PlayStation 5 - Next gen is expensive

[footle]

If you press x four times, this time you get a light attack combo!

if you press x four times, then Y, you amazingly get a heavy finisher!

 

nowhere near as interesting as destiny, mikey.

[Sarlaccfood]

Wow they’re really assuming we care a lot about a game we’ve hardly heard of. 

[pinholestar]

Godfall’s got mediocre 6/10 launch title written all over it.

[MansizeRooster]

Why are they explaining shield/parry mechanics like they've invented it?

[cubik]

Just now, footle said:

If you press x four times, this time you get a light attack combo!

 

nowhere near as interesting as destiny, mikey!

How many x presses for a devastating and eviscerating attack?

 

This looks so shit.

[Marlew]

It looks like it should be an MMO, really. Not my bag but I'd button mash while listening to a podcast maybe. 

[bear]

Just now, pinholestar said:

Godfall’s got mediocre 6/10 launch title written all over it.

This is the most positive I've seen anyone be about Godfall. 

[cubik]

God of Bore

[BeeJay]

Apart from this godawful end, this state of play has a lot of games that I'd be interested in playing.

[Mr Do 71]

17 minutes ago, mansizerooster said:

Bugsnax looks absolutely like Viva Piñata.

 

[Ry]

Wait? Is there a PS5 conference thing right now?

[Theholyhogg]

Just now, Ry said:

Wait? Is there a PS5 conference thing right now?

Finished now,didn't miss much

[BeeJay]

Just now, Ry said:

Wait? Is there a PS5 conference thing right now?

There was, yes.

[cubik]

The Shadow of Colossus-alike with the eagle was my favourite.

The PS5 stuff fell mostly flat though.

[mikeyl]

2 minutes ago, footle said:

If you press x four times, this time you get a light attack combo!

if you press x four times, then Y, you amazingly get a heavy finisher!

 

nowhere near as interesting as destiny, mikey.

Definitely not, but it’s cute that they tried, with the Engrams pick ups and the Dreaming City if imagined by a serial hoarder.

[Marlew]

A good four or five things I actually want to play there, rather than 'ehhh it's on GP anyway so I'll give it a go'. I literally can't remember anything from the earlier Sony presentation or the Nintendo Micro Direct so that automatically makes it the gaming PR highlight of the year. 

[Alex W.]

I’m into Aaron Must Die and still on Team Bugsnax.The highlight was AWE though.

[bear]

They gave a date for Spelunky 2. Nothing else matters. 

[footle]

Hitman VR both makes me wonder how the hell it’ll fit on a PS4 at an appropriate framerate and resolution, wonder whether it’ll actually be a fun way of playing it at all, and wonder whether it might be the killer app (sorry) for the PS5. I mean, it really could be - those environments in VR at a supersampled resolution and high framerate?

[pinholestar]

Hitman VR could be a pretty amazing experience if done right. Potentially quite disturbing garroting someone in that fashion though. Has there been any other VR game that features violence on the level of a Hitman game?

[footle]

38 minutes ago, Stanshall said:

Never really played Braid but Anniversary Edition looks very tempting. 

read as little as you can about it first.

[Alex W.]

1 minute ago, footle said:

Hitman VR both makes me wonder how the hell it’ll fit on a PS4 at an appropriate framerate and resolution, wonder whether it’ll actually be a fun way of playing it at all, and wonder whether it might be the killer app (sorry) for the PS5. I mean, it really could be - those environments in VR at a supersampled resolution and high framerate?

The framerate in the demo there was alarmingly uneven and low for a VR game.

[Popo]

Control AWE was the highlight for me. 3 weeks to go!

 

The rest ranges between boring to somewhat interesting but nothing to write home about. Interesting that there were at least 2 BotW-inspired games... and no I’m not talking about Horizon Forbidden West, you cheeky scamps! 
 

A lot of gloomy swords and sorcery bobbins. Not for me, babe!

 

Edit - the Darth Vader VR game looked kinda cool though. 

[mdn2]

Maybe think twice if you liked the look of Aeon Must Die.

 

Edit: As for the State of Play, I'm in for more Spelunky and probably Hitman VR as well. 

[footle]

6 minutes ago, Popo said:

Edit - the Darth Vader VR game looked kinda cool though. 

it didn’t really go down well on PC outside of Star Wars nuts, but was split up into episodes. Suspect squadrons will hit the itch more.

[Ferine]

It's quite possible that Godfall is a decent game, but that wasn't the way to show it.

 

The above aside, lot of cool things in that presentation. The Pathless stood out to me because it's vaguely reminiscent of the movement in Galleon, a game I haven't thought about in a long time; in reality I suppose it's more akin to Shadow of the Colossus.

[Steven]

8 minutes ago, mdn2 said:

Maybe think twice if you liked the look of Aeon Must Die.

 

Edit: As for the State of Play, I'm in for more Spelunky and probably Hitman VR as well. 

 

Is Aeon still a supermarket chain in Japan? Might have to rename it Tesco must Suffer or something over there.

[wretcherd]

If Fallout 3 was "Oblivion with guns", is Godfall "Destiny without guns"?

[JoeK]

Godfall doesn’t do anything for me at all, but it did at least look slightly better than the previous showings...from a performance point of view. Design-wise it’s a pretty hideous looking thing.

 

 

[cubik]

6 minutes ago, JoeK said:

Godfall doesn’t do anything for me at all, but it did at least look slightly better than the previous showings...from a performance point of view. Design-wise it’s a pretty hideous looking thing.

 

 

The constant slight pause on some but not every hit really annoyed me. Made it look like it was dropping frames and stuttering when it wasn't.

Seemed an odd design choice that broke the fluidity.

 

It's a weird one - It does look pretty from a technical perspective, but ugly from a design perspective.