A list of games that led sony on the path to fuck over everyone except their precious "games as movies" initiative: Uncharted series, God of War and the last of us.
I'm going to admit, I like the "games as movies" thing, I wouldn't want every game to be like that but I think it's perfectly fine sometimes, it's just another way of making a game, if it's not your cup of tea that's fine but there's nothing objectively wrong with making a game like that if that's what a developer wants to do.
Just think of it as the modern version of "cinematic platformers" ala Prince of Persia, Flashback, Another World etc, I don't know why so many gamers react with pure hostility towards the very concept of a game *gasp* evoking the feel of a movie, as if they fear that every game will become like that but that's never going to be the case, there's always going to be "game" games too.
They actually pushed God of War Ragnarok back a full year because it wasn't finished and they made the world more open than the previous one. I think cutscenes are going to be done away with because they put emphasis on next to zero loading times so cutscenes will no longer be used as a mask for loading shit.
Wait, what? That's not coming out this year? It's not coming out until fall of 2022? Fucking hell, that's the main reason why I wanted a PS5.
Guess it's really not something I have to worry about getting anytime soon.
Don't forget The Order: 1886.
Sony needs to embrace the likes of Crash, Spyro and Jak again. Well, Jak is a bit dark even then. Go back to having mascots.
It's lonely being an The Order: 1886 fan, I just don't get why people were so hard on it, it's the only game to briefly fool me into thinking I was watching real footage, that's cool, why don't people think that's cool?
It wasn't perfect but I can guarantee you had a sequel been made it could have been something really special, like the leap from Uncharted 1 to 2 was, instead people just freaked out about it for some reason and sunk what could have been a great franchise, I just don't get the weird hostility towards that game.*
They do need to bring back mascots though, I think Jak ended on a high note but I'd love to see a new Sly Cooper.
I'll never forget feeling ripped off buying a PS3 just to play MGS4. What a massive pile of shit that was.
I wouldn't call it a massive pile of shit but it was disappointing considering I was convinced it was going to be the best game ever and it was absolutely the main reason why I bought a PS3.
But there's just something about MGS4 that's lacking when compared to 1-3 and I couldn't even tell you why exactly, despite a few cool moments I mostly just look back on the game and cringe, too much hype and too high expectations I guess.
Folklore needs a remaster just to remove the loads everytime you open a menu
I tried to play it in 2015 and all I could think was how much I wished it was sharper looking, because I believe it's upscaled 720p and the art style was begging for at least 1080p, it would be a
great candidate for a remaster, but if that never happens I still definitely plan on going back and finishing it one day because wow, what a unique game and one of the only PS3 games that carried on the high spirit of creativity Japanese games during the PS2 era had.
I feel inclined to defend the PS3 somewhat if only for pure nostalgia. I was in my early teens when it finally started getting games, and those years were some of the most fun I ever had with video games. It felt exciting. I adored the games that were coming out like Uncharted, Infamous, Metal Gear Solid 4, God of War III, and the Ratchet and Clank Future games. The technology started to feel like it was marching forth from the PS2 and into areas that were not possible in the sixth generation. It certainly helped that the PSN had the PlayStation Classics section which not only allowed me to revisit my early childhood with Spyro but also allowed me to experience games I was too young for like the classic Resident Evils and Silent Hill. 2010 to 2013 was one of the most fun times of my life. If there was any time in my childhood where I felt the most happy in terms of gaming, it was that. Hell I'm still using my PS3 for stuff like Netflix because my PS4's Internet connection is so lousy it almost never loads in Netflix most of the time.
Thing is, I'm not blind to the sheer problems the system had. Even as a kid I felt the sheer dearth of games those first few years; about the only games that really stood out were Ratchet and Clank Future: Tools of Destruction and LittleBigPlanet. There really wasn't much of anything until 2008 or 2009. There's also the fact that most of the multiplatform games that made it to PS3 were optimized like ass. Constant framerate issues, downgraded graphics, endless audio problems, if you went PS3 to play games like Grand Theft Auto IV and Mass Effect you got gypped pretty hard. Ever since I got a gaming PC, I've been re-buying most of my library from that era because, quite frankly the PS3 ports were garbage most of the time. Not to mention, the later models of the PS3 removed backwards compatibility, which really ground my gears when my old fat PS3 bit the dust and I got a Super Slim. And speaking of not being built to last, the controllers took a huge hit in durability; I went through like three or four of the damn things throughout the entire seventh generation, while my PlayStation 1 controller from like 1998 is still working.
Don't get me wrong, I totally get why a lot of people didn't like the PS3, and looking back it did start a large number of gaming trends I'm not fond of (I love Uncharted but I fucking hate the cinematic gaming genre it spawned). It's just when I think back to that time in my life and what the PS3 offered I can't really bring myself to hate it. It's probably the last console generation I enjoyed, or at least the generation where I enjoyed the exclusives enough to justify the console itself.
The PS3 is old enough now that my attitude has softened and there's definitely some nostalgia for it now, but it still doesn't change the fact that Sony hyped the thing up as
the biggest thing to ever happen in video games and they just did not come close to delivering at all.
Remember things like the flat out lies of that Killzone 2 "trailer"? Arrogance is the word and their arrogance killed a certain momentum video games were building that never really came back or at least it either took a long time to come back or never came back for Sony.
*I still hold out a vague hope for a sequel but I'm not at all counting on it, especially after RAD got bought by Facebook.
