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Sackboy A Big Adventure Launches on PC October 27

Midn1ght

Member
Loved every minutes of it on PS5, will definitely buy again down the line.

But yeah, Sony releasing so much in such a short period of time is weird. Maybe trying to have enough meat for an upcoming Sony PC store?
 

Fahdis

Member
Yep. Too many games releasing in a small timeframe (Miles Morales - 2 uncharted games and now Sackboy). Besides Sony games have ridiculous pricing on Steam.

And why does this matter? Are you the master of scheduling and wallets? These games released eons ago.
 
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tommib

Member
Yep. Too many games releasing in a small timeframe (Miles Morales - 2 uncharted games and now Sackboy). Besides Sony games have ridiculous pricing on Steam.

I guess this game bombed and they need to sell more units no matter what.
Is this some new twisted cope. More games available to more people is a bad thing? Fukinhell. People are either warring because they can’t wait to see Sony games on pc for validation on what their company does or they complain that Sony just wants to sell games no matter what.

How fucking surprising that a game studio wants to sell copies. Get a life, ffs. PC gamers will get a lovely platform game with all the bells and whistles on top of the initial really good graphics.

There are no co-op 3D platform games on PC of this graphical quality and with this charm for kids and teens.
 
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ArtHands

Thinks buying more servers can fix a bad patch
Loved every minutes of it on PS5, will definitely buy again down the line.

But yeah, Sony releasing so much in such a short period of time is weird. Maybe trying to have enough meat for an upcoming Sony PC store?

Maybe they are announcing a cartoon tv show or movie for Sackboy. Because apparently they will only port games to PC for this reason
 

rofif

Can’t Git Gud
I was curious enough to get this on discount and I still might as dualsense is probably big sell on this game.
 

daninthemix

Member
Loved every minutes of it on PS5, will definitely buy again down the line.

But yeah, Sony releasing so much in such a short period of time is weird. Maybe trying to have enough meat for an upcoming Sony PC store?
I love how everyone thinks theres some end-game here other than simply selling games on Steam.

You know, there might not be. The end-game might literally be - release on Steam and make some money that we otherwise would not have made.
 

Black_Stride

do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
The social media manager is about to be finding a new job.

Always tick private when you upload, rather the video is late than early.
 

Neofire

Member
Really? Out of the many games Sony can choose from their backcatalog they go with this one?

Id rather have infamous second son, Ratchet and Clank 2016 or SoTC remake. Hell even some PS3 PS2 HD collections would be great like (ICO + SOCT) or the God of War origin collection

At least is one more game to cross out from their exclusive catalog. Eventually they will run out of games and will have to port Bloodborne
Yeah I bet you do lol
 
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KungFucius

King Snowflake
Goddamnit. I bought a second PS5 controller just to play this with my kid and I could have waited 4 months and played it on PC.
 

SmokedMeat

Gamer™
Pass. There’s nothing enticing about Sackboy anything.

Dreams would’ve made much more sense.

Bring on Returnal!
 
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Guilty_AI

Member
Wait, this doesn't have community made levels like Little Big Planet? No wonder no one gave a crap about this game, player levels were the heart and soul of the franchise.
 

KungFucius

King Snowflake
Pass. There’s nothing enticing about Sackboy anything.

Dreams would’ve made much more sense.

Bring on Returnal!
It's a decent platformer and fun in local co-op. Nothing amazing, but considering how little is being released in Q4 it is a timely and good addition to the PC lineup.
 
Sony with some very odd choices for ports. To me Bloodborne and Dreams should be their first priority. Returnal is another one that I think will appeal to the PC audience.
 

Kokoloko85

Member
so far this year I have bought:
Days Gone
Horizon Zero Dawn
Spider-Man
God of War

have Uncharted collection preordered with CDKEYS
will buy Miles Morales

Overload? maybe. but assuming Sony gets at least $30/key , they will have made $180 from me they otherwise would not have.

They are happy. I am happy.

Will that money outweigh the people who migrate to PC and have spent thousands on PSN since PS3 days like myself. Instead of buying 1st and 3rd party games on PS5, the money will go to Steam.

The future will tell if its worth it i guess
 

Interfectum

Member
Will that money outweigh the people who migrate to PC and have spent thousands on PSN since PS3 days like myself. Instead of buying 1st and 3rd party games on PS5, the money will go to Steam.

The future will tell if its worth it i guess
No doubt there will be a time where Sony thinks they can go it alone on PC, pull their games off Steam and force people to a Playstation launcher. There will be many news stories and fanboys along both battle lines. Then five years after you'll see all of Sony's games reappear on Steam. This is the way.
 

Kokoloko85

Member
No doubt there will be a time where Sony thinks they can go it alone on PC, pull their games off Steam and force people to a Playstation launcher. There will be many news stories and fanboys along both battle lines. Then five years after you'll see all of Sony's games reappear on Steam. This is the way.

They will learn when MS buys Steam lol.
Nintendo and Playstation had some of their best profits and sales ever last gen, they didn’t release on PC. They should have double down on what they were doing instead
 

KXVXII9X

Member
Omg! I did not expect this. I played Co-op on my friends PS4 and had a blast with a big grin on my face. Reminds me of the PS2/GameCube days.
 
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Jaybe

Member
But yeah, Sony releasing so much in such a short period of time is weird. Maybe trying to have enough meat for an upcoming Sony PC store?
Yeah. Perhaps some PS Plus Extra PC extension through their own PC storefront is in the works.
 

fermcr

Member
Sony with some very odd choices for ports. To me Bloodborne and Dreams should be their first priority. Returnal is another one that I think will appeal to the PC audience.

Bloodborne was made by FromSoftware. The question here is does Sony have access to source code of the game?... so that they could make a PS5 remake or port it to PC.
 

ACESHIGH

Banned
Is this some new twisted cope. More games available to more people is a bad thing? Fukinhell. People are either warring because they can’t wait to see Sony games on pc for validation on what their company does or they complain that Sony just wants to sell games no matter what.

How fucking surprising that a game studio wants to sell copies. Get a life, ffs. PC gamers will get a lovely platform game with all the bells and whistles on top of the initial really good graphics.

There are no co-op 3D platform games on PC of this graphical quality and with this charm for kids and teens.

Cope? I love the fact that Sony finally realiz d that they can sell games on PC without impacting their playstation brand. I just play on PC so the more games the better.

However, there are much better games to be ported than this one. What's next medievil remake? Also the quality of their ports has been hit and miss. HZD took months to be fixed, God of War and Spiderman still have issues. If they pump out PC ports left and right the quality may take a hit.
 
The game is pretty enjoyable. It's pretty forgettable, but I had fun with it.

The stupid Ripsnorter trophy killed the game for me. I was excited for a nice, relaxing platinum, and throw in a ridiculously difficult trophy that seemed to kill the spirit of the game.

Hopefully, the DualSense features work for PC. While not as massive as games like Returnal or Astro, it did add to the overall experience.
 

Tripolygon

Banned
It’s quiet fascinating. Sony has gone from releasing 1 game a year on PC to releasing more games on PC this year than Microsoft who has been talking about PC for years.
 

tommib

Member
Cope? I love the fact that Sony finally realiz d that they can sell games on PC without impacting their playstation brand. I just play on PC so the more games the better.

However, there are much better games to be ported than this one. What's next medievil remake? Also the quality of their ports has been hit and miss. HZD took months to be fixed, God of War and Spiderman still have issues. If they pump out PC ports left and right the quality may take a hit.
They’re bringing everything at this point. Why not a gorgeous 3D platformer for children. You don’t think there’s a market for that on PC? Let Sony bring everything, independent of the hardcore wishes. Returnal is just around the corner.
 

ACESHIGH

Banned
Bloodborne was made by FromSoftware. The question here is does Sony have access to source code of the game?... so that they could make a PS5 remake or port it to PC.

It would be asnine of them if they don't have it. Its their IP after all.
 

StreetsofBeige

Gold Member
I'm assuming you guys realize Sony is pumping out games asap because they want to free up time slots for their future games to come to PC fast. It's not like they are going to do all these game releases in 2022 on PC and then have their new games come out on PC in 2025 or 2026 with a big empty gap in between.

Dj Khaled GIF
 
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Tempted to Buy but Spiderman was buggy as fuck on my 3070ti (No RT without crashes, weird stutter, HDR issue when hooked up to OLED) :( and does not run like it should.

Hoping for some honest reviews that don't focus on what it runs like on a 3090ti....
Really? All the reviews said it was a very good port.
 

Guilty_AI

Member
Is this true?!? My interest in this just went to zero if so.
Its what it says online.

Really? All the reviews said it was a very good port.
People praise it because it was done by Nixxes, but the port was really just serviceable. Game caps VRAM usage to around 80% causing it do underperform when it shouldn't, stutters, ray tracing causing weird visual glitches for some people.
You could even fix some of the performance issues by changing a setting in the bios, so they clearly fucked up somewhere.
 
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ACESHIGH

Banned
Its what it says online.


People praise it because it was done by Nixxes, but the port was really just serviceable. Game caps VRAM usage to around 80% causing it do underperform when it shouldn't, stutters, ray tracing causing weird visual glitches for some people.
You could even fix some of the performance issues by changing a setting in the bios, so they clearly fucked up somewhere.

Digital Foundry has been pretty light on their criticism of the latest Sony PC ports, just because they run fine on their I9 12900K and 3090ti rigs. God of War was "superb" according to them, yet got like 12 patches to adress issues and is still not fixed. I think DF logic is: has a lot of graphic options = Great PC port.
 
Bloodborne was made by FromSoftware. The question here is does Sony have access to source code of the game?... so that they could make a PS5 remake or port it to PC.
Yes they do. It's their game after all. The only way they don't have access to it is if someone fucked up and somehow they lost the source code for the game, close to impossible.
 
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EverydayBeast

thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
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Sackboy game that’s in a particular genre of games that’s supposedly for kids. Sackboy demands concentration, and it’s familiar to a Mario or crash game but has technical changes and different qualities.
 

Tomi

Member
Uncharted, Sackboy and Miles all at the same time with barely any marketing. Weird strategy.
No need, Sony knows every port will sell well and it will be profitable because its not to expensive to port a game on a pc
 
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mrmeh

Member
Really? All the reviews said it was a very good port.
That's exactly my point everyone gushed over it but it is not a good port not even close, lots of issues. My 3070ti can run Forza Horizon 5 at better than XsX quality mode (30fps) but at 60fps, I'm not sure it runs Spiderman faster than the PS5 and is full of bugs. Think I only paid £25 for it and I feel robbed.

Better waiting a couple of months for Sackboy and checking the forums to see if it has any issues, price will also be much cheaper from key sellers then as well.
 
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