Sony hate thread

Remember that the PS5 Pro is right around the corner and I don't picture that piece of plastic having a price tag lower than $600.

My God, if the price hikes of the regular model also influence the Pro model and that thing releases at $700 I'm going to laugh my ass off.
Considering PS4 versions of mainstream games are still coming out, I have no clue what on earth a PS5 Pro could possibly do that a base model PS5 can't. That is a console that will only sell to people with an attitude of absolutely needing the latest thing and also being able to afford it, and people who really don't spend a dime of their disposable income on anything that's not PlayStation-branded.
 
Sony fans are desperately looking for Ws pushing a generic platformer as a "killer app" after the Concord debacle. Astrobot looks cute, but like someone already mentioned in this thread, these types of games saturated the market from the PS1/N64 era until the Xbox 360/PS3 generation.

Sony fags also hyping the PS5 Pro, sure spend an extra 150 dollars on an already outdated and overpriced piece of the shit console for more "dynamic" resolutions and "up to" 60 fps remakes, remasters, and reimaginings.

Nothing would make me happier than to watch the Playstation division burn to the ground, and I sadly say this as a PS2 fanboy.

Goes back to playing Shadow of Rome and Ace Combat Zero on the PCSX2.
 
Everything I've heard about AstroBot so far sounds like Sony's version of Super Lucky's Tale, except that game didn't get a bunch of attention from Xbox fanboys, I guess because it wasn't exclusive.
Yeah it's very similar actually, Lucky's Tale was even originally a VR game. It's just missing the fanboy / corporate woke-af journalist shilling.
 
Again, I reiterate, it looks like a fine game. A merely fine game isn't something worth saying it's redefining it's entire genre though, and even for sony, who has all of gaming media in their pockets and basically subsidize gaming journalist as a career, this hype feels artificial. Astrobot? Astroturf. This game would have been better as a weird spinoff for ANY of the other franchises it wears as skins. This is a combination of the media's utter sony cocksucking, the 4+ year drought of playstation games, and the utter desperation to change the conversation after concord.
 
Kinda sad state of affairs that the release of a single (apparently) good game has caused so much over-the-top celebration. You don't have a lot to be "proud" of when good games are so rare on your console that they're earth-shattering when they happen.
 
Kinda sad state of affairs that the release of a single (apparently) good game has caused so much over-the-top celebration. You don't have a lot to be "proud" of when good games are so rare on your console that they're earth-shattering when they happen.
Hell I havent even seen any actual clips anywhere besides fanboys screaming for their wifes boyfriend to see Soybot 3000 skinwalking as one of the many franchises that sony will happily ignore after this games "hype" has died down
 
the utter desperation to change the conversation after concord.
I feel like this is the real reason why people are even talking about the game. I played the first game on PSVR and it was a cute little tech demo but I doubt the new game truly measures up to the best of the best Mario games. The mascot is very uninteresting and uninspired. The clips I have seen are nothing spectacular, it's just 'member berries and platforming aped from Mario games that came out over a decade ago. I enjoy watching Nintendrones seethe uncontrollably about someone claiming they make a game as good as Nintendo but the obsession with this all seems artificial and a desperate attempt to get Playstation a W after that Concord nuclear bomb went off. When I briefly checked out twitter and saw that Redbull already had an animation celebrating Astrobot's release ready to go, there's no way I can't look at this shit and not think it's an ok game getting astroturfed to Hell so Sony can claim it's an amazing game worthy of GOTY.

I actually want to see a desperate Sony try to buy out journalists again and have them declare Astrobot GOTY just so I can laugh at how stupid it all is.
 
I feel like this is the real reason why people are even talking about the game. I played the first game on PSVR and it was a cute little tech demo but I doubt the new game truly measures up to the best of the best Mario games. The mascot is very uninteresting and uninspired. The clips I have seen are nothing spectacular, it's just 'member berries and platforming aped from Mario games that came out over a decade ago. I enjoy watching Nintendrones seethe uncontrollably about someone claiming they make a game as good as Nintendo but the obsession with this all seems artificial and a desperate attempt to get Playstation a W after that Concord nuclear bomb went off. When I briefly checked out twitter and saw that Redbull already had an animation celebrating Astrobot's release ready to go, there's no way I can't look at this shit and not think it's an ok game getting astroturfed to Hell so Sony can claim it's an amazing game worthy of GOTY.

I actually want to see a desperate Sony try to buy out journalists again and have them declare Astrobot GOTY just so I can laugh at how stupid it all is.
This year has been so bad so far that this game and Helldivers 2 probably are the second and third best releases of the year after Balatro.
 
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Astro Bot is an amazing game that was put together with love and passion for video games, and it's made by a Japanese company? Sony is going to close this studio as soon as possible. Not enough modern day slop to make money. And not compliant with whatever the insane asylum in California deems acceptable for modern audiences.
ASOBI is anything but "Japanese" and ultimately what replaced Japan Studio in a political move by the Californian branch of SIE, with the same french dude Nicolas Doucet placed at the head, all while losing all the former key talents.

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Also this game is more a graveyard of the former Playstation's IPs than a celebration. Imagine playing a proverbial living museum dedicated to the history of one of the leading companies in the gaming industry, only to realize that it's more of a mausoleum dedicated to everything they've killed and abandoned in the endless pursuit of greener pastures filled with infinite profits for vulture shareholders. That's Astro Bot even if it may look like a decent game in itself.

This year has been so bad so far that this game and Helldivers 2 probably are the second and third best releases of the year after Balatro.
You're kidding right ? I can name several games such as Earth Defense Force 6 and its spinoff World Brothers 2, Unicorn Overlord, Gundam Breaker 4 and Shiren 6.
It's an okay year at the very worst but what you named are just a blip in my radar.
 
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Well that didn't take long:
100% in 8 hours. Not the longest game out there...
And this confirms that the scores are astroturfed as fuck. Unless those 8 hours were without any meandering at all, game is short and any of the staple Mario games or the latest Crash Bandicoot beats it out in bang for buck, specially if there are no extra goals to achieve. The game does look very cute and I certainly wouldn't mind playing it if given the chance, but I also think it's scores are bloated since Sony always dumps buckets of money to the press and they are probably happy to not have to lie as much for once.

I also find it hilarious that super serial game company's only competent release for the PS5 is a fucking mascot platformer which super serial Sony had moved past generations ago.
 
Astrobot is a fine game and a perfect pre-holiday palate cleanser before the AAA heavy hitters that land October - December. The problem is, on it's own, Astrobot 2 looks like a desperate attempt to feed the starving masses with a three-course meal. Most will gobble it up, happy to be fed a decent meal and will praise Sony for their generosity of not letting them starve, which is what they will go right back to doing.

Astrobot is an addition to a healthy line up, it's not a tentpole game, which this is being hailed as, because Sony are in a dire position.

OTOH, at least we can look forward to exclusive AAA giants like.... and ....Hmm. I can't think of any, but at least they'll look even better on the PS5PRO! (If anyone thinks that console will launch for less than $799, you're in for a shock.
 
I'd like to praise EDF6 but the Epic shit killed it for me.
It's still a very good game on its own despite the barebones PC port with its very poor implementation of the Epic API (previously used to allow PS4+PS5 crossplay in Japan), but there are the console versions for other players too. It's more likely that I would touch the online portion of EDF6 once D3 Publisher will release a Switch 2 port in the future.

Come to think, doesn't Space Marine 2 use the Epic API too?
 
It's still a very good game on its own despite the barebones PC port with its very poor implementation of the Epic API (previously used to allow PS4+PS5 crossplay in Japan), but there are the console versions for other players too. It's more likely that I would touch the online portion of EDF6 once D3 Publisher will release a Switch 2 port in the future.

Come to think, doesn't Space Marine 2 use the Epic API too?
Its uninstallable, oddly enough.

>install SM2
>epic shit gets installed
>can uninstall it
>game works fine without it


Depends though, EDF is amazing with coop more than singleplayer in my opinion.
 
Epic Online Services is used in many more games than you would imagine. Most games that use it don't require an Epic account and don't clearly mention using it, so if you've played enough recent games, it's likely you've already used it without knowing.

The major issues are that recent games seem more likely to require an account, wouldn't be surprised if Epic gives kickback for that, and that it's been poorly retrofitted into a lot of games post-release, causing stability issues.
 
Well that didn't take long:
100% in 8 hours. Not the longest game out there...
space marine2 and now astrobot, short games are good. then you know there is no 100hrs ubisoft time wasters in it. only thing i can complain about is the price tag, it should be a $50 game and not a $70 game.
 
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