A #IGN # Opinion piece.
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Ive been saying this for years. The game are well made and slick, but every game feels like a reskin of the other and they all feel interchangeable.
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If even IGN is getting bored of Sony’s first party…
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An actual ign employee making a sharp critique towards playstation? Has the world come to an end?!
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“Family member was murdered, now I must go on revenge quest” is a convenient story structure to allow a video game protagonist to kill thousands of enemies and still be the Good Guy. It’s a video game trope that’s probably not going away any time soon.
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I very much agree, way too many games but particularly PlayStation first party stick to the same type of narrative or setting - it’s why I love Xbox first party so much as they’ve tended to take more risks and experiment more, like Pentiment and Avowed.
Yotei has no pull for me at all - Tsushima was decent but it sold itself as a bit of an RPG with the skill trees etc but in reality you had no say in any decisions and the story went in stupid directions, and I don’t trust they won’t do the same again (plus it appears to have typical sequel energy of “you can now camp and cook stuff!” - boring).
It’s the problem with such heavily scripted games - they rob the player of agency and mean you don’t feel it’s really your actions, for that reason I much preferred AC Shadows and my time with Avowed than much of Sony’s first party…
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Maybe the anti Xbox articles arent garnering the clicks they used to. The land has been had, time to move to more fertile ground.
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Nay knowing them they will target nintendo next. I mean remember wii u?
What a week.
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IGN of all places.
They are quite, quite late with this, but better late than never I guess.
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As great as Sony’s games are for me, IGN isn’t wrong.
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People in the comments section are taking it well. How dare IGN criticize the PlayStation. 
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Wait I’m confused. I thought everyone knew this and it was a well known fact, and that this was what people liked about Playstation exclusives? The consistency? That’s how I remember them slamming Xbox in comparison. Like I remember gamers online saying they’d rather play the same high quality narrative game over and over, and I remember Sony coming out and saying that’s what they wanted to push at one point (or it coming out that that’s what they were doing like during the PS4 Gen).
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Lol IGN comment areas are generally one of the most toxic, pro-Playstation, anti-Xbox, bigoted ranting places filled with insulting trolls outside of Twitter, I remember the ABK articles on it were unhinged in the comments
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“getting”??
this was boring and stale ten years ago lmao
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I’ve probably banged on about this enough, but: recently played Horizon FW a lot, and Avowed a lot. The former is ridiculously accomplished and lovingly crafted. The latter is too, but in such a different way. The former has gorgeous graphics and animations and sound design and everything, and yet a really, really narrow sense of world (despite the enormity of the map) and culture (nobody has a really true feeling internal world, anywhere, beyond ‘the tribe has this colour and myth, and I like nice things and don’t like bad things’; Aloy’s heroism is so narrow, by design, because Only She Can Save The World and it makes everything feel very… small), meaning and place, and a self-devouring story (so many layers and complexities to keep track of, just cba). Avowed has a far greater sense of place and of a greater world beyond the far-smaller map’s borders, even as the animations are clearly not as good, etc. You are the main agent, but you are also a plaything of far greater powers, in a world far larger and richer.
Not saying this is ‘Sony do only X and MS do only Y’, as that’s silly. But it’s a telling difference I’ve noticed between two games recently.
Pentiment is on another level. Superlative game, imo.
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I think what hurts Sony games they all have similar tone and aesthetics . I don’t think we’ll see Sony take risks or try genres that are outside of their comfort zone . I guess formula works because sales are good but i stopped buying their games day one
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But seriously though, for me I’ve completely lost interest in Sony’s games after the PS3. Uncharted 4 is the last game they made that really got my interest and I’m glad a friend lent me his PS4 so I didn’t have to buy one for it.
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They’ve taken a LOT of risks trying to get into live service… maybe they shouldn’t take risks 
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I so enjoyed the in-house games from Playation on PS2, PS3 and the PS4 but not so much on the PS 5. found them a little dull boring and techically not that impressive Astrobot was the one of the few execptions