Gamescom 2014 Kicks Off Shortly! - MS/Sony Shows Finished

[Foxi4]

Sony Gamescom, aka Indie Shit: The Conference.

Truly underwhelming - they started with Bloodborne, which filled me with high expectations... and then it was a parade of Indies with the occasional AAA title in-between, but none of the killer apps like Uncharted 4. That, and no PSVita content displayed on-stage. Overall t'was meh - perhaps the floor demos are better.

 

[GameWinner]

Save me, Tokyo Game Show!

 

[Arras]

Save me, Tokyo Game Show!

Save us with unlocalized weeaboo games!

 

[GameWinner]

Save us with unlocalized weeaboo games!

Hey!
Some games were localized from last year's conference...

 

[mightymuffy]

Sony Gamescom, aka Indie Shit: The Conference.

Yeah, that was a bit crap! Enjoyed watching PS4 Tearaway (loved the Vita version), and of course that Alienation thingie from the Super Stardust/Resogun lads, but other than that....?! Driveclub still doesn't look top notch to me, and after finally watching MS's show, doesn't look a patch on Horizon 2 up to now.
That said, like at e3, Sony doesn't really need to even turn up to these events - they're smashing it in the sales.... Another victory to MS then, like at e3, but it's the sales that count: can see the Xbone taking off soon, but it'll still not stop the PS4 juggernaut rolling...

 

[stanleyopar2000]

wow....is it just me or did the Sony GamesCom SUCK!??! horribly.

Microsoft has killed it. I hope Rise of the Tomb Raider is a TIMED exclusive. Instead of the tedious wordplay Microsoft is leading us to believe it's an indefinite exclusive

 

[TheCasketMan]

Poor Vita, abandoned by his father.

 

[Arras]

Hey!
Some games were localized from last year's conference...

I'm still crying over Phantasy Star

 

[Joe88]

announcer: "and now I would like to announce long time developer for playstation with an exclusive game for ps4"
crowd: "please let it be last gurdian, uncharted 4 new footage, new god of war"
(insert indie dev no one has heard of and indie game here)

basically every single game^

 

[CathyRina]

I'm still crying over Phantasy Star

same here

 

[Foxi4]

Games-wise the offering was pretty lackluster, but there is one thing to get excited over - Share Play. I think it's cool that you can join someone's game to co-op or versus without owning the actual game. It's practically the best way to show off games to friends - you don't need to describe them, you can just invite someone to play with you and then the other player can decide whether or not it's worth investing in the title. It's pretty much Download Play, except online, which is great.

 

[Guild McCommunist]

Games-wise the offering was pretty lackluster, but there is one thing to get excited over - Share Play. I think it's cool that you can join someone's game to co-op or versus without owning the actual game. It's practically the best way to show off games to friends - you don't need to describe them, you can just invite someone to play with you and then the other player can decide whether or not it's worth investing in the title. It's pretty much Download Play, except online, which is great.

Yeah, SharePlay is neat, I would like Playstation Now if it offered full game ownership instead of just rentals too. Sony has definitely brought the coolest features this generation.

 

[Ryupower]

sony forgot about the vita and did not say what game are for it at gamecom BUT some games shown ARE for the vita
Papers Please is one of them

 

[Foxi4]

Yeah, SharePlay is neat, I would like Playstation Now if it offered full game ownership instead of just rentals too. Sony has definitely brought the coolest features this generation.

Yep. The prices in the Beta are unreasonable at best - you might as well just go on eBay and buy the actual game. They need to come up with a subscription plan for Now or add a full ownership option - they can keep their timed trials.

sony forgot about the vita and did not say what game are for it at gamecom BUT some games shown ARE for the vita Papers Please is one of them

There's also Hohokum (released today) and The Hungry Horde, but that's not much. According to the post-stream chit-chat they still have some games that weren't announced on-stage and they'll be releasing trailers for them over the course of Gamescom.

 

[Gahars]

So the PS4 can have Cher play? So what? I mean, really, Sony? This is your killer feature? I don't even understand what the appeal is. Why would anyone care if Cher plays?

Pfft, what a joke of a conference. I bet they sure feel dumb now.

 

[Hyro-Sama]

Share play was only interesting announcement. Everything else was boring and
Square-Enix shot themselves in the foot yet again. This year has been extremely disappointing gaming wise. Hope things fair better next year.

 

[Gahars]

On the note of Tomb Raider...

Welcome to next gen, everyone.

 

[GameWinner]

So that P.T. game Sony revealed was actual a playable teaser for the new Silent Hill game.

 

[Nathan Drake]

Well, so far the Vita has been successfully shit on with one of the games worth buying a Vita for being put on the PS4 with nothing else of note from either Gamescom or E3. Hopefully they announce something else, otherwise, I dunno, here's to hoping Tokyo Game Show shows some stuff that will actually be localized.

 

[CathyRina]

Well there is at least Tales of Hearts R this year...