No Rachet and clank?!
A good story is vital for making you feel invested and immersed in an open world game. They generally do a good job in this area and it would be a shame if they took that away as the game would feel rather soulless without a good narrative to give you a reason to be in the world.
What Assassins Creed needs is to keep a strong story and then tighten up the gameplay mechanics to make those sharper and more interesting. The clumsy fighting and stealth mechanics undermine all...
I'm a big ps fan and have the pro. Nevertheless, I have to acknowledge that the pro is a strange play by Sony. A upgraded mid gen console was a risk at the best of times but an upgraded mid gen console aimed at a 4K tv owning small subset of the user base is just odd.
There are very few benefits for the vast majority of the 1080p user base so it's hard to understand the thinking here. It better, but for 1080p owners the difference is subtle to say the least.
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Not surprising really. Sales also dropped in the period just before launch as prospective buyers held out for the new machine
The real test of the pros success will be sales in the next 12 months.
I re-installed Assassins Creed Unity just to see if the appalling frame rate from the OG PS4 had improved. I expected the same choppy sluggish performance but was pleasantly surprised to see that it now runs at a rock solid 30fps. Even in the large crowd scenes around central París.
I hate stealth games in general yet I loved the original Dishonoured. It had so much atmosphere and a really unique feel.
If Dishonoured 2 is close to as good I'll be picking my copy up long with the pro
Agree. People are shockingly blind at times, I suspect deliberately so.
Not caring about the difference between 30fps and 60fps is one thing but claiming you can't actually see any different is incomprehensible to me. Same goes for 1080p v 4K
A game with huge potential but only the blinkered would say it lived up to its billing.
I had hoped they would be able to release a No Mans Sky 2 designed to address the limitations of the original but I fear the reputational damage they have suffered may be too severe.
I'm agonising over whether or get a 4K tv or not....I had absolutely no plans for one until the pro came along.
The real test isn't release windows sales but how sustainable those sales are iver the next couple of years.
I think the pro will do OK but it's not going to be roaring success. Personally, I think Sony made a strange call pushing the machine so hard at 4K. A console that can do 1080p and 60fps for all games would have had much broader appeal.
The real Issue for me is inconsistent frame rates. In particular when the frame rate tanks during intense action scenes. Just kills the immersion.
Am I the only who looks at these comparison pictures and can't actually see my difference between them?
I find this all the time with articles like this.
I'd imagine the only way to truly tell is seeing the real thing up on your big tv. Got my pro pre ordered and am looking forward to rock solid frame rates for games like fallout, the witcher and unity, something that the current model can't do sadly.
Good post. Nice to read a calm logical opinion. Can't honestly understand why people would disagree.
I absolutely loved the crysis series. I really hope they can secure the funds to produce crysis 4. Sad to see studios with this much talent struggling
If the enhancements to the visuals are big enough I could begrudgingly accept this at 30fps as a price for a truly big graphical upgrade.
If it looks much as the original though, then gamers really need to call them out on this as a rather nasty cash grab.
Don't feel like the presence or not of skyrim is a key issue to me. A port of a 10 year old last gen game is a nice little extra but it worries me that this is being placed front and centre for a piece of hardware launching in 2016/17 being in mind it's a PS3/360 title.
I wanna see new stuff
I wish would Sony announce a PSP 3. Add triggers and updated specs and give portable gaming another try.
Because the current PS4 struggles to maintain a steady 30fps. Just look at Assasins Creed Unity, Fallout 4 and the Witcher.
I'd be very happy with consistently rock solid 30fps
I switched from Xbox to PS3 because I wanted a handheld to accompany my under the tv console and have stayed with Sony because of the Vita.
Handhelds offer a different and equally valuable gaming option and I think gaming would be a lot poorer for a lack of them.
A vita with a larger screen, triggers and 5ghz wifi would be perfect for remote play too.
Resistance 2 and 3 were graphically beautiful as well. Actually they still stand up visually even by today's standards.
I would love to see what that team could do with current gen hardware