John Bender
Banned
Well, I don't know what the hell is going on with Sony's Worldwide Studios lately,
but their output isn't really something to brag about.
On topic: SingStar - Ultimate Garbage
Sony celebrates SingStar's 10th Anniversary by releasing a gigantic turd.
The SingStar IP is HUGE in europe. People love it, sales are great.
Sony sold over 26 million copies worldwide and over 25 million songs!!
It had a lot of (multiplayer) modes, great content, and so on.
It's fun! Simple as that.
From all that was good, almost nothing remains.
My girl-friend loves SingStar.
So of course she bought it (main reason why she owns a PS3 and PS4).
Her mood changed quickly after maybe 20 minutes.
Why? Well:
- Most of the well known modes are missing.
- Remember 8-Player SingStar multiplayer matches? Have fun with max. 2-Player only! "Ultimate Party"? lmao
- Game is buggy as hell (crashes/freezes regularly)
- The "oh so great" new feature, the Smartphone app, is garbage and doesn't even work properly
- Using your smartphone as a mic and an ordinary SingStar mic at the same time? Forget it!
- The loading times...... Jesus....!
- The songs you bought digitally on the PS3? You can't use them! (maybe they fixed it by now)
- The variety of the tracks...... lmao!
The list goes on and on.
Is my girl-friend the only person with this issue?
Well, let me take a quick look at the meta score:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/singstar-ultimate-party
37%
37%!!! for a "Blockbuster 1st Party game (see sales numbers).
Eurogamer Review
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-13-singstar-ultimate-party-review
2 out of 10
Eurogamer: "It's a shame that such a much-loved series has come to this, but here we are. So to conclude, SingStar Ultimate Party gets one point for nice menu screens and one point for Carly Rae Jepsen."
GamesRadar Review:
http://www.gamesradar.com/singstar-ultimate-party-review/
1.5 out of 5
Amazon UK Customer Reviews:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KGSW5P4/
Amazon Germany Customer Reviews:
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00KY2CAAC/
Yup, the game is garbage!
No wonder why SCEE rebooted their studios, or even closed them (see Liverpool).
They heavily downsized the London Studio (over 300 employees to 120 now) and here we go.
We get a heavily downsized and broken SingStar game.
First that "turd of a game" DRIVECLUB and now SingStar - Ultimate Party (a party of two = "Ultimate Party", according to SCEE).
Great job, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
If your SCEE studios suck ass, get rid of them, upgrade your SCEE XDev Studio and make more collaborations with 3rd Party devs (who can actually make good games) like the "SCE Japan Studio + From Software" example for Bloodborne.
But hey.... at least SCEE London studio's new twitter account "@LondonStudioHQ" still works.
At least one accomplishment....
but their output isn't really something to brag about.
On topic: SingStar - Ultimate Garbage
Sony celebrates SingStar's 10th Anniversary by releasing a gigantic turd.
The SingStar IP is HUGE in europe. People love it, sales are great.
Sony sold over 26 million copies worldwide and over 25 million songs!!
It had a lot of (multiplayer) modes, great content, and so on.
It's fun! Simple as that.
From all that was good, almost nothing remains.
My girl-friend loves SingStar.
So of course she bought it (main reason why she owns a PS3 and PS4).
Her mood changed quickly after maybe 20 minutes.
Why? Well:
- Most of the well known modes are missing.
- Remember 8-Player SingStar multiplayer matches? Have fun with max. 2-Player only! "Ultimate Party"? lmao
- Game is buggy as hell (crashes/freezes regularly)
- The "oh so great" new feature, the Smartphone app, is garbage and doesn't even work properly
- Using your smartphone as a mic and an ordinary SingStar mic at the same time? Forget it!
- The loading times...... Jesus....!
- The songs you bought digitally on the PS3? You can't use them! (maybe they fixed it by now)
- The variety of the tracks...... lmao!
The list goes on and on.
Is my girl-friend the only person with this issue?
Well, let me take a quick look at the meta score:
http://www.metacritic.com/game/playstation-4/singstar-ultimate-party
37%
37%!!! for a "Blockbuster 1st Party game (see sales numbers).
Eurogamer Review
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-11-13-singstar-ultimate-party-review
2 out of 10
Eurogamer: "It's a shame that such a much-loved series has come to this, but here we are. So to conclude, SingStar Ultimate Party gets one point for nice menu screens and one point for Carly Rae Jepsen."
GamesRadar Review:
http://www.gamesradar.com/singstar-ultimate-party-review/
1.5 out of 5
Amazon UK Customer Reviews:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00KGSW5P4/
Amazon Germany Customer Reviews:
http://www.amazon.de/dp/B00KY2CAAC/
Yup, the game is garbage!
No wonder why SCEE rebooted their studios, or even closed them (see Liverpool).
They heavily downsized the London Studio (over 300 employees to 120 now) and here we go.
We get a heavily downsized and broken SingStar game.
First that "turd of a game" DRIVECLUB and now SingStar - Ultimate Party (a party of two = "Ultimate Party", according to SCEE).
Great job, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe.
If your SCEE studios suck ass, get rid of them, upgrade your SCEE XDev Studio and make more collaborations with 3rd Party devs (who can actually make good games) like the "SCE Japan Studio + From Software" example for Bloodborne.
But hey.... at least SCEE London studio's new twitter account "@LondonStudioHQ" still works.
At least one accomplishment....