Sony Online Entertainment's new executive hire wants to increase the firm's international footprint, but with stiff global competition is it too little too late? And how the hell does WoW make it look so easy? Click through for the exclusive Next-Gen interview.
Square Enix launches Final Fantasy X 25th anniversary site, revealing new Nomura art, books, music releases, and merchandise.
Look I know VIII has its issues and all that but how on earth can the do big anniversary events with new artwork and merchandise for VII, IX and X yet VIII got sweet f*** all.
They could have given it something during its 25th anniversary yet all it got was a single Happy Anniversary post on their social media.
they should know that we are OG fans of VIII as it sold truckload as well. not as much as VII or X. I personally didn't like IX but X and VI are my personal fav.
Shadow Hearts 2 covenant is another game I love. I hope one day someone can make remake, I would be delighted
Final Fantasy VIII is great and you are always the first to defend it in the comments
A brutal reset, a smarter story, and a return to what made it great—Mortal Kombat (2011) revived the series.
Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.
15 years went by so fast. I remember playing through the story mode at launch.
Why did Sony push Shuhei Yoshida out of his role leading PlayStation's first-party games? He'd overseen some huge successes. Well, apparently, he didn't listen.
Yeah I can see that for sure. Shuhei Yoshida should have been in charge not Jim Ryan.
It should be free highway for him now.. but Sony are too stupid to see this, especially that moron Hulst
Wtf why all that anger. PlayStation is dominating on every level. Besides I think there is a little more to hiring a CEO than just who is available. Its not like its a athlete your team wants to buy.
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live service failures, chasing trends, closing studios. yes dominating
Sony is Dominating because competition is not existing. Compared to previous gens this is the poorest in terms of software offerings.
Last gen we got Uncharted 4 Lost Legacy and TLOU2 from ND alone.
This is so far a remasters gen, with no competition to lift up the quality
..."PlayStation is dominating on every level"....
...Really???
PlayStation are soon heading into a new generation in the not to distant future. They currently have the worst customer satisfaction they've ever sustained as a company. The company is heading for a huge crash while at the same time they'll need to be planning how they are going to try and win back that favour and the build up to their new releases.
Yes financially they're winning but they're going to have to ride out this complete public corporate disaster. No one has faith in the company or the product anymore. They've damaged their public image so much this generation. Greed can kill anyone.
He would've done the same thing and fire Jim Ryan and Shuhei would be the villain. Why?
Because Elite creates the narrative and distraction for gamers, users and citizens.
More confirmation that Jim Ryan is the culprit for what has happened to Sony. Hulst needs to go too. What sucks is that a lot of the good top heads at Sony are no longer there. I wish that guys that were forced out prematurely by Dumbo Jimbo like Shuhei and Layden came back.
Yep. Yoshida was responsible for bringing one of the best games of this generation to playstation (Stellar Blade). He is an actual gamer and is in touch with what gamers want (creative, fun games, not GaaS and agenda pushing). He also seems like a genuinely nice guy if you watch some interviews. Of course they got rid of him.
Makes you wonder if MS even thought about hiring him after Phil and Sarah were leaving. He certainly couldn't make their situation any worse.
All the gamer/consumer lead heads are gone across PS and Xbox. shuhei gone phil's gone (questionable) but gone. The future of gaming is somewhat uncertain across the board.
that SOE while trying to focus on these new markets don't take anything away from what they are doing for the NA market.
I currently play EverQuest 2 and while its a good game its lacking in a few areas that I think need to be standards for these type of games going forward.
1. Buying items - Players need to be able to see what these items actually look like on their character or in there home. World of Warcraft does this in a great way by allowing players to see how the piece of armor or weapon they are considering buying looks like on your character before you buy it. With your character representing you in the game and the amount of time one invests in building it up this is a must have feature.
2. Characters that can interact with furniture. In other words sit on chairs, lay on beds etc.
3. Photerealism is a nice goal but if it limits what you can do as far as armor sets and actual looks then it fails. Players of MMO's want to look unique and not the same as everyone else. The more that MMO' developers can allow players to do this the more successful their game will be. The original Everquest had multiple looks for a certain peice of armor. It was based on race. I would also like it to be based on class as well. In EQ2 its background is set up as a conflict between Qeynos (good) and Freeport (evil). Yet visually looking at a Paladin of the same level from Qeynos as a Shadowknight from Freeport wearing the same armor look identical. Shadowknights armor should be dark and evil while Paladin armor bright and valorish. Its even worse when it comes to classes that wear robes. One should be able to see an adventuring party and know if they are Qeynos or Freeport aligned players just by looking at them at a distance.
The reason it does not is how the models for the game and the items created to fit every person from a small gnome to a large Troll was done. Again I feel this was a major flaw in design that everyone is now forced to live with and future games should learn from this mistake.
4. Mounts shold be true mounts. In other words they do not disappear in water or when you engage in combat. When you rear up on your horse everyone should be able to see this. One should be able to add armor etc to change the look of your horse.
5. Player created content. Give guilds the ability to create a guild hall or town where all members of the guild can craft, bank, buy and sell items etc. Capes that display guild symbol etc.
6. Crafting system that inhances adventure armor and weapon drops rather then directly competes with them.
I would be very excited to play a MMO that included all these types of things. Of course this has to be in a cool and interesting world to explore and interact with along with great storylines and quests. One MMO I am very excited about that is offering alot of new and innovative things to the genre is Age of Conan: Hyborian Adventures. I honestly feel that a good MMO game will apeal to people all over the world if its done well and that should be the goal of developers.