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Eternal-Testament t1_jdljdjq wrote

Lol. That this is a real thing that exists in the world is absurdly delightful.

And it's the 2069 for some reason that sends it over the edge for me. It's not just "Sex With Hitler". It's like they thought, no no no, that's too mundane a title. Too forgettable. It's "Sex With Hitler: 2069" Oooh well now I'm interested. lol.

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huttyblue t1_jdljcgs wrote

I'm not sure what people expect from raytracing in elden ring, the game has a giant glowing tree that towers over the overworld doesn't act as a light source. Its lighting is inherently unrealistic. Reflections that aren't screenspace would be nice, but I have a feeling they would also have issues with a large, distant, complex object with stacked transparencies.

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MyStationIsAbandoned t1_jdklc1s wrote

Same story with 99% of Japanese studios and publisher. Japanese businesses in general only care about the Japanese audience. If they like or dislike something, that's all they care about regardless of if they have giant western audience.

Japanese gamers still aren't too hardcore on PC gaming. They're mostly console gamers. And if they play on PC, they'll probably go to a cafe. As long as they have a culture of thinking about their international markets as an after thought, we're always going to get dodgy PC ports from Japan. Look at Squaresoft ports, one of the few companies that actually does care about the west. The Nier Automata port is shit without mods and still kind of shit with mods...

They're getting better very very slowly, but I suspect it's only due to pressure from western publishers. That's just speculation though. But in most cases you have to be weary. Like...if the game is even a good port you have to get lucky and hope the controls are good.

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Manoreded t1_jdk4xyh wrote

Multiplayer has never really worked well any of the times I tried.

Singleplayer is pretty solid, the "jank" is mostly on things that don't matter that much, like how rough terrain is strangely "slippery". You eventually learn to beware of rough terrain edges and specially things like walking on branches or roots, which is something the games like to make you do a lot despite the engine not being a fan.

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Dave10293847 t1_jdk1fzp wrote

It’s not fascinating at all. The PC fanatics are used to the phone processor PS4 generation (could literally build a better PC for the same price AT LAUNCH), and the failed experiment of the PS3 CPU.

The PS5 and Series X just punch hard. It’s good hardware. They’re both designed to limit bottlenecks, too. Lots of PC gamers don’t actually do that and it results in inconsistent frames at times.

PC is the superior option when it can simply brute force “x” game like it did easily in the early 2010’s. Also mods.

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