Hopefully the rise of this feature doesn’t mean people accidentally have 8 DVRs running on their gameplay through various gaming apps (not to mention Windows’ Xbox Game Bar does this too)
Hopefully the rise of this feature doesn’t mean people accidentally have 8 DVRs running on their gameplay through various gaming apps (not to mention Windows’ Xbox Game Bar does this too)
Man I’m still trying to get one part for a gun that only spawns in a certain kind of weekly mission.
I log on, see that mission isn’t available, log off. Such engage, much gameplay.
If this helps the flame train derail a bit:
Most Source engine game trailers, like Half-Life 2, are “pre-rendered”. If you record a sequence of gameplay as a “demo” (kb-level file that records player movement in a level) then you can record that demo into a video at a much slower rate than the gameplay, capturing every frame; as well as add camera motions to it. There are guides for individuals to do this using the “startmovie” command.
It’s just a logical way to ensure the video is seamlessly presented, especially since framerate optimization comes late in development.
I’ve pretty much abandoned Xbox over this issue, and I’ve been an apologist for them for a lot of things.
Which, in a way, makes it weird that I’ve felt okay with FFXIV. It’s a very different form of satisfaction to its gameplay.
Welcome to getting old.
I literally cannot see the “gap” in appearance between PS4’s best-looking games and what are considered the top games in the PC market. All the PS5 has done for me is allow for extras like letting them run at 60fps.
When given comparison videos like Batman: Arkham City (PS3, 2011) to Gotham Knights (PS4/PS5, 2022), the level of detail seems to have shifted in bad ways; suggesting most of the new power pushed into these consoles has gone to supporting developer inefficiency. We already know the best of the PS5 can produce some extremely detailed environments, and I really cannot imagine many gamers nitpicking the seams out of them - especially these days where people feel satisfied by digetic environments like Minecraft or Fortnite. So, it feels more like a PS5 Pro or PS6 would go towards making players pay more towards stronger hardware just to account for lack of developer optimization. It does not feel hard to imagine future releases coming out at 25fps, and if players complain about it, only getting the response “Buy a PS5 Pro if it bothers you.”
That’s my explanation for the downvotes. It’s a bit of a visceral reaction to a presumptive sentence, like “Why haven’t you stopped hitting your wife?” It’d be more neutral to ask “Do we need a PS5 Pro?” and my answer would be an immediate No.
Interesting. I was under the misconception that it only had one slot. When I looked up initial articles, they only described “How to replace the SSD”. Now I might look for one.
I run a 1TB drive on USB, it’s nice to hold PS4 games on there when I’m not so concerned about fast load times. Additionally, for someone who frequently samples random games, one option is to run games off PlayStation’s cloud. If you find you enjoy them but want to play them locally, the saves import easily enough.
You’d be paying a lot for the SSD, and then only getting half its value because you’re replacing the PS5’s existing 1TB drive. (Unless you’re spending a truckload of money on a 4TB)
I mean…I think yes, at some point a marketing department made that claim, which is unfortunate because that’s ultimately far from reality and most people know it. The claims made of the Series X and PS5 are also usually exaggerated, because most salespeople can get away with prefixing any claim with the words “up to”.
What I want out of romance in games is to have it take you by surprise, which often means it’s not a “romance option”. Some of the best character scenes I’ve seen wrapped some other major plot point into the fact that one person cares a bit too deeply about another, and processes it all very suddenly.
So I’m fine with this removal. All those romance choices in RPGs like Fallout and Skyrim felt ultra shallow to me. Even BG3 just seems like raw wish fulfillment from a horny cast.
Similar to how the PS5 had “8K” on the box; it’s only technically capable of that for the sake of videos, but most games tend to go a bit smaller resolution for practical rendering.
So instead of DS4Windows4Linux, just DS4Linux. Makes sense.
Xbox has a packaged release system designed for that. Since the Series S isn’t really meant to go over 1080p, developers are encouraged to only include smaller versions of textures since anything too detailed would be wasted.
PS5, by contrast, tends to have simplified video settings panels so gamers can prioritize what they want - be that raytracing, 4K, or 60fps. Often, just having the extra power doesn’t necessarily matter if the game is coded against taking advantage of it. (I think Bloodborne is infamous for this - it hasn’t gotten an update, so even on PS5, everyone must play it locked at 30fps).
The thing is, if a game releases on Series X without any bonus bells and whistles like (pick one) 4K, 60fps, or ray tracing, it’s kind of failed the move to next gen. If it then cannot scale any of those things back for the Series S, then it’s failed at designing scalability.
The new consoles do not exist to serve programmer inefficiency.
There’s a game with pre-rendered backgrounds called Alisa. I always really enjoyed the pre-render look. The excitement of reaching a “cinematic FMV” that moves the story in a PS1 game is very different from standard cutscenes.
We’re three replies deep and you haven’t sourced any instances of her actually attacking/harassing people. Gonna call bs here.
Unfortunately that’s one of few games I think I’d need a new GPU for - the demo did not run well.
I’ve been making a list for games like that, and the thing is, it’s not very long, so a new GPU may not be soon.
I’d go one further: The movement can come across as whiney and impossible to please when it echoes the message in a super-blanket way in places it doesn’t make sense, like this one.
It’s like protesting government actions with “All government should be abolished so we can ALL BE FREE”.