LiquidSolid
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Thing is...
Unless there is a GOOD storyline behind said games, it's actually a bit of a waste to play Helghast because ultimately you'd end up playing the same game, but shooting boringly designed enemies instead of cool red-eyed Helghast designs.
I always felt that if you'd play as Helghast, it'd be better served as a Gears-style TPS game with a team dynamic so that you get to see yourself controlling the Helghast characters from a TPS camera and have a team to build character development in better way.
I've never been a huge stickler for GG's lack of tackling the Helgast storyline from their perspective cause their stories have never been good enough for me to wish I was seeing the enemy perspective. They need to improve that first.
I've thought for years that they've set themselves up perfectly to make a game about a Helghan squad that's been given the mission to hunt down Rico, who the ISA have hidden away somewhere. I mean seriously, Guerrilla built Rico up over the course of three games, murdered Visari in cold blood and inadvertently committed mass genocide and you're not going to fucking do anything with him? Come on.
I'm guessing you meant 2016 announced less than 2015. So a few things:
1) A ton of new games were announced this year, at both E3 and PSX.
2) A ton of indie games have released on the PS4 this year.
3) Two specific indie games with a lot of fanfare, The Witness and Firewatch, did wonderfully.
4) A ton is scheduled for next year already.
I'm not sure what you're looking at.
By "indie games", I think he's talking about Sony's small first party games like Bound, Everybody's Gone to the Rapture, Helldivers and so on. I don't know why he's calling them indie, they're not indie at all if a major publisher is funding them and they were also never really announced at E3 either, they tended to appear at GC/PGW or PSX.
Sony have ditched the small games SSM was producing (Wattam, Edith Finch and Modern Zombie Taxi) but I don't think it's accurate to say Sony as a whole has given up on the idea just yet. It would be pretty disappointing to me if they did though, as I've loved their small games like Journey, Rapture, Helldivers, Hohokum, Resogun and Bound over the years.