EventHorizon
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PS2 is completely unsuited to a console. The game itself is amazing.... When your sitting in TS with 20 clan mates playing as an outfit who in turn are working together with other outfits.
Solo or in pick up squads it's a horrible experience , has a relatively steep learning curve and pretty much sucks. It's grindy as hell unless you are throwing money at it and the gun unlocks are largely side grades that are worse than the starter guns.
I've hundreds of hours( and pound) invested in the PC version , PS2 is really gonna struggle on PS4 without the small and large scale organisation that makes PS2 great.
I loved the original PlanetSide, and reading these posts made me remember that PlanetSide 2 was coming to the PS4 which is why I commented on it. I just did a search to see what the state of the game was, and I was disappointed to say the least. I can't believe that they added grinding to the game to the point where players feel the need to farm.
I think PlanetSide could have been a killer app on the console but it looks like everything that made PlanetSide unique was removed. I admit that PlanetSide is better in a clan, but I was able to have a lot of fun in the original game when I played solo. The need for specialization and support roles, and the fact that you had a definitive objective, capturing a base/continent, that could be achieved meant that you could work with other players and feel like you made a difference even if you were not grouped with them.
I don't play the current game so I could be wrong, but it seems like the strategic and supportive elements have been greatly diminished. From what I understand it is one huge team death match, with sides taking turns capturing bases with no real consequences.
So yea I think PlanetSide will fail on the PS4, just not for the reasons you stated. I think it is simply not a very good game, and what it sets out to do has already been done better in Battlefield 4.