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[–] 62 points 1 year ago (44 children)

Are we already talking about next gen leaks? Damn, this generation passed by and I barely noticed it.

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  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (32 children)

    That’s because there are barely any fucking games this gen it feels like

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Yeah, I've been watching from the sidelines and still haven't seen anything that moves the needle sufficiently.

    Where are the games?!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They all take seven years to make, so there aren't as many of them.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah. The PS2 got three GTAs, GTA V got three consoles.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    I take this as a comparison sometimes. Also the PS2 got five GTAs, Liberty City Stories and Vice City Stories were released on PS2 too. The PS3 and Xbox 360 got two GTAs, and everything after got remasters. PS5 will probably get GTA 6, so GTA skipped the PS4/Xbox One generation.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Unfortunately they're not significantly more fun despite that.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There have been some great games with development times that long. But for crying out loud, if you're not making a surefire success, make a smaller game so it's less risky.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There have been some great games with development times that long.

    Can you name some? I don't mean to be derisive, I just literally can't think of any right now.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'm playing Kingdom Come: Deliverance II right now, and it's excellent. Baldur's Gate 3 took 6 years, though they attribute a good portion of that to an Eastern European war and a pandemic. Given other side projects, it's a bit nebulous exactly how long Indiana Jones and Great Circle took that team to make, but it was somewhere between 5 and 7 years, and I loved it. I'm not exactly a fan of Nintendo lately, but people sure do love Donkey Kong Bananza, and that team had been working on that game more or less since Mario Odyssey's release in 2017.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    if you're not really there for it then sure, but i got a ps5 for ff7 remake, kh3 and ff16 and i personally think I got my money's worth. loved every goddamn second.

    it helped that I got p5r and expedition 33 as well, what a beaut of a bonus they were

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    They might mean exclusives, of which none of those apply. But I personally don't think exclusives are a good thing anyway.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

    FF7 Remake, Rebirth and FF16 were timed exclusives, though all have since left and Square Enix said “never again, it wasn’t profitable enough.”

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Them being told they're timed exclusives isn't really the problem being discussed though. Seems weird to invalidate a console having a game just because it's available elsewhere. If you don't already have a PC, a PS5 for it's performance is way cheaper than getting the PC equivalent.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    this isn't really totally relevant anymore because I'm late in replying (as usual) but they were games that I was excited to play as soon as they came out because I knew that I would enjoy them and I knew I didn't want them to be spoiled for me by the internet, which it's become very good at doing

    ...so for me, at the time, they were exclusives, even though they aren't anymore

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    They just ported all the PS4 games and slap PS5 on them. I bought a PS5 and not single game I have on it you can't also buy a 4 version. Except for Dead Island 2, and it was meh. I have not used my PS5 in over a year it just collects dust. With PC games I get all I need and more. But I have looked at new games for it and not impressed with the lineup.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    Well they do just very few, and the ones they have exclusive aren't all that great.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I bought mine for my girlfriend to play Hogwarts Legacy. I myself have played FF7, FF16, AstroBot and Expedition33. That’s twice as much games as I have played on the Switch2. And AstroBot is the only one of them you can’t play on a PC

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    My psvr2 backlog would like a word with you...

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I wanted to get a psvr2 to use on my pc.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I hear amazing things but wife says I already play enough lol

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    Ahh, that's a bummer. Hopefully she's not too onerous about it. Some people don't understand games as a hobby or down time activity but then are fine with tv/movies/books.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Nah. She's right lol. Last month my PlayStation stats said I played 12 titles for 39 hours. So plenty of gaming to be had. The issue is that I'm addicted to humble bundles and have over 100 games there I've never played...

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Become a PC gamer and you don't experience "generations" anymore.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I am. I grew up with the PS1 and I really liked the simplicity, ease of use, affordability and reliability of older gens, but the newer ones seem to have all the cons of consoles and none of the benefits.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I grew up with cartridges, so this is hilarious to me. With PS1, you had to put in a disc, close the lid, press the power button, wait for the logo startup sequence, then your game would start (assuming there's not some kind of problem that kicks you back to the disc/memory card screen). Don't even get me started on disc damage 😂

    Now I'm a PC gamer with a humongous digital collection. Nothing gets damaged, and I get to keep all my games.

    One double-click, and I'm gaming.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Same here, although even earlier. As a family of five Sony's horribly bad game sharing within the family if you have more than one PS5 (we do) has sealed the deal for us. I've just built up two Bazzite-based Steamboxes and that's going to be our couchgaming from now on.

    No PS6.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago*

    Part of the "problem" is that the current gen launched basically at the height of COVID. People were distracted when it came out and studios took a huge productivity hit at a time when they would be pushing to get those games out.

    But it is coming up on 5 years and console generations tend to be 6-8 years if memory serves. Considering how much work goes into prepping the hardware, it makes sense to see "leaks" now for what will likely hit shelves in the fall of 2027 or 2028.

    But I think the bigger issue is that we kind of all know these are "just" computers and most games are multiplatform. Combine that with backwards compatibility and there really aren't that many distinguishing games of a generation. Which is why it is a common refrain that this is probably the last "console generation" with the future being closer to PCs where you just have new hardware every few years and upgrade when a game you want needs it or you get bored.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    Many still play on Playstation 4 and suprising amount of games still get released for both.

    Its also funny that in Fighting game locals most games are still played on PS4 with Tekken 8 being pretty much the only one requiring PS5.

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