Luke Riley writes:
"This is an article based on discussions I have had in the past, with my fellow geeks and gamers.
I begin with the hardware, as the ability to experience video games of this generation wouldn’t exist without the PS3, XBOX 360, Nintendo Wii and the now the Wii U. Each of these consoles have their selling points, depending on what games people like to play or what they think a console should be or what it should do. Now in my opinion I like the PS3, because of the free online, Blu Ray movies and the exclusive titles. This is just my preference. While the Xbox 360 does offer HD movies, most are only rent and I like to own my films. Also the online isn’t that much better in my opinion, to be worth paying for. To be clear this is the first and last time I will mention the Nintendo Wii, I have no interest in it as a console or the games it offers."
Former Rockstar Games Technical Director Obbe Vermeij has finally revealed why some planes would randomly crash in GTA: San Andreas.
This fly by feature was on the cutting room floor due to the random plane crashes and it's one of those things I'm so thankful made it into the final version as these random fly by and crashes make the world seem more alive on the extremely limited PS2 hardware you needed everything you could possibly get in a open world to convey that feeling.
And accross hundreds of hours of gameplay I probably died around 3 times as a result of these fly by failures but I loved every time it happened
It made the world feel more human, and honestly kinda insane that even today with all these open world games, almost no one can capture that like R* even when compared to their ps2 games
Lol, I remember those. I vaguely remember dying from one crashing into my car once too.
Sony has recruited Bungie's head of revenue Jaremy Rich to head up its live-service gaming division, Rich has announced on social media.
Please do not put Destiny’s monetization into Sony’s first party games. The monetization is what’s driving players away from Destiny.
I mean, this person made some pretty bad decisions at Bungie. I hope they've learned from them because I definitely don't see those type of ideas as good for PlaySation in general.
Ps5 gamers in 2023 seemed to play more live service types of games, so regardless to how people feel about them, numbers don’t lie and Sony is going where the money is. I mean look at the excitement around Helldivers2, people are showing that they want live service games.
How do you kill a franchise that already been killed?
Destiny’s grind, cash-in-on-playbass-cha-Ching, and pop-culture-insertion mainstream-me-too bs totally killed any rep Bungie had. Sony/Bungie, if you are doing this to ward-off players, it’s already working.
Sony has patented to add multiple dialogue modes to let players switch between how many conversations with NPCs they want in the game.
Sony is like the only ones outta the 3 that has atuff like like this pop up changing thing in ways.
How about the recent lack of offline support?
Same opinion here, totally agree.