I guess. I mean, I don't hate Nintendo. I'm not blindly hating on it. I spent $70 on it (one of the VERY few brand new games I have bought at launch at full price in a long time). It was one of the few games I was still looking forward to on my Switch. I'm just not feeling the magic with this one.
Power to you if you do, not trying to take that away from anybody. I loved BotW, put like 80 hours in it. One of my favorite Nintendo games, as was Odyssey. I'm j...
Didn't matter. Same day they dropped the update, the homebrew community already had a way around it. Apparently it is already live for EU/JP systems, and one for US systems is around the corner.
Why even show a PvP title without gameplay? A single player game, you can get a gist for the story, the tone, things of that nature. That's what this felt like it was trying to do. But for PvP? It's almost worse than nothing. Truly confusing.
Reading the comments here, glad I'm not the only one underwhelmed by TotK. I don't understand where all this insane praise is coming from. A lot of reused BotW map, very little "sky islands", which surprised me given the focus on it in most of the advertising. The shrines feel like where most of the content is, and it's just a game of run around the open world (or use sky towers) looking for the shortest route to more shrines.
The new gimmick isn't...
Let's be a little fair, at least. In 1992, it was 2D, low res, almost cartoony violence. What we have now is vastly different than that. The closer we get to realism, the more people are going to feel uncomfortable. You don't see this level of violence in most mainstream R-rated horror movies.
Sure, there are some gore-fests that get in that range, but it is pretty niche. Mortal Kombat is not a niche product. I'm not saying I have an issue with it personally, bu...
Never have I seen an entire generation of GPUs, from both manufacturers, get mauled like this. You have to hope that after the media beating, the poor consumer sentiment, and rock-bottom demand, next gen cards are released at actually viable price points.
And hopefully they can get the launch dates pulled up a bit; really don't want to wait 2 years for the next launch. I'm on a 3060Ti, and I was willing to upgrade this gen, but nothing is exactly the product I want ...
I don't quite understand this as a strategy. Maybe laying low is good for headling grabbing, but uh...how does that help them to retain the 25 million Game Pass subscribers? Hey guys, just keep paying us while we regroup. We can't get any big headlines right now because of the great games that aren't on Game Pass, so, uh...just sit tight!
Wait...what even is this article?
"There’s no escape from this. The machine is doing exactly what it was designed to do."
"I get that people are angry, but it might be time to stop getting angry at the trees and try getting angry at the forest instead. And if that doesn’t make you feel better, you can always just walk away from the woods."
So, either accept things as they are, or just...stop PC gaming? Because all I can see in...
And I would have advised them to not paywall something as important to world-building as Elvish voice acting behind a fancy edition of the game, but we can't all get what we want.
Dig aside, what kind of metric is "relaxed playthrough"? That sounds longer than "average", but somewhere short of "completionist"? So....12-15 hours, maybe, for your standard, main-path gamer?
It's true, it's the same reason so many big games on nearly all platforms get released broken - to varying degrees - time and again...people keep pre-ordering anyway.
I do think that on PC, up until recently, it's been really easy for devs to port over a lot of the optimizations they were doing on nearly decade old hardware in the PS4/XBO. As they move to current gen as a primary focus, sounds like that's no longer the easy win it once was. VRAM limits are s...
Is it a skill issue? Or a time issue? Given what we've seen of this game not even working on top of the line PC hardware, and the INSANELY low native resolution this game is upscaling from on current gen consoles (can drop to 972p in Resolution mode, and as low as 648p in Perf!!!)....I mean, what gives?
That was my first thought as well. Platinum were doing solid work, and then they tried to do like 40 games at once and their quality suffered for it. So if From thinks they can manage it, cool...just please keep it measured.
And maybe hire a few extra people who have a firm grasp on optimization (and if we're getting really crazy, one or two who understand how to port to PC lol).
The point of reviews are....you read them, and try to suss out - for yourself - what to make of the information given. There is no such thing as an "objective" review. There is no way you can ask 80-100 people to review anything on the planet & get back the same score from each of them.
There's a reason there are 100 reviews you can read - not all of them will apply. If they all said the same thing, then what would be the point? We'd just get one centr...
For one thing, Meta isn't an actual average. It is pretty close, but they weight different outlets differently, so it is skewed to a degree.
But there is not a single thing on this planet that is going to be universally loved. I'm sure there is a game that has ranked in the 80s on Meta that you would personally rate in the 6 range. In that case, is it that you "didn't get it"? Or is it that it just wasn't for you, and it is OK that not everything h...
The real issue is people don't actually *read* reviews, they tend mostly to look at scores. If they do read it, many mostly don't do so with an eye for anything outside the lines as they are written. Which is to say, if a thing someone says is negative, they don't look to see why it might be true for the writer, or how true it would be for them personally as the reader.
If the author has open world fatigue and you don't, that's a massive difference. If t...
They've also said, pretty exhaustively, that mid-gen happened because of the rise in 4K TV ownership. 4K TVs finally got cheap, everyone had them, and PS4/XBO were designed for 1080p max. All the Pro/X was primarily intended for was to give you a sharper picture on your new set, especially as average TV size went up so those pixels got stretched over a larger canvas (and at non-native resolutions).
There's no threat of something like 8K being around the corner like ...
What an odd "RTX" trailer. It just had RTX "on" the whole time, so it really didn't highlight what the RTX features were, or how much they improved anything. I question the point of this trailer being labeled RTX at all, it could have been shown off anywhere.
Also, given the min specs this game looks...a tad underwhelming?
The argument is not that people don't like always online because they don't have internet, or aren't on the internet. It is because it tends to cause issues. It creates an extra point of failure that, in many cases, doesn't need to be there. You have an hour to play but their servers (or your internet) are down? Too bad. The game does poorly and they shut down the servers in a year, but you love the game? Tough.
Internet as an option is totally fine, but why...
Considering that most of those wronged - or at least the most wronged - were last gen console owners, I'd be curious to hear how they feel things have been righted for them with Phantom Liberty, given they don't get to play it lol.