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hershel_layton on 16 July 2016
guiduc said:
hershel_layton said:

Surprised you didn't just lock the thread or place a ban.

Some had interesting things to say. And I don't think banning is always the solution, sometimes it's just best to work things out and apologize. From how it turned out, I made the right choice. 

Guess you did.


Didn't expect this thread to stretch out for so long though.



 

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deskpro2k3 on 16 July 2016

No confirmation on a Legend of Dragoon Remake, or sequel has me feeling sour.



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Mike_L on 17 July 2016
Replicant said:
Mike_L said:

I’ll limit myself to the PlayStation unit of Sony and start with my biggest gripes:

Cinematic storytelling at the expense of gameplay. This is more aimed at Naughty Dog. They’re one of my favorite developers and that's why Uncharted 4 disappointed me. After having played The Last of Us that in my opinion had a perfect balance of gameplay and cutscenens, Uncharted 4 took control away too often and when it finally gave control back, the game still led you on. If God of War IV and Days Gone will take inspiration from Naughty Dog, I hope it’ll be from TLOU. I don’t want any of their future games to be as cinematic as Uncharted 4. I want them to tell more of the story through gameplay. Meaningful cutscenes are fine though. Even Wario Land had long cutscenes in the start of the game but still those games were some of my favorites on my GameBoy.

Japan Studio's lacking output. I know that Western games overtook Japanese in market share early in the 7th generation but I want Sony to strengthen their 1st party Japanese output now that they're back on track and stronger than ever. They're definitely improving with TLG, GR2 and GT Sport this year but I'm not happy before I get Ape Escape 4 and The Legend of Dragoon 2.

Too few family friendly 1st party games. I know I can’t blame Sony for the loss of Crash and Spyro (my favorite childhood PS mascots) as they never owned them in the first place and as they can’t force Activision to sell them but we need to see more of their 3D platformers return. Ratchet & Clank (2016) was great and it hopefully showed Sony that there’s still demand among PS fans.

No sustained AA and A 1st party support on Vita. I love my PS Vita and I don't think the quality of its library is that far from that of the Wii U which gets a lot of praise for its games. But still the support from Sony could’ve been far better. I completely understand why they lowered the budgets when expensive games like Uncharted: Golden Abyss and Killzone: Mercenary hardly moved any units and after smartphones and their "free" "games" invaded handheld gaming but they should've continued to develop/fund smaller AA and A games for it like Patapon, LocoRoco, Daxter, Ape Escape, Puppeteer, Knack and a port of Gran Turismo 6. Those games would've been faster and less expensive to develop and would've fitted the handheld medium a lot better than those home console look-alikes. No matter what the Vita would've probably never achieved the same sucess as the PSP but they could've bought a studio like Level-5 prior to Vita's launch. While not developing many AAA games Level-5 develops a bunch of great AA handheld games which is just what the Vita is missing.

Dark Cloud + Chronicle
Rogue Galaxy
Yo-Kai Watch
Danball Senki
Jeanne d'Arc
White Knight Chronicles
Ni no Kuni
Wonder Flick
Professor Layton
Inazuma Eleven
etc.

Regarding memory cards, they should've been far more affordable but it hasn't been a huge personal issue as I bought my 64GB memory card at nippon-yasan.

 

Smaller:

Poor rubber on DualShock 4's thumbsticks. The DS4 is my favorite controller but I really hope they make the rubber sticks more solid on the rumored upgraded DS4 launching alongside PS4 Neo.

No displaying of total time spent playing. I'd like to see if my favorite games are also the ones receiving the most play time.

No wishlisting and gifting in PS Store. I know there's wishlisting in the browser based PS Store but why not on the PS4? And why not let customers spend money gifting each other?

No movie (both buy and rent), TV series and music in PS Store outside of US/UK. Sony creates a ton of entertainment besides games. Why not sell it themselves? More content for customers and bigger profits for Sony. Sony's own services like Crackle, PS Vue, PS Movies and PS Now need to be available worldwide asap on both PS4 and Vita.

 

 

Personally, free online multiplayer is not important as I subscribed to PS+ long before PS4 launched due to the free games but I see why it could be a big issue for Nintendo and PC gamers who consider buying a PS4.

PS3 backwards compatibility is also not that important for me as I still have my PS3 plugged in and it probably wouldn’t be complete BC anyway with support for all of my 200+ PS3 games.

 

Faelco said:

My only issue at the moment is that the matchmaking or Uncharted 4 ranked matches is the worst I've ever seen...

 

Basically these 2 posts sum up my issues with Sony.

Though, I don't quite see the problem with Naughty Dogs' cinematic games. Yes, Uncharted 4 was close to cross the line but a game like The Last of Us has such a compelling story but at the same time excellent gameplay. Imo it just adds to the variety that not every game is "non-cinematic".

But speaking of The Last of Us. Its multiplayer is also very solid but matchmaking is shit. As Faelco said, UC4 matchmaking isn't that much better and I really don't get it. Why not spar with the good folks at Guerrilla Games? Matchmaking in Killzone: Shadow Fall is fantastic.

You're right about matchmaking. I hope ND improve it a lot in TLOU2.

If so it's destined to become my favorite multiplayer of all time.



Mike_L on 25 July 2016

I just remembered another thing that's been bothering me for years.

PlayStation's Greatest Hits, Platinum and Essentials re-releases.

 

It was acceptable on PS1 and PS2 (mostly grey) but terrible on PS3 (yellow and red).

     

 

I know it's because they want us to buy the games before they hit the bargain bin but as a collector it's driving me nuts going online and buying what seems to be a game with the original box art only to receive a game with a cover that shits all over the work of the cover artist. Additionally, the color hurts my eyes and it sticks out like a dick on a cake.

It's 1st world problems and I shouldn't care, I know. But if Sony does this again with PS4 re-releases, I hope they make them more subtle. Apart from the grey cases, I think the way Microsoft designed the latest Xbox 360 "Classics" is a much better way to make box art for budget games. Here, I barely notice the difference on my shelf.

 

In the perfect world, it'd just be an easy to remove sticker.



phinch1 on 25 July 2016

Like how Apple truly link their products for face time, I wish Sony could have voice chat between vita ps4 and xperia devices, playstation 1 and two games bought on psn should run on all of those devices, truly link playstation to Sony devices, I don't think they realise playstation is one of the main things keeping their Company alive



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d21lewis on 25 July 2016

Twesterm said the start button on the earlier PlayStation consoles was too pointy (I may have encouraged him to make that thread....). It was a joke but people lost their minds!

Good times. :)



Xbrah on 25 July 2016

They should have supported DRM like Microsoft and now we could have steam prices.... Always online would have been good too.
Need bigger controllers and should use battery packs.
Games have too much story... Watched my friend start uncharted 4 and took a really long time for him to kill someone... Should be way more combat. Needs to be more violent too, like gears.
Gears is a real game cause it has great gameplay from start to finish. Action from the minute you start and loads of feedback via the gore and audio to make sure you feel like you are really killing something. Almost feels like you are hacking someone in real life...
Too many weeaboo games in general. Persona and all that stuff is completely overrated and I'm glad I cab avoid it on Xbox. Sony should stop so many of these games being published.
Too many indies....
Online is a joke from what I hear. Down every few days. Has been well publicised by sites like ign over the past decade.
Sony executives probably eat whale... That is sick and people should not support it. You see the lack of respect they have for sea life in that new kojima game trailer. Disgusting!

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mjk45 on 25 July 2016
arcaneguyver said:
Always forget Crash wasn't actually a Sony property. They shouldn't have let it get away in the first place, regardless.

They didn't have a choice Mark Cerny then head of Universal interactive offered ND who rented office space at the Universal lot , money to make them a game since they had just formed Universal interactive and needed product , Cerny's offer was we will fund a game from you sight unseen but we in return will own the IP , that game eventualy became crash, Cerny made the same offer to Insomniac who where also renting at the lot and that's how they got Spyro.

Sony came into the picture when they after seeing Crash at an event decide to publish it.



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Mike_L on 26 July 2016
Slade6alpha said:

hate the majority of their execs.

Two of them gone (Jack Tretton and Adam Boyes).

Anyone left that you hate?

 

You can't seriously hate Mark Cerny and Shuhei Yoshida.

I mean, look at them. Two genuine fellas.



oniyide on 29 July 2016
Mike_L said:

I just remembered another thing that's been bothering me for years.

PlayStation's Greatest Hits, Platinum and Essentials re-releases.

 

It was acceptable on PS1 and PS2 (mostly grey) but terrible on PS3 (yellow and red).

     

 

I know it's because they want us to buy the games before they hit the bargain bin but as a collector it's driving me nuts going online and buying what seems to be a game with the original box art only to receive a game with a cover that shits all over the work of the cover artist. Additionally, the color hurts my eyes and it sticks out like a dick on a cake.

It's 1st world problems and I shouldn't care, I know. But if Sony does this again with PS4 re-releases, I hope they make them more subtle. Apart from the grey cases, I think the way Microsoft designed the latest Xbox 360 "Classics" is a much better way to make box art for budget games. Here, I barely notice the difference on my shelf.

 

In the perfect world, it'd just be an easy to remove sticker.

damn that sucks really hard. Im glad to be in the US where the design for GH is much simpler. just a red banner