The Doomers and Gloomers, Sony is dying thread.
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what no Freedom is in the WE'RE SO BACK section of that image
Unless you mean my comment, which Freedom Wars supersedes everything for me because I love and adore Freedom Wars and seeing a remastered announcement made me so incredibly happy that I don't care about anything else I think Sony has done bad right now. Freedom Wars is absolutely WE'RE SO BACK for me, but like, to an extreme because I love this game and I'm so happy to see it back. I don't have a problem with it being on Switch and PC too; I hate the concept of exclusives.
THAT is what matters. I had never heard of it, so I was watching some videos of it. Looks pretty fun if you ask me.
Freedom Wars was a Vita game with some similarities in structure to God Eater and Monster Hunter in that you take on short missions to usually go kill some monsters and then report back using different kinds of weapons of your choice.
What sets Freedom Wars apart is the functionality of the gameplay systems and the extremes it goes to present its dystopian future. Gameplay wise, you can do stuff like grapple hook onto walls and objects to pull yourself to them to get a better vantage point or just get to a new position (often useful for getting higher up). You can also grapple onto enemies to attach yourself to them to make direct melee attacks to their weak points more feasible. Beyond the standard selection and variety of melee weapons, like God Eater you can use guns as secondary weapons, but unlike God Eater the guns function more like regular guns. They shoot and fire small bullets rapidly rather than feeling like these giant cannons you get in God Eater (granted, there *are* rocket launchers as options for guns if you wanna go that route anyways)
With regards to its dystoptian future, the game is conceptually just really cool. You wake up in a cell and try to move and an alarm flashes with big red words: 5 years have been added to your 1,000,000 year prison sentence because you do not have the right to walk. You try to sit and rest in your bed and the alarm goes off again. 5 years have been added to your sentence because you do not have the right to rest. Why are you in prison with a 1 million year sentence in the first place? You lost state property: your memory. You have to take on missions to fight monsters and rebels to chip away at your sentence while getting points to buy new rights that let you do things like walk, sleep, run, other prison activities, etc
It also has a really easy to use and detailed character creator for making the chunni anime character of your dreams, and you can also create and customize your robot caretaker who exists to make sure you don't do anything you don't have the rights to. Soundtrack is pretty baggin' too
Sony even made music videos back in the day for the game
How so? rising costs of quite literally everything in the world? or by simply putting games out on PC? How are these two things in anyway making the games you play worse?
Here's a list of new games I have played this year, I have beaten all of them, yes.
Helldivers 2
Like a Dragon 8
FFVIIR
Dragons Dogma 2
Rise of the Ronin
Stellar Blade
Shadow of Erdtree
Space Marine 2
Black Myth Wukong
Astro Bot
Concord (RIP)
Still waiting on Silent Hill 2 ( a remake people have asked for, for YEARS) and Metaphor ( Persona 5 teams new game )
If you tell me this is a weak roster of games, I'd love to know what the good games actually are. How on earth could I have experienced all these games, and come to the conclusion that this year is weak? The ONLY game that has left me disappointed is Wukong.
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I don't think the price is really the issue as most of the PlayStation spends a lot overall. I think just been Sony sewing resentment amongst parts of its hardcore base, lack of communication, keeping gamers in the dark with regards to games coming, seeing the little exclusives being given away to PC with better enhancements, more PC announcements this year than first Party games for PS5, while raising prices on everything for PS players to offsets loses
Communication, exclusives, and a premium console.... are all enough to negate a slew of great games dropping.... that don't sound like a sony issue IMO.
Lol but it is a Sony issue as it's affecting the discourse around their brand
Personally, I believe that the dooming and glooming in all aspects are from idiots, morons and retarded mother fuckers who would much rather bitch about anything and everything as opposed to just doing what this hobby/form of entertainment is all about - enjoying and having fun playing video games.
I'm probably one of the few actual gamers who has enjoyed this generation and playing games on my Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5. Both Microsoft and Sony for me personally - game wise - have done great for the most part and when compared to Xbox One and PlayStation 4 respectively, both have surpassed what I had in the same time frame last generation. The only thing that I can see people having an issue with is Microsoft/Sony not releasing as many games as they did last generation in the same time frame but their games have been of a higher quality, at least for me anyway and this is one trade I will always accept - less but higher quality games.
It’s true. I do feel like people within these spaces hardly play any games to begin with. Just lurkers in spaces they don’t even belong. I’ve seen countless comments like “where the games Sony wtf” like bro…. They dropped astrobot 2 weeks ago, the highest rated game of the entire year. We don’t hold other publishers to this standard but we do with Sony 100%.
Yeah, I agree but more than anything, I think it's just online discourse that eventually blows up into something bigger than it should be because gaming outlets will write articles and all this other shit for clicks which keeps the conversation going.
If social media didn't exist, I believe that 95% of what's talked about negatively wouldn't even be a thing. You might one or two things a year but that's it. Now, it's almost a weekly basis of negativity for anything and everything. It's ridiculous to say the least.
I do think other publishers get held to the same standard. How many years have we all seen people call out Microsoft in regards to having no games? Countless articles too. It's just something that generates clicks and ad revenue which is what most gaming sites if not all of them and those on twitter care about. It's all about the engagement and negativity does bring more engagement than positivity in general and doesn't matter what brand, company or game it is.
And do exactly? Go against what their creative teams want by making marketing cycles long again? Whipping them into shape to wow the world every summer again? Or maybe to stop releasing games on PC? Or maybe assign studios to work on dead IP against their will? Maybe do what literally no tech company has ever done, and make the premium option of your hardware cheap and affordable for all?
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t. And at the end of the day, none of these points have anything to do with game experiences themselves, yet it’s all people can focus on. The discussion around games business, games competition, have gotten bigger than the games themselves!
Oh man, sorry I forgot it's now wrong for gamers to want to be informed about stuff regarding gaming and a console ecosystem they are actively financially investing in lol. Nobody is demanding any of what you stated, but it also doesn't kill to communicate and adapt to a changing landscape instead of allowing negativity to foster around your brand... at the start of the PS4 generation they understood the importance of communication, messaging and how it affects brand strength and morale .... Never would the 24/7 Brand beating in social spheres be allowed to happen like it is now.
Pulling out of almost every game show case in which fans were accustomed to and then replacing it with mediocre SOP that most times does not do much in revealing anything with what lies ahead, again, it's their issue. Console prices are being raised on consumers 4 years into the gen, subscription prices are raised while the service gets worse, control prices are raised... while again console players are seeing all the exclusives go to another platform... yes it does affect the sentiments of some whether you choose to see it or not.... That is the mindset Sony themselves cultivated for 3 decades and conditioned their base to accept from them lol... If you are gonna then pull the rig from under them, then make sure to make them feel good while doing soo.
Sorry but they are salaried employees and need to do what they are told to do, If my boss asks me to do my JOB I for sure fucking will. Is it too much to expect people take a couple of hours a week and getting a trailer ready for a June show. \
These people already miss project milestones by the bucketload as seen from 5+ years of dev timelines, that naughty dog sham documentary has given a free license to be lazy as fuck
there is no way on earth Hermen Hulst doesn't get fired after this, and that's amazing, he's a cancer to PlayStation, not only he's been championing and pushing for GAAs games under SIE, but he's been pushing for multiplatform releases too, these PC ports are heavly influenced by him and you can't tell me it's not, Horizon Zero Dawn was the first game to go to PC, the initiative started in Guerrilla, Horizon Lego Adventures is the first game to go to Nintendo Switch, again, there is a precedent here, the way this guy was PROMOTED to the top position of SIE being a CEO this year tells me everything i need to know of the future of the brand if he stays in charge, time for him to be FIRED and 1000% blacklisted within the company