Self-induced agony. Why not just get a PS5, enjoy the game now instead of complaining while waiting to be disappointed at another unoptimized Japanese PC port? You've got an 85" high-end TV and a PC with a 3080Ti, a PS5 won't break your bank if neither of those did.
I'm in total agreement with you - astounded by what I'm playing and even more with what I'm hearing (that soundtrack! I can't get enough of the ambient world music).
Yes, the RPG elements are lacking but I don't care. Yes, the performance mode isn't the best but I don't care either. Playing it in Quality Mode, with my 5.1 Dolby sound cranked up, FFXVI knew what it wanted to be and stuck to it - there hasn't been a game to capture my awe so mu...
Unstable 60fps 🤣
720p 60fps - it's almost like we're talking about the Series S! Or the Switch, that maintains a full 1080p60fps with 8 local players on Smash Bros.
This isn't even Open World either. Wow.
After the rumor, I expected a 2DHD art style.
This looks like modern 3D Mario with such clean graphics and 60fps. I cannot wait for this
Hogwarts Legacy rode the undeserved controversy train and so many little things were swept under the rug.
I must've picked up the gobstone in the outdoor courtyard like five times. Your character is always "they" because they really didn't record two audio tracks. Shadows break up when your character covers the shadow-casting object. There's an obscene amount of repeated phrasing when going into Hogsmeade and the shop runners around repeat the same lin...
.../s
I mean... You play as a dude with black styled hair. If that's not obviously an homage to Noctis than idk what to tell ya.
You're also minimizing the impact XV had on XVI by spelling it 15. There's another torch, literally in the name. XV Hater
September 14, 2023
I know. It's a deluxe edition that costs more than the base version, it should have its own content. The issue people are having, I believe, is that there isn't a physical deluxe edition, and still the collector's edition only having a digital game. The steelcase they're making for the collector's edition would've made for a great physical deluxe edition!
What would be unreasonable though is if there's no option to upgrade your game to the deluxe...
What does Game Pass have to do with a Sony exclusive providing only digital options for its deluxe and collector's edition?
"Literally no one buys anything you mentioned to play CoD. Console and PC..."
Uhhh PC, Rog Ally, and Steam Deck are all part of "PC". Especially PC. Lol you're not even reading anymore, you're just ranting because Xbox is in a sentence.
"...and the workforce that'll be cut"
Are we forgetting that Sony basically killed their Japan Studio and reduced it to Team Asobi, and this year they cancelled a GaaS title that resulted in mass layoffs across two partner studios? All while PS5 sales and profits and mindshare soar. In 2020 they shuttered an internal VR studio too.
"xbox buying up the industry"
Lol yeah as if Sony's desperately grasping in th...
Meanwhile Final Fantasy is like "Hey, have a regular box and a steelcase!" Then Best Buy is like "Hey, have a steelcase with your preorder!"
So... we're getting up to three cases for just that one game. It's uhh, balanced?
I don't remember the game, but I typed in its title and a specific level for a cutscene. Second result on the page was the ENDING in all caps with the final boss as the damn thumbnail.
Still better than a competition show I watched announcing its winner on Twitter before the east coast feed even started.
If you're like Magog, no it won't - Starfield is a jittery 30fps max releasing in September, so how could FFXVI ever hit a solid 60 releasing in a week? They promised no day one Patch so therefore unoptimized mess.
I finally watched the Starfield Direct in full last night - the upload from Bethesda themselves in 4K on YouTube, not IGN's 1080p video.
It looks seriously impressive actually seeing and hearing about the game in so much detail, more than just a trailer (the pirate lady and how she plays, the gundam style space ships in particular), and Magog will totally be triggered by this - my friend is a Skyrim gamer, with 400 hours of that game on her Switch Lite alone and hundred...
It's not just AI
It's not just item positioning and tracking
It's not just global illumination and atmospheric effects relative to the planet/environment you're in
It's not just physical interaction between potentially hundreds of items and your character hoarding them
It is everything combined together working all at once.
But since none of that matters to you - If you're so hung up on 30fps, I hope you ...
I'll take Fry Cry Primal with an Avatar skin over Far Cry: New Dawn with an Avatar skin.
Massive seems like they're holding the mantle for Ubisoft's exciting big games now. HUGE shocker that makes me excited, regardless of how much it and Outlaws stick to the Ubi formula, is that neither title are multiplayer GaaS like The Division, and I'm a sucker for green foresty open worlds.
"give their hard work away on a sub-standard subscription services"
Except that Microsoft pays them an amount upfront and then payments based on usage.
"basically created for the cheap xbox gamers who wait for hand-outs on gamepass"
*Checks out comment history* Wow you really do crawl out of your hole to obsessively attack Xbox or Phil Spencer. Comes off very similar to mentally unstable Twitter rants.