Junkie Monkeys: Two recent job listings have come up that shows that Bluepoint Games are looking to remaster a “highly acclaimed AAA handheld product to a current generation console”. What the game could be is the real question, but here’s what we know.
Sammy: "It’s sad that PlayStation has moved on from some of these iconic brands, but it would be worse watching them rot. At least with this licensing strategy, there’s a legitimate opportunity for more great franchises to get a second chance. And if they sell really well, there’s always the chance Sony may decide to bring them back."
Love this idea. Let other companies release reboots of these classics to a wider audience. Everyone wins.
Remaster Puppeteer. It looked great on PS3 but it would be nice to have on PS5 with fast loading and some sort of 4k
No place for Puppeteer, Gravity Rush
Man I'd love to see GR3. Unfortunately Somy didn't do well to advertise these games and AAA gaming is what most gamers preferred.
This gen has been different, indies and smaller games are what people absolutely love now so I wonder how these games would do if they were to release now. These games would also need a PC release.
GR2 was nice but i don’t think it’s made for a home console. It played like a dream on vita. Same for tearaway. Ps4 version was boring but vita was glorious.
Japan studio made amazing titles for everyone. Call them AA if you like but they can work on jrpg reboots and sequel of bloodborne. Maybe even let them remake old gems even from other developers. I don’t think a partnership with SNK to develop Koudelka remake will be unnoticed. But bad management is where it’s at. AA disappeared but let’s invest everything in gaas
GR2 was never on Vita, oddly, but yes, the fist game was best on Vita and the gyro controls really suited the game and worked well too. Vita had a ton of tech built into it.
I platted GR1 on Vita and PS4.
I couldn't play GR2 more than a couple of hours. Bought it day 1. Still have it. Tried twice but just couldn't get into it.
I mean can you really say it closed when 90% of the staff is at Asobi Games which was originally a team in Japan Studio?
I mean he has a point.
I get it the studio is gone but what makes the studio, the people who works there.
For example people say BioWare is not BioWare no more because the people who made BioWare left.
Team Asobi may not be named studio Japan no more but if 90% of the workers is from studio Japan then it’s damn near the same and they still in Japan.
Not trying to spin it, that's literally the facts, Asobi absorbed Japan studio, and a small portion left but most of the Japan studio staff are still there 🤨. They're certainly taking a different direction that Japan studio but it's still the same people in the same office working for the same publisher 🤷♂️
Hell even the DNA is the same. Astrobot shares a lot in common with how it feels and controls with games like puppeteer and knack
Saying that is like saying they gonna be making gravity rush 3 which is a no. The studio itself is gone the workers that went to asobi isnt gonna be making the same games
Wtf are you going on about, no one said any of that, why you makin sh!t up just to argue? 🤣
that's a bit of poor argument. i mean look at naughty dog. they don't make crash, jak & daxter , or uncharted games anymore either.
Replies(1)Bring Puppeteer to PS5 please! Love that game. Gravity Rush collection would be ice as well.
I've been shouting that games underrated nature for so long. I honestly think it has more unique charm and heart than astrobot, and if people rediscovered it they would really see Japan studio has always been a special studio
All the different heads and abilities were awesome. The aesthetic was awesome. The level design was so much fun. It is the true meaning of underrated, sadly.
Understandable. Adult gamers, while still having interest in AA gaming, have so little time that they choose to play AAA instead. Indie too, being fun and cheap, who could resist? they are too, time-consuming.
I think your on to something but for me it feels different. For one, even AAA games can get too time consuming. Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth is gigantic. Some would say obsessively so. It's quite an achievement simply due to the amount t of content. I definitely have less time for games now and the problem is that there is so much to play. I don't even get to half of the AAA games I want to play.
With nothing to show for the last four years of development, Bluepoint Games has been backed into a corner by PlayStation's ambitious but futile live-service efforts. Ultimately, the gaming giant has done the team a disservice by dragging it into this mess.
They could've had a new ip or bloodborne remake/remaster by now. Legend of the Dragoon was a huge request as well...
Jim Ryan and Hulst are morons who blindly wanted to surf on fortnite success.
Whatever it takes…
Well i hope the wake up call was brutal enough. Waste so much potential, not wanting to hear about Days Gone 2 and force the studios to make something they don’t want to cancel it a few years later.. hulst should be fired without notice
They've wasted all of their studios potential putting them on this live service initiative. It's been terrible this generation their output all because of Jim Ryan's BS
But what if it were a Socom revival?
Of course I wouldn't want it to take the predatory "live service" route, but obviously the game would center around online play.
What was the last non-live service multiplayer game to sustain a playerbase for any reasonable time?
I hate it, but I think gamers have been so conditioned by the RPG-ification of multiplayer games that, except for smaller niche audiences on PC, they won't accept a game you just play because the gameplay is good. If there isn't a grindy progression system, people will say they don't have a reason to play. If there aren't constant updates with new content, people will say the game is dead and that the publisher put it out and "abandoned" it.
I'd love a real Socom game, but to do the numbers Sony would want, it would have to be live service.
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ND, Bend & Bluepoint had no business working on live service games for the past 4 years at the same time, they should have just had 1 or 2 of their newer or lower tier studios as well as Bungie working on live service games. Sony PS working on 12 live service games by their top tier studios was a dumb decision.
Blupoint had been working on the live service game for thr last 2 yrs, not 4 according to Jason. They were a support team for for ragnarok after releasing demons souls.
"a current generation console", not consoles.
Please let it be Gravity Rush for PS4 to go alongside the inevitable Gravity Rush 2 PS4 announcement.
It's probably Gravity Rush.
I REALLY hope this doesn't involve the Vita losing another exclusive...
Please be Gravity Rush!!! This game deserves more fans.
Yeah Vita is fücked. My favorite handheld is now officially fúcked. Hahaha , great Sony. Just GREAT!