PS5's First Year Games Lineup Looks Amazing!

[Runa216]

This thread is a sobering reminder that you can't please everyone and that some people will complain regardless of what a company puts out.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales is a cheap add-on to the best-selling superhero game of all time. A lovely little distraction that's probably only gonna be a couple hours long and a nice intro to the new console. It's a rather light appetizer rather than a full-course meal. I'd have preferred a whole new game, but this is fine.

Ratchet & Clank looks to be a return to form on one of the most pure fun action-platformers ever and a great showcase of what the PS5 is capable of.

Demon's Souls is a very good looking remake of one of the underrated gems of Gen 7 and a lovely opportunity for folks like me into the Souls games to return to Boletaria.

Horizon Forbidden West is a much-wanted sequel to a new IP from 2017 and one of the biggest new IPs of the last generation and a phenomenally reviewed game.

God of War is a sequel to the best-selling and most beloved game in the God of War franchise, a weighty action-adventure game with RPG elements akin to Dark souls.

Gran Turismo 7 is the latest in a long line of bestselling and beloved racing games.

Sackboy's Big Adventure is a light and bouncy 3D platformer.

And there's many more exclusives and third party games and timed exclusives as well. Racing games and platformers and story-driven open world games and action RPGs and toony shooters and superhero games. So much pedigree and so much variety I genuinely thought nobody could possibly think that was a bad or mediocre or disappointing first year. These games listed above are all surefire hits, or at least moderate hits as they're all expansions, sequels, remakes, or new takes on old beloved games that have a history of quality. To not like any of them or think any of them are worth investing in confuses me. Tastes and all, I know, but it's not like all the games are one genre or aimed at one target audience or anything. Something in there has to get to you unless you're biased or incredibly picky.

But like I said, can't please everybody. I remember people going on about how terrible the Switch's first year was because Mario Kart was a rerelease and Zelda was also on WiiU and Splatoon was just the same as the first one despite all three of those games selling like gangbusters, got great reviews, and are universally beloved. I genuinely expect the same thing to happen here.