Sucker Punch has mentioned on several occasions traveling to Japan - and to the Tsushima Island, specifically - in an effort to make sure its depiction of the country is accurate. Research was conducted with the help of Sony's Japan Studio, as well, helping to ensure greater authenticity. Sucker Punch has even consulted real-life samurai during ghost of Tsushima patch notes|https://Tsushimagame.Com/ of Tsushima' s development, presumably to learn more about how the Japanese warriors would have fought in the 13th Century, when the game's story takes pl
We here at DualShockers have been pondering what big surprises the show have in store, as well as who the big winner will be at this year's Game Awards. Here are five predictions we are pretty certain will happen during the show's durat
In the latest issue of Official PlayStation Magazine (via Twisted Voxel ), new information about Ghost of Tsushima has been shared. The most intriguing bit touches upon in-game world exploration. Sucker Punch has designed the Island of Tsushima so that players will need to navigate the environments without the help of waypoints. It’s not quite clear if there won't be any travel assistance in Ghost of Tsushima at all, but the overall concept implies exploration will play a tangible part in beating the g
Hopefully, IllFonic learned from the shaky launch of its previous release and will be ready to address bugs and matchmaking issues when Predator: Hunting Grounds releases . The unfortunate decline of Friday the 13th: The Game might have taught the studio how to handle a launch of such a high profile title, and narrowing the scope down to a PS4 exclusive should make keeping on top of updates and patches more manageable for the small development t
Ghost of Tsushima fictionalizes several elements of this history. For starters, Sucker Punch's Mongol army is led by the fictional Khotun Khan, and Tsushima's ruler is fictional, too - a man named Shimura. Events seen in Ghost of Tsushima's trailers indicate Shimura's battle with the Mongols goes just about as well as it did in real life, but it appears Shimura survives, and so does his nephew, protagonist Jin Sakai. Given he's the playable character, it's no surprise Jin forms the basis of Ghost of Tsushima' s largest departure from history. Rather than being a stand-in for an actual person like Kublai Khan, Jin is essentially a stand-in for 1274's kamikaze . As Sucker Punch Game Director Nate Fox told Variety , “Our hero isn’t a hurricane, he’s a man, and we actually acknowledge that change with his sword that’s engraved with storm wind desig
Sony’s first party studios are no strangers to releasing iterations of blockbuster franchises in the months leading up to a new PlaySation launch. In fact, Sony’s Santa Monica Studio released its hit title _ God of War 2 _ on PS2 in March 2007 just months after the PS3 launched in November 2006. Also, when the PS4 was set to launch in November 2013, Naughty Dog had just released _ The Last of Us _ in June of that same y
The safe assumption is that Super Smash Bros. Ultimate is the winner. Nintendo's fighter is one of the Switch's best-selling video games and keeps its large community interested with genuinely great DLC fighters. It is the big game on the list. But I think it is a bit far off for people to consider it for 2019's Game of the Y
Ghost of Tsushima is based on the first Mongol invasion of Japan in 1274. In the real invasion, the Mongols' path took them first to Tsushima Island, located between Korea and the Japanese mainland. Under the command of Kublai Khan, Genghis Khan's grandson, the Mongols fought against a small army of Japanese warriors on Tsushima , led by the Sō daimyo family. The local warriors - overwhelmed by the Mongols' superior numbers and more advanced, gunpowder-fueled weaponry - were defeated, and the population was massacred. After leaving Tsushima, the Mongols continued their raids on Japan's nearby islands, but the invaders were eventually repelled when a typhoon destroyed much of their fleet in Kyushu, Japan. This storm later became known as the kamikaze (“divine wind”) of 1274 (via Britannic
The Yakuza series has slowly been releasing its entire catalogue onto the PS4, starting with Yakuza Kawami 1 and 2 and eventually releasing remasters of every other game that didn't originally release on the system. However, the future of the series isn't completely in the past as Yakuza 7 is set to release sometime this y
Sony's upcoming Sucker Punch-developed samurai story, likely one of the PlayStation 4's swan songs, is inspired by real events, but Ghost of Tsushima strays from history in a number of ways. Although Sucker Punch appears to have taken great care in nailing the game world's authenticity to real-life Japan, Ghost of Tsushima' s plot is, at least partially, purposely unfaith
Longer development cycles are the reality of the modern gaming industry. Unless certain solutions can be implemented efficiently in the next generation of gaming hardware, like streaming and SSD storage (which the PS5 and next Xbox are in fact using), then higher capacity tech will only bring longer development cycles. This was the case with PS4 proje