Astro Bot is currently the highest ranked PS Studios game in Opencritic history

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Good game gets the recognition it deserves.
You love to see it.
Ironic that this is from what's left of Japan Studio.
 
I really hope a quality 3d platformer can sell a lot in a non-nintendo platform. It's all about the audience and nintendo's appreciates this kind of thing. That's what it takes to keep them coming. You need a cycle of making more games and making more fans of those games.

Unfortunately, I don't expect them to make much more either way. This is just asobi doing their thing. They kinda need more studios to make enough family friendly games to build an audience for them.
 
Pelao said:
Good game gets the recognition it deserves.
You love to see it.
Ironic that this is from what's left of Japan Studio.
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And people are seeing this as PS celebration rather than an eye opener letter to studio execs like Mark Carney. It is a love letter to gamers but not to the sony bosses. These fuckers closed Japan Studio, there should not be an easy forgiveness to that.
 
Crayon said:
Unfortunately, I don't expect them to make much more either way. This is just asobi doing their thing. They kinda need more studios to make enough family friendly games to build an audience for them.
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I kinda mentioned this already, but LEGO Horizon releasing in November is some great momentum. XDEV will be a great use for this, and then there's also Media Molecule.
 
TrueLegend said:
And people are seeing this as PS celebration rather than an eye opener letter to studio execs like Mark Carney. It is a love letter to gamers but not to the sony bosses. These fuckers closed Japan Studio, there should not be an easy forgiveness to that.
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Which kinda allowed for Astro Bot to exist. I think people sometimes forget that Japan Studio and Team Asobi have never overlapped.
 
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nial said:
I kinda mentioned this already, but LEGO Horizon releasing in November is some great momentum. XDEV will be a great use for this, and then there's also Media Molecule.
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That's right. I was thinking recently that mm is just as likely to go back to platformers for their next night thing. Dreams was definitely a too close to the sun kind of lesson.

Actually, we have any idea how long astro took to make?
 
blacktout said:
Huh? Who's criticizing them? This is just about as close to universal acclaim as a game can get.
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A lot of people actually. Mostly backhanded compliments suggesting that this is a fluke or luck or that Sony didn't believe in this game, or that Sony needs to learn their lesson because they don't know what they're doing, despite making this game in the first place.
 
TrueLegend said:
Are you thick or what? We don't want just astrobot to exist we want all that the Astrobot game is celebrating to exist.
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People should support new stuff as well, though. Rise of the Ronin, just like Astro Bot, was essentially a new Japan Studio production this year.
 
Crayon said:
That's right. I was thinking recently that mm is just as likely to go back to platformers for their next night thing. Dreams was definitely a too close to the sun kind of lesson.

Actually, we have any idea how long astro took to make?
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Astro's Playroom was already finished by mid 2020 when PS5 was starting to be mass produced, so the simple idea should be 4 years of development. But then I have to think that they didn't go full ahead into development until Team Asobi was established in April 2021. So take any of these.
Regarding Media Molecule, some stuff was actually hinting at them returning to platformers, yeah.
 
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Musashipan said:
Most boring and uncharismatic mascot ever
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What? The only negative thing you could say about them is that they are a minions ripoff. But they are still super cute and very good mascots. Who else do you want as a mascot? Knack? Steroid Abby? Dad of War? Miss charisma Aloy? Indiana Drake?
 
nial said:
Astro's Playroom was already finished by mid 2020 when PS5 was starting to be mass produced, so the simple idea should be 4 years of development. But then I have to think that they didn't go full ahead into development until Team Asobi was established in April 2021. So take any of these.
Regarding Media Molecule, some stuff was actually hinting at them returning to platformers, yeah.
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A three year turnaround is promising. Games have to come out faster and games without (attempted) photorealistic graphics have a huge advantage there.
 
Has it got any 7's yet? There's always a site doing that for big releases. Or was Astro bot small enough to slip through
 
This is what happens when game reviewers are starved of good games to review, and AAA has turned into absolute shit in recent years.

Score inflation for the few good games that do release per year now.

No shot this game gets a 94 meta if it came out last gen when there were amazing games releasing constantly.

(Not saying Astro Bot isn't a great game, it obviously is. I'm just saying it wouldn't get a 94 during peak PS4 era, more like a 89-91)

At this rate, I wouldn't be shocked if Ghost of Tsushima sequel gets a 91-94 metascore, especially if it's a decent improvement over the first.
 
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That's what happens when you manage to replicate first party Nintendo software.
 
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Musashipan said:
Most boring and uncharismatic mascot ever
Also very boring game
Utterly Overhyped
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Damn dude you must hate fun or something. Do you go to an amusement park and just complain about the lines the whole day?
 
Crayon said:
A three year turnaround is promising. Games have to come out faster and games without (attempted) photorealistic graphics have a huge advantage there.
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I'm really interested in knowing how much Sony spent on this game. I guarantee it wasn't the $220m they spent on Concord 😂
 
MostlyPeaceful said:
No shot this game gets a 94 meta if it came out last gen when there were amazing games releasing constantly.
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No shit sherlock? Success is always dependant on competition. I can't imagine any other year than 2021 where It Takes Two could win goty.
I don't think Astro Bot could win in year with a huge Nintendo game or a Sony cinematic. This year Astro wins easily.

The same goes for the Oscars and every other competition. Nothing to point out.
 
Cakeboxer said:
No shit sherlock? Success is always dependant on competition. I can't imagine any other year than 2021 where It Takes Two could win goty.
I don't think Astro Bot could win in year with a huge Nintendo game or a Sony cinematic. This year Astro wins easily.

The same goes for the Oscars and every other competition. Nothing to point out.
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You say "no shit sherlock", yet you're the only person I've seen here who actually agrees with what I'm saying and sees the rationale in it.

Everyone else has made it seem like I'm some unhinged troll by making (what I believe to be) a pretty obvious observation about the current AAA games climate, and how it's affecting the review aggregates of good, quality games.

Good/great games that've released this generation are getting better aggregate scores than they would have if they released last generation - because of how terrible the current AAA landscape has otherwise been in recent years.
 
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