Are you yourself not curious what devs like santa Monica and Guerilla could do when not constrained by 2013 hardware? The CPU inside ps5 is order of magnitude more powerful than the jaguar cores inside the ps4 so just things like the machine AI in Forbidden West could be something we've never seen before. I guess we won't know until ps4 is truly put out to pasture.
Of course I'd prefer it but I'm also realistic and Sony simply won't abandon a console with 100m+ sales in a time period when a lot of the world can't buy a ps5 for their biggest games. It's not ideal but I don't think it doesn't make the PS5 still worth the upgrade.
100% I am yet to see a game that looks as good as TLOU2 did, especially in regards to faces.
Best to just listen to the review or it's conclusion. Skill up usually withholds info in games that he feels need that (GoW or Outer Wilds) but if you want to savour the experience, just don't watch. He basically says that it's one of the games this generations will be defined by/remembered for.
That’s brilliant, sounds like it’s going to be a great game.
"There are other frustrations. While Forbidden West is not a difficult game to understand, it acts like it is. Aloy will narrate your every move, and I mean every move ("I should scan this." "I fell off and need to find my way back up"), robbing you of all agency to discover anything for yourself."
Not that I was ever going to buy it but am I the only one who dislikes this particular trend? Halo had it to an extent and it also sucked.
Can't really say it's something I notice in games, so I wasn't aware it's a trend."There are other frustrations. While Forbidden West is not a difficult game to understand, it acts like it is. Aloy will narrate your every move, and I mean every move ("I should scan this." "I fell off and need to find my way back up"), robbing you of all agency to discover anything for yourself."
Not that I was ever going to buy it but am I the only one who dislikes this particular trend? Halo had it to an extent and it also sucked.
I don't agree with that at all, to be honest. Not every game benefits from that degree of freedom. In the earlier AC games for example, figuring out a climbing route by looking for handholds was sort of fun, while these days you hold a button and press forward, which I just find a mindless activity. It worked in BOTW's framework, I don't need it everywhere.
"There are other frustrations. While Forbidden West is not a difficult game to understand, it acts like it is. Aloy will narrate your every move, and I mean every move ("I should scan this." "I fell off and need to find my way back up"), robbing you of all agency to discover anything for yourself."
Not that I was ever going to buy it but am I the only one who dislikes this particular trend? Halo had it to an extent and it also sucked.
In an ideal world everything that looks climable should be climable. It does look like the implementation here is a bit awkward, sort of a flawed middle ground between curated climbing parts and the freeform stuff of BOTW. That could've been better.
I agree that the amount of handle holding is too much in games but you also have to differentiate between games. For example, in a Naughty Dog game your companion noticing things that your character does adds to the sense of immersion. In the Witcher 3, Geralt's mumbling his thoughts to himself is part of your experience as a Witcher. Whereas in a game like Outer Wilds or Dark Souls or Subnautica, the player experience is central and they aren't dialogue based games and play on the intrigue factor. It's also about whether the dialogue is interest and fits the experience or just feels like a map marker.
I had absolutely no problem with that. I mean, Alloy was nimble but the theme of the games traversal was more about being able able leap, climb and do crazy action hero stuff. More open world uncharted rather than a BOTW/Death Stranding/Immortal Phoenix Rising Mechanic. I actually thought the writing of thr original was what stopped it from being a true classic. The traversal didn't bother me at all. As long as the those action moments were cinematic and fluid with you jumping off cliffs and on/off machines smoothly, then it worked. For me at least.
It has pretty much identical review scores to the first and seems to just be a beefier, pimped up version of it rather than treading brand new ground, so I wouldn't go expecting a massive improvement but rather a continuation and building upon of what people loved (and didn't love) in the first.
This will annoy me and adds to my already healthy reticence to play this game simply due to the protagonist. I found her narration in the first one game ruiningly terrible. Probably the most irritated I've ever felt at the main character to a videogame and it really hampered the fun of playing the game, and as I suspect from looking at the trailers, it will stop, or at least delay me from buying the sequel. I've tried a few times with HZD but keep coming to the same conclusion. Not interested in the main character and not particularly bothered about robot dinosaurs.
