I'm not defending Ubisoft as I agree with you but Fallout and the Elder Scrolls has everything you mentioned being bad about the game and the media and gamers turn a blind eye to it.
I'll never understand this either. It's like when people's say The Last of Us is done and for ND to move on. We witnessed Joel's story. Ellie's revenge etc but there's so many stories that could be told in that universe. Unfortunately people see it as "if it's not Joel, it's trash".
Jins story was wrapped up perfectly and I even felt sorry for him when the end credits rolled and he's left living in a random little shack. Even i...
They weren't pushing no narrative. The benefits of physical outweigh digital in everyway except that you have move your ass off the sofa to put a disk into the console.
Your opinion is correct. There's no denying Nintendo's influence on the handheld market that's paved the way for the ROG, Steam Deck, MSI Claw etc but apart from the dock to get a small jump in power, it wasn't really revolutionary, even back when it launched. It was a more refined concept of the Wii U which again wasn't new or groundbreaking back then either.
Always? I feel the last time off the top of my head that they were innovative was the 3DS/Wii era. They are very successful at what they do but I wouldn't say they are as innovative as they used to be.
The problem is to many remasters of games that don't need them. Broken Sword, Resident Evil remakes, Tomb Raider etc are fine as they're mostly trapped on older systems but PS5 remasters of PS4 games on a console that has full backwards compatibility most certainly ain't. People are starting to call Sony out for it and I feel tonights SOP is only going to continue to add to that anger with the pretty much confirmed HZD & Days Gone remasters.
This game does not need it at all. You're are part of the problem. The game already looks really good and plays at 60fps. Adding controller features than many turn off and shorter loads times which weren't a problem in the original game doesn't warrant a remaster.
This is as pointless as the HZD remaster. PS5 allows us to play PS4 games. If they were remasting games from the PS1/PS2/PS3 era then that's justified but these are just cash grabs. Nothing more. ...
A lot of people won't play indie titles. They can be great but it's not what you come to expect when GP used to put so many AAA games on the service and now it's mainly smaller titles.
PS Plus Extra has been getting a lot of hate for pulling AAA games and adding smaller indie titles to its it's lineups recently but GP has been just as bad which is worse when it's MS main focus
I'm all for remasters of PS1-PS3 games but PS5 finally got backwards compatibility and plays all PS4 games but they choose to remaster them. PS4 games already look amazing. A better frame rate (which a good few got free 60fps patches for the PS5 anyway) and some haptics isn't enough to justify paying full price again for a lot of games.
Let's free some of the games trapped on older consoles. Sony have become tone deaf unfortunately.
It blows my mind that now we finally have backwards compatibility on PS5, they want to remaster all those PS4 games. Why not remaster some PS1-3 games that are mostly trapped on the console they are on? We'd see such a massive upgrade. Seeing PS4 titles which already look great get very slightly updated graphics and controller features some people turn off all seems a bit pointless when the original PS4 games are available to buy and play on the PS5 anyway 🙃
There's a huge difference. PC has many places to buy their games creating competitive pricing. Console gamers currently get that with physical releases. As soon as consoles go all digital, we have to buy it from that store. At full price. When currently we can shop around and get the game cheaper.
This is the thing, physical is always cheaper. If you want a new release day one on PS Store, you're going to be paying £70. If you buy the disk from somewhere else, you'll be saving £15 for the same product.
PC players have a choice where to get their games from. Digital consoles currently don't. Meaning they can charge whatever they like without competition.
This is the worst prospect about consoles being digital only.
I hate to break this to you but there's upscaling tech available for every game ever on PC for less than £5 on Steam which even helps decade old PC play modern games smoothly. It even has 4x frame generation and works for games, videos, emulation, everything. PSSR could have been on PS5 too but they chose not to.
@Vits everything else you said is a minor to me but the single reason I'm worried about an all digital future on consoles is the single digital store ecosystem. Physical is always cheaper in the UK for a brand new release. The day consoles go digital only will be the day I start gaming on a PC, no matter how troublesome it can be.
PC gamers always feel threatened when a console catches up even slightly. The reality is some of the most graphically impressive games have been console exclusives on hardware much weaker than what is available at the time on PC.
First party studios work magic with fixed hardware rather than brute forcing power on PC with a billions different hardware combos.
You can make anything sell out if you don't manufacture enough. I work at a gaming store and the amount of people complaining they bought a Duel Sense Edge but it's impossible to buy the analogue sticks is astonishing.
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.
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.
HZD is Sonys polished, Ubisoft-like game.
A beautiful world with the same old tired open world game design and gameplay tropes (which is a industry problem not just HZD or Ubisofts).
The second game was, for a period of time, bundled with every PS5 boosting them figures massively.