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When it first launched, I wasn't satisfied with the experience at all. Occasional dropped frames I could live with, but the stuttering was too much for me. After the next update, stuttering got better but you could clearly see dynamic resolution changes to make up for it. I am really happy with it now. The Portal manages to keep the resolution at max, stuttering has become negligible and only the occasional dropped frames here and there have persisted. That said, still pretty embarrassing that single team third party devs have delivered exactly that for years now.

@Fatewalker iirc, Avatar Frontiers of Pandora already has it on PS5.

@Nem what this game needs to nail more than anything is the atmosphere, which consists of so much more than mere gameplay and optics. The sound design, the tone in the voices of the characters, when silence is used and when it is not and the interplay between sound and camera angles etc. Silent Hill 2 is a very delicate game in that regard and Bloober has tried to somewhat imitate this in their games in the past, but it was very poorly executed. I truly hope Konami and former staff of the originals truly had a close eye on this project as they claimed.

@Undeadcop Maybe. We'll see.

Like the first one. The things it does right are 10/10 level, the things it does wrong are 5/10 level. Did that keep me away from voting 9/10 overall? No, it didn't.

@Nem Disagree. There's a lot that can be messed up in the minute details that made the originals so special.

@AK4tywill I have less of an issue with Bloober when it comes to the technical aspects. I bet this game will look fantastic. However, they claim to take inspiration from psychological horror games such as Silent Hill, but execute it so poorly in their other games. Apparently, the Konami team has had a close eye on this project, but I still remain very skeptical.

I so hope Bloober didn't mess this up.

Glad I played it, because until today I wasn't interested in the slightest. Well, now I am.

@Frmknst Hi Grimwood.

For me, it's similar to the first one in that the game has obvious flaws. And probably more than it should have. However, the things it does well are so effin awesome, you're sometimes willing to put up with the rest that isn't so great.

I was expecting to dive deep into DD2 and play Rise of the Ronin later down the line. I played both of them for an hour or two yesterday and much to my surprise, I'm enjoying Rise of the Ronin way more than I thought I would. Currently "struggling" to decide which to play first since I usually only play one game at a time. Good problem to have.

@get2sammyb because Internet, Sammy. Where people call things they personally have no use for trash.

Not trying to be a defender of 30 fps, but the moment I switched from performance to graphics mode in the middle of Kalm, it was clear I'd continue with graphics mode. Performance atm looks like someone smeared vaseline all over your eyeballs. One of very few occasions where I prefer fidelity mode.

This game is underrated af imo.

@Stickleman They're using AWS afaik. Don't know if that is related to Azure in some way though.

@Mikey856 sorry, not sorry. It was worth it for me for GT7, RE Village and RE4 alone as well. Not to mention other great games I've played.

@Splat @Darude84 if you order via PS Direct, they have 30 day return window during which you can try it out. From what I've heard, they are very accommodating.

I bet Phil is a really good guy, at least that's how he comes across. But man, it needs some extreme mental gymnastics to make sense of the stuff he has said over the years.

Mystic Ryan has said this two weeks ago as well and the dude is usually very reserved when it comes to leaking stuff.

@MeatyVeg If anything, it's representation and that's a good thing, right?

@get2sammyb Absolutely, it wasn't a dig at him.

Another statement coming from him that shows he's obsessed with growth as others have pointed out long ago.

"...if we had to guess, it's probably..." is all I need to know. Also, funny coming from them when, in their reboots, you're killing a cannibalistic father that wants to sacrifice his daughter for the tribe.

Tom Warren says Sea of Thieves, Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment are safe. Multiple bigger titles being considered. Make of that what you will.

My mother couldn't tell the difference between the first Resident Evil and a movie, but that's another story.

i liked Gears and I've played them all until 4 but I don't know whether I like them enough to rebuy them. The only ones I'd buy immediately without thinking twice are the three Fable games.

@sword_9mm Like Shawn Layden famously said: Acquiring is the easiest part, managing acquisitions is multitudes harder.

What I found even more interesting is the rumor that the event will be held by corporate. IIrc, the gaming division has surpassed Windows in revenue. Maybe Satya smelled blood and will be taking it into his hands now or restructure/rebrand the division. Internal strife between Xbox and corporate over the future strategy seems to have gone on for a while now.

If "it's a crap selection" translates to "I already have it or I'm not interested", then yes, almost every month would be that for me. That said, personally, I cannot think of a single month where I thought that the value proposition was off, even back when they only bundled in "cAlCuLaToR gAmEs". You're getting three games for the price of a lunch. The only time where I could see myself voting for crap selection would be if they only included games like My Name is Mayo or Jumping Taco.

Remember the days when people simply didn't buy a game when they thought it doesn't live up to their expectations and shut their trap? Yeah, me neither.

@get2sammyb if I'm not completely mistaken, the Insomniac leaks revealed that Sunset isn't going to happen on PS due to contractual stuff that is still tied to MS. Something like they still have the publishing rights or something like that

@XenonKnight K.

I think Pentiment and other smaller titles were going to come anyway. I specifically remember their wording on the showcase it was shown referring to exclusivity, it was very vague. A couple of weeks later, I went to the official Pentiment page on the Xbox website where it said: Timed exclusive for Xbox consoles and PC. I pointed that out and everyone was like "nah, probably a mistake".

@Toilet_Goat if this rumor is true (which it seems to be), expect TES6 day one on PS.

@Sanquine I haven't played Arizona yet, but Synapse is fantastic and a must play imo.

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Thanks for your impressions, Liam. This sounds pretty promising for my needs and wants and ultimately better than what I expected.

If their showcase later in the year will be of similar quality, just first party-wise. Good lord... Yeah, for a SoP this was really good.

It looks more promising than I thought it would. But wth were they thinking with the gun sounds?!

@ZeD I totally get it. Steelrising is definitely different in that regard. Not saying it's a walk in the park and you can just button mash your way through it, but I felt it was very noticeably easier than any other Soulslike. It also has a very well-told story, too (not as cryptic). I think it's worth a look for those that are interested in the genre but scared off by the brutal difficulty of some of the other games. The difficulty in Lies of P vs. Steelrising doesn't even compare, they're a couple of leagues apart. LoP was absolutely brutal for me sometimes as well.

@ZeD If difficulty was holding you back so far with Soulslikes, this is the one to get into the genre imo. It has a normal and an "easy" mode. Granted, I'm a veteran of the genre but I died only once on normal mode. I would assume the "easy" mode makes it even considerably easier. Maybe give it a shot.

I have a soft spot for Steelrising, I absolutely loved it and it actually was my favorite "Soulslike" (apart from the FS games) until Lies of P came around.

Great length. Not saying long game equals bad automatically, but I'll take a great 20 hours experience over a mediocre 50 hours one any day.

@MFTWrecks I think they're saving their bigger VR titles for a proper showcase later this year. I would assume this is the place for stuff like a new Astro game and such.

@Steel76 I'd wait until the showcase later in the year. Not sure they're going to show anything first party related apart from Concord (maybe).

@themightyant European online stores mostly. Most of them, aside from the bigger chains, do not care about street dates at all and ship the games as soon as they get them.

Too many advantages for me still with physical games. I always get them 3 to 5 days early, they are a few euros cheaper than digital and if the game isn't for me, it gets sold right away with a marginal loss. Due to that, I'm also willing to give more games a chance. I can't imagine dropping 70 or 80 euros for a game digitally, because they could potentially be totally wasted if you don't happen to like the game as much as you thought you would.

@Hundred_Hand_Slap The fact that you made it this far without ever hearing about it can be considered a miracle.

@Max_the_German it's exactly the same with other devices via their official remote play app. Either a PS5 software issue or server settings on their remote play backend.