Spot on. A $600 gaming PC is tough to build (though not impossible with concessions). to build a $900 PC however (PS5 Pro). The PS5 Pro's new price in Australia is now 1400 AUD. Absolutely wild. Can definitely beat that to make a PC here. I'm not sure what the Trump tax is doing for parts in the US however, I can't keep track of what's going on with those tariffs. For reference I bought a PS5 disc drive version for about 650 AUD. That price I can not beat to make a decent PC. ...
You're quick to point out that I'm wrong with nothing to back that up. So tell me Notellin and R64, what number do you put on the budget of Marathon? What I've seen points to $250+ million on development and marketing. GTA5 was apparently 265 million for development and marketing before release (though since its incredible success I'm sure much more has been since spent on content and maintenance post launch). I've also seen est. sales figures for marathon to be around 1.2...
Oops here comes the butthurt.
This game had roughly the same budget as GTA 5. Do you think it was designed to be for a niche community? I mean you're right it IS niche, currently it's trading blows on Steam Charts just out of the top 50 in 24h peaks with games like Euro Truck Simulator 2, Hearts Of Iron 4, Rimworld that all have similar 24hr and all time peaks but I can't help thinking maybe they were aiming for more? Like having a higher peak than farming simulator 25 or something, I dunno. What do you think ...
Having a good story is *sometimes* 50% of the reason to play an RPG, if that's what it's got going for it. I'm going to go out and say not one Bethesda RPG had a good story. What they had in its place though was an intriguing and immersive world to play inside of. Does Crimson Desert have that? Genuinely asking, I haven't played this game. I can let slide lots of other issues for a good world with a lot of gameplay depth (see: Morrowind)
"They people who supposedly don't care about it, cry about them the most"
"Again, nobody cares, except for those who constantly cry about it."
...he says, while crying about it. You're absolutely right in a completely un-self-aware kind of way.
Ooof you guys are so sensitive. I mean, believe whatever I guess. I've no horse in this race but I'm pretty certain it's going to fail. Don't hate me for truths you find hard to swallow. I'm not saying there isn't hate for this game. I'm saying that's not what will kill it. You just need to make money with whatever supposed market there is for this. That won't happen.
It's not hate that's killing these games, it's apathy. Nobody gives a shit or is asking for Concord, Marathon, etc. the crux is no-one cares, so it won't make the money wasted on it and it will fail. I'll admit I quite liked Marathon as an IP but any nostalgia or goodwill towards that was lost the moment I saw the visual diarrhea on display in that first trailer.
Bring back freedom with magic (even if exploitable it's fun). Bring back utterly bizarre and memorable characters (starfield felt like theirs were designed by a committee of wet blankets). Bring back actual consequential player choice ie different classes and guilds/houses/etc that can't all be done in the one playthrough. And update or replace that damn engine for more seamless streaming/traversal so dungeons, towns and buildings aren't segmented separate levels. And for the love...
Excellent. Great to hear they're still raking it in tbh. CDPR and Hello Games have really shown how to do the redemption ark.
*facepalm*. I think you need to do some actual research dude. I'd try and educate you a little more but it's pretty clear you "don't want to hear it"
It's wild what you'll go to to cope here. Taking that "beyond 150FPS" number and dividing it by 4 to get your magic 37.5FPS number kind of shows how little you know about any of this, and your dishonesty to try and reach a figure that supports your bias. The PS5 Pro game looks fine, you don't need warp reality to defend it, but the fact is a 5060ti in pure performance metrics is about 40% faster than the PS5 Pro's GPU. PC's going to have some overhead but not tha...
Forget about it dude it's impossible to convince these guys a PS5 Pro is equivalent to an entry-to-mid level new PC and not some $2000 machine. They don't want to hear it. Still stuck in covid/crypto boom price mentality or something.
Sorry, why are you angry about this again? Why should it be illegal to do tech demos for the Unreal Engine at the Unreal Engine conference?
It literally had text telling you it wasn't gameplay.
Dude, it had a disclaimer on the footage for a solid minute telling you it was a technical presentation. It was shown at a UE5 developer conference. It's not idiot proofed but it's clearly labelled
"Despite that transparency earlier on, they deliberately withheld gameplay from the console versions"
It was a multiplatform release, and yes they botched it, but clearly consoles weren't lead development platform, PC was. They clearly were hoping that they could get everything together by launch, and this was a mistake. I think them showing this running on a PS5 is a clear indicator that they've learnt from this.
But there are plenty of reasons n...
Pretty sure a new PC would be able to play it at higher than 1080p though. and next time you want the most minor of graphical upgrades then you could just switch out the GPU instead of buying a whole new machine.
Just had a chance to watch this on my 4K monitor now. Do you not see the blurriness of the reflections in relation to everything else in motion? Like it's definitely better and less noisy than it is for me at 60fps with quality DLSS but it's still pretty bad compared to how crisp the screen space/cubemap ones were when driving about. fine when you stop for a second but driving around you're rarely stopped so it's near constant muddy reflections.
OK I actually started costing out my sweet-spot price to performance PC as well as a sub-1400AUD PC and dayum. I knew prices had gone up for RAM and SSDs but did NOT realise how badly it had gone up for DDR5. jesus. it pushes the sub-PS5 Pro priced PC back onto AM4 and DDR4. It's still doable for a decent PC that would outperform a PS5 Pro but also very much more expensive than it was just a few months ago. In late september last year I bought 16GB (2x8GB) of DDR5 6000MT for $89AUD, today...