GHG
Gold Member
None of those games sold. The Last Guardian was a ps3 game and was mostly forgotten by everybody. All of the other games you mentioned play more like movies and we've had those games before. It is literally what people that don't play videogames will play. Gravity Rush isn't for everybody but I guess it is an ok game and not safe? (if you aren't into Japanese games which isn't so niche anymore)
GT was a fucking masterpiece a few generations ago so I don't know why you'd bring that up when trying to prove there are better games now. Or GoW.
You think scores matter? Have you SEEN a modern review? Or the current state of videogame reviewers and similar sites?
He isn't wrong, while I enjoyed quite a few games this gen it has been pretty stale outside your random JPN game.
I think you are misunderstanding my point, this isn't about whether games are successful or not, the games listed serve as a counterpoint to the notion that all Sony does is pump out "safe" games. It's simply untrue. The more popular games/franchises get all the press but there's a lot of other games they produce and they flesh out the portfolio and provide breadth. Of the games listed there are very few third party publishers pumping out games like those and the perseverance to continue to publish games like that in today's climate should be applauded.
GT was an example of a risk being taken - taking a tent pole franchise and doing something entirely different with it. Whether you like it or hate it is a matter of taste but it went in a direction that no other console focused racing game had done previously. It's basically a heavily sanitised version of iRacing.
When I say "highly rated", it's not just review scores. Games like GoW and Uncharted don't get as successful as they have been by review scores alone.