PlayStation Studios |OT41| Preserving Democracy until the Next Showcase
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Astrobot has allot of potential for sure.
I wonder, with it being a full game, if they will introduce a villian.
I wonder, with it being a full game, if they will introduce a villian.
Oh yeah now I remember! I feel another playthrough might be in order (where GPU Jungle will hence be stuck in my head yet again)Certainly did!
The plot is a classic tale of revenge as Astro sets out on a journey to defeat the evil Jim Ryan and his team of Evil Executives for the murder of his parents (Japan Studio)
More like the murder of his parents 2nd cousins, whose inheritance they used to build the beachhouse where Astro spent his summers.
I'm so pumped about a new Astro title, I hope the rumours that it is coming are true. This will probably end up as one of the best titles of this gen.
That would be cool to look it but it makes it difficult for them to make an identity of its own. I am excited to see the new fox character.
Yeah, one of the biggest problems I have (beyond the insane simplicity and lack of any mechanical depth or creativity beyond graphics) with Astrobot is that the only identity the game has is...the same joke Sackboy already has. "Look, Astro is wearing a hat from another video game!" is kinda played out. It'd be nice if they're able to find some actual identity for the series and the character beyond "cameo hats" and dancing.
But I just don't particularly find mascots engaging at all so I guess it was never gonna work for me beyond tech demos.
I don't know maybe it's due to bad timing but I started playing Sackboy right after finishing Mario odyssey and it didn't vibe with me. I love platformers
Astrobot controls are simplistic but beyond all the references I love their creative use of everything on Dualsense and they made freaking computer parts CPU, GPU, SSD super charming. The level design is great too. I think the full length game will give them a chance to make Astrobot a top tier platformer.
I'm downloading Horizon Forbidden West even though I never finished the first one lol I hope there's a detailed recap because I don't remember anything
Everything suggests it is, especially since its going to be at the May event where marketing would have to begin around now
I guess we'll see. Well, you will. I don't pay for platformers that aren't Mario or Psychonauts, lol.
Lmao what's worse than no showcase? A disappointing one. I'm suddenly anxious for this OT 😬
I'm going to be straight with you guy since some of you are vaguely okay.
My favourite playstation thing is when they do that thing where they announce like five or six indie five minutes apart. Thats the best :P
My favourite playstation thing is when they do that thing where they announce like five or six indie five minutes apart. Thats the best :P
Rescue Mission is one of the most creative and magical games ever made. I'd put it on the same level as playing Mario 64 on my imported Japanese N64 back in the day. Asobi is really good at doing creative things with hardware. PS VR with Rescue Mission and the Dual Sense with Playroom.
Platformers tend to be simplistic mechanically. It's not like Super Mario Bros or Donkey Kong or Super Meat Boy or Shovel Knight or Crash or Sonic or Psychonauts have conplex mechanics. It's more about how they control and how you interact with the levels. And if you watch some of the Playroom speed runs, people do some pretty crazy stuff with the little fella.
And what's also nice about the Astro games is that they're love letters to PlayStation. That and Kenny Young's soundtracks are absolute bangers.
I hate when they do that.
When they just trow a bunch of Indie games at screen all with diferent artstyles, and I forget they exist 2 minutes after they show it.
Just give those games proper time, or show them on a blogpost.
Shu is better at showing Indie games in his Twitter than PS
You know what, just have Astro go ALL IN on the fan service and cameos. Let's have entire levels dedicated to replicating Jak, Sly and Ape Escape since we're not getting new games in those series any other way.
Think Kingdom Hearts but with old platformers instead of Disney.
Think Kingdom Hearts but with old platformers instead of Disney.
This is insane. I get that you have very peculiar taste in games but man, there's plenty of fantastic platformers other than Mario and Psychonauts out there.
It's just not a genre that interests me, I'm sorry. Frankly, I was never a fan of mascot games - even when I was a kid I thought Crash, Spyro and Jak were all boring. Mario and Sonic I have some long-term nostalgia for because they practically originated the platformer genre (and let's be real, classic Sonic is genuinely dead and never coming back), but I pretty much glided right past all the other copycats across the ages.
Psychonauts is a unique fringe case because of how distinct and weird and Tim Schafer it is. No other game has that going for it.
That's pretty funny, cuz when I read it back to myself the first time, I did too. But it was the point I was trying to make so I just left it.
Sackboy will be the villain. And we play him in the second half of the game
Sackboy, Jak and Sly team up to escape the Sony Vault and Astrobot stops themselves, last second twist is the little cuties are actually the true villain.
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This one might be too long, but it was recommended around FW launch and it recapped / made me appreciate the lore of the first game a lot more.
Wonder what stages of production the various PS Productions projects are at. Right now we have:
TLOU HBO Season 2 - we know season 2 comes out 2025
Twisted Metal Season 2 - I believe also 2025 was confirmed
Ghost of Tsushima movie
God of War Amazon
Horizon Netflix
Uncharted movie #2, I believe has been indicated to some degree
Days Gone movie
Gravity Rush movie
Until Dawn movie
Then beyond that there's other projects like
Death Stranding movie
Whatever Bungie's working on for their transmedia efforts
Maybe Physint eventually too?
Wonder what else they may be cooking. I'm guessing 2025/2026 are gonna be pretty packed with content from the above lineup. Will the Sly Cooper animated series ever see the light of day? Will the Jak and Daxter movie ever become a reality?
TLOU HBO Season 2 - we know season 2 comes out 2025
Twisted Metal Season 2 - I believe also 2025 was confirmed
Ghost of Tsushima movie
God of War Amazon
Horizon Netflix
Uncharted movie #2, I believe has been indicated to some degree
Days Gone movie
Gravity Rush movie
Until Dawn movie
Then beyond that there's other projects like
Death Stranding movie
Whatever Bungie's working on for their transmedia efforts
Maybe Physint eventually too?
Wonder what else they may be cooking. I'm guessing 2025/2026 are gonna be pretty packed with content from the above lineup. Will the Sly Cooper animated series ever see the light of day? Will the Jak and Daxter movie ever become a reality?
Returnal, DeS remake/ER, HD2, and Astrobot are the highlights of PS5 for me this gen. I always felt Sackboy and Astro are the perfect mascots for Sony since the WWS of PlayStation are the mascots and they move on from franchises instead of continuing the IP forever like Nintendo. Sackboy and Astro both can emulate and pay homage to all PS IP, I really, really feel it was short-sighted to not continue and keep innovating with LBP, even if MM was inspired by something different, that IP was just so good.
Hopefully, Team Asobi will do something special with Astro. A 3D platform and Kart racer should be no-brainer endeavors IMHO. MM should also be on LBP4, just so much you can do with the IP and cloth worlds.
If you forgot about it, then that's as much the fault of the game as it is the presentation. I saw SacriFire for like a minute or so and it stood out in my mind enough to remember it years later.
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