Agreed. VR is the next frontier for higher resolutions, more immersion and new ways to create effects that change the game. HDR on flat screen games has helped a little for the rare few that use it correctly, but nothing compares to VR on a microOLED HMD.
Agreed. I played the first 3 hours of Hellblade 2 on my 4090 desktop today on the highest settings, and the main thing that impressed me was the lack of pop in and the tons of tiny stones everywhere. The rest is over-blurred, too much CA for style, and honestly isn't the UE5 leap I was expecting. It has moments of greatness, but we are certainly in the diminishing returns at this point in general.
It's much larger than that, if you factor emulation and how easy it is to run pretty much any "unsupported" game on the Deck using Bottles.
That screenshot always gets me. It looks like Senua’s having a bad bout of stomach bug and needs to make a dash for the loo.
Glad to hear it. They do awesome ports to PC with enhanced features. I've been double dipping on some games I already had on PS5 because I like to be able to play on my SteamDeck on the go as well. Good time to be a gamer.
As long as it meant they never took money from Patreon and invited a DMCA takedown / lawsuit by Nintendo to take it all away. After seeing the whole debacle with Yuzu I now question how long any of these teams can maintain game preservation efforts through emulator development, or otherwise.
This is good news. It will be much easier to get it installed on my devices without using workarounds.
Same fate as World of Goo 2. Snarking about throwing other game services in the trash if you don’t use Epic Launcher was the same kind of anti-consumer move these guys pulled with AW2. Very annoying.
That’s dumb
Sony has been doing fantastic PC ports that leverage the benefits of the platform, but also allow them to scale to even handheld PC’s like the Deck. It’s awesome to see them do PC ports right.
Well I won’t be buying this one.
Steam / Valve are one of the few truly pro-consumer bright spots in gaming right now. Thankfully.
This is excellent news
Big budget nonsense huh? Who paid Forbes for this crap article. If anyone argued the movie industry should stop making blockbusters and instead turn to relying on more profitable subscription series sitcoms and shows I’d bet people would not be happy about that. Corporate shills gonna shill. Big budget games advance the industry, breaks boundaries and pushes hardware, engines, software design and the creative process forward. I thought Microsoft was an unstoppable piggy bank of power?
PSVR 2 or PC plz.
Yep, entitled consumers are "always" in the right to rage mob and throw a fit. Steam is offering refunds if anyone got their feelings hurt over it, so I don't see the issue here. It's a Sony published game, already noted as requiring PSN to sign in. Where is the rage when Microsoft requires an XBOX Live sign-in for a PC game sold on Steam? It's not exactly a new concept.
Guess they had to find at least one glimmer of positive news to combat the poor Xbox hardware sales trends. GamePass stats on game from a 1st party studio that they spent $70bn to acquire are kind of useless IMO, especially when other than Act/Bliz the entire XBOX division was flat. I hope that spike on Diablo 4 was worth having to the XBOX brand go multi platform for.
This is really getting stupid.
It looks technically interesting. However if it’s anything like the last Hellblade, it’s the type of game that will appeal to a niche group of psychological horror / linear gameplay enthusiasts looking for something that finally pushes the Series X. It may be one of the biggest “Xbox” games this year, but I don’t expect it to be industry wide with so many incredible games slated through ‘24.
We need better media in all aspects of society, period. Everything from the gaming press, to MSM is all fueled by clickbait headlines, half truths and buzzword topics that don't give much meat or meaning for the reader to benefit from.