I swear it feels like years since I last played a Sony exclusive from a first party studio.


I remember back in the PS4 days I had at least 2 new cinematic 2deep4u games per year (or one more if it was good year) .... This gen however feels like I've done nothing but play glorified exclusives that were made purely for the cross-gen experience. I mean sure these exclusives are still better looking than the majority of the titles released this gen, but it just feels like these games are still missing that certain magic touch that they had back in the PS4 days.

Maybe it's the fact that most of the games are direct sequels, so they feel kinda iterative compared to the new ips they released in PS4 gen or that the sequels feel kinda safe compared to what they released during PS4's time. A good example would be UC4 and TLOU 2 both of which even though borrowed heavily from their predecessors, the sequels for the PS4 felt very different, but still kept the essence of the game.

Horizon FW, Spiderman 2 and GOW2 were great games, but just felt incredibly safe and samey.


The PS4 era sony games were so amazing that they actually broke people like Jay, who've made it their life's identity to irrationally hate on these games despite it being both critically and commercially loved and the reason why people bought playstations in the first place. Then sony forced their studios to pivot to gaas games and then pivot back again (prolly) and chances are we won't see any other cinematic 2deep4u experiences until the end of this gen or until PS6 releases.


Thank god for Microsoft who've decided to copy Sony's playbook and are trying to release single player experiences with their recent crop of games.

No

If I want a cinematic experience, I'll put on a good movie on my tv and play some deep rock survivor on my monitor.


The best cinematic games are about the same quality as a mediocre TV show. There's like 1 or 2 games per generation that transcend this rule (imo) and they are not from sweet Sony Inc.

I play games to play them. If I have 1 hour to game I don't care to spend 1/3 of that watching cutscenes