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PlayStation PlayStation State of Play announced for October 27 at 2:00 PM PT/10:00 PM BST (20 minutes, focused on third party content)
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That's VERY confident of you. I don't know, difficult to judge from this trailer. And they have more than a year, and covid delays might already be taken into account. But we'll see.
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Seems like people really didn't like this?
That's funny, I thought it was their best show of the year haha. Most of the time I feel like these Sony things are kinda slogfests just waiting for something interesting to show up but I thought a large majority of the games shown looked fun and like something I'd want to play.
That's funny, I thought it was their best show of the year haha. Most of the time I feel like these Sony things are kinda slogfests just waiting for something interesting to show up but I thought a large majority of the games shown looked fun and like something I'd want to play.
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At this point I'm firmly on the ''Enough freaking Star Ocean where's my goddamn Valkyrie Profile goddamnit!'' camp. Where's my Hrist game tri-Ace??
Still will play it tho.
Still will play it tho.
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Damn, this was kinda wack.
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I don't want to make a bad statement but seriously, it was horrible.
Bad selection of indie games being promoted, there are indies on the way with much better looking.
Star Ocean 6 is a good announcement, but yish it looked rough, like Arceus first trailer level.
Bad selection of indie games being promoted, there are indies on the way with much better looking.
Star Ocean 6 is a good announcement, but yish it looked rough, like Arceus first trailer level.
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The last few Star Ocean games have been so bad...really confused why they keep getting made, especially since Resonance of Fate and Valkyrie Profile are both far, far superior. Tri Ace should have made another one of those, SO5 sucked, I hated it.
The SoP was really lacklustre and there's far more exciting Indies coming out than the ones they did show and the ones shown didn't have a good showing at all either. Sony marketing in general for the past couple of years has really done nothing for me.
The SoP was really lacklustre and there's far more exciting Indies coming out than the ones they did show and the ones shown didn't have a good showing at all either. Sony marketing in general for the past couple of years has really done nothing for me.
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Very harsh opinions, but it seems that's the overall opinion.
Oh, and hello there, Kano and tender.
It would still be disappointing to me. The issue isn’t that they showed indie games. The problem is they showed nothing compelling.
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Spin it, boys!
They do, the State of Play are the minor shows and the big ones are "PlayStation Showcase"
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That’s unfortunate then, since most years will probably only feature one PS Showcase. Nintendo has three major Directs every year, full of big announcements + three Indie Worlds per year, usually with plenty of interesting reveals as well. Most State of Plays fall completely flat.
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remember this?
When it seemed like tri-Ace future was bright. And then they released a basically incomplete game...
not their fault. SE looks at Star Ocean with disdain.
like a bastard step-child it feeds just enough scraps to keep CPS away
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Nintendo also has Nindies and Partner Showcase. Feels like State of Play don't have a clear identity at this point.
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Yeah it’s just weird marketing all around. State of Plays sometimes DO have big reveals (I’m pretty sure the resurgence of FF7R was in one), and are pretty clearly made to be Sony’s “answer” to Directs, but then they’ll turn around and brand their best showcases as a “Playstation showcase” instead of a State of Play.
Feels like they don’t have any good idea of what they want SOP to be. The way they present them is as if they were directs, but the content itself most of the time….
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I mentioned Indie Worlds, yeah. I don’t think Partner Showcases are coming back though. Those seemed to be a 2020 thing, as Covid disrupted Nintendo’s software pipeline and weren’t comfortable announcing games until they were finished.
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I know that SE gave them a dollar and change to make Integrity and Faithlessness, that's not my point though (I wasn't blaming them). What I meant to say is that they went from a actually pretty impressive engine showcase for the time to the game we ended up getting. They really did deserved better than what SE gives them.
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Ooof was it really that bad? I'm at work so I can't exactly watch it so at least a recap of what was shown off would be nice
There are videos in the Playstation thread.
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I'll give it a looksie then. Thanks!
EDIT: Gave a glance over the trailers. Considering what it was, it's fine. Like it's obvious Sony almost entirely focuses on their big PS presentations and little else so expectations shouldn't be high here. There were one or two decent things and that's alright
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...I have no idea how anyone can come to this conclusion in 2021. The Playstation brand has never been stronger - certainly the general gaming public disagree completely with the above.
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Well, sounds like there's no reason for me to go back and watch this then lol
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He's came to that conclusion because it is his own personal opinion as noted in the "imo" at the end of his post.
State of Plays feel a lot like those trailers you get before your movie starts that everyone just plays on their phone during to pass the time until the movie actually starts. It just isn't how you keep your audience's attention. Like compare it to an Indie World at the bare minimum. The indie trailers are kept to a tightly edited 30 sec teaser just to give your brain something to latch on and all the dev interview sections are a primer for the reason they made the game. Then, the hosts give a strong sales pitch to lead into the release date. State of Play have the hosts do a weak transition and then player a trailer that seems fully controlled by the game's publisher that leads to a mismatch in pacing and several moments when the trailers simply are bad and most trailers go fortoo long.
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I'm not talking about the general gaming public. This opinion is completely my own (hence the "imo") and it's coming from someone who owns a PS5 and a bunch of games for it. It's a great system and there are lots of great games coming, but I don't find most of SIE's upcoming output all that compelling. Doesn't mean I still won't buy a ton of software and enjoy the console.
