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Nice, thank you so much!

Valahalla allegedly has tons of bugs, going by reviews.

Embargos are up

I’ll usually replay a Zelda game before a new one launches. Won’t do it with BoTW, which is too big. I’ll replay short racing games or arcade games on occasion. I replayed games a lot more when I had fewer of them.

Thanks! Didn't expect a win at all. I'll go with Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity so I'm lore prepped for BoTW2. Gonna take this opportunity to rant a little. My wife's public school classroom hasn't been professionally cleaned (or sanitized) in over a year and a half due to a lack of proper janitorial funding. Trump being gone is wonderful. But until gridlock over stimulus is over, COVID will continue to flourish to avoidable heights, in part through the education system. The last straw should have been in early-September. But hey, at least little Timmy can live out his precious high school years to the fullest on the football field. Grandpa will be just fine when Timmy visits him in person to show off the germed-up participation trophy. Last but certainly not least:

Gamecube had Luigi's Mansion, Rogue Squadron II, Super Monkey Ball, Wave Race: Blue Storm, THPS3, and SSB Melee less than a week later. Also one of the good ones. I don't think PS5 is far off from any of these consoles mentioned. Just no Mario 64-level killer app. Otherwise, there's good exclusives and good multiplats both premiering with the system on launch day. Even a good pack in, which is atypical.

Need to see what the resolution breakdown is for the S version. But for cross-gen at least, it's a promising sign. It seems to hold framerate.

Depends. Some of that would be more CPU dependent than GPU dependent. I think most console games would also be okay with temporary frame dips for super intensive RT sections. Just going by history.

Console raytracing will likely be low-res on the consoles any way you slice it. In totality, or with the reliance on cube maps when it breaks. No one was expecting consoles to do it at 60fps either. I'm not sure what interactivity has to do with raytracing, unless we're taking pedestrians (or the like) being rendered in window panes, and at what distance before they're a no show. That's the impressive thing about what Spider-Man is doing, from what DF said.

Who knows, maybe some kind of embargo.

Sounds like Spider-Man gets the RT edge on consoles for now.

Betsy DeVos will be gone too. Screw her and anyone else who insisted we open schools without proper PPP and janitorial staff funding.

Damn. Guess Watch Dogs will get to be the RT comparison metric for now.

Course those who are playing the game currently aren’t complaining about the characters. They’re the ones who decided to buy in anyways. Getting rid of all the bugs and glitches wouldn’t make this the Avengers game a mainstream audience would want. That’s its biggest problem. They weren’t able to properly leverage the IP to translate into solid sales, when it should have been to its advantage. They’re not going to get the same chance again. Their opportunity to leverage the wave of pop Avengers hype is pretty much spent. I keep bringing up Battlefront 2 for a reason. As much bullshit as EA pulled, and however hollow the experience was, they still sold a ton of copies at launch. EA was still generally in touch with what the public wanted out of a Star Wars video game, even as a vocal minority complained. SE has appeared out of touch since the beginning. Deservedly, or not. That’s the difference. They weren’t able to onboard very many people excited about the films.

Neither should matter as much as performance and fidelity after the games are loaded.

The likenesses and early showing impressions absolutely killed the hype that should have come from an AAA Avengers game. Bugs and post-game only soured things for those already willing to give it a shot. If there was more hype to begin with, SE would have hit their targets or at least come close to it (as Battlefront 2 did). Not enough people looked forward to this game. It’s really that simple.

Comparison between loading the PS4 version and PS5 version... both on a PS5:

Every little bit helps when a game bombs this bad, lol. They never recovered from the likenesses, or the bad PR from the first showing. Even SW Battlefront 2 didn’t have to fight this degree of apathy, which is killer.

Went ahead and got the Humble Monthly for November after getting a coupon from them. Figured Yakuza 2 and Darksiders 3 would be worth $4 apiece.

A 1080p video, fyi

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