TSA: "Setting aside Sony’s hugely generous donation of the majority of Starhawk’s DLC to PlayStation Plus subscribers recently, the recent case of the publisher breaking the game into two chunks and selling them separately (or, indeed, together) hints at a pricing and content model that could point the way to what the platform holders are planning for next generation."
From the cosmos to crash-landing back on good old planet Earth, come read through the best sci-fi-nastically games on the PS3
Starhawk over Warhawk?...... Dude, NO ONE should listen to you.
Odd choices for "best" more like you settled as these being the "best" that available to you at the time, cause a lot of these blow or were average to poor performers that ended up in bargain bin.
Missing too many great sci-fi titles here. The Void, The Resistance Series, Killzone 2 and 3, Enslaved, man.. there were so many, this is redicu-list.
I agree that Starhawk shouldn't be above Warhawk, however I must say that Starhawk multiplayer was incredible for its time! Many people wrote it off bc the single player was quite terrible, bc it was basically 1 huge tutorial for the multiplayer. But I can tell you never spent any significant amount of time in MP. It was doing incredibly tense base building w air, foot and land vehicle (and mech!) combat long before Fortnite was ever a thing.
I bet it would have been much better received if it had just ditched the story mode all together. So many people like yourself completely wrote it off based on reviews by reviewers that let the criticism of single player weigh heavily on their scores. I bet you didn't even play it.
There's also the less acclaimed 'assault on dark Athena'
( also, not saying this to you specifically but there's both resistance and killzone games on the list, it's amazing how even something so simple and innocent as a game list can be turned into misinformed vitriol here lol )
Glad to see Resonance of Fate. Enslaved was pretty good too. I’m sure there are others nobody has listed but I’m too tired to try and think of anything
With every big game now belonging to a big intellectual property, there are those that have become redundant. Here are the series' we miss.
I miss Dark Cloud I mean damn, Dark Cloud 2 is one of the best Action RPG game ever made. The game have: Rich Worlds, different setting, tons of contents, vareity in gameplay like never before (and even after), best buliding mechanics, crafting system like no one did and finally impressive graphics.
Most underrated game ever. It deserved the popularity and sales of Zelda and Final Fantasy. ut unfortunately, Level-5 and Sony didn't advertise it at all.
My franchises I wish would make a come back, are Battlefront by pandemic studios - galactic conquest was the best, mercenaries 1 and 2, and prototype 1 and 2...great games!
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I am a plus member, and if it was not for that I would have missed out on certain games....Starhawk being one of them!
Starhawk is a game I probably would never have purchased otherwise, but now I have played it (Storymode) I cannot believe how awesome it looks and plays!!!
IMO it's like a hybrid of RDR and a mature (Nintendo IP) Starfox.
The PS+ model is very cool indeed!
* I would love to see the freebies extended to movies from the Video Store!
I don't think the article was a comparison or intended to ignite a LIVE Gold vs PSN+ debate .....both offer their own features to their respective subscribers.
@Septic
...and MS has recently announced a rewards scheme linked to achievements, so maybe MS are paying attention?
I don't know what to think of it. Starhawk is my favourite online game atm, it's one of the most fun, diverse and addictive games I have ever played online. Why Sony didn't advertise this game when it released is beyond me. This split game offer is nice, but they should have started advertising the game during the beta, which was very good and made me decide to buy this game day one. But during the beta I already noticed hardly any of my PSN friends (mostly from playing MAG) was playing it. They didn't know the game, the name, nothing.
As for DLC, it's absolutely great the new maps and gamemodes came in the form of free mandatory downloads, no split community, really wonderfull these days. Important, because it's not that big a community. Because they didn't advertise, because they didn't seem to care about sales. Then why charge 5 dollars for a Grizzly mechsuit EVERYBODY wants to have? It's in almost every loadout and it kicks ass, in Europe we got it one day later and playing without it felt wrong, unfair. Of course I bought it the next day, only 2.50 here, but I still think it's strange, trying to make a few extra bucks on your loyal fans instead of making millions through proper advertisement. It doesn't add up.
Sorry, but pricing like this is not leaving any clues to a next gen model, just better pricing is all (if it keeps up that is).