SSM knows what's up. Oxenfree is one of the best written game of this gen. Characters are talking like actual human beings.Santa Monica Studio's writing team is getting bigger and bigger. Hannah Filipski from Night School Studio (Oxenfree and Afterparty) joined the studio last month:
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My emotional game history.
MGS4 - Glassy eyes
TLOU - Ugly Cry
Uncharted 4 - Fighting back tears (I lost)
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They've got to be building a second team, right? It seems like they're hiring like crazy even though the GoW team is still largely intact.
They are building a bigger "first" team. A 180-199 team is pretty small for an AAA team these days. SSM needs to get bigger for next gen / PS5 / God of War 2. Right now Naughty Dog is twice as big as SSM.
Wait, what did I miss!? Concrete Genie releases next week!?!?
This is old news Isn't it?
It's an amazing trailer (teaser? TV spot?) but it was released, and posted, earlier this week.
This is old news Isn't it?
It's an amazing trailer (teaser? TV spot?) but it was released, and posted, earlier this week.
Yup, looks really promising!
Love it.
I can totally see them making a GAAS type game as it's one of the areas that Sony seems to lack and could benefit from.
Nice pick.Santa Monica Studio's writing team is getting bigger and bigger. Hannah Filipski from Night School Studio (Oxenfree and Afterparty) joined the studio last month:
Sony probably saw TLoU Part II's MP and went "Cha-ching! No way we're including this for free!"
You may be joking but I'm actually convinced that's what may have happened. ND can take too long making their single player games and only Lord knows how long they'll take making their next one if it's a New IP. I think having a separate MP game in between TLOU2 and their next game is a great idea, especially if they decide to support it in the long run.
Now the question becomes, how much are they going to charge for it? I'm all for putting it in the PS5 version of TLOU2 as an insentive to double dip.
Right, if it is a fleshed out experience and priced accordingly, I'm all for it. If it launches lukewarm with a high price....
I think making it free (or at least a discount) for buyers of TLoU II is a good idea.
Won't happen.
There is a team dedicated to the MP and will siphon off some of the tlou2 members when the sp gets released.
But 100% there is already the next Nd single player game in the prototype stage.
Can't have 100s of employees just sitting there twiddling their thumbs while the higher ups think of a game.
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That's my contribution, hopefully it hasn't been said already.
That's my contribution, hopefully it hasn't been said already.
I think I remember one of ND's artist putting up cyberpunk art out there. I wonder if that's gonna the next genre they work on.
Development doesn't work like that, they probably have a small team for their next game's pre production which is most likely a stand alone DLC for TLOU2.
Probably just a mistake but I will post just in case:
Amazon Mexico set the release date of ghost of Tsushima to a (most likely) place holder March 31st date, I find that of note because usually place holder dates are end of year December 31st.
Then again I don't see why would it release so close to the last of us part 2, but maybe it launches on Q2?
I'd rather they keep it to the PS5 as a cross gen launch game at this point.
Amazon Mexico set the release date of ghost of Tsushima to a (most likely) place holder March 31st date, I find that of note because usually place holder dates are end of year December 31st.
Then again I don't see why would it release so close to the last of us part 2, but maybe it launches on Q2?
I'd rather they keep it to the PS5 as a cross gen launch game at this point.
That might not be exactly how it went, but I imagine they are seeing it as both a revenue source and a way to get TLoU goodness onto PS5 without turning it into a full sequel. After all, it seems unlikely they'll do a remaster given the backward compatibility story.
Talking about backwards compatibility, I'm very curious to see how Sony will treat those "remasters". Will they sell it like a new game? Paid patches? Free patches? Paid upgrade to receive the PS5 version of that game?
🤔 A poster here mentioned that Jason Schreier said May 2020 for Ghost.
Hopefully they do what Xbox One does and give graphical/framerate enhancements to select games at no extra cost, but I'm not sure Sony would be willing to miss out on that remaster money.
Resolution and frame rate are one thing. But I'm talking about something like the leap between TLOU or GTA V for PS3 and PS4, with new textures, assets and so on.
Recently, Tlou2 also had place holder on 28 February and then get release date at 21 february.
Maybe GoTsu release in March? 🤔
March would not make sense for Ghost of Tsushima, that would mean sony releases 4 big games in 1 financial year
It's the last fiscal year of this generation. Sony need to release all their PlayStation 4 before PlayStation 5 launch.
Doubt it. It has more do with the size of the game. Show me a 3rd person action adventure or FPS that has a ~25 - 30 hours AAA singleplayer campaign and a huge multiplayer mode. There is none these days. There is a reason why the multiplayer-focused games have a 3-5 hours singleplayer campaign most of the time. Those games are just too big these days. Splitting it just make too much sense for Naughty Dog. To be onest, I expected a MP mode in TLOU2. But after ND announced how big the games is (biggest project, longest ND game ever), making two games is the way to go. Now they can go all out with a TLOU2 game and a TLOU-based multiplayer game afterwards.
As you can read in ND's statement, the MP game will clearly be a standalone product. So no, don't expect both games together on one disc for the PS5. They're gonna be two different games. And I'm pretty sure you will have to pay for it. It will be a new game and I doubt it will be a F2P game.
March is nonense. Gonna be Q3 or Q4 2020.
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I think GoT will be a PS5 launch title, BotW style on PS4 too.
Although last gen Sony released GT6 and Beyond just months before PS4 launched so I could be wrong based on history.
This thinking has to come from the same vein of "Kojima takes long too make games and is always over budget". Its not based in reality.
And that is what happen with Anthem, that is way having good leadership is important.
Does that Twitter video don't have a sound?
This gameplay video below has the weapon upgrade sfx at 9:00, and it sound delicious like sex.😋
Ghost of Tsushima will be available on PlayStation 5, so you can play it on this console if you want.
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