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Ghost of Tsushima - open world game set in feudal Japan
- Thread starter Glaucon
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Love unskippable custcenes.
"We put a lot of work in this shit so you WILL watch it."
It's like a chocolate bar wrapper that you HAVE to eat too coz it cost a lot of money to design.
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toughasnails
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Still hoping against hope to see at least this and Demon's Souls remake on steam before Sony dumps their whole PC strategy for good- and sadly it looks as if that will happen sooner rather than later, with TLOU remake's port being such a disaster, titles like Returnal not doing well sales wise, the stories about Sony requiring guarantees from SE that future FFs won't appear on PC and not just Xbox etc.
Afaik Returnal bombed hard even on PS so it's not exactly shocking nobody bought in on PC either.
As for the ports quality, hard to say. Based on the botched HZD and TLOU releases Sony could say "fuck this, we don't need this shit" and cut the rope. But the Days Gone, God of War and Returnal ports were excellent.
Biggest problem could be the sales. I honestly expected games like HZD or GoW to sell waay more on PC than they did. Open-world games are super popular on PC and HZD's 2,2 million isn't terrible but I thought it'd be at least twice as much (shit, even Kingdom Come, a new IP with zero marketing budget sold a million in the first fucking week). And GoW didn't even break a million, whaat? A game this famous, this hyped, this desirable?
That said, we have no idea how much these ports cost. Maybe it's under a million bucks, so if they make 20+ million they're worth Sony's time.
As for the ports quality, hard to say. Based on the botched HZD and TLOU releases Sony could say "fuck this, we don't need this shit" and cut the rope. But the Days Gone, God of War and Returnal ports were excellent.
Biggest problem could be the sales. I honestly expected games like HZD or GoW to sell waay more on PC than they did. Open-world games are super popular on PC and HZD's 2,2 million isn't terrible but I thought it'd be at least twice as much (shit, even Kingdom Come, a new IP with zero marketing budget sold a million in the first fucking week). And GoW didn't even break a million, whaat? A game this famous, this hyped, this desirable?
That said, we have no idea how much these ports cost. Maybe it's under a million bucks, so if they make 20+ million they're worth Sony's time.
If Nixxes does the Tsushima port, I'll be a happy chap.
toughasnails
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I think that there is another component to the situation of Sony's PC push: for a while it appeared as if MS was en route towards becoming an industry monopoly with Sony being pushed into its own niche rather than competing in the same space. But MS's gaming side has been doing poorly for a while, ActiBlizz buyout failed thru, so that component is now absent.
SerratedBiz
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The ActiBlizz buyout is still being negotiated, there's updates on the "merger" in a thread here.
Modron
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They're probably also selling user data with how much information they explicitly state they're gathering in their Privacy Policy: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/legal/privacy-policy/
There was a lot of complaining about data gathering with Days Gone's release but everyone has already gotten used to it apparently because all Sony PC releases have the same policy.
Silva
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Yeah, I hated the game's initial 2h or so too. Just endure that crap, the game is worth it.
If unskippable cutscenes are the worst thing you can say about a game, that is an incredibly good game in this day and age.
Silva
Arcane
Indeed.
See Persona 5 and it's unskipable 40h tutorial for maximum suffering.
See Persona 5 and it's unskipable 40h tutorial for maximum suffering.
Multi-headed Cow
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Do have to admit Persona 5 (And 4) are good about letting you skip dialog and cutscenes quickly and easily. The few times I've wiped in that and had to replay a section/boss it was nice how well the skipping works. The "Tutorial" being a massive part of the game could be a pain in the ass for actual replays like Irenicus' sex dungeon from hell but skipping the story's well done at least.
Doktor Best
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Silva
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And that's why PS5 will flop, expensive as fuck (at least here in HUE land) and a lack of interesting exclusives. I got PS4 early and it was worth every cent, while I see no incentives to get a PS5.
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thesecret1
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What, the combat in this game just consists of fumbling and mashing buttons?
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Perfect parry to open them up for attack, dodge when their attack flashes red/blue which indicates it's unblockable, bash shield guys with heavy attacks to drain their "holding shield up" bars.
If my memory still serves, AC combat was notoriously bad. Can't imagine GoT got such a large following with something similarly bad. Don't wanna watch gameplay to check because I wanna go in fresh for the inevitable PC port.
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