This is embarrassing. Remember that time gamers were tired of hero shooters? Remember how we already have Overwatch and we didn't need a new game trying to be Overwatch?
Even if you want to make the case that GPUs on consoles don't need to be much better (although I still wouldn't agree even with that), the CPUs in the current consoles are woefully underpowered.
You aren't factoring in the regional breakdowns. Yes, PS3 ended up passing 360 (87 millionish to 85 millionish seems to be the final tally). But PS3 destroyed 360 in Japan (Like 10 million to 1 million) and also comfortably outsold 360 in Europe and the rest of the world. Mathematically, the only way the totals work is that 360 substantially outsold PS3 in the US.
Well, gamers were part of the problem here. A lot of the games you cited (and that others cite as the golden age of Ubisoft) didn't really sell that well, aside from the Tom Clancy games, and not even those were sure fire hits. Then in the late PS3/360 to early PS4/Xone era they started basically making all of their singleplayer games feel the same (i.e. the "Ubisoft formula") and gamers massively rewarded them for it for years. Then they turned Rainbow Six from an interesting t...
"If we can have a tactical pvp mission/extraction based game."
What? You want another game chasing the same PvPvE fad? How many extraction shooters do there need to be?
No Man's Sky is such a great example of gamers just creating a narrative and ignoring all contrary evidence. Even if you buy the idea that Hello Games falsely advertised the game in the first year or so that it was being developed and advertised, you could literally watch long previews in the months before launch that showed what the game was going to be. So even if they "lied" in 2013-2015, you really couldn't claim to be deceived by that in Fall 2016 when you could watch l...
Of course, reviewers (and gamers, for that matter), are highly selective on whether launch performance issues should heavily impact a game's score. Elden Ring had major stuttering issues and a wildly inconsistent framerate at launch, but the general consensus was to ignore those issues because they would be ironed out. It was even legitimately suggested that you should just play the PS4 version of the game on PS5 so you could have a stable framerate.
If a game is from ...
I understand what he's trying to say, but I don't think he picked the best example. Ironically I think his own game, Prey, is a better example of the problem he is trying to illustrate. A bunch of sites that throw out 8/10s and 9/10s like candy to generic games (or at least did in the mid-late 2010s) gave Prey 6/10, when it was far more interesting than most games that came out around the same time (it released in 2017). And it doesn't have nearly the technical issues Stalker 2 ha...
This is not exactly what happened. This was a civil proceeding, not a criminal trial-the prosecutor in Ireland who reviewed these allegations declined to prosecute. He was found liable, not guilty. Hence why he has to pay money, rather than go to prison.
This is similar to what happened to OJ Simpson; he was found not guilty on criminal charges, but was found liable in a civil case based on the same factual circumstances.
Lol Back 4 Blood infuses the L4D formula with basically every negative modern game design trend of the last fifteen years. Multiple currency systems, unnecessary grinding/unlocks/cosmetics, unnecessary hub world.
Not to mention the game is just worse. In L4D2 enemies would feel like they actually existed within the world and were coming from somewhere. In B4B they literally just materialize. L4D2 had way more variation in levels too, and the Special Infected don't all f...
Come on. Don't pretend you don't understand the concept of implying something. You said: "Man, I couldn't see limiting myself to a game just because it's not 60fps."
The obvious implication you are making in the context is that it's just a preference-and one you can't fathom-to want to play a game at 60fps instead of 30fps. But to some people, 30fps is not fine, just like 15fps isn't fine to you.
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Earlier framerate was just a preference, and a silly one at that. Now you admit that it affects gameplay BUT it's only a real problem if it doesn't meet your preferred threshold. But if someone else has a different threshold, that is them just being silly and limiting themselves.
On the analogy, I used an extreme example to prove a point. Some people see 30 fps as choppy and affecting gameplay just like you ...
That's the problem. We need to get past the idea of 30 fps as the acceptable baseline. I won't blame Obsidian or any specific dev for using it because there is this unfortunate expectation that it's okay to push a game as far as you can while still being able to maintain 30 fps. That was fine for the early HD era, but just like we have come to expect a baseline resolution and somewhat consistent control schemes, I think it is reasonable to start expecting 60 fps as a baseline.
Would you play a game at 15fps? Or would you limit yourself in that situation?
To deal with your analogy, what if you are on the ground and the stage is 100 feet above you? Turns out if the stage is at such a height that you can't properly see the play, it doesn't matter how good King Lear is.
Yeah disappointing/mediocre movies will get Oscar nominations for Best Sound or Best Makeup and Hairstyling. Hard to be mad about it getting nominated for an accessibility award.
Getting nominated as Best Action/Adventure game is another story, but I didn't play it so I'll leave the debate to people who did. The videos of the AI behavior and stealth gameplay were not encouraging though.
Lol Assassin's Creed 2 is the game that introduced most of the things people say they hate about modern Ubisoft games specifically and open world games generally.
Yeah the mistake was not the update. The mistake was calling it a remastered version of the game and making it a new release.
Of course, had they just made it a free update, you would have had the pitchfork mobs coming after them for "ruining" the game and not leaving the option to access the old version.
Also, Bloodborne is supported by BC, but people on here would sell their souls for a remaster.
Yes I am encouraged by this. I was somewhat worried about how well my PC would run this game, but given these benchmarks, I think I'll be able to achieve a decent frame rate with the settings turned down and DLSS cranked up.
So unfortunate. I'd subscribe to premium in a heartbeat if I could play Resistance: FoM for real on there. But game streaming is and always will be trash.
It doesn't solve the problem of gamers encouraging devs to make more micro transaction-laden live service games, despite swearing we were saturated with those and didn't need anymore.