There are way, way too many trailers, demos and next-gen engines from Sony’s PlayStation 4 event – so we though instead of littering the front page we’ll stick them all in one easy to follow post.
Knack
Sony, surprisingly, kicked off its PS4 games showcase with something that wasn;t hyper-realistic – but instead a cutsey 3D platformer that seems to have a ton of charm, and reminds me oddly enough of Xbox 360 launch title Kameo – just far, far better.
Killzone: Shadow Fall
We’ve already shown this one via a full post – so there’s not much more that needs to be said. It looks pretty, but Killzone’s always been a little too generic for me. Hopefully this one changes that.
inFamous: Second Son
I’ve only recently finished inFamous 2 (thanks to PlayStation Plus) and I have to admit that I enjoyed it far more than I expected to. It may have been a tad repetitive, but the stellar voice acting from just about every main character sucked me right in. Here’s the trailer for the next game in the series, which seems to lack Cole and tackle an Orwellian future. the new protagonist reminds me a little of DmC’s emo Dante.
The Witness
Braid developer Jonathan Blow showed off his poncy new game, The Witness – which seems odd, colourful, and reminiscent of Myst.
DriveClub
There’s little information about this racer from Evolution studios, other than that it’s a socially-connected and looks pretty incredible.
Deep Down
Capcom showed off its new IP and new Panta Rhei Engine with Deep down, a game that looks like a next generation blend of Dark Souls and Dragon’s Dogma.
Destiny
We’ve said as much about Destiny as we can – but it’ll also be coming to the PlayStation 4.
Unreal Engine 4
Epic Games is ecstatic about the new PlayStation 4 – mostly because it runs their new engine.
“We are thrilled to build onto our long-established success with PlayStation,” Says epic’s Tim Sweeny. “Unreal Engine 4 is expertly designed for the next generation of game development and the outstanding power of PlayStation 4. Today’s demonstration offers a preview of what developers can accomplish using our tools to create games for PlayStation 4.”
Quantic Dreams’ “Old Man”
As I predicted, David Cage would harp on about how the PlayStation 4 would enable games to have more emotion. Here’s that happening, along with an impressive, but creepy as all hell tech demo.
Last Updated: February 21, 2013
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 15:06
I LURVED the demos and trailers but I still can’t believe we were uber trolled by Square Enix like that!!!
But Sony are welcome to take my money this festive season
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 15:26
PS4 savings fund is fat enough for a few games now. I can’t wait. I’ll save up a bit more for even more games so come November, Jimmy Banana will be smiling from ear to ear.
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 15:37
You don’t perhaps know of someone in need of a slightly used possibly intoxicated kidney just incase the missus finds out about my PS4 christmas fund ey?
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 15:39
I may be living on the couch now but I stood my ground… cough… 😛
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 15:48
But seriously though, I told the missus what my intentions were, and then I sugar coated it by splitting the fund as a December gift fund. So half goes to her, half goes to me. We both pitch in and we both get what we want come Hanukkah/Summer Solstice/Christmas.
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 16:00
lol just remembered Walter from Jeff Dunham now… 🙂 Screw you it’s merry Christmas! Classic.
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:13
Hahaha Jeff Dunham is awesome.
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 16:02
Luckilly you’re on the couch for me it would be the Kennel because she found out I was camping out on the couch with my ps3 whenever I got sent to there.
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 15:11
glad they named the controller dualshock 4 and not something like dualshock MOOVITA
Admiral Chief Erwin
February 21, 2013 at 15:13
MOOVITA?
rofl
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 15:33
Yeah lol especially with all the stuff about the number 4 being bad luck and all that, you know what I mean. O worse yet the Orbis Dualshock MOOVITA MOTION controling Device
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 15:38
Yeah, was listening to this podcast two nights ago, and they were going on about whether the PS4 will be known as PS4 or PSFour in Japan. Spelling out the word as “four” gives you different kanjis and thus you don’t get the kanji that sounds like death.
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 15:54
Strange really as most of the animé I’ve watched deal with the supersticious and death istelf would that not be more ominous than the 4 itself?
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:08
I can’t say since I’m not Japanese but I doubt it’s that much different to our superstitions down here on the penis tip of Africa.
Some of it is pretty far out there, like walking between the legs of a ladder or the number 13, or black cats, or cats (in general – never understood that one). Or if you’re African, the power the ancestors have over you. Now you can feature the ancestors in a TV show, like say Sewende Laan or Muvango, but I guess afterwards depending on the level of superstitious beliefs the production crew will probably try to appease the ancestors. “We were only making a tv series, Baba… now go back to rest”. I remember helping out on a set a couple years ago (during my teens) and the particular show features some story involving a satanic coven, and yep… the production crew prayed before and afterwards. I just watched it all with great interest.
Admiral Chief Erwin
February 21, 2013 at 15:39
I saw your original spelling mistake, nice save 😛
So will this be the ODMMCD?
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 15:57
LoL in this case I was SAVED by auto correct and quickly changed my ways hoping no one would notice
Admiral Chief Erwin
February 21, 2013 at 16:02
*quickly
(saw that one as well)
😛
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 16:05
lack of sleep and coffee to blame this time… I watched the whOle unveiling and like a boy before christmas could not sleep after that
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:36
Same here bru, I’m so fucked and spaced out at the moment. Tried to sleep after the meet but was so wired. Played a bit of PS3, and then lay in bed for a while. Eventually ended up watching Cops and the Simpsons.
Of course called in sick… hehehe, but it’s cool, today was a throw-away day anyways.
Sir Rants-a-Lot Llew
February 21, 2013 at 15:14
The witness huh? Ok, you have my attention
manowaffles
February 21, 2013 at 15:30
Am I the only one who saw Knack and thought, it’s like Wonderful 101 but with a robot and a bunch of pieces rather than a team of super heroes?
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 15:35
lol, kotaku is up to their old tricks again. What a worthless site that is. They really make gamers and the gaming media look like a bunch of whining pussies.
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 15:37
The forgot to activate their pussy filter man
asd
February 22, 2013 at 06:27
Lol the Irony
Nathan Horne
February 21, 2013 at 15:36
Deep Down!
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:27
Dude… that cave section… If that is all in-game.. I’m literally going to cry tears of joy.
Nathan Horne
February 21, 2013 at 16:40
They did show a weapon icon in the bottom corner. Maybe they just did that to make us all jizz ourselves, but hopefully it is all in-game…
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 17:01
I certainly had to change my underpants…
Gustav Minnie
February 21, 2013 at 19:54
That cave section is 2005 E3 Killzone 2 trailer all over again. 😉
GTO
February 21, 2013 at 15:38
JHonestly I don’t see what people are getting hyped about. This is about inkline with expectations, certainly not exceeding them.
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 15:45
Depends on whether your expectations are reasonable or whether you went full-retard. 😛
What I have noticed and this is just speaking to fellow gamers is that some folks have these insane expectations about graphics being almost life-like, to really bizarre ideas about what games should be going into the next generation. It’s good to dream, but you really need to be realistic. I thought the reveal was exceptional. They touched on most of the aspects that I was hoping for an d they’re still keeping some cards to their chest for E3 and PAX. I wasn’t expecting a total reveal of features nor the unveiling of the console.
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 16:07
AMEN!!! Am I the only one who hoped for a complete RE1 and 2 (maybe 3) revamp after seeing the new Capcom engine at work?
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:17
I was hoping for Onimusha… I really was. When they spoke about Onimusha, I almost had a moment, and then it past. I really loved that game, even the last one with Jean Reno.
mornelithe
February 21, 2013 at 20:14
Swear to god, if Ono talked about Onimusha only to discuss the past….Ima be pissed. I want a new Onimusha, give it to me, right effin now.
GTO
February 22, 2013 at 12:34
Yeah thats why this is in line with expectations… because it is about what could be expected.
TechniKyle
February 21, 2013 at 15:40
That tech demo is creepy, awesome, but creepy. I still wonder why people want games to be a realistic looking as possible. What do we do when we reach absolute realism? Nothing wrong with a little bit of animation.
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:30
The creepiest bit is when you see the emotion in its eyes, the way the eyeball tears up, and the brow-ridge changes so very subtly… amazing stuff. I don’t know how they did it, but they leaped the uncanny valley. Although, we’ll have to see how it all pans out in a game.
mornelithe
February 21, 2013 at 20:06
I heard an interview recently on NPR (National Public Radio) in the States, where a security expert was discussing a system he’d designed that trained officers and other security personnel to identify emotions from a fraction of a glimpse at someone’s face. He designed software that employs all the muscles in the face, and has the ’emotions’ pre-built in. The purpose of this, isn’t to be able to look at someone who’s visibly pissed and say, Yeah, he’s pissed.
It’s to give them brief flashes of a emotion, as if someone had dropped their guard for only the briefest of moments. It’s designed to assist law enforcement to notice the smallest of changes. My thought is that if Quantic Dream were to employ software or techniques like this, they could make in-game characters much much more personal, and human.
And for devs like Quantic Dream, that kind of technology/research is exactly their bread and butter, baysplosions aren’t their M.O., they go for feeling and emotion, and an engine that mimics the 43 muscles of the human face is right up their alley.
Can’t wait to see it in action.
TechniKyle
February 22, 2013 at 10:33
Tell that to anime.
mornelithe
February 22, 2013 at 19:37
What does anime have to do with it? Anime doesn’t have enough detail to actually bring out the distinct facial movements that we’re talking about. Most game engines lack this level of detail, which is why many devs (like Quantic) have gone to such extreme lengths to try and accomplish this.
You could cut out immeasurable amounts of dialogue if we could all recognize the emotions going on inside the character, just from looking at their faces.
TechniKyle
February 25, 2013 at 11:08
Jeez dude, it was a joke, chill a little…
mornelithe
February 25, 2013 at 15:31
Who’s not chill? o.O
I asked what anime had to do with it. I didn’t jump hip deep in your shit, maybe you knew of some anime I didn’t lol.
TechniKyle
February 26, 2013 at 07:32
How do I explain this… anime tends to exaggerate emotion. It’s never really subtle.
mornelithe
February 26, 2013 at 22:53
Oh, I get your meaning there. But, I think there’s a big difference between anime emotion, and actually being able to determine the emotion of an NPC, just by watching the subtle changes in facial expression.
I think it could be quite interesting having an engine that works in this way, because rather than the developer having to go overboard trying to emphasize how the NPC feels, they can have distinct muscular movements in the face to reflect flashes of extreme emotions.
FoxOneZA
February 21, 2013 at 15:43
DriveClub is a shameless rip off Forza! There I said it 😀
I wonder how PD feels with in-house competition 😉
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 15:46
Forza is a shameless rip off of Gran Turismo, much in the same way that War Z is a shameless ripoff of Day Z. There I said it 😀
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 15:56
And XBOX only exists because it could not let our precious be the monopolous console god that it was back then… more ripping off it seems
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:13
And Xbox avatars are shameless rip-offs of Wii Miis… and Facebook is a shameless ripoff of that other college social media thing… and Microsoft ripped off Apple, and Apple ripped off Xerox, and the Japanese ripped off the Americans and the Chinese ripped off the West, and the South Africans ripped off the Israelis, and the Israelis stole secrets from the Americans (lol hilarious story there), and before we knew it Humpty Dumpty was leaking out of his shell, and the King’s men had bacon and eggs for breakfast.
Tis the tale of Human history… pillaging and raping. 🙁 I’m pretty sure when the first human ancestor climbed out of the tree, he stole something while descending.
The Banana has spoken.
FoxOneZA
February 21, 2013 at 16:40
And a banana is a shameless ripoff off …
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 17:00
Pfft bananas are phallic AND contain copious amounts of potassium, phosporus (like a boss) and a little bit of selenium… what do foxies have? Mmmm Mmmm…
FoxOneZA
February 21, 2013 at 18:10
Fur bro. Keep’s us warm and cool. Can survive the harhest of climates. And we don’t have a tendency to get chowed down 😛
MieLLiePaP
February 21, 2013 at 16:45
I dont see it as Forza or as Gran Turismo, sofar it looks more like Driveclub is like PGR, but now you can climb in your own car
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:57
Comeon lads, no need to downvote Foxie, he’s my homie. He’s merely doing what we all do, trolling for some lulz.
FoxOneZA
February 21, 2013 at 18:11
Can you smell it brother? The flame wars are igniting after 6 years *sniff*
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 18:22
It burns with the ferocity of a car tyre…. But at the end of the day, it’s all about the games. Sweet glorious games and the smiles of delight when you play a new title. Pure and utter bliss!
OVG
February 21, 2013 at 15:58
on-line, 2hour campaign and 8 years in production and endless studio closures due to HUUUUUUUGE costs to make the game use 1GIG of RAAM 😛
OVG
February 21, 2013 at 16:01
Deep Down just reminded me of The Witcher 3, sweeeet
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:31
That cave bru.. the lighting effects.. that CAVE!!
OVG
February 21, 2013 at 16:36
Screw game play, I just want to look at a rippling pond in a wet cave. I always got hard ons for realistic geography even down to photo scanned backgrounds like in GT5 or water, water always gets me.
My bro was on the back of the warthog in HALO4 last week and I kept driving in a pond to check out the ripples.
Its going to be NERD PARADISE. i WILL NOT GET ANYTHING DONE IN A GAME LIKE SKYRIM, Ill just stare at the cob webs blowing in the wind and shit.
Good times.
Banana Jim
February 21, 2013 at 16:38
Man, I love realistic geography and geology too. I think Rage had some of the most awesome environments ever. Game sucked ass, but damn did the crossbedding on those limestone hills look sexy…
OVG
February 21, 2013 at 16:43
Crossbedding, i thought I was the only one 🙂 I always walk as close as possible, then the moment it starts to show the pixels I quickly run back and move the camera…no no I did not see that… its real… just half squint. Its going to be Uncanny Vally (excuse the pun) that will be in the limelight next gen (excuse the pun again) 🙂
JayDiCee
February 21, 2013 at 16:12
Am I the only one who hoped for a complete RE1 and 2 (maybe 3) revamp after seeing the new Capcom engine at work? or a Final Fantasy VII Luminous Edition befor Square trolled us
King_Hermy
February 21, 2013 at 16:13
Truelly great stuff. Really excited for this console. I need to get it.
Slade Boender
February 21, 2013 at 16:35
That header kills. Kudos
Kasper
February 21, 2013 at 16:57
wow, that was amazing. Guess I have to save up my vacation money
oomjan
February 22, 2013 at 09:36
Wow I will go for ps4 as soon as it’s out. even bungie is designing for ps4.