Digitally Downloaded writes: "If you haven’t picked up Demon’s Souls yet, you should take the opportunity now because it is a vastly superior game to Dark Souls. That’s not to suggest that Dark Souls is a poor game, of course, it’s just that Demon’s Souls has a greater purity of vision. In other words, Demon’s Souls is darker (ironic, given the names of both games), crueler, and ultimately more rewarding."
With so many PS5 exclusives to choose from, it can be a little overwhelming to pick which one to play. This is especially true for a new PlayStation gamer who has yet to experience the wonder of PlayStation-exclusive storytelling. So, here's KnowTechie's take on the best PS5 exclusives in 2024 and beyond
PlayStation is killing it with the exclusives this year. Exclusive wise, what has xbox released this year?
They won't complain about Microsoft not releasing games here but put all their effort into saying that only first party counts. Games like Rebirth and Grandblue Relink don't count. Games published by Sony like Helldivers 2, Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin don't count because Sony don't own the studios.
It's some narrative building so for when Hellblade 2 come out they can say, seemingly without shame, that Microsoft is actually releasing first party games this year. And claim victory.🙃
Weird 1st party games didn't matter when Xbox had so little, but, now they're important again? Guess Ark 3, Stalker 2 don't count any more?
ARK 3 doesn't exist and it's just a timed exclusive. It's also a game that a majority of the ARK player base doesn't want as it's a massive deviation from what people like about the original game
Honestly to me it doesn’t matter what they say, they are just finally getting a chance to say all the things PS fan(boy)s were saying to them for the past few years. Let them get that, they deserve a “win” for a change.
The new narrative is that suddenly first party games matter again when awhile ago they didn’t, but that was because they were struggling with the same three games with the occasional fourth or fifth. That games should be everywhere on all platforms since that’s whats happening to theirs. The consoles don’t matter just the ability to play anywhere. Whatever Xbox is doing Sony will soon follow.
They’re not moving the goalpost anymore, but rather just moving the whole damn stadium.
Only a incel would care about who published what and who owns who.
If it’s not on the other consoles it’s an exclusive.
Killing what? Where are the 1st party games??
Stellar Blade and FF7 is what I’m seeing this year.. so shallow!!!!
Doesn't really matter as long as they're great games. Baffles me why people put an emphasis on 1st party. They're still games you can't play anywhere else this year
Andy
PS brand is my favorite because of their stellar first party software.. currently I see absolutely nothing to go crazy for..
Nonsense.
PS1 and PS2 was built on great third party exclusives like FF, MGS, GTA & Tekken.
Killing it my a$$! The 1st party is still MIA and no... Remakes and remasters don't count.
@Andy85 Don't forget the remakes for Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, two of the best PlayStation games around!
And beyond PlayStation, what about Resident Evil 2 and 4? RonnySins wins the award for dumbest opinion!
Of course I love the games I’ve played from PS but I don’t believe we need to limit it to ‘exclusive’ to acknowledge that Xbox will be releasing some good games this year also. In that same vein, I believe that Xbox diehards shouldn’t limit their acknowledgment of good PS games to 1st party. There are plenty of good games to go around for everybody.
This is a Playstation article about Playstation games and your comment is about Xbox. Can't you just celebrate what PS has without dragging this into console war BS?
I don’t think Microsoft is releasing games exclusively on Xbox anymore. They have some timed exclusives that release on Xbox first.
Returnal, Astro Bot, and Ratchet made having it since day one worth it.
GT7 free updates and Spiderman 2 and others at 60fps have made this last year more than okay.
But yeah, it’s been dry lately. BG3 and third party have made great filler, but we ready for that SOCOM or Killzone announcement and some more 1st party goodness. Crossing fingers for Ghost of Tsushima 2 announcement this summer.
Didn’t know Helldivers was exclusive! Wtf is going on at Xbox that they can’t get these games, series s strikes again.
Sony owns the Helldivers IP. The first was a PS3/Vita/PC game. It was never an Xbox game that they could ‘get’ a decade ago. I’m not sure what the upset is with Xbox here
Looks like they are on par with the previous gens. Solid games all around. Interestingly enough, we can't say they released a bad game yet this gen. Unlike the Quiet Man dustup.
Replies(2)I actually do not mind if Marathon releases on multiple platforms . I just wish that Marathon has a dedicated single player campaign.
"Dark Souls: Archthrones is like playing a brand new FromSoftware game, and that speaks volumes about just how much good modding can do," says Hanzala from eXputer.
Parrying has been creeping into more games, with almost every high-profile title of the last few years featuring it in some way. Why?
i understand the authors frustration i'm not the best at parrying in games. not that i can't complete a game that requires it but it is a definite harder thing for me than other kinds of techniques in games. which might be the main reason it's so heavily added in games nowadays. want to make your game challenging without having to do a lot of work? just add a parry boss. (what i mean by parry boss is a boss you have to beat by parrying such that their attacks will kill you otherwise)
I always think it's fine as long as such games also have the roll/dodge panic button. But I understand the will to parry, it seems so cinematic in a fight when you pull it off.
Demon's Souls is in my top 3 games of all time, I constantly switch between thinking that it, mario 64, and mgs 1 are my favorite games.
Dark Souls is great but Demon's Souls is a bit better in my opinion.
Honestly I can never make up my mind. They're both awesome for so many reasons. Sometimes I play Demon's souls, think of the first time I'd fight the tower knight with online Co-op & think "Yup, Demon's souls was better"...but then I'll fight Dragonslayer Orstein & Executioner Smough and I'll think "Nah, Dark Souls is where it's at".
I'd think of how awesome the Maiden Astraea theme is...but then I'll think of how epic the nameless song & Gywns theme are..
I've played Dark Souls a lot lot more than Demon's souls but at the end of the day I'd say they were both 10/10 experiences.
While I love both, I COMPLETELY agree. The level design was better in Demon's Souls; it was less confusing, more focused, and gave the player more options of where to start. Plus it had stones at EVERY completed boss area so that you could go back with ease (and teleporting from stones is possible from the beginning, saving you tedious back-travel). The bosses weren't half lifted from its not-technically-a prequel. Demon's Souls had a more stable framerate.
Naaaa the grinding is just reserved for 4-2 (reapers). It's rather quick if you use the evac miracle. Backtracking is pretty much required if you want to find some of the rare weapons of the game.
Also the original difficulty of Dark Souls was nowhere near as easy as it is now. They nerfed the shit out of the difficulty over time. (assuming you didn't use the overpowered Iron Flesh pyromancy that was also nerfed early on)
I do agree on the atmosphere though. I thought the world of Demon's Souls was better (minus the fact that it wasn't really seamless like Dark Souls). I also thought the characters of Demon's Souls were much more interesting than the ones in Dark Souls. (exception for Seigmeyer and Solaire lol)
To me yes. The online is much better on Demon Souls, the nexus was better even though the open world of Dark Souls was refreshing and welcomed. The boss battles are also much better in Demon Souls because most if not all had a puzzle element to it which Dark Souls did not, Dark Souls was hit and dodge, it really dissapointed me because Demon souls had the Dragon God which you had to move slow, pin it down with giant arrows before you could kill it and also the Boss at Latvia tower where you needed to kill the man in the second level if you wanted to kill her with ease. There was nothing like that in Dark Soul.
Please don't get me wrong, I loved Dark Souls. I think they did a lot of improvements that Demon Souls had missing from it and an amazing rich world with just as much arguably more lore and content then Demon Souls. When it comes down to it though I believe Demon Souls was slightly better because of the unique boss fights. Dark Souls had unique bosses but they could have added puzzle elements or something to change each boss fight a little bit.
I can't wait for Dark Souls 2 and whatever is next for the Souls series.