I blame the responses at this point lol ignore it. Although I do wonder how ppl are gonna use the samey card next year since it's probably one of their most varied years
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PS4 Stays Ahead With Excellent Exclusives - 2018 Year In Review | Gamespot video
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All games feel the same. I mean...you're using the same controller to play them. The same TV to view them. /s
You even use the same eyes to look at them and the same brain to process what you see! smh all games are the same
God of War is the best superhero exclusive on PS4. Come at me.
Sony only had 2 exclusives I enjoyed this year - Spiderman and Tetris Effect. But that's still two more than MS or Nintendo had. I honestly have no idea what MS is even doing anymore.
Spiderman is basically inFamous if inFamous didnt completely suck.
Spiderman is basically inFamous if inFamous didnt completely suck.
It was a very good year.
I found myself playing less games but playing the better ones for longer. It started early in the year when I went for the Shadow of the Colossus plat.
I'd usually finish then move on to something else but that needed about 5 playthroughs.
I've really enjoyed the 2 Yakuza games a year too. Probably my favourite series.
I found myself playing less games but playing the better ones for longer. It started early in the year when I went for the Shadow of the Colossus plat.
I'd usually finish then move on to something else but that needed about 5 playthroughs.
I've really enjoyed the 2 Yakuza games a year too. Probably my favourite series.
While Sony is rea
MS is playing catch up. Nintendo had great games too.
I had a Switch and didn't see any great games (that weren't released previously on other Nintendo devices). If I had, I would still own a Switch.
MS is rebuilding. Them doubling their first party studios in a year was pretty evident of this.
Ehhhh.... I mean, fun traversal through a city, sure, as they're both but the art direction (Spider-Man's colors popped versus inFamous' dreary look), the powers, the combat, it all felt different.
What Spider-Man did do was make me wish more time was spent with fulfilling side missions in inFamous. Sure, it wouldn't have saved the combat, which was more simplistic than Spidey, but at least it would have complemented driving the DUP out of districts, which I think was a good idea but ended up being the only side content.
Who needs reason when you can just say something and believe it anyway? Kotaku brought up climbing towers even though only one of Sony's exclusives this year even came close to that trope and even then, you never really climbed towers in Spider-Man.
My favourite part of GOW ilwas when Kratos pumped round after round of lead into Baldur's face.Infamous and Spidey look completely different despite both being superhero games. Art direction is what differentiates a game's looks. I can't imagine looking at this:
And this:
And going whoa, which game is which?
To me it's similar in a way to how people say "oh Battlefield and CoD, clones lol". If you're a fan of those you can see big differences between them, if you don't really care much for that genre you'll just get people saying "meh minor differences, basically the same".
This was a great year for PlayStation and their first-party studios, definitely. They had more games that interested me than MS and Nintendo combined. God of War in particular was absolutely fantastic!
I do feel it isn't all perfect tho. The way name change has been implemented is strange and leaves a lot to be desired, and their lack of any kind of legacy (As in PS1-3) support for PS4 is really disheartening as a longtime PlayStation fan (there's also the PS Classic debacle, but that's a separate Console and discussion from this). I also feel that despite now offering downloads for PS4 titles (which was a very good move) PS NOW still lags behind Gamepass for me as far as the quality of it's offerings are concerned. Still, Sony's priorities and Game output are different from MS, so it makes sense I suppose. Their stance on crossplay softening for certain titles is also a step in the right direction, but I want crossplay across all games.
All in all, it was PS4's best in terms of sales and software, no doubt. They continue to be dominant for a reason, and that's good. I only wish they would step up their services and features, and listen to their fanbase more on what they want out of PlayStation (besides great games of course, which they are already delivering on). Regardless, here's to a bright future for PlayStation!
I do feel it isn't all perfect tho. The way name change has been implemented is strange and leaves a lot to be desired, and their lack of any kind of legacy (As in PS1-3) support for PS4 is really disheartening as a longtime PlayStation fan (there's also the PS Classic debacle, but that's a separate Console and discussion from this). I also feel that despite now offering downloads for PS4 titles (which was a very good move) PS NOW still lags behind Gamepass for me as far as the quality of it's offerings are concerned. Still, Sony's priorities and Game output are different from MS, so it makes sense I suppose. Their stance on crossplay softening for certain titles is also a step in the right direction, but I want crossplay across all games.
All in all, it was PS4's best in terms of sales and software, no doubt. They continue to be dominant for a reason, and that's good. I only wish they would step up their services and features, and listen to their fanbase more on what they want out of PlayStation (besides great games of course, which they are already delivering on). Regardless, here's to a bright future for PlayStation!
Wouldn't that mean the same for all nintendo games? Mario Tennis, Odyssey, Smash, Kirby, Yoshi, Toad all must use the same engine bc the design all look the same lol
It still not the same thing though, the analogy you used highlights First Person Shooters whereas the games in question are quite literally different genres with different mechanics and controls.
So just because some people say some ignant things over there, it's aight to say some ignant things over here. Gotchu, gotchu.
100%. I guess it's an interesting way of decrying the fact that they're all 3rd person games, but I vastly prefer 3rd person over first person, and first person is typically insanely well covered by multiplatform publishers. imo Sony has a winning strategy with their studios, they just need to keep up what they're doing. They absolutely do not need an FPS.
I really wanted to climb the castle to see the secret garden and to be able to walk across the bridge, and I was surprised to see that it took quite a lot of effort to do so...
Three months and four playthroughs later, and with thanks to the queens sword to help quicken the proceedings, I had just about enough grip to reach the top!
Whilst the reward for the long walk across the bridge was a little bit underwhelming, I enjoyed exploring the secret garden and felt pleased to finally see it after playing the original game on the PS2, the remaster on the PlayStation 3 as well as the fantastic remake on my PS4 Pro earlier this year. It's a timeless masterpiece.
As for this thread in question, it has indeed been an excellent year for the PlayStation 4.
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I love in GoW when you unlock the M16 and then hop on your motorbike and race to the top of the mountain
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For real rho' that Kotaku article was straight from Bizzaro world.
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Thanks for posting this. I really needed it after reading that mind-numbing Kotaku take—which took a few minutes with a butter knife to pry my eyeballs downward and back into their proper positions afterward.
If they're similar genres, look similar and play somewhat similar then it would be fair to say that, to some extent. Tbh I don't care much for Nintendo games so I probably wouldn't comment on them like that anyway.
They're cinematic 3rd person action-adventure games. I'm not having a go at them, because I like some of them, but there's nothing wrong with saying they're similar.
I wouldn't call it ignorant. They're just not that into these types of games so to them they are samey.
Though I do think it's a better piece of hardware, not giving me weird Disc Read Error issues as the PS2 did and not being insanely hard to develop for as the PS3 was.
That's the thing with the PS2, which actually goes to your point. It had a great library, but my God, the base PS2 was a piece of garbage.
You still climb in both games, don't tell me they aren't samey.
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Infamous and Spidey look completely different despite both being superhero games. Art direction is what differentiates a game's looks. I can't imagine looking at this:
And this:
And going whoa, which game is which?
*hides the templates*
Yep. I've not finished Yakuza 2 yet but Yakuza 6 was such a fantastic game.