Bobby from GL: "Despite a wealth of prestigious and narrative-focused games, PlayStation lost some variety. That is until now, with the reveal of PS5's fully-fledged Astro Bot."
Plus, a guide on how to find the first Special Bot, Lady Maria.
With upcoming PS5-exclusive releases pretty sparse, Astro Bot is exactly what the console needs right now.
My most wanted game, it looks phenomenal and takes me back to the good years of gaming.
Getting this day one. It looks amazing, just like Astro's Playroom but this time longer and better
The upcoming PlayStation 5 exclusive, Astro Bot, file size was revealed through a retail box cover, indicating that it will be a huge game.
A mighty chunk. Hope this game's a good 12 - 14 hours at least. Might be one of the funnest platinums to get in a while. Day 1 for me and millions of others I bet as well.
Curious to see what that interprets to in terms of length. Cuz there’s a lot of really cool physics simulations in the game, not sure if those are something that would take up much space or not. Either way I’m stoked. They’re going to release free challenge levels after launch as well.
Looking forward to this game, and yes-a less serious tone is welcomed along with a more varied gameplay.
Welcome to the era of FUN!!!!
Uhhh so Helldivers 2, Demons Souls, Returnal, these aren't fun games? Says who?
title: ""But Astro Bot Shows There’s Still Hope""
I'd paraphrase this:
"Astro Bot shows there's no hope for PSVR2".
Pretty sure there's much more fun in VR than in one game, no matter how overhyped it would be.
BTW. It's being praised just because this game genre is neglected and there's nothing top-tier since years.
The game's just OK, and obviously made well, by a talented group of people who were not lazy.
Back to Sony.
There's no hope for them. They lost the ball.
What made Playstation 1-5 good, is no longer there, at Sony's management.
This game won't change anything either.
This is just one studio.
One Japaneese studio with better gamer culture, better understanding of the medium, cause more people there actually did play a game in the past and they actually do have decades long experience of what works and what is required to achieve good, quality "fun" from playing.
But those veterans retire eventually, and the "modern" approach to making games and disrespecting the people who buy those games, eventually catches up. Shows up in USA first, then it took years before good European studios lost the "old ways". Then eastern Europe and Japan.
Sony is just a corporation's name at this point. People who hope to get the same as Sony was giving in times of PS2 and PS3, are as naive as the people who think Blizzard or Konami can still make legendary games made with absolutely exceptional levels of quality and creativity.
I'm not even sure if Nintendo still can keep making games which are fun and AAA quality in terms of how fun they are, not in terms of how much money and people it required.
MS and Sony? Nah. Those clueless idiots who make decissions there, don't care about fun and know nothing about making games fun, and no idea about the mindset of gamers who know what good, fun game looks like and expect high quality games from Sony and MS.
We'll get a ton of the same crap, a few most mainstream genres and that's it. Live services in general + whatever's trendy. Hero shooters, Battle Royale shooters. CS/COD-like shooters. Dark Souls-like games, story driven "games", Uncharted clones, zombie games, stealh games - whatever's the current gold rush in the minds of corporate suits.
Sometimes, by a complete coincidence, something really fun gets released.
But the segment of the industry that's focused on fun in gaming, is a mere shadow of what once was a norm.
Who remembers 16bit, PS1 and PS2 years, will know what I mean.
It's almost ironic
Sony abandoned VR, which has the potential to be the platform for the most fun games, creating the richest era of fun games in history.
But their management was too dumb to realize that and we are where we are - In a comment section under an article which takes the symbol of this unfortunate turn of events, the final nail in PSVR2's coffin, and unironically suggests it's a sign that Sony still cares about supplying PS5 with a lot of good fun games.
BTW. You know what's fun? Stereoscopy in platform games. Sony won't even offer 3D mode in this game, for PSVR2.
Sony. For the players.