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[mindfreak191]

Is anyone of you uber-cunts buying high on life 2 today?

I pre installed, got myself a month of PC game pass for it, loved the first one

 

[Msamy]

Lol I think

Honestly despite not being impressed with the reveal, the actual gameplay segments in this new trailer are giving me DriveClub vibes. The sense of speed is phenomenal and the game looks way better during gameplay than it does during cutscenes and those flyover shots.



Lots of neat visual effects, color grading gives it a very realistic look in some levels, and feels a lot less sterile than Forza Horizon 6.

Yes I like this one very much

 

[geary]

 

[Gonzito]

Is anyone of you uber-cunts buying high on life 2 today?

If you buy the game I will play it

 

[SlimySnake]

Pretty obvious why?

Maybe the trilogy is a cheap affair made by interns.

ask yourself why they would announce a new game by interns starting development instead of announcing a game by Cory Barlog that started development 8 years ago.

 

[GymWolf]

ask yourself why they would announce a new game by interns starting development instead of announcing a game by Cory Barlog that started development 8 years ago.

Maybe corey game is not ready yet to be showed?

And we know that sony can't read the room for shit so they thought that a trilogy remake was enough to soften the blow...

 

[SlimySnake]

Maybe corey game is not ready yet to be showed?

And we know that sony can't read the room for shit so they thought that a trilogy remake was enough to soften the blow...

again you have to ask yourself, why would a game thats been in development since 2018 is still not ready to be shown? its in development hell or looks like shit and will be cancelled soon.

same goes for intergallactic. sony had the entire studio crunch for two months before christmas to get a gameplay demo done and they didnt even show it off? must have sucked even by sony standards. probably looking to cancel these games and are using remake announcements to soften the blow..

 

[GymWolf]

again you have to ask yourself, why would a game thats been in development since 2018 is still not ready to be shown? its in development hell or looks like shit and will be cancelled soon.

same goes for intergallactic. sony had the entire studio crunch for two months before christmas to get a gameplay demo done and they didnt even show it off? must have sucked even by sony standards. probably looking to cancel these games and are using remake announcements to soften the blow..

You are going with the nuclear option dude, usually i'm the pessimistic one

The games are still being made, just more slowly and sony has changed their politics compared to ps4 era when they showed vertical slices of games 2-3-4 years away from release.

It means that corey game and intergalactic are not a 2026 affair.

For 2026 they have wolverine, soros and probably 1-2 other minor projects, plus gta6 and crimson thar are probably gonna sell some consoles aswell.


There is probably some development hell going on but from there to cancellation is a big fucking jump.

 

[Bitstream]

You are going with the nuclear option dude, usually i'm the pessimistic one

The games are still being made, just more slowly and sony has changed their politics compared to ps4 era when they showed vertical slices of games 2-3-4 years away from release.

It means that corey game and intergalactic are not a 2026 affair.

For 2026 they have wolverine, soros and probably 1-2 other minor projects, plus gta6 and crimson thar are probably gonna sell some consoles aswell.


There is probably some development hell going on but from there to cancellation is a big fucking jump.

Agreed. It's a stacked year and they already have 2 lined up + the waves that GTA6 will be making. Probably see more at the end of the year if not early next. Maybe intergalactic won't look like a PS4 game next time.

 

[SlimySnake]

Go off, king. Your rants about Sony first-party are one of the reasons I even bothered making an account on here.

You can almost pinpoint the exact moment when a lot of these mega studios got complacent and lost the plot. One of my favorite studios these days is Bloober. Bloober is hungry, man. Starving. Started out basically making shovelware, pivoted to artist-driven horror games and started cranking them out. In the last ten years: Layers of Fear, Observer, Layers 2, Blair Witch, The Medium, SH2, and Cronos. With at least two more currently in development. Yeah they were making walking sims at first but at least they were gorgeous and helped them build up a fantastic art pipeline while slowly expanding and getting more ambitious with gameplay. Observer had more going on than Layers, The Medium had more meat on its bones than Observer, etc. Almost all their games are at least good for what they are, and they eventually got to SH2 which is one of this gen's showpieces. Apparently they're only at 250 devs NOW and that's after slowly expanding over the years.

If I was a talented dev looking for work I'd want to be somewhere I could get games made and shipped at a steady pace instead of one or two a decade. I'm sure it does wonders for morale let alone keeping production pipelines humming along etc. If only AAA could stop betting the house on every single release.

Yep. Bloober is a great example of a hungry studio. Pearl Abyss is another. They couldve just made another MMO, but they went out of their way to make something insanely ambitious. The latest Silent Hill is made by a relatively new studio that made Observation with a very small studio. They couldve made another smaller title but took on Silent Hill. And it looks gorgeous! Not cross gen like Sony games this gen.

The Expedition 33 director was literally asking questions on reddit on how to use UE4 in 2020. He had just one other guy working with him until they finally started hiring people and within five years he made a GOTY title with a total of 33 devs. Cory has had access to 300 developers or a good chunk of those guys since 2018, and almost all of them since 2022 and nothing.

Some devs have that hunger. others have coasted on for far too long. Again, i keep saying this but when you have devs literally saying they are risk averse, that they didnt bother upgrading visuals because the jump from PS4 to PS5 isnt big enough, that they didnt even want to make a PS5 game because the PS4 let them achieve their vision, when you have these lazy ass unambitious devs at the helm, you are going to have these terrible conferences where you just dont have anything to show.

 

[SlimySnake]

You are going with the nuclear option dude, usually i'm the pessimistic one

The games are still being made, just more slowly and sony has changed their politics compared to ps4 era when they showed vertical slices of games 2-3-4 years away from release.

It means that corey game and intergalactic are not a 2026 affair.

For 2026 they have wolverine, soros and probably 1-2 other minor projects, plus gta6 and crimson thar are probably gonna sell some consoles aswell.


There is probably some development hell going on but from there to cancellation is a big fucking jump.

its happened before. Stig made GOW3 and moved to make a new IP that was cancelled after 4 years of dev time. he left the studio and went on to make Star Wars at respawn.

Factions was cancelled after 5 years of dev time. Bluepoint and bend just cancelled their games after 5 years of dev time as well. not exactly unprecedented.

Again, you dont reveal a game going into production when you are already in full production on another game you are planning to release in 2027 or 2028. if that game was so close to completion, the entire studio wouldve been working on it instead of starting development on a brand new game.

and of course im being pessimistic. what did you see at that show that made you optimistic about sony's efforts this gen lmao

with the looming shadow of GTAVI over the entire industry, Barlog's game has now clearly become a next-gen title.

They don't need any more new titles until the end of this gen. GTA VI will guarantee more sales until the end of the gen.
it would be unwise to compete with GTAVI in the same year or even the next [ especially given how much emphasis Sony tends to put on high metas and winning awards]

Ryan and Hulst messed up big time this gen; so far, the sales have all been driven by the brilliance and the success of PS4 not the management ( but the shareholders will idiotically attribute this success to Ryan and Hulst's performance )
Sony are now keeping their fingers crossed and hoping for a new chance with next gen
They're strengthening their next-gen line-up with Physint, Barlog's game, whatever Bend is up to,
and the GOW remake (motivated only by the TV series launching around the same time) and probably another Astro Bot

they were making cross gen games until 2022. why would they switch to ps6 exclusive just to sell PS6s? it will be cross gen at best. and thats if the ps6 comes out any time soon. the ram fiasco is going to impact launch, and availability even if sony rushes out a console by the end of 2027. my guess is 2028 at best, and we will be getting cross gen games until 2030. games already take 6-8 years to make. no one is designing games around a 35 tflops GPU right now. its all 10 tflops. we will be lucky to get a next gen only game by 2032.

they are delayed because they were mismanaged to oblivion. not because they wanted to target some high spec console. they dont have the imagination or the ambition to do that. let's face it. they are probably just making a ps3 era game with ps4 era visuals just like Yotei, DS2, Spiderman 2 and Astrobot.

 

[GymWolf]

its happened before. Stig made GOW3 and moved to make a new IP that was cancelled after 4 years of dev time. he left the studio and went on to make Star Wars at respawn.

Factions was cancelled after 5 years of dev time. Bluepoint and bend just cancelled their games after 5 years of dev time as well. not exactly unprecedented.

Again, you dont reveal a game going into production when you are already in full production on another game you are planning to release in 2027 or 2028. if that game was so close to completion, the entire studio wouldve been working on it instead of starting development on a brand new game.

and of course im being pessimistic. what did you see at that show that made you optimistic about sony's efforts this gen lmao

they were making cross gen games until 2022. why would they switch to ps6 exclusive just to sell PS6s? it will be cross gen at best. and thats if the ps6 comes out any time soon. the ram fiasco is going to impact launch, and availability even if sony rushes out a console by the end of 2027. my guess is 2028 at best, and we will be getting cross gen games until 2030. games already take 6-8 years to make. no one is designing games around a 35 tflops GPU right now. its all 10 tflops. we will be lucky to get a next gen only game by 2032.

they are delayed because they were mismanaged to oblivion. not because they wanted to target some high spec console. they dont have the imagination or the ambition to do that. let's face it. they are probably just making a ps3 era game with ps4 era visuals just like Yotei, DS2, Spiderman 2 and Astrobot.

I think it would be too much for sony to cancel these 2 games.

The past is the past, videogames didn't moved as much money as today nor were as covered by media, social media etc.

You cancel corey game and interbaldactic now and sony would be covered in shit from all sides, it wouod be a huge hit in credibility.

Sorry i think you are wrong with this one.

Oh and before you ask about the cancelled bend/bluepoint project that were also recent, let's be real nobody gives a fuck about those compared to a new main game from corey and nd.

 

[SlimySnake]

The Academy Awards for games DICE just gave their Technical Achievement award to Death Stranding 2.

Again, this is basically the industry professionals (not critics like the VGA) choosing these awards.

DICE Awards 2026 Winners

• Outstanding Achievement in Animation - South of Midnight
• Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Outstanding Achievement in Character - Ghost of Yōtei – Atsu
• Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition - Ghost of Yōtei
• Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Outstanding Achievement in Story - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Outstanding Technical Achievement - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Action Game of the Year - Hades II
• Adventure Game of the Year - Ghost of Yōtei
• Family Game of the Year - LEGO® Party!
• Fighting Game of the Year - Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
• Racing Game of the Year - Mario Kart World
• Role-Playing Game of the Year - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Sports Game of the Year - Rematch
• Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year - The Alters
• Online Game of the Year - Arc Raiders
• Immersive Reality Technical Achievement - Hotel Infinity
• Immersive Reality Game of the Year - Ghost Town
• Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game - Blue Prince
• Mobile Game of the Year - Persona5: The Phantom X
• Outstanding Achievement in Game Design - Blue Prince
• Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Game of the Year - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

 

[GymWolf]

The Academy Awards for games DICE just gave their Technical Achievement award to Death Stranding 2.

Again, this is basically the industry professionals (not critics like the VGA) choosing these awards.

DICE Awards 2026 Winners

• Outstanding Achievement in Animation - South of Midnight
• Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Outstanding Achievement in Character - Ghost of Yōtei – Atsu
• Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition - Ghost of Yōtei
• Outstanding Achievement in Audio Design - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Outstanding Achievement in Story - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Outstanding Technical Achievement - Death Stranding 2: On the Beach
• Action Game of the Year - Hades II
• Adventure Game of the Year - Ghost of Yōtei
• Family Game of the Year - LEGO® Party!
• Fighting Game of the Year - Mortal Kombat: Legacy Kollection
• Racing Game of the Year - Mario Kart World
• Role-Playing Game of the Year - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Sports Game of the Year - Rematch
• Strategy/Simulation Game of the Year - The Alters
• Online Game of the Year - Arc Raiders
• Immersive Reality Technical Achievement - Hotel Infinity
• Immersive Reality Game of the Year - Ghost Town
• Outstanding Achievement for an Independent Game - Blue Prince
• Mobile Game of the Year - Persona5: The Phantom X
• Outstanding Achievement in Game Design - Blue Prince
• Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
• Game of the Year - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33

Be happy that fucking yotei didn't get the award...

The only saving grace of ds2 were the cutscene models that are ue5 metahumans, see it as an award to ue5 more than an award to ds2.

And yes, i'm coping hard.

 

[SlimySnake]

I think it would be too much for sony to cancel these 2 games.

The past is the past, videogames didn't moved as much money as today nor were as covered by media, social media etc.

You cancel corey game and interbaldactic now and sony would be covered in shit from all sides, it wouod be a huge hit in credibility.

Sorry i think you are wrong with this one.

Oh and before you ask about the cancelled bend/bluepoint project that were also recent, let's be real nobody gives a fuck about those compared to a new main game from corey and nd.

i dont disagree. these studios are LA based and have 300-400 devs working on one game since 2020 and 2022. They have probably put in $200-300 million into each game and at this point they cost too much to cancel.

Still not a good look to not see them after they specifically had people crunch for two months just for that demo.

 

[geary]

• Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composition - Ghost of Yōtei

 

[GymWolf]

Funny when the ost was vastly inferior to tsushima if you ask me.

 

[SlimySnake]

Be happy that fucking yotei didn't get the award...

At least yotei is pushing next gen draw distance. the only thing technical Death Stranding 2 is pushing is kojima's farts.

Death Stranding 2 shouldve won this. amazing soundtrack by Woodkid. better than the stellar Exp 33 soundtrack imo.