Unlucky13

For me, remakes should come in one of two varieties:

A) A wonderful old game that was made when technology was really inferior. However, it shouldn't aim to be a "shot for shot" retelling (like the FF7 remake), but rather simply in the spirit of the old game, using the same characters and story outline, but with the freedom to be made as if it were new today.

B) A game that had a really good idea but was executed poorly the first time, for whatever reason, and now will be redone by a group who really knows their stuff and will get it right.

I'm generally unhappy with the PS+ games. I rarely download one.

That said, this selection might be the worst ever. Beyond bad and into insulting territory.

I don't want them to buy up more studios. I want them to create a studio to compete with the kinds of games that Bethesda makes, now that we don't get theirs any longer.

I don't care about the online features. I've barely ever used them. But it and its predecessors have all been really fun games. Hopefully they eventually make another one for real and not just mobile.

The answer is yes, at some point after I'm able to get a PS5, whenever that happens to be. And at that point, it will get in line behind at least a dozen other games that I'm more interested in and/or have been out longer.

I do expect to buy it, but probably not before 2024 at the earliest. Hopefully it will be on sale and have any bugs worked out at that point too.

I wonder if I wait a few years to buy the game, if things will be better later on. I've been into Gran Turismo since the beginning on the PS1, but I don't play online, so my last experience was GT6 back in 2013 on the PS3.

After a decade away, though I'd like to jump back in once I find a PS5, all of this isn't exactly making it appealing....I'm never going to spend a dollar beyond the purchase price on the game. I want to grind and get cars that way, but it seems that they've even taken that mostly away.

Well, maybe I'll be able to find a PS5 by then....

I'm just never going to even play these games, in part due to this. Why waste my time with something that's too difficult to ever overcome? What's the point? I try most games on "normal" difficulty, which is often level 2 of 4. If I have to bump it down to easy to get through a hard part, then I do. If an entire game is level 3 at a minimum, I'm never going to be able to do it.

How long ago did they stop support in the US? They refused to fix my original one (bought Release Week 2006) the second time that it had issues in 2010, even if I paid for it.

Thankfully, the one that I bought to replace it is still working just fine 12 years later and has never had trouble. Too bad it can't play PS2 games like the original, but my kids have enjoyed games like Little Big Planet and the Lego series for years. They grew up with the PS3 as their first console, even though it was older than them.

@CthulhuFhtagn Woah, the main plot? TW3 has one of the best plots and stories of any game I've ever played! Holy cow.

Personally, I have no interest in Elden Ring or anything like it because the combat in TW3 is about as hard as I'm able to handle. Even playing through it twice, I had to switch to easy mode to get through some of the boss fights. So the extreme stuff is just way out of my pay grade, and it has no appeal to me anyways.

@clianvXAi Playing on a standard PS4 from 2014, the graphics are a BIG step down from Origins and Odyssey. Its very unfortunate. I might play it again some day on a PS5 when I get one to see how much better it can be.

For years, I was super excited at the thought of getting an Uncharted movie, and potentially a franchise. Now that its here, I just don't have any interest in what they've done with it. I may watch it when its on a streaming service later, but my expectations are low. Holland and Marky Mark are just so wrong for the roles.

I love The Show. But the 19 and 20 versions on the standard PS4 were sub par, and clearly worse visually than other PS4 editions had been. There's a notable drop from 18 to 19 in lighting and shadows. I've played the series since the early days of the PS3, but I'm going to wait until I have a PS5 before I buy it again.

Passionately interested, but want to have a PS5 first.

@rjejr I have a standard, launch year PS4 and a 4K TV.

However, I've had issues with nearly every new game that I've bought over the past three years with performance issues. Shadows and lighting are the biggest culprits. In some cases, its just awful compared to older PS4 games. And increasingly, I'm experiencing jaggy graphics and pop ins like its the PS2 era.

I'm holding out for the PS5 for any game that I really care about. Hopefully PS4 Pro owners have a better experience, but I think that people are understating issues on standard PS4 models with a lot of games.

I've just had so many problems with new games on my base PS4 over the last three years or so that there's no way I'm going to risk a lousy experience with this one. I'll wait until I get a PS5, no matter how long it takes. I don't think I'm even going to watch any videos. I want it all to be fresh whenever that happens.

On a related note, online gaming is absolutely ruining the whole experience, bit by bit, for those of us who only play games single player offline. Its breaking my heart.

I have absolutely no interest in ever playing online against other people. I'm too old and I suck. I'm also never, ever going to buy anything with microtransactions. So for me, I just want to play the game offline only.

I thankfully now have good internet after years of not having access, but what happens when that goes down once in a while? I recently lost mine for more than a week due to an ice storm bringing down lines. We just can't play the game? How stupid. It seems like a bizarre way to punish absolutely everyone for exploits that a few people figured out for online play.

The easy answer is to make the online experience completely seperate from the career mode. Done.

I've never had any interest in any game that Bungie has made. I don't play FPS, and I don't play online. So its completely irrevelant to me, except that it could be a waste of Sony's resources that they may have put into games that I do enjoy instead.

Can we trade MS Bungie for Bethesda now? Kidding of course, but I have no interest in any games they've ever made, and I want Sony to create more RPGs.

@CthulhuFhtagn in more than three decades of playing RPGs, it stands out at the top of my list. Its a fantastic game, and would be my template for what I want moving forward if I could choose.

@CrimsonKing97 Others here have given me a lot of great insight on that series. I looked into it deeply and decided that it wasn't for me.

@frankmcma I've played all three DA games as soon as they came out and loved them. I thought that DA:I was setting the table for what could be an awesome generation of party-based RPGs on the PS4, but.....there has been so very, very little since then. It breaks my heart.

We have some terrific individual hero RPGs of course, and I enjoy those two, but the party ones are my thing.

@ShogunRok I've read that Square/Enix lost some important members of their team during the development of XII and after it was completed to other studios. It might be that they just couldn't keep things going and the momentum died, sadly.

@nessisonett I mostly agree. I enjoy Anime. Some is really good. Some is crap. But its a passive experience. I watch for a while, then do something else. Its not a 100-150 hour gaming experience that I'm deeply into for a month.

And I do agree that the writing can be really, really lame. Dragon Quest XI was a fine game mostly, but the dialogue was absolutely terrible. Like it was written for young children, despite it being a Teen rated game. The others I've played in the PS4 era are largely even worse in that respect.

@frankmcma For me, its not that my tastes have changed, its just that the gaming industry has. I started back on the NES with Dragon Warrior (now Dragon Quest), and then Final Fantasy. By the time FF switched over to the Playstation, 7, 8, 9, X, X-2 and XII all came out basically over a decade. Always giving us something new with each edition.

Then it took forever to get XII and its sequels on the PS3, and the games were pretty, but so empty and void of feeling, and the stories were so depressing. Then it took even more of a forever to get 15, and it was even more empty and depressing, and they took away the ability to even add members to the party for the most part.

For me, JRPGs peaked with FF12. It was exactly and absolutely what I wanted it to be at the tail end of the PS2 era. It had a wonderful, thoughtful and deep story, a great cast of characters, and a great battle system. I was so excited to see where things would go from there as consoles got better and faster, ect.....and.....they really didn't.

At the very start of the PS4 era, we got Dragon Age Inquisition, which was a Western game featuring a lot of the elements that I love, and it was terrific. But aside from a few small studio projects, the whole genre is mostly in hibernation since then. But its what I want more than anything. These games are my hobby. Its what I want to play. So, all I can do is hope.

I've been playing JRPGs since the 80s. Its really where I became a diehard gamer. But for a long, long time the genre pushed the envelope with graphics and gameplay quality, and now, nearly everything is Anime.

Its just not really what I'm looking for at this point in my life. I want a deep, huge, party based RPG that has at least semi-realistic graphics, and no one seems to be making those games.

I don't really care about Activision and their games at all. But it would be huge if Sony could create or buy studios that could do things that Bethesda is doing in the RPG arena. Losing those games is going to be a blow.

@sanderson72 I like the PS4 version of that one. Its probably the last really good Lego game, IMO.

@Deadhunter The new mechanics are what has me worried. When they did that with the Marvel games, they absolutely ruined them.

The game was originally dated for the end of 2019. Its crazy that its taken this long to come out, but I guess that Covid likely had a lot to do with it.

Either way, the more recent Lego games have been a shadow of what they once were. They used to be extremely fun co-op experiences where the players could unlock a ton of stuff and then go back through and do the levels again and again. I've been playing them since the PS2. But lately, its just been a mess with the last few.

I have never been interested in Activision games as long as I've been a gamer. No loss to me.

Aside from buying Bethesda, which absolutely sucks, nothing that XBOX has done or is doing matters to me whatsoever. These aren't games and companies that I've ever been interested in, so its no loss to me. And if that means PS is a smaller platform that makes MORE games that I do want to play, all the better.

3 and 4 are more technically and graphically impressive, but 2 is the most memorable. In its day, it was cutting edge also.

I agree with others that Sony's original plan (2019 and earlier) almost certainly wasn't to discontinue the PS4 in 2021. They may have shifted to that plan due to Covid and all of the shortages and then circled back and changed their minds, but it would be very strange to just stop production of the previous one as soon as the new one was on the market. More likely, they'd have dropped the price and sold more for years.

Meh. Its probably the most boring track in the history of the series. Just a big oval. I love the GT series for all of the fun, varried tracks. Not into NASCAR.

I typically take longer to play games than most other people. While I don't consider myself a completionist, I like to get everything out of a game that I can, and generally end up putting about 10-20% more time than what's often listed as a completionist playthrough.

That being said, if a standard full playthrough is listed as anything less than 30 hours, I'm probably not even bothering. That's just not enough time to really enjoy a game. Ideally, I play ones where a typical playthrough is 60+, which generally means 80-100 for me.

The whole year, there wasn't a single game that I was interested in but didn't already own until November. (there were 3 that I owned and enjoyed). So for me personally, it fell far below 2020, when there were games at least every other month that I was interested in and checked out. But 2022 has already started with two games I liked, so its moving in the right direction.

I've been interested in the Dirt series since the first game, but have never played one because yet, so happy to get this one for free. Not sure what to make of Strikers, but Persona 5 was OK, so I'll check that one out too.

Probably the best month for me since 2020.

I'm a big RPG guy. Its what I do, and I've been really into the genre since the late 80s. And so its sad that we're in a long stretch right now without and really good new additions.

What I want, more than anything, is a party based game with realistic or at least semi realistic graphics and a big open or semi-open world. We went the entire PS4 generation with only a handful of games like that, and I'm hoping I don't have to wait until Dragon Age 4 to get another one.

@Uncharted2007 Funny enough, I have the exact opposite feeling. I've been with the series since the start back on the PS3, and while I loved the early games, the once they got to Black Flag, I began to lose interest and they weren't at the top of my list any more. By Origins was fantastic and took the series in a much more appealing direction for me, and then Odyssey is one of my very favorite games of all time. Its just amazing. Valhalla isn't quite as good, and I've actually paused playing it for a while, but with the news of the massive expansion, I'm going to dig back in.

This patch just CREATED the 0 KB bug in my game....sigh

I turned off all my mods (I only use about a dozen) and started a new save with no issues. But clearly there are still things going wrong under the hood.

I'll let you know when I'm finally able to find one in 2023 or 2024....

It looks really good. If Western studios aren't going to put out many big single-player RPGs, I'm happy to play Chinese games.

I haven't seen a PS4 on the shelves in a store in ages, and if you look on Amazon, they're only available through third parties for $500 or more. If you go to most stores websites, its not even there as being out of stock, they have to little confidence getting them back in any time soon. Clearly, this is a big reason for the drop off in sales. No one who might want one can buy one.

Its been a very solid machine. I still have the one that I bought in 2014, and use it almost every day. I've never had any issues with it whatsoever, and it works like a charm. At over seven years now, its very easily the longest I've ever used one machine as my primary.

I know that not everyone agrees, but I really believe that Sony is holding things back due to the limited availability of the PS5. They're going to keep trickling out the more popular games over at least the next year so that each one sells as many copies as it possibly can.

I might check it out down the line whenever I get a PS5.

If true, this is the best group of games in a long time.

@fR_eeBritney I suppose so. I found the sailing tedious. Everything on the ocean just looks the same. And the naval battles were so difficult that even maxed out, I found myself basically poking the other ship and then running away and repeating over and over. Just wasn't fun for me. I also didn't like the character and found him to be too much of a jerk.

The game also didn't really have the building/interior exploration aspects from the earlier games, and that was always one of my favorite parts too.

I've played every AC game available on PS3 and PS4 systems, and been into the series since the year before they came out, when they were announced at E3. I love them, for the most part.

That being said, I cannot understand the love for Black Flag. Its one of the very worst, IMO. I didn't enjoy much about it at all.

My favorite is Odyssey, given that its now one of my inner circle favorite games of all time, regardless. The Ezio games were phenomenal in their day. Absolute masterpieces. After that, the series slowly declined until Origins. I do badly miss the modern day aspects being a larger part of the game and the story.