JimmyRustler
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Had good time with Killzone and AC Black Flag.... :-/
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8th Gen launches... were pretty bad.
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Strangelove77
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I had fun with all the PS3 ports - Black Flag, Lego Marvel and Injustice.
Then add Resogun to it and I was pretty entertained.
Then add Resogun to it and I was pretty entertained.
captainraincoat
Banned
Agree
To be honest....ps4 didnt have any games for the first 2 years that you would go out of your way to buy the console for....unless indies and remasters were your thing
The only thing that really saved it was that ms fucked up in a spectacular way with an underpowered console ...unattractive price and some generic sequels...oh and their drm policies...kinnect...quite a few stinkers in there
Both consoles as time has gone on have corrected their mistakes but one thing that has not changed....ps4 is one of the worst made consoles from a build perspective...shoddy ds4 quality and shitty case design on new and old models...ps3 actually got silent as their slim models landed but ps4 just gets louder and more unattractive....love my pro console i call it Aretha franklin (before she lost weight)
Loud...black and has alot of hits
Also.....honerable mention the worst gen was around the launch of the saturn...3do....its wasnt quiet ps1 time yet but those consoles were stuck in between the godly genisis/snes era and the birth of the ps1...very overpriced and a very limited library.
To be honest....ps4 didnt have any games for the first 2 years that you would go out of your way to buy the console for....unless indies and remasters were your thing
The only thing that really saved it was that ms fucked up in a spectacular way with an underpowered console ...unattractive price and some generic sequels...oh and their drm policies...kinnect...quite a few stinkers in there
Both consoles as time has gone on have corrected their mistakes but one thing that has not changed....ps4 is one of the worst made consoles from a build perspective...shoddy ds4 quality and shitty case design on new and old models...ps3 actually got silent as their slim models landed but ps4 just gets louder and more unattractive....love my pro console i call it Aretha franklin (before she lost weight)
Loud...black and has alot of hits
Also.....honerable mention the worst gen was around the launch of the saturn...3do....its wasnt quiet ps1 time yet but those consoles were stuck in between the godly genisis/snes era and the birth of the ps1...very overpriced and a very limited library.
womfalcs3
Banned
The PS3 had one mediocre game (it was mediocre, although enjoyable) worth owning and an HTML page for the PS Store for almost a year after launch.
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Deleted member 471617
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Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag is by far the best game on either console's launch lineup. Battlefield 4 was great, Ryse and Injustice were good while Knack was above average. Overall, I would say good but not great.
xviper
Member
the first year was awful for PS4, but was amazing for Xbox one
PS4's first year had flops like killzone, Infamous, Drive club and Knack
where Xbox one's first year had Forza 5( i know it's not as good as the rest but still good) Dead rising 3, Titanfall, Sunset overdrive, Forza horizon 2, D4 and Halo MCC( not just a remaster, 5 MP games including 4 SP games)
in 2015 and 2016, the two consoles were kinda equal, but in 2017 PS4 ate the Xbox one alive
PS4's first year had flops like killzone, Infamous, Drive club and Knack
where Xbox one's first year had Forza 5( i know it's not as good as the rest but still good) Dead rising 3, Titanfall, Sunset overdrive, Forza horizon 2, D4 and Halo MCC( not just a remaster, 5 MP games including 4 SP games)
in 2015 and 2016, the two consoles were kinda equal, but in 2017 PS4 ate the Xbox one alive
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
NSMBU is a fantastic game - it just suffered from franchise fatigue.
And the PS4 list is missing Resogun, arguably the best launch game of the PS4.
And the PS4 list is missing Resogun, arguably the best launch game of the PS4.
BocoDragon
or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Realize This Assgrab is Delicious
The 8th gen launch actually got me to buy a Killzone and Assassin's Creed game.... so yeah I'd call it an atrocity.
D.Lo
Member
Graphical style fatigue.
If it had a Galaxy theme, or maybe even Sunshine theme... The Mario World theme was just too vanilla on the surface.
Beg pardon?
Backfoggen
Banned
I had a good time with the Xbox One launch titles. The PS4 however barely had anything even when I eventually got one a year later.
The tables have turned since then obviously.
The tables have turned since then obviously.
Was going to say... I'm sure this was a launch title. It's one of my favorite games this generation.
KI and FM5 are both pretty good too.
But yeah overall pretty mediocre.
Caayn
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It certainly didn't help that it launched in the same window as GT6. When you compare it to GTS in terms of content then FM5 wasn't that bad. It launched a few years earlier as a launch title while having similar amounts of content with a much shorter dev cycle.
Resistance and Motorstorm were actually good games, Knack 1 is below mediocre and the Shadow Fall campaign was just a bit better
BumblebeeCody
Member
Killer Insinct is all you need. My winning combo was Killer Instinct and Dead Rising 3. PS4 sucked.
Omnii-chan
Member
Last 2 gens I've bought almost every console at launch.
360 is the the only launch/ window where I've felt satisfied. PGR3 hooked me in its style of racing, Condemned was an awesome horror melee beat em up, Kameo was a pretty great platformer too. They all held me over until Dead Rising and Oblivion in the launch window. It felt like a quality start for me and then the games just kept coming and all the exclusives.
Xbox Live blew up too and announced arcade.
So good.
Every other platform I got at launch had maybe 1 game I liked, long waits for anything else, features missing, barebones online. It's been shit ever since honestly.
360 is the the only launch/ window where I've felt satisfied. PGR3 hooked me in its style of racing, Condemned was an awesome horror melee beat em up, Kameo was a pretty great platformer too. They all held me over until Dead Rising and Oblivion in the launch window. It felt like a quality start for me and then the games just kept coming and all the exclusives.
Xbox Live blew up too and announced arcade.
So good.
Every other platform I got at launch had maybe 1 game I liked, long waits for anything else, features missing, barebones online. It's been shit ever since honestly.
Donniewahlberg
Banned
I'm not going to try and argue the WiiU launch was red hot lol but at least personally, I did enjoy it. If you list everything, there's tons of ports but if I just consider what I bought: Nintendoland & NSMBU were great first party (I would have taken a Nintendoland 2 over 1-2 switch any day), Sonic Racing was a good kart racer, & Skylanders Giants ended up being one of the very first games my kid and & I played through together. Not bad for day 1 honestly.
Everlya_Apocryha
Banned
Dreamcast = Awesome foreplay but.........premature ejaculation
PS2 = Lacklustre foreplay but........GODDAMNIT, THAT CLIMAX AND ORGASM OF A LIFETIME!!!
Razgriz-Specter
Member
Black Flag
Killzone
Battlefield
COD
Were enough to do me for a while
PS3 launch was more of a challenge, basically played only Resistance 1 till MotorStorm the following Spring. Finally games started dripping in over the summer with Rainbow 6 Vegas 1 being my 2nd big PS3 game.
That 2nd half(07) was crazy though
Rainbow 6 Vegas - end of June
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - August
Warhawk - end of August
Heavenly Sword - September
Call of Duty 4 - early November
Uncharted 1 - mid November
Assassin's Creed 1 - mid November
Killzone
Battlefield
COD
Were enough to do me for a while
PS3 launch was more of a challenge, basically played only Resistance 1 till MotorStorm the following Spring. Finally games started dripping in over the summer with Rainbow 6 Vegas 1 being my 2nd big PS3 game.
That 2nd half(07) was crazy though
Rainbow 6 Vegas - end of June
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter - August
Warhawk - end of August
Heavenly Sword - September
Call of Duty 4 - early November
Uncharted 1 - mid November
Assassin's Creed 1 - mid November
-hadouken
Member
I was fine with the upscaled, reused graphics for NSMBU. It was that same fookin' music that killed it for me. Bah bah.
Robert at Zeboyd Games
Banned
Yeah, Wii U's launch was decent. I got NSMBU (excellent), Zombi U (okay), and Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed (excellent) so I was pretty happy with the launch. Admittedly, Racing Transformed wasn't an exclusive, but the Wii U version was the best version of the game at launch.
The big problem with the Wii U wasn't the initial launch but the desert that was the months afterwards. Rayman got delayed & then turned into a multiplatform release & other than a Monster Hunter enhanced port & Lego City Undercover, there was next to nothing of note released for most of the first year. It was around month 9 when that started to change (Pikmin, followed by W101, WW HD, and SM3DW).
AbandonedTrolley
Member
Totally invalidates this thread!
Team Andromeda
Member
Not even close. Dreamcast was poor, Saturn horrible and the Mega Drive utter tosh, Mega CD the worst ever. People forget in the old days USA/Pal launches were months most times ever years after the system launched in Japan
daTRUballin
Member
Those launches are like heaven compared to the N64's launch, for example.
N64 launch titles:
Super Mario 64
Pilot Wings 64
Yeaaaahhhh...........You should reconsider your stance on those launches OP lol. I mean, Mario 64 was a fantastic game and all, but come on. Look at that lineup (if you can even call it that).
N64 launch titles:
Super Mario 64
Pilot Wings 64
Yeaaaahhhh...........You should reconsider your stance on those launches OP lol. I mean, Mario 64 was a fantastic game and all, but come on. Look at that lineup (if you can even call it that).
Its only been the last year or so that I have now actually wanted a PS4.
mrmickfran
Member
The PS4 launch was pretty bad.
I remember being on this forum seeing all thus hype and so many posts saying "Greatness Awaits."
I understand the hype of a new console but there was nothing to play.
I remember being on this forum seeing all thus hype and so many posts saying "Greatness Awaits."
I understand the hype of a new console but there was nothing to play.
UncleSporky
Member
Really interesting thing is that the Wii U had the most number of games released day one out of any console launch ever. Barely beat some Sony records, but it did.
omgwtfbentime
Member
I thought Xbox One was pretty good, the only problem is they had 0 launch momentum leading up to it.
PS4 was garbo tho unless you factor in digital stuff around launch/launch window.
PS4 was garbo tho unless you factor in digital stuff around launch/launch window.
Agreed! Was just playing it yesterday. It has an incredible amount of content across a diverse number of genres and contains veritable love letters to several Nintendo franchises. It's probably one of the best launch games of all time IMO. And since NSMBU despite its same aesthetic offers some of the best 2D Mario platforming ever - not to mention a robust Challenge Mode - I'm pretty ecstatic about the Wii U launch lineup. What I can't dispute is its lack of sales appeal, especially with Nintendo Land containing no "mainline series entry" per session and with NSMBU releasing so soon after NSMB2 and as a 2D platformer with an appearance very much akin to it's console predecessor, not to mention the much higher price of Wii U. So by no means was Wii U's first party launch lineup a commercial recipe for success, but man are those two games ever terrific.
Ryse was shallow but had a bit of next-gen flair about it, I quite enjoyed Crimson Dragon too and the console was bundled with Fifa in the UK.
I'll echo the love for NMSBU, that was a fantastic game, I just remember a massive game drought after it where lots of things got delayed..
I'll echo the love for NMSBU, that was a fantastic game, I just remember a massive game drought after it where lots of things got delayed..
SomedayTheFire
Member
They weren't great but still the best in a good few gens lol. Still laughing at people trying to push the PS4 has no games narrative.
Rellik
Member
ResidentDante
Member
Plus FM5 looked amazing. Playing a store demo in Paris (of all places) on launch with it running 1080p@60fps on the beautiful Prague track with the rumble triggers just blew me away. I knew I had to have a Xbox One aswell as a PS4 after the rocky E3 reveals that had tipped me towards the latter.
D.Lo
Member
Most Nintendo platforms launched with at least one killer game, and at least 1-2 other high quality ones.
Famicom 1983 - Donkey Kong, DK Jr, Popeye
Super Famicom - Super Mario World, F-Zero,
N64 - Mario 64, Pilotwings
Gamecube - Luigi's Mansion, Super Monkey Ball, Wave Race
Wii - Wii Sports, Twilight Princess, Virtual Console
Wii U - Nintendoland, NSMBU
Switch - BoTW, Snipperclips
Gamecube and Wii U are the only weak links there, all the rest launched with a world-beating classic.
Nintendo's problem has typically been droughts after launch, but launch day you have always had something killer to play on Nintendo.
Hispanicguy
Member
Resogun was what made me love the PS4 day 1. A shame it was forgotten on that list.
Garrett Hawke
Member
PS4 hit its stride on March 24, 2015, with the release of GOTF Bloodborne.
Acquiescence
Member
It's not how you start, it's how you finish.
SillyEskimo
Member
I think it is a great launch. I had more than enough games to keep me busy until the second wave of games hit, unlike with the WiiU which was content starved for the entire history of the console, launch included.
UncleSporky
Member
Like I said above, it was the largest quantity of games at launch for any new console released ever.
megashock5
Member
Truth.