From the article: "Ninja Theory made news a few months ago when Enslaved was announced as a multiplatform title…not really because of the announcement (which was met with a resounding chorus of crickets chirping), but because they used most of their interview time to bemoan the "backbreaking burden" of developing a game exclusively for the Playstation 3.
The interview was a real tearjerker, to be sure. Something about it being too taxing on their souls and how they'd made…and I quote…"Literally no money" with the release of Heavenly Sword."
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GB: "With this feature, we talk about 15 games on the PS3 that should be remade for the PlayStation 5."
Little Big Planet 1 and 2 deserve a mention, IMO.
Good call on Motorstorm, a game released 2 gens ago but still looks and feels so good. Motorstorm 2 and Motorstorm RC were gems as well. They followed up the Motorstorm games with the brilliant Driveclub, which still manages to put modern racing games to shame. Imagine closing down a studio as talented as that ... (!) Incredible.
A little 'arcade-gem' back then was The Last Guy, a top down 'follow the leader' snake-like game where you had to find and lead survivors to safety during an alien invasion, on terrible looking 'Google-earth' maps. Graphics were poor, even back then, but would love that same gameplay with modern maps and graphics.
Street Fighter 4, once it finally had a full roster, was quite good, but it was always an ugly game, sadly. Imagine bringing that back while using the current SF6 engine.
Some good choices here and Resistance: Fall of Man is my most wanted PS3 remaster/remake. Not sure about their claim it was Sony's answer to Gears of War though.
I’d rather have sequels than remakes. Look at Dead Space 1 Remake. Would’ve been cooler if we got a new entry and it failed with sales sealing the fate of a sequel rather than just replay the same game and it fail in sales and we never get a new entry.
Remakes are great for things like PS2 and earlier games to really get a crazy new graphical coat, but I think we should ease up on all these remakes and actually do sequels.
I rather they remaster and port over to PC and current gen all the games permanently stuck on PS360. Those games don't need remakes, they need to be given a chance to live again outside of their confined consoles and then give a few proper sequels. Like Sleeping Dogs, Motor Storm, LA Noir, should get another entry.
The PlayStation 3 may not have been the strongest generation for Sony, but there were still some diamonds in the rough that deserve a revisit as PS5 remasters.
Even if they could just remaster and put on PSVR2, some would still look great as VR titles and could do a whole lot to bolster the headset w these exclusives! I'd imagine the investment of reworking these titles into VR would be way less than building new games from the ground up, and they could be amazing experiences, and VR often makes flat games feel fresh again. The Resistance and Killzone games are particularly what I want to see!!
The time is perfect for a resistance fall of man game campaign coop multiplayer
Resistance was ok but Warhawk and Starhawk was better and kept me coming back for almost a decade of fun and petty revenge on the loud mouth unskilled players 🤣
Edit I loved capture the flag dropping the pot on the flag carrier was extremely satisfying as well as transforming your plane in bot form and stumping them to death 😱
In this interview, we will delve into the creative process of David Brochard. Behind the scenes with concept artist David Brochard, showcasing his creative process in gaming industry from Call of Duty to Dark Souls 3 and Star Citizen. Discover how his passion & skills bring immersive worlds to life.
And I'm pretty sure that Heavenly Sword (or something like it) started on the original Xbox. So what we have here is another Silicon Knights case where the developer takes so fvcking long to make a game that they never make any money or no one gives a flying fart when it actually releases.
They should be thanking Sony for flogging their game. And I've said it before, but HS was amazing. And NOT because of Ninja Theory and Tameem Antoniades and his Jackie O sunglasses, but because of the actors (Andy Serkis and the actress from Fringe, Kai and Whip-tail were also very well done). The rest of the game was utterly pretty but passable.
"I just find it odd that in light of recent studio closings like Pandemic and Free Radical…studios that HAVE made money since 2007…Ninja Theory is able to stay open despite not having released a game or by their account, made any money in the last three years."
Technically Free radical never closed down...
Recent studio closures are because project funding was pulled out from under them or because their operational costs exceeded their output and as a subsidy they were shut down. It's not about making money per-say, but because they lost a major contract for a game, and with no work, and no funding, and all the time and money spent on the debunk game they go belly up.