Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

@Octane

It's still just qualitatively inferior to the original trilogy. It's obviously because they gave it to this unproven team. The idea of caring about the integrity of your established IPs is probably quite a foreign notion when you're being run by a soulless corporation like EA.

@Dezzy The bigger problem is probably trying to milk a franchise that was meant as a trilogy beyond being a trilogy. Some teams can pull it off (Ace Attorney) but most can't. The original game was cut short. The sequel was stretched out to pad and reshape the game. And the final one tried to throw so much stuff into it to make up for it that it felt crammed and rushed. So, planned as a trilogy, told as a mess, but the story arc was a world gobbling arc that was completed. How do you resurrect that same feel and stay true to it if the pressures are entirely different? There's a world behind ME, but they tried to make it FEEL the same, and it can't feel the same because that feel was unique to the apocalyptic story.

@NEStalgia

They didn't need to resurrect the same feel or have it be the same as the originals.
Just equally good but different.

@Dezzy If only you had been the director we would not have ended up with Andromeda. The actual director missed that fact.

@Peek-a-boo I'm in the same boat honestly. My bread and butter games are VF, SF and SC which are all much faster than MK/Injustice. Personally I never got into MK but I have a habit of buying any fighting game I can get my hands on so that my buddies don't have a reason to bow out of playing with me. I'd rather play a fighting game I dont like vs a FPS game any day. I think I'll hold off though. SF if coming and I'll put some time in that for a bit. Working on BB:CF at home anyway. I will check and see if my local gamestop gets it used and then I'll "rent" it for a bit.

I'll lurk around SRK to get some impressions. I just like to ask here since I tend to hang out on NL more than SRK lately.

'Untalented people?' That seems like a big assumption on your part. For all we know EA simply might not have hired enough people to produce the game in that amount of time.

@Haru17

I should've said unproven talent. They might be talented, but it's a relatively new team that just hadn't demonstrated it could do something that big.
Given that they had like 10 people leave during development of the game, it definitely points to either an incapable team or incompetent management, rather than not enough people. That many people leaving a company during the development of a game points to some kind of systemic problem.

Is anybody getting Tekken 7 on here?

I am well aware that most folks were on the Mr. and Mrs. Negativity bandwagon when Street Fighter V first came out, due to the bare bones nature of the game during the first two or three months.

I openly admit that that was kind of justified at the time however, it was mostly at the expense of piling on more doom-and-gloom upon the game for the sake of it... especially from those who were not even a fan of the Street Fighter series in the first place, nor had any intention whatsoever to play let alone buy it.

I kind of hope I can play against a couple of folks on here! Anyone pondering about getting the game?

And suddenly it looks a lot more like Farcry:

Told you that spooky thing would've been nothing. Looks exactly like the last 2. But with super stereotypical rednecks.

I hope they do a better job at setting variation than in 4. It's the only one I've played but "Forest area with random scattered villages" got old very very quickly.

No offense to the rural and/or rust belt Americans, but ARCEUS DAMN!

They are really treading the waters and choosing to go down the white rednecks, backwater religious and racist cults, politically incorrect and Trump-hollering route without a care in the world. And I love it.

I can already see Fox News having a field day with this one...

@Operative2-0 I thought Far Cry 4 offered a pretty good 'world', considering the first and third Far Cry games were all set on a tropical island surrounded by an ocean that stopped you from swimming too far away.

If anything, the Saharan environment in the second Far Cry was a tough old slog to get through, especially with very little variation in regards to the (mostly flat) landscape and the little villages you stumble upon.

@Dezzy This one is a more fitting cover art:

_{...watch it...-Joey}

They need to make sure the hero is also a redneck or they'll definitely be annoying some people.

Yeah that's pretty much how I felt through all of Far Cry 4. I kept thinking I was going to stumble into an actual city or something more than a few houses and a radio tower, but it never came. By far the best parts of Far Cry 4 were the Shangri-La sections. Now that was a great time.

@Peek-a-boo ...you just sold me the game. I'm sure that says something bad about me but in my defense I'm from the south and I've managed not to punch anybody in the face so far...

Part of me wants them to just go all out in annoying as many people as possible and make the hero super stereotypically democrat.

A yale university professor is visiting Montana for the annual climate change conference. He stops a deplorable looking gentlemen in the street to ask where the nearest bottled organic water shop is. He may be in the North, but things are about to head south, and the climate is certainly about to change.

Eh. Depends on how they approach it.

I'll be disappointed if it's just elitist sneering at impoverished white communities.

The American deep south is a region rife with historical oddities, generalized weirdness, and tons of natural beauty though, and a deep dive into that weirdness would make for an absolutely fantastic setting. Also, considering the gun culture out here, it fits perfectly with Far Cry's preoccupation with firearms.

Hopefully they get the accents right, depending on where they set the game.

For the record, I'm not exactly a Southerner, but I've lived in rural Tennessee for the last eight years or so. Huge culture shock coming from Denver.

Agreed. Elitist protag will only make people side with the villains in the game because they will scream SWJ protagonist or something equally internet trendy...(Did I use that term correctly? I don't even know) However, taking out whacked out cultists/patriots that hate their fellow countrymen that don't look like them? Sign me up. I like that way better than tromping through the Himalayas trying to dethrone a tyrant despot king. (plus the new choices weren't that much better.) If they make a westboro reference I'm going to likely pass out from laughing so hard.

@Ryu_Niiyama Hehe, it'd be a real wasted opportunity not having some sort of super-homophobic preacher type in this game. Wouldn't even be be controversial: everybody hates (hated? I haven't heard about the Phelps family in years) the WBC.

It'd be great if I could go to a "gun convention" and buy all sorts of illegal stuff to blow people up with.

@Operative2-0 Oh god, the shangri-la sections of FC4 were horrendous. Totally destroyed the game's pacing when they happened, and I don't really want to play as some mystical shaman with a bow and arrow. This is a big part of why I skipped out on Primal.

@Ralizah Haha, that's interesting to hear! I thought it was by far the most beautiful and engaging part of the game. I guess I appreciated the more fantastical side instead of empty forests teeming with random soldiers. Ironically, I didn't want to get Primal because I didn't want a whole game with only bows and arrows

@Operative2-0 It's hard to grow bored of the scenery when you spend half the game running for your life from homocidal honey badgers.

If the formulaic nature of the game bores you, I could see appreciating those sequences. I had a lot of fun just messing around the environments, hunting animals, and finding increasingly ridiculous ways to kill enemies, though. Like most sandboxes, you make your own fun.

I really hope this newest one doesn't have annoying multiplayer trophies (it totally will). I HATED those when I was going for my FC4 platinum.