They don’t like fun, they like pain and suffering.
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From the maybe 3 seconds of gameplay they’ve shown, I was getting more of a Returnal vibe than anything else. Stuck on one planet having to fight monster(s).
If they had only shown “Naughty Dog” and “Intergalactic” logo card and nothing else I would have been more excited. Instead they killed my enthusiasm with what they showed.
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Yep makes me wonder what the point of the spaceship is.
Woo you’ve got a red Porsche ship, but you’ll only see it in the beginning and end credits lol…
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I don’t know why they went full blown product placement. Did they watch Man of Steel while making this?
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Sony cinematic AAA budgets are so much out of proportions they need to supplement with product placement… probably.
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Knowing the cast detail, I think this game is going to cost a lot.
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I honestly don’t understand this decision…also it’s funny seeing Druckmann saying that they are working on this game since 2020, at summer game fest 2022 he was saying that Factions 2.0 was their next full fledged project talking about how ambitious/big the game was e.t.c. so yeah the “working since 2020 on this one” is probably misleading/BS too.
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I think they were working slowly with the new IP while Factions 2.0 was full speed ahead until Bungie iceberg them. I guess you can say they had a mess until recently where they got things in order. I’m assuming of course.
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My thought on the actual timeline: They had an idea at 2020, then mulled around it for years when they have spare time, like when waiting on other things to finish up, and then going into pre-production on it in late 2023 right after they killed TLOU GaaS. Now they are in production in 2024. So this will be a 2027/2028 game.
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I guess it’ll serve as a base for you and the crew on the planet the game takes place on.
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Maybe it could be used for fast travel between locations on the planet as well.
I don’t know that I agree. The newspaper clippings on the wall references the “Five Aces” and there’s a photo showing the main character with four other people, including the character played by Kumail Nanjiani that they’ve just located. I’m guessing that group is the aforementioned Five Aces.
Based on that, my interpretation is that there’s some backstory giving you a reason to try to find the other members, and that that is the basic gist of the game. Presumably you’d be aided by the woman in the eyepatch, and presumably these people are hiding on different planets.
But that’s obviously just guessing. Point is, while you may indeed be right, I don’t think what I posted above is an unreasonable guess either.
They describe the pitch as her being stranded on a single planet. Maybe that’s just the setup for the start of the game and not the entire game. I don’t know. Maybe. Maybe not. But from an excitement level, if they left it entirely up to my imagination I’d be more hyped with just a title card.
She ends up stranded and alone on the distant, enigmatic planet of Sempiria, a world “whose communication with the outside universe went dark hundreds of years ago.”
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Oh. I’m most likely not playing this game, so I haven’t looked into it more than just watching the trailer. I had no idea that they’d come straight out and said it, so just ignore everything I said. 
edit: Watch them planning a multi-game arc already, with each game featuring a new planet, and a new former member of the Five Aces being the target. It would explain the use of a subtitle in the first entry.
2nd edit: A female bounty hunter piloting a red ship gets stuck on a planet with hostile inhabitants… hopefully Nintendo isn’t watching. 
I kid, I kid.
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Maybe they are using this to pay for the expensive development. Didn’t Square Enix and some other developers talk of getting outside investors to finance some of their games?
But Naughty Dog is one of the most popular studios in gaming and they also got the hype of being the one last thing at the TGAs.
CyberPunk, Elden Ring, Starfield all did much bigger numbers whilst also being new IPs from major studios. So, there’s definitely other factors at play like the trailer not catching people interest etc.
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I think they were one of the most popular on consoles but not anymore. They’re certainly not popular on the PC and with steam releasing over 18 thousand games this year already that just pushes them further away. PC is defining gaming now and if it doesn’t resonate there then that’s a problem.
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The trailer features a woman based on a real person, has a shaved head and isn’t half naked, so it’s woke and completely unacceptable, you should know that!
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I’ve no doubt that’ll play a factor in it - it’s particularly an issue for Western publishers who need mass market appeal as it does seem there’s a large group of gamers who don’t like anything even remotely different anymore.
But unless we’re saying they’re a vast majority (which I really hope they’re not!) it’s not enough to fully explain the lack of interest beyond the Sony hardcore - it feels instead like they’re doing retro-futuristic years after the trend has passed and space cowboy is now overdone (both are in Starfield for example but as part of a much larger package), the source materials are so old only the most dedicated younger anime watchers will know them and it was a pretty dull trailer that even many watchers admitted looked like so many games recently - with only the ND name giving them the “hype”.
Compared to some of the originality we’ve had from elsewhere - the Hitman-style, globe-trotting and recognisable Indy, the humour of The Outer Worlds, the art style of South of Midnight, the sheer scope of Starfield or Flight Sim 24, or even the variety and quirkiness of PS’s own Astro Bot - it just feels like something weirdly over-familiar already…
(I also get the feeling Druckman like Kojima would rather write film scripts - both have interesting ideas that make good films but not always the best games, for example TLoU feels better as a TV series than the sequel felt as a game, as that was just pure misery porn, while MGS2 for example I enjoyed but the last half hour to an hour was just too many cutscenes filled with conspiracy stuff and themes best left to a university lecture, teenage me understood but was so confused why he’d weird the game up so much for little impact)
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