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What's your score?

10 28 12.56%
 
9 56 25.11%
 
8 52 23.32%
 
7 30 13.45%
 
6 24 10.76%
 
5 16 7.17%
 
4 6 2.69%
 
3 6 2.69%
 
2 1 0.45%
 
1 4 1.79%
 
Total:223

I'm a PS fan since I was a kid and they are my number 1 console maker but honestly? This was a letdown. Aside from the DS remake, nothing really excited me or interested me enough to say "I want to buy that tomorrow". This reveal was a 6 for me.



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9/10 for me, thought it was great. One major thing that this presentation fixed for me is the diversity in Sony's lineup. I was getting tired of most of their big games that get shown off being the 3rd person cinematic story driven open world games, sure 99% of them are amazing but I want to see other things as well, but instead here we actually got VERY good variety of things shown: Ratchet & Clank, a new Astro Bot game, a new Sackboy platformer, Gran Turismo 7, Spider-Man: Miles Morales, Horizon 2, Demon's Souls, and a lot of other cool creative games. THIS is the type of show i'd love to see from Sony more often, ones that have games in genre's that appeal to every crowd.

Pros:
- Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart looks incredible and I loved seeing proper gameplay of it. The SSD tech looks amazing but did seem a little hiccup-y when transitioning from the different world segments.
- Sackboy: A Big Adventure was a COMPLETE surprise as I honestly thought the series was dead after LBP3 and this literally had me cheering (same with R&C). It might not be a traditional LBP game but i'm excited to see it be explored in a different platforming style. The name is sort of trash tho, could have easily been something like LittleBigPlanet: Sackboy's Adventure.
- Spider-Man: Miles Morales looks great, doesn't seem like it's Spider-Man 2 necessarily but still a great thing to have for the launch.
- Horizon: Forbidden West had a great trailer but would have liked to see gameplay.
- Glad they finally showed us what the box looks like, wasn't bad looking either.
- Destruction All Stars looked fun as hell.
- Bugsnax is unique af.
- Astro's Playroom (another name i'm not a fan of), really glad to see more platformers from Sony and the fact that this one is seemingly not only stuck to PSVR this time.

Neutral:
- Demons' Souls Remake looks cool (though I personally would have liked to see Bluepoint doing anything but a Souls game) but was once again just a trailer with no gameplay.
- Gran Turismo 7 seemed alright but I think could have had a better showing.
- It was cool to see a new IP already in Returnal but for me personally i'm tired of the whole time travel repeating same day scenario that feels overdone at this point, but need to see more of the gameplay.


Cons:
- Starting with a 1-2 minute trailer of just GTA V footage just to say it's coming to PS5 without even showing any PS5 gameplay was weird and pointless.
- A lot of the trailers they showed were also like Inside Xbox where they still didn't contain much gameplay.
- Godfall continues to be a mess in terms of not only what the game itself is but the way they are continuing to market it, I have no idea what this game is going for.



With what they revealed, I'm kind of excited to see what they will show around MS's blowout. They will surely do something to try take the spotlight off.

Naughty dog might have a second team showing.
Santa Monica might have something.
GG might have something.

Kinda bummed there was no Killzone. Really badly want a new Killzone that forgets there ever was a shadow fall.



shikamaru317 said:
hinch said:
Also considering that there is a global pandemic going on, this is really well put together presentation and professionally done.

Microsoft take notes! None of that webcam malarkey.

To be fair, the Xbox thing was in May while full lockdowns were still in effect. Lockdowns have largely been lifted since then, likely made things easier on Sony. I'm sure the quality will be way better on the July show, executives and developers will be able to go into actual studios/booths to record their talking bits, instead of having to webcam them.

I'm sure it will be better than their May thing, but lets not kid ourselves, that doesn't take much. All I know is that MS really needs to show something really, really impressive to stop Sony's momentum. IDK but I got a feeling Halo, Forza and bunch of indie titles probably isn't going to cut the mustard, especially if they're just Xbox One games, that run and look better on Series X. 

If MS isn't making any next gen exclusives, I'm also not sure if they should do a separate event for their 1st party games. They should at least try to get some big 3rd party games like BF6 in there to make things more exciting and less predictable. If not, then my guess is they'll be using some smoke and mirrors and show us a ton of cgi concept trailers. 

Last edited by goopy20 - on 12 June 2020

DonFerrari said:
Nate4Drake said:

Ratchet & Clank is taking advantage of PS5 I/O and SSD.   I will not even continue with other games, like Horizon 2.

When people think Switch is almost as powerful as PS4Pro because it can run The Witcher 3 don`t really expect them to see the day and night difference. My wife that doesn`t even like gaming can spot on seconds that a game wouldn`t be possible on PS4 but some of our veterans in VGC can`t see a difference.

Well, as many old gamers like me will say to you: we can spot the differences, but care a lot less about graphical advancement. Because we remember a lot of games that were hype for their graphics, but don't hold up too well today.

As an older gamer I always ask myself about the lasting value of a game. Will I still enjoy playing it 10-20 years down the line. That is why I have deep concerns about a game like Project Athios, which they failed to show me why it will be fun to play. On the other hand I am pretty sure, that Kena will be as fun to play in ten years as it is today.

That's why I don't care too much about the graphical downgrades of the Witcher on Switch. Because the game still retains what makes it great.

Sony had made a good presentation though, many games look like they can deliver, that includes Ratchet and Clank (I am not too much into these types of games and it looks too hectic for me, but it definitely feels like it will be fun for those who like these games) and Horizon (Sony's Zelda).

BTW: Many think Ratchet&Clank dimension moving is utilizing the SSD. I think the transition is too fast even for a good SSD. I think a lot of assets were preloaded into graphics RAM, which probably means PS5 has a lot of that.



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In the end, the way it was done because of how we are (mostly) all locked in doors right now with just a bunch of videos showing the games and then here's the console at the end was great. Certainly more focused than getting some game devs one by one onto a stage floor and waffling on about stuff, show the games, show the console, done. Good Job.



Hmm, pie.

Im thinking ~8,5 or so.
Felt generous and gave it a 9.



160rmf said:
DonFerrari said:

When people think Switch is almost as powerful as PS4Pro because it can run The Witcher 3 don`t really expect them to see the day and night difference. My wife that doesn`t even like gaming can spot on seconds that a game wouldn`t be possible on PS4 but some of our veterans in VGC can`t see a difference.

Grasping at straws?

More like people being slapped by the power of the optimization after claiming that this highly demand game would be impossible or the cutbacks would be so dreadful that would be a totally different game on the less powerful hw

Base PS4:

Switch docked:

Switch does run it, but its noticable that the textures and resolutions are drastically lowered.
Also this is one of the better pictures (for switch) from the eurogamer compairison.


PS4:

Switch docked:



JRPGfan said:
160rmf said:

Grasping at straws?

More like people being slapped by the power of the optimization after claiming that this highly demand game would be impossible or the cutbacks would be so dreadful that would be a totally different game on the less powerful hw

Base PS4:

Switch docked:

Switch does run it, but its noticable that the textures and resolutions are drastically lowered.
Also this is one of the better pictures (for switch) from the eurogamer compairison.


PS4:

Switch docked:

If you really want to show the differences, just add an fps counter in the corner ;)



For the conference, I would give it an 8. Sony will be giving its customers pretty much what they wanted. The majority of Sony games did not have a release date so there is no real incentive to purchase a PS5 on release. The closes would be spiderman which is fine but its not a must play in my book. The console design is fine to me. I rarely care about what my devices look like then how they perform.