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gotta get my eternal virgins or whatever in the true life that comes after this that my magic book says is very real

It's mentioned near the very beginning by multiple NPCs that all the monsters have started going nuts since the dragon showed up, even the land itself is doing weird shit as you see early on. This isn't how the people usually live. You guys. Not everyone plays every video game. Not everyone bought DMC5 half a decade ago. This game is massively more popular if the numbers are anything to go by, so you're gonna have a lot of people whose first impression of Capcom is both terrible optimization and "sneaking" in pay-to-win DLC after launch. Whether they informed their corporate shills writing reviews beforehand is going to be irrelevant, because most people don't like reviewers anymore either. It's not trolls, as someone said, it's people who don't like microtransactions. Which is still a lot of people, turns out. You can say they can "deal with it," but Capcom is the one dealing with it. So it seems to me like the "trolls" have the upper hand in the conversation. Because I already know dozens of people who won't even touch the game because of the mostly negative rating. That shit is an instant red flag. Whether this is good or bad? Well, it's neither, it is what it is. The idea of a bunch of randos having so much "power" over a corporation can be annoying at times, like if there's a 8/10 instead of a 10/10 woman in the game and they lose their minds. At the same time, Capcom has no one to blame but themselves for poor optimization and trying to sell the thing they said they intentionally didn't add to the game. I don't care what your response is, "it's against our design philosophy to add too much fast travel, also please purchase our fast travel" is bad optics. No one gives a shit if corporate forced them. If corporate can completely supersede a core design tenet of your game, how about instead of talking you just go sit in the corner and let corporate do all the talking. As for me personally, I don't care too much about the microtransactions. I can cheat engine myself anything I want and I've really never given a shit about a developer's "vision" for a game if it gets in the way of my playing it. So whatever, add microtransactions for every piece of gear in the game if you like, who cares? The part I care about is the optimization. With the game running so poorly, or rather, so inconsistently, it should've been delayed a bit until a fix was prepared. And I'm probably having the best possible performance out of 99% of gamers right now as my lows are in the mid 70s in the most populated city. That said... it doesn't quite feel like 70. In fact, the feel of FPS anytime I'm near a town or settlement is much lower than what is actually reported. Unfortunately I can't get RTSS to display its overlay, so I can only use a simple FPS counter. I've never quite experienced whatever is happening in this game before. Even if I'm getting 110 FPS in Melve, the camera will judder and feel bad just slowly spinning it. A completely uneducated guess is that the engine has some kind of limit on CPU-based instructions? Like let's use arbitrary units. 1 NPC walking around town consumes 10 CPU units. The engine is limited to 500 CPU units. But in towns, it's trying to utilize 750 CPU units, but it can't, so it's like despawning stuff to get under 500, and succeeds, then renders the new NPC, but because something is fucky somewhere, the thing it erased is immediately like "HEY WHAT ABOUT ME" and it has to repeat the process infinitely which causes it to feel hitchy and strange in town. As I said, a completely uneducated guess, no idea what the fuck is actually going on. I only base that guess on the fact that NPCs sometimes fade in startlingly close to the player, and the fact that my CPU usage/temperature/etc is not maxing out, which one would expect if the game was pushing a CPU to its limits, no? But it's also clearly CPU limited, but it's like... artificially CPU limited? What? You can upgrade your vocation at the very first in at Melve. You can disable the connection in the options menu until you get it sorted out.

I didn't grind anything, but I also did all the side content, so it depends on what you've done. The optional boss fights are significantly harder than anything in the main story, as per usual.

I mean, I've been staying at 120 FPS outside of town, and about 70-100 in town. It's got some issues in town, though. I wonder if the consoles are improved at all? They looked completely miserable from that IGN preview. Trying to hawk this shit on PC (Capcom does it with many of their games sadly) is especially funny. Buddy, cheat engine is free!

Yeah, it's similar with monitors. A proper native Gsync monitor works from 1Hz to your monitor's max Hz, whereas pretty much anything outside of that, similarly to TVs, works from 30ish or so, to as low (on the max range end) as 70 to as high as... 144 maybe? I'm not sure. Kinda why I like sticking to gsync. It definitely results in a more expensive display, but it's got a full VRR range.

The basic movement and traversal feels so much better than the first game. While I'm a little sad you can't jump nearly as high (at least to start with) the basic physicality of the locomotion and how your character feels weighted in the world is really satisfying in a way I'm not sure I know how to explain. The first game was super loosey goosey and that made it fun in its own way, but this one has a certain weight to everything that even makes opening doors more satisfying, which is a weird minor thing but since those are the things you do earliest in most games, they're what I tend to notice first. Also jumping grabs to tackle enemies/NPCs from various angles, chucking enemies off cliffs, so good. Plus all the added weight, despite seemingly making it more "realistic" makes big arcadey style hits land that much more intensely. It's great. Don't really care too much about the microtransaction shit. I'm on PC, I'll give myself whatever I want whenever I want -- but it is a pretty scummy thing to do. Reviewers should start making addendum reviews after microtransaction launches focused solely on scummy practices to really highlight them. Also rage bait is great clickbait! Anyway, performance is definitely all over the place. I can lock to 120 FPS in most areas, but it quickly drops into the 70s/80s around the small populated areas I've been in. Haven't yet been to the bigger city yet, which is where performance is apparently worst. It hasn't been nearly as bad as some prerelease footage, but it's far from smooth or consistent. Also, nights are super dark in a fun way, whereas nights just kind of sucked ass in the original. Here it really feels like you're trudging through inky darkness to get around, without a fucking dire wolf coming to tear your jugular out every 15 steps. God DAMN it was annoying to get around DD1 at night.

lol, what

There is no broad consensus that the controls were bad at the time. There is a consensus they haven't aged well, but that's a different argument. And most of that is to do with having to stop to shoot. Also, there's tons of achievements and rewards for beating the game with no healing, without accessing the item box, minimum saves, etc. The ranking is purely for speedrunning.

I like how the top and bottom videos are normal, but the middle one is a Tiktok video and encapsulates how Tiktok is just fucking ruining videos. Postage stamp size, ultra low quality, Youtube poop levels of overly loud meme music kicking in with terrible comedic timing, abysmal. Worst video I've seen all week! Also those ladies are hitting HARD. Should send them to kill the dragons!

Tough shit! Games should not be made with the idea that every gamer is going to see every scrap of content. That's such a tiring way to design games and doesn't leave any interesting stories to tell since everyone does every single thing. There's so much weird hidden shit in OG FF7 that I'm still learning about because it involved you going to certain areas during specific points in the game when you might not have a reason to go there, it makes the game world and story feel so much bigger than it was because you never know what little scrap of content is left over, what little hints are out there. Hell, if I recall correctly, the truth about Sephiroth is actually completely missable in the OG game. Not quite the same as minigames having little story bits, since these were all basically cutscenes (though many did involve minigames like the submarine!) but coming off of Yakuza, let minigames have bits of story attached! It makes them that much more rewarding to do! And if someone hates them, Youtube it bitch! Stop forcing yourself to do everything when you're not enjoying it, don't treat everything like a checklist you're obligated to do you OCD motherfuckers! Grow a spine and say "no, I'm good" if you don't like it!

It's available at 5PM PST on Steam, no idea when the PS5 version is available.

He's saying that most VRR, especially on TVs, operate within a certain range of viable framerates. Low framerate compensation can make up for this, but I don't know the specifics so I'm not sure it would apply here. Further, he's saying that the stutters aren't just tiny thing you might get with general framerate variance, but actual big stutters that VRR can't compensate for. VRR isn't magic; if something stutters, it'll stutter in VRR. If something has BIG stutters, VRR won't even help dress it up in a skirt and cheap makeup.

Game is kind of a hot mess on every platform right now, mostly due to CPU overutilization with regards to "NPC state models and location tracking," which Capcom is investigating and hope to have a patch out. Honestly the game is running way worse than it should for no apparent reason, as it's not much of a looker and there's not actually much happening in the world. This ain't even doing 1/100th the simulation work of a Tears of the Kingdom. In fact, it appears to be largely the same kind of CPU load you'd expect out of the first game. Hopefully they get it resolved quickly.

Wow they even got a British guy to make it as similar to DF as possible!

It's amazing how little I think about this game until someone actually mentions it. It just came and went, left absolutely no impression on me whatsoever. Can't even bring myself to take a little dump on it anymore, it's just so thoroughly uninteresting.

Isn't low framerate compensation precisely where the PS5 fails when it comes to VRR? Or did they ever fix that?

Hey, 6/10 is like 8x better than the last Alone in the Dark I played.

If I'm being completely honest with myself, this is exactly how I would describe Silent Hill games and Resident Evil games (pre-RE4). And I still love those! It depends on how terrible the combat is, and in what way!

Oh, the plot is about to go to many, many places.

If you're not at the very beginning of chapter 10, and focus exclusively on just railroading that story, I think you can do it.

I mean, it'd be a close call. Maybe?

Oh, much of it is speculation, but the base facts are pretty obviously telegraphed!

Worth noting that synergy skills don't just not spend ATB, they rapidly build it for both characters. Use them a lot!

Oh I just got a mod that puts the time on-screen, but yeah that'd be a big help. And maybe like... actually telling us what time things are happening instead of us having to intuit it. Also no stupid fucking quests like the one where you escort the dude's kid around town and if you fuck up even a little bit you don't get the golden idol which unlocks a bunch of much better weapons at the smithy. She tells you to "run earnestly" in the race against her, but you're supposed to just jog near her and let her win. Just stupid horse shit designed to waste your time, especially with the single save slot and autosave nonsense. It's like it was designed by snickering middle schoolers.