As much as we love talking about the games we enjoy, there’s always that dark spot in our hearts that hold a grudge against those games that disappointed us, whether because they are straight-up bad or didn’t live up to our expectations. In today’s thread, we’re going to unbosom ourselves of this cargo, so we can pass to the new decade with a revigorated energy, leaving behind all this negative energy!
NE: "Today, we're going over some of the most forgotten Pokemon of all time."
Square Enix says Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth fell below expectations, but it's a special game regardless
Yeah…same
When we wanted a remake, it was just a remake, what they give us was an over ambitious massive budget styled game split into three parts with a new storyline of a multiversal, split timeline narrative to justify changes.
They are good games but we never asked for that.
Just the original with improved graphics, visuals, voice acting and maybe some expanded upon areas. That’s it.
Hopefully a IX, VIII and VI remake will be simpler.
It’s funny because if they just did a straight up remake they could have altered the ending a little to set up more games rather than splitting up the remake into multiple parts to stretch out the story. Having VII-2 and VII-3 would have been a lot better as it would have expanded the story in a better way.
me too however, i have played the og more than 20 30 times, im glad we got something fresh
i wish sqaure would have given us an option for atb turn based combat tho.
I love these two games, and no disrespect for the original which I played on my PS1 and several times since then, I would much rather play the remakes. The game play is just so much fun and the characters just have so much more life and personality plus it has the modern sensibilities that are hard to give up.
It's a shame that they haven't found the success SE wanted, and while people of course want to blame PlayStation I feel like Final Fantasy just doesn't have the effect it used to. Younger people have zero attachment to the series and have zero nostalgia.
And I still think that PlayStation will be the best selling platform by a long shot, FF16 on steam even at $50 isn't selling nearly as well as it did on PS5 where it sold 3.5 million in its first week. Looking at the numbers on Steam if the game has sold 1 million so far I'd be surprised.
Thats SE’s fault for not adapting their story telling in a way that resonates with todays times. They attempted with FF16 but too little too late esp with boring game mechanics.
the issue is exactly what u said, final fantasy doesnt have the oomph it once had.
but why? cause it takes them so long between games.
16 was or could have been a great way forward, but the combat unfortunately, outside of boss battles, wasnt all too goodish
It was everything I wanted from it to be honest. And part 3 will expand on that with airship travel. Hope Switch 2 is powerful enough for it, because that's where the sales are in Japan. It deserves success with the love that went into it.
I think over time, this endeavor will be worth the investment. Part 3 will release, along with the inevitable bundling of all three games on other consoles. I do think it's a mistake to not offer DLC this time around like with Intergrade, that would have been a nice additional revenue stream for SE.
The remake project is so frustrating. For everything they get right, they get something wrong, at least in opinion. I am ultimately glad I stuck with and played both games, but I can totally understand fans who bailed after all the horrible changes they have made to the original story. Still hope we see the combat director for remake give us his own take on the franchise in the future. Also really hope Nomura and Kitase retire after this project is over. They are way past their prime.
Why do you need a better PS5 when there aren’t any games that will utilise its power?
You technically don't "need" the ps5, ps4 or the ps3, lol. You don't need any videogame console, it isn't a necessity of life. If you want the best playstation console money can by, that would be the ps5 pro.
While the article is pessimistic and negative, can we agree that typically playstation hardware allowed experiences that no previous generation was able to deliver?
With the PS5 and Pro that's changed and its because its first party are having trouble making exclusives that harnesses the PS5 power. And with so few using the base PS5 to the max, the Pro just seems pointless in a way that no other major Playstation ever has.
Idk, you guys keep defending Sony, first it was covid, then chip shortages, then live service won't hold back single player games. Now here we are with barely any good first party games in sight and the defense continues.
Sony needs to get their head out of their arrogant rear and get back in touch with what gamers want. And it's not live service games and it's not a $700 PS5 pro to see more detailed bleachers in Ratchet and Clank.
And just to rest my case, when you are showing your most powerful system (PS5 Pro) using a last generation game (TLOU2) something is very very wrong.
I don't think you quite got it. This isn't the ps3 gen where the cell was difficult to use and there was a period of time where the console just was not being properly utilized. These consoles are on x86 architecture and are performing at or around the level of comparable PC's. Sure there's SSD stuff more 3rd party devs could do but this isn't going to result in a big graphical leap.
Drinking water proves you don't need a ps5 pro. Get a brita water filter
Why does a random remaster do that? There's going to be plenty of games that utilise it over the next 4 years. And plenty already released that will benefit from it. If you don't want one fine, but what's with all the nonsense bashing of it
Uhhh. I was going to write something but it's so tedious knowing that everybody will just rip me.
There are over 8500 games that use dynamic resolution scaling and struggle to hold fps that out of the box will utilize its power.
Games are already lined up for patches and more games that haven't been announced yet will use it.
But of course talking about what it actually does won't get as many clicks.
no
it adds to your opinion
it's doesn't prove anything
and even besides that, one game wouldn't prove that anyway
that's silly
Kingdom Hearts 3 EZ
Drakengard 3
Wolfenstein 2, Mafia 3, Uncharted 4 and the last guardian.
Mafia 3 was not a real sequel to Mafia 2 at all story wise which was a massive disappointment. Wolfenstein 2 had a terrible story which introduced awful new characters and bad jokes while trying way too hard to be dark at the same time. Uncharted 4 was mostly average dialogue and box puzzles, minimal action with boring gameplay and a weak story about a brother never mentioned in any of the other Uncharted games. Last guardian was an overhyped letdown in every way except the art style and Trico.
Rage for me easily, i was so hype for the game... it looked good, long dev time, ids pedigree etc.
what a let down, and one of the worst endings of all time.. like Soul Reaver bad
Red Dead 2, no doubt for me. Clunky, glitchy, terrible controls, formulaic beyond words, awful quests, meaningless collectibles... but hey, the horses can crap and the snow is pretty.