The Thursday inbox is surprised but thrilled with Sony’s continued support for VR, as a reader celebrates Breath Of The Wild’s 4th anniversary.
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Lose faith
Now that the PlayStation 5 is getting a little easier to grip, I started to wonder if I still wanted it. At first I wasn’t sure, maybe it was just being worried about the money, but I think what really turns me off is Sony’s attitude right now. It’s the closure of Japan Studio that’s really upset, but also just the fact that they haven’t really done or said anything since the PlayStation 5 launched.
They know they won the last generation so easily by just sitting down and not doing anything stupid, but for some reason they decided to do it again this time around, although it won’t work a second time around. unless Microsoft is wrong again – which they don’t seem to be doing.
We still don’t have a PlayStation equivalent of Game Pass, no indication they’re doing anything with streaming beyond PS Now, no way around the games’ ridiculous prices, and no new premier IP addresses. part. I’m not saying they’re doing terrible things or anything, but to me they feel like a disaster waiting to happen. As soon as Microsoft is able to put together a decent defense with new games, they’ll fold up like a pack of cards.
Their only plan seems to be to build on their brand and make sequels and remakes of games that already exist. Hope these are just startup issues – VR is definitely good news – but at the moment it seems to me that they don’t have much of a plan and I feel like they have somehow lost their advantage.
Paulie
Lesson learned
So, I guess since they lasted so long and the game paid for it, CD Projekt isn’t going to go down? Even with this hacking scandal. I’m happy. The bosses in charge might have acted terribly, but there are hundreds of people who work in this company and any major video game company, and I certainly wouldn’t be one of those people crying out for their blood. and insist that they all be made redundant or go bankrupt. or whatever.
I imagine it’s fair to say that CD Projekt would have learned a lesson from it (so there is every hope of seeing The Witcher 4 in the next five years) but what I’m interested in seeing is whether the rest of the industry a. Looks like they did, they said the right things, but there haven’t really been any great games since the whole Cyberpunk 2077 thing happened, so we don’t really know.
Or is the fact that they aren’t, in many cases due to delays, proof that they’re already trying to make sure they get rid of bugs properly before they’re released? What a beautiful thought that would be!
Gannet
Follow the money
It’s great to see Sony announce new VR games, they really seemed to have changed their minds about VR considering how they were talking about it last year. I wonder what happened? Did they invent a new technology or did the old technology suddenly become cheaper maybe?
People say Microsoft is bending in the wind (remember when Phil Spencer didn’t care about frame rate? That was only a few years ago), but I think Sony is just as bad. Or in this case, because I’m glad they’ve revived their interest in VR, for whatever reason.
I really think we are too busy supporting one format over another. With a game, you can hope that there is someone creative and ambitious who is running the ship. Maybe not in an Activision, Ubisoft, or EA game, but most of the others have some kind of imagination spark. But those responsible for the PlayStation and the Xbox? They are just accountants who do whatever the sums tell them to make the most money. Yesterday it wasn’t VR, today it is, tomorrow… who knows?
Molesline
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Distributed development
I only found out yesterday that the developers of Destruction AllStars, Lucid Games, were founded by employees from the ashes of Bizarre Creations.
Hopefully they can recover from the lukewarm reception of Destruction AllStars. With games like Project Gotham Racing and Blur, Bizarre Creations has created great driving games.
Danny
GC: They did, but their staff is now scattered among many developers. Almost every UK studio that deals with driving games has a few.
The future is over
+1 for Hammeriron’s commentary on the new battlefield requiring large maps, lots of vehicles, destructible environments, and a modern setting. Someone else mentioned MAG the other day. Let’s start more 264 player battles! It is surely the future!
I remember playing the Bad Company demo on PlayStation 3 for the first time and being blown away. I’ve been a fan ever since, but my interest slowly waned as we were given smaller maps with fewer vehicles. The bigger the better.
TommyFatFingers
Apple fancy
I was really excited about Fantasian until I got to the bad news: it’s only for Apple Arcade. Urgh. I get it, Japan is no longer interested in home consoles, so why do you expect their developers to make games for them? But if the Switch is that big and it’s a game meant to run on a phone, why not release it on that? I guess three years ago when they started development it wasn’t obvious how successful it was going to be, but I don’t know – it was pretty much successful from the start .
I imagine Apple is faster at offering development money than Nintendo, so that pretty much explains that I guess. On a more positive note, I like that they did it with the graphics and using real models, I don’t know if that is going to make a difference in the gameplay but at least it’s a more inventive way of doing it. ‘appear retro without just going the boring / scary route of something like Bravely Default.
Hope it goes well. The last story was good, if not great, and I don’t think the guy (sorry I can’t spell his name) [Hironobu Sakaguchi – GC] is failed like some older developers. If that works well, we might be able to see console ports and a more ambitious console and PC focused sequel from the start.
Onibee
Remade Quest
With Square Enix talking about all the potential remakes, do you think there’s a possibility of a Dragon Quest 8 remake?
This is by far the ultimate Dragon Quest game, for me anyway!
RamboSi (PSN identifier)
GC: It must be a strong possibility. Dragon Quest is a franchise with many sequels, which meets the criteria of what we know so far, and Dragon Quest 8 is modern enough that a remake / remaster doesn’t necessarily involve as much new work.
Generation game
There’s been a lot of talk about Zelda lately, for obvious reasons, but I just thought I would point out that Wednesday was Breath Of The Wild’s fourth anniversary. How fast does time go, eh? Regardless of your opinion on whether it is a good Zelda game or not, I have no doubts that it is definitely one of the best games of all time, no matter which franchise it is. he belongs.
I certainly can’t think of anything else from the last generation that claims to be the best game ever, and I still don’t think later games, often with bigger budgets, have learned any of its lessons on the open world. the design of the game. Red Dead Redemption 2 might look better, but its world is nowhere near as interactive or interesting and that doubles for anything Sony or Ubisoft have done recently.
Not to say that these are necessarily all bad games, but nothing brings me closer to Breath Of The Wild for me. I can’t help but think about what it would be like if Nintendo’s design were combined with Rockstar’s graphics, but if it’s a choice between one or the other, I know what I would go for. Everytime. I can’t wait to see the rest.
Dirty
Also-rans inbox
After all the recent talk about octopuses, I was amused to come across this story that shows that they, or at least their cuttlefish cousins, are as intelligent as a human child. Who knew Splatoon would end up being the most realistic sci-fi work in games?
Gadfish
Those old HeroQuest and Space Crusade ads certainly got me back! I’ve never played in their board game form either, but I’ve used it to really enjoy the Amiga version of Space Crusade, a pretty decent little Laser Squad-style tactics game.
Athletic
Hot topic of this week
The subject of this weekend’s inbox was inspired by reader David, and asks what is your experience with PC gaming and do you think it’s better or worse than consoles?
Do you own a gaming PC and if so how much have you paid for it and how well does it handle modern games? What do you think are the pros and cons of PC gaming and do you think either option has become more or less appealing in recent years?
If you don’t own a gaming PC, what would make you consider it and what has put you off so far? Overall, do you think PC gaming will become more popular in the future or less?
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