If open world games are here to stay, how can they transcend the formula?
Sony confirms Ghost of Yōtei surpassed Ghost of Tsushima sales during a comparable launch period, boosting studio business performance.
I'm glad to see that, after all the incel controversy regarding the lead becoming a female character, this game went on to outsell the original. Looks like folks don't mind playing as a woman after all, especially when she's a badass like Atsu. It ain't so bad, incels... you even get to see her butt when upgrading your health in the springs! Don't tell me you preferred seeing Jin's? lol
Excellent game, my game of the year. Its open world is my favorite of any of the open worlds of the games I've played this gen.
I really enjoyed how most of the side stuff really hit at different angles from the main theme of the story itself. Really hit on different aspects of family, honor, and revenge.
It wasn't just profitable for Sony, it was also profitable for the grifters who made a living out of generating rage bait. I'm sure they couldn't be happier with the game's success... they can use the game's success to generate further bait.
Unfortunately, you're right
Now those same grifters will make a bunch of excuse videos as to why they were wrong and not take accountability for actually BEING wrong. They win either way because they don't care about truth or facts, only how much adsense revenue they can grab up. So they'll say whatever they have to as long as their audience wants to hear it.
I mean, they would make money off of it as a success or failure. It's either a scam that people fell for and here's why or an example of go woke go broke.
But overall will it sell better that GoT? Why do they have to keep reminding us about the game's sales? It just wasn't as good as GoT.
I mean yes. GOT released when everyone was at home gaming more during covid. To a much higher console install base. And it was still outsold by yotei. And given this gen is likely going to last longer and less high profile games get released because of longer development times then yes. Absolutely it'll sell more. Also i preferred it to GOT.
They "have to" because it was disclosed in an earnings call.
You really think that the company's Chief Financial Officer shouldn't talk about the financials of the company in an earnings call?
The earnings calls/reports are for shareholders. They want to tell them as much good news as possible. Pretty much just normal corporate reporting here.
Your opinion notwithstanding, it obviously sold better than the original.
A new comparison video shows Ghost of Yotei making major graphical strides over Ghost of Tsushima, with sharper visuals and improved performance.
The trailers didn’t do justice. This game looks phenomenal and having a ray tracing mode at 60fps on PS5 Pro is a treat. Much better than stutter engine 5.
Yep, glad most playstation studios have their own in-house engines so they don't have to rely on working with unreal engine 5.
Both look good but i don't see a major visual leap. At least not from those videos.
Hm nope. Absolutely not worth giving my 70$ IMO. Especially not for another girl boss revenge story. I swear man they don't know what else to write for women when they put them in these more grounded roles/games.
Ahh another weak willed cry baby. Dude grow the hell up or take a time machine back to the 1950s where your ignorant, fragile male ego is better suited.
At this point anyone can cry about anything. People say they want single player games with stories and not multiplyer, then proceed to cry about the story not fitting their world view, etc.
Cry on everybody.
Absolutely buying this. Not skipping good games just to stand on some flimsy soapbox.
Just preordered the game myself. I didn't purchase GoT but I played it when it hit the PS+ catalogue and loved it. Yotei definitely gets my money.
Me too, when I got my PS5 I played it off PS+, one of my all time favorites. Now I have the Pro.
I got the physical version off of PlayStation Direct and they said it would come on launch day or up to three days before. Definitely won’t be sad to have it before launch lol.
Featuring characters from The Last of Us, God of War, Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West, and more.
yeah, they're gonna overprice it so only 0.5% of the playerbase can buy it. The spiderman packs cost like 650 for 12 packs or something, on top of spiderman not fitting into mtg at all. Most of current PS characters don't fit either.
Clearing out groups of enemies is something that wont change ever... I think Witcher 3, and RDR2 have evolved OWGs intelligently without making them feel like nodes and this will too.
I do wish more open world games would be a bit smaller in scale with more to do.
I would also like to be able to turn off HUDs and be able to rely on say a journal entry and recognizable terrain to be able to find my way more often in games. Sometimes it feels like I'm just following map markers around an not really exploring anything.
Yes, they need to be made to look and feel much more lived it and much more to do.
Also, get rid of the HUD and try to create things in an inovative way like Ghost of Tsushima did with the wind for example.
One thing I hate is how UbiSoft is putting so much HUD in their games to a point where it takes me out of the game. Let the world be our HUD.
I didn't like it in FarCry3, didn't like it in Horizon, didn't like it in BoTW, didn't like it in Spiderman, didn't like it in Days Gone and I already know I don't like it in this one. The list of games that have "bandit camps" can go on and on, and honestly it's so overdone and just boring at this point. It won't stop me from enjoying everything else, but I don't see myself completing all if I don't get a really nice reward, or if there's too many. One other thing I didn't like from the demo was the outline of an enemy, that wasn't directly shown to the player, through the rooftop.
Already did thanks to The Witcher