Ex: Ninja Theory's action-adventure game ENSLAVED: Odyssey To The West seems to be gaining a lot of momentum and mind share lately, and based on the gameplay we've seen thus far it certainly warrants it.
Today, we've got a chance to hear directly from the devs at Nina Theory in this debut developer diary. The team shares their thoughts on the game's development, spotlighting the all-important focus on building story and character.
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.
From Xfire: "It's not unusual to see the occasional bad PC port, but these ones make the bad PC ports look great in comparison."
To be fair with GTAIV, it was a very CPU bound game, released at a time when the vast majority of PC gamers still believed that the CPU was nearly irrelevant, and that you only needed a good GPU. 95% of "gaming" builds back then were using turds for CPUs.
Joseph, Josh, and Chris go over a striking Sony decision, a Star Wars: Knights of the Republic remake seems to be happening, and local JRPG lover Chris talks about Atelier Firis DX.
LOL at adding the Heavenly Sword music, couldn't create another unique one for this game, so when people hear it they will say oh that's from ENSLAVED???.
This will flop so bad on PS3, these guys been talking so much crap about their experience with PS3.
Not to mention I guaranteed you this game will look worst on PS3, since it is Unreal 3D driven.
Ninja Theory has annoyed me more and more as years wear on. They just seem whiny to me. They always talk about all of these fantastic characters and never about gameplay. Heavenly Sword was the same way and while it was entertaining, it really only had enough content to be a 15-20 dollar downloadable title. I'm very skeptical of this developer right now and while I hope they prove me wrong with Enslaved, I am highly doubting it at this point.