Enjoyed the films and intrigued by the universe. Game is solid and plays great, but it does have some performance issues. Surpised to see only pop-in is mentioned in this review, while that's the least of my problems I have with this game.
Fidelity mode looks great but has terrible motion blur, resulting in a choppy experience with noticable input lag. Framerate feels like almost always stable 30 fps. However, performance mode dips regularly below 60 fps, sometimes even below 50 fps. Such a shame, because the fluidity is needed being a shooter. I really hope they improve this in a patch, there is still room to downgrade some visuals or have more agressive DRS engaged. Performance mode should ALWAYS be a stable 60 fps. Come on guys, you can do better than this!!
Lastly the HDR implementation is broken to me. Shadows are greyish/washed out and the UI looks like cut out and glued on the screen. Hard to describe but something is really wrong,. Other games look excellent but even after an hour of fiddling with PS5 and TV settings it couldn't be fixed. Turning off HDR in-game does the trick, although losing some bright highlights.
The game needs a few weeks of extra polish and could then be absolutely great!
Finally the suspend feature! I stopped playing after 2 bosses because I couldn't save the game. Will surely be picking this up again, but I started replaying GoW and HZD is next on my backlog.
Got me Demon's Souls. Still quite expensive, though payable and I feel this is a title that deserves the current sale price. The devs really went the extra miles with this title and that is something I want to support.
Still waiting for a Returnal patch where I can save my progress when I quit, so I might as well start playing something else. Oddworld, Metro Exodus and Control are still on my backlog and I'm in the progress of finishing Horizon atm, but ever since the Demon's Souls release i've been intrigued and I want to be sucked in this world so hard, so this will become next on my list.
8/10. Fantastic experience but lacks some basic functionality like saving when quitting, an option to change your difficulty, or even to respawn at the beginning of the biome you entered last with the equipment you had at that point. No everyone has time to pour in so many hours at once for a single run. My play sessions are mostly 1 hour, maybe 2, but never more. I really need some options to be able to really enjoy this game.
Prey is absolutely worth it. Great value for that price. Still enjoying it a lot, about halfway there I suppose.
I was one of those fools to buy it day 1 when it was plagued with bugs and input lag, but now that the issues are solved it is a fantastic experience to go through.
I was just about to ask the same thing. I played 2 hours of the full game and am really enjoying the atmosphere, but the input lag is still VERY present and makes the controls feel so off... Movement and aiming is very clunky. Didn't you notice that during your playthrough? The sound issues seem to be gone to me. Sounds great!
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How did it perform in your testing?
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@Chaotic_Goat I experienced it too, very unfortunate. Saying it is the only performance issue is even misleading in my eyes.
Re: Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora (PS5) - A World We Don't Want To Leave
Enjoyed the films and intrigued by the universe. Game is solid and plays great, but it does have some performance issues. Surpised to see only pop-in is mentioned in this review, while that's the least of my problems I have with this game.
Fidelity mode looks great but has terrible motion blur, resulting in a choppy experience with noticable input lag. Framerate feels like almost always stable 30 fps. However, performance mode dips regularly below 60 fps, sometimes even below 50 fps. Such a shame, because the fluidity is needed being a shooter. I really hope they improve this in a patch, there is still room to downgrade some visuals or have more agressive DRS engaged. Performance mode should ALWAYS be a stable 60 fps. Come on guys, you can do better than this!!
Lastly the HDR implementation is broken to me. Shadows are greyish/washed out and the UI looks like cut out and glued on the screen. Hard to describe but something is really wrong,. Other games look excellent but even after an hour of fiddling with PS5 and TV settings it couldn't be fixed. Turning off HDR in-game does the trick, although losing some bright highlights.
The game needs a few weeks of extra polish and could then be absolutely great!
Re: Returnal Update 2.0 Finally Lets You Suspend Your Run
Finally the suspend feature! I stopped playing after 2 bosses because I couldn't save the game. Will surely be picking this up again, but I started replaying GoW and HZD is next on my backlog.
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Got me Demon's Souls. Still quite expensive, though payable and I feel this is a title that deserves the current sale price. The devs really went the extra miles with this title and that is something I want to support.
Still waiting for a Returnal patch where I can save my progress when I quit, so I might as well start playing something else. Oddworld, Metro Exodus and Control are still on my backlog and I'm in the progress of finishing Horizon atm, but ever since the Demon's Souls release i've been intrigued and I want to be sucked in this world so hard, so this will become next on my list.
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8/10. Fantastic experience but lacks some basic functionality like saving when quitting, an option to change your difficulty, or even to respawn at the beginning of the biome you entered last with the equipment you had at that point. No everyone has time to pour in so many hours at once for a single run. My play sessions are mostly 1 hour, maybe 2, but never more. I really need some options to be able to really enjoy this game.
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Prey is absolutely worth it. Great value for that price. Still enjoying it a lot, about halfway there I suppose.
I was one of those fools to buy it day 1 when it was plagued with bugs and input lag, but now that the issues are solved it is a fantastic experience to go through.
Re: Review: PREY (PS4)
I was just about to ask the same thing. I played 2 hours of the full game and am really enjoying the atmosphere, but the input lag is still VERY present and makes the controls feel so off... Movement and aiming is very clunky. Didn't you notice that during your playthrough? The sound issues seem to be gone to me. Sounds great!