Starfield – will it ever be on PS5? (pic: Microsoft)
The Tuesday letters page wonders why Hideo Kojima has never tried to make a movie, as one reader asks for a hookshot in Tears Of The Kingdom.
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Getting away with it
I think we all had a good laugh at that Starfield petition to get the game on PlayStation 5 but I do wonder whether the people responsible really care about the game or if they’re just frustrated that the Xbox is getting some good publicity for once – at the same time that Sony is being dunked on.
I am generally against exclusives though and I do hope that the game is at some point released on PlayStation 5. After all, what is the difference between this and saying Call Of Duty has to be on PlayStation in order for Microsoft/Activision to make the maximum amount of money?
Are they suggesting that Starfield wouldn’t make more money if it was on more formats? Why does their logic apply to Call Of Duty and other Activision Blizzard games but not anything from Bethesda? Is it because they’ve already got away with that acquisition and there’s nothing anyone can do it about it now, so they’re showing their true colours.
Have Starfield launch as an Xbox console exclusive, sure, but after one or two years I do feel it should come to PlayStation 5. I mean, what’s going to happen with The Elder Scrolls 6? Starfield is a new IP, that’s yet to prove itself, but If the new Elder Scrolls is a permanent exclusive as well there’s going to be rioting in the street. Well, my street at least.
Winston
50/50 guess
That petition for Starfield to become a PlayStation 5 exclusive is amazing. I’m kind of fascinated by it, because it’s completely impossible to tell whether it’s a joke or not. It seems absurd and yet you see people online talking like that all the time. I really couldn’t guess whether it’s real or not.
If my life depended on it I would probably guess that it’s genuine, which is a damning indictment of how entitled most gamers are. In this case it’s just a bit of a joke but the minute they start harassing Bethesda employees and the like and suddenly it all becomes a bit grim.
If only these people were as passionate about the things that do actually matter in life…
Lance
30% unidentified
What I don’t understand about Hideo Kojima is why does he claim that his body is 70% films and yet he makes video games? You’d never get a film director or musician saying they’re 70% games and yet have never made one or had anything to do with them. I mean, it makes sense in terms of all the ultra long cut scenes but I thought he had largely got that out of his system.
I played Death Stranding and I quite enjoying it, with the cut scenes being relatively normal until right at the end. But until this news about the movie it never occurred to me how odd it was that Kojima had never even made a short film or something before. Whatever works for him but it seems like he has some strange priorities.
Tim Rogers
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Nostradamus writes…
Just read your bit about PlayStation fans wanting Starfield on PlayStation 5 only. Like, I’m bothered about Starfield, it looks a good game, but it’s going to have more bugs in it then an episode of I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!
There is going to be so many in-game purchases to buy stuff to upgrade guns, suits, and ships. I’ve got a feeling it will be like Battlefield it will be played for a few weeks or months, then it will get boring. I said the same about Battlefield a few weeks before it came out and that’s what happened.
Xbox won’t make a penny on Starfield, they paid to much for the company, so as for Starfield I’m not really fussed. All I want to play is Spider-Man 2.
David
GC: What’s the point in making this sort of thing up? Maybe it’ll have bugs, maybe it won’t, but there’s absolutely nothing to suggest it’ll have in-game purchases. And a single-player game that keeps you playing for months sounds pretty great to us… and nothing like a multiplayer-only game like Battlefield.
Gameplay hook
I thoroughly enjoying Zelda: Tears Of The Kingdom (and glad to have only paid £45 for it) but one glaring thing is missing: where the bloody hell is my Zonai chain so I can hookshot over the map with it! I know it’s not necessary with the glider and maybe sage stuff (I’ve only done the Rito sage so far, so not sure what the others do yet) but I have seen a few ledges separated by lava or even just water and thought ‘Sigh, there goes a few more minutes of tedious climbing time and stamina meals.’
Imagine attaching the chain to a spear (or even arrow) and launching it into the wall above the ledge, and then reeling yourself in. It would be heaven. I’ve sorely missed the hookshot and would love to see its return.
Keep up the good work!
Solabound
Rant against rants
Sometimes you just have to switch off your brain. Be it YouTubers telling people to not follow corporate ideologies but making sure you click ‘like’ and ‘subscribe’ (and buy some hideously cheap and nasty merchandise) or interviewers whose two questions involve inane lines, such as ‘Tell us how important it is’ or ‘What does it feel like to wake up inside a volcano?’. But the biggest switch-off has to be fanboy ranting and raving, reminding me that this industry still has yet to free itself from this tedious habit.
Growing up with a meagre Spectrum meant I never really knew who the rival was. Was it an Amstrad? My brother and I just played games and had fun. I can remember when Atari and Amiga users were going nose to nose and certainly the Sega vs. Nintendo battle, but at no point have I ever really nailed my colours to the mast.
Seems so bizarre to worship a sort of shadow form of parasite, which contains a collection of faceless entities who sit in big rooms, smoke big stogies, and make big decisions about how much to charge simple folk for their products. I like my LG TV. I also liked my old Sony cathode ray. I like Heinz beans but also Branston’s. Why do people become so crazed or enraged at pieces of equipment?
I don’t stand outside of a Cineworld telling everyone it sucks or demand that my local garden centre stops stocking Lewisias because they’re rubbish compared to a pink Saxifraga. Anyway, I’d better stop before I start ranting and being a hypocrite.
Just play some games. Who cares what billion dollar company makes them.
Wonk
GC: We’re missing something here: what does it feel like to wake up inside a volcano?
Spirit of mystery
I like murder mystery games so decided to give the demo of Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective on the PlayStation store a go.
Finished it and enjoyed it. So much so that I am going to play the demo again on my Switch! Can’t wait to play the full game when it gets released.
Tony- -1975 (PSN ID)
GC: It was always a great game, we’re glad it’s getting a second chance.
What not to do
Yesterday Johnson called the Xbox One an underpowered console with no significant exclusives of its own. Personally, I find this a bit harsh to some notable releases, like Insomniac’s Sunset Overdrive and the Ori games. Although Control wasn’t the best received, I did appreciate that they tried doing something different and to this day people still want another Titanfall.
What I think the Xbox One should really be remembered for though is the importance of thinking through the side effects of what seems like a good idea.
Quick resume seems to be universally loved on the Xbox series consoles and often touted as a next gen feature. It was also a next gen feature of the Xbox One, however the reason we forget it existed is building it 10 years ago meant limiting the amount of memory available to games, which isn’t the best idea when the console specs are about the same, so it quickly got removed along with split-screen.
How about not needing to keep a disc inserted as the games play from the hard disc? Great idea if it weren’t for the fact that’s how ownership is validated.
Power of the cloud, translation: internet connection required. Try it now and maybe it’s fine, 10 years ago though and you end up insulting people on submarines.
The One guide was awesome. For those that don’t remember, you could search for a program or film and it would search every streaming app and give you the price on each. Great feature but probably best not to spend the first half hour of your console launch talking about the TV features rather than games.
The list goes on. Ultimately, they all got removed, but it is interesting to see adverts for the Facebook portal for TV and think how that was an Xbox Pne launch feature. We just needed a pandemic to make people actually want it.
How different the generation might have gone if it weren’t for the memory usage, price difference, and if they led with games. After all, for launch they had games. Someone even had the sense to get Hideo Kojima there, they just maybe should have led with that rather than shouting ‘Xbox on’ at your telly.
Tim
GC: Ori and Control are not Xbox exclusives.
Inbox also-rans
I’ll tell you why PC ports have been so bad lately: because people keep buying them anyway. What possible motivation do publishers have for doing better? As usual, most of the problem in the games industry stem from the behaviour of gamers and publishers are merely responding to it.
Oakley
I haven’t been in a GAME store since before the pandemic and the news that it’s somehow turned into a toy shop filled with board games and merch actually makes me kind of curious. Can someone tell me if it’s more than just Funko Pop though?
Grimes
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The Tuesday letters page wonders why Hideo Kojima has never tried to make a movie, as one reader asks for a hookshot in Tears Of The Kingdom.