Board 8 > Playing Control, and I'm finally accepting of new consoles next year.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Yeah this thing on PS4...is worse than anything that came late era PS3 or 360...ooof.

Still really great, but the fact that I can consistently making the PS4 crash by rapidly hitting the weapon change button without fail is pretty nuts.

that's terrible, and one reason why i'm happy to now be a PC gamer

i assume this has to be a vanilla ps4, and not the pro version
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Yeah, sounds like PRO is still bad, but even walking around this thing on vanilla can dip to 10-15 at times. Particle effect fights, forget it.

I'm playing on a pro and it's never crashed that I can recall. Some stuttering at times. Loading still takes forever.
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There were games on the PSOne and PS2 that convinced me that we needed more powerful hardware (Driver 2 and Shadow of the Colossus, respectively). Never saw anything like that on the PS3.

PS3 was underpowered from out of the box needed new hardware day 1
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ninkendo posted...

PS3 was underpowered from out of the box needed new hardware day 1

PS4 was the same way! Even the Pro was just a band-aid fix, the processing power for the last two generations has been straight up abysmal.
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PS4 was fine could actually play the games that were released on it

Meanwhile PS3 could barely run the likes of fallout 3 only 2-3 years into the systems life
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UltimaterializerX posted...

No one actually cares about this. "Is the game fun or not" is literally all that matters.

Going to have to disagree! Even with a very recent example, Links Awakening on Switch, despite the game being awesome and fun by all metrics you'll still see the bizarre frame rate issues pop up in most reviews and all over the place in casual discussion. Performance does matter.
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Xiahou Shake posted...

PS4 was the same way! Even the Pro was just a band-aid fix, the processing power for the last two generations has been straight up abysmal.

No one actually cares about this. "Is the game fun or not" is literally all that matters.

Game isn't fun running at 10 FPS and crashing.

Xiahou Shake posted...

UltimaterializerX posted...

No one actually cares about this. "Is the game fun or not" is literally all that matters.

Going to have to disagree! Even with a very recent example, Links Awakening on Switch, despite the game being awesome and fun by all metrics you'll still see the bizarre frame rate issues pop up in most reviews and all over the place in casual discussion. Performance does matter.

On the same token a good chunk of those reviews say it's not bad enough to hinder thier enjoyment of the game
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Beat it, gave up on sidequests halfway through. Thankfully, I never experienced a naturally occurring crash, but there were many, many moments towards the end of 10 FPS or less for several seconds in a row. Also the whole game kind of looks like it's slathered in Vaseline, whether the grain is off or not. I'm sure that was necessary for it to work at all. The visual design in general was gorgeous, though, except I felt the sporadic mold was super out of place and kind of pointless, like it was thrown in just to add a little more variety.

Overall it was...OK...I don't regret playing it, but coming right off of Somnium Files I'm definitely gonna forget it in a few weeks.

Currently just finished the power plant. More powers makes the game better, but it's still not great so far. I find navigation kinda annoying.
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