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Astro Bot | Review Thread

What scores do you think Astro Bot will get?

  • 60-65%

    Votes: 3 0.9%
  • 66-69%

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • 70-74%

    Votes: 4 1.2%
  • 75-79%

    Votes: 5 1.5%
  • 80-84%

    Votes: 17 5.2%
  • 85-89%

    Votes: 108 33.3%
  • 90-94%

    Votes: 150 46.3%
  • 95-100%

    Votes: 37 11.4%

  • Total voters
    324
  • Poll closed .

FoxMcChief

Gold Member
Topher Topher should still buy the game through the app or online. You’ll spend $200+ on a controller you don’t need, but not a game you won’t play until the Pro comes out? Cheap.
 

John Wick

Member
I really don't know why people keep saying that. Where did you get that? I'm 100% sure that Astro Bot sells can fund Team Asobi's next game. In fact, all Sony's single-player titles are profitables. What is not profitable are Concord's-like.
From the mouth of Sony Execs. Have you been under a rock for the last few years?
 

Bernardougf

Member
Ha! My wife feels obligated to explain our “tv stand” in the living room.

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Yep same here....
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You misunderstand. I’m not saying they are comparable. I’m saying he should buy both the PC and the PS5. But also saying instead of buying a base PS5, he should wait for the PS5 Pro. I’d wager anyone with a $2k budget for a PC wants a high end experience.

Got it, fair enough.
 

Ogbert

Member
The reason games like this are rare is because it takes genuine talent and creative ability to design.

Most videogames are tedious nonsense. Boring, cliche ridden narratives. Unoriginal art design. Plodding mechanics. Design by committee, with MBAs being more important than genuine talent.

It’s only a few studios, almost all exclusively Japanese, that harbour a sincere love of gaming, focusing on moment to moment joy. Nintendo EPD, these fellas and a few others.
 

ChoosableOne

ChoosableAll
Wow. I had to scroll the mouse wheel 11 times to see a score below 100. I haven't experienced something like this in a long time. Incredible. I will wait for the PC port though.
 

Bernardougf

Member
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Thankfully we moved into a house which had a spare room for a man cave. But I used to have a shit ton of figures in the living room, which was always embarrassing when family visited!
Yeah mine is a private room either.. but people want to visit the house so.. she has to explain anyway lol ... its her problem not mine.. I dont give a flying fk about my hobbies 😅
 

bundylove

Member
No wonder so many Gaffers are nostalgic, when they were young, rainbows were still black and white.
Its like with everything.
I remember gummies back then gave me a nice suger rush.
Todays gummies make me wonder where i am , how the fuck did i get here, what am i doing, all i know my gummie must have kicked in hours ago
 

Bojanglez

The Amiga Brotherhood
The great thing is, how are journalists going to spin it that white males let Concord die but are buying a mascot plattformer en mass XD
Gamers Flock To Anti DEI Game Astro Bot

A game that includes only white characters with 'black-face' designs all with a single body type, culturally appropriating PlayStation's heritage.

😆 That will be the angle
 
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bundylove

Member
How people can still care about xbox versus playstation in 2024 is beyond it me. Now its about amazing games made by passionate devs who care about gamers versus woke/vapid/trash/generic games and devs like concord
Its bout playstation vs nintendo when it comes to this game
 

Fafalada

Fafracer forever
Astro Bot Rescue Mission was a glorified VR tech-demo.
If Rescue mission was a VR tech demo then I guess rumours Are true. VR literally has no games.
It's best seller is an experience, the gamer critical darlings are both tech demos, and the only attempts at 'real games' are the 3 watered down flat horror games.

weekend plans just to play a AA Playstation title...
Not that I entirely disagree - but if this is classed as AA you may as well say entire platformer genre is. Including all the Nintendo platformers released in last 5 years.
 
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You deserve a fucking tag for this.

This is 100% in the running for the worst possible take of all time on this site.

So go ahead and embarrass yourself further and explain to us how this game (that will probably be GOTY) is just a glorified tech demo.

It’s a ten hour game that isn’t going to appeal to everyone. And just because it doesn’t appeal to someone doesn’t make them whatever awful things you want them to be.
 

Killjoy-NL

Member
If Rescue mission was a VR tech demo then I guess rumours Are true. VR literally has no games.
It's best seller is an experience, the gamer critical darlings are both tech demos, and the only attempts at 'real games' are the 3 watered down flat horror games.
Well, I consider practically all VR games glorified tech-demoes, give or take a few.

So that's not exclusive to Rescue Mission.
Not that I entirely disagree - but if this is classed as AA you may as well say entire platformer genre is. Including all the Nintendo platformers released in last 5 years.
That wasn't even a jab at Astro Bot, but this doesn't look like a AAA title to me.

Then again, it also scored higher than I expected, so there's that.
 
Well, I consider practically all VR games glorified tech-demoes, give or take a few.

So that's not exclusive to Rescue Mission.

That wasn't even a jab at Astro Bot, but this doesn't look like a AAA title to me.

Then again, it also scored higher than I expected, so there's that.

Sackbot’s Big Adventure.
 

Topher

Identifies as young
You sold your ps5 waiting for the Pro ? Wtf...so you wont be playing AB right now... my Ps5 is going straight to my son

Afraid not. My sons have no interest in PS. I sold the thing earlier in the year before they announced AB. Had I known, I would have held on to it. So now I gotta wait on PS4 Pro. Love this "let's not announce shit until we have to" thing they got going on at Sony
 

GHG

Gold Member
Afraid not. My sons have no interest in PS. I sold the thing earlier in the year before they announced AB. Had I known, I would have held on to it. So now I gotta wait on PS4 Pro. Love this "let's not announce shit until we have to" thing they got going on at Sony

I know you're old but...

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GymWolf

Gold Member
Virtually flawless on 4 year old APU yet fools are sat here with 1500 GPUs that buckle under the pressure of monkey game and star fantasy criminals. What is this life.
But Wukong looks order of magnitudes better than astro in terms of pure graphic and picking ubisoft as an example of optimization is bizzare to say the least...

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XXL

Gold Member
Afraid not. My sons have no interest in PS. I sold the thing earlier in the year before they announced AB. Had I known, I would have held on to it. So now I gotta wait on PS4 Pro. Love this "let's not announce shit until we have to" thing they got going on at Sony
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I don't care if anyone likes it or not, calling it a tech demo is insane.

It could be… in that it focuses on the features of the DS5, so it demonstrates the tech.

No need to get upset over it. These types of games won’t appeal to everyone. Some people like more story development, etc.
 

Topher

Identifies as young
It could be… in that it focuses on the features of the DS5, so it demonstrates the tech.

That was Astro's Playroom. You don't create a "tech demo" to demonstrate the features of a controller 4 years after launch. Everyone is well aware. This is a full-fledged game.
 
Linneman is hyperbolic about every platformer, including stupid ones.
True but i get what he's saying.
When i played Astro's Playroom i was always smiling. Felt like life was simpler ike back when i was plying Crash Bandicoot. It's tough to explain.

If this is anything like that, therapy is going to be good this weekend cause after a shitty week at work its just the type of game i need right now.
 
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