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Ratchet and Clank Gameplay at ONL this week
- Thread starter Helix
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All of you saying Insomniac is too busy to put together a gameplay demo of Miles Morales have your head in the right place, but also forget that likely the people cutting the footage wont be completely involved in QA / polish for meeting the release.
With how close the game is potentially to being done, they can vary much have a demo video cut togethee. When and where they plan to showcase it is another story...
With how close the game is potentially to being done, they can vary much have a demo video cut togethee. When and where they plan to showcase it is another story...
I mean, thats exactly what has been announced...
Oooh lawd.
I'm preparing the seat belt for the stream thread.
Me too. They could put that demo with the Miles Morales game.
You have to give it to Geoff, we thought we were not gonna tune in. Then in he comes with a Playstation Studio's PS5 demo, and now we are all going to show up to the stream. He knows his audience, that's for damn sure XD
Definitely checking out this event now. Honestly, Ratchet and Clank, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, and Demon's Souls are all I need for launch/launch window. I usually look for 3 games releasing on a platform to make me purchase it (and they don't have to be launch titles, just 3 or more games slated for the system to push me to pick one up), and I've been sold on the PS5 since before it was officially confirmed to be coming. Sony has some of my favorite developers of all time producing games for the platform, and Ratchet and Clank is one of my favorite IPs. I'd be stoked if it was a launch title, or a 2020 title, or even an early 2021 title.
Insomniac has two teams, so I'm sure they've been working on these games for a while now. I feel in my gut that this is more a matter of scheduling releases, and not necessarily whether the games are finished or not. I'm sure both titles are in the polishing and bug-fixing stage, and not the "Oh man, we have so many features to add still," phase.
Insomniac has two teams, so I'm sure they've been working on these games for a while now. I feel in my gut that this is more a matter of scheduling releases, and not necessarily whether the games are finished or not. I'm sure both titles are in the polishing and bug-fixing stage, and not the "Oh man, we have so many features to add still," phase.
A lot of the time, demos are made months in advance for game shows, while the main game is being worked on. For example, when I was QA for Neverwinter Nights 2, we had a separate build that was specifically an E3 demo, and we had to test both the demo build, and the final game. The game released a few months after that, even though the demo was using an earlier version of the game at the time of its public showing. It's more than possible that the demo shown at the PS5 event in June was indeed an earlier alpha build, while the team was still hammering away on the build of the main game. I'm not saying the game is a launch title, but considering that Insomniac has two teams, both of them a pretty healthy size, I wouldn't be surprised if they're targeting 1st quarter 2021. Like I said in my earlier post, I think it's more about scheduling releases to not bump into each other too much than about whether the game is ready for launch.
And believe me, developers will take whatever extra time they can get on their games if possible. But not gonna lie, having Spider-Man, Ratchet, and Demon's Souls among others available by Holiday 2020 would be quite the stocking stuffer for a lot of people. It's a nice bit of variety for launch; open world mega-popular game, family friendly action platformer, and hardcore RPG, and that's just three games out of who knows how many launch titles. I imagine Ratchet and Spidey wouldn't cannibalize each other, though there's bound to be overlap (I mean, I'm a huge Ratchet and Spidey fan, so if they were both launch, I'm getting both at launch; ditto for Demon's Souls).
Personally, I'm making sure I have at least a grand saved up for the PS5 launch, just to cover hardware and software/accessory costs.
I know I'm going to get this, so maybe I don't need to watch.
But a release date would be awesome!
But a release date would be awesome!
maybe most people's definitions are different, but personally i think of it as what games come out before the end of the first business quarter after launch
That would be a great question for the post interview that Geoff Keighley is gonna do.... 👀👀
as well as a future collection remaster question 👀
With Covid I think this will be one of the big Holiday 2021 titles for Sony.
i mean, i get it if thats the only vertical slice they have right now. but just dont show it then? we dont need to see the same thing twice.
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and deservedly so! this is the most hyped I have been for a Ratchet and Clank since A Crack In Time. the PS4 reboot (kinda) was an awesome installment that revitalized my love for Ratchet.
its like playing a game made by Pixar.
The 2016 game made the best selling in the series & Insomniac's highest selling game in the studio's history, before Spider-Man 2018.
I hope Rift Apart knocks out of the park in terms of overall quality & contents of the series.
I presume they will both have the same graphical options like they did for Ratchet and Spider-Man on PS4, so I'd be surprised if there isn't a 60FPS option.