Hmmmmmmmmmm. Well I'm sure they'll still have guidance from the higher ups. Hopefully.

I'm in.

The bits that made it look like Tomb Runner put me off it.

I'm very much a switherer on this. On one hand - good star wars game hooray, on the other - dark souls and bugs seem to be the main features.

It's held its price rather well tho.

Minnesänger wrote:

Hank animations...

Haha.

So yeah...

I’m not a fan of Star Wars.
Not a fan of Uncharted either.
Really like Dark Souls.
Really like Metroid.

So, really, only about 50% of the ingredients here appeal, but it’s a really cool game. It’s clear it’s full of effort and love and wonderful little details. However...

It needed more time in the oven. The frame rate and input lag in this game is the worst I’ve seen in a AAA game this gen. I’m actually shocked how bad the technical performance is.

Ordinarily it wouldn’t be the end of the world - I can tolerate bugs and frame rate issues in most games, especially if I click with them. But in a game which requires proper parry timing, this ain’t forgivable. It’s a shame, because there’s a great game under here.

And I think I’m done with this game. I can’t believe how good the review scores for this game were. So many small issues - encounter design, lock-on stickiness, dodges, parry timing, input lag, frame rate drops etc - that add up to something that is, IMO, utterly unacceptable.

For all the “Star Wars Dark Souls” comparisons it’s abundantly clear how well FROM understand challenge and control setup. Even with some frame skipping issues on base PS4, Sekiro always felt immediate and responsive. This feels like an even worse version of Lords of the Fallen, albeit with better non-combat gameplay. This is Respawn’s first shot at it, and I’d deffo check a sequel as the building blocks are deffo there, but jesus...

acemuzzy wrote:

That changed fast! An intriguing 4h44m window between those two Cinty posts.

Ha. It’s a cool game. And I think I’d really enjoy it if I had a Pro or X. But I stand by the statement I made in the earlier post “ The frame rate and input lag in this game is the worst I’ve seen in a AAA game this gen. I’m actually shocked how bad the technical performance is.”.

Nothing changed. I’m just further along and my patience was worn down. Didn’t hit a wall or anything. Been making good progress. Just tired of niggle after niggle. And I don’t think the combat is all that.

I’d still recommend this game, weirdly, for those with the top-tier consoles or a good PC. I’d actively dissuade everyone else.

It’s an [8] out of 10 game that is brought down to a [5] or [6] if you have a base PS5 or Xbone One S. Which is actually also what the digital foundry guys said, after checking out their tech analysis.

Sounds fair. I'm playing on X and it seems fine, though still not totally silky smooth. Can't remember if there was a perf/shinies choice... Think there may have been actually and I took the latter option as it's my first 4K game

I think we've gotten used to a little bit more polish in these sorts of games. Even the small stuff I've noticed like popping of physics and textures during cutscenes is something that used to be common but is not really a thing anymore.

Yeah, regardless of my absolute love of this game even playing on an X wasn’t perfect and it suffered a little. Absolutely stunning but at a cost.

Started this and put a couple of hours into it. I really enjoyed my time with it, and I'm not a big Souls lover. Think it's got a good level of star wars in it, not too overblown but you know where you are.

Can see that it's not as big a budget as other games in terms of graphics but I still think it has its moments.

So just went to a new planet which was

And that whole opening sequence was

One thing that's doing my head in about this is the delay in giving yourself a stim. Mid fight you'll be hammering up on the dpad and BB never fucking administers it if your getting hit. So many times I've died when I've had 3 stims in the bank.

Use slow mo on enemies just before you take one, use the force Eric...