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Post by Xeogred on Mar 7, 2024 19:56:08 GMT -5
PC port dropping. Good? Strong 9/10 contender. I 100%'d it and it only took like 30-40 hours too compared to most open world games. Sucker Punch did the Sly Cooper and Infamous games in my book, all pretty solid.
It is probably the best looking game in the entire PS4's library too. I remember when the PS5 dropped and had some boost mode, people were joking how they couldn't really see a difference. A classic case of an exclusive being able to maximize its sole intended target platform. But uh yeah, it's probably going to look insane on PC.
It's a Western game for sure though. What I mean by that is... stuff like Team Ninja's Nioh's, or the open world design of Elden Ring, etc all have it beat. But yeah Tsushima is one of the cooler open world games I've played in recent years and I'd entertain checking out a sequel.
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Post by Ex on Mar 7, 2024 21:31:44 GMT -5
It is probably the best looking game in the entire PS4's library too.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 7, 2024 22:00:05 GMT -5
You haven't played Ghost of Tsushima and I haven't played RDR2. We can compare notes... probably never, since I doubt I'm ever touching RDR2. Could be amazing but I extra pick and choose my shots with these giant ass open world games nowadays. There's probably always going to be dozens of games I'd play first before RDR2.
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Post by Ex on Mar 7, 2024 22:11:12 GMT -5
I'll definitely play Ghost of Tsushima someday, but I can only recommend RDR2 if you enjoy westerns. If you don't like westerns, you won't like RDR2. That said, RDR2's graphics on PS4 are phenomenal.
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Post by Xeogred on Mar 7, 2024 23:36:56 GMT -5
Give Arthur or what's-his-face some katanas and I'm in!
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Post by Ex on Mar 7, 2024 23:52:30 GMT -5
Give Arthur or what's-his-face some katanas and I'm in! There are a variety of edged weapons you can get (NSFW): (pro tip set the quality to 1080P)
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Post by Ex on Mar 13, 2024 7:58:43 GMT -5
"The System Shock remake will launch for PlayStation 5, Xbox Series, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One on May 21, publisher Prime Matter and developer Nightdive Studios announced. The remake first launched for PC via Steam, Epic Games Store, and GOG on May 30, 2023"
So we have to wait about 1 year for the PC version to finally get ported to consoles. But the fact that it's coming to PS4 means I'm not complaining. Will 100% play this one.
My history with System Shock started with purchasing the CD-ROM version back in 1994, only to find out that despite my PC meeting the minimum system requirements, this game refused to run on it. The game would lock up every time I left the main menu to start playing. I spent a lot of time back then screwing around with various DOS versions, forcing RAM to use more HMA than UMA, flipping mobo/graphics card dip switches, swapping hardware ISA slots, customizing IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, HIMEM.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, etc. all the tedious fuckery '90s PC gaming required which kept the masses away from that platform back then. To no avail. It wasn't until 2006 that I finally had a PC that would arbitrarily run System Shock correctly, so I beat it for the first time in like January 2006 IIRC. (Funny enough I had beaten System Shock 2 in 2000 years earlier.) Well SS1 was worth the wait, absolutely amazing cyberpunk dungeon crawler. But its interface was so byzantine, and game design so complex, that it was hard to recommend to average players. For many years I only knew one other person IRL who had beaten SS1. Definitely makes me happy a modern remake now exists, that has a more intuitive interface, and doesn't require a magically perfect PC configuration to run correctly.
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Mar 13, 2024 14:56:34 GMT -5
Discovered this on VNDB. Certainly a unique art style.
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Post by toei on Mar 13, 2024 16:23:00 GMT -5
Looks interesting. I guess this is from the main Star Fox and F-Zero artist / character designer?
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Post by bonesnapdeez on Mar 13, 2024 16:55:38 GMT -5
Yeah good catch. It's Takaya Imamura.
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