Awesome! I've been excited for this game for a while now, glad to see it finally get a date. I might have to break my no-early-access rule for this one.
Early Access is just a marketing strategy these days anyway. I have a couple of games in my library that have been “early access” for nearly a decade. For all intents and purposes, the games are complete, but the devs just keep adding new features. Outside of the major AAA companies, games these days seem to just be ever-evolving, so long as sales are enough to keep the dev interested in adding new features.
Yeah, it looks like these days it's more of a way for a developer to state that they intend to make changes in more drastic and sudden ways than what you would expect from a normal release (and also a way to benefit from the exposure of two launch events I guess). It's just that some of these types of releases in the past were launched more as a way to test the waters for concepts that were abandoned when they didn't find early success so I'm still a bit weary from those days.
A more cynical person would argue that the quality of most high-production releases at this point qualify as "early-access" anyway. But I'm definitely not that jaded, no sir.
You’re absolutely right, which is exactly why it’s just a marketing term now (imo). There’s amazing games that stay in early access for years and years with near monthly content updates, but at the same time, some early access games are complete garbage and the devs never intend to complete the game. They leave it as ea to sell copies to people who hope it will one day get better… But never does.
Sometimes it’s obvious it’s abandonware that hasn’t had an update in two years, but sometimes not so obvious.
Oh, I’m sorry. Well, I could put the engine into a landfill where it’s going to stay for millions of years, or I could burn it up by adding some new AMD tech to it and get a nice smoky smell in here and let that smoke go into the sky where it turns into starfield
Yep. Game doesn’t even have fucking native dlss. Unbelievable. Blatent AMD sponsorship. People shit on Nvidia for this type of dogshit but AMD does the same bs.
There is an endless list of shit that we can blame Bethesda for with this game. It’s fun but it’s held together with toothpicks and bubble gum. And the fact that they marketed this as a “next gen experience” is fucking straight up fraud lol. In a lot of ways this shit is even more ass backwards than fallout 4.
Its insane how detailed and involved this little side game is. It’s like a game in and of itself. Part of me is happy to see such a cool side time sink to play around with, but part of me feels a little overwhelmed at how this game will potentially sink its teeth in and consume my time.
It can’t really be surprising from the series that tends to go above and beyond in their diversions. I can’t think of a Yakuza/Judgement that didn’t have half a dozen other Sega games, shogi, mahjong, cho-han, blackjack, hanafuda, collectible card games, cabaret club management, and slot car racing, to name a few, each with their own powerups and rewards.
Wow I can still self host? That’s real generous of them. I’ll be sure to do that after rebuying the game for $50. I’m sure I’ll have the privilege of rebuying all the dlcs for more too.
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It has been more than a decade since I opened my DS and played Phoenix Wright 1-5, but this instantly transported me back to sitting on my parents couch crying hysterically as my mother helped me point out the evidence room locker clue.
Thanks for helping your stupid child mum, you’re a real one. And thanks for the PTSD, Capcom.
I still replay that trilogy every so often, if you still enjoy visual novel style games you should play them again! Still have endearing characters and a banging soundtrack
Don’t tempt me! I just finished the Ace Attorney Chronicles last month, it was so good that I’m really considering going through the old trilogy before the Apollo collection comes to the Switch.
I suppose it’s about time I finish Alan Wake 1. Bought the original back in the day, then the remastered version. Haven’t even touched the remaster. And yet I have part 2 on my wish list. Uf.
It’s definitely worth a play, though even the remake does feel a bit dated in the gameplay department. The storytelling more than makes up for that though!
Dunkey became a bit much some time before his gaming company thing. I’m not sure what it is, but something changed and I just couldn’t watch his stuff again.
I think it’s the same problem Wes Anderson kinda suffers. They’re trying to do their thing in the way their audience expects them to.
And I don’t really think either is playing a caricature of themselves, there’s real creativity at play. But the creative risks are mitigated by relying on their set style, which makes it safe to consume but often not that exciting. I find Dunkey’s reviews usually pretty interesting, whether I agree with them or not. But this poetry felt closer to an ad than an honest review.
Same. I still click most of the time but I don’t enjoy as I used to. Like I got bored of this review pretty fast. I fast fowarded to the end to see if he kept this poem style going untill the end.
I think he just really loves this game? The game is at 87 open critic rating, overwhelmingly positive (96) on Steam. This game is just genuinely adored by a lot of people.
I agree that it’s probably hard for dunkey to continue his schtick when he is starting to raise a kid. A review for a game trying to just maintain rhyming feels a little forced.
I can only laugh imagining Dunkey’s child playing League of Legends in front of him.
Bit of a bummer but still great tbh, let’s hope it becomes some sort of industry standard. Not hoping too hard tho, lately the games released are not even finished, I doubt they’ll find the time to implement FSR on top of that
FSR is a regular upscaling shader that only looks at nearby pixels. FSR 2.0 uses motion vectors and temporal reconstruction, it can’t be forced by the compositor into all games like FSR 1.0 could.
No, you’re probably thinking of AMD’s Fluid Motion Frames, which is similar to what HDTVs do for motion smoothing and works at the driver level. FSR 3 requires game support.
It was just a misfire overall. They couldn’t create the game they wanted on a dated engine. Loading screens inbetween every action ruined whatever immersion and exploration the game had, it felt shallow and I spend more time fast traveling from planet to planet than I am exploring an area.
So, they’re still using their own frankenstein monster reanimated from the corpse of Gamebryo I presume?
There are definitely more problems at Bethesda than their engine of choice, but yeah, it certainly still is a big one. It’s been creaking at the seams forever.
This went into Forspoken back at the end of September.
I tried it out on a 3080Ti and I can confirm it’s absolute garbage. Totally hitchy stuttery mess, completely unplayable every time I turned it on. Plus, you have to use FSR2 for your image reconstruction to make it work, so you don’t get the image quality benefits of DLSS while you’re staring at the frozen frames during the stutters.
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