It’s always funny to see people on lemmy calling for boycotts, saying how stupid companies are for not making products they want to buy and predicting how badly things will fail only for the masses to completely ignore all this and spend money on the same shit as always.
So glad I canceled my pre-order for this. A three minute quick time event where you don’t have to do a damn thing?! No thanks.
wow…shocking
well, not that shocking…
The bar is really low…
Atleast a new Hideo Kojima game should be coming soon…
Cattle
I can’t imagine any reason to watch or play a game about american superheroes. Cringe asf.
I mean, if you care that much about character or story in an action game, it’s probably a good idea not to pick it up to begin with, yeah.
The genre typically has bad to mediocre stories because the selling point is the gameplay anyway.
Wolverine is Canadian.
Marvel
can you share with the class any Canadian comic book heros?
The level of comments here is no better than Reddit.
gamer culture is toxic as fuck.
yet another reason why I stopped playing multiplayer games.
It’s so bad that it’s good in the end
Seems like an alright $5 buy down the road.
It’s single player. I’ll pirate it and share it on soulseek for the world.
It’s not on PC.
Gotta save your money for the Stream Frame brudda. Every dollar counts 💀
Use the steam frame to pretend you have a home lab
I’m not convinced it’s even worth my time, much less money.
Yeah, comparing to “no game is worth $60”, it is no better to buy a $5 game that will leave you unfazed for 15 hours. That just sounds like being a VG junkie.
For an example, I picked up Duke Nukem Forever for $5 knowing the reviews weren’t great and still felt ripped off.
Yup. I’ll be playing it for the story which ,from what I hear, is pretty solid. But I’m in no hurry.
Where have you heard that? I guess it depends on if you’re a comic book fan or not maybe? But anyone that likes/knows the characters has said (or so I’ve been told, could just be the circles I’m in) that it’s a massive disappointment.
Proof that gamers have no spine (once again. See also Switch 2 and PS5 sales) and that online discourse holds no prediction of real world value.
What?? 2M is not a good number for a first-party Sony game. For example, God of War 2018 estimated to have sold 4M on PC alone.
They’re just having a shit year overall, so 2M is their best.
Spine for what?
You think this id a good number? One of the reasons Sony dropped Kojima is supposedly that DS2 “only” sold 2M.
Tbf all of this bad press and 1.9 mil = maximum $120 million on a $300 million budget IS an extreme $180 million loss (so far)
Who among us can truly know what numbers lie in the hearts of AAA publisher executives? Mark my words, mere consumers can’t even begin to guess the immense scale of these numbers. They are numbers of cosmic magnitude we do not comprehend. Verily, even the executives in question have even vaguest idea of what they are actually asking for, unaware of the true import of their demands.
buddy of mine bought this and I went over to his place to play it. It’s boring. it holds your hand for everything and it’s impossible to fail QTEs so there’s just no point in doing them.
Ah, but what you miss is that the game would be far too hard for DSP to complete otherwise. There will be no complaints of I PRESSED IT AND IT DIDN’T COUNT WHAT A STOOPID GAME and WHAAAT THE GAME DIDN’T TELL ME THAT.
To be honest, the only good quick time event is the one you don’t have to do.
Flashbacks from Fahrenheit: Indigo Prophecy
The masses of non passionate gamers don’t care the public perception or what the press has to say about a game. Especially so with popular franchises, see Pokemon, FIFA and Call of Duty as an example.
Yes, because Sony released so many successful first party games in 2026…
Lol I had to double check because I couldn’t remember any.
We got…
- Marathon
- Saros
- MLB The Show 26
- Marvel Tōken: fighting souls
And this.
😬 How the mighty have fallen since the PS2 days
This did better than Tokon? That makes me pretty sad
Tokon launch has been a bumpy road & fighting games don’t sell like Sony Marvel IPs
Literally no reason to open a PS5 in the big 26’
i haven’t turned mine on at all this year. which reminds me i should at least once a year.
Yeah ours is unplugged and in a cabinet. Haven’t played it since final fantasy rebirth. Now that Revelation is going straight to Steam there isn’t a reason to put in the PS5.
I bought rebirtg on launch.
Yesterday I dedusted the controller wondering why I stopped playing.
I left the controller after having to go over several gold saucer mini games.
So. Much. Padding.
BTW, is revelations going to steam? I thought it was only on epic and piratebay.
i’m still waiting for naughty dog’s first game this generation. I tried rebirth, but it had been so long that i forgot everything from part 1 and just couldn’t get into it again
I think you’ll be waiting until the PS6. Sony fucked up by putting them on live service instead of TLOU3. Now they scrapped years of work and started something different. Shame shame.
woof
What other exclusives did they release this year? Saros?
They also put out Ghost of Yotei and Marathon (yikes).
Marvel Tokon too if you count console exclusives that are also on PC.
Edit: Whoops, I forgot Ghost of Yotei was late last year. Unless you’re counting fiscal year starting in October I guess.
Marathon is not an exclusive.
True, forgot that abomination got a PC release too.
What are your top3 reasons it qualifies as „abomination“?
Other than the plagiarism, butchering of a classic IP, and fad genre bandwagoning?
It’s a grindy game in a genre that otherwise caters to F2P but comes with an extra $40 price tag. It’s also just plain bland and soulless, which really represents how far Bungie has fallen as a developer. The only thing they can really do is give bad consulting advice to other Sony studios on how to make live service games, which has not worked out yet for even one of them. And Destiny died for this game to happen.
Not to mention that it makes Sony money. Regardless of how defeatist it is or how little the general public cares, they remain on my personal “do not buy” list.
Marathon. The best game most people will never play.
It really is very good.
Marathon. The best game most people will never play.
I would, but they don’t support my platform. Does that make me one of the “most people”? I am a “Linux Gamer”, therefore I am part of “most people”. We are not a niche platform after all it seems. :D
They’re reworking it into something else now in an attempt to salvage it, but for me personally, unless that involves being able to host the server myself, I’m not giving it the time of day.
I don’t know what Bungie was thinking putting all their effort into Marathon. People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out. Didnt help they delayed it and had the art theft debacle.
That game was going to struggle no matter how good it was at launch. THEN they stopped work on Destiny 2 right as Marathon came out despite Bungie promising the two games would co-exist and just pissed everyone off.
Masterclass in running a studio into the ground.
People heard “extraction shooter PVP only” and checked the fuck out
Way to fuck with classic IP too. I didn’t play back in the day because I didn’t have a Mac, but they were praised highly at the time.
Can you imagine if the id guys came back after 20 years and announced Doom was gonna be a hero shooter because those seem to be popular?
Destiny was running the studio into the ground regardless of Marathon. Behind the scenes reporting says it had been a while since Destiny turned a profit, and by the time The Final Shape came out, the damage was already done. The reason they’re not continuing with it is that it just burns through money.
How did they think it would be any different? - when they remove the entire beginning of the game and expect people to just watch ~15 hours of archived gameplay on YouTube to understand what is going on - they were never going to gain new players, even as F2P.
Yeah the whole studio has been run like shit for years. They’re looking to sublet their huge office after firing like half the company.
Eh. It was never meant to be a big game. Trying to turn it into a flagship after launch isn’t gonna work. I’m just glad I experienced it at launch and season 2 before they really start to tinker. I think that will have to be enough for me.
This might be a lot but keep in mind the INSANE budget for this game so despite this it’s still nowhere near breaking even
Even the insane funds, it looks like it was a complete failure.
I suspect you may have seen the video of people going out of bounds in that one area? They were able to find larger portions of cities, small towns and so forth.
It looks like the game was originally meant to be open world or closer to it, but probably due to constraints they bailed on that.
I’m guessing that’s the source of a lot of people’s dislike.
Yeah I’ve seen the OOB areas. But I don’t think people dislike the game because it’s linear. Tho hearing the word “constraints” when talking about a $300mil+ budget is kinda funny.
