@Darkborn Why would they change the art style from the original? The original was a huge success and very well received game.
PS5 has supported Kraken and Texture since launch. Sony licensed them both back in June last year and they've been available to devs since day 1.
Really looking forward to playing more of this - very fond memories of L4D and the previous alpha was great.
Thanks for the link & heads up!
@boundless WindowsCentral is an allowed source on N4G, and I submit articles about all 3 platforms & games from many media sources.
Also, other publications are saying GOTY contender too - GamesRadar for example - so that fully kills your WindowsCentral argument.
"mediocre graphics that at best look like a low tier Xbox One game"
We must have bought different XB1's. My 2013 XB1 barely ran games at 900p... they definite...
That seems very unlikely given how glowing and positive every preview has been to date, and the same websites will be writing the reviews.
So the Kraken technology wasn't awesome on the base game?
There’s literally nothing to suggest this was down to Kraken?
Why would version 01.000 not benefit from Kraken but 01.001 would? It’s more likely they just optimized the package by removing duplicate and unused assets ahead of launch. This is fairly standard.
You know someone is struggling with this game being good when they try to say it is a PS2 game 😂
Wait until the metacritic lands…
@boundless Seems more like a you problem than a windowscentral problem - many websites are saying the game is amazing and multiple are saying it’s a secret GOTY contender.
It’s weird to list the SSD as the best part of Ratchet - the game is great for 1000 reasons aside from the SSD - storage devices don’t make games good.
So just to clarify your stance - if a game doesn’t use the SSD fully and isn’t showing off the full power of next gen/is cross gen, it ...
@boundless I play games for fun not because of an SSD. Ratchet is fun, and so is Psychonauts - you can enjoy both, it’s not one or the other.
We’re making the game out to be more than it is because it’s Microsoft? What? The first game was awesome and is loved by a lot of gamers and wasn’t Microsoft 🤦♂️
@boundless Have you played the game? What is mediocre about it?
Which PS3 and 360 did you have? Because my games looked no where near as good as this nor did they run at 4K60… my consoles must have been defective.
You seriously have to go back and play the first one ASAP. It’s awesome and the gameplay is still good by modern standards.
I recommend PC or Xbox back compat though so you can bump the resolution and quality - will make it more bearable to play such an old game.
Plenty of previews out saying it lives up to the hype.
Look around on here for Psychonauts 2 and you’ll find the previews.
And where were those games announced for PS and Switch?
Also being on PC = multi platform. Every console gamer has a high end gaming rig remember. So what’s the problem?
From the amount of 'Should X be worried about Steam Deck' articles in the last few days, clearly the entire world should be worried - we should be more worried about Steam Deck than COVID...
Seriously though, a new platform doesn't spell the end for everything else that is out there.
Did they? Can you provide some examples?
Does any gamer really not know what MS Flight Simulator is? It's been a pretty well known franchise for decades now and it's also right there in the name...
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They are working on a PS exclusive, that's as good as first party - you can guarantee Sony were giving them early access to SDK builds, not that they would've needed early access - these features have been present since day 1. Sony also typically pressures '2nd party' devs to adopt platform-specific technologies.
My point was, there's no indication that this filesize change is due to any compression being turned on... the deve...