Is this perhaps a sign that it really is time for the leap to the next generation as developers struggle to cram their games into the limitations of the current gen consoles? Or does this suggest perhaps that game testing isn’t doing a sufficient job anymore?
Could it even be that the sheer ambition of some of these games means we have to accept we will get the odd bug?
Alanah Pearce, who was a writer at Sony Santa Monica for several years and worked on God of War Ragnarök, has shed more light on the sex minigames which cropped up in the series' earlier entries.
Other than looking like that, why does anyone care about what she has to say about anything?
The new trailer for the free 60 FPS update is here.
I'm happy with Part 3 & Blood Dragon getting the 60FPS treatment. I'll eventually try Primal, maybe this weekend.
The PlayStation 3 is Sony’s most interesting home console ever, but what’s most interesting of all is trying to nail down the very best games on a console with hundreds of incredible games. Let’s give it a shot.
We desperately need Motorstorm back. Evolution is no more though and this makes me sad
Sly Thieves in Time
Stay the Party
Portal 2
Dj Hero
Demon’s Souls
God of war Ascension
2 of those games got railed through the “gaming media” during release.
Sly and god of war.
Both of which were fantastic games.
Yes it’s a decent list of popular games with a heavy hand on FPS and no Warhawk or Starhawk 2 of the best games (not sale wise) on ps3.
I would buy a Starhawk again even if it didn’t have a graphics upgrade hell I would even take a new one with micro transactions 😱🤯
I've noticed a recent nostalgia for the PS3 and I don't get it for me it's been my least favourite generation to date and I've been gaming since the NES I just feel like the ambition of the developers outweighed the capabilities of the consoles so I remember lots of games running in the lower end of 20fps range and I remember for the first time ever actually disliking the duelshock 3 and it's curved triggers
Sure there were some standouts and great games but that's the only gen I switched entirely to PC gaming
Maybe the recent nostalgia is because pretty much all of its games are trapped on that console. People want to play them on more modern hardware. hell... if XB can do it then so can Sony. there are competent emulators out there that can run on PS4/5 hardware but Sony just wont let them become official... why is that?
If we are talking least favorite generations (personally) then this one is certainly mine. i had more fun playing 8th, 7th and 6th gen stuff than 9th. And it isnt like i dont have access to do so... the heavy hitters just havent shown up anywhere close to those previous gens. The few here and there just doesnt cut it compared to the likes of constant good games that showed up in 6th, 7th and 8th gen. hell.... I'll even throw in 5th gen has been better than this one.
I tend to agree there's lots of amazing games locked to the PS3 like GTA IV or mgs 4 but then again my issue was never with the content the PS3 had but rather it's performance many other people have said the PS3 felt like it couldn't walk and chew bubblegum at the same time using PSN and downloading a game could take a few minutes to just start a download.
I typically don't worry all that much about performance I've never had a problem with games that run at 30 but games like crysis 2, Skyrim are good examples where the performance was so unstable you would never even touch the top of the frame cap and the hitching was worse than say Goldeneye on the n64
I think emulation is more than possible on the ps5 though it's just that Sony has no incentive to rush it's development it will likely be a ps6 feature if it ever happens at all.
But yeah the 9th gen has been so bad from a content perspective thats a given I see constant articles where people are frequently expressing their disappointment around the industry as a whole right now to much live service competition that sinks longstanding studios and consumes Devs time less ambition and games cost so much to make they have to play it safe.
The 5th gen was easily better than the 9th we had some all time greats crash, Spyro, Tony hawk, mgs, Mario,64, Goldeneye, Mario kart 64 the list goes on. The 5th gave us a new dimension and I remember being blown away by how much more open gaming had become the 4th gen with the mega drive and SNES was great and very easy to still revisit some of the greatest games of all time came out like earthbound, secret of mana, sonic , Mario world etc but saving our games was still not a standard function or a given so gaming was still evolving but it was very impressive to see some of the tricks Devs used like dithering to give us new experiences those earlier gens limitations bred innovation.
if XB can do it so can sony? I didn't know xbox had a cell processor in their older consoles, that's the reason why ps3 was so cool, but also the reason why games are hostage there and no, xbox did nothing similar even though their backward compatbility is good, they always had a similar architecture to their consoles.
Sorry Michael... I guess you missed the obvious part where i said there are already emulators out that do this. and that is what XB is doing... emulators for OG and 360 games. Its why the full slate is not BC on XBO/Series.
if you want software, you must accept bugs. pretty simple.
I ended up falling off a ledge to a lower level in GOW: Ascension, and for the life of me could not trigger the bridge up above to decay (the only way to get back up). Apparently there was a hole in the invisible wall that I accidentally found.
Had to restart to an earlier chapter. Lame glitch!
I also had problems with the numerous QTE sequences. There's nothing worse then pressing the correct buttons, but not having one button press register and dying as a result.
GOW needed more testing for sure.
I've had a decent amount of issues with game bugs as well, it's now a major factor as to whether I'll buy a game new or not. My last problem was with Borderlands 2, I bought itat midnight release and after about a week got hit with a glitch that eliminated all the badass rank I'd accumulated. This along with Skyrim (another game bought at release, PS3) ACIII and an AWFUL mess with Mass Effect 2 freezing and deleting my saves (took 3 tries before I could get through the game) have pretty much killed any chance of me buying new at release unless it's a Nintendo first party game since I've NEVER had a problem with their games being buggy.
looks like they need infinity ward to clean things up a bit with their outstanding fish ai.
While I didn't experience many huge bugs in the hundreds of hours I've put into Skyrim, the best one by far was the invisible dragon I fought. It only happened once, so that's probably why it was more fun than annoying.
Anyways, as games become more complex we will continue to see bugs/glitches. They go hand in hand with this entertainment medium we enjoy so much. Sometimes they are funny, other times they are infuriating. A team of QA testers will never be able to replicate all of the exact scenarios millions of gamers are going to try (especially in the games with huge worlds).