Even die hard playstation fans are tearing Sony over this price. We need more first party games before new hardware.
There's 50 million people still playing PS4, some can't afford it. Some don't see the point when so many games are still on PS4 that are on PS5. If the PS5 can't sway them, this upgrade ain't going to sway them. I think Sony is playing a risky game. If they continue down this path people will go PC.
Buying whole publishers is lazy AF. Sony has some incredible IP that people love but they refuse to use them. GoW was reinvented. There's a lot of other IP that could reinvented and modernised too.
The one thing that has let Sony down this generation is staggering out PS first party games (remasters don't count like TLOU, Until Dawn). Were a bit starved of them. Let's hope this state of play fixes some of that.
The Elder Scrolls and Fallout fall under this umbrella too.
A lot of people aren't liking it. The streamers are. The casuals are hating it. If the casuals who's buy the skins don't like it, they won't stick around. This movement won't end up staying.
Open world games need a overhaul in general.
Go here - kill this target
Go here - fetch this
Clear this camp
Add dozens of filler side quests
Tack on a RPG skill tree
Finish up with a couple of hundred collectables
98 percent of open world games follow this game design and it's boring now after nearly a decade of following this same design.
Free to Play in 3... 2... 1...
Sony has so many established IPs from the past which had multiplayer portions that could be expanded upon but it seems the focus on nothing but SP games (which isn't a bad thing in the slightest) has them chasing MP trends.
Resistance, Killzone, Socom, TLOU Factions, Uncharted, Warhawk. These could be so easy to modernise but nope, they green light this travesty instead.
We need another PS2/PS3 era So...
WuKong is a great game. GOW was amazing. GOW: Ragnarok was more of the same and didn't WOW me nowhere as much as the first but still a great game. I wouldn't mind GOW taking a little break but Sony are having many misfires at the moment so another GOW would be a safe bet.
All that sounds great for the gamers who want more power. However if Sony lock frame generation and upscaling to the PS5 Pro, there should be uproar.
Upscalers are available on steam from £5 which makes potato PCs play games up to 4x higher frames. Upscalers and frame generation isn't hardware intensive so if they lock it behind a paid console upgrade, it would be pretty scummy.
I'm all for Sony being out multiplayer games alongside their single player games but they have to appeal to players. Use Socom, use Syphon Filter, use Warhawk, Resistance, The Last of Us, even Uncharted multiplayer was decent, as a blueprint then add features gamers come to expect from today's games.
Sony has made some great multiplayer games over the years but they refuse to use those IPs. Instead we get a canceled TLOU Factions 2 game alot of people were hyped for...
I thought we were passed this mentality. Bethesda for years got a free pass for making good RPGs but having terrible gameplay, graphics, voice acting, dated animations. Studios shouldn't be given a free pass because they make incredible open worlds but gameplay which is behind the rest of the industry as Great as some of Obsidians games have been in the past.
I have this game. I love to watch this game but the aiming mechanics on controller are terrible. I really hope that's addressed in this new version because this game is incredible and massively underrated
That's not the issue. Frame generation is not dependent on hardware (for the most part. It's definitely not an issue for the PS5). There's a program on steam for £5 that can do 3x frame generation and soon will add 4x. It's doesn't matter of you're playing demanding games, emulators, even videos, it just works. Even potato PCs see huge differences. If they lock this behind a Pro model then as much as I love Sony, that's a new low for them.
It's still shallow. There's very little to grind for except for some stratagems which most of which are useless.
Other than that there's the whole "fighting for the greater good" but knowing there's a games master who can influence anything they like, it's all a bit flat.
I was in the same boat until I just came to the conclusion that this ain't for me. It was all a bit shallow. It did have some of the best explosions of any game though I give it that.
Has the traffic increased massively in terms of users posting and submitting stories? I feel this place is quite slow at getting news out compared to the old days where it was front news instantly when something quite noticeable happened.
This. They all follow the same basic structure and it's boring. Open world games have all become to similar to one another.
Open world is already part one of setting it up to fail. I can sense the fetch quests, camp clearing, kill quests with hundreds of collectables sprinkled in already, just like every open world of the last 10 years. Lazy game design awaits.
I'm currently playing through the last trilogy after writing them off as Uncharted knock offs but I'm having more fun playing these than any current gen game. I miss these styles of games.
The fact this new one is open world bores me to death already. Stop ruining franchises with forced open worlds that don't need them!
What I'll never understand with Dino Crisis was that with RE6, they went down a action heavy route which people disliked and didn't fit the RE formula but I feel that would have worked perfectly for Dino Crisis if they went down the Dino Crisis 2 route of being a action game over the more RE inspired DC1.
As long as it's nothing like DC3, Id absolutely love a new DC game.
Let's not forget, you can only buy their digital games through them. There's no shopping around and getting a good price for a game. Right now you can always pick up a physical day one release for £15 cheaper on disk, than the £70 on Sonys store. As a PS fan from the start (I'm old) this looks like the nail in the coffin for me.