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Pulcinella posted:Yeah baked lighting can still look absolutely amazing. Origami King and SMRPG on Switch both look really good and charming even though its phone tier hardware because of the baked lighting.
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acksplode posted:The Metroid Prime remake also has amazing looking baked lighting. Where RT really delivers is the scenarios that are too dynamic for baked lighting, but that's tough to express in screenshot comparisons. The mind blowers for me have been open world games with time-of-day. Watching the sun rise in Metro Exodus, CP2077, or Dying Light 2 with RT enabled can be surreal. Running RT lighting in Darktide results in some really excellent moments as the team moves through tunnels and sewers where you can see the silhouettes of your crew and enemies on the walls. Big cool factor. Playing 2077 on my 4090, presented as intended, was also absolutely insane but that only feeds back into my point that consoles are cost effective machines to play games on. I think the priorities for presentation on console (4k and RT) are wrong, especially when you see games with strong art blow other games out of the water visually. Also my PC cost more than a lot of people's cars. JBP fucked around with this message at 02:47 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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acksplode posted:I'd be pretty excited about PSSR oh i'm excited about pisser alright
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I think ray tracing is rad as heck. More games should do what the latest Ratchet and Clank game did is offer performance with RT. It lowered the resolution to 1080p but I honestly didn't give a drat. Looked great, ran at 60 fps and had a really awesome feature to it. This should be a standard.
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Famitsu has given Rise of the Ronin a 37/40. I assume 5 points are for glorious nationalism.
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JBP posted:Famitsu has given Rise of the Ronin a 37/40. I assume 5 points are for glorious nationalism. Good enough for me, glad its turned out to be a good game.
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The difference between baked and dynamic lighting varies heavily based on context. In static and directly lit situations, the difference is rather subtle. In dynamic situations, baked lighting is a lot less visually impressive in most engines, although Decima handles moving between a set of bakes really well. The transition between each might not be smooth, but I think it’s fine. It’s the indirect lighting situations where I think it shines most. Alan Wake 2 looks fantastic in its overcast misty setting and wouldn’t look half as good if it was baked… …unless it had been made by Naughty Dog, who somehow pulled it off with TLOU2. They seem pretty secretive about how though. They talked about how it was almost a disaster and they thought they might have to rework the entire aesthetic, but at the last possible point their tech artists found a solution. But they’ve never given any hints as to what that solution was, as far as I’ve been able to find at least.
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JBP posted:Playing 2077 on my 4090, presented as intended, was also absolutely insane but that only feeds back into my consoles are cost effective machines to play games on. I think the priorities for presentation on console (4k and RT) are wrong, especially when you see games with strong art blow other games out of the water visually. Also my PC cost more than a lot of people's cars.
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4K TVs rule, actually. It's a shame most of this generations games have such sub-par image quality. The PS4 Pro had most releases looking fantastic through 1440p internal with checkboarding, but much of the PS5 generation has seen 4K output achieved by running 1080p internal through FSR1. It results in a lot of soft or muddy games with odd artifacts. Occasionally we still get pristine presentations, like Spiderman or HFW. But they're kind of the exception. If the PS5 Pro's upscaling is comparable to DLSS and actually produces clean 4K output, It'd be worth the purchase for me. Bugblatter fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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It's a shame that 4k TVs don't universally do 1440p. That would solve a lot of issues. 2k gaming is great and much less onerous.
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Alone in the Dark reviews are out. General opinion seems to be that exploration, writing, and puzzles are strong, but combat is dull and trivial which neuters a lot of the fear.
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How long until I get to an area where I can do some real grinding on these materia? It took me like 20 hours to realize the materia that weren't on active characters didn't gain any AP, so I've been sitting uselessly waiting for the AP Max materia to level up my Prayer materia for ages.
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God sometimes I really loving hate sony. Spend 200 dollars on a controller and the left stick is hosed all of a sudden. Ok fine just buy a new 20 module and bam it'll be fine. Nope. Sold out everywhere and has been for a while apparently. So guess I'm a dumb rear end.
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I really hate hearing these stories from America about buying replacement parts or repairing poo poo at your own cost when you did nothing wrong. It's insane.
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JBP posted:I really hate hearing stories from America. It's insane. Feels like I just hear dystopian nightmares from there these days.
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Bugblatter posted:Feels like I just hear dystopian nightmares from there these days. It's all concerning but nothing triggers me harder than consumer affairs!
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JBP posted:I really hate hearing these stories from America about buying replacement parts or repairing poo poo at your own cost when you did nothing wrong. It's insane. Life in the USA is extremely cursed in numerous ways,
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JBP posted:Famitsu has given Rise of the Ronin a 37/40. I assume 5 points are for glorious nationalism. Which side though. The rebels or the shogunate
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The thing I'm most curious about with the ps5pro (don't plan to get one) is that it sounds like from the leaked specs it's the beta test for the psdlss solution - which was inevitable, and when we hit the ps6 is going to be the key that lets visuals take a massive leap. Internal resolutions and fps can stay at 1080p/30 and all the juice can go where it counts. I really wasn't expecting them to get a custom ai chip in a mid gen refresh but it makes sense to get some practical work done with it.
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Hoffadoff posted:God sometimes I really loving hate sony. Spend 200 dollars on a controller and the left stick is hosed all of a sudden. Ok fine just buy a new 20 module and bam it'll be fine. Nope. Sold out everywhere and has been for a while apparently. So guess I'm a dumb rear end. Yeah, this is pretty curious. The modules are def being scalped hard on ebay, straight from china  Anyways, for the time being you could try playing with the deadzone on the stick in the controller options, maybe it'll help some edit; there are still some ebay listings for the OEM part on ebay under $25, not ideal but just so you know. There are legit a lot of supply chain/manufacturing crises going on right now (PSVR2, for example) due to climate change, endless war, whathaveyou BeanpolePeckerwood fucked around with this message at 07:42 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Maaaan, I keep reading about all these issues with the Edge. Making me nervous about getting one. There's a Nacon controller with Hall Effect sticks for the same price, but that has middling reviews as well. Might just get a backup regular Dualsense and one of those back paddle kits you have to install yourself. Save $100 and I'll feel better about opening up the controller if I have 2. Need 8BitDo or HORI to make a cheaper pad with Hall Effect and back buttons soon-ish.
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I love the Edge, it's amazing, no lie. But it ain't perfect. Still, 16 months later it's been a loving soldier.
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Anecdotally, no issues at all with my edge. Hadn't heard they were prone to issues... though I think with any piece of fairly popular tech, you'll always find people who are having issues with it. What were the issues with? The sticks are easy to pop out, at least. Interestingly, when Valve was asked why they didn't move to hall effect for the OLED deck, they said they'd tested it but they weren't happy with the reliability. Makes me very curious what they meant by that because it goes counter to general consensus. Kinda upset the interviewer didn't question them on that point...
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Bugblatter posted:Anecdotally, no issues at all with my edge. Hadn't heard they were prone to issues... need an update, did you bust yet or are you still edging?
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Bugblatter posted:It was a project that got scrapped. How can anyone know really this? They spent years reporting on rumours.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:How can anyone know really this? They spent years reporting on rumours. Beyond the shadow of a doubt? They can’t. It seems likely though, which is as much as DF ever said themselves. You talk as if they were running clickbait videos about certainties, but they mostly commented on reports and questions in their podcast (and generally with a bit of skepticism toward most of them). They weren’t Vikar posting. Edit: Heck, I can’t find an instance of them sounding sure that it was happening in a search. They never put it in one of their video titles, and google just brings them responding to supporter questions while making it clear they were discussing hypotheticals. The most confident quote I can find from them regarding it ever existing is when John says it was cancelled. Even that is fairly reserved: “So I think at one point internally, from what I can understand from talking to different developers…” Edit again: they did put it in the title of two podcast and present it as "oh, we're doing these rumors again..." Rich says "they've taken these rumors and run with it" as he basically rolls his eyes at what he's reading. They also did one video where they looked at the Tegra iteration that Bloomberg claimed would be in the Pro, again being clear about the hypothetical nature of the analysis. I don't see how that's worth being upset over? Bugblatter fucked around with this message at 09:44 on Mar 20, 2024 |
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Quantum of Phallus posted:How can anyone know really this? They spent years reporting on rumours. Got uncles
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It is everything. Everything I imagined.
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Bugblatter posted:They weren’t Vikar posting. Vikar is brave and true, not to mention right about 75% of the time
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VideoGames posted:It is everything. Everything I imagined. I just crossed the 85 hour mark and I'm positive I have AT LEAST 20-25 hours of game left 
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BeanpolePeckerwood posted:I just crossed the 85 hour mark and I'm positive I have AT LEAST 20-25 hours of game left I am at the 42 hour mark and just about to visit Chocobo racing for the first time. I have been trying to hold it in but I need to gush about FFVIIrebirth. I have Tif with me as I explore and we went to the theatre and saw the picture of Jessie and they reminisced and it made me so sad but also happy. It is officially my favourite game of all time. The story is being told brilliantly with the character dialogue and interactions being in a league of their own. All of them riff and chat and feel natural. It is fun and has fun. It is displaying a story I half remembered in the way my imagination expanded things but in real time and it is pulling it off. The open world feels big but not empty and is fun to travel across and has stuff to do but not overloading it. It looks great. The gameplay in both combat, and chatting and minigames are world class. The minigames! There are SO many and each one has been a blast to play. Then there is queen's blood. I love Triple Triad. I love Balatro. Queen's Blood though...oh man. My favourite card game of all time, located entirely within my favourite game of all time. The sound track is on ANOTHER level and I get to see it performed live in concert. A piece keeps playing on the travellators in Gold Saucer that is a poppy version of Tifa's theme and it is one of the best I have ever heard. I love this game. I do not want it to end. I want to play and replay and replay this because I cannot believe I have a game that is doing everything I want a game to do, at the highest level and is not letting up. This almost cannot be real. I am so lucky.  Now, a ton of this probably sounds hyperbolic and too hype and too gushing and for anyone not me yes. It most assuredly is. This is not everyone's best game of all time. This is just what is happening to me. I finally found a game to unseat Portal 2 and it has got me all whipped up and surprised but also so happy. I was excited for this and it overtook any predictions and crushed my hype so solidly by being great and I cannot even. Also the haunted hotel is banging, and I would stay there, and want a bones clock.
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35 hours in (just got to Corel) and it’s bonkers how much better Rebirth is than Remake, like staggeringly better.
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im 10 hours into the grasslands giving serious sideeye to why hojo decided to make two child androids
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Phenotype posted:How long until I get to an area where I can do some real grinding on these materia? It took me like 20 hours to realize the materia that weren't on active characters didn't gain any AP, so I've been sitting uselessly waiting for the AP Max materia to level up my Prayer materia for ages. Materia on non-active party members do gain AP, so you don't really have to worry about that. Vikar Jerome posted:im 10 hours into the grasslands giving serious sideeye to why hojo decided to make two child androids If you're referring to MAI, Chadley's assistant, Chadley made her, not Hojo.
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