Digital Foundry Performance Analysis: Fallout 4
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Mikey Jr.
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I love this guy.
'Tis a goof.
Your friend's cousin told him that from an European magazine he saw right?
I feel like I was transported to 1993.
He was anecdotally incorrect.
VanquishUK
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Wow that stuttering...
Definity
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I laughed. Seriously? This guy.
I guess a -0.5 on the PS4 version's score is in order.
Arthr2ShdsJcksn
Banned
Yeah. I was referencing a post I read in the 'Bad Indoors Framerate on PS4' thread where one poster suggested that the XBox One had a better CPU for open worlds. Let me see if I can find it...
From page 13 of that thread...
LookAtMeGo
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What?.. really?
Nvm I thought you meant they gave the ps4 version a .05 lower score than the xbone version.
Kssio_Aug
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Actually, he's not the first I've listened today who said such a thing: "that was absolutely not our staff's experience with the game."
Some pages ago an user said he played for 5 hours and only noticed such problem once, and a friend of mine said he played a few hours already and noticed none yet.
Other than Digital Foundry, was there anyone else who said they witnessed those freezing / ultra severe hiccups issues?
I know they're the only source providing us a proof, but I think that such severe issues are vey noticiable, and besides I've heard about frame-rate issues all over the place, this kind of freezing issues I haven't heard from anyone else yet.
TO BE FAIR. He could be correct. Jim Sterling said he didn't notice drops either.
I will stick with Xbone because of Gies his evidence
Tatsumi Oga
Banned
Hoping that too man, but not expecting anything yet. I just was told they never fixed it on PS3 for Skyrim. Now sure...they do somewhat 'favour' Microsoft, i remember Todd Howard during E3 saying they've always had a great relationship with MS and Xbox...but let's wait and see.
Good news so far is that there's no mention of freezes.
That was a joking reference to the fact that Polygon has done such things in the past, followed by quite some drama on GAF.
of course. I think the comedy comes from the fact that if he'd 'anecdotally' heard the opposite, he wouldn't have mentioned it.
Dictator93
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People who actively despise / actively ignore the technical nature of video games as a medium should perhaps not be reviewing games without having that fact in some sort of warning before the article.
It is a pretty big deal when a game goes to 0 fps.
It is a pretty big deal when a game goes to 0 fps.
Zombie James
Banned
Haha, of course not.
LookAtMeGo
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Ah ok, gotcha
Stillmatic
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It blows my mind this guy is a reviews editor of a major gaming site. He has always been the biggest MS fanboy since at least RebelFM started, guy gives headaches listening to his nonsense.
M_A_C
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How does that guy have a job?
dealer-
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Well, the Eurogamer review was based on the Xbox One version of the game and Dan Whitehead (not one of the DF guys) said that there were "constant technical issues" with the game.
That hurts my brain.
...and I don't think he played it on either of the same Xboxen that Tom tested.
TO BE FAIR. Jim was talking about the PS4 version.
I was just hoping that the less ambitious visuals of this game would translate to better performance.
Kssio_Aug
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I understand, but the game clearly has several technical issues even on PS4. There are videos out there showing some indoor gameplay where it feels it's running constantly on 15~25 frames per second.
If XB1 suffer from the same issues, maybe this Dan Whitehead guy was mentioning about the same kind of problem (what actually is really bad anyway).
brickarts295
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Lol, we should have known the PS4 version was going to be better if they decided to send review copies of the PS4 version even though MS had marketing with them.
Ah. I read Unity for some reason. I dunno, sometimes we don't encounter things. NXG posted an inaccurate frame-rate analysis this week yet I haven't seen lastword mention that. Weird.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Isn't there a bit of a contradiction here? Does Gies think before he posts?
His initial statement:
Then after he's called out:
So ... was it anecdotal or was it first hand experience? Or was it complete BULLSHIT?
His initial statement:
Then after he's called out:
So ... was it anecdotal or was it first hand experience? Or was it complete BULLSHIT?
Yeah, me too. Had no real issue with the visuals. I rarely have. But the performance is disappointing.
Quadraphonic
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Well, when all people have to compare against are the PS4 versions they were sent, you're going to hear more negative things said about it as it gets infinitely more attention.
Jesus Christ. Gies may have said some stupid shit in the past, but where's the outrage when Danny said the same goddamn thing? And we all love Danny, right? You guys think people concern trolling about the PS4 in the other thread is dumb, but you are all just as fucking bad. https://twitter.com/dannyodwyer/status/663745282325147648?s=09
(Apologies for formatting/typos;on a phone atm)
dealer-
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From the Eurogamer review - "More troubling still, I've suffered an appalling frame rate that plummets to what appear to be single figures during moments of intense action, and lengthy pauses while the game hangs and decides if it wants to continue or not."
JeffG
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Its anecdotal if his staff was doing the work (and not him personally)
Coulomb_Barrier
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It seems it only applies one way around, when Xbox is on top?
But yeah, just stop reading Polygon, they're not a serious website with stunts like that, that's all you can do.
Fbh
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Welcome to Consoles since 360 and Ps3, ps2 days were awesome 60fps everywhere
To be fair, some of the best games on Ps2 like MGS3, God of War 2, Shadow of The Collosus, GTA San Andreas, etc weren't 60fps.
But anyway. It's not that bad anymore. These consoles have been out for 2 years, I've played plenty of games on them and the only one that's had notorious and frequent framedrops was The Witcher 3 (which got a bit better after several patches).
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
Kssio_Aug
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He meant he did not experienced the same isseus DF analysis has presented.
AgentP
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Felix Lighter
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I just listened to Jeff Gerstmann go on a half hour rant about the console performance issues he experienced with this game. The most damning things I've heard so far. It was streamed from his mixlr account so an archive will like be captured but it will take some time.
panda-zebra
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Showed him this image in reply to his tweet, got this as a response:
speaking EXTREMELY ANECDOTALLY I suppose I probably deserved it...
lol ok? both versions clearly suffer from frame drops. I'm just saying maybe in Gies's case he didn't notice them. Just like Jim didn't notice them in the PS4 version.
I know all about Gies and overall I do think he's just being bias as usual. But there is a slight caveat there.