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Re: First Impressions: Knack

Solatorobo

Of course a cartoony game would not fully showcase the PS4's power.

But to be honest I would rather embrace this as this might be a relic of actual graphical creativity in western games as eventually I bet more and more developers will be forced to create games that showcase "Pretty" (But really think something like Call Of Duty rather than Dust: An Elysean Tail, X and any other game that actually wants to create nice looking areas to be in.) graphics by the typical gamers of nowadays that want nothing more than those medicore "flavour of the month" games.

Re: Mark Cerny: I Hope Sony's Impact Will Match Nintendo's In Years To Come

Solatorobo

Sony are just as guilty as Nintendo is.

Gran Turismo is pretty much the same damn game every time, once sold a demo as a retail game and has little creative juice in it (I mean, what creativity is there in replicating car driving?)

Uncharted was a fantastic series and so was The Last of Us but I also think they are losing their creativity as well, I mean, they are both cover shooters through and through, when compared to the stuff they pulled before where they either constantly tried to add new ideas or completely overhaul the main game in almost every way, The Last Of Us feels just as "Safe" as say, the new Mario Kart.

Nintendo still do those sorts of things as well, I won't deny, but acting as if Sony is exempt from this action as well is just silly. And before you go "But Nintendo doesn't make anymore games in [Random old series] anymore they just make Mario!" Then I'll take say, Ape Escape. I have not seen a single game like Ape Escape or it's sequels, it has a strange control scheme but it works and makes sure that no other game has really had the same feel that the series has (Take note they built the gameplay around the controls extremely well, with the gadgets being quite fun to use). Which just leaves me wondering why the second rate "Halo Killer" Killzone series is getting its fourth instalment (While 343 Industries has done a good job killing Halo as it is ) while this one of a kind series was abandoned apart from an embarrassing move game.

Don't get me wrong, I'm hyped for the PS4, but It'll be third party games like Battlefront 3 and KH3 that I'll be playing.

Re: Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 Is Back with a Vengeance in New Map Pack

Solatorobo

I can't be bothered to make any CoD jokes, so I will just say that I agree that Cove and Rush look cool but the rest just look like a brown and grey bog-standard maps that many FPSes have. Also, I hope none of them turn out to be a super popular map. Aside from a rare few occasions where I could understand the reasoning behind them super popular maps make the game boring and adjust the players to only being in one or two maps.

Re: Review: Fuse (PlayStation 3)

Solatorobo

I think Overstrike was a better idea.

But then again, I thought the Resistance games were meh as well. Maybe Insomniac's style of shooters (I like Ratchet and Clank but that plays more like a platformer than a TPS) just are not for my taste.

Re: Feature: Five Things That Sony Should and Shouldn't Do at E3 2013

Solatorobo

NO KIDDY GAMZ, ONLY H4RDC0RE GAMZ PLS. MLG GUNZ AND N0SC0PEZ. FUK ANY GAMS THAT DON'T HAVE VIOLANTS, THEY CANOT BE PLAYD BAI RE4L GMERS BECUZ THEY SAY 3+ ON DA BOX.

#NOVARIETYONLYFPS.

Seriously, not everyone who plays games as a hobby only play FPSes, many play a wide variety of games and don't care what age it is, only the quality of the product.

Re: Bleszinski: PS4 Will Win Next-Gen If It Nails Connectivity and Sharing

Solatorobo

To be honest it just sounds like Miiverse with videos in exchange of snazzy fanart. Hopefully people will use it to show off cool stuff like glitches and secrets instead of showing off their "1337 MLG N0s0Pez" or whatever.

EDIT: By the way Cliffy B ain't the best guy to listen to imo, even if this is one of his better predictions.

Re: Knack Will Be Hopping onto the PlayStation 4 in Time for Launch

Solatorobo

Knack lacks the same charm Crash had. Crash was nice and simple, offered a good challenge and did something that Nintendo didn't at the time (A 3D linear platformer.). Knack just seems generic and bland.

Anyway, I think if anything more cartoony games are getting a resurgence thanks to nostalgia/what many to consider a stagnant market. But then again I don't really talk to chavvy Fifa/Cod people that much so whatever.

Re: Review: Hyperdimension Neptunia Victory (PlayStation 3)

Solatorobo

It reeks of nicheness.

However I don't really see why the series are considered all that's wrong with the Japanese games industry. While I have not played the games, it does look like it has some charm to it. Maybe it's the prevyness, I dunno (Even if a fair few western games have had pervy crap it it.)

Re: Feature: How Killzone: Shadow Fall Can Finally Fulfil the Franchise's Potential

Solatorobo

Oh wow, I didn't expect to see the results there, with Shadow Fall being the PS4's biggest title, I thought a lot of people would love it.

Personally, I would like to see the FPS genre take a backseat this generation to some other genre. 5th and early 6th gen were ruled by platformers (Which usually had more variety to them. I mean, Banjo Kazooie, Crash Bandicoot, Klonoa and Sly Cooper were completely different games) and late 6th/7th gen is ruled by FPSes, which leads me to wonder what will be the major genre of the 8th Generation (I'm hoping for RPG, may Pokémon X/Y and Dark Souls 2 lead the way!)

Re: Shuhei Yoshida Doesn't Want All PS4 Games to be First-Person Shooters

Solatorobo

Knack is the sort of game that the PS4 would need to remain the best console. "Casual" Is an awful word that chavs use to describe games that try to break the mould and produce games with amazing and unique worlds instead of just basing things on real life. I'm not saying that they should all be cartoony, or even that Knack is the best way to do it (it does look kinda Pixar-ish, and nowadays that isn't really a complement.) But I'm saying that a healthy mixture of games such as The Last of Us and games such as Rachet and Clank: A Crack In Time could make the PS4 the definitive console (of course the best thing for the PS4 would be a PS all stars 2 that has more content than Brawl and better battling than Melee, at which point they just destroyed the Wii U's killer app )