Ninja Theory outdid itself in Hellblade 2 with the photorealistic visuals and the unreal audio design, but why was the gameplay neglected?
In an enhanced version
Reaper: “Whilst Hellblade II is coming to PS5, Starfield and Halo will NEVER be released on PlayStation.”
All Xbox games will come to Playstation, pc and if switch 2 can handle it will be on there too. This is best for gamers. Play the games on the platform of your choice.
Play on Xbox and pc with GP
Play on PS paying full price same for Nintendo
MS get the best of both markets
Starfield i can most definitely say will come. Because it was in talks with Sony before the buyout. Halo... maybe not. unless MS can ink a deal with Bungie to take over the series and then by virtue of being owned by Sony then it will come.
As for this game, all i can say is the graphics were stunning on the SX... I can only imagine they will be even crisper on the 5Pro.
I’ll take that bet. How much we wanna put down that those DO come out on PS5?
I think Xbox is in such a position that they want their console to be essentially a Gamepass machine, which, sure that would be far affordable for many. Whereas, PS5 you pay the full price for their Xbox releases. I don’t think they benefit from holding back certain releases, assuming that’s their angle.
It's not about brand and fans anymore. It's about money and profits. Future Xbox consoles will be more like Steam Decks. Physical media is disappearing and digital is taking over.
@neutralgamer1992
"Play on Xbox and pc with GP
Play on PS paying full price same for Nintendo
MS get the best of both markets"
PERFECT!!!
Fail to see what the problem is with them coming to PS5.
In fact I can actually laugh at all of the ppl who used to say Xbox has no games yet are happy about Gears Remasters, Forza5, Sea of Thieves, Grounded, etc.
In the end good game deserved to be played
I wouldn't be surprised if Dreamcast Guy re-reviews Hellblade 2 on PS5, and now gives it a 9/10 score
Why do you think that? Xbox is changed now. Now it's all about releasing most of the games on playstation. Geara is coming to ps5. Gears was the xbox brands biggest game with halo and Forza. And two of them are already there or on the way. I own both consoles and I do think this is good for us. The more they sell the better games we get in the future. And if the rumors are true the next gen xbox will play steam games so it will play ps5 ( pc release games) and that will be good for us. More new ip and less remake and re releases hopefully.
Hahahahaha very funny
PlayStation has gears and Forza that's two of the major pillars of Xbox halo is just another Domino and I hope starfield doesn't come it wasn't very good
They're all coming Philip Bartholomew Spencer has essentially said so as his bosses told him to say. I dont care about Hellblade 2 always looked like you're walking on rails. Gears remake will be a day 1 game for me.
MS is forced to release its games on the competition. I feel bad for people who invested in xbox at this point.
Their next showcase will be digital because a live show might involve actual Xbox gamers’ reactions to Xbox games going to PlayStation and that would be embarrassing for MS.
@venom:” will NEVER be released on”
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Where have I heard that before🤔 🤔 🤔
Oh that’s what sega fanboys said about sonic the hedgehog games on Nintendo and PlayStation 🤣 🤣
M$ will release those on PlayStation their addiction to big💰demand it and can’t resist it 🤣 🤣
I love seeing Xbox Console Warriors now pretend like they don't care about their console.
Newsflash - Playstation doesn't compete with EA, Ubisoft, Sega, or 3rd party publishers like Microsoft. Keep those exclusives coming over and watch Xbox consoles fade into obscurity.
They are already doing day and date releases... For example, Doom, Gears Reloaded, Outer Worlds 2, Call of Duty...
Well it's mostly been older releases, stuff that's already been on ps and a couple remasters/remakes, I'm talking about future halos, gears, forzas....
@IRetrouk okay I see what you are saying. I honestly think they just had to ramp up their PS5 development kits and what not. It is in Microsoft's best interest to release on PlayStation day and date to maximize hype for new titles so I am sure you are right.
I also get your point lol, kinda just cements what's happing really, and agree, I'm sure some ramping up was needed, especially after cancelling or "holding" dev on some ps5 versions of games.
"They are already doing day and date releases... For example, Doom, Gears Reloaded, Outer Worlds 2, Call of Duty..."
Indeed.
The fact they´re also going full digital with the upcoming Xbox Showcase, is further indication that more day and date games announces for every platform might happen.
@IRetrouk
Why wouldn't they release new multiplayer games like Gears, Halo, and Forza day 1 on PS5?
Xbox users get to have the PC/Version included in the purchase, plus the possibility to play it on Game Pass
So there's more benefit as an Xbox user (especially Game Pass).
It brings more money to MS and more players for the health of the game.
@pete not sure i understand the question, I wasn't stating if they should or shouldnt do it or if it is good or bad, just that it was happening, but for the record, I've been saying for years ms should go this route🤷♂️
I'm not sure how ms releasing games multiplat helps benefit xbox users more, you get the same if they were exclusive or not, your right about the money and player base though, it is a good thing.
its all going to come now eventually , xbox officially saying we lost without saying the words, the final nail in the coffin is obviously halo, xbox as a brand is finished with gears and forza gone, 0 exclusives with everything coming to PC and now even playstation
"Won't stop here, watch, day and date announcements next."
Look no further than the latest´s games sales data!
Xbox first party games sales destroyed everything at Playstation last month!
FIVE games in the Top 10 best selling games!
https://bsky.app/profile/di...
Now ask me if I`m unhappy to see Xbox games thriving as Playstation´s gamers favorite games this year?
We used to hear that Xbox games were all trash! So obviously I´m very happy that those opinions do not reflect the opinion of actual Playstation gamers that actually BUY and PLAY games!
Yeah, they are doing great, destroyed everything at playstation? Lmao, those are at playstation, just like those other 3rd party games they outsold...
We already know how you feel about this🤣 all you did was change your opinion as soon as phil told you too lol
The years not over yet, favourite games of the year is again, probably giving way too much credit to those sales charts you now love, we got plenty of games coming from all over yet.
Like it or not for over a decade xbox releases were either bad, severely lacking or just more of the same with little innovation, the quality ones selling isn't surprising, I'd say gears is gonna do a couple mill easy, real question is, why it took releasing them on playstation to see these games chart🤔
They didn't destroy anything at PlayStation they destroyed on PlayStation huge difference
Sony and Microsoft both making money
Let's not rewrite history here, most of those games were already being made by third parties (going to be on playstation anyways) before Microsoft bought them in the last 4 years. It's games that Microsoft was producing before they bought 2 giant publishers that mostly sucked, you know it and I know it.
@obscure
Now it’s great that xbox games are playable on PlayStation? You fought tooth and nail that their games would never be on PlayStation. Now you say it’s amazing?
To be clear, PlayStation gamers are the winner here. They get to play the games. MS makes money, but at the expense of losing relevance and trust.
@StormSnooper
"To be clear, PlayStation gamers are the winner here. They get to play the games. MS makes money, but at the expense of losing relevance and trust."
They have to pay full price for those games while we´ll be getting everything day one on Gamepass. Works for me.
We get to play MORE and better games for cheap since Xbox games selling like hot cakes on all platforms will only fund or games on Gamepass making it bigger and better. Oblivion Remake, Clair Obscure, Doom The Dark Ages along with Metaphor which just dropped on Gamepass out of nowhere.
All of those AMAZING games in what? 40 Days?
I much rather play all those games on Gamepass while saving big money for my next gen Xbox. I don´t care for Sony´s GaaS crap and the only game which interest me on PS5 at the moment is Intergalactic which is not reason enough for me to go out and buy a PS5.
So you can keep your "trust" in Sony while you pay full $80 for everything to make them feel relevant or whatever.
I rather stick with Xbox, thank you. To each their own.
Obscuire Observron said: “Avowed and South of Midnight and Gears of War and Halo will never come to PlayStation.”
@VenomUK
“Obscuire Observron said: “Avowed and South of Midnight and Gears of War and Halo will never come to PlayStation.””
And I heard that Xbox games were trash.
@Obs Obs
This game, Redfall, and Starfall are all trash. Meanwhile FH5 and Gears are all great games.
@Obscure, console wars are over bud, we'll have all the best xbox games on playstation soon enough. We buy our games on playstation.
@obscure
Their best games are not trash, but they are not as good as PlayStation games. Selling good on PlayStation simply means a lot of gamers hadn’t played them because they were on a xbox platform with a historically low/lower installment base. But that should be obvious to anyone.
I am much more interested in Avowed than Hellblade. But they need to actually put the games on disc.
I don't think Remedy want to revisit QB anytime soon... and it's a shame too as playing it at 60fps is a much needed improvement. Same with Ryse and SSOD. I play all those on my steamdeck in better performance.
SSOD would be welcomed with open arms and probably give the much needed shot to green light the sequel that has been on hiatus for so long.
I would expect a Rare Replay compilation for Switch before PlayStation.
Quantum Break will probably never happen due to numerous reasons, like licensing deals for the actors
But Sunset Overdrive would be a perfect fit for PlayStation.
Horde mode! Endless waves of... 1 enemy at a time.
I don't get the point of announcing it this way. It's not like word of mouth was near as good as the first game so revealing the port as an Enhanced version without detailing a single Enhancement is certainly a choice.
Being able to apply a visual filter while playing I guess would be nice but I can't think of one thing that would make me actually want to play through it again any time soon. Unless there's like a new chapter where we can fight 2-3 enemies at once lol
I'm only surprised this took so long. I actually haven't gotten around to playing it yet but despite my hype before launch I'm unlikely to buy it now because I got put off so much with friends feedback
I my self who didn't play the first one. I had it completed within 5 and a bit hours of play. Graphics, animations, voice acting is fine. Puzzles where good. The combat was very basic.
Couldn't get on with the story what so ever. The constant voices was really off putting to the point half way through the game I turned off the combat so I could just get the game over and done with quickly.
If you enjoyed the first game. You should enjoy this. If you never played the first one like my self. Then it could be a terrible experience or you may enjoy it.
Play the first, graphics are a step down but still great, game wise it is a much much better game. (Puzzles are meh still though) but if you though 2 was good or okay, part one is fantastic.
I enjoyed the first and enjoyed this one too.
I played it on PC with a 3080 and the graphics are jaw dropping. I don't know what it's listing for but given how short it is I don't think it's worth more than $25 though
An unofficial Hellblade 2 PlayStation port is now playable on hacked consoles, letting you experience the game in a new gameplay format
It’s just a matter of time till…….🤷🏿
We all know how much Microsoft like money no matter what they know their base won’t “pay” for games on day one 🤣
Are you saying that Sony doesn’t like money? MS is a business and a pretty successful one at that so of course they like money. As far as their “base won’t pay” I guess the hundreds of Xbox games I have just magically appeared in my library…
Did he say that Sony does not like money? Does Sony and MS have to be opposite all the time? You xboys are worse than maga cultists. No possible way of getting anything through to you. Completely in your own bubble.
Xbox is a complete and utter failure that's being subsidized by MS if we're being 💯.only a 2 trillion dollar company can be this bad at something and survive.
@Mmmkay
That’s what I’m saying.
You can’t criticize one company with out the fanboys coming out with the comparison.
“Well well Sony does this”
Cool we are talking about MS.
MS is successful but Xbox is not.
On the other hand playstation is very successful and Sony is not.
And what games do ponies buy? I'm sure Square Enix and Sony would have something to say about that 🤣
Has nothing to do with liking money. Everyone likes money. This is just the corner they've backed themselves into. Keeping games only on Xbox would equal low to no sales, certainly not enough to recoup development costs. And games are where all the profits come from, for every platform holder.
Sony beggars are a sight to behold.... They've got no games so backdooring Xbox games is prime!
You saying that Xboxers won't pay for games on an article about hacked Playstation systems playing pirated games is kinda ironic.
@dodo:”You saying that Xboxers won't pay for games on an article about hacked Playstation systems playing pirated games is kinda ironic”
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🤣 finally someone gets it 🤣
The game wasn't good anyway. It's a walking simulator. I was disappointed
I agree and I wasn't a fan of Death Stranding. But I'm hearing Death Stranding 2 is this opposite. I'm hearing it's more like an open world Metal Gear and a better overall game now. Hellblade 2 was supposed to be better than the first game and that didn't happen
So it's a video with quicktime events, about as playable as the original then. I have finished it on Xbox.
Original was a lot better. I've been saying Senua should have died at the end of the first game even before Microsoft bought
the studio and green-lit a sequel. Her story was done. With how shallow the story was in part two, seems I was right.
I managed to get about 3 hours in before the novelty of the amazing graphics wore off and I couldn't put up with the boring and repetative gameplay any longer. Playing it on GamePass, so having not specifically 'paid' for that game in particular, made it very easy to delete and move on.
Same, played it on PC and even graphically it's not ALWAYS so impressive, it shines above the rest in brief moments but ive played other games that are just as, if not more impressive. Graphics aside everything is either the same or lacking compared to the 1st game, and it's honestly baffling the scope of this game given the development time and having MSs money behind them, and how much MS pushed this on their packaging and marketing. It's not a bad game per se, but it's not even as good as the first game honestly, it's ok 🤷♂️
Get the latest data on sales and engagement for Hellblade 2, including its performance on Xbox and Xbox Game Pass.
Omg this is saddest article I ever seen. The person writing this must have felt terrible
Lol, I don't think people got my joke. I meant engagement in the console wars was still high! 😂
Trying to act like these are good numbers or what Microsoft was hoping for is indeed pretty sad.
They say it has the 12'th highest engagement on xbox,in the US but it never even crossed into the top 20 on xbox's own ranking system.
And either way 12'th on a day one high profile release on game pass doesn't sound great at all.
LOL!! Of course most folks with Gamepass decided to check the game out when it was released almost 2 months ago. The game was number 37 as the best selling game of the month of May which is really not that great. AAA exclusives should be at least in the top 5 or let alone in the top 10. The game is a borefest & the only folks that are still talking about the game are articles like this.
«Piscatella followed up by saying Hellblade 2 fell just outside the top 10 of the US Xbox engagement chart landing in 12th place just behind the resurgent Fallout 76.»
Wow!! Just behind the glorious Fallout 76!
Yeah dude, only took them 6 years. Defending 76 over here.. maybe you are the one in the cave
So the game had good engagement. But some on here are trying real hard to downplay it. Honestly, there is more important things in world then trying to attack a game you probably didn’t even try.
If we're going by engagement which is a dumb ass metric imo , it still didn't do that great. It did low end ok at best.
Also you right there are more important things out there in the world. Except this is a gaming website for gaming news and discussion.
He's talking about all the constantly downplaying that many do here when it comes to Xbox, even if it's good news. Though that's noting nee that's always been this site since I came on here anyway. Sony says they're going off of engagement. Is it still a dumb metric or is it suddenly good now?
Unfortunately that is the metric that both Xbox and PS are concerned with. An all digital future is almost upon us, love it or hate it.
As for the downplaying, @Lightning77 summed it up nicely. But to add, arguing a point is one thing, constantly saying nothing new makes one a resounding gong.
If your judging how well a game is doing on gamepass wouldn't you use engagement metric as you can't go by sales of the game?
Yea, but how many bullets were fired?
We need some hard data here, like bullets fired!
I agree we need the real data for eample....if the crazy girl has 150 mental breakdowns in the movie how movie viewers actually watched the movie long enough to see 10% of them breakdowns and how many thought "dumb" and moved on during the 1st breakdown?
Its a perfect game for Gamepass, i think this is what MS wanted from it to be. IMO spring 2025 PS5/Switch 2 release maybe sooner
I finished it and I'll start by saying the graphics are amazing!!!!! and I experienced and noticed absolutely zero bugs and ran into no issues with the game so it's highly polished.
In saying that, that's where my compliments end, I slugged my way through this game, thank god it was short.
The most on rails game I've ever played, didn't care for the story or the characters outside of the story for the first giant which I did like. For a game like this story and characters should've been everything and it just didn't hit, I didn't care at all just wanted to finish the game and experience the visuals, that's the only reason I persisted.
Puzzles were absolutely lame an amounted to either trying to find shapes or using land shifting bubbles, all of which were piss easy.
The fights are cool at first and look brutal but again very simple.
Basically no environment interaction besides lighting torches
Checking my last achievement only like 6% of players have finished the game which says a lot considering the length of it. I can't imagine a whole lot of people are playing this either.
Don't understand the higher reviews for this, outside of visuals the game isn't great if any anything it was a slog to get the 7 hrs it's took me.
What gameplay?
Hellblade 2 barely has any gameplay.
Order 1886 had graphics that were way ahead of its time. Also had excellent gameplay. But it was absolutely ripped to shreds in reviews based on the shortness of the game and some repetitiveness of some fights. For some reason those things don't apply to HB.
I just played the first 3 hours.....the gameplay is extremely basic. Walk a path while you hear voices, then long cutscenes, a simple battle that is almost QTE....repeat.