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Sony Fails to Score an E3 Hattrick, But Still Brings the Best Games

Push Square: "And just like that, another slew of E3 press conferences have come and gone. Sony's own show ended just a couple of hours ago, but what did we think of it? As is tradition, we've got editors Sammy Barker and Robert Ramsey together in order to share their thoughts, both positive and negative, on the PlayStation maker's most recent event."

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Alexious2509d ago

Right on. Best games but few dates

Makish2509d ago

only game i wanted to play was days gone , everything else was sequels and remasters ,cgi trailer , and a spiderman game that looks like every other spidey game

Bladesfist2509d ago (Edited 2509d ago )

Spiderman might be good. I will wait for reviews but the traversal looked like loads of fun. Cant say im excited for days gone at all. God of war was the best thing shown for me (I've played 1 and 2 but not 3 and the one after it so am interested in returning to it)

mikeslemonade2509d ago

lol Days Gone is clearly going to be a flop.

The SotC remake is all you need. Sony has impressed for 4 straight years.

ChiefofLoliPolice2509d ago

"Spiderman game that looks like every other Spidey game"....yeah sure ok...

Neonridr2509d ago

@mikeslemonade - so we should all just be excited about a re-release? Seems reasonable..

Ron_Danger2509d ago

I think a lot of people missed all of the announcements they made during the pre-show.

Makish2509d ago

the last 2 spiderman games had arkham like fighting and QTE , so yes it played like the past 2 spiderman games , but with updated graphics , theres only been 1 good spidey game in the past 10 years and it was spiderman : shattered dimension

bouzebbal2509d ago

Games were there.. Blockbusters as well !!!
No denying ps4 owners have invested in the right system !

darthv722509d ago

At least we know what to expect for the ps5. Remakes, remasters and reboots of games like horizon, days gone, last of us and especially last guardian.

Spiderman was cool and very inspired by batman arkham city. God of war looks nice too. Detroit is another interesting game too.

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The 10th Rider2509d ago (Edited 2509d ago )

I sort of agree here.

Microsoft had Anthem and Metro, both of which were mind blowing, but multiplatform.

Sony had Spiderman and God of War, which are the best exclusives of E3 so far, I'd say.

It was great to see release dates for so many of the big games at Microsoft's conference. Disappointing to see almost none at Sony's.

I typed up all of the announcements of each conference as they were happening, and I've gotta say they were about equal. Microsoft showed much better multiplatform games and more games in general, but a lot of them were indies. Sony showed better exclusives and some new IPs, but the new IPs were all VR. Neither company brought out a single new AAA IP. Both relied heavily on what we already knew about. Neither company spent much time talking.

I'd say Sony had the edge if you're interested in VR, but Microsoft had the edge if you're interested in 4K gaming. Both played it pretty safe this year.

Doabarrelroll2509d ago

Clearly you didnt see the 2018 appear at the end of the games for everything except days gone.

joab7772509d ago

I guess , but the point is that these are the games that are coming soon. We get mad B/C they show us distant games, and they give us a straight hour of many of the industries most anticipated games, and we we want more lol!

No one impresses me.more than Sony right now! They are doing almost everything right!

The 10th Rider2509d ago

Well, we don't really know how soon. They barely showed solid release dates for anything. People were expecting Spiderman, Days Gone, Detroit Become Human, or God of War to hit this year . . . But at best a couple got release windows, and not even release windows this year.

thatguyhayat2509d ago

I was sliightly dissappointed with no new IP announcement but at atleast we have TGS and PSX to wait for now

FernDiggidy2509d ago

hopefully a sucker punch game as well! Would love an infamous second son sequel.

Bladesfist2509d ago (Edited 2509d ago )

Ubisoft brought the best and most diverse set of games in my opinion.

Beyond good and evil 2s cinematic trailer and Mario rabbits got both me and the crowd more excited than anything at Sony's conference. Ubisoft also had more variety in their titles. Way too many cinematic movie games from Sony. It was nice to see open world, naval combat, tactics games.

As for cinematic movie games I'm more excited by the brother's developers' new title. I'm hoping the co-operative storytelling will be really new and fresh.

bigevil1x2509d ago (Edited 2509d ago )

I was OK until I seen one of the assassins creed Editions for 800$... you think they would learn from for honor

https://www.google.com/amp/...

Bladesfist2509d ago (Edited 2509d ago )

That doesn't really affect me in the slightest though. It's just a marketing tool. I just thought Mario rabbits and beyond good and evil had more charm and flare than most of what we saw at E3 this year. They seem like typical games focused entirely on gameplay. Although it is hard to tell with bge2, that's the feeling the trailer gave me.

Fishermenofwar2509d ago

I want Skull and Bones NOW!!!!

FITSniper2509d ago

Go play Black Flag then. Looked practically identical. Very little new there to me.

Discobastrd2509d ago

Not sure why youre getting down votes for this. I'd agree in terms of diversity. And STARLINK for Switch!? Loads of fun! I'm really hoping thats good.

I love a quality cinematic game as much as the next guy but I need diversity. So many apocalyptic games! Getting a bit drab. Detroit at least was more focused on the issues AI may bring in the near future! :)

Bladesfist2509d ago

Agreed. It looks like it's up to third parties and indie devs to push forward with innovating and fresh new experiences. Can't really blame the first parties for playing it safe. They have a smaller market by nature and need to be as mass appealing as possible to attract more new gamers to the platform.

BEASELY2509d ago

I think everyone was tired by the end of the day, though. That crowd looked exaughsted and had been cheering for games all day.

Bladesfist2509d ago

That's a good point. The conference was pretty late.

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Petebloodyonion2509d ago

The article sums up perfectly my feeling toward Sony this year.
Solid but not on the level of past conventions.

Relientk772509d ago

It was good, not great

Really wanted surprises, new game announcements, and JRPGs

Toiletsteak2509d ago

Shadow of the Colossus was a nice surprise.

itsmebryan2509d ago

How many times are they going to remake Shadow of the Colossus?

Nitrowolf22509d ago (Edited 2509d ago )

@itsmebryan

Well this is the 1st time, the collection that came out was just an hd port.

Really isnt that much, and this IMO warrents itself as acceptable because its not just a port its a full overhaul

buttcheeks2509d ago

@itsmebryan uhhh once I guess because it would be the only REMAKE not remaster and its only been remastered once

RememberThe3572509d ago

Hopefully it'll get remade every damn console generation. If only Capcom would do the same for Okami.

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Available right now on Xbox, PlayStation, Switch and PC is the latest from a prolific KEMCO team - Horrific Xanatorium; a horror Visual Novel

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Days Gone, 5 Years Later

Almost unbelievably, Days Gone has just turned 5 years old after launching on April 26th, 2019. What's changed in that time?

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mkis0074h ago

Such a good game to me. Crazy how different peoples opinions can get.

Crows904h ago(Edited 4h ago)

For me it wasn't that surprising. There was some bad press before. There's also the matter and element of a person's disposition when trying out a certain game. Sometimes you're just not really into the type of game that you're playing so you put it down because you don't like it. Not necessarily because it's a bad game but because you're just not up for something like this. Reviewers have a tough because no matter what they feel like playing they've got to play what's releasing.

I have many times gone back to games that I put down only to thoroughly enjoy them the second time around because either there wasn't another exciting game coming out around the same time or I just had no other games to play and haven't played that type of game in a while. I'm not the type of person that can just play a souls game through all this iterations one after the other without getting burnt out on the formula.

In my opinion this game was great from the start. Some bugs here and there but nothing worse than the most AAA releases during the same time after and before. All I did was wait one week and I had a phenomenal time with the game. No other zombie survival game comes close to how I thoroughly enjoyed this one

-Foxtrot3h ago(Edited 3h ago)

Yeah I thought it was pretty decent, it had its flaws but for their first big console single player open world game it's a solid 8/10.

I have never seen an AAA "zombie" game feature as many enemies as the horde sections did, you really had to think about your surroundings and plan carefully.

I feel journalists had an issue with this game from the moment it was announced, they really didn't like the Biker characters and the overall Biker gang theme. If they were anything else I feel it would have had a better chance or at least they'd overlook some of the flaws like they do for certain other open world games. They don't mind waiting weeks or months for a patch knowing its coming but a game that has it Day 1 it's suddenly a big no no? Yeah this was one of those moments that showed you how they cherry pick who to suddenly decide to go harsh on when they want to.

mkis0073h ago

Ill never forget the reviewer who tried to claim the "ride me like you ride your bike" line was anything but a joke...they (sarah and deacon) explicitly call it a joke and the reviewer still misinformed the reader about it as if it was a literal thing.

Michiel19892h ago

the score on metacritic is 71 from journos, its 9 points lower than your review so stop making stuff up. They didn't hate it from the start, they on average just liked it slightly less than you.

-Foxtrot2h ago(Edited 2h ago)

@Michiel1989

I'm not making anything up, they held a grudge against it and made stuff up themselves like mkis007 has just pointed out. That 71 on Metacritic is why it didn't get a sequel.

Anyway how can I make anything up when I didn't even mention metacritic in my original post?

Leeroyw4h ago

Second act of that game far surpassed the first. Which is why people felt it didn't live up to the hype of the trailers. Personally I loved it. But it was a slog to get your bike and weapons up to skill.

Inverno4h ago

Was gonna post a brick wall of text but I'll keep it short. Pardon my French but f**k the media for the hate they gave this game. If you have a PC to play it on you can get it as low as 10 bucks, and if you have a PS then it's a no brainer. Totally worth a play.

phatak4h ago(Edited 3h ago)

I don't even comment here often but had to for this game, I still stand by my opinion that this was one of the top 10 games of the ps4 generation, I preferred days gone over god of war, horizon and last of us 2, the launch version was definitely piss poor and that messed up the reviews for this game, honestly some games deserve a re-review or post patch review as the metacritic score stays forever but the reality is its not even the same game anymore, the ps5 patch is amazing and the pc version which I play on nowadays is one of the best looking games ever, complete shame that we wont get a sequel, god of war got one, horizon got one, last of us got one, spider man got one,ghosts of tshushima about to get one but this game wont get one, sucks to be honest.

Ps3/360 era had some hidden underated games for me it was shadows of the damned, alice madness returns that deserved more sales and a sequel/ higher scores, and similarly for the ps4 era it was days gone, and dying light 1 that deserved much more love, dying light atleast got a sequel, everyone needs to play this game once and judge for themselves, for me its officially the most underrated game of the ps4 era, go play it if you haven't.

andy853h ago

Awesome game. Just bought it for my laptop last week

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