Astro Bot |OT| MC: 94

[kitler53]

Wait so $60 is confirmed? No one won?

Preorder is up.  $60 for the regular version. $70 for deluxe. 

[the-pi-guy]

Making a preview video on Astro Bot. I got to play through the entire demo and, man, this game...it's so wonderful. If they can keep this up across the entire game this could easily become one of my favorites of the entire generation. Team ASOBI is one of Sony's best studios IMO. pic.twitter.com/2D0E3isjEE

— John Linneman @dark1x.bsky.social (@dark1x) June 25, 2024

It may sound absurd, but Astro Bot Rescue Mission is a top 10 game for me, along with Bloodborne, God of War (2018), Uncharted 2, The Last of Us.

I'm hoping this is just as good.

[Legend]

Been a long time since a hype thread has been a real hype thread.

Only a few months to go!

[the-pi-guy]

It's important for us to be happy': Astro Bot, the most joyous game on PlayStation 5

It's the PlayStation 5's next big game, and Sony is in its DNA – but nonetheless there's something very Nintendo about Astro Bot.

lol, poor Concord coming out a few weeks before Astro Bot.  

The first Astro Bot game, Rescue Mission, was the best thing ever made for PlayStation's VR headset, a clever platformer bursting with novel ideas. Astro's Playroom was a treat packaged with the PS5 when it was released in 2020, designed to show off what Sony's new console and its controller could do. It did that splendidly, with levels themed around the PS5's super-fast SSD hard drive, or soundtracked by a singing GPU, in which every little gimmick of the PS5 controller from the microphone to the haptic triggers was exploited to the full. But Astro's Playroom was also, unexpectedly, an interactive museum of Sony gaming hardware: as you played, you collected consoles and peripherals and other knickknacks that slowly filled a laboratory with PlayStation history. It was delightful.

Team Asobi is relatively small – about 65 people – and relatively international. Three-quarters of the team is Japanese, says Doucet, and the rest represent 16 different nationalities. Some worked on previous PlayStation projects such as Shadow of the Colossus or Gravity Rush, but others came in fresh. They are all invested in earning Astro Bot true PlayStation mascot status, says Doucet. "We want Astro to grow into a really powerful franchise – we want to elevate this little guy," he tells me. "We have a lot to live up to at PlayStation, but we also never forget to be underdogs – that's part of the successful mindset, you always want to be chasing something. When you get complacent is when games start losing their soul."

[nnodley]

i am revising my score prediction.  Gonna be wild

98
95
90

cause why not  

[Dr. Pezus]

Did I predict?

95
92
87

[the-pi-guy]

That'd be pretty cool if it scored 95+, truly a Nintendo move pulled by Sony. Team Asobi is one of like 3 teams I believe could do it.  


96
93
88

[Legend]

I feel pretty dang confident that it won't be 95 or above, but that sure would be awesome.

Has any non Nintendo platformer scored that high?

[the-pi-guy]

I feel pretty dang confident that it won't be 95 or above, but that sure would be awesome.

Has any non Nintendo platformer scored that high?

Aside from LittleBigPlanet, no.  

But Astro Bot will be the next one.  

[Legend]

Aside from LittleBigPlanet, no.  

But Astro Bot will be the next one.  

Actually that's a good comparison. Maybe 95 is possible.

But not 96  

[the-pi-guy]

Very few Nintendo platformers have gotten over 95 even.

I'm pretty sure it's a 3 way tie with Super Mario Galaxy, Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Super Mario Odyssey at 97 and that's it.

Even a 96 would be historic...

I believe in 90+.

[Legend]

For now I'm sticking with my front page predictions
94
93
90

[the-pi-guy]

Haven't watched yet.

[the-pi-guy]

The gang's all here! Astro Bot launches in two months, so Ratchet up the excitement with this custom animation pic.twitter.com/074mO6bJ67

— PlayStation (@PlayStation) July 6, 2024

[Legend]

2 months.