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Is anybody kind of tired of this idea that Sony’s videogames and consoles are gods gift to humanity? (show games)
[Mhhhyes xbox peasants, nintendo kiddies]
Like they’re good games don’t get me wrong, but they’re also the same linear story 3rd person action game year after year designed for a casual audience. God of War creator David Jaffe will explain in a clip in a minute how Sony for 25 years has specifically designed their games for casuals.
Later on we will look at evidence that The Game Awards is essentially bought and run by Sony Corp. The fact that Last of Us 2 won 11 nominations despite selling a measly 4 million copies and Warzone was played by 100 million people the same year and didn’t win a single award should tell us how objective this quote “Awards Show” is.
Ready to take the red pill and not let a videogame company decide for you what games you will play anymore? If so, pick up that needle and let’s pop Sony’s ego together.
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Sony was founded in Tokyo in 1955… but then they thought, “How can we get neckbeards on the internet to get tattoos of our products?”
So In 1995, to compete with Nintendo and Sega, Sony launched the playstation.
Hard to believe this, but at the time Sony was looking like a runner up to Sega. Sega was a known quantity in the console market and so playstation needed something neither the sega saturn nor nintendo had: a ton of games.
Sony would pretty much put anything on a disc back then, and they did. Ironically the playstation 1 launch lineup kind of looks like Game Pass’s high quantity low quality offering today. Heh.
I had a playstation back then and I loved it. Resident Evil 1 changed my life.
But even then I could see that Sony was copying their competition.
Jet Moto was literally a knock off of the much better Wave Race 64. Crash Bandicoot was a knock off of the much better Mario 64. Fast forward to 2004 and you’ve got Sony trying to copy Halo with Killzone. In 2012 they tried to copy Smash brothers with playstation all stars. Come on guys.
Also, Sony never quite caught up to Xbox on the internet connectivity thing. Party Chat, Halo and COD are part of the cultural zeitgeist now forever because of those sweet Xbox 360 glory years. Even to this day, no matter what game I’m playing, on Xbox I know people are going to have their microphones on. I have never experienced th is on the PS4. I’m convinced people with PS4s don’t even own mics.
But to give credit where credit is due, Sony did crush it with their single player games in the PS4 era. Horizon Zero Dawn, God of War, and Spiderman, even though they are all very similar are great games. The PS4 easily outsold the Xbox One 2 to 1 in this last console generation.
THE SONY BELIEF SYSTEM
So if we had to sum up the Sony Belief System what would it be? I’ll try to guess:
Sony makes games with the best stories
Sony makes the best single player games
Ergo, Sony makes the best games
Horizon Zero Dawn. Ghosts of Tsushima. Uncharted. Last of Us. Days Gone. God of War. Spiderman. Death Stranding. Final Fantasy 7 Remastered.
What does all these games have in common?
They’re all linear, narrative heavy 3rd person action games with quicktime events that take about 20 hours to beat. Usually in an open world. And usually about somebody’s dad.
Seriously check out the grid below.
I was playing Ghosts of Tsushima and thinking “Man I feel like I’ve played this before.”
It’s not that Sony’s games a re bad.. In fact I would say they are technically excellent. It’s just that I find them repetitive and not really that interesting.
To go back to our sony belief system lets clarify this sentence a b it.
So if Sony makes the best games. And Sony makes “3rd Person Linear Action Games About Your Dad”
That means 3rd person linear action games about my dad are the best games?
Yeah I’m gonna have to disagree with that.
What is a good western RPG that Sony has made? I got nothing. Fallout New Vegas is incredible and Sony has never made anything like it. What’s a really good first person game Sony has made? Until Deathloop came out, they didn’t really have one.What’s a really good multiplayer game Sony has made? Yeah, I got nothin.
SONY IS FOR CASUALS
The thing you have to realize about Sony first party games is that they are primarily aimed at your casual gaming audience. This is why they are all 3rd person games with quicktime events and take around 20 hours to beat. This is why they are all single player games. Their audience is your average casual gamer who plays videogames once a week.
And there’s nothing wrong with that but I tend to put more like 200 or 500 hours into a game, yknow like a really good game. It’s incredibly rare to find at most 50 hours of content in a sony game.
This video from David Jaffe, who worked at Sony for 25 years explains what im talking about
THE GAME AWARDS
Moving on to the game awards -- its pretty obvious to me at this point that the game awards are just a front for Sony corp. I mean you’ve got Geoff Keighley out front, known Halo hater who is an outspoken Sony guy. Then you’ve got Hideo Kojima voting for his own games in the background. Then you’ve got Shawn Leyton from Sony on the board as well. Then you’ve got tons of media outlets like Easy Allies and Kinda Funny games who literally create documentaries worshipping Sony games.
Nowhere was the bias of this award show more obvious than in 2019. So Death Stranding, in case you havent played it, is an absolute dogshit walking simulator. The cutscenes and the idea of the game was really cool but it was essentially a 40 hour walking simulator. This is why the game sold a measly 500,000 copies in its first month on PS4. Because nobody wanted to play it and Sony unofficially has called it a flop.
So do you find it funny at all that Death Stranding was nominated in TEN different categories at the game awards. Now call me a conspiracy nut but do you suppose that has anything to do with Hideo Kojima, the guy who created the game being on the board? Nahh couldn’t be. I am sure their shadowy voting process behind closed doors was completely fair.
Fast forward to the 2020 game awards and the nominations list is basically a list of the Sony exclusives that year. Final Fantasy 7 Remake, Miles Morales (which is a 5 hour DLC by the way), Last of Us part 2, Ghosts of Tsushima and Fall Guys absolutely swept the award show. Do you remember when Mitt Romney’s fake twitter account got exposed because it was this random unknown person on twitter agreeing with everything he said? Yeah this is that moment for Sony. Like they’re not even trying to hide anymore at the 2020 award show.
How Last of Us 2 could go from being one of the most objectively hated games on the internet in 2020 to being supposedly lauded as game of the year is absolutely fascinating to me. At this point the game awards haven’t just become a walking advertisement for Sony but are completely detached from reality itself.
The Last of Us part 2 sold 4 million copies in 2020. That’s not much considering 100 million people owned PS4s at that point.
Now guess what game 100 million people either purchased or installed in 2020? Yes that’s right call of duty warzone. And it was barely mentioned at the game awards. So how unhinged from reality do you have to be to nominate a game that sold 4 million copies versus a game that 100 million people are playing. Like it’s a joke at this point. The Sony delusion needs to end. These people need to get professional help.
“SONY TELLS ME WHAT TO PLAY”
There’s never been more games, MMO’s, live services, consoles and ways to play videogames than we have right now… it’s literally overwhelming.
And I think people understandably take solace in having a company curate games for them and essentially tell them what to play. There’s comfort in knowing in 2022 we are playing Horizon Zero Dawn or In 2023 we are playing God of War, etc.
And I think it makes total sense for people to want that. But it also severely limits what you have experienced and makes it very difficult for you to participate in any kind of robust game criticism outside of the games you like. Because you have a very very limited perspective on what is out there.
I heard Sony people talking about Returnal like we haven’t been playing roguelikes for 10 years. Some Sony fans thought Deathloop was a completely new idea because they had never played Hunt: Showdown or The Division or Escape from Tarkov. I love Deathloop and the way it combined elements but it owes most of its gameplay to Tarkov and Binding of Isaac.
So in the end I guess what I’m saying is: no console or game company is better than any other. There are things you will get on Xbox you can’t get on Playstation. Like gamepass and people talking on mics. Also there’s things on Playstation you can’t get on Xbox. Like some of the best linear story 3rd person action games. And there’s DEFINITELY stuff you get on PC that you can’t get on a console … like literally everything else. Strategy games. MMOs. Indie games. Pretty much everything starts on PC and grows from there.
I’m also not saying I’m better than anyone else because I play on multiple devices … my whole point in this video is to say we need to end videogamer superiority complexes. If you like Sony telling you what to play every holiday season, that’s great, but don’t pretend that its better than what somebody else is into. Sometimes I play absolute trash like the new Ghost Recon games and I feel zero guilt about it. I’m also into heady stuff like Prey and Fallout. Play what you play and like what you like. Alright, Im out
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