Blackmist

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

None of my PS4, 5 or Switch controllers have had any drift. I even used the Joycons in Ringfit for ages, and I was sure that spending months being strapped to my leg would bugger it up.

I’m not sure if I’m the luckiest person on Earth, I just don’t use them enough, or others are doing something I’m not (smoking or vaping are possibilities here, along with greasy food fingers).

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

DLSS or the AMD knock-off would actually be pretty good for them.

RT is kind of pointless in low end hardware though.

Be interesting to see if they support VRR since they control what screen goes into it. A lot more PC users accepting 40fps since Steam Deck. Forcing everything into 30 or 60 is kind of limiting.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

The ads aren’t even for anything. It was just really patronising ads for Spotify Premium.

Their business model is genuinely to just annoy you into paying.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

That maybe so, but if Earth had 1000 moons, we’d have likely gone to one with something interesting on it.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

I got it on PS5 (co-op) and in the space of 2 hours had randomly silent cutscenes, an invisible character in one, and my PSN Name and a mute icon permanently stuck the top left of the screen where all the information about rolls and characters liking or disliking things should appear.

Didn’t get any tutorials either, which is apparently a thing. So we’re just randomly pressing things and hoping it doesn’t fuck up the story for later.

It’s really quite broken in places.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

That’s because Denuvo doesn’t typically ruin performance.

Do gamers really think that devs send the game to Denuvo running 60 fps, get it back running at 30fps and go “that’s OK”? They’d be up in arms.

Here a video from when Doom Eternal leaked without Denuvo early on.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8FRqaZAxWo

The performance difference is a rounding error in a game that doesn’t even have a benchmark suite for accurate testing.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

Crackers: We don’t do it for the piracy, we just like the challenge.

Denuvo: Try this one then.

Crackers: Too hard bro, at least give us a chance!

I acknowledge that this isn’t going to be a popular opinion in a piracy sub, but the main reason people hate Denuvo is that it works.

It’s basically killed the entire game hacking scene, because by the time they break it, nobody is interested in the game any more. There’s like one person left that can do it, and they’re more than a little bit odd.

It may be “anti-consumer”, but you know what was worse? All the other shit they tried on PC. Always online bullshit. Single player games that you couldn’t save any more if your connection wobbled. Actual rootkits.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

I’ve definitely played games that used it, and I wouldn’t even have known without the handful of negative steam reviews shouting about it.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

Most bad Denuvo stuff seems to come from any extra DRM they add as well, just in case Denuvo wasn’t enough. Always online sounds like one of those extras, because I don’t think it’s part of Denuvo itself. I think the Denuvo online requirements are when you install, every X days (seems to vary from two weeks to a month, probably configurable per game), and when you change your hardware configuration.

Denuvo alone is enough, because as soon as Denuvo is removed, the rest can be removed by regular mortal hackers.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

Have no real interest in playing it, but do they still do the Skyrim thing where they have like 5 wildly different voice actors, so it feels like the guards are following you from town to town?

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

The controllers connect to the Shield. You can also connect keyboard and mouse to it.

I find Steam Link to be slow and low framerate though. Sunshine running on the PC and Moonlight running on the Shield seen to do the trick. I also disabled the image sharpening on the Shield because it looks really odd.

Nvidia GameStream being disabled now is a really fucking shitty thing for them to do. Sunshine lacks the ability to change the PC resolution to match the streaming resolution.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu (edited 9 miesięcy temu)

The point is to get the GamePass like tier.

For the price of 2 games (or 1 and a half if it goes on sale, and it always did before), you can game all year. I’ve had mine for a year now, and not bought a game for it yet (apart from GoW Ragnarok which came bundled with it, and likely BG3 next week).

The top tier is kind of a bust. I picked it up because I thought I might play those PS1/2 games but I haven’t used that at all. There’s plenty of PS4 and 5 games still to play, and you can emulate up to PS3 on PC quite easily if you want to play old stuff. There’s scant few PS1 games anyway. It’s far from comprehensive. They should have done so much better here.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

I would think that it’s cheap availability on GamePass and likelihood of frequent updates would make for a muted response to this one.

Plus I don’t think it was protected to start with for modding purposes. People will be flying around in Thomas the Tank Engine by the end of next week.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

Yes, that would be terrible for them to be bought by somebody like MS.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

I think I’d rather play something I enjoy instead.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

A 2TB SSD can be had for like £100. I even put one in my PS5.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

Just got another Crucial one for the wife’s PC. Was like £95, but that is PCI-E 4.0 rather than the Evo 970’s PCI-E 3.0.

Won’t make a jot of difference for what she does, but nice to have it in case gaming actually uses that extra speed in the future. I don’t even think most PS5 games make use of the extra speed right now. Certainly nothing that shows up in loading benchmarks, but I suspect when it does show itself it will be from single frame hitches where it’s loading things on the fly.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

SR2 was the peak of the series for me. I played 3 and 4 but they already felt like they were being constrained by budget even back then. They were mostly copy pasted mini games with far fewer missions.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

SR2 just felt like the crazy Vice City sequel that Rockstar refused to give me at the time.

San Andreas, GTA4 felt too serious. SR3 and 4 felt too silly, to the point of turning into Crackdown.

GTA5 felt back on track though, and that’s probably mostly down to Trevor. You can cause utter mayhem without breaking character.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

Epic was the least of the problems here.

SR2022 is free on PS+ next month and all the advice I’ve seen says “save your bandwidth and time”.

Raise a glass to a fallen comrade, and maybe play Red Faction Guerrilla again, but the Volition of old was gone a long time ago.

Blackmist, 9 miesięcy temu

Nice idea but I can’t remember the last time I saw a Pi for sale. Might as well be powered with unicorn dust.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Tfw it’s back compatible but none of the games get a graphical or performance upgrade…

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

There’s a pair of Tomb Raider isometric games that have decent local co-op. Guardian of Light and something else…

Sackboy’s Big Adventure, and Super Mario 3D World. Both are similar.

Rayman Origins and Legends.

If you want an old PS2 Fromsoft game, I recommend Kuri Kuri Mix.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Anybody tried frame generation for VR? Does it work well there, or are the generated frames just out enough to break the illusion?

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

The right decision due to how it runs. It’s basically two copies of the game going at once. None of this players not being able to stray too far from each other nonsense like other local co-op games.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

It sounds mental, and I suspect there’s a key piece of the puzzle missing for now which is cloud play.

I mean, that has to be the plan, right? They can’t possibly be releasing a £200 remote play solution just for people who want to play in bed or on the toilet… The market for IBS sufferers with a PS5 can’t be that big.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Yes, that’s what it says.

But PS5 streaming is in beta, PS3 and 4 streaming have been a thing for ages, and I can’t think for a minute that Sony are dumb enough to release a streaming only handheld that they don’t plan to connect to their cloud streaming services in the future.

Especially since the PS5 is unlikely to come down in price any time soon. Could be a decent way to get poor/casual gamers paying for a gaming subscription they’ll barely use.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

This one actually works on all RTX cards, back to the 2000 series.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

I couldn’t get into MHW at all, and I lay the blame on the awful tutorial, which is less a tutorial and more interrupting you as you try to get to grips with the controls, with dozens of full screen pages of text.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

I played it on PS5 and immediately went for the higher frame rate option instead.

I think Ghostwire Tokyo was a much better use of RT than Control.

Also found Ratchet and Clank to be surprisingly good for 30fps. I can’t put my finger on exactly what was missing from the 60fps non RT version, but it definitely felt lesser somehow.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

RDR was a classic, but 30fps on a PS3 era game running on PS5 is an absolute piss-take.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Yeah, no thanks.

I couldn’t even use the DSi for long periods. It’s just too thin to hold comfortably and you end up doing some sort of weird claw grip just to hold it.

Ended up playing mostly stylus based games like Professor Layton and Ghost Trick. I even played Zelda with the stylus.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Most of the Sony exclusives are the same. God of War, Spiderman, Ghost of Tsushima.

Just solid AAA single player games, no nickel and dime bullshit.

Every F2P model is predatory as fuck, and relies on taking advantage of whales over a prolonged period.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Also releasing on PC first is practically unheard of. It’s usually the afterthought platform if it gets a release at all.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Not to victim blame, but if you looked at everything Blizzard have done over the last 10 years, and thought “maybe this one will be different” then perhaps the problem is you.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Not sure you can accuse Larian of being lazy. When was the last time you saw a PC game work this flawlessly from launch?

It’s the lack of RAM causing the issues apparently, rather than power. If they could cut the split screen mode from the S it would be fine, but they can’t.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu (edited 10 miesięcy temu)

Didn’t we also learn this from Tears of the Kingdom, or God of War, or Horizon Zero Dawn, or Dark Souls, or indeed hundreds of great selling AAA single player games?

But we also learn from the repeated success of Call of Duty, FIFA, Fortnite or any successful multiplayer games that people fucking love microtransactions.

Different players? Maybe, but I’d suggest there’s also a lot of overlap. I know lots of people that play both. People consume. Some games support the microtransaction model better than others, and those are typically the ones designed to be played in fits and starts all year, rather than completed and shelved.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

There’s a lot of games that go with the free with mtx model that flop as well. eFootball comes to mind. They had decades of experience with Pro Evo Soccer, their only real competitor costs $70 and is still laden with microtransactions, and it still couldn’t get off the ground.

None of these games are cheap to make, and they’re certainly not cheap to market.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

I mean I stay away from the mtx games as well. But then I was raised in an age where you paid the price on the box and that was it.

New gamers don’t know better. And kids especially have all the time and hardly any of the money, they’re happy to throw $10 pocket money at a “free” game they already enjoy for an outfit now, rather than save $70 for a new game they might not like in a few months.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Not sure which part of my post lead you to think they don’t have mtx. They very much do.

I was using it as an example of an expensive flop on that side of the spectrum.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

SR2 was the peak. Everything after that felt like a lazy copy paste exercise.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

I found Prey to be a little rough at the start, but once you pick up some upgrades the combat improves.

Took me a few hours at least to decide I liked it.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Especially given that it’s supposed to have an external BR drive to stack on it.

Is it too much to ask for a regular box shaped console that doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb?

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

They’re not wrong.

It’s an old beloved game, and it’s not been playable on PlayStation for what? 10 years? And the PS3 port was pretty shitty even then.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

They’re all big companies. They’re all shitty somewhere. If you want to play something just play it. I find the worst of them are also making games that don’t interest me in the slightest, but even Activision put out the Tony Hawks Remaster and EA put out It Takes Two so I was all over them.

If you spend all your time worrying about shitty companies, you’ll be living in a cave eating moss. It’s OK to lament the state of things and then do them anyway. It’s on the workers to unionise and shaft the management back, because without them there’s no product and no money.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

If you didn’t enjoy it the first time I don’t see why you would now, even with a better framerate. It’s still the Assassin’s Creed Kurosawa Edition it always looked like, just smoother.

I didn’t mind it, but if you don’t like AC gameplay, you won’t take to this.

Try Days Gone instead, that one actually feels like the better gyro and framerate of the PS5 improves it.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

I will never understand why Sony and From insist on never updating this game.

Didn’t even get a PS4 Pro patch, and hackers got it running at 60fps even there, albeit at a lower resolution.

Blackmist, 10 miesięcy temu

Pretty sure the PS5 drive can’t actually read CDs, so that’s the PS1 library and most early PS2 games gone right way, even though they can be emulated pretty easily. The PS3 should be possible, but they haven’t bothered when you can play it streaming.

I guess the awkward truth here is that there’s no real business need to have it. Most of us into retro games will have a way to play them already, either via PC emulation or old consoles. And if you show a Gen Z kid some of the horrors we used to enjoy on PS1 (although I maintain Sheep, Dog ‘n’ Wolf is an underrated classic), they’d run screaming back to Fortnite and CoD.

It would be nice to have it, but nobody is not buying a PS5 because they can’t run Terracon. They’re still selling them as fast as they can make them, even with the economy in shambles.