Even more so is the chance to interview industry figures who are not often available at other times. E3 may not allow for lengthy hands-on previews but they’re still useful. GC: There were no hands-on demos for Cyberpunk 2077 at E3 or any other major event. Being game journos I wondered what GC’s feeling’s were on its absence.
It’s biggest job to me seems to be an enjoyable hypefest.
I’ve heard journos say E3 is a terrible place to scrutinise games. I believe the game had a massive hands-on demo in 2018 too. The writer cited Cyberpunk 2077 as an example.īut Cyberpunk was a E3 darling cemented with the Keanu Reeves reveal. It puts control in the hands of developers to feed us a false narrative about how their games are progressing. Sunday’s Reader’s Feature cited a lack of E3 and hands-on demos as a missed opportunity to scrutinise developers and their games. Oh and give us some proper Marvel villains to go up against! If we get a second game I hope they focus more on the single-player experience.
Let’s face it though, a Marvel game should have been an absolute open goal, but with all the missteps from Crystal Dynamics they’ve managed to hit the crossbar and then both posts with the follow-up. Clearly Crystal Dynamics were going for a Destiny type online multiplayer to sell skins and keep people playing (and paying), but I can’t help but feel that if they would have ignored that and focused on the single-player it would have been a really great game and kept people playing with episodic content. So I write this as I watch the credits roll on the Avengers, after finishing the single-player campaign for the first time (I waited for the PlayStation 5 version) and have to say that the story campaign was actually pretty good, just a shame about literally every other aspect of the game.
#PS5 SPLIT SCREEN GAMES SERIES#
Maybe when there’s a smaller revision but I think more likely I’ll spend the money on an Xbox Series S just to get by for now. I haven’t got a PlayStation 5 yet and now I’m seriously considering whether I want one. I used to be fine with that concept but it’s a whole new world since Xbox backwards compatibility and Game Pass and I’m losing faith. Sony still hasn’t got any kind of comprehensive backwards compatibility strategy and everything they’re doing at the moment is just emphasising that the PlayStation 5 is a single console and when it’s done it’s done and you’ll have to start again with the PlayStation 6. I don’t know if they thought shutting down the PlayStation 3 and their portables was just a minor issue, that people would barely noticed, but it’s immediately got me worried about the PlayStation 5 and the future of any downloadable games I might buy on it.
I have to admit that Sony are really turning me off getting a PlayStation 5 at the moment. Although to be honest the price of a second controller constantly going up is one of the biggest impediments to it becoming popular again. Playing with someone else on the couch with you is so different from online multiplayer I hope we can finally see an increase in the option this gen. She has no interest in playing on her own, not even Animal Crossing, but will happily play just about anything in co-op, at least for a time. I care because it’s the only way I’ve been able to get my girlfriend into games.