Tuesday 13 June 2017

SONY'S E3 CONFERENCE WAS JUST... MEH (AND A RANT ABOUT PLAYLINK)

First up, a few games that has gotten new gameplay trailers were actually good and so is the pre-show. Before I talk about the negatives let's talk about the negatives. We finally got gameplay trailers of Spider-Man, Days Gone and even the most anticipated God of War as well as two expansions for Horizon Zero Dawn and Uncharted. And not to mention, we are finally getting Undertale on a video game system which is awesome since that game is very popular and well received.

The pre-show is actually good. As for the main games conference itself, it's just in my opinion is just meh, The overall presentation is just too boring even the audience doesn't seem to find it interesting. All it is it just starts out as a live musical performance for one of the expansions followed by a bunch of gameplay trailers of games we have already heard of especially Actvision's Destiny 2 and Call of Duty WWII in which I KNEW it was going to be shown at a damn Sony conference. Is it true Sony is shifting away all the good stuff for pre-shows and PS Experiences now? Back then, Sony's E3 conferences were very interesting to watch. Looking at it now it's just trailers and only one guy which is Shawn Layden himself presenting the conference. No developers, no Sony representatives, no demos, no nothing.

And on top of that and I know it wasn't presented at the conference. They introduced a another gimmick series called PlayLink. All it is you're USING a smart device as the controller and that's it. Also, you have to download the app for the damn thing to play it. In my opinion, I don't think the PlayLink isn't going to be a success. I mean, Sony tried bullshit with the PlayStation Move which they copied from Nintendo and it failed. They tried it again with the Wonderbook and only a mere 4 titles were released for the sodding thing because nobody is interested.

Sony, remember when Microsoft discontinued the Kinect because it's library of shovelware games sucked ass and developers stopped making them due to how sucky the Kinect is and it can even invade people's privacy? To be honest PlayLink is a really dumb idea. You're not even using the DualShock 4 pad anymore. You're basically using a smartphone app on a device to interact with the game. Look Sony, I played quizzes that I can make use my smartphone optionally to interact with the website, I can read questions on the board and then answer them on my phone and it's even free to play. I'd rather play Kahoot! over PlayLink. And what's worse, one of the PlayLink titles called ''It's You'' is going to be one the PlayStation 4 titles for PlayStation Plus and I was really pissed off about this. PlayStation Plus isn't JUST about online only, local multiplayer only and soon to be smartphone only titles. PlayStation Plus is all about fun games, with so many average titles and titles that just basically play the same. It's just starting to get worse and worse and worse. Remember when EA used to support your asses by giving out free games for Plus members? What's happening with that now?

Overall, I don't think Sony didn't do well at all with the Conference. The show was boring and it's just games that were already leaked or I heard of. And thanks for announcing a Plus game that I will certainly can't play due to the fact it needs 2 or more players that has smartphones. smh!

Saturday 3 June 2017

DOES PLAYSTATION PLUS HAS TOO MANY CO-OP/MULTIPLAYER TITLES FOR PLAYSTATION 4?





From what I have heard is that Sony Interactive Entertainment in North America and Europe has been adding quite a few co-op/competitive focused titles recently. Back when the PlayStation 3 and the PlayStation Vita are still in the spotlight, they had been getting some decent AAA titles such as a slew of EA titles, Dragon's Dogma Dark Arisen, PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, Batman Arkham Asylum, Mortal Kombat 9, Metal Gear Rising, Bioshock 2, Bioshock Infinite, Borderlands 2 and many more.

Unfortunately, the PlayStation 4 doesn't seem to recivive the same treatment as most of the time. PS4 owners just gets budget value games and average games that even requires a constant internet connection to play and what's worse, few games on the Instant Game Collection has no Single Player mode meaning you are forced to find a friend locally in order to play. In this blog entry I will list down the PS4 games as of from December 2015 up until now which is June 2017. However, I will omit PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita titles since they are not focused on the Multiplayer aspect as well as cross-buy titles. I will only include the PlayStation 4 titles so here we go.

JANUARY 2016:
  • Hardware Rivals (REQUIRES ONLINE TO PLAY!)
  • Grim Fandango Remastered

FEBRUARY 2016:
  • Helldivers (And it's a co-op shooter)
  • Nom Nom Galaxy

MARCH 2016:
  • Broforce (Not a co-op shooter but a broken mess)
  • Galak-Z

APRIL 2016:
  • Dead Star (REQUIRES ONLINE TO PLAY!)
  • Zombi (It's just a generic zombie survival game)

MAY 2016: 
  • Tropico 5
  • Table Top Racing World Tour

JUNE 2016:
  • NBA 2K16 (The only AAA PS4 title to be on Plus)
  • Gone Home (You can beat this within minutes)

JULY 2016 (Thankfully, no multiplayer titles this time):
  • Saints Row: Gat Out of Hell (Yes! An standalone DLC pack!)
  • Furi

AUGUST 2016:
  • Rebel Galaxy
  • Tricky Towers (A mobile game? Really Sony!)

SEPTEMBER 2016:
  • Journey
  • Lords of the Fallen

OCTOBER 2016 (the only decent selection for PS4 for a change):
  • Resident Evil
  • Transformer Devastation

NOVEMBER 2016:
  • Everybody's Gone to the Rapture
  • The Deadly Tower of Monsters

DECEMBER 2016:
  • Invisible Inc.
  • Stories: The Path of Destinies

JANUARY 2017:
  • Day of the Tentacle Remastered
  • This War is Mine

FEBRUARY 2017:
  • Not a Hero
  • LittleBigPlanet 3

MARCH 2017:
  • Tearaway Unfolded
  • Disc Jam (REQUIRES ONLINE/FRIEND TO PLAY!)

APRIL 2017:
  • Drawn to Death (Alas a another online only game!)
  • Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime

MAY 2017:
  • Abzu (North America Only)
  • Alienation (Europe Only) (It plays the same as Dead Nation)
  • Tales from the Borderlands

JUNE 2017:
  • Life is Strange
  • Killing Floor 2
After seeing the archives of Plus titles, it seems that Sony is focusing more on the generic multiplayer aspect than the actual games that were given out. As of right now. PlayStation Network has over thousands of titles of the PS4 and there are much better games that Sony could of gave to PlayStation Plus member instead of giving us half assed games and episodic games. For me they are fine but I'm just not really a fan of Telltale Games since they don't much have any interactivity, you're basically watching a TV show and perform dumb quick time events. Seriously, a game based on a game? 

Sony could of easily given us any of the Shantae games, Shovel Knight, Street Fighter IV, Bastion, Among the Sleep, Megaman Legacy Collection, Shadow of the Beast and hell, even a LEGO game on the PS4 would keep me occupied rather than just shovelware. These these two games are okay in my opinion but Killing Floor 2 sounds like fun, the thing, most of the games that are on the list is the game I already have. Let's hope Sony improves their selection next month.