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@Pranwell @jt887 @carlos82 A PS5 Pro shouldn't be needed to improve the graphics of the game in performance mode. When a port of a PS4 game looks better than this does in performance mode (Remake), it's all on the developer and not the hardware. They didn't optimize this properly at all for a PS5 exclusive.

Given how well they actually made the game in Graphics mode, just upping the speed of camera movement is a good enough solution to having to switch from 60 FPS. The camera panning isn't anywhere near as noticeable and the characters already move with enough weight that you don't notice it much in character movement either.

@NEStalgia I was not aware of that as I stopped following the game after a while, so thanks. Kind of weird to do that when they had to undoubtedly pay the others as well, but whatever I suppose.

Yeah, another Marvel game may not sound exciting on the surface, but I'm more looking forward to it as a chance for Hennig to get some "redemption" even though she didn't write much of Forspoken. Even if it is just another Marvel game, I'll take another game done by her over some of the other crap.

Other games that look beautiful are much better optimized. The problems with this game are not the PS5 or the Series X. It's the developer failing to optimize the game properly. Yes, Guerrilla is a first party developer, but still, there's no reason why other developers are struggling. Put in the work instead of being lazy and maybe fixing the game someday. Square Enix and now Capcom are the two latest companies to fail on that front.

I'm glad the actual game itself seems to have turned out to be really good, but even if I wasn't going to be knee deep in Rebirth for quite some time, I wouldn't be buying this game at launch. No way I'd be paying $70 and playing what is essentially a broken game when I could play something that isn't broken from a technical perspective. Developers being lazy and then some people blaming it on the hardware is getting extremely old.

Definitely looking forward to this. Amy did a great job with the Uncharted series until she couldn't, and I'll forgive her for Forspoken since she was only one of several people to get credit for writing that. I'm treating this as a fresh start.

@The_Pixel_King Yeah, it strangely doesn't feel that much different outside of the camera panning being a bit choppy in 30. That's why I adjusted the camera speed, as it brings it as close to the camera panning in 60 as you can get. The characters move somewhat heavily or whatever you want to call it, so I barely noticed any difference in that regard when I switched.

Final Fantasy VII Rebirth

I started this much later than most people, so I'm only about 12 hours in right now, but I'm loving it. Not surprising given how much I loved Remake, but it's still a good thing regardless.

@The_Pixel_King In Graphics mode, the game looks fantastic overall. Performance mode is a blurry mess though. Yes, it still looks ok, but a game for the PS5 should not look blurry like that. They are working on it, so if they can fix the resolution, it will look great in both modes. I just switched to Graphics mode and adjusted the camera speed, so it looks great and still moves close enough to 60 for now.

@jt887 Exactly. The features being available to use if you choose to is fine, but to force them onto the Home screen is just dumb and unfortunate given undoubtedly how much work went into designing the PS5's firmware in the first place.

@LifeGirl As far as firmware goes, I'd say we have gone backwards for the most part. It looks nice, but when they forced the activity cards on us, it took away the nice artwork a lot of games had for their backgrounds on the Home screen. A real shame that they never gave us the option to revert back if we wanted to, especially if you're somebody like me who has never used an activity card.

The fact that we are this far into the PS5's life cycle and certain things that should be considered crucial are either still missing (folders, news feed from the PS4, etc.) or aren't fixed (the playtime tracking for games, etc.) is pretty bad.

I don't feel the PS5 has been a waste by any means though as there's been plenty of great experiences (Rebirth being the latest), but the team in charge of the system's firmware has been a massive step down from whoever worked on the PS4. There's no way it's all the same people given how reliable the firmware was and the team was at fixing issues.

Part of the reason PlayStation exclusives are usually so special is because they are exclusives. Do I still think they will be great even if they are multiplatform games? Sure, but again, part of the reason why they are so special is that the developers can focus on whichever PlayStation system they are working on and maximizing that. Look at what they did near the end of last gen. Ghost of Tsushima and The Last of Us Part II looked so good it was like a preview of what the PS5 was going to be.

Looking forward to finally digging into Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. I've had it since launch, but haven't been able to start it. I did play it for a little bit yesterday, but the weekend is when I can game a lot more usually.

Looks like it could be really good to me. I've never been a huge fan of the actual game series for whatever reason, but I'll definitely be checking this out. Who knows, maybe it will make me go back and give 3 or 4 another chance.

The timing of the release is poor for me, but seeing how good this turned out to be, it's definitely on the list of games I want to play that have come out around Rebirth that I can't get to yet.

There's not a ton of really good games like this on non-Switch hardware, so it's nice to see a game like this end up on PlayStation hardware and turn out to be pretty good as well.

I never played the first one, but I do love a good RPG, so I may give this one a chance at some point. No, not because of the "surprisingly" sexual content.

@Th3solution You are right, but in this case, Square Enix definitely deserves to be criticized. While other developers actually optimize their games properly even with costs increasing, Square Enix has released two PS5 exclusives in a row that are poorly optimized. When a PS5 port of a game has less issues than this game does, that says something.

Like I've said multiple times already, this won't change how much I enjoy such a highly anticipated game, but it's still sad.

@Enuo In people's defense, there is no excuse for this. When a PS5 port of the first game does it better than a game built for the PS5 exclusively, that's pretty sad. Regardless of whether you feel the need to take shots at people complaining about it, which in reality is just somebody wanting to take shots at people without actually thinking it through, Square Enix deserves to be criticized for failing to properly optimize two PS5 exclusives in a row (the other being FF16).

Will this change my enjoyment of a game that's been my most anticipated one in years? No, but again, there's still no excuse for the lack of optimization on the part of Square Enix.

At least we'll still get a steady diet of the same damn thing rather than anything different. Oh, wait, we're not even getting that anytime soon...

Some great games obviously, but this still doesn't really sit well. It basically confirms we will continue to get primarily 3rd person action adventure games with little variety otherwise outside of 2nd party titles they buy the publishing rights for or 3rd party timed exclusives.

I can understand smaller companies or companies that bought more than they could afford having downsizing like this, but when it's somebody that's completely dominating the video game industry right now (along with Nintendo), I find it hard to believe this is truly necessary to "future ready ourselves to set the business up for what lies ahead". It comes off as more like "everybody else was doing it, and some of our studios already did it previously, so let's try to line our pockets even more."

@ShogunRok I commented yesterday ripping into Square Enix for not being able to properly optimize two straight PS5 exclusives' Performance modes. Then the thought hit me hours later that maybe the review copies were all out without the Performance mode upgrades that the demo patch provides. I've yet to play the demo as I want to wait for the full game, but does that demo patch actually address many of the problems with the Performance mode for Rebirth? A bit long winded, but thanks in advance.

This is in no way cooling off my excitement for Rebirth with it still being one of my most anticipated games in a long time, but how Square Enix is struggling with their graphics engines this gen is baffling.

I'm wondering if Remake actually looks just as good as this. That ended up looking pretty nice overall when ported to the PS5, so to see 2 PS5 exclusive games in a row from Square Enix have rough looking performance modes is ridiculous. In no way should this be even discussed about games developed specifically for the PS5 at this point in the console generation.

Not super exciting as it's games that we pretty much figured would be coming and not any heavy hitters, but I'll still gladly play Hi-Fi Rush on my PS5. Maybe even Pentiment at some point too.

I passed on this on Switch because of potential issues with the difficulty, and the fact that I used my Switch sparingly, but I might give this more consideration now that it's coming to the PS5 (my primary console).

If they want Helldivers 2, then make Microsoft give us Hellblade 2. Seems fair to me.

This was about as bad of an announcement as Sony's showcases/SoPs from last year. Probably worse. You don't announce something a week or so in advance, only to literally fail to do what you promised.

Where's the strategy they were supposed to lay out? We know little more than we did before this. Weird that they dropped the ball on this so badly after such a great show last month.

@Bentleyma Uhhhh, no.

Yes please. That is all.

I had forgotten about this game until I saw the review on the front page. I will wait on the game like others since the first few months are pretty stacked, but it might be for the best in the end to give them time to iron out some of the issues with patches.

I would love to buy the game right away to support them in hopes this does well enough to get a sequel, but I can't with Rebirth coming soon. I hope things go good for the game in the meantime though.

@RawnDawn Atlus has promised there won't be a Royal or Golden edition of the game.

https://www.pushsquare.com/news/2024/02/no-expanded-royal-or-golden-edition-for-persona-3-reload-atlus-promises

No big deal. Like others have said, there's already plenty of other playable characters. This is going to be huge.

I'll be pre-ordering it from PlayStation Direct eventually. No rush, but I'm definitely looking forward to finally getting this in April.

I don't really see a big deal with it. Unless I'm missing something, it's just making you aware of your relationship and the side quests would have been available regardless. Seems like an overreaction to me that they are just making you more aware of your budding relationship and your choices in the game.

PS5 - Remakes Have No Limits

It's even worse given how everything Naughty Dog has put out so far for the PS5 is either a remake or a remaster (or a re-release in the case of Uncharted). I really do hope this never comes true as they've already done more than enough of these, even though I'm a huge Uncharted fan.

@Churchy Thanks for that. I just assumed based on the fascination with that kind of a game that it was possible this would be another, but now I'm more interested than before.

Hopefully the Uncharted remake, as much as I love Uncharted, never becomes true. Naughty Dog has already done enough remakes and remasters for a whole console generation so far, so as long as we get new games from here on out, I'll be good.

It's good that it's getting a demo so we can know exactly what kind of a game it is. Is it a Soulslike game or something of that sort? If so, I'll gladly pass, but this will be a good way to finally know. The trailers for it have been fantastic, but we know very little about the game as a whole.

I'm not even sure why they were considering that route. I understand trying something different, but that would have been way too extreme of a departure from the formula. The downtown Seattle part was great, but it was also still very much The Last of Us.

Just keep it like Part 2 in terms of gameplay for Part 3 and it will be golden. I hated how the story progressed, but the gameplay itself was amongst the best I played all last generation.

If they aren't even going to keep their own exclusives on their own platform/service exclusively, then what's the point? I know some people will say that it shouldn't matter and it's all console war crap, but to make their fans wait all of these years for good exclusives and then have them be multiplatform in the end anyways kind of stinks for them.

@MrMagic I know. I was just being technical. In the end though, I do what I want.

@MrMagic If only they gave us disc drives anywhere close to good enough to install any games from a disc in 2 minutes.

I'll give this a shot someday down the road when it's a lot cheaper. I wouldn't mind playing through the story, but I'm not paying $70 for a GaaS title. As long as I'm entertained when the time comes (free or at least half price), then it won't be too bad.

I have 0 interest in this at the moment given that I still have the PS4 disc and it's already perfectly fine.

Day 1 buy for sure. Been waiting too long for anything new regarding the game, but we finally got a proper trailer and a release date. I didn't think the SoP was that good overall, but this was easily the highlight for me.

I would say this was a huge announcement if it wasn't almost guaranteed to not be done until the PS6 is out. He won't even start it until Death Stranding 2 is done, and then there's also OD for Microsoft. Hard to get too excited until there's a light at the end of the tunnel of it's development.

I thought it was good, but still a bit disappointing considering almost everything that was shown we already knew about. Obviously it's good that we got dates for Rise of the Ronin and Stellar Blade, but it would have been nice to get something from actual 1st party that we didn't already know about.

Also a bit disappointing that Ronin is releasing a month after Rebirth, as I know there's no way I'll finish Rebirth in time, so I'll have to pass for the time being. Given the complete lack of anything coming after Stellar Blade so far, I'm not sure why they are having one big release a month.

Overall, it was their best State of Play in a while (the bar was extremely low), but I just can't bring myself to say it was amazing or anything. Basically anything major we already knew was going to be there. A date for Stellar Blade keeps it from being bad alone, but the last nugget (other than the FF7 Rebirth SoP that I will be skipping) being that Kojima is making an exclusive spiritual successor to MGS was met with a shrug by me as it won't be out until the PS6. Great for at least 6 years from now, but again, that's did little for me now.

I'm happy we're getting extended looks at Stellar Blade and Rise of the Ronin (especially the former), but hopefully we at least get something that we didn't already know about (and not just some throwaway game).

I'll still be happier with this show than most of PlayStation's of late even if most of the best games are ones we already knew about, but sadly that's still an improvement over what they've done over the last year or so.

This is my most anticipated game of the year not named Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

They should have never bought all of these studios and IPs if they had no intention of keeping everything as is. Other than layoffs of course since almost everybody is doing it and it would have likely happened anyways.

I've never played a Deus Ex game, but obviously people were looking forward to this. In the end, it still sucks that this is happening as it could happen to more of the things they acquired. Luckily Tomb Raider got picked up by Amazon.

At the very least, it was smart to move it out of February. Hopefully it turns out to be good in the end.

I'm already interested with an extended look of Stellar Blade being announced as part of it. It was annoyingly absent from everything last year, so it's nice to see that.

On the fence with Rise of the Ronin at the moment as I don't like Souls-like games, but knowing this is going to be made more accessible than other Team Ninja games has me interested in seeing how it turns out at least.

Hopefully the rest of the games aren't just second or third party titles though and we actually get something that we didn't know about already from PlayStation themselves. At the very least, I know it won't be a total bust for me like a lot of their shows over the last year or so.

I would probably love this (the single player story, not the Monster Hunter-like online portion), but not knowing if I'd be able to finish this before Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth makes it a hard sell for now.

@Loamy You son of a... I mean thanks.

I agree and it would probably be my GotY for 2023 if I was to consider DLC/expansions, but I have the same rule as others where it has to be a full game.