[IGN] I’m Getting Bored of Every PlayStation Game Telling the Same Story

Arachnid said:
All of them having the same shit gameplay is a bigger issue.
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Only played TLOU2, Uncharted 4, and Spider-Man.

Spider-Man and Uncharted 4 play very similarly. Spider-Man is cool, but nothing revolutionary as far as super hero/Spider-Man games. At most, it has a unique original story a bit.

Edit: Didn't mean to say Spider-Man.

TLOU2 and Uncharted 4 play very similar.
 
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Fabieter said:
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Yeah, so your argument is that they are all 3rd person view games... lol
 
MacReady13 said:
I'm talking about Playstation games in general, not just this gen, hence why I mentioned my disdain for Playstation 1st party games since Uncharted 4 which was released on PS4.
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Then pointing out Sackboy and Gran Turismo as 'breaking the cycle' is weird since, arguably, the big AAA heavy hitters have always been a minority of the output since then. You're forgetting to mention stuff like Alienation, Bound, The Last Guardian, Gravity Daze 2, New Everybody's Golf, Knack 2, Detroit: Become Human, Erica, Concrete Genie, Monkey King: Hero is Back. And even on PS5, you've also had the likes of Returnal, Helldivers 2, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, Astro Bot, Lost Soul Aside, Saros, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls etc.
Then there's the deep end of the library with PSVR stuff like No Heroes Allowed! VR, Astro Bot: Rescue Mission and Déraciné.
I can't take anyone saying this seriously. What was the gap between Spider-Man 2 and Death Stranding 2? 1 year and 8 months?
 
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Damn, who takes IGN seriously?

They literally became a joke when they said Stellar Blade was too woke, and the list goes on... like Polygon, now they need to be controversial to make headlines and stay afloat
 
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Tiago Rodrigues said:
If you think about it...the story beats in Astrobot aren't that different: Bad guy does something to someone (either the main character or someone he knows), he goes through multiple levels saving all of them and then right at the end there's a boss fight and bad guy is defeated.

TLOU2: Abby does something to someone Ellie cares about, Ellie goes through the entire game to find said person and a boss fight happens.

Crash Bandicoot: Cortex kidnaps Crash's sister, crash goes thought the entire game looking for him and defeats him in the end.

That's literally 90% of all videogames like i wrote in my previous post (3rd post here somehow lol). You can apply this to many RPGs, action games, hell even first person shooters in some way. I bet you that if TLOU2, SM2 and Ghost of Yotai weren't from the same publisher you wouldn't see an article saying "i'm tired of most games telling the same story".
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Again, agree with what you're saying. Story formats at their core are pretty basic. I think people just need a break from the super heavy stuff. People want some lighthearted stuff once that isn't some big heavy experience is really more what I meant.
 
It's less them telling the same stories, and more them using similar themes to tell them.

I could do with less tall grass = stealth game design though.
 
They mean single player story driven games mostly in 3rd person? If they don't like story driven games that's fine but I won't pretend they are all clones of each other.
 
Lightbreak said:
Damn, who takes IGN seriously?

They literally became a joke when they said Stellar Blade was too woke, and the list goes on... like Polygon, now they need to be controversial to make headlines and stay afloat
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Someone at IGN needed that free year of GP so they wrote this article.

Sethbacca said:
Again, agree with what you're saying. Story formats at their core are pretty basic. I think people just need a break from the super heavy stuff. People want some lighthearted stuff once that isn't some big heavy experience is really more what I meant.
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And yet everyone is pretty much in agreement that the best game this year by far is exactly what you say people don't want. I can guarantee you if they announced E33 2 was coming out next month because they were secretly working on it people would be hyped for it.
 
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It's hardly just Sony games, the blandly designed blab boredom monologues infest all of modern gaming, people lap that shit up though, so it's gonna continue.
 
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willothedog said:
You have absolutely no way of proving that statement.
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So game sells and review scores aren't at least decent metrics?

Men_in_Boxes said:
I'm currently playing Tactics Ogre Rebirth on PS5. The 3 games you mentioned are actually more similar in design than you let on. Games can do much more than ask you to navigate around predictable AI, from the 3rd person, in a 3D environment...with the occasional cut scene thrown in. There's some truth to the criticism.
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Bro.....are we really gonna do this? A 3rd person game in a 3D environment?! Lets not make GAF this silly. Look!......I know XBox took a strong blow yesterday, but we don't have to be dumb about this conversation.
 
This thread feels like reading the same defeatist rhetoric for the millionth time. If you like videogames as little as you make it seem, just go retro and stop playing them. The industry's sins are well documented by now.
 
simpatico said:
PlayStation plot:

Our hero is old. Over the hill. Still sometimes able to put up a fight, but he's retarded and often not able to fight. Indecisive with outdated morality.

The real hero is his child/female/minority sidekick. They have all the right ideas, offer solutions to the toughest problems and has to deal with all the intellectual shortcomings of the "hero".
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Unless our hero is a girl, then she's a tank that knows everything and rides solo.
 
InterMusketeer said:
A lot of their games do come off as very similar. They're probably good games on their own, but in the context of Sony's lineup they blend together. The lack of variety is disappointing.
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So do you believe these games are very similar too?

- Starfield
- Avowed
- Doom
- Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
- The Outer Worlds 2
 
mayham2199 said:
And yet everyone is pretty much in agreement that the best game this year by far is exactly what you say people don't want. I can guarantee you if they announced E33 2 was coming out next month because they were secretly working on it people would be hyped for it.
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It's not that those games aren't good, it's just everyone's making super serious stuff. I mean, I'll be the first one to buy a Sony 1st party game so I can go either way.

But there is a bit of a dearth of light hearted games.
 
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Sethbacca said:
It's not that those games aren't good, it's just everyone's making super serious stuff. I mean, I'll be the first one to buy a Sony 1st party game so I can go either way.

But there is a bit of a dearth of light hearted games.
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Do yall NOT buy 3rd party games anymore? This thread feels like bizarro world.

Plus....


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Do you think this extreme focus on third-person cinematic action games is because they look the most impressive in a trailer? Especially in regard to cut-scenes.
 
It would certainly be nice to see something thematically different and not a 3rd person action adventure story game.

Some kind of fps or more traditional rpg or something. They used to have a ton of variety but ever since tlou1 it feels like Sony has narrowed into greenlighting a specific style.
 
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I'm also completely done with AAA open-world games, with gameplay somewhere between dark souls and marvel movies, and a lone, somewhat depressed protagonist fighting against the dominant forces of the world.
 
Scrawnton said:
Unless our hero is a girl, then she's a tank that knows everything and rides solo.
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You don't really believe that, right? I could see it for Horizon--though I haven't played those games--but the other woman-led Sony IP definitely do not feature perfect flawless girl bosses who only win (see: Returnal, TLoU2...either protag, they're both major fuckups).
 
Sethbacca said:
I have all those except the Lego Horizon game actually. It feels like an overwhelming majority of games released are dark and broody though.
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To some degree that's correct. But that's mainly due to the fact that most gamers want those type of games. One of the most requested games that GAF wants to see at a PS Showcase is always Bloodborne 2 or a Bloodborne Remake for PS5.

And that game may be peak "dark and broody" lol. It's what we like.
 
Punished Miku said:
I was bored like 4 years ago.

It's really not just the stories, but the general presentation, gameplay hooks, tropes and themes, difficulty level. It's a very homogenous operation and has been for some time.

Personally, I don't see it changing at all. Seems to me like a lot of mainstream fans have never been more conservative and unadventurous and these games are for the mainest of the mainstream. They don't like new things, new IP, new and unfamiliar gameplay.
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What would you have them do?
 
kur07 said:
I'm also completely done with AAA open-world games,
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I'm sick to death of open-world slop.

No matter how "different" and "alive" developers say their open-world is, it all boils down to the same unveil the map, collect-a-thon nonsense.

and yes, even Elden Ring, as good as it is, suffers from some of this.
 
Hero sets out into the world, faces challenges, triumphs, and learns from it. Why does sony (and only sony, apparently) keep telling this tired old story???
 
It's sad they're not releasing anything more diverse like more Astro Bot etc

But when they released a lot of diverse stuff like Socom, Killzone, puppeteer, little big planet, shadow of the colossus, the last guardian, gravity rush and many others, most people didn't buy them.

I can't blame them for going with the formulaic games that bring them the big bucks.
 
nial said:
Then pointing out Sackboy and Gran Turismo as 'breaking the cycle' is weird since, arguably, the big AAA heavy hitters have always been a minority of the output since then. You're forgetting to mention stuff like Alienation, Bound, The Last Guardian, Gravity Daze 2, New Everybody's Golf, Knack 2, Detroit: Become Human, Erica, Concrete Genie, Monkey King: Hero is Back. And even on PS5, you've also had the likes of Returnal, Helldivers 2, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade, Astro Bot, Lost Soul Aside, Saros, Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls etc.
Then there's the deep end of the library with PSVR stuff like No Heroes Allowed! VR, Astro Bot: Rescue Mission and Déraciné.
I can't take anyone saying this seriously. What was the gap between Spider-Man 2 and Death Stranding 2? 1 year and 8 months?
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I'm talking their big heavy hitters. And you fucking know that so stop being such a Playstation fan boy. The big, triple A tent-pole games are mainly all similar types of games and we all know it. They have a fair few games that break that mould and I am happy to say that (and I did say that) but I am talking the big money makers for Sony are similar types of games. You choose not to see it then that's on you.
 
My take is TLOU, Uncharted, Infamous, Ghost, Astro Bot, GoW and Spider-man have been among my favorite games from PS3 generation forward. They all have had top notch visuals, excellent gameplay, and great stories. Some better than others (and a couple had some stuff I really didn't care for), but overall those are fantastic games to me. Are they all the same game? No. Not even similar. Not sure where that's coming from. Different games, different stories. That's what I see anyway. Folks who disagree can disagree. Really don't see much point in debating personal opinions.
 
With those budgets very few people are going to be taking risks.
Innovation is in the indie space. AAA titles are for the mass market that like that kind of experience and don't mind playing it over and over with a different skin.

The same happens with every other kind of media.
 
mckmas8808 said:
Bro.....are we really gonna do this? A 3rd person game in a 3D environment?! Lets not make GAF this silly. Look!......I know XBox took a strong blow yesterday, but we don't have to be dumb about this conversation.
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And yet, you understand that Stardew Valley is the odd man out in a grouping of Yotei, DS2, and Astrobot. Not sure what Xbox has to do with this.
 
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