I would buy this on PC in a heartbeat. Too bad Sony doesn’t like profits
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This is what blows my mind too. I think of if Helldivers 2 was exclusive, pretty much all of my friends own it and (as far as I know) none of them own a PS5. Locking it out of platforms is just saying that they down like money imo.
That's alright. Can just emulate it in a few years
A £70 roguelike is a big fucking ask.
The only one I've played, completed and enjoyed was Hades. It doesn't waste your time even on a failed run. A run is like 40 minutes of real time. That's about where this shit needs to be to attract non-masochists. Even then, £70.
It's ok, Sony doesn't like PC money anyway so 300k copies must be perfectly fine for them.
If only we could see the reason why... jesus is everyone in modern gaming business turning into morons?
That would imply they weren't morons already
Probably doesn't help that this is the first I've heard of it.
oh look, is that a gruff 30yo in armor who didn't ask to be dragged into this war ?
Release it on PC and watch it sell more, almost as if releasing it on more platforms allows more people to access it.
new game
roguelike
Looks like an interesting game. Where is the link to the Steam page, so I can buy and give my money to Sony, so Sony becomes more rich?
That's the fun part.....
Just get Returnal instead, it’s the better game
Hold on... Okay, so what you're saying is... Locking games behind one platform, especially a dying one, leads to significantly fewer copies sold? I'm speechless. How is that even possible? If only we could figure out a way to foresee such events...
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if only it was available on a different platform
Geez after the debacle with their new DRM shit for digital purchases and rolling back their pledge to release to PC, I wonder fucking why people aren't climbing over themselves to throw money at 'em.
Not to mention general economics issues plaguing the world right now. Can't imagine many people have the disposable income to throw at video games to begin with.
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I would be all over this if it were available on a platform I actually owned. But I'm not about to pay $1k to play it (or whatever it costs after Sony's latest round of price hikes on aging hardware).
Is this some Hollywood accounting, where they set the game up to fail? I’ve literally never heard of it until this post.
I'm not sure we can help you if you've never heard of this game. It's been in every major gaming news site's release calendar, reviewed very well, and it's been in several of Sony's showcases.
EDIT: Folks, I don't care if you also personally never heard of it. That wasn't the point. This game had a marketing budget and was not set up to fail.
Edit response time: That people interested in games did not know about it would be very indicative of a major failing and current lack of relavance of mainstream gaming media. That would seem to be very much on point, as there is no need to help us for not knowing, but it would seem Sony might need help.
The fact that I never seen or heard of this is no surprise though, the only time gaming news coverage shows up for most is when there is some sort of scandal. Its why I know more about "Mix Tape", "High Guard" and "Marathon" then this game.
I like my small indie / oddball games but I find I get more info from people steaming a game and talking about it then a "review" that had clearly been bought and paid for. And it seems I am not the only one, as clearly no one is reading the "major" gaming news sites anymore. Well at least in this case no one from their target audience is.
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It was not set up to succeed, either.
They definitely did a lot of sponsored YouTube content. Iron Pineapple did a sponsored video. Seemed mid, not a $700 (ps5 + game) game.
I will definitely play this at some point. Returnal is up there in my like, top 5 games of the past few years. I will happily wait for sale.
Be warned, it is a much shallower game than Returnal was. It is a better 3D bullet hell. More bullets in denser patterns and more bullet types. Everything else about the game is worse and not by a little.
Returnal was fantastic. That is unfortunate to hear.
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I fucking loved this game, it's a shame it didn't sell better. The performance was bad in some places on my pleb PS5, but mostly fine. It would go from fine to absolute shit, only for it to go back to fine when I went further into the level. So I think it was just bugged, I hope they can fix it.
Returnal for me was the better game tho, I liked the level design better in that one and the guns felt better. Saros was still very very good.
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