@BigDaddyT0101 I'm not disagreeing with how impressive it is. I bet it's as wow as when you first saw a 3DS screen and thought how the hell is that in 3D and I don't have to wear glasses. Ultimately though, it is a fad accessory; like motion control, like 3D in general and the price of admission is just too much. People will inevitably buy it as it is new tech, and gaming journalism sites will inevitably latch onto it and write it up an an overly positive light and there is literally NOTHING else new or innovative this generation.
It will launch, it will sell and in my opinion it will fade, the same as it did in the 90's.
3D and VR will not latched onto by a mass market until the tech is developed to a point where you don't need the goggles/glasses/headset. Or the tech is so cheap it is packaged in as standard with the console just like 3D is with TVs now. Same principle how Knack has such amazing sales figures; you got it whether you wanted it or not.
This is MegaCD all over again. Legitimately a good idea but priced way too high for masses to adopt it.
Technophiles will buy it...... And that's it. Probably a few spoilt children too. This will not sell in the numbers to warrant what they have spent.
For me personally, it doesn't even interest me. I can accept its purpose and function, but feel sitting in my front room wearing that helmet is literally ridiculous. It's like when the gameboy light and magnifier came out and more than doubled the size of your portable. It's just not physically viable as a peripheral. It is way too far in its infancy. Have a 3D tv and some games and blurays with 3D function. NEVER, ever used it beyond a 5 minute stint to see it working. Looked nice, but no way will sit with my family wearing some stupid glasses. The new 3DS 3D display is phenomenal and works without peripherals, that I can buy and use. The PlayStation VR gets rid of the glasses and now demands I don something the size of a crash helmet on my sofa and to hand over £250-£400 for it.
Literally, never gonna happen.
VR offered this in the 90's and beyond a commercial showpiece, literally nobody cared. "But the graphics were rubbish!" To you, yes; relatively at the time they were as cutting edge then as PS4 is now.
It just isn't gonna work, in my opinion.
@BAMozzy excellent point. Health and safety wise they will issue this with a get out clause of "you must take off this helmet every 30 minutes and look round the room" realistically this won't happen. The over-charged, "have to have it now!" Early adopters will buy it, love it, laude it..... And then we will inevitably have news reports on eye strain and retinal damage after John Johnson of Idaho played black ops IV for 3 hours one night and damn near blinded himself. Staring at a screen POINTBLANK range for an extended time will screw your eyes. When you sit down to game, how long is a session? Are you looking at a screen where your peripheral vision is adjusting between objects at varying distances constantly? Got an iPad? Sit in a pitch black room, fire up a live broadcast of black ops III on twitch and gold that screen in front of your face, 3 inches from your eyeball. Set an alarm for an 90minutes (a conservative time period to play a game before quoting or going to the loo) and also set a stop watch. DO NOT stop watching the feed until A) you physically can't watch it anymore, check the stopwatch time, it will be less than 90 minutes, but how much more? B) you made 90 minutes; put down the iPad and look round the room and go get a drink. Report on how your eyes feel. Now imagine every time you play a video game, that's what you are putting your eyes through.
@john_c they'll keep it because it's theirs and it is worth a lot of money. That would be like Disney selling Mickey Mouse because he's not in motion pictures anymore.
Author of this feature is incorrect. Sony have innovated nothing, ever,
All controller innovations were correctly accredited to Nintendo apart from:
The dual control sticks?
Innovated by Nintendo. The n64 controller was designed to be held three different ways hence its 3 prongs, one of which was to have control of both directional inputs, using the dpad with the left thumb and analogue stick assigned to the right thumb. Equally so the yellow control buttons offered a similar array of held the other way, in other words, dual controls. All Sony did, yet again, was to take this idea and swap the digital for an analogue interface. The duality of the inputs, which was the innovation: was made by Nintendo. "But it was analogue!!!" The analogue stick was also Nintendo. Sony merely reorganised existing ideas and tech.
The internal hard drive by Xbox!!!!!
No.
I distinctly remember playing my Sega MegaCD that had an internal drive, and again on my Saturn.
Game consoles having internal memory out of the box, which was the innovation, was one of Sega's I'm afraid. "But it had Gbs of space as it was a hard drive!!!!" The format is irrelevant, the idea is what is innovative. If Microsoft manufactured a console in the 90's it wouldn't have had a hard drive, as it was cost relative. The idea to put memory into a console was 100% Sega. Fact.
The share button is no more an innovation than the fact a start button is on there. I can "share" on my PS3 and my Wii U, all the share button has done is map existing features to a button press......... Wow. That is not innovation, that is convenience. Like the PlayStation pad having four shoulders buttons over the snes two shoulder buttons. Not an innovation, an addition.
The analogue stick
Force feedback
Inbuilt speaker
Motion sensors
Second screen
Analogue triggers
These are innovations.
NONE are sony's
@adf86 firstly. It doesn't matter where it was revealed, the actual point is that such a pathetic "innovation" was actually showcased somewhere at all in the first place. Pointing out the actual place is just being pointless and pedantic. Although while we are on the subject, it would appear I was right all along anyway http://www.gamesradar.com/share-button-generations-defining-feature/
States they showed the feature at E3 2013.
Secondly, I never said dualshock was the worst controller, I said it contains zero innovation and never has.
Thirdly, if you can look at a Sony pad and see it is blatantly a snes controller, you need your eyes checked.
Look at the first Playstation pad ever. It IS a snes pad with two extra shoulder buttons, like somebody taped two snes pads together. Every "innovation" since then has been copied from Nintendo and literally stuck onto the original PlayStation pad wherever they would fit. Hence the reason we have stupidly positioned control sticks. But are actually ok now to the non educated as your things have spent the last 10-20 years adjusting to reach them both.
Hahahahahahahahahaha this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read.
When they revealed at e3, their single innovation for this gen as the almighty share button, I literally laughed out loud.
I have since owned a ps4 and tried out the share button. My outburst of laughter changed, and not for the better. It changed into a muted, lip curled, eyes down, solemnly slow head shake.
What an utter pile of diseased rhinoceros pizzle. If I pressed it and the time popped up as a brief overlay on my screen it would serve more function.
The invention of the share button is only beaten to the "worst innovation for a controller ever" by the appallingly pointless track pad to the centre of the dualshock 4 which itself is instantly beaten by sony's refusal to move the bloody "home" button away from smack between the sticks. Catching it accidentally and warping out to the dashboard while in the middle of an online sports game has gotten boring since PS3.
Sony copied the snes controller twenty years ago and literally darent let that go. Their design orocess must literally be somebody at a desk with a snes controller shell and an assortment of little boxes of components and some modelling clay. Said designer then sticks random bits onto a snes controller until he thinks he's onto something. Said designer then jumps down off his buffet and runs to the kitchen, grinning excitedly, shouting "daddy daddy! Look! I made it do a share!!!"
Father looks down smiling wide, hiding the shame burning behind his eyes and says "well done Jimmy, well done, you're such a clever boy" but thinking. "Well at least it's not as wank as that touch pad Mongo has put forward, why didn't we think of the Gamepad?"
Sega while you're on an epiphany high also begin works on reboots of
Streets of Rage - done in same style as Arkham series
Panzer dragoon - one like zwei and another a sequel to saga, bring back the andromeda staff.
Shining force IV
Story of Thor
Sonic 5 - minus the ridiculous huge cast and that sonic boom ever got made and make an actual good sonic game again.
Virtua fighter 6
Sega rally - forget everything since Saturn and model a new game on the Saturn version.
Sega sports - best none EA range of sports games ever, most were better than EA, particularly NBA Action 98, NHL all star hockey 98 and worldwide soccer. Bring that series back now!!! All star hockey 98 is actually better than NHL 16. Getting very sick of EA's monopoly on sports franchises spewing sub par titles cause they've no competition.
Golden axe 4 - modelled on golden axe II and not the appealing beast rider found on PS3.
Basically Sega, forget everything you've done for nearly twenty years, it was all crap.
Sack ALL of your current teams and most of your current decision makers.
Hire three QUALITY teams worth of staff and some managers who have a lie about Sega and video games.
Then all sit down together and really analyse ALL the IPs you ditched from the Saturn and mega drive. All the sheer quality games that have been left.
The opitomy of Sega was that a staffer put forward making streets of rage 4 for Saturn/dreamcast.
The CEO at the time said no. What he actually said, and was quoted as saying was "what the hell is streets of rage!?" If the "leader" of a company has that level of knowledge about their own product and its potential, how can anything any good ever come out from them????
@ChoZanWan Not at all, gaming is a social thing. Sitting on your own, with a helmet on closed off from everything around you physically is just pathetic. Online multiplayer is great but will never be as good as local multiplayer, especially as the experience devolves into disappearing into your console like some kind of trekki fantasist.
@MadchesterManc no. I own the content the same as I would on a disc. the access to that software is attached to my account, I can download as many times as I like onto different machines and I never have to pay another penny once I buy my licence to that software. Disc is same principle but you are accessing that software with a disc instead of a file on your hardware. What yown is the same software, the medium you own it on had just changed. Playstation now is an illusion, charging you over a £100 annual to play games you have NO licence to, you just borrow them.
@BladeRider you're just suppose to hold off for as long as you can and keep activating the uplinks to call in bombers to destroy the two AT-ATs. If you kill the two AT-ATs, rebels win as there is no way for them to blow your thing up that you're trying to defend
This service is utter crap. I would rather pay £9.99 for one ps3 game that I download to my ps4 and keep. After a year of PlayStation now I've paid £156 and I own NOTHING. Digital distribution I've paid £120 and I own 12 of my favourites games.
What would be even better, seen as the ps4 can obviously run ps3 and is signed into the same psn+ account on my ps3, would be to allow me to download any/all of the 100+ games on ps3/2/One I already own on my psn account onto to my ps4.
I've paid over £1000 for digital media over the years on playstation, now they want me to pay them £160 a year to borrow them all over again?
Drop dead. A complete joke and tant amount to robbery.
2 by a clear mile is naughty dogs best ever game not just the best uncharted.
2 is a sheer masterclass of game development from the opening screen to you finishing the game and it ranks up there with ocarina of time.
1 and 3 are also brilliant. 3 for me was the weakest and I personally got bored half way through and never finished it!
I think uncharted games are phenomenal and I'm a real advocate for them, but there was something wrong with 3 that I can't put my finger on.
Bit like the real star wars trilogy. The first one brought something new, huge and gave you a world. The second one did everything right in terms of their respective artistic medium and really delivered. The third tried to capitalise on that success and copy the previous installments formula but ultimately fell a little short somewhere.
An utter car crash of a game just full of bugs, glitches and an utterly unrewarding online experience that just smacks of microtransaction orientated whore of a game.
PLEASE stop selling EA exclusive licence rights and give hockey to another developer. 2K were miles better and the competition breeds a desire to make a product instead of long lived complaceny ring their consumers of £60 for the game and potentially £100's in "cards" that are non transferable to next year's iteration.
Don't buy it!!! You say?
I like hockey, there is NO other hockey video game.
Football has fifa and pes, why does hockey get left with the biggest video game slag left holding the deeds making their games?
The social features on ps4 are ridiculous and utterly pointless and as laughable today as the firstly unveiled their "big" controller innovation of the "share" button hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Utter crap and a total joke. Anybody makes extensive use of this feature???? Waste of time. Play the game, why would I want to watch you play a game, I'm busy playing mine. Why would I want to watch you play a section before me? I want to finish the game. Why would I watch your sports games highlights? I want to get my team better.
Total thoughtless waste of time feature. Just showed Sony had run out of ideas and faithfully gave us just more powerful console. Trying to claim it offers anything more than that over a ps3 is laughable.
Uncharted 4 does look just like 1,2 and 3.
The crowd is bigger.... Oooooooo
He had more stubble...... Aaaaaaa
Does the game look different? Not at all.
Shenmue 3 is miles off.
Last guardian? Niche game, personally not my kind of thing either.
Street fighter v is the only top level console exclusive This side of xmas.
Horizon looks appallingly boring but will sell a certain amount as it's a glorified tech demo.
VR is not cool. Infact it is the other extreme. It is pathetic and will never take off.
A family sitting in a lounge all watching 3D lasts all but ten minutes before one person looks around at the others and thinks "we look like t**ts"
If you are willing to sit, in your lounge, your own; you are one admission away from cabling yourself straight up the ass into a "matrix" type sad existance of living in a virtual environment as the only source of your "joy" and entertainment.
Get off your ass, out your house and enjoy the World. Investing in this any further is a soulless venture and begat pure shame and self loathing.
Hate it within passion but still log in daily and rack ridiculous hours even though I constantly whine about the crippled AI in an EA game. AGAIN! Come in EA, hire some decent programmers for a change and give them sufficient time to complete it.
I personally thought the whole of e3 has been appalling. No new Major announcement from anyone. VR is pointless and redundant within the forum of home entertainment just as much as 3D is. Lauded only by tech geeks and one-up braggers just to have something new and then never use it more than once. If people won't wear glasses to enjoy 3d, why would they Don goggles for another new tech? Never happen.
Uncharted 4 looked good, but looked exactly the same game as uncharted 3, 2 and 1. Not a bad thing, it's just nothing new at all AND it was announced a year ago. People shouldnt be going crazy for it now, they should be saying "why the hell isn't it on shop shelves right now!?"
Everything else was a sequel of a sequel of a sequel.
The only true GREAT things to happen was the announcement of and almost instant funding of Shenmue III.
And for the more astute, who can read between the lines, Nintendo's apparent lacking at E3 actually did nothing but affirm the entire company is currently working on NX Hardware and first party titles. That bad boy will in stores before Christmas 2016.
@WARDIE I play and like ps3 and don't rate ps4 at all. When I last looked, this was a playstation site, not a playstation 4 site? I'm sure they cover vita aswell or am I wrong?
I've not tried to change anyone's opinion, simply expressed mine, to which you and @electrolite77 have taken grievance to and made a pointless attempt to change my opinion.
If you love your ps4 so much play it. I think it's a waste of money, I'll sell mine and deem it worthless. Not really seeing where either of your two problems lie? Unless you just like pointlessly anonymously arguing on the Internet.
"is that in contrast to your narcissistic self righteous Sony fan boy posts?" Narcissistic, self-righteous? Yes probably. Sony fanboy? No. Well admitted
"I buy consoles for playing games." So do most people. Taken out of context in a poor attempt at sarcasm
"Ps4 has no games worth playing that aren't on ps3 that warrant paying so much money for the hardware." In your opinion. I'm afraid it's true. List me games on ps4 only.
"And the power for the price is a joke. The processor is way under powered and only 8gb of ram for "next gen" it should have had 16 to ensure it delivered for next 5-7 years as a "powerhouse" that it claims to be. My laptop dumps all over a ps4 and i hardly game on it." Your laptop won't have cost £349 And it does a hell of a lot more than a ps4, the price relative.
"The games that are on ps4 I could get for my laptop but they aren't worth playing anyway" in your opinion Doesn't negate the point actually being made that there is limited format exclusivity.
"hence I sold the ps4. It's just not worth the investment" In your opinion, based on your personal circumstances. It just isn't, it literally doesn't offer anything new or different or exclusive
This is why you find it weird. You didn't like it. But to understand why something sells you have to think a long way out of the prism of your own personal circumstanced. I have no interest in XBox One because the exclusives don't appeal but I understand it sells because other people fancy it.I currently spend most of my time on the Wii U but I can understand why someone who doesn't like Mario Kart/Bayonetta 2/Pikmin 3 etc wouldn't want one. From an objective point-of-view I can see why the PS4 has sold. there's nothing 'weird' about it. The wii u is a far better console full stop. It is validly odd for something to sell in such high numbers despite it offering very little. They only key point in its success I'd in what don't truly are good at. Marketing. The same answer applies to the poor sales of the wii u and what nintendo are weak at
@WARDIE how does owning a more powerful laptop make me a graphics whore? I hardly game on. Typical ps4 consumers are graphics wires seeming it together most powerful. I game primarily on ps3 which is the weakesthardware I have. The Ps4 is just not next gen. The nearest console to the true definition of net gen is the wii u which is actually a far better console than the ps4
@freaksloan absolutely agree with you. If you've a wii u and ps3 there is zero need for a ps4. There's way too much ps4 coverage compared to ps3 and the ps3 is better and offers way more
@electrolite77 is that in contrast to your narcissistic self righteous Sony fan boy posts? I buy consoles for playing games. Ps4 has no games worth playing that aren't on ps3 that warrant paying so much money for the hardware. And the power for the price is a joke. The processor is way under powered and only 8gb of ram for "next gen" it should have had 16 to ensure it delivered for next 5-7 years as a "powerhouse" that it claims to be. My laptop dumps all over a ps4 and i hardly game on it. The games that are on ps4 I could get for my laptop but they aren't worth playing anyway hence I sold the ps4. It's just not worth the investment
@AeroZeppelin hahaha. No. I'm a gamer, I play absorts of formats, primarily ps3 and i just don't rate the ps4 whatsoever as a "next gen" console because it just isnt
@WARDIE or maybe I do know what I'm talking about. How many millions buy Justin Bieber albums? Does that justify him being a great artist???? The PS4 offers no new incentive over a ps3, if anything it is a massive backward step. The Ps4 is the least "next gen" of any new generation since nes. It is to consoles what fifa 15 was to fifa 14. Slight unnecessary update. If you can name 3 genuine improvements apart from there are more shadows and more realistic hair in graphic engines now, I'd be impressed
This is ridiculous. Apalling. Disgusting and a rip off. I alreqdy own close to a hundred ps3 games downloaded from psn, all bought and paid for but I'm not allowed them on the game starving ps4? I have to pay £13 A MONTH for that privilege? Bye bye sony
All games in the list are poor. 2014 was appalling. 2013 was massive. My favourite game of 2014 wasn't even in the list. And dragon age at 23% is hardly a majority is it. Utter waste of time playstation at the moment. I they'd have not bothered with ps4 and stuck with what was working so well for ps3. The ps4 is rubbish.
Uncharted 4 is nowhere near enough to warrant buying a PS4. Especially when it sneakily could have been built for PS3 and was obviously pushed forward as a PS4 only title to help push the console
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Re: Soapbox: Why PlayStation VR Has Me Cautiously Optimistic
@kyleforrester87 THAT would sell.
Sitting in your front room with a crash helmet on will not.
Re: Soapbox: Why PlayStation VR Has Me Cautiously Optimistic
@BigDaddyT0101 I'm not disagreeing with how impressive it is. I bet it's as wow as when you first saw a 3DS screen and thought how the hell is that in 3D and I don't have to wear glasses. Ultimately though, it is a fad accessory; like motion control, like 3D in general and the price of admission is just too much. People will inevitably buy it as it is new tech, and gaming journalism sites will inevitably latch onto it and write it up an an overly positive light and there is literally NOTHING else new or innovative this generation.
It will launch, it will sell and in my opinion it will fade, the same as it did in the 90's.
3D and VR will not latched onto by a mass market until the tech is developed to a point where you don't need the goggles/glasses/headset. Or the tech is so cheap it is packaged in as standard with the console just like 3D is with TVs now. Same principle how Knack has such amazing sales figures; you got it whether you wanted it or not.
Re: Soapbox: Why PlayStation VR Has Me Cautiously Optimistic
@BigDaddyT0101 I think you might be looking for a different kind of experience all together!
Re: Soapbox: Why PlayStation VR Has Me Cautiously Optimistic
This is MegaCD all over again. Legitimately a good idea but priced way too high for masses to adopt it.
Technophiles will buy it...... And that's it. Probably a few spoilt children too. This will not sell in the numbers to warrant what they have spent.
For me personally, it doesn't even interest me. I can accept its purpose and function, but feel sitting in my front room wearing that helmet is literally ridiculous. It's like when the gameboy light and magnifier came out and more than doubled the size of your portable. It's just not physically viable as a peripheral. It is way too far in its infancy. Have a 3D tv and some games and blurays with 3D function. NEVER, ever used it beyond a 5 minute stint to see it working. Looked nice, but no way will sit with my family wearing some stupid glasses. The new 3DS 3D display is phenomenal and works without peripherals, that I can buy and use. The PlayStation VR gets rid of the glasses and now demands I don something the size of a crash helmet on my sofa and to hand over £250-£400 for it.
Literally, never gonna happen.
VR offered this in the 90's and beyond a commercial showpiece, literally nobody cared. "But the graphics were rubbish!" To you, yes; relatively at the time they were as cutting edge then as PS4 is now.
It just isn't gonna work, in my opinion.
@BAMozzy excellent point. Health and safety wise they will issue this with a get out clause of "you must take off this helmet every 30 minutes and look round the room" realistically this won't happen. The over-charged, "have to have it now!" Early adopters will buy it, love it, laude it..... And then we will inevitably have news reports on eye strain and retinal damage after John Johnson of Idaho played black ops IV for 3 hours one night and damn near blinded himself. Staring at a screen POINTBLANK range for an extended time will screw your eyes. When you sit down to game, how long is a session? Are you looking at a screen where your peripheral vision is adjusting between objects at varying distances constantly? Got an iPad? Sit in a pitch black room, fire up a live broadcast of black ops III on twitch and gold that screen in front of your face, 3 inches from your eyeball. Set an alarm for an 90minutes (a conservative time period to play a game before quoting or going to the loo) and also set a stop watch. DO NOT stop watching the feed until A) you physically can't watch it anymore, check the stopwatch time, it will be less than 90 minutes, but how much more? B) you made 90 minutes; put down the iPad and look round the room and go get a drink. Report on how your eyes feel. Now imagine every time you play a video game, that's what you are putting your eyes through.
Re: Oh Great, Bandai Namco's Started a Mysterious Game Countdown
I'd go for a new Splatterhouse game.
Re: Hideo Kojima Is Allegedly in Talks with Sony
@john_c they'll keep it because it's theirs and it is worth a lot of money. That would be like Disney selling Mickey Mouse because he's not in motion pictures anymore.
Re: Hideo Kojima Is Allegedly in Talks with Sony
Kerching!
And good luck Kojima-san. A true legend in this industry.
Re: Soapbox: Why the PS4's Share Button Is the Greatest Innovation of This Generation
@get2sammyb
Author of this feature is incorrect. Sony have innovated nothing, ever,
All controller innovations were correctly accredited to Nintendo apart from:
The dual control sticks?
Innovated by Nintendo. The n64 controller was designed to be held three different ways hence its 3 prongs, one of which was to have control of both directional inputs, using the dpad with the left thumb and analogue stick assigned to the right thumb. Equally so the yellow control buttons offered a similar array of held the other way, in other words, dual controls. All Sony did, yet again, was to take this idea and swap the digital for an analogue interface. The duality of the inputs, which was the innovation: was made by Nintendo. "But it was analogue!!!" The analogue stick was also Nintendo. Sony merely reorganised existing ideas and tech.
The internal hard drive by Xbox!!!!!
No.
I distinctly remember playing my Sega MegaCD that had an internal drive, and again on my Saturn.
Game consoles having internal memory out of the box, which was the innovation, was one of Sega's I'm afraid. "But it had Gbs of space as it was a hard drive!!!!" The format is irrelevant, the idea is what is innovative. If Microsoft manufactured a console in the 90's it wouldn't have had a hard drive, as it was cost relative. The idea to put memory into a console was 100% Sega. Fact.
The share button is no more an innovation than the fact a start button is on there. I can "share" on my PS3 and my Wii U, all the share button has done is map existing features to a button press......... Wow. That is not innovation, that is convenience. Like the PlayStation pad having four shoulders buttons over the snes two shoulder buttons. Not an innovation, an addition.
The analogue stick
Force feedback
Inbuilt speaker
Motion sensors
Second screen
Analogue triggers
These are innovations.
NONE are sony's
Re: Soapbox: Why the PS4's Share Button Is the Greatest Innovation of This Generation
@adf86 firstly. It doesn't matter where it was revealed, the actual point is that such a pathetic "innovation" was actually showcased somewhere at all in the first place. Pointing out the actual place is just being pointless and pedantic. Although while we are on the subject, it would appear I was right all along anyway
http://www.gamesradar.com/share-button-generations-defining-feature/
States they showed the feature at E3 2013.
Secondly, I never said dualshock was the worst controller, I said it contains zero innovation and never has.
Thirdly, if you can look at a Sony pad and see it is blatantly a snes controller, you need your eyes checked.
Look at the first Playstation pad ever. It IS a snes pad with two extra shoulder buttons, like somebody taped two snes pads together. Every "innovation" since then has been copied from Nintendo and literally stuck onto the original PlayStation pad wherever they would fit. Hence the reason we have stupidly positioned control sticks. But are actually ok now to the non educated as your things have spent the last 10-20 years adjusting to reach them both.
Re: Soapbox: Why the PS4's Share Button Is the Greatest Innovation of This Generation
@get2sammyb it is a pointless and redundant feature. Bit like some people
Re: Soapbox: Why the PS4's Share Button Is the Greatest Innovation of This Generation
Hahahahahahahahahaha this is the most ridiculous thing I've ever read.
When they revealed at e3, their single innovation for this gen as the almighty share button, I literally laughed out loud.
I have since owned a ps4 and tried out the share button. My outburst of laughter changed, and not for the better. It changed into a muted, lip curled, eyes down, solemnly slow head shake.
What an utter pile of diseased rhinoceros pizzle. If I pressed it and the time popped up as a brief overlay on my screen it would serve more function.
The invention of the share button is only beaten to the "worst innovation for a controller ever" by the appallingly pointless track pad to the centre of the dualshock 4 which itself is instantly beaten by sony's refusal to move the bloody "home" button away from smack between the sticks. Catching it accidentally and warping out to the dashboard while in the middle of an online sports game has gotten boring since PS3.
Sony copied the snes controller twenty years ago and literally darent let that go. Their design orocess must literally be somebody at a desk with a snes controller shell and an assortment of little boxes of components and some modelling clay. Said designer then sticks random bits onto a snes controller until he thinks he's onto something. Said designer then jumps down off his buffet and runs to the kitchen, grinning excitedly, shouting "daddy daddy! Look! I made it do a share!!!"
Father looks down smiling wide, hiding the shame burning behind his eyes and says "well done Jimmy, well done, you're such a clever boy" but thinking. "Well at least it's not as wank as that touch pad Mongo has put forward, why didn't we think of the Gamepad?"
Re: Gone Home Gets Comfy on PS4 from 12th January
I have no idea what this game is and it looks BOOOOOORING
Re: SEGA Will See About Shenmue 1 & 2 Re-Release on PS4
Sega while you're on an epiphany high also begin works on reboots of
Streets of Rage - done in same style as Arkham series
Panzer dragoon - one like zwei and another a sequel to saga, bring back the andromeda staff.
Shining force IV
Story of Thor
Sonic 5 - minus the ridiculous huge cast and that sonic boom ever got made and make an actual good sonic game again.
Virtua fighter 6
Sega rally - forget everything since Saturn and model a new game on the Saturn version.
Sega sports - best none EA range of sports games ever, most were better than EA, particularly NBA Action 98, NHL all star hockey 98 and worldwide soccer. Bring that series back now!!! All star hockey 98 is actually better than NHL 16. Getting very sick of EA's monopoly on sports franchises spewing sub par titles cause they've no competition.
Golden axe 4 - modelled on golden axe II and not the appealing beast rider found on PS3.
Basically Sega, forget everything you've done for nearly twenty years, it was all crap.
Sack ALL of your current teams and most of your current decision makers.
Hire three QUALITY teams worth of staff and some managers who have a lie about Sega and video games.
Then all sit down together and really analyse ALL the IPs you ditched from the Saturn and mega drive. All the sheer quality games that have been left.
The opitomy of Sega was that a staffer put forward making streets of rage 4 for Saturn/dreamcast.
The CEO at the time said no. What he actually said, and was quoted as saying was "what the hell is streets of rage!?" If the "leader" of a company has that level of knowledge about their own product and its potential, how can anything any good ever come out from them????
Re: Review: Star Wars Battlefront (PS4)
EXCELLENT star wars game.
Interesting to see what the Season Pass will hold.
However, makes me want a Battlefield 5 more.
Re: Talking Point: Which PS2 Games Would You Play on PS4?
Mega man x collection. In a PAL territor for once would be good
That's it
Re: Soapbox: PlayStation VR Made Me Scream Like a Little Girl
@AhabSpampurse why's that?
Re: Soapbox: PlayStation VR Made Me Scream Like a Little Girl
@ChoZanWan Not at all, gaming is a social thing. Sitting on your own, with a helmet on closed off from everything around you physically is just pathetic. Online multiplayer is great but will never be as good as local multiplayer, especially as the experience devolves into disappearing into your console like some kind of trekki fantasist.
Re: Talking Point: Is the PlayStation 2 the Greatest Games Console of All Time?
No. No it isn't. Not by an absolute mile hahahahaha
Re: Push Share: What PS4 Screenshots Have You Been Sharing? - Issue 1
I've shared none. It is an utterly pointless and useless feature of the ps4 and utterly pathetic
Re: Play Hundreds of PS3 Games on Your PS4, Vita in the Free PlayStation Now Trial
@MadchesterManc no. I own the content the same as I would on a disc. the access to that software is attached to my account, I can download as many times as I like onto different machines and I never have to pay another penny once I buy my licence to that software.
Disc is same principle but you are accessing that software with a disc instead of a file on your hardware. What yown is the same software, the medium you own it on had just changed.
Playstation now is an illusion, charging you over a £100 annual to play games you have NO licence to, you just borrow them.
Re: Star Wars Battlefront Beta Forces Another Day on PS4
@BladeRider you're just suppose to hold off for as long as you can and keep activating the uplinks to call in bombers to destroy the two AT-ATs. If you kill the two AT-ATs, rebels win as there is no way for them to blow your thing up that you're trying to defend
Re: Star Wars Battlefront Beta Forces Another Day on PS4
Why is this game getting slammed so much? How is it any less of a game than battlefield? It's basically is battlefield but in the star wars universe
Re: Play Hundreds of PS3 Games on Your PS4, Vita in the Free PlayStation Now Trial
This service is utter crap.
I would rather pay £9.99 for one ps3 game that I download to my ps4 and keep.
After a year of PlayStation now I've paid £156 and I own NOTHING.
Digital distribution I've paid £120 and I own 12 of my favourites games.
What would be even better, seen as the ps4 can obviously run ps3 and is signed into the same psn+ account on my ps3, would be to allow me to download any/all of the 100+ games on ps3/2/One I already own on my psn account onto to my ps4.
I've paid over £1000 for digital media over the years on playstation, now they want me to pay them £160 a year to borrow them all over again?
Drop dead. A complete joke and tant amount to robbery.
Re: Poll: Which Uncharted Game Would You Crown as Your Fave?
2 by a clear mile is naughty dogs best ever game not just the best uncharted.
2 is a sheer masterclass of game development from the opening screen to you finishing the game and it ranks up there with ocarina of time.
1 and 3 are also brilliant. 3 for me was the weakest and I personally got bored half way through and never finished it!
I think uncharted games are phenomenal and I'm a real advocate for them, but there was something wrong with 3 that I can't put my finger on.
Bit like the real star wars trilogy.
The first one brought something new, huge and gave you a world.
The second one did everything right in terms of their respective artistic medium and really delivered.
The third tried to capitalise on that success and copy the previous installments formula but ultimately fell a little short somewhere.
Re: Game of the Month: Top 4 PlayStation Games of September 2015
Worst game this month boba clear mile is NHL 16.
An utter car crash of a game just full of bugs, glitches and an utterly unrewarding online experience that just smacks of microtransaction orientated whore of a game.
PLEASE stop selling EA exclusive licence rights and give hockey to another developer. 2K were miles better and the competition breeds a desire to make a product instead of long lived complaceny ring their consumers of £60 for the game and potentially £100's in "cards" that are non transferable to next year's iteration.
Don't buy it!!! You say?
I like hockey, there is NO other hockey video game.
Football has fifa and pes, why does hockey get left with the biggest video game slag left holding the deeds making their games?
Re: Poll: Do You Actually Use the PS4's Social Features?
@daveh30 EXACTLY!!!!!!
Re: Poll: Do You Actually Use the PS4's Social Features?
The social features on ps4 are ridiculous and utterly pointless and as laughable today as the firstly unveiled their "big" controller innovation of the "share" button hahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Utter crap and a total joke. Anybody makes extensive use of this feature???? Waste of time. Play the game, why would I want to watch you play a game, I'm busy playing mine. Why would I want to watch you play a section before me? I want to finish the game. Why would I watch your sports games highlights? I want to get my team better.
Total thoughtless waste of time feature. Just showed Sony had run out of ideas and faithfully gave us just more powerful console. Trying to claim it offers anything more than that over a ps3 is laughable.
Re: Reaction: Sony Proves That PS4's Got a Stranglehold on Consoles at E3 2015
@Dohv I own a ps4 and i play it.
Uncharted 4 does look just like 1,2 and 3.
The crowd is bigger.... Oooooooo
He had more stubble...... Aaaaaaa
Does the game look different? Not at all.
Shenmue 3 is miles off.
Last guardian? Niche game, personally not my kind of thing either.
Street fighter v is the only top level console exclusive This side of xmas.
Horizon looks appallingly boring but will sell a certain amount as it's a glorified tech demo.
Re: Soapbox: PlayStation VR Made Me Scream Like a Little Girl
VR is not cool.
Infact it is the other extreme.
It is pathetic and will never take off.
A family sitting in a lounge all watching 3D lasts all but ten minutes before one person looks around at the others and thinks "we look like t**ts"
If you are willing to sit, in your lounge, your own; you are one admission away from cabling yourself straight up the ass into a "matrix" type sad existance of living in a virtual environment as the only source of your "joy" and entertainment.
Get off your ass, out your house and enjoy the World. Investing in this any further is a soulless venture and begat pure shame and self loathing.
Fin.
Re: Opinion: Sony's Not Solely to Blame for PS Vita's Demise
???? Totally sony's fault.
Saying vita failure isn't sony's fault is like trying to say the wii u isn't nintendos fault.
Both totally ridiculous claims that earn you a well deserved laughing at.
Re: Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection Will Grapple with 44GB of Your PS4
That is astounding. The original 3 games took up almost double that on my ps3
Re: Talking Point: What Are You Playing This Weekend? - Issue 86
A fellow NHL 16 gamer!? Cool.
My WAYP is NHL, every weekend.
Hate it within passion but still log in daily and rack ridiculous hours even though I constantly whine about the crippled AI in an EA game. AGAIN!
Come in EA, hire some decent programmers for a change and give them sufficient time to complete it.
Re: Poll: Has Destiny Won You Back With The Taken King?
Destiny as a whole is THE most over-rated game ever made ever.
I honestly would not download the legendary edition even if it was free.
Re: Reaction: Sony Proves That PS4's Got a Stranglehold on Consoles at E3 2015
I personally thought the whole of e3 has been appalling. No new Major announcement from anyone. VR is pointless and redundant within the forum of home entertainment just as much as 3D is. Lauded only by tech geeks and one-up braggers just to have something new and then never use it more than once. If people won't wear glasses to enjoy 3d, why would they Don goggles for another new tech? Never happen.
Uncharted 4 looked good, but looked exactly the same game as uncharted 3, 2 and 1. Not a bad thing, it's just nothing new at all AND it was announced a year ago. People shouldnt be going crazy for it now, they should be saying "why the hell isn't it on shop shelves right now!?"
Everything else was a sequel of a sequel of a sequel.
The only true GREAT things to happen was the announcement of and almost instant funding of Shenmue III.
And for the more astute, who can read between the lines, Nintendo's apparent lacking at E3 actually did nothing but affirm the entire company is currently working on NX Hardware and first party titles. That bad boy will in stores before Christmas 2016.
I guarantee it.
Re: Talking Point: What Are Your Most Memorable PlayStation Multiplayer Feats?
Getting into division 1 of NHL 14 PUTTINGME IN THE TOP 3% of NHL 14 gamers in the world.
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@WARDIE I play and like ps3 and don't rate ps4 at all. When I last looked, this was a playstation site, not a playstation 4 site? I'm sure they cover vita aswell or am I wrong?
I've not tried to change anyone's opinion, simply expressed mine, to which you and @electrolite77 have taken grievance to and made a pointless attempt to change my opinion.
If you love your ps4 so much play it. I think it's a waste of money, I'll sell mine and deem it worthless. Not really seeing where either of your two problems lie? Unless you just like pointlessly anonymously arguing on the Internet.
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@electrolite77
"is that in contrast to your narcissistic self righteous Sony fan boy posts?"
Narcissistic, self-righteous? Yes probably. Sony fanboy? No.
Well admitted
"I buy consoles for playing games." So do most people.
Taken out of context in a poor attempt at sarcasm
"Ps4 has no games worth playing that aren't on ps3 that warrant paying so much money for the hardware." In your opinion.
I'm afraid it's true. List me games on ps4 only.
"And the power for the price is a joke. The processor is way under powered and only 8gb of ram for "next gen" it should have had 16 to ensure it delivered for next 5-7 years as a "powerhouse" that it claims to be. My laptop dumps all over a ps4 and i hardly game on it." Your laptop won't have cost £349
And it does a hell of a lot more than a ps4, the price relative.
"The games that are on ps4 I could get for my laptop but they aren't worth playing anyway" in your opinion
Doesn't negate the point actually being made that there is limited format exclusivity.
"hence I sold the ps4. It's just not worth the investment" In your opinion, based on your personal circumstances.
It just isn't, it literally doesn't offer anything new or different or exclusive
This is why you find it weird. You didn't like it. But to understand why something sells you have to think a long way out of the prism of your own personal circumstanced. I have no interest in XBox One because the exclusives don't appeal but I understand it sells because other people fancy it.I currently spend most of my time on the Wii U but I can understand why someone who doesn't like Mario Kart/Bayonetta 2/Pikmin 3 etc wouldn't want one.
From an objective point-of-view I can see why the PS4 has sold. there's nothing 'weird' about it.
The wii u is a far better console full stop. It is validly odd for something to sell in such high numbers despite it offering very little. They only key point in its success I'd in what don't truly are good at. Marketing.
The same answer applies to the poor sales of the wii u and what nintendo are weak at
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@WARDIE how does owning a more powerful laptop make me a graphics whore? I hardly game on. Typical ps4 consumers are graphics wires seeming it together most powerful. I game primarily on ps3 which is the weakesthardware I have. The Ps4 is just not next gen. The nearest console to the true definition of net gen is the wii u which is actually a far better console than the ps4
Re: Not One PS4 or Vita Title Could Break Japan's Top Ten in 2014
@freaksloan absolutely agree with you. If you've a wii u and ps3 there is zero need for a ps4. There's way too much ps4 coverage compared to ps3 and the ps3 is better and offers way more
Re: Not One PS4 or Vita Title Could Break Japan's Top Ten in 2014
@Dohv how's that when wii u has sold over 3 times as many units???? Nice to see nintendo taking whole of the top ten so convincingly
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@electrolite77 is that in contrast to your narcissistic self righteous Sony fan boy posts?
I buy consoles for playing games.
Ps4 has no games worth playing that aren't on ps3 that warrant paying so much money for the hardware. And the power for the price is a joke. The processor is way under powered and only 8gb of ram for "next gen" it should have had 16 to ensure it delivered for next 5-7 years as a "powerhouse" that it claims to be. My laptop dumps all over a ps4 and i hardly game on it. The games that are on ps4 I could get for my laptop but they aren't worth playing anyway hence I sold the ps4.
It's just not worth the investment
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@WARDIE that's just it, there are virtually no games (worth playing) available on ps4 that aren't on ps3
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@electrolite77 nope. People generally just blindly buy playstation for no logical reason in mass numbers. It's weird
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@AeroZeppelin hahaha. No.
I'm a gamer, I play absorts of formats, primarily ps3 and i just don't rate the ps4 whatsoever as a "next gen" console because it just isnt
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@WARDIE no, that's all just slightly more graphics which is what I was sarcastically referring to
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
@WARDIE or maybe I do know what I'm talking about. How many millions buy Justin Bieber albums? Does that justify him being a great artist????
The PS4 offers no new incentive over a ps3, if anything it is a massive backward step. The Ps4 is the least "next gen" of any new generation since nes. It is to consoles what fifa 15 was to fifa 14. Slight unnecessary update. If you can name 3 genuine improvements apart from there are more shadows and more realistic hair in graphic engines now, I'd be impressed
Re: The PS4 Has Surpassed a Staggering 18.5 Million Units Sold Worldwide
God know why, it's crap. I sold mine
Re: PlayStation Now's All-You-Can-Play Subscription Service Launches Next Week
This is ridiculous. Apalling. Disgusting and a rip off. I alreqdy own close to a hundred ps3 games downloaded from psn, all bought and paid for but I'm not allowed them on the game starving ps4? I have to pay £13 A MONTH for that privilege? Bye bye sony
Re: Poll: What Was Your Favourite PlayStation Game of 2014?
All games in the list are poor. 2014 was appalling. 2013 was massive. My favourite game of 2014 wasn't even in the list. And dragon age at 23% is hardly a majority is it. Utter waste of time playstation at the moment. I they'd have not bothered with ps4 and stuck with what was working so well for ps3. The ps4 is rubbish.
Re: These Are Some of the Big PS4 Exclusives You'll Be Playing in 2015
Uncharted 4 is nowhere near enough to warrant buying a PS4. Especially when it sneakily could have been built for PS3 and was obviously pushed forward as a PS4 only title to help push the console