Anyone else playing Stellar Blade and made it to the Great Desert?
I felt the story barely had us do anything here but there are a lot of side quests taking us back and the framerate is kind of all over the place. Curious if anyone else is noticing the same?
It's the only blemish so far in what's surprisingly become my current GOTY.
That's not a good sign.
Review codes have been sent out as of 8 hours ago (according to Tom Henderson on X) so at least they aren't withholding those... But you'd think with confidence they'd want positive reviews to get buzz going online the weekend before release.
... But if they're expecting mid reviews, yeah sure lift that embargo when most people are asleep.
This website continuously reads like AI-generated spam with redundant phrasing to make the article far longer than it needs to be.
And another post from them that's over a month old. April 2!
Avatar only had an online requirement to install the disc version, not to play.
This AC really does have Online Play Required marked on it.
Gotta hand it to Bethesda.
One way to avoid laying off QA staff is to just not have any at all!
@Ein You're a creep because of your obsessive comment history making everything revolve around Sony or how awful Xbox is to a point that you're now just throwing irrelevant things in any way you can.
And don't try to make "you" colloquially now just because you're wrong about me and your feelings got hurt.
I'm not getting an all digital Series X so bark up someone else's tree, creep. I have my Series X for that disc support and functioning old hardware I still buy discs for (Bought Sudeki, Super Paper Mario, and 3D Dot Game Heroes a few months back - one for each old platform).
Fact is there's a mechanism that exists for Xbox OG and 360 BC physically and digitally. PS has none for PS1 or 2 or 3. If you're gonna bring PS into an Xbox article, at least know what...
That reaction isn't here because you can still play Xbox 360 discs of supported BC titles on Series and Xbox One, and you can still buy BC titles on the current Xbox Store.
It still sucks losing access to non-BC titles but don't act like it's the same situation. Let me know when PS5 actually supports my PS3 library.
... Sony themselves consider it first-party sales in their financials.
How nice of them to give us more control over graphical settings as a way to *completely* avoid taking accountability for the broken Xbox settings.
Well, you're not wrong lol.
But if this game *launched* with the policies that Sony tried putting on (PSN and only ever available in their trimmer list of regions) I doubt we'd be seeing these kind of reports.
Makes me wonder how Concord later this year will be handled and received - If Sony's actions on Helldivers, GoT PC and Steam availability will have lasting effects.
How much would the game have sold if it was only available in the Steam regions it's still available in now?
An article from April 10?
What an ironic thing to say on a link-agreggate site like N4G. Explains your comment history perfectly.
Especially for Microsoft, when Booty pretty much said they didn't know how to handle that many studios.
Why even make the acquisition then.
Well that's an awesome and very surprising turnaround. Cheers to the new studio and what they'll build!
They just posted a 20+ minute video about Psychosis and how the game portrays that through Senua.
Regardless of what Microsoft is doing (retweeting Ninja Theory is about as low effort as it gets, and Dashboard Dynamic Themes should've come months ago), Ninja Theory themselves are at least trying.
It's sad though. That new video was a really good behind-the-scenes too, and it just came at such a bad time.
Nixxes takes completed code and ports that to PC. I'm sure they do work during primary development but I like this setup.
PS5 owners are treated as first class by their platform holder, PC players get the final complete version, and GaaS are treated separately. Win-win.
Shinoff, I do appreciate you're being on the right side of this non-issue.
It's the funnest game I've played so far this year. The only thing that makes sense is that these people aren't even playing the game and just relying on these distorted claims.
The game has an actual bikini you can play in. There's a freeze-frame crotch shot when EVE is spinning in the air about to slide down a long shaft (I realize the phrasing but that's ...
Yeah that's what's surprising me - the rest of the game even on Balanced feels like a solid 60fps (and my display is 120hz VRR).
But even on Prioritize Performance it feels like it struggles in certain spots only in the Great Desert. The Buried Ruins section felt like the roughest area but another one was more into the desert near a statue with scaffolding wrapped around (and a dozen or so enemies including the tentacles).
All the side quests I ha...