Games Inbox: Sony losing the plot with PS5 remakes, God Of War Ragnarök on PC, and best Metroidvanias

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The Tuesday letters page does not understand the emphasis Sony is putting on PSVR2, as one reader recommends Grounded.

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The Sony formula I realise the dangers of saying this and being accused of stoking the console wars, but I think we have to seriously ask whether Sony has lost its collective mind when it comes to… well, everything it’s been doing for the last 12 months. The lack of communication and lack of games is one thing but this new obsession with remaking games that absolutely do not need it is getting out of control.

It now seems likely that The Last Of Us Part 1 is part of a new template: remake a game that’s barely more than five years old, make a live service multiplayer game out of it, do a VR spin-off if you can, and then rinse and repeat for the next sequel. Well, as a fan of both The Last Of Us and Horizon I can say that I absolutely do not want any of this and consider it all a complete waste of time of money.

GC half joked about whether God Of War was next but there now seems a very good chance that it is. It came out only a year later than Horizon Zero Dawn, so if it gets remade next year it wouldn’t be a surprise at all. Except for the fact that it absolutely doesn’t need it and the main problem with Ragnarök is that it looks like a PlayStation 4 game, rather than the original not looking like a PlayStation 5 game.

I don’t know how any of this makes sense to anyone at Sony. And if it’s not true just say, other companies deny things all the time, but apparently not Sony. Although in this case I think that’s because it’s obvious true.Gadfly

Serious work So just a couple of days after GC do a feature about what Sony’s 10 live service games