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This will lead to the death of Halo in my opinion.

UE5 has immense shader stutter issues and there is barely any game that isn't affected.

Hogwarts legacy, Jedi Survivor, etc

Halo needs ultra smooth gameplay for multiplayer that UE5 won't be able to deliver.

Particularly on PC where Gamepass is becoming dominant.

When the game comes out and has performance issues, gamers will remember and sales for the next Halo afterwards will get hit.

Poor engine choice.

Very poor.

Only looking at these 4 services, the PC Tier offers best value for money.

You basically get everything and more, except the ability to play via Cloud.

@themightyant No Mans Sky on PC is the only game I've seen so far that has AMD Fidelity with a native resolution option. (Normally you get quality / performance options).

It actually makes the game look better and you get an immense fps boost with it.

I'm sure there are other games that have this option too, I've just never seen any.

Too many games to play already.

I'll wait until it works properly and comes to Gamepass.

Would never have played it if not for Gamepass.

Very good on PC.

Runs great, plays great, awesome story.

10/10

@PsBoxSwitchOwner I definitely WOULD agree with you though that Sony aren't the only company to pay off reviewers.

@DennisReynolds It's about as ridiculous as paying off development studios to release their product on only one machine.

/rolleyes

PS - You made that ridiculous comment on a website paid by MS to only distribute XBox material.

/doublerolleyes

@ArmoredMore Nope. Deathloop performance was pretty decent. Shame the actual game was was just a re-used map over and over again though. Got boring real fast. 5 is a fair score for Deathloop. Certainly no higher.

@ArmoredMore On Series X, maybe a 5 or 6. On PC 4. Only for the fact the game runs terribly on both. The game itself was pretty decent. An unoptimised mess, but decent.

@ArmoredMore Ah it was tallywhack who thought it was garbage too.

My bad.

Regardless, ye, it was hot garbage, barely a 5, let alone a 10.

@tallythwack Deathloop was a timed Sony exclusive. Sony paid for it to not be on XBox at release.

We both agree that both Redfall and Deathloop were garbage.

But Deathloop, a timed Sony exclusive, scored a 10 by IGN and Gamespot. Even though it was garbage.

Starfield, on the other hand, scored 8, 9 and 10 from everywhere, except IGN and Gamespot who scored it a 7. And it is an XBox exclusive.

The facts speak for themselves.

And my personal conclusion is IGN and Gamespot have discredited themselves, and I accuse Sony of influencing its score.

Shameful practice tbph.

@BBB One of the reasons IGN scored it lower was because there were invisible barriers that prevents the player from wandering outside the game World.

Considering all games have this, and none of them scored lower because of it, I'd say that is more than enough reason to question IGN's subjective professionalism.

Or lack of.

It's more than enough reason, just that point alone, to warrant investigation of being paid off to score it lower than what it would otherwise been scored at.

Starfield has been received amazingly well by everybody, you seem unaware that IGN's review hasn't impacted the games success, and in fact doing harm to IGN itself.

@BBB Let me tell you why i disagree with your opinion on how games should be reviewed.

I don't enjoy RTS games. And my personal opinion would be to give them low scores based on whether or not i enjoy them. (Because i don't enjoy them).

However, professional reviews can't be done this way. Personal opinions become irrelevant and the game should be scored on how well it measures up against other games of same genre.

You absolutely can not score a space RPG low, simply because you don't like space RPG's.

Your own logic states IGN has conducted itself in an unprofessional manner.

To which i agree with your logic.

@tallythwack Redfall was ultimately a good design which was developed on a game engine that gave it bad performance. It deserved low scores.

Deathloop, on the other hand was also total garbage, had 1 re-used map over and over again, but had a fairly decent engine to it.

Both games deserved equally bad scores because they ultimately are both trash.

Yet both IGN and Gamespot gave out a 10, even though other review sites and use reviews trashed it as hot garbage.

Yeah, I'll just go out and accuse Sony of influencing that one aswell

@NeutronBomb My personal opinion is its fairly obvious big review sites are paid off to provide chosen scores for certain games.

It's hilarious to me that you think Sony, a company well known for throwing money to buy off developers for exclusivity, wouldn't throw money to influence review scores from games released by their competitors.

Never forget IGN and Gamespot gave this game a 7, whilst every other major review system including user reviews gave this 8's and mostly 9's or 10's.

There is no doubt Sony got their fingers dipped into IGN and Gamespot pockets.

Shameful practice.

Not double dragon.

This is another game completely with "Double Dragon" slapped on the cover title.

@senote I'll throw in an answer to this.

I find it visually displeasing to the point it makes me enjoy a game much less.

Mostly to the point i won't play it.

That's the issue i have with 30fps.

Dev is right. It's definitely my choice to dislike it.

I will exercise my choice by not playing it, in the hope they will downgrade the visuals to hit 60fps.

I personally believe the design choices in this game have not taken into consideration the majority of what gamers actually want.

Love the art style.

If it has a good storyline, this can overcome gameplay flaws.

Like a badly written film, a great actor can turn that film into a winner !!

So let's see with this game, I'll give it a try to see.

The Force Unleashed games would be amazing if remastered.

Ravenlok looks like it could be a surprise gem. Will give it a go.

No chance.

I'd be amazed if that price isn't falling within 2 months.

Original Crysis for me.

Never played it before, and apparently it runs really well on Series X.

Sonic Frontiers for 14.99 or less and I'm on it.

Otherwise can happily wait another couple of years for it to come down.

Too many other games to play.

Give me 50% off Hogwarts Legacy and I'm buying it.

@Stocksy Simple.

Subscribers to the service determine how much money is in the pot to pay the developers.

The developers get a periodic cut based on how much their game is played.

This cut comes from the subscription fees.

If a game doesn't get played, rather than help generate subscription revenue, it does the opposite. It costs to be there.

Therefore, removed from service.

Sometimes it can be removed for licence and agreement reasons, but once a game is on, it mostly stays or goes for reasons set out as part of supply and demand agreements and conditions.

Never got around to playing Mad Max.

Just bought it for 2.99.

Will be playing it in 120 fps with my 65 inch LG C2.

Graphics look great for an 8 year old game !!

Arkane have always missed the mark for me.

Prey was boring as hell.
So was Deathloop.

But both of them you can see look amazing and have really good gameplay mechanics.

I just hope this game changes my mind because it does in fact look like it could be brilliant.

@Brue You won't drag me into a toxic political debate pal.

The numbers speak for themselves regarding this game.

Gamers want to game.

They don't care about politics regarding this situation.

Which is a good thing.

@Brue I'm happy that gamers have risen above political toxicity. It's a big win and pushes out a really important message that politics should stay very much away.

@itslarryyo The fact that this game AND the Harry Potter IP can't be touched by political toxicity brings warm smile to my face.

Thanks for pointing that one out 🙂

I love that this game is so successful.

It shows the haters of this game that political toxicity has no place in gaming.

First full price game I've bought in years.

It's well worth it

@Bleachedsmiles They do that with the newest Plagues Tale too.

The issue as I see it is that a minority of people have 120hz TV's required to use this mode properly.

And it is still nowhere near as good as 60 fps.

I play using a 65 inch LG C2, 40 fps is not good compared to 60fps in my honest opinion.

Ray Tracing at 30fps is not worth it in my opinion.

Barely noticeable better reflections vs 60fps, there isn't any doubt which to choose.

Atomic Heart

Please be good, please be good !!

Will be enjoying it on my 65" LG C2 !!

@Cikajovazmaj That's fine, it just means the games on Gamepass aren't for you. I've played about 35 games from gamepass this year. Some were new, some were simply games I've never played before. And looking through my achievement list, some of them are awesome.

@Cikajovazmaj Gamepass definitely has some shovelware games on it. But most are not. Some are bad, some are good and some are great.

You only need to play 2 full price games each year and you've made your money back.

Even if it had 90 out of 100 shovelware games (which it doesn't), it would still be incredible value for money.

Atomic Heart.

If they don't screw it up, looks like a GOTY contender.

@Acurisur Or maybe you're in denial that PC games in general have microstutter all over the place and console games in general don't.

You'll be able to find a few exceptions to this rule, I never said otherwise.

But they are exactly that, few.

@Acurisur And these games you mention will also suffer bad frame time on PC too.

There will also be other games on console where the frame time is rock solid. But once again will be p*ss poor on PC.

Hence the point i am making, console dominates PC when it comes to frame time.

@Acurisur https://youtu.be/2-2rwsZ2kSg

Watch that to help you understand.

Then watch some benchmarks eg digital foundry

Frametime is always rock solid on console.

And jittery as f*ck on PC.

Also, please run your own benchmark and upload to YouTube.

I 100% guarantee your PC will have frametime all over the place.

And just like me, once you see it (which is best viewed in driving games when you turn large corners or do doughnuts, the background will have microstutter), you'll never unsee it.

Forza games are a great comparison to view this.

It's unfixable on PC.

Edit - added this for you to watch

https://youtu.be/5EtcrUrsl38

Never heard of SOMA before.

Is it just the original 7 year old version or has it gone through any graphical upgrades with this release?

@Acurisur There's no such thing as "perfect" in all scenarios.

But "mostly", top end PC's beat console in fps and resolution.

And "mostly", consoles beat PC's in frame time.

@Acurisur G-Sync and FreeSync have zero impact on frame time.

If you are outputting at a solid 120fps on a 120hz monitor but ALL of those 120 frames are delivered each 0.9th of a second, G-Sync or FreeSync will ensure you get zero screen tear, but for the 0.0th to 0.8th of a second, your monitor is receiving zero frames.

Hence, bad frametime (or frame pacing, whatever you want to call it), and you will get microstutter.

There is nothing, literally nothing you can do to control it on your PC and everything to do with how the game engine is talking to your GPU.

Consoles have single spec hardware, proprietary systems where devs can programme the exact frame pacing in every given situation.

It's the ONE area console totally dominate PC's.

And it's easily the most important aspect of gaming to me regarding graphics, fidelity and immersion.

If you want to prove me wrong, go benchmark it for yourself on your own PC. Youtube it and link me.

You won't get a single game running where every frame is delivered smoothly across the second, regardless of your FPS (which is a completely different subject).

@Acurisur Unfortunately due to the PC platform being an open system, bad frame time is actually blanket bad across board.

That's the disadvantage of not having a proprietary system.

@Acurisur I don't enjoy PC gaming because of the poor frame time that all PC's regardless of spec or game suffer from.

My eyes are super sensitive to it and given a choice of 30fps with good frametime, or 120fps with bad frametime, the 30fps with good frametime will always look smoother.

PC Gaming, been there, done that, can't get over the microstutter.

I made this comment years ago -

"1080p 60fps > 4k 30fps"

I got laughed at.

Now it seems people don't laugh at this comment anymore as once they've gone 60fps, resolution doesn't matter to them and it's more important to them that they don't want to go back to 30fps.

This game is one of very few exceptions I'll play at 30fps because the first one was great.

But in general, extremely disappointed with this 30fps frame rate.