Ciaphas posted:

wait is this the yakuza with the adult baby thing, i get royally skeeved out by pictures of that

(e) like a dragon, i mean

IGN posted:

It fails to hit even the lowest bar of technical quality one should expect even when playing on lower-end hardware. It performs so poorly that it makes combat, driving, and what is otherwise a master craft of storytelling legitimately difficult to look at. It is not an exaggeration to say that I’ve felt nauseated after playing because of the terrible frame rate. It really is that bad, and it’s very suspicious that CD Projekt Red refused to provide console review copies ahead of launch.
In my original tests on patch 1.02, frame rate dipped into the teens on Xbox One during key story moments involving combat, and while patch 1.04 promised more stability, it still struggles to maintain 30fps and crashes are still frequent. At best it will regularly crash to the system screen on Xbox One; at worst it’ll hard-lock your system and you have to turn it off and on again.

In short, neither the PS4 or Xbox One is able to hold a steady frame rate, and they often freeze altogether for seconds at a time. On the base model Xbox One, it appears to be running at less than 720p resolution at times (though that fluctuates due to dynamic scaling). Even so, you can expect to see it drop as low as 10 frames per second during combat, which is all but unplayable, and it’s around 20fps even when you’re doing simple and routine things like walking outside in the introduction. The PS4 is slightly better in performance and stability since patch 1.04, but at the sacrifice of texture load-in time. Characters will often appear blocky while you wait an agonizingly long time for their faces to show up to the party, and geometry or textures will sometimes fail to appear even with all the effects like film grain and motion blur turned off.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Put that sunk cost fallacy to work

exquisite tea posted:

It's a push-pull kind of thing. If I'm only willing to buy a game on sale, chances are I'm probably not too heavily invested in completing it to begin with. Also I like to get through games when they are new so that other people are talking about them and I'm not just posting into the void about poo poo nobody will ever play, which is always pathetic. And every single game I've ever thought about purchasing on sale eventually comes to Gamepass now, so problem solved there.

exquisite tea posted:

posting into the void about poo poo nobody will ever play, which is always pathetic

Convex posted:

https://www.ign.com/articles/cyberpunk-2077-for-xbox-one-and-playstation-4-review

This doesn't sound great

fridge corn posted:

Who spends more than 40 quid on a game?

Convex posted:

I spent £62 on Skies of Arcadia back in February and it was worth it as the game is great and I still haven't finished it. Also it seemed to mysteriously double in value a few months later

Help Im Alive posted:

I hope Sony backs off from £70 games because that is way too much for any game but I guess people are buying them anyways

Hwurmp posted:

new games fukken suk!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Stux posted:

everyones doing it but ubisoft and theyve only said thats for 2020 and they "might" review it after that

the first indication of $70 games was cod for both series x and ps5 a while back

Help Im Alive posted:

Yeah but £70 is $93!! Our standard price for a new game was £50 a few months ago

Rarity posted:

exquisite tea posted:

It's a push-pull kind of thing. If I'm only willing to buy a game on sale, chances are I'm probably not too heavily invested in completing it to begin with. Also I like to get through games when they are new so that other people are talking about them and I'm not just posting into the void about poo poo nobody will ever play, which is always pathetic. And every single game I've ever thought about purchasing on sale eventually comes to Gamepass now, so problem solved there.

Looper posted:

did someone ask for a post about sonic and the secret rings??

Help Im Alive posted:

I hope Sony backs off from £70 games because that is way too much for any game but I guess people are buying them anyways

Help Im Alive posted:

Yeah but £70 is $93!! Our standard price for a new game was £50 a few months ago

Oxxidation posted:

i typically don't care about spoilers but spiritfarer is one game where i wish i hadn't accidentally learned the real premise in advance

knowing that the game is yet another metaphorical dying dream blunts its bigger moments

Saint Freak posted:

I bought my wife Cyberpunk because she wanted to play it now, and when she's done with it I can steam library share it and it's basically like me getting it for free. GALAXY BRAIN.

Harrow posted:

What is it with artistic, emotional indie games where they can't just... be a fantasy story with fantastical elements. They so regularly end up to be an in-universe hallucination or dream or story someone's telling. It's like they don't trust the audience to get the metaphor unless it's a specifically-acknowledged metaphor in-universe or something.

Or like, are they all written by people who got MFAs in creative writing? Because I remember my creative writing MA being super down on anything that broke from total realism, which seemed to push anyone interested in more magical elements to always find some way to make them "realistic" to include or something like that.

Convex posted:

You could have bought the GOG version and just copied it

exquisite tea posted:

This is one reason why I think Hellblade is awesome because it comes down strongly on the side of saying everything that Senua experienced on her journey WAS real, because it was real to her, and since you're in her head the entire time there's no competing vision of reality to show you what "actually" happened.

Waffleman_ posted:

https://twitter.com/Nibellion/status/1338812331132936192

Wasn't this supposed to come out in February when the current gen consoles would be the only ones

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Ciaphas posted:

daaaamniiiiiit