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[MatrixReloaded101]

The thing is Sony never said what was going to be shown and that's the main issue with these showcases. These companies have to realize most people want to see the big games and don't care about these small indie titles.

But I realize that this is probably their only way of bringing attention to these smaller titles.

 

[THEAP99]

Absolutely terrible show. Looking forward to final fantasy 7 remake remastered though.. Most of that show could've been a twitter post

 

[[Sigma]]

This went as I expected and as they pretty much advertised.

Sifu kinda looked interesting but that's all I have to say.

Returnal, nothing significant that we already didn't know or see gameplay wise. Looking forward to it of course.

Oh and Kena still looking cool.

Already made my comment about FFVIIRI in the other thread.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Why do people expect E3 level reveals? Like seriously, those shows tend to float on stuff literally years out from release, and State Of Plays are always focussed on the next few months worth of launches.

I mean I could get behind a sense of disappointment if other platforms were raining product, but they aren't!

Nah no one expected E3 level reveals. We expected updates on games that were already announced for PS like JHorizon Forbidden West. Something to get excited for the PS5 platform.
Instead half the show was rehashed shit from previous State of Play's with a little bit of gamplay added in.
Why not discuss or show off a short video of the tech they're working on for PSVR. Just show us something different.
Jim's been flapping his gums in interviews all week. Not even he could drum up a little bit of excitement for this State Of Play.

 

[Gamerguy84]

So after sitting on my thoughts a bit, Sony needs to rebrand these specials. They got our hopes up of seeing something new and exciting. I personally am not much of an "indie" guy so MOST of what I saw was just boring as heck to me, but I watched all the way through because maybe there was something new and cool at the end...Not a DLC for an episodic game to try and take another 40 bucks from people before they try to take another 60-70 for the next "part" of FFVII.

State of Play: Indie Showcase - There, expectations can be set with two simple words tacked to the end. Nobody goes in expecting GOW2, HZD2, Silent Hill, anything from a big company and people like me can just wait til it hits Youtube and skip over the stuff that isn't interesting.

Taken from warnings of the past I don't really expect major announcements from any SOP.

Personally liked Kena, FF7, Desthloop, and put 13 more people on ignore so wasn't bad at all.

 

[Insane Metal]

Welp. Tried to warn you guys.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Caio Jadsey M Metnut

I'm putting all of you on my wall of degenerates giving this trash an A

 

[Banjo64]

And it's not out until next year

Imagine coming out with verbal diarrhoea like this when Sony announced The Last Guardian, FF VII Remake, The Last of Us 2, God Of War Ragnorok, Gran Turismo 7 literally 2, 3 and even 5 years in advance How I imagine you;

 

[MonarchJT]

mediocre at best. Hope that returnal do not cost over 59

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Welp. Tried to warn you guys.

Yeah, managed to tune in and only watch 10minutes but in future I'm avoiding these State Of Play's like the plague.

Can't be arsed to sit through fucking 30 minutes of indie trash.

Could have just labelled this an 'Indie Showcase' so I don't waste my time tuning in.

 

[Punished Miku]

Imagine coming out with verbal diarrhoea like this when Sony announced The Last Guardian, FF VII Remake, The Last of Us 2, God Of War Ragnorok, Gran Turismo 7 literally 2, 3 and even 5 years in advance How I imagine you;

I think it's highly likely Horizon is 2022. But 2021 is not 100% impossible. Guerrilla always had a launch game in the past, and they are building most of this off the last game they made from the looks of it.

But yeah, COVID is a bitch.

 

[SLB1904]

Imagine coming out with verbal diarrhoea like this when Sony announced The Last Guardian, FF VII Remake, The Last of Us 2, God Of War Ragnorok, Gran Turismo 7 literally 2, 3 and even 5 years in advance How I imagine you;

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

Imagine coming out with verbal diarrhoea like this when Sony announced The Last Guardian, FF VII Remake, The Last of Us 2, God Of War Ragnorok, Gran Turismo 7 literally 2, 3 and even 5 years in advance How I imagine you;

They don't even do that shit anymore ya dumbassssssssss

 

[Punished Miku]

mediocre at best. Hope that returnal do not cost over 59

It's $70. There's also a special edition for $80.

 

[PleaseWaitStation4]

She actually said, "safe space"...

 

[Metnut]

Caio Jadsey M Metnut

I'm putting all of you on my wall of degenerates giving this trash an A

I just love FF7 and and pumped about the free PS5 upgrade and new episode DLC.

I was expecting mostly indies so this got me pumped!

 

[Dthomp]

mediocre at best. Hope that returnal do not cost over 59

Cries at $69.99 price tag. I want Returnal, I do not want $69.99 Returnal.

 

[kyussman]

Did I mishear or did that Dodgeball dev say they had been working on that game for four years.....fuck me,I guess never underestimate the desire to create the next big thing in the multiplayer space....of course the reality is most of these games fall by the wayside very quickly and that looks like it will join the ranks....four years,blimey!

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

I just love FF7 and and pumped about the free PS5 upgrade and new episode DLC.

I was expecting mostly indies so this got me pumped!

This is why Jimbo has a spanking fetish god damn you

Fair tho

 

[Shelookdlvl18]

im not xbox fanboy

You're not.... what exactly?

Dat victim complex. Lmao

 

[MonarchJT]

Cries at $69.99 price tag. I want Returnal, I do not want $69.99 Returnal.

if Sony thinks it can stick in our throats every game at 70 or 80 including AA, they can forget about the day one purchases. at least as far as I'm concerned it becomes a matter of principle

 

[Sub_Level]

It was a bad state of play, no spinning it. Pencil me in for Crash 4 next month and Kena in August. Skipping Returnal and Yuffie DLC. Thats all she wrote.

Resident Evil VIII will save videogames.

 

[Gone]

State of Lame.

 

[SLB1904]

You're not.... what exactly?

Dat victim complex. Lmao

What you on about. Lmfao.

 

[Golgo 13]

Good luck with that, these things are usually "strokey" affairs to promote upcoming, already announced games. Nothing wrong with that, but let's "keep our expectations in check".

Not to say "I called it" or anything, but....

Spoiler

I totally fucking called it.

 

[BlackM1st]

It's $70. There's also a special edition for $80.

Wow, ugly woman sim for $80. Makes a good case for some F2P waifu gachas...

 

[yurinka]

Horizon still has no release date. I'm thinking it gets delayed into next year. Hope I'm wrong.

Horizon is H2 2021, like GoWR. Unless they got a very recent big impact due to covig they won't be delayed to next year, they had enough development time compared to their previous games.

Another thing to consider is they may hold back to start showing and revealing dates for some games like gow2 and HZ2 because of the lack of PS5 stocks.

Sony has a lot exclusives to be released during H1 2021 and they should market them. There are games like Guilty Gear Strive or Ratchet, or even the GTAV PS5 thing that weren't shown there. It's time for them to market these games now, specially considering they are supply constrained.

It would make sense to wait until summer/E3 to show their big H2 2021 games like GoWR and Horizon 2, once the H1 2021 are released and once they have enough PS5 stock in the stores.

*Everything* is being delayed.

The only recent Sony game with a decent delay was GT7 being delayed from "2021" to 2022.

 

[LazyParrot]

Wow, I'm glad I missed this.

 

[Woopah]

It's been said before and it'll be said again, Covid has done a real number on the games industry At first I thought it was just Nintendo that had struggled badly with it, but now it looks like it's everyone.

We all know the rest of their lineup is going to be more halfassed ports and maybe a shitty pokemon game from gamefreak again

And sorry I just don't think a niche weeb jrpg is noteworthy. Same way crap like Deathloop isn't

Both those games will sell over 1 million copies and have average review scores in the 80s. They are both noteworthy exclusives.

 

[Twinblade]

State of Lame.

It's been lame for years it seems.

 

[Skifi28]

They didn't even announce the PS plus games for March. They were supposed to be revealed yesterday and I thought they held off for a cool announcement in the state of play, but nope.

 

[Ass of Can Whooping]

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[Gunslinger]

Was that genesis at the end ? yuck! worst character ever making a comeback.

 

[Shmunter]

New Oddworld free in April is hnggghhhhhh

Will play.

 

[Punished Miku]

.

 

[TVexperto]

New Oddworld free in April is hnggghhhhhh

Will play.

ps5 only

 

[Animagic]

The absolute state of play.
This is what this felt like:

Like, why even have an event at all?

 

[MikonJuice]

Sifu in portuguese means "Get fu". My God.

Also... that was worse than Nintendo's.

 

[Hawking Radiation]

Wow, I'm glad I missed this.

Congratulations, you nearly got killed with boredom unlike these other gerbils in here losing their minds.

 

[The Hamburglar]

They didn't even announce the PS plus games for March. They were supposed to be revealed yesterday and I thought they held off for a cool announcement in the state of play, but nope.

I’ve heard disco elysium is one of them

 

[WildBoy]

Sifu in portuguese means "Get fu". My God.

Also... that was worse than Nintendo's.

I Agree... At least Nintendo had surprises like Mythra in Smash, Mario Golf, Splatoon 3, Neon White and even them joycons... Sony's was just really predictable and quite banal... I had low expectations going in and boy did they failed to even meet those... Predictions below:

Kena bridge of Spirits gets shadow dropped.
Little devil inside gameplay snippet
Odd world soul storm release date
Solar Ash Is a ps plus game for march.
Stray trailer
GTA5 Trailer and release date
Pragmata
Suprise first party game
Last of us 2 factions
Horizon Trailer. Releases November.

 

[Alex Scott]

If SONY would have showed games like Horizon or GoW then they would have taken spotlights away from the other smaller games. SoP play was alright. 6/10.
The Crash Bandicoot game they showed at first could have been a twitter post TBH.

 

[graywolf323]

I’ve heard disco elysium is one of them

if that is the case they really should have had it in the State of Play because that would have been awesome news

 

[Maine84]

When is sony gonna give me a reason as to why I bought this ps5. Tired of seeing all these ps4 games

 

[Krisprolls]

Oh fuck off !!!

We got Deathloop...again,
We got Kena...again,
We got Abe...again,
Returnal...again,

What was new here? SIFU ? or whatever the fuck that indie game is.

Like these fucking games were already showed off in previous State Of Play's. We know what's coming and we've seen gameplay of these before. Why dedicate half the fucking show to these titles. I'd rather them chat about PSVR for a bit if they don't have anything to new to announce or show off.

You have to be fucking high if you think this was a good show.

The goal was mostly showing new videos of games to come. It did exactly that and I'm fine with it. It's not their fault if people believe State of Play is something it's not.

 

[KungFucius]

Why did I buy a PS5? The only reason it wont collect as much dust as my PS4 did is because it is vertical.

I am only half kidding. 2021 is going to be a shit year for games. At least all the people still trying to get systems aren't missing much.

 

[Jigsaah]

Returnal, Sifu, Kena, Oddworld, FF7:R:I. I mean...that's pretty good i think.

Deathloop seems like fun too

 

[Ellery]

It will be a long long gaming draught the next few remastered years ahead of us no matter what side you are on.

The hardware in our hands, but the games for we have to wait.

 

[OrtizTwelve]

Don’t see the point in these shows if there’s nothing significant to share or create buzz. A blog post would have sufficed.

Very mediocre. C / D for me.

 

[CamHostage]

LOL they have been doing State of Plays for two years, you know what to expect.
They're not big conferences meant to showcase new AAA stuff, they're small events focused on updates about soon to be released games.
Big digital events like the ones they did in June and September shows are totally different. They're also called differently ("Future of gaming", "PS5 Digital Showcase Event").

Yeah, we need a better hierarchy, like a Alert Level color-wheel of how important a show is going to be and what type of titles to expect. A calm Green for State of Play, Orange for Future of Gaming, Red Alert for Digital Showcase Event...