Those reactions aren't so much about Sony's shows, as it is about Sony's attitude towards it's in-house games and towards us as clients.
They wasted a couple of years and billions of $ investing in GaaS games, and now that that (predictably) imploded, they are trying to pick up where they left off with the games that brought them their success.
I get the reason, doesn't mean I like it, or that I have to forget it happened. It was a gross management error, that won't be easily forgotten.... or forgiven... especially by the fans of their epic in-house SP games.
Sony has built a huge fanbase for years around it's SP games, only for it suddenly to throw it in the trash and go hunting for life service unicorns instead.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean "GaaS BAD" - just not GaaS 95%, the rest of the games - whatever!
They must strike a balance, compromise!
Don't cut the chord abruptly and go cold turkey, they must find a way include 1 or 2 GaaS titles into the game development "machine" instead of ignoring almost completely what many of their existing clients want and expect!
What they did was a mistake that cost more than half the life of the PS5 in this regard (in-house SP games), and it will take at least the rest of it's lifecycle to get back on track with them.
Until then, some fans will be more bitter than others...
It's unavoidable, unfortunately, simply because trust and respect will NOT be rebuilt/regained overnight, no matter how much others disagree.
It will pass , of course.
But it will take at least 1 more year for that to happen, and only IF, and I stress the IF... Sony shows, bit by bit, sure, but constantly, that it understood the message and it steers in the direction it's clients want.
Including at least 1 game from their own studios in every State of Play is a good step forward, for example. We'll see if they stick to it, and maybe even up the ante in this year's Showcase.
It looks great and all, but the characters sound as emotional as a british queen's guard, not fitting the action going on around them... a bit immersion-breaking.
@Loamy Lately both show types are centered around 3rd parties, that's the problem. As in the last few years Sony was so obsessed with chasing GaaS unicorns, they ignored development on other non-GaaS games. Now that that's more or less busted, they are left with very little to show for than expected, and are just slowly starting to "pull up their pants" as it were... This is all on Sony's mismanagement, and the state of both shows lately indicates precisely the reality they're in. Guess they'll start picking up the pace in the 2nd half of 2025, but until then...
The OG Crysis fame was much more based on its graphical prowess than the actual gameplay.
Finished it once, was OK, but as a game it did not rise up to match the hype around it's name.
Goes double for it's 2 sequels, which I found too boring after a few hours, and never finished them.
Imo it would be best to leave it at the current trilogy.
But if somehow a 4th game gets to be made in the future, I hope it's a complete reboot, with reinvented gameplay and mechanics.
@nessisonett Edited for a better understanding.
The idea that "you're not "missing out on things too much" if you favour one hero over the other" is what I don't quite like.
Imo the game would have benefited more from allowing players to carve a chosen path, meaningful for the ending... instead of "play however you want, it won't matter that much in the end anyway" style.
I'll play the game anyway, but I think that approach would have been much better.
Include custom Astro console plates and the Astro controller, and it'll increase it's sales even more...
Missed opportunity imo, an Astro custom console + specific controller bundle should have been released by now, at the very least officially teased for the near future, to profit from the tide generated by the game's success...
I prefer they cover the gap between Greece and the North, and set that in Egypt, as implied by the scene in God Of War 2018.
But if they are fixed on Greece as glue on paper, then I hope it's a Reboot. Played the OG games at least a dozen times each, Remakes/Remasters of those titles are last on my "GoW wish list".
Started Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 today.
I'm 3 hours in and having a good time. Even managed to finally win the first dice game 🎲🎲 That is 6-7 tries and 1 tutorial video later, 'cause the game's tutorial on the activity is so simplified that it's useless...
Combat is a quite finicky exactly as stated by reviews, but you get better at it with practice. I feel it is, however, overly complicated for no real reason other than to be different from other games...
Anyway, overall, so far, the game makes me wanna keep playing, and that's one of the main traits a very good title has.
Have a fun weekend everyone!
I see it as the equivalent of Dualsense's Haptic Feedback on PC.
Maybe a mouse would be used on consoles, but I don't see it becoming very popular on consoles, unless some intriguing and attractive support is implemented by game devs especially for it, to boost user adoption.
PS5 sold. As a result, most people that love it's exclusives have already played them in the interim between PS5 launch and PC launch.
If Sony wants to continue to make PC ports, they should bring them earlier (3-6 months tops from console launch), and with a better quality. If not, then they should give it up completely.
Not to mention the whole PSN account debacle, and Sony pulling it's games from regions that don't have PSN - worse decisions they've made for PC.
They went back now and made Log In optional at least, but there's still no mention about resuming sales in regions sans PSN...
Speaking of port quality - i've seen many in Steam comments blaming Nixxes.
How about this
Sony has launched a lot of PC ports lately (one every 3 months, is it?), and Nixxes was responsible for a lot of them.
I doubt the current Sony administration has even cared to increase the studio's workforce...
Nixxes have already proved in the past that they can make good PC ports - so my guess is they are understaffed for the amount of work Sony has put on their back lately.
Rush, crunch and stress favor no one, no matter how experienced or gifted... and can certainly lead to mediocre results like this one.
Eliminating the competition now that Bluepoint is free? Maybe... I wonder how long it will take them to go after the PS4 emulator and Bloodborne's "PC version" too...
Could we also hope that Sony will manage to get Miyazaki for an exclusive sequel on the PS6? Because that would single-handedly tip the balance for me to buy that console...
Yeah, we all know how those locked 30fps will actually be, dipping into 20-25fps or lower in very crowded areas...
Maybe they should slow the... down with the graphical advancements for a few years, given the abysmal PC gaming GPU market and the current gen consoles limitations?
GTA6 should be all about gameplay and platform availability, and not boundary-pushing graphics.
We'd rather have a game with good normal graphics running at 60fps than a "technological marvel" that barely reaches 30fps on current gen...
But who am I kidding, the GTA6 dev/publisher are probably "encouraged" $_$ to crank the graphics up thus driving the need for better hardware, especially on PC...
@mountain_spider You look at it as a single game. It's not.
Given the series success they could very well do 2 separate story lines, one for closure one for moving forward.
Also
Do remember that they already hinted at his soon-to-come "retirement" with his reply to Atreus: "We should finish this journey while I still have strength"
To me that says a lot.
What would actually be next for Kratos after Ragnarok?
Growing old, and mostly teaching and advising?
Going forward means leaving Kratos behind as the main (anti) hero. And all that while not entirely completing his arc.
How's that doing any justice to Kratos as a character, after all those years and GoW games?
I have nothing against going forward, but not at the expense of tying up loose ends.
Remaking SH2 was a very high risk-high reward scenario for any studio - do it perfectly right from the start, or fall - hard.
This time it worked brilliantly, to many ppl surprise BT managed to pull it off big time.
I loved the OG SH2 game back in the day, and really enjoyed playing the Remake from start to finish.
Bloober's next game will be equally risky, being a new IP and all, in a genre that's very harsh and hard to make a successful entry in.
I hope it will also be equally as entertaining.
I hope the trip to Egipt is a prequel to the Northern games, just like the scene from GoW 2018 suggested.
That part of Kratos journey, from Greece to the Nordic lands, is missing.
It would be great to bring his character arc to completion, to see the change from the ever angry warrior to a more "calm and reasonable person" starting to happen.... the reasons for choosing to go down that road, how he deals with the disaster he left behind in Greece, and what will ultimately bring him to the north.
Maybe even how he meets and gets to know Faye, as part of the final game (if it ends up being a new duo/trilogy) ? That part is largely unexplored in the 2 nordic games, there's a lot of potential there too.
“Let’s go build innovative hardware that people want to use to play, whether that’s in their hands, whether it’s on the television, or even other places.”
In hands, on TV, in other places - smells like a portable console to me 👃
I like what they've done with the game in the interim, they really worked on improving it, it looks and feels much better.
I hope they include a Photo Mode, as i suspect some of those vistas will just beg to be used as wallpapers.
They still need to work on streamlining that HUD though, it's still cluttered and rough on the eyes, compared to other games. I hope they at least offer some options to optimize it.
Gonna play it, that's certain, will get 1 month of Ubisoft+ on launch day and dive right in.
Well... it looked good in the trailers but in the end it was just a mediocre game. Tried it for a few hours and stopped, as I found it lacking in several main areas (story, characters, animations, combat etc).
outside of the enormous success of Helldivers 2, the platform holder appears to be really struggling to make anything stick.
Maybe they should finally stop wasting tons of money hunting GaaS unicorns, and restart prioritizing investments in what they do best - epic SP games?
GaaS games should have never been considered such a priority by Sony, given their uncertainty and risk of failure.
They should have invested in one GaaS title at a time, for example, but as a side project.
But no... instead they treated new SP games in their own internal franchises as a side-project, and concentrated / bet everything on the simultaneous development of... what... 4-5 GaaS titles ?
Now behold the results... canceled games, job cuts, closing studios etc.
And on top of it all: ending up with a lackluster PS5 exclusive portfolio, in the 5th (!!) year of it's lifecycle. Wth?
They even ended up transforming the PS Showcases or State of Plays in 2023 and 2024 in 95-100% 3rd party title presentations, 'cause they have almost nothing to show from their own studios!
Anyone remember the kind of show they put on at E3 2016 when they announced the new God Of War? The pride they had in their own IP, the investment in it's development and marketing etc.
Where is that Sony ?? That is the company we need back!
The current situation rests squarely on Sony's faulty management practices in the last ~2-3 years (even more).
Bend - should do Days Gone 2, but it's very unlikely. If they're not dismantled and assign to support other in-house teams, then probably they'll be given a new smaller IP. Bluepoint - for now they should be tasked to give the Bloodborne IP the comeback it rightfully deserves - it makes 10 this year, the least Sony can do is announce a Remaster/Remake.
No one could have predicted people don't want even more Playstation GaaS games in their lives!
Sony's entire console success since more than 20 years ago was based on Gaa... Oh...
Well, that's a good news twofer !
Cancelled live-service God of War game - perfect!
And Bluepoint is free to take on a new title - even more so!
Now can we hope for a Bloodborne Remaster/Remake/Sequel? (yes I know about Yoshida's "theory", but I won't believe it until proven).
Problem in POE2 is the current economy, needs rework and a reset, which will come in the next big patch.
But one should remember though, this game is currently in Early access - it's not finalized. A fact that for many out there tends to get lost/forgotten...
As it's well known, an RPG of this scale needs a lot of time to balance properly, be patient. GGG is not the current Blizzard, give them time, they'll get it right.
For now it's a very good and fun game, and offers a lot play hours for basically a beta stage release and for the sum of 30$. Not to mention it's gonna be free once it launches...
TloU Part 2
Ellie to Dina: "Hey, I found this old pun book... Oh, I remember this one: What did the baker write on the Clicker cake?"
Dina: "Cut it out!"
Ellie: "No, it's "Biters beware", but that works too."
Dina: "Not what I mean..."
@Steeleye50 No problem. However, Ubisoft+ doesn't stream, you download the whole game on your device and play it. As usual, you just have to be online while playing, and that's about it.
It's exactly like the games from PS+ Essential or from Game Pass (didn't try Ubisoft+ on my PS5, but I used it on PC 2-3 times, for other games).
And since you already have a good internet connection, downloading the game will also be easy.
@Steeleye50 Get 1 month of Ubisoft+ Premium for 18$ and play the game on launch day (usually in this version they include all the digital content found in the Premium edition of the game, so you'll miss nothing)...
And if you want to buy it, get the full game + DLC's after about 2-3 years, for about the same 15-20$ price.
"This is the way!" to work around Ubisoft's greed and still enjoy one of their games at launch.
I was really hoping the game would release next month, if only to finally put a stop to all of the "drama and attention" seekers around the social media.
Can't wait for launch day and all the useless whining about this game to be over.
Would have seen this one being made as an anime movie instead, but it seems they have big plans. If it pans out, I'm curious to see how would they pull that off, since the game has a nice but very simple/short story and not much lore, 90% of it's success sitting squarely on it's gameplay mechanics.
I've been using Rest Mode ever since it was invented (PS4), with
no major issues on either of my consoles, PS4 Pro or PS5.
Mostly because I can resume the game exactly where I left it.
Also, if I find a promotion on PS Store, I usually buy it from PC (I have to buy top-up cards to add wallet funds, and this process is much faster on PC). Then I remotely start the game download on the console without having turn it on (I can do this from work and have the game ready to play when I get home).
Imo, in the next few years Sony, Microsoft (and certainly others) will make heavy pushes towards streaming and cloud gaming.
It's already started, with both of them.
Microsoft is slowly but surely making it's exit from hardware consoles (now "every device is an xbox", eh? Marketing BS for "streaming is the future", on any device that's online: consoles, TV's, phones/tablets, handhelds, PC/laptop etc).
And Sony is already strongly pushing towards digital games on PS5 Pro, and online game steaming on it's Portal device...
Be prepared for PS6 to be the last classic (desktop) playstation console.
In the next few years Sony will release a new handheld device, akin to Steam deck, that will run alongside the desktop hardware PS5 Pro and PS6, and alongside plain Portal device.
In order to get it's clients to let go of desktop consoles, and get more and more used to the idea of portability and online streaming - help make the transition easier.
PS5 Pro and PS6 will, of course, be supported for some years to come.
But, imo, by 2035 (the 7 year life-span of PS6) those 2 platforms will be phased out and replaced with handhelds.
And beyond 2040 online streaming on TV's, phones and "plain" devices like Portal (no processing power, online streaming only) will be all that remains from the existing consoles...
And if you adorn a tin-foil hat for a second, you can say this is the best way for those corporations to control everything gaming-related. From what you play, to how you play, to for how long and how much you must pay for them all.
Gone will be the days of disk sharing, game preservation efforts, "game owning" discussions etc.
You either accept what shtuff they make available, at the prices and duration they make it available for, or you can stop gaming.
If you don't like it, you can go to the competition.... good luck, 'cause that's gonna be... ummm... no one.
But that's all fairy tales, I know...
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Re: Poll: What Were Your Favourite PS5 Games from State of Play?
Managed to find 3 to select:
1. Hell is Us
2. Tides of Annihilation
3. Split Fiction
Hope they'll actually deliver on their promises. And for No. 2 that they'll manage to improve on that mediocre acting for the final version...
Re: Reaction: The PS5 Discourse Around State of Plays Is Becoming Draining
Those reactions aren't so much about Sony's shows, as it is about Sony's attitude towards it's in-house games and towards us as clients.
They wasted a couple of years and billions of $ investing in GaaS games, and now that that (predictably) imploded, they are trying to pick up where they left off with the games that brought them their success.
I get the reason, doesn't mean I like it, or that I have to forget it happened. It was a gross management error, that won't be easily forgotten.... or forgiven... especially by the fans of their epic in-house SP games.
Sony has built a huge fanbase for years around it's SP games, only for it suddenly to throw it in the trash and go hunting for life service unicorns instead.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean "GaaS BAD" - just not GaaS 95%, the rest of the games - whatever!
They must strike a balance, compromise!
Don't cut the chord abruptly and go cold turkey, they must find a way include 1 or 2 GaaS titles into the game development "machine" instead of ignoring almost completely what many of their existing clients want and expect!
What they did was a mistake that cost more than half the life of the PS5 in this regard (in-house SP games), and it will take at least the rest of it's lifecycle to get back on track with them.
Until then, some fans will be more bitter than others...
It's unavoidable, unfortunately, simply because trust and respect will NOT be rebuilt/regained overnight, no matter how much others disagree.
It will pass , of course.
But it will take at least 1 more year for that to happen, and only IF, and I stress the IF... Sony shows, bit by bit, sure, but constantly, that it understood the message and it steers in the direction it's clients want.
Including at least 1 game from their own studios in every State of Play is a good step forward, for example. We'll see if they stick to it, and maybe even up the ante in this year's Showcase.
Re: Tides of Annihilation Looks Like PS5's Next Big Thing in Outrageous Extended Gameplay
@DonJorginho Right? Like AI reading from a book or smth...
Re: Tides of Annihilation Looks Like PS5's Next Big Thing in Outrageous Extended Gameplay
It looks great and all, but the characters sound as emotional as a british queen's guard, not fitting the action going on around them... a bit immersion-breaking.
Re: After Astro Bot's Success, Expect More Family PS5 Games from PS Studios
As if Nintendo wasn't enough of an example for decades...
Re: Poll: What Did You Think of Sony's State of Play for February 2025?
@Loamy Lately both show types are centered around 3rd parties, that's the problem.
As in the last few years Sony was so obsessed with chasing GaaS unicorns, they ignored development on other non-GaaS games. Now that that's more or less busted, they are left with very little to show for than expected, and are just slowly starting to "pull up their pants" as it were...
This is all on Sony's mismanagement, and the state of both shows lately indicates precisely the reality they're in.
Guess they'll start picking up the pace in the 2nd half of 2025, but until then...
Re: PS Plus Copies of Days Gone Won't Offer Cheap $10 Upgrade to New PS5 Version
Fret not, it'll be offered as a PS+ Monthly soon enough...
Re: Poll: What Did You Think of Sony's State of Play for February 2025?
Still centered around 3rd party titles instead of Sony's own IP's...
Re: Crysis 4 Put on Ice as Crytek Announces Significant Layoffs
The OG Crysis fame was much more based on its graphical prowess than the actual gameplay.
Finished it once, was OK, but as a game it did not rise up to match the hype around it's name.
Goes double for it's 2 sequels, which I found too boring after a few hours, and never finished them.
Imo it would be best to leave it at the current trilogy.
But if somehow a 4th game gets to be made in the future, I hope it's a complete reboot, with reinvented gameplay and mechanics.
Re: Preview: Elden Ring Nightreign Is the Most Interesting PS5, PS4 Multiplayer Game of 2025
I bet they'll succeed where Sony invested billions and failed...
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Character Swapping Explained, Loyal Players Won't 'Miss Out'
@nessisonett Edited for a better understanding.
The idea that "you're not "missing out on things too much" if you favour one hero over the other" is what I don't quite like.
Imo the game would have benefited more from allowing players to carve a chosen path, meaningful for the ending... instead of "play however you want, it won't matter that much in the end anyway" style.
I'll play the game anyway, but I think that approach would have been much better.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Character Swapping Explained, Loyal Players Won't 'Miss Out'
Some specific quests along the way for each of the 2 protagonists would have been far better.
EDIT: meaning quests that have a definite impact on the game and it's ending, according to the paths you chose.
Re: State of Play Confirmed for Wednesday, 40+ Minutes of PS5 News and Updates
Smells like 95% 3rd party titles, and 1, capital MAYBE 2 first party...
Re: Sony Will Bundle PS5 with 2024's GOTY, Says New Report
Include custom Astro console plates and the Astro controller, and it'll increase it's sales even more...
Missed opportunity imo, an Astro custom console + specific controller bundle should have been released by now, at the very least officially teased for the near future, to profit from the tide generated by the game's success...
Re: Shifting Swamps to Plague Elden Ring Nightreign's Procedural Map
The best thing I like about this spinoff, is that Miyazaki is not directing it, and he's available to work in parallel on another project.
Re: Poll: Did the PSN Outage Ruin Your Gaming Plans Over the Weekend?
Played Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 on PC during the Weekend. But I'll happily take the 5 days, thank you! 🙃
Re: Rumour: God of War Is Taking a 'Younger' Kratos Back to Greece
I prefer they cover the gap between Greece and the North, and set that in Egypt, as implied by the scene in God Of War 2018.
But if they are fixed on Greece as glue on paper, then I hope it's a Reboot.
Played the OG games at least a dozen times each, Remakes/Remasters of those titles are last on my "GoW wish list".
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 567
Started Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 today.
I'm 3 hours in and having a good time. Even managed to finally win the first dice game 🎲🎲 That is 6-7 tries and 1 tutorial video later, 'cause the game's tutorial on the activity is so simplified that it's useless...
Combat is a quite finicky exactly as stated by reviews, but you get better at it with practice. I feel it is, however, overly complicated for no real reason other than to be different from other games...
Anyway, overall, so far, the game makes me wanna keep playing, and that's one of the main traits a very good title has.
Have a fun weekend everyone!
Re: Poll: Would You Buy a PS5 Mouse Accessory?
I see it as the equivalent of Dualsense's Haptic Feedback on PC.
Maybe a mouse would be used on consoles, but I don't see it becoming very popular on consoles, unless some intriguing and attractive support is implemented by game devs especially for it, to boost user adoption.
Re: How Well Do You Know Ratchet & Clank?
6/15 for me, based squarely on zero knowledge about the IP.
Re: Game of the Month: Vote for Your Favourite PS5 Game of January 2025
My favorite PS5 game that launched in January: Spider-Man 2.
On PC.
🙃
Re: Sony's Bloodborne 60fps Mod DMCA Takedown Was About the Name, Not the Patch Itself
What's the difference in the end? If he posts it again even under a different name, Sony's lawyers will find a way to spin it in their favor...
Re: Spider-Man 2's Looking Like Another PC Own Goal from Sony
PS5 sold. As a result, most people that love it's exclusives have already played them in the interim between PS5 launch and PC launch.
If Sony wants to continue to make PC ports, they should bring them earlier (3-6 months tops from console launch), and with a better quality. If not, then they should give it up completely.
Not to mention the whole PSN account debacle, and Sony pulling it's games from regions that don't have PSN - worse decisions they've made for PC.
They went back now and made Log In optional at least, but there's still no mention about resuming sales in regions sans PSN...
Speaking of port quality - i've seen many in Steam comments blaming Nixxes.
How about this
Sony has launched a lot of PC ports lately (one every 3 months, is it?), and Nixxes was responsible for a lot of them.
I doubt the current Sony administration has even cared to increase the studio's workforce...
Nixxes have already proved in the past that they can make good PC ports - so my guess is they are understaffed for the amount of work Sony has put on their back lately.
Rush, crunch and stress favor no one, no matter how experienced or gifted... and can certainly lead to mediocre results like this one.
Re: Sony Could Be Plotting a PS5 Livestream Around Valentine's Day
Yeah... zero expectations even if it is...
Re: Sony Issues DMCA Takedown Against Bloodborne 60FPS Mod, Four Years After Release
Eliminating the competition now that Bluepoint is free? Maybe...
I wonder how long it will take them to go after the PS4 emulator and Bloodborne's "PC version" too...
Could we also hope that Sony will manage to get Miyazaki for an exclusive sequel on the PS6? Because that would single-handedly tip the balance for me to buy that console...
Re: Former Rockstar Animator Doubtful GTA 6 Will Run at 60fps on PS5
Yeah, we all know how those locked 30fps will actually be, dipping into 20-25fps or lower in very crowded areas...
Maybe they should slow the... down with the graphical advancements for a few years, given the abysmal PC gaming GPU market and the current gen consoles limitations?
GTA6 should be all about gameplay and platform availability, and not boundary-pushing graphics.
We'd rather have a game with good normal graphics running at 60fps than a "technological marvel" that barely reaches 30fps on current gen...
But who am I kidding, the GTA6 dev/publisher are probably "encouraged" $_$ to crank the graphics up thus driving the need for better hardware, especially on PC...
Re: Hermen Hulst No Longer PlayStation Co-CEO, Still in Charge of First-Party
Let's hope they steer the Playstation Studios more towards epic SP games and less towards hunting GaaS Unicorns...
Re: Rumour: God of War Will Tackle Egyptian Mythology in Next Game
@mountain_spider You look at it as a single game. It's not.
Given the series success they could very well do 2 separate story lines, one for closure one for moving forward.
Also
Do remember that they already hinted at his soon-to-come "retirement" with his reply to Atreus:
"We should finish this journey while I still have strength"
To me that says a lot.
What would actually be next for Kratos after Ragnarok?
Growing old, and mostly teaching and advising?
Going forward means leaving Kratos behind as the main (anti) hero. And all that while not entirely completing his arc.
How's that doing any justice to Kratos as a character, after all those years and GoW games?
I have nothing against going forward, but not at the expense of tying up loose ends.
Re: Silent Hill 2 Has Been Massively Successful on PS5, PC
Remaking SH2 was a very high risk-high reward scenario for any studio - do it perfectly right from the start, or fall - hard.
This time it worked brilliantly, to many ppl surprise BT managed to pull it off big time.
I loved the OG SH2 game back in the day, and really enjoyed playing the Remake from start to finish.
Bloober's next game will be equally risky, being a new IP and all, in a genre that's very harsh and hard to make a successful entry in.
I hope it will also be equally as entertaining.
Bravo BT, keep it up!
Re: Rumour: God of War Will Tackle Egyptian Mythology in Next Game
I hope the trip to Egipt is a prequel to the Northern games, just like the scene from GoW 2018 suggested.
That part of Kratos journey, from Greece to the Nordic lands, is missing.
It would be great to bring his character arc to completion, to see the change from the ever angry warrior to a more "calm and reasonable person" starting to happen.... the reasons for choosing to go down that road, how he deals with the disaster he left behind in Greece, and what will ultimately bring him to the north.
Maybe even how he meets and gets to know Faye, as part of the final game (if it ends up being a new duo/trilogy) ? That part is largely unexplored in the 2 nordic games, there's a lot of potential there too.
Re: Xbox Boss Wants to Beat PS6 on Hardware Capabilities, Not Necessarily Games
“Let’s go build innovative hardware that people want to use to play, whether that’s in their hands, whether it’s on the television, or even other places.”
In hands, on TV, in other places - smells like a portable console to me 👃
Re: Preview: Assassin's Creed Shadows Is the Golden Ticket Ubisoft Needs
I like what they've done with the game in the interim, they really worked on improving it, it looks and feels much better.
I hope they include a Photo Mode, as i suspect some of those vistas will just beg to be used as wallpapers.
They still need to work on streamlining that HUD though, it's still cluttered and rough on the eyes, compared to other games. I hope they at least offer some options to optimize it.
Gonna play it, that's certain, will get 1 month of Ubisoft+ on launch day and dive right in.
Re: Poll: Are You Happy with Your PS Plus Extra, Premium Games for January 2025?
Nothing useful for me this month.
Finished GoW-R 3 times already, and the rest of the titles are not my cup of coffee...
Re: Unknown 9 Labelled a 'Failure' as Dev Cancels Project, Moves to 'Existing Bandai Namco IP'
Well... it looked good in the trailers but in the end it was just a mediocre game. Tried it for a few hours and stopped, as I found it lacking in several main areas (story, characters, animations, combat etc).
Re: Horizon's MMO Appears to Have Been Cancelled
outside of the enormous success of Helldivers 2, the platform holder appears to be really struggling to make anything stick.
Maybe they should finally stop wasting tons of money hunting GaaS unicorns, and restart prioritizing investments in what they do best - epic SP games?
GaaS games should have never been considered such a priority by Sony, given their uncertainty and risk of failure.
They should have invested in one GaaS title at a time, for example, but as a side project.
But no... instead they treated new SP games in their own internal franchises as a side-project, and concentrated / bet everything on the simultaneous development of... what... 4-5 GaaS titles ?
Now behold the results... canceled games, job cuts, closing studios etc.
And on top of it all: ending up with a lackluster PS5 exclusive portfolio, in the 5th (!!) year of it's lifecycle. Wth?
They even ended up transforming the PS Showcases or State of Plays in 2023 and 2024 in 95-100% 3rd party title presentations, 'cause they have almost nothing to show from their own studios!
Anyone remember the kind of show they put on at E3 2016 when they announced the new God Of War? The pride they had in their own IP, the investment in it's development and marketing etc.
Where is that Sony ?? That is the company we need back!
The current situation rests squarely on Sony's faulty management practices in the last ~2-3 years (even more).
Re: Days Gone Dev Says It Still Plans to Create 'Cool Sh*t' for PS5 After Live Service Cancellation
Bend - should do Days Gone 2, but it's very unlikely. If they're not dismantled and assign to support other in-house teams, then probably they'll be given a new smaller IP.
Bluepoint - for now they should be tasked to give the Bloodborne IP the comeback it rightfully deserves - it makes 10 this year, the least Sony can do is announce a Remaster/Remake.
Re: Reaction: Sony's Live Service Push Has Been a Disaster of Utterly Insane Proportions
No one could have predicted people don't want even more Playstation GaaS games in their lives!
Sony's entire console success since more than 20 years ago was based on Gaa... Oh...
Re: Sony Cancels Bluepoint, Bend Studio PS5 Games, One Being a Live-Service God of War Title
Well, that's a good news twofer !
Cancelled live-service God of War game - perfect!
And Bluepoint is free to take on a new title - even more so!
Now can we hope for a Bloodborne Remaster/Remake/Sequel? (yes I know about Yoshida's "theory", but I won't believe it until proven).
Re: Dev Knows Path of Exile 2's Endgame Is 'Too Severe', Says It's 'Important'
Problem in POE2 is the current economy, needs rework and a reset, which will come in the next big patch.
But one should remember though, this game is currently in Early access - it's not finalized. A fact that for many out there tends to get lost/forgotten...
As it's well known, an RPG of this scale needs a lot of time to balance properly, be patient. GGG is not the current Blizzard, give them time, they'll get it right.
For now it's a very good and fun game, and offers a lot play hours for basically a beta stage release and for the sum of 30$. Not to mention it's gonna be free once it launches...
Re: Random: You'll Want to Plunge a Knife into Zayn Malik's The Last of Us Birthday Cake
TloU Part 2
Ellie to Dina: "Hey, I found this old pun book... Oh, I remember this one: What did the baker write on the Clicker cake?"
Dina: "Cut it out!"
Ellie: "No, it's "Biters beware", but that works too."
Dina: "Not what I mean..."
Re: Random: You'll Want to Plunge a Knife into Zayn Malik's The Last of Us Birthday Cake
TloU Part 1
Ellie to Joel: "What did the baker write on the Clicker cake?"
Joel: "Not another one..."
Ellie: "Biters beware!"
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Delayed Again, Now Out 20th March
@Steeleye50 No problem. However, Ubisoft+ doesn't stream, you download the whole game on your device and play it. As usual, you just have to be online while playing, and that's about it.
It's exactly like the games from PS+ Essential or from Game Pass (didn't try Ubisoft+ on my PS5, but I used it on PC 2-3 times, for other games).
And since you already have a good internet connection, downloading the game will also be easy.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Delayed Again, Now Out 20th March
@Steeleye50 Get 1 month of Ubisoft+ Premium for 18$ and play the game on launch day (usually in this version they include all the digital content found in the Premium edition of the game, so you'll miss nothing)...
And if you want to buy it, get the full game + DLC's after about 2-3 years, for about the same 15-20$ price.
"This is the way!" to work around Ubisoft's greed and still enjoy one of their games at launch.
Re: Assassin's Creed Shadows Delayed Again, Now Out 20th March
I was really hoping the game would release next month, if only to finally put a stop to all of the "drama and attention" seekers around the social media.
Can't wait for launch day and all the useless whining about this game to be over.
Re: A Decade Later, Director Says Shadow of the Colossus Film Still Happening
Would have seen this one being made as an anime movie instead, but it seems they have big plans.
If it pans out, I'm curious to see how would they pull that off, since the game has a nice but very simple/short story and not much lore, 90% of it's success sitting squarely on it's gameplay mechanics.
Re: Random: The Elder Scrolls 6 Announcement Is Now as Old as Skyrim Was Back Then
Can't wait to play it on PS7
Re: DualSense Edge Discounted in Europe, with a £10, €20 Price Cut
Wow 220 euros discounted price - on my way to buy 2 right now !!!
Re: Do You Put Your PS5 in Rest Mode or Shut It Down?
I've been using Rest Mode ever since it was invented (PS4), with
no major issues on either of my consoles, PS4 Pro or PS5.
Mostly because I can resume the game exactly where I left it.
Also, if I find a promotion on PS Store, I usually buy it from PC (I have to buy top-up cards to add wallet funds, and this process is much faster on PC). Then I remotely start the game download on the console without having turn it on (I can do this from work and have the game ready to play when I get home).
Re: Consoles Here to Stay, PS5 to Be Supported into Next-Gen, Says PlayStation CEO
Imo, in the next few years Sony, Microsoft (and certainly others) will make heavy pushes towards streaming and cloud gaming.
It's already started, with both of them.
Microsoft is slowly but surely making it's exit from hardware consoles (now "every device is an xbox", eh? Marketing BS for "streaming is the future", on any device that's online: consoles, TV's, phones/tablets, handhelds, PC/laptop etc).
And Sony is already strongly pushing towards digital games on PS5 Pro, and online game steaming on it's Portal device...
Be prepared for PS6 to be the last classic (desktop) playstation console.
In the next few years Sony will release a new handheld device, akin to Steam deck, that will run alongside the desktop hardware PS5 Pro and PS6, and alongside plain Portal device.
In order to get it's clients to let go of desktop consoles, and get more and more used to the idea of portability and online streaming - help make the transition easier.
PS5 Pro and PS6 will, of course, be supported for some years to come.
But, imo, by 2035 (the 7 year life-span of PS6) those 2 platforms will be phased out and replaced with handhelds.
And beyond 2040 online streaming on TV's, phones and "plain" devices like Portal (no processing power, online streaming only) will be all that remains from the existing consoles...
And if you adorn a tin-foil hat for a second, you can say this is the best way for those corporations to control everything gaming-related. From what you play, to how you play, to for how long and how much you must pay for them all.
Gone will be the days of disk sharing, game preservation efforts, "game owning" discussions etc.
You either accept what shtuff they make available, at the prices and duration they make it available for, or you can stop gaming.
If you don't like it, you can go to the competition.... good luck, 'cause that's gonna be... ummm... no one.
But that's all fairy tales, I know...
Re: Game of the Year: #6 - Silent Hill 2
Only 6th place? This should be at least 4 if not 3.