gamrReview's Zach Frimpong: "Sony's conference last year lacked big game announcements. Instead, it rode a wave of good will from gamers who were hostile to Microsoft's Xbox One reveal and anti-consumer policies and who appreciated Sony's courting of indie developers. This year, they need to have a strong AAA gaming presence in order to reassure their 7 million+ userbase that the PS4 has been a good gaming investment which has plenty of big, new titles on the horizon, and that Sony haven't become complacent with their solid early sales lead. Do that, and they'll have had a great E3 conference."
In this day and age, it’s rare we experience a warm fuzzy feeling when we boot up X (formerly known as Twitter, of course).
But the past few days have been lovely: our feed is full of people talking about DriveClub again.
The discussion started when someone posted a clip of the game and its infamous rain effects. The caption reads: “Still can’t believe this is a 12 year old game.”
This was one I was hoping would have some kind of boost from the PS5. The devs locked that sucker so tight...
I play the PSVR one even though it doesn't look as good, because that one is 60fps.
I interviewed them twice back in my gaming journalist days... Once at E3 2006 and again on a podcast about a year later. Really nice folks.
The guy we interviewed both times' name was Simon, I can't remember his last name, it was 20 years ago, but he was a really nice guy, and was very passionate about his job. It broke my heart when I saw Sony shuttered Evolution. I do hope they bring some of those folks back, but I remember another studio ended up hiring most of them back in those days, and they've been releasing new games since under that studio... Codemasters, maybe? I forgot which....
But the amount of talent that Sony has shut down over the years, it's disturbing. Psygnosis, Evolution, Zipper... just those three studios produced some of the most innovative games that PlayStation has ever seen... and those games need to be brought back.
If they were to release that game on the PlayStation 5, there would be absolutely no need for a remaster or a remake. The whole appeal of the original game was that it consistently exceeded people's expectations.
Higher rendering res and textures, higher framerate, maybe toss in some global illumination/ray tracing, but other than that, they could keep every polygon the same and it would still look absolutely incredible as a current gen title.
Sony should reassemble the team and make Driveclub 2. Driveclub was so ahead of its time it’s crazy.
This is what I hate about gamers sometimes
There is a segment of gaming communities that always want an old game to come back. But when the game(s) were in their prime, nobody supported them or not enough people supported them. Driveclub, Killzone, Resistance, etc all fit that profile.
I want Driveclub, Killzone, Resistence, and etc all back too. But I say that as someone that bought into, played, and own those games.
Too many people like to talk but not put up the money to support when it's needed. I even lump two of my own personal friends into that. I remember how one of them constantly said "I always wanted to play the Resistance games", yet never made an effort to buy any of them. No way that's an isolated event.
There are certainly games that fit that description, but I'm not sure these are a good fit:
- Driveclub infamously launched in a truly terrible state. It had a central focus on online & social features, and those were broken for about 6+ months before people could reliably play it as intended. It was so bad that the PS Plus Edition was delayed, along with its companion app. It also released less than a year after the PS4 launch, so it had to deal with a smaller total of launch PS4 owners to sell to, and Driveclub's rough launch certainly did it no favors.
- Resistance got 3 main console entries, and one handheld title for the PSP and PS Vita. Killzone got 5 main console entries across 3 generations, and one handheld title for PSP and PS Vita. This was also the era of millions of shooters, especially of the First Person variety, & genre fatigue was getting heavier by the year. So I feel these did pretty good at 5 and 7 titles respectively, pointing to enough people showing up for at least a while.
I'm not saying people don't exist who fit that criteria for these games, but I also don't think they were the primary issue. I think after a solid break from the IPs, as well as a lessening of shooter oversaturation, these titles could find healthy audiences if they came out with new entries at this point.
Killzone on the PS4 had the graphics, but the gameplay was tragic, I only rated Killzone 3, although the first game on the PS2 was decent. The Getaway was another game Sony canned, the sequel was so bad. Plenty of games need a sequel, the likes of Ridge Racer, Wipeout, Project Gotham, Wave Race and F-Zero have been retired. The racing genre these days, I'm sick of Turismo and Forza due to the same tracks and any other clones.
I think the original Motorstorm was the game that convinced me to buy a ps3. Way ahead of its time.
Surprised Sony didn't release a collectio, but all they seem to do these days is release God of War and Uncharted collections. It kills me that I no longer have a PS3, so a collection would be awesome.
The best way to experience a unique chapter in AC franchise history.
Give me a proper PS5 port with trophy list, Syndicate too and I'd happily buy them both again
The French Revolution waits for no one.
But now it runs at 60 FPS on PlayStation and Xbox Series X.
Rediscover Assassin’s Creed Unity in breathtaking clarity.
Agent please
I hope Sony have some really good surprises
My list.
Games to expect
1. UC4
2. The Order 1886
3. Project Beast
4. GG new ip
5. Driveclub
6. Planetside 2
7. Destiny
8.TLOU Remastered
Games i'm hoping show up
1. Sony Bend's IP
2. Sony London IP
3. Media Molecule's new ip
4. Santa Monica-GoW4
5. The Last Guardian
Give me 2 of the games from my hopes list and i'll be a happy camper.
Fallout 4
Uncharted 4
Beyond Two Souls
Mirrors Edge 2
Project Beast
Forgotten Memories
Quantic Dream
The Last Guardian
hopefully no more shooters than Uncharted and the order .
and more games like Rime , and platformers .
fingers crossed .
btw the only shooter i would forgive them if they introduce is Getaway which also has an open world elements