Xbob42

Ol' Tetsuya "Lacking A Lot Of Context" Nomura

I hold my PS5 in my hand while I play. Whole damn console.

Why would it be on a list of handhelds? I can fit handhelds in my pocket. It's a tablet.

Oh I'm no FF7 purist, I just think Nomura is one of the greatest masters to ever exist at stripping all stakes from a story. But you might like it! Some people who never played the original did. But for me, different is usually good, however Nomura's idea of different always comes across like a 12 year old's fanfic retcon where they just make up whatever to get the results they prefer.

Good, time to bash some skulls in!

The last chapter is what ruined it for me. What a load of Nomura bullshit it was. Otherwise it's a pretty damn good remake for the most part, as long as you ignore the part where they stretched a few hours of events into an entire game with lots and lots of what I consider total filler. Apparently, according to the guy who's been leaking stuff, this'll also be when they announce the PC version.

Alright, did a little test in a few different areas. The setting does indeed seem fixed, at least from what I've played. On the first stage I killed that optional boss when I first got the game and he dropped like 8 pieces of loot, which killed my FPS by like 90%, it was utterly absurd. Now it seems to be in the very high 90s/low 100s at all times at 4k/max settings, and pretty much locked at 120 FPS if I lower it to 1440p. Still not the performance you should be getting from such a basic game in such small environments, but good enough to feel good to play now, no stutters that I've noticed, though it wasn't exactly a thorough test. While it took a few days, they fixed their major performance problem faster than most games I've played, so kudos for that, despite the fact that it should've been fixed prior to launch. That said... Better now than in 3 months like some games.

I really liked 3D World, but I wasn't blown away like a lot of people (at least on the Negative World forums) seemed to be at the time. I thought it was too easy for most of the game, which frankly seems to be a problem that's only growing as we get more and more Mario games. I don't mean "Oh I'm so good so each game is easier," I mean in Odyssey there's like moons just sitting' around in the middle of nowhere that you just basically walk up to. Kind of kills the joy of earning a moon by doing an actual challenge. Getting off topic a bit. Back to 3D World: Bowser's Fury stuff looks neat, but I'm gonna have a really hard time justifying re-buying this game at full price when I played it not all that long ago. This is Nintendo, so I know I don't even need to ask if there's a discount for people who bought the Wii U version.

I had that happen once, moving my mouse like a quarter inch made the camera spin what felt like a dozen times. DPI of the gods.

Don't have time to try it right now, but sounds good so far!

They must be purged.

I think we can all agree on this point at least.

I should also clarify that part of the make-good, at least for me, is that whatever they do, it must be free for people who bought Anthem 1. Call it whatever you want, but I paid for Anthem already, you can charge again, of course, but at what cost? I won't fucking be there if that happens, and I'm one of the few who think Anthem has absolutely badass combat. Most people think the game is a total joke, if they see you dicked over the only people that supported you multiple times, well, let's just say that even gamers in their infinite capacity to be unbelievable suckers (and proud of that fact, no less) eventually do have limits on what will hype them up, as CDPR just learned. Anthem doesn't even have the benefit of riding on the coattails of a game like The Witcher 3, last games we saw from Bioware were... less well received than their hayday.

I think you guys are severely underestimating the cost of a sequel. It'll go from 30-90 people working on the game for a year or so to probably 350+ people easily working on a sequel for several years and making brand new assets from scratch... for an unproven franchise. Redesigning the game is a trillion times better in terms of actually getting greenlit, winning back goodwill and being able to nail down a bunch of concepts that could eventually be used in a sequel. If they started a sequel now and released it in a few years I could see it tanking hard just based on Anthem 1, its broken launch promises, and its broken post-launch promises. That would be an express ticket for Bioware to the EA dev graveyard.

DLSS will certainly help, but only for people who have cards that can use it. I'm not sure if they include "random dips in framerate" as part of their concept of bugs, but I hope so. Thing is, the PS5 experiences the exact same performance issues. Watching the Digital Foundry video for 120 FPS Nioh 2, it looked absolutely identical to what I was experiencing, just at way lower settings. These dudes need to work on their engine.

Now you know why people like me have been "picky" about it for years now. All games feel like shit to me when at 30 FPS. Even turn-based ones, where it "doesn't matter," just using the menus to choose options feels like it has a delay on it, making it just feel awful. I just cannot stand the feeling of delayed controls. It feels antithetical to good game design, and thus, 30 FPS feels awful by default to me.

No idea. It's damn near free image quality (and very noticeable at that) but it's always at something stupid like 2x or 4x on consoles. The fuck is the point of 4k and raytracing if your textures turn into a soupy mess at oblique angles??

I just can't get aboard the hate-train for Elon. I'm not on the love-train either, I just think he's kind of an obnoxious moron, but in a usually boring way.

I'd like to know what kind of system you have to be getting 4k/120, or what your settings are. Game kind of runs like butt. If I turn it to 1440p and the effects setting to low, I can stay at mostly 120 FPS, but 4k with effects on high and it's a rollercoaster frame rate that frankly seems broken. Especially as the game looks like a mid-gen PS4 title, and that's being generous.

Considering the entire game to be the ending was definitely a stupid decision. I get where they'd be coming from with that kind of approach, but considering a 40-50 hour experience to be one long ending is not really how endings work.

I keep turning on my PS5 and checking the store once a week, and there's just nothing. It's such a wasteland. Mostly been using it to play PS4 games. And only some of those have decent upgrades.

The trading cards don't spontaneously generate money, though. Someone had to fill up their Steam wallet, so you're draining someone else's wallet, not Valve's. I mean, I guess you could count money sitting in Steam wallets as money Valve hopes no one ever actually spends...

Pretty sure any money you make from the marketplace is money other people have put in, and you can't ever take it out, and Valve gets a cut of every marketplace transaction on top of that. Don't think anyone's putting them in the negative on that front! And I absolutely cannot wait to see what kind of quality products and services we'll see out of Epic once they're slaves to shareholders and quarterly deadlines!