Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

Well, not bad at all.

Looks like they really went all-out on this upgrade. It even got a typical silly name.

lmao that State of Play was way worse than the Nintendo Direct, and y'all know how disappointed I was about that.

Just showing some games we already knew about, Kena was delayed, and Yuffie is now apparently exclusive to the PS5 port of FF7R, as far as I can tell. Dreadful show.

So... that state of play happened. We're any of those new games? EXTREMELY DISAPPOINTED

Kena: Bridge of Spirits looks fantastic. Still waiting until FF VII Remake part 1, 2, 3, and 4 are all on one disc before I play them. Am I joking? Kinda, sorta, not really.

I'm still not sold on next gen. Craziness.

I really hope that special chapter for FFVII Remake also launches on PS4 eventually too.

I'm not likely to get a PS5 anytime soon.

By the way, for anyone who's less of a FF7 nerd, these new characters that appeared in the Yuffie DLC are Deepground and Weiss from Dirge of Cerberus on the PS2. So they're really going all-in on mashing the extended universe together in this game. Not so sure that's a great idea given how few people played Dirge of Cerberus, but I guess maybe that's why they're putting it in a DLC and not the main game?

So, any upcoming rated E or E10+ games from Playstation Direct just now ?

@Dezzy They put Crisis Core stuff in the main game, so that's not a surprise at all. If they want to make all the EU stuff fit, though, they need to properly introduce it. Remastering some of these older FF7-related games might have been a good idea.

After the State Of Play and the news Sony is hacking away most of it’s Japan studios, I’m really doubting if I’ll get a PS5 at all. I bought a PS4 to play the Japanese titles that weren’t on the Wii U, and didn’t like many of the Western games I tried. It’s a question if buying a console to play one to two games a year on is worth it, especially when so much of the Switch library has kept me busy. I also expect the FF7 remake dlc to be pricey.

Sort of interested in Kena, but that’s coming to the PS4 as well.

@Anti-Matter

Probably most of the games shown were 'E for everyone' games. Just go and look at a list if you don't wanna watch it.

@Ralizah

Yeah, and I was kinda negative about the Zack stuff too. I mostly just wanted a straight remake with some new detail added, like new side quests and exploration etc. Which we did get. We just got the new story nonsense too.
At least with the Zack stuff, it is quite closely related to the main story, and Zack was going to show up later in the story anyway. That's not true of the DoC stuff. It's all so completely disconnected from the main story, and only a small handful of people even know where it's from. That game only sold like a million copies.
I'm hoping they're just restricting it to this DLC and not trying to force everything into the main storyline!

Deathloop being locked to ps5 for a year hurts. Ill have to hope my PC can run it. My GPU is getting a little long in the tooth.

Shame the two main new IPs that the showcase focused on were both roguelike shooters. One's first person, the other's third person, both involve dying and resurrection, the world changes as you do so... And both trailers showed off more cinematics than actual gameplay, though that's to be expected from any non Nintendo company.

I was pleasantly surprised at Kena: Bridge of Spirits' low price: $39.99 (£32.99). That does mean Sony see it as a small game, which is conversely unfortunate, but I'll keep an eye on that, it really intrigues me.

FF7R Intergrade looks fun. First, I can't believe initial Google searches result in "Integrate", come on! Anyhow, the game looks so fresh in sixty frames per second, and the Yuffie DLC looks fun. But. BUT. They still didn't change the still background textures. They're just less blurred. Mixed on that.

@Ralizah Whenever I feel like defending something you absolutely destroy it! You pose excellent points though, there was absolutely nothing new. Why do the studios which appear to have potential, waste it on shooters. Yes it's good for effects but that consigns your game to selling to only a specific audience. It's pathetic and I can't even believe how Sony are squandering their chance to capitalise on this console, which from experience is a masterpiece.

Nothing there was for me really, except maybe Returnal. I'll wait till reviews.

Those only really stood out on 1 occasion to me (the climb to the shinra building). And it WAS the low resolution that made it stand out.

March is an awesome month for PS+.
FF7 remake
Remnant: from the Ashes
Far Farpoint (PSVR)
Maquette (PS5)

@Ralizah what stuff is coming out in switch that Nintendo didn't highlight? I still can't love bravely, and rise is the only other appealing thing in the highlighted lineup. Smt has no mention on either platform so I'm assuming delay.

Then again ps feels more bleak than switch right now. Ratchet, stray, kena....... And basically nothing else. Horizon is ok. I pretty much buy ps's for Japan studio, ratchet, and sackboy. So..... The next 7 years feel barren already unless they pull some miracles out of Ryan's sphincter that don't involve the same 5 or 6 blockbuster ips. I swear they're in a race to become xb360. Tfw the meme of "ps has diversity and xb has only racers and shooters" reverses...

So we're getting psvr2 after all. Ff7r gets a free ps5 upgrade, thanks sqeenix, i already bought and didn't play yet so that's a highlight. Kena is cheap but probably short so it's a wash. But the monkeys paw version comes with that catch that Sony just killed pretty much every Sony IP I actually give the slightest fluff about and several of my favorite IPs of all time are essentially confirmed dead and buried.

Got to admit. I've been a multiplat player and favored ps over xb for a long time, but Jim Ryan is making me into a Phil Spencer fanboy in just a few months....

Kena looks great, though, @NEStalgia ....? I'll see for more about that & be getting it on Steam, eventually, though!

@NEStalgia Gnosia, which comes out in a few days, wasn't mentioned at all. A delay for SMT Nocturne is unlikely, given how long it has been out already in Japan, so I'm guessing we'll hear about it soon now that Strikers is out. SMT V wasn't mentioned, but that's no surprise: they'll want to focus on Nocturne HD for a while before bringing that back into the public's mind, I imagine. Crash 4 wasn't mentioned. That skateboarding game everyone seems to love wasn't mentioned. Rune Factory 5 wasn't mentioned. Disgaea 6 wasn't mentioned. MH Stories 2 wasn't mentioned.

Thankfully, a bunch of announcements happened within days of the Direct that made me way less antsy. It's not stuff being delayed. It's just that Nintendo chose to highlight third party stuff that predominantly looked pretty mediocre to me. The plate is going to be full on Switch all year long.

Not sure why you're dunking on Sony when Microsoft's position looks 10x worse, though. PS5 and XSeX will get all of the same third party games, but at least Sony has a number of biggish timed and permanent exclusives coming out soon, like FFXVI, Ratchet and Clank, Horizon, Ghostwire Tokyo, Kena, etc. That's still going to make for a WAY better first year (let's be honest: first three or four years) than the PS4 had.

Series X has... what? The Medium thoroughly underwhelmed everyone. Somehow I doubt a year-long delay is going to make that new Halo game look any more interesting than it already was. There are a lot of vague promises for games in the future that may or may not be good, but otherwise, Microsoft's new generation is looking very, very skippable again.

You might say "lol exclusives," but, to date, PS5 has been competitive or even better when it comes to third-party performance, despite the difference in raw power between the platforms.

Which isn't to say I'm terribly interested in that platform atm (less as time goes on, actually: nearly all their third party jp exclusives have gone multiplat; Japan Studio is pretty much gone, and my favorite first-party property along with it; they're tripling down on the Western market; etc.), but, other than GamePass, I don't see an argument for XSeX not being a worse buy in almost every way.

I finally got round to finishing Uncharted Lost Legacy. I'd got distracted around the 2/3rds mark on my first attempt, so decided to just redo it from the start this time.

Really solid game overall. Not quite as good as 2, 3 and 4. It didn't feel as epic given that it was shorter and had fewer different environments. Also while I love Chloe, Nadine is just a boring character, and I would've preferred they'd just used Sam as the 2nd character for the whole thing.

I also didn't really feel like the open-world section really added anything. It wasn't any more enjoyable than the normal wide-linear approach of the series.

The entire final chapter of the game was brilliant though. Starting around the part where you take over the base that's full of enemies with a helicopter patrolling the sky, then all the train section until the end. Those are some of the best scripted action scenes in the whole series.