I recently got PS Now and started playing Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It's nice, not a bad game at all. Then I realised The Lost Legacy was about to leave Now so I've been quickly blasting through that and holy shit, the contrast going from one to the other shows the difference up. It's stark as hell. What Sony first parties are doing, and Naughty Dog especially, is fucking remarkable. Not only on a technical visual level but in terms of just oozing quality in every area. The games feel virtually generations apart to be honest. TLOU1 still reeks of quality even now, TLOU2 is going to blow minds. God help us for PS5 first party games.
Just played The Lost Legacy. It's insane how many of those "help me lift this thing up" scenes there are. I know there was gonna be a lot, but with all of the fuss about the PS5, I started to pay a lot more attention to every instance that was hiding the loading. And man, they do it a lot in that game, and they have to with all of the crazy vistas and ancient ruins they gotta show. There's one part of the game where it's like The Price is Right with different loading screen garage door things hiding amazing visuals. And then it just got me dreaming about what ND is gonna do now that they don't have to play The Price is Right on the PS5 to blow our minds.
ND should just make a Storage Wars game where the storage containers are portals to beautiful cliffsides.