For me
- Bloodborne
2.Demon souls bluepoint remake
- Ghosts of Tsushima
4.God of War
5.The last of us/ Uncharted.
- Rachet + clank
All good to great
Death stranding and Horizon = slop dog shit Imo could not finish them
These are the ones I’ve personally played.
The only one of these I’ve played was Death Stranding and it had too much action
DS is the only one I would rate. The rest are video game equivalent of marvel slop. Excepting fromsoft. Ghost has nice art direction, but is an Ubisoft game at heart.
That’s fair. I was able to look past the generic gameplay because of the art direction and “samurai lol”. It’s a good ubisoft game, but yeah it does follow that formula (ghosts).
Demon Souls and Bloodborne are far and away the best things sony has in its exclusives library.
I like the God of war Reboot and Sequel, and I like The last of Us, but yes they do veer to close to feeling like Marvel in a video game. Especially God of war.
Spiderman and its sequels were movie game cinematic slop dog shit. Seriously who’s idea was it to give Spiderman 2 so many 9s?
That game was boring as fuck.
I think we mostly agree with DS being the only disagreement. I’ve never played a version of TLOU with acceptable performance, but I highly anticipate the day when an acceptable port/emulation of 2 arrives.
The GoW reboots are cool in terms of ideas, I should give them another shot now that the hype has died down. I just wish it had more complex combat. I went from playing dmcV to to the reboot port though, so that might have biased me. I think the real issue I had was how so many mechanics are locked and I had to watch cutscenes written by poor writers to slowly unlock the stuff.
Spider-Man coasts off the movement mechanics, they nailed that aspect. It’s like death stranding for the marvel brained, in that it has flashy but shallow movement that feels good while lacking depth or Ludo-narrative resonance.
I still need to play bloodborne. Apparently the emulator is almost there.
Are the ratchet games good? I loved the originals on ps2.
Edit: oh, and horizon. “Is that a ledge? Maybe I should climb the ledge.” Just constant shallow puzzles and ubi design.
Just going off your list: I never played Demon Souls, Uncharted, Ratchet+Clank, or Death Stranding, so no comment on those. Well, actually I started Uncharted and felt like I was watching a bad movie where I could make the main character run around and shoot sometimes. Didn’t feel like a game, so I gave up after a couple hours. Might have grown on me, but I didn’t care enough about what I did play to even want it to.
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I loved Horizon (ZD and FW). It wasn’t perfect, but it very much clicked for me. I really liked the feel and execution of the combat, I liked the world, I liked the main character, I liked the scifi backstory. Did not like the in-game contemporary human/tribe story lines at all though. (Sylens was cool though. RIP Lance Reddick.)
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Bloodbourne - took a while for me to get into it, but when I was able to “get it” I became addicted and loved it, though also found it very frustrating. However, I now understand why it is so praised and beloved and can mostly agree. I’m glad I decided to try it despite beforehand not wanting to because I was afraid it would be too difficult.
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God of War - It was definitely well made. Didn’t care for the boss fights at all. I did quite like the feel of the combat, the flow of the controls, which is important to me. Have not played the new-ish sequel. Honestly, I’m having trouble remembering the game and what I thought of it at the time, so I guess not too memorable.
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Ghosts of Tsushima - I… yeah, I enjoyed it. Mostly. But it was really wearing on me by the end, and I only kept at it due to a sense of obligation and sunk cost. It was fun for a while, but just felt so rote by the end. And all along it felt super gimmicky even for an open world game. It’s hard to summarize why without going into way too much detail. I had issues with the story too.
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The Last of Us - It had that movie thing going which I do not care for. However, I was able to get past that and enjoy it mostly. It did pass the time ok. Did not “feel good” to play though. Felt clunky and often tedious. Glad I played it, but think it was grossly overrated. The much-lauded story is just mediocre and cliche at best. Didn’t play the sequel.
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Spiderman - I admit I really liked swinging around the city. It felt good. But beyond that, fuck that game. Disgusting copaganda. Up with which I will not put. Like, Last of Us and Tsushima may have had their own kinds of reactionary themes, but Spiderman felt like a Clinton liberal and thin blue line chud set aside their differences so they could come together and make that abomination of setting and plot. Never finished it.
Death stranding is pretty God tier but also you gotta be on the kojima wavelength so definitely not for everyone.
I just started mgs4 and it’s pretty wild, i think all the other metal gears are playable by non-sony means
The Sly Cooper franchise might be my favorite, all three of em are very dear to my heart and I’m considering getting the PS3 version just to replay the series, they run pretty badly on emulators. I played the first 30 minutes of 4 and it was rough, the character design changes also rubbed me the wrong way.
If it was God tier, everyone would like it and not just a small subset of people who can 'appreciateit’s.,
Glad you enjoyed it though man. I wish I could see what you see in the game
Ah yes “everyone liking it” famously a thing that artists can and should shoot for as a goal. A thing that is possible to achieve.
It’s personal little buddy, I think it’s God tier it does God tier things for me personally you have your own tastes your own priorities. I can only work from my own read just as much as you can only work from yours
Why are you getting mad and being passive aggressive over slop pop culture? jfc.
I literally said I’m glad you enjoyed it and tried to be amicable and you’re still mad. I didn’t insult you.
“Little buddy”
I’m fairly tall. I think if you wanted to be passive aggressive something like ‘chief’ would have worked better than “little buddy” fyi
I was just saying if it was a masterpiece, it would be a lot more revered instead of a small subset of people liking it imo.
Either way, it’s a video game. I’m done worrying about it. I’m glad you liked it pal. I wish I could enjoy it like you do
Shadow of the Colossus will have to be in your top 3 when you play it. You can feel the weight of the game when you play it, from the vibe of the story to how they pulled off something like that on the ps2. Even if you play the bluepoint remake
