Why the heck is this review pinned?
Finally!
From Gamespot's original, infamous 7/10 to 10/10
Actually, I'll prefer a new isometric Fallout spin-off game ... made by a different dev (since Bethesda'll be busy with ES6). With Bethesda's supervision of course ...
The studio's working on Indiana Jones ... so dunno
Have a feeling, ES6 will be the proper Bethesda current gen title through n through.
And maybe get a next-gen version later?
Starfield's not a true current gen game per se, even though it packs a lot of stuff for a Bethesda game. Starfield started out during last gen and was improved over to harness the current better hardware.
Bethesda's next game's usually iterates on/over their current game's assets/tech ...
So ES6 will use and iterate over Starfield's tech ...
But the scope of ES6's playable area will be much less than Starfield's
Oblivion Remaster aand Fallout 3 Remaster? Damn!
Was expecting the rumoured Quake Reboot instead of another Doom from id. Maybe one of the codenamed ones is the rumoured Quake Reboot?
Good to see Dishonored 3 though ...
I am thinking somewhere between PS4 & PS4 Pro level base perf just from the SoC and then DLSS 3+ giving the boost its known for on top of it + the 12GB memory & SSD aiding in.
+ Phantom Blade Zero, Little Devil Inside
*with Ray Tracing as well.
Texture packs are usually pretty big in size ... Larger the files, more VRAM needed to load 'em. These mods are optional and for people who has the resources to run them.
Maybe BGS wanted to keep uniformity across all versions of the game and keep file size as concise as possible?
Starfield has to run on consoles as well, mind you ...
On PC, the game is 139.84 GB. On consoles, it's 100.19 GB for Standard or 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition!
Not a fan of the AC RPG era
The review bombing at Metacritic and the typical comments here at N4G, is pretty much what I expected to happen for Starfield, tbh.
Nothing surprising.
And the cycle will continue once Spider-Man 2 drops. Somethings never change.
Yep ... Hopefully good looking open world Pokemon games as well
If making BadCompany 3 is not possible anymore ... Just make a new Battlefield 2 in 2024, ffs !
@Jin_Sakai
Nobody's expecting a "super powerful console" ... as I stated: DLSS'd 1080p @ 30.
Just saying, that Nvidia's SoC and DLSS have come a long way, and a modern Nvidia solution (even in handheld format) will offer Nintendo first party devs, helluva lot perf uplift compared to the current Switch.
Made my comment, assuming the Matrix UE5 demo rumor is true.
(That is possible ... let's say, Nvidia offers something like a customized version of something like their Orin Nano or something better(?) for Switch 2 ... i.e Samsung 8nm, 6x Cortex-A78, 1024 Ampere cores, 8 GB RAM ... as well as DLSS 2/3+ support. It can run, fairly modern games with help of DLSS)
But as I said above and echoing what you said ... Nintendo's first party games would be really interesting.
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If the next Nintendo system can run Matrix Awakens @ 1080p even with DLSS performance mode @ 30fps ... that's still insane ...
Coz, Imagine what the already remarkable Nintendo first party can achieve even more ...
If Nvidia manages to supply even a decent future-proof SoC and continues to support software wise with DLSS 3.5+ & beyond .... man ... good things await ... lets wait n watch
As per VGC : Another VGC source claimed that Nintendo showcased Epic’s impressive The Matrix Awakens Unreal Engine 5 tech demo – originally released to showcase the power of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X in 2021 – running on target specs for its next console.
The demo is said to have been running using Nvidia’s DLSS upscaling technology, with advanced ray tracing enabled and visuals comparable to Sony‘s and Microsoft’s current-gen consoles
I find Gamespot's Phantom Liberty 10/10 review to be much more exciting.
IGN famously gave CP2077 a near perfect 9/10 upon release, only for Gamespot's 7/10 review to point out the faults in the original release.
IGN then had to push out another review dubbed 'console review' to actually point out the faults as well.
Gamespot's 7/10 to 10/10 transformation is much more rewarding.