Otter said:
d21lewis said:
Kena may be goty material. I'd buy it. Hell, Kameo was my first xbox 360 game. It's right up my alley! But I just feel like people are hyping it up because they have to hype up something as the "killer app''.
I mean PS2 had SSX. PS1 had Ridge Racer and Toshinden. Gamecube had Rogue Leader. Xbox 360 had CoD2. PS4 had Killzone 2. All perfectly good games but people were just looking for that crown jewel of the launch lineup like Soul Calibur or Mario 64 so they chose a game and bestowed the crown upon it. A year later, these wannabe killer apps were mostly forgotten.
That's how I feel about Kena. It may be an excellent game but it wreaks of "Well, I guess that's the best we got."
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Ehh, I strongly disagree. It looks like a zelda mixed with Pikmin and pixar level production. I could easily imagine this is what Naughty Dog would deliver if they continued down the Jack and Daxter route and I'm sure there are millions out there looking for a high quality production fantasy adventure game. So far this gen we've been mostly limited to low budget, indie zelda clones which lack their own identity. Launch title or not, this would rank high up on my list on any year.
Edit: Particularly as a fan of Nintendo and Adventure games, I can't imagine looking at that screen shot and questioning where the hype is coming from lol
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I can see that. Odds are, when I buy a PS5, Kena will be one of the first games I buy. I'm like you, I love "Nintendo styled" games and I love adventure. Like I said, when I got my 360 in 2007, the first game I ever played was Kameo and graphically (for me), it was stunning. I didn't even get Gears of War until like 4 or 5 games later. Tomb Raider DE was the game that got me to buy a PS4. My tastes are...different.
It looks great. Maybe even goty. In the YouTube comments of the trailer, people love it. It's just that, when the conference ended, people were talking about Horizon and Ratchet and Clank. I didn't hear much about Kena. Again, when I saw it and a few other games, I loved what I saw. But the launch games? I didn't hear many people saying "I'm buying a PS5 for Kena!"
Guess we'll see what the reviews say.