from 1 months ago. Bioware announced the game had sold over 1 million copies. Considering that Anthem sold 2 million in its first week (again verified by the previous source) it is fair to say that the game is underperforming hard

@themightyant here is the source for the Anthem numbers. It comes from a former EA marketing director that used a bunch of EA games sales info in his Linkedin profile as part of his resume. Jade Empire only counted sales for a month and it sold 0.5 million, but that was 20 years ago when a game breaking a million copies was a huge deal. In comparison that would be like a game breaking 10 million copies sold today. Also it is a bit disingenuous to count Shadow Realms since the game never got made. I have no horse in the whole Veilguard "controversy" but as it stands right now there is a solid argument that the game is Bioware's worst performing game in its history. From an objective standpoint it is just a very mediocre role playing game in a franchise known for giving players narrative freedom.

https://www.pcgamer.com/anthem-sold-5-million-copies-which-sounds-good-until-you-compare-it-to-star-wars-battlefront/

@rjejr yeah NetEase is a Chinese game developer mostly known for cheap tie in mobile games. That is why when Rivals first leaked and that NetEase would be making it most people assumed it would be awful. Then the closed beta happened and blew everyone away. NetEase got a lot of goodwill from Rivals and how they have handled development along with communication with players.

@Bri-Die apparently there are already files for 3 Xmen characters to be added later but unfortunately none for Cyclops or Gambit for some reason despite being perfect for a hero shooter

@rjejr what helps Rivals a lot is that because it is a Chinese made game it is allowed to be played on specific Chinese game servers. That is a huge player base that accounts for over $50 million of those first month sales. Even going beyond the money, the number of players is staggering. They just celebrated having 20 million registered players and having 2.5 million people playing concurrently which is nuts.

Just a correction, this is not how every cutscene has been since after launch. Each update started the game with a motion comic like this but after each boss fight was a fully rendered cutscene. This was the first time the post boss fight cutscene was a motion comic

@Bri-Die hopefully once the X-men get added to the mcu they will do a big push for them. The reason the FF are the first heroes added is to hype up the upcoming movie and why Blade is next since his movie was supposed to come out this year

@rjejr they reported it’s first month earnings and it has already made over $135 million, with $27.3 million just from PlayStation users. The fact it made that much in its first month with such a limited selection of things to pay money for means it is doing extremely well. Estimates have it making over $1 billion by the end of the year

Just some more info about this game’s development. The game started as Transformers Rise made by Certain Affinity back in 2017. In 2021 the game was moved to Splash Games and renamed Reactivate. Hasbro reportedly spent $100 million on the 7 year development. What is funny is that Hasbro made 4 transformer toys based on Reactivate back in 2023 and even reissued the bumblebee figure last year by itself which is the most promotion the game ever received

@Enigk even treating it as a single player game it would just be ok. By hour 3 you have already played every mission type and fought every enemy type in the game. RS weirdly put less effort into its game design than they did Arkham Asylum which still introduces new game mechanics even when 90% through the game

@AdamNovice according to the leaks Mr fantastic is actually a duelist but he has some vanguardish moves

@AdamNovice pretty much every one of these predictions could be considered wrong in some way. Even the concord one as the game struggled to find ANY playerbase

This will probably be an unpopular opinion here but I don’t think there needs to be a dead space 4. Dead space 3 may be very divisive but I personally loved how the game and series ended. Spoilers for DS3 here on out. The fact that the game and series ends with the human race being destroyed was a really bold move for a video game. People didn’t like it because despite games telling a story many gamers don’t like it when they don’t “win” the game, ie no happy ending. Why I like it is because this is a horror story first and foremost, and the games sets up the ending really well from the start. The necromorphs are the dominant life forms in the universe. They have wiped out countless other alien life forms before humans even existed. This is why despite humans traveling across the stars for hundreds of years not one other alien civilization was ever found. As a horror enthusiast this is a fantastic end to the series. Gamers just don’t like not winning

@DennisReynolds most of the community agrees that if this Killzone collab was a warbond/battlepass, which it was originally planned to be but changed at the last minute to test out this new monetization scheme, and was double the price of the usual warbonds at $20 people would have been fine with it. In fact with AH giving away the second wave for free it brings the total price of everything to just that and way more people are likely to buy the stuff now than they were before just to complete the set. The issue was that AH was charging $40 for less content than in the regular warbonds and only for a limited time.

This bout of outrage isn’t like last time where people got mad their over powered weapons were no longer over powered and weren’t happy the devs wanted to make the game how they envisioned. This time it is calling out bad monetization practices which as consumers we should speak out against otherwise more games are going to be like call of duty and have $80 dlc weapons.

@RogCorr the ceo of arrowhead admitted on the game’s discord that it was his decision to change the Killzone collab from a single warbond to separate items in the in game store, as well as how much to charge.

The fact that so many games have had to be updated to give people the option of turning of PSSR shows that the PS5 Pro was not ready for launch. Sony rushed an unproven AI upscaling feature out to make some money, and I say this as someone who bought the Pro

@Killionaire you technically don’t have to pay for the warbonds either but that doesn’t negate the fact that even if you got all your super credits from farming missions that these items are incredibly overpriced. Not to mention with warbonds it gives you $3 worth of credits back. This means the Killzone items all together cost almost 6 times as much as a single warbond while only giving you half the amount of in game items. That is absurd

Asking for too much money for what you are getting. Like I could understand if it was a more expensive warbond at $20 instead of $10, but $20 for only half of the planned Killzone content is absurd. That means to get all the Killzone stuff you have to pay the same amount as you did when buying the game

So for the people in the comments that don’t seem to get this: the Jeff splatoon mode is a limited time mode added to the game for the winter festival event. It will not be a permanent part of the game and the game is not trying to be “Overwatch+Splatoon”. This is just a fun little mode to add during the holidays like how Overwatch adds the Mei snowball fight mode to the game every December.

@colonelkilgore played completely solo. In fact I got the plat while the game couldn’t even do multiplayer in the first few months. The only thing that may be hard for you is leveling up the characters as literally the only thing Rocksteady managed to patch effectively was to get rid of the xp farming missions you could do the first few weeks. Those leveling up trophies are going to be a real grind

@colonelkilgore it starts good but after the first boss fight they stop adding anything new into the game. You have seen every enemy type and mission the game has to offer by that point. Then about 2/3s into the campaign the writing takes a massive nose dive and just rushes through the plot with so little pay off since the campaign doesn’t actually finish the story and the post launch updates barely have any story content at all. Good news for you though is that the post launch updates do not affect the trophies at all so you don’t have to play them and it is a relatively easy platinum.

Christ they are a sore loser. They still won two major awards on their first ever non-mobile game but acting like they got nothing. I have had people tell me to get wukong but after this I don’t think I will support them if this is how the CEO behaves when they don’t win every award possible.

So crazy how Sony had a Concord themed controller before a Helldivers controller. They really thought Concord was going to be their biggest hit ever

Interesting concept but not sure if it can carry a whole game on its own. Like if this was a mode in an established shooter it would be really fun or even a vr version, but as is I can see the novelty wearing off quickly

This is 100% the reason Concord failed so spectacularly. It offered nothing new that brought unique value to the game. There were only two things Concord do that other hero shooters have not done. The first is that they were going to release a weekly vignette showing the characters interacting with each other. Over the course of the betas and the two weeks the game was live they released 3 and they were just 2 minute videos of a couple characters talking to each other. Not only were these frankly boring but did not encourage people to play the game since anyone interested could just look them up to watch online. The second thing was the crew system that forced players to use characters they don’t want to play or you would be at a disadvantage compared to other players who would get buffs from the system. This went against how people play hero shooters. Players find a few characters they like and practice with them so they continually get better. Forcing people to always be changing up who they play may introduce people to a character they might not have realized they would like but it really just made it so most matches had teams playing characters they had no idea how to play resulting in games not being fun.

Marvel Rivals actually has a lot going for it so it isn’t just “Marvel Overwatch”. The dynamically changing maps with destructible environments really makes it stand out from other hero shooters. The team up bonuses are fun and encourage team cohesion. Then there are the fact that there are a lot of melee only characters who are actually some of the most useful in the game, which is a rarity in the genre. Lastly the narrative hook is so far really intriguing. Definitely read the in game lore as it is extremely in depth. Concord’s narrative was just “you are a bounty hunter and want to make money”. I know hero shooter narratives are typically bare bones (like can anyone tell me what the hell the story for Overwatch is??) but this was on a whole other level.

@Gunnerzaurus but the move sets aren’t even 1:1. A sniper character that also has a burst rifle when not aiming down the sights is a common shooter trope. Other than that they share nothing in common with their moves.

@Max_the_German
4) Gameplay is actually fun with interesting powers. Even the abilities in Concord felt super generic and uninteresting.

5) The maps are a lot cooler with better level design and the map destruction really changes things up. Destroying certain parts of maps even trigger story events in the match

@nessisonett the free trial doesn’t start until next week so gives you time to try both.

Will definitely try it out solely for the zombies mode. If they would just sell that mode on its own I would not hesitate to buy it. They already let you choose what game modes you have installed on your machine when you buy the new cod anyways

@twitchtvpat resistance 2 was just added to ps+ premium. The only resistance game not on the service is the vita game

@J-Dubs it is because PSSR is AI upscaling which is a new tool for most devs to utilize so it isn’t working right. It isn’t just this game the AI is messing up with. Even on games that overall do look better on the pro, the upscaling causes the game to freak out. I was playing Horizon Zero Dawn and noticed that if the footprints left by Aloy are close together the area on the ground turns to static. I have never seen a game do that ever in my life. While I am glad I got a pro for frame rate performance I do think the PSSR AI was shipped out way too soon

@DennisReynolds the full roster leaked a while back and Wolverine is the final character of the launch line up. The devs even teased the fast ball special with hulk in a recent dev diary video

Isn’t their Firebreak game going to be free on both PS+ and Gamepass when it releases? Are they expecting 3 million copies to be sold on PC at full price in order to make their ROI? That seems like wishful thinking since most PC players buy their games when on heavy discount or just pirate them.