Player 2 looks at the first six months of 2017 and some of the amazing things that happened in gaming.
Sony Interactive Entertainment has added a few more titles to the list of games that will be leaving PS Plus in May, 2024.
curious... if a game leaves PS+, does it make it unplayable if you have already claimed it before it leaves? I know on the XB side, games leaving Gamepass are no longer playable. You need to pay for them to be able to continue playing after you installed them from GP.
Wonder if Horizon ZD leaving gives credit to those remake rumours
Sigh. If true…another remake that’s not Bloodborne.
Can N4G adopt a policy of games leaving subscription services as not being a new story, it is just spam at this point.
Is it me or have there been a lot of great games leaving the extra tier but barely anything in terms of wow factor joining the service in return?
When was the last time that Sony added a PlayStation studio game?
Now I don't expect Sony to have day 1 like Gamepass but I would expect to at least care to make the offering interesting especially when they raised the price by 30% last year.
This year promises to be a big year for gaming, and it will definitely be one of the greatest if any of these big MIA projects finally made it into gamers' hands.
Pretty sure Silk Song and Dragon Age are going smoothly. The other 2 can be assumed to be quietly cancelled knowing their publishers and Metroid will most likely be shown off this year.
I remember in 2017 when Nintendo showed off the Metroid Prime 4 logo, and some Nintendo defenders claimed "Just because they only showed a logo, doesn't mean that's all they've worked on for the game."
As history has proven, they were wrong. Nintendo showed off a logo back in 2017 because that's literally all they had.
I think Beyond Good and Evil 2 can stay there unless they are going to just rename it to a new IP
Pretty sure BG&E2 is dead at this point - along with the other game Ancel was working on before he left - I think it was called WILD. Anyone remember that from a PS conference years ago?
Dreadwolf isn't in development hell anymore and is finally getting its reveal in the summer - since 2016 the game has been scrapped and restarted three times but its been going pretty well since the last reboot when EA finally allowed BioWare to just get on with making a single player game.
I'm not sure Perfect Dark is in development hell either - like it could be but we haven't really heard much to suggest either way - imo they just showed the trailer off when the game was still in pre-production. Xbox were desperate for anything and this is all they had at the time. And the reason we haven't heard anything since is just because it's in normal development and games take 5 years to make. The help from a support studio was typically overblown on N4G because nearly every game has this.
Polygon: "To get back to the way Ocarina made us feel, it was necessary to reject almost everything about it."
I generally agree with the author here. However, if I had to point out a single game as the 'anti-Breath of the Wild,' that would be Majora's Mask. Pretty much everything in that game is interconnected, relies on something that the player must have done previously, is timed, and can be considered a puzzle in itself.
but still considered the best of the seties.
i would have liked botw to be more like ocarina.
25 years from today whatever Zelda is out people would too be looking fondly at Breath of the Wild.
Ah the more simple times of the 2020s.
No mention of Xbox One X reveal?? Would have thought that would have been in there.
Switch is a great console that has taken a lot of people by surprise I think. It has some issues surrounding it but the machine itself is very nice. Great year one lineup to make up for a sparse launch as well.
Horizon really was a special game. Its world was beautifully crafted and the writing is just so good with some really great characters. Aloy is a wonderful protagonist! Gameplay just hit all the right chords too. Initially I wasn't sure on maining bow and arrow before release but damn, the devs nailed that combat. And agreed, Horizon Zero Dawn for GOTY.
Can't argue that Sony have been hitting it out of the park for giving gamers reasons to own a Playstation. Hit after hit!
I skipped Ubisofts conference because they're usually boring and uninteresting for me. Mad I did now, it seems general opinion is theirs was the best!
Biggest highlight for me has been Zelda. I have liked the previous Zelda games but they have never been my number one but Breath of the Wild was amazing. So very very good.
What I have liked about this year is it seems there has been no "dead" months. Instead of releasing these games in big clumps it seems that publishers have been spreading them out much more, meaning that there is always a big game just around the corner.
- Horizon Zero Dawn being a breakthrough new IP and all round amazing game and concept.
- Nintendo Switch reveal which is a fresh and exciting format for games, has me excited to own one.
- Zelda, Super Mario Odyssey and the slew of announced games for Switch.
- Shadow of the Colossus actually getting a remake.
- The resurgence and recognition of Japanese role-playing games.