I suggest Yakuza fans wait for the game and try it out. I mean we have 7 Yakuza games and 3 spin offs (the Yakuza game set in ye olden times, the zombie fiasco and the excellent 'Judgement' from this year which I recommend to every Yakuza fan as a must have game) and with the exception of the Zombie game, all of these have been fun and worth buying. You never know the turn based combat might actually be fun.
Crysis was awesome when it first game out. I remember having a state of the art gaming PC at the time and even then I could not run it at its highest res. As a game it had a lot going for it and it would not be out of place now. I wouldn't mind a Crysis remaster for PS5 as a start and then a new Crysis game.
I have been playing Yakuza since when it was first released on PS2. I will give any Yakuza game a try so Yakuza 7 is welcome. I guess just changing the lead character was not enough as they would be merely repeating everything else.
If the combat does not work, I am sure it will be back to normal service with Yakuza 8. Until then we will have 7 Yakuza games available on the PS4 (Yakuza 0, Kiwami 1 & 2, Yakuza 3, 4 & 5 (remastered collection) and Yakuza 6) so I am...
One of the more attractive aspects of Spider-Man PS4 was how New York was captured. Anyone who has been a Spiderman comic book fan (especially from the 70s and 80s) will instantly feel at home in this game's New York. Coupled with the web-swinging, the for me this was the best thing about the game - it all felt familiar as though you had spent all your life in that city.
Not a perfect game but a good start and now with Insomniac a full part of Sony's studios an...
The single best thing Sega did in the last few years was to push the Yakuza games again. At one point things had gotten that Yakuza 5 was only released digitally over here on the PS3. But the last two years have seen '0', Kiwami, Kiwami 2, 6 and now the Yakuza Remastered Collection this November with remastered versions of 3, 4 and 5 means fans old and new can enjoy the entire Yakuza series on the PS4. I would also recommend 'Judgement' a kind of Kamurocho spin-off with new...
Some of the best games from the Yakuza series. I played 5 on PS3 when it was made available digitally only and it would be good to have a disc release for that one. The last couple of years have seen a Yakuza rainfall. Joy!
This is all PR. Sony and MS working together where Sony is using Azure will change little of the console business as it is now. Yes, MS may well also be a third party developer of games that will be available on PS5 but that does not mean that the two companies will not be striving to ensure that their respective consoles are selling more than the competitors. As for games, the console that has the games we gamers want will do best. Sony has always relied on this fact and kept the proces...
Crackdown was just embarrassing. Microsoft were cancelling games announced in 2013 and 2014 left, right and center yet Crackdown 3 was hyped up from the beginning, including how it would harness the power of the cloud, and survived the carnage only to end up as one of the most disappointing games of 2019, if not the most disappointing. Hype after hype, the last 6 years have seen Microsoft unable to compete with Sony or Nintendo and continue to chase trends and fads rather than delivering wh...
It's not the tools, it's how you use them. Simply hiring competent and ambitious staff is not enough - you have to manage and utilize them properly so that you can have games like God of War and The Last of Us and so on. Microsoft has had decent teams in the past but utterly failed at managing them and the projects, often imposing a culture that is contrary to the attitudes of the creative core. Let us hope Microsoft has learnt its lesson and will allow these teams the same kind of...
If Sony concentrates on games the way it has done to date, there is no reason why it cannot continue to enjoy the same kind of success it had with the PS4. If Microsoft do the same as they did for this gen, no matter how good the console, it is doomed to languish behind the blue behemoth. MS will have to invest a lot into games, including single-player and over a longer period to ensure that it meets Sony release for release. At present, the numbers are embarrassingly one sided - the numbe...
Considering the response PS3 and its Cell met with from many developers, I would not want Sony to be in such a position again. They talk about wanting innovative or game-changing features but as the PS3 showed, the developers simply did the minimum necessary and released inferior PS3 versions of multi-platform games. Considering what Sony's first party studio were able to extract from the PS3, most of the third party studios fell far short. So, I am glad Sony is doing what it is doing ...
Flies in face of common-sense. Rubbish!
E3 without Sony felt odd - like it was a cut down version, but then most of the other presentations were fairly subdued. Clearly, this is the last full year of this console generation and Sony has already moved on to the next. However, next year should be huge.
I am a child of the 60s and 70s and I can assure you we were exposed to stuff that parents would not let kids view these days and I am not even talking about stuff we watched on the Six Million Dollar Man and then tried to do ourselves like jumping from a two storey building (guilty). I had toy machine gun, rifles and six-shooters with these firework caps that sounded alarmingly real and with which we would pretend to kill each other. As an old man now, I am definitely not a serial killer n...
A silly question. It's like asking 'do car manufacturers need to come out with new models'. Of course, they do - to stay in business, to create new technology and designs, better experiences, etc. In the same way, the PS5 will give us new tech, better speeds, more and better experiences of gameplaying and, of course, more of Sony's first party games that will take full advantage of the new hardware and give us a gaming experience we have never had before or more of.
I disagree. Most gamers and even casual gamers and gift buying parents and adults can distinguish between what one brand of console can do compared to another. Frankly, most people interested in gaming know Sony and associate the brand with strong exclusives. It is more likely now after the PS4 that consumers will be willing to pay more for a PS5 than for an Xbox. If Sony does decide to release a beast and charges $499, consumers will make the adjustment and still buy. I expect though tha...
I doubt Sony will ever repeat that mistake. What made things worse with the PS3 was that many third party devs were unwilling to take the time to extract the maximum the Cell had to offer. Sony's first party studios were able to work magic with the same console and came with games like Uncharted 1 to 3, Infamous 1 & 2, TLOU, God of War 3, etc. Games that looked better than most other games out there.
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I agree entirely, but remember how Sony really caught MS out last time with the timing of the PS4 announcement? I mean, MS was just not prepared and had to rush to make its presentation after Sony's in Feb 2013. The end result was an ill-thought strategy focussing on TV, etc., and users policies that were met with a resounding thumbs down. I have total faith in Sony and I sense that they don't care what MS does. Gamers have shown that they care first about gam...
I am surprised that Cerny and Sony have revealed as much as they have and as early as this. It is not usual to let rivals know what Sony will be doing so I wonder what the point of all of this is. However, it does suggest that Sony is marching to its own drumbeat and does not care what a rival does which bodes well for the next generation.
Gears 5 is very good but there are Playstation games already that look just as good if not better. Uncharted 4 which came out nearly 5 years ago and God of War two years ago look as good. TLOU 2 and Ghost of Tsushima will look even better coming at the end of the PS4 gen.