The Surge - Behind the scenes

Hey guys! I ran that stream yesterday. Played a couple of more hours. Made a video with my full impressions. Absolutely no spoilers here in regards to story. Some very slight footage of the early sections. I will have a full video of the opening hour and the boss fight in full 1080/60 running on my PS4 Pro shortly.

If my energy in the video seems low, it's not indicative of how I feel about it. I just have a lot of medical issues and have impending tests to determine if the tumors in my head are benign or something much more serious. Would love to give it more energy, but that is all I can give for now. Hope you all enjoy, and so far, this game is a huge improvement on Lords of the Fallen.
https://youtu.be/3TgnKbZjra8

Here was my Ni-Oh review so that you guys get a sense of where I come from with this genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasrqArBOB8&t

Glad you're liking it and I really hope for the best on your medical issues
 
Thanks guys, the other extended footage should be up soon. It was a big recording because I used a high bitrate, processing is almost done. I'll edit this post with the link when it's available.
 
Hey guys! I ran that stream yesterday. Played a couple of more hours. Made a video with my full impressions. Absolutely no spoilers here in regards to story. Some very slight footage of the early sections. I will have a full video of the opening hour and the boss fight in full 1080/60 running on my PS4 Pro shortly.

If my energy in the video seems low, it's not indicative of how I feel about it. I just have a lot of medical issues and have impending tests to determine if the tumors in my head are benign or something much more serious. Would love to give it more energy, but that is all I can give for now. Hope you all enjoy, and so far, this game is a huge improvement on Lords of the Fallen.
https://youtu.be/3TgnKbZjra8

Here was my Ni-Oh review so that you guys get a sense of where I come from with this genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vasrqArBOB8&t


Great impressions! Wow, this has a pretty complicated system, in terms of upgrading. Pleasantly surprising. Keep the impressions coming, and I hope things are OK from a health standpoint.
 
O.k everybody! Finally got my footage to process in proper HD. Performance Mode, PS4 Pro, 1080/60, first hour leading up past the first boss fight. I also included a look at every option in the settings menu. I edited out a lot of deaths, this game is harder than Nioh, at least so far.

https://youtu.be/GI5jRvWxXhw
Thanks for all the kind words as well, I will try to get better. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything.
 
O.k everybody! Finally got my footage to process in proper HD. Performance Mode, PS4 Pro, 1080/60, first hour leading up past the first boss fight. I also included a look at every option in the settings menu. I edited out a lot of deaths, this game is harder Nioh, at least so far.

That is certainly interesting to hear. Any particular reason you feel this way?
 
I honestly can't pick any one reason why. All I know is I died more in the first level and boss here, than I did in my first few hours of Ni-oh. Now, I will say that I played all the beta's and stuff that Ni-oh had put out.

So maybe that is influenced by the fact that I was already very familiar. Also healthwise, it's hard to focus and play as well as I'd like. So just playing for a couple of hours can be pretty taxing. In terms of gameplay reasons for it, I talk about it in my impressions video, blocking so far can feel a bit hit or miss. At least in my experience early on.
 
O.k everybody! Finally got my footage to process in proper HD. Performance Mode, PS4 Pro, 1080/60, first hour leading up past the first boss fight. I also included a look at every option in the settings menu. I edited out a lot of deaths, this game is harder than Nioh, at least so far.

https://youtu.be/GI5jRvWxXhw
Thanks for all the kind words as well, I will try to get better. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything.

Thanks. Will watch when its full processed. :)
 
I honestly can't pick any one reason why. All I know is I died more in the first level and boss here, than I did in my first few hours of Ni-oh. Now, I will say that I played all the beta's and stuff that Ni-oh had put out.

So maybe that is influenced by the fact that I was already very familiar. Also healthwise, it's hard to focus and play as well as I'd like. So just playing for a couple of hours can be pretty taxing. In terms of gameplay reasons for it, I talk about it in my impressions video, blocking so far can feel a bit hit or miss. At least in my experience early on.

Ahh didn't take that into consideration but I had been hearing from some people who have gotten the game already that it is very challenging and harder than some of its contemporaries.
 
I'm kind of liking the look of this but I'm not usually a huge fan of combat-focused games (haven't played any Souls or Souls-like game before) so this game being especially difficult makes me feel a bit wary :p.
 
O.k everybody! Finally got my footage to process in proper HD. Performance Mode, PS4 Pro, 1080/60, first hour leading up past the first boss fight. I also included a look at every option in the settings menu. I edited out a lot of deaths, this game is harder than Nioh, at least so far.

https://youtu.be/GI5jRvWxXhw
Thanks for all the kind words as well, I will try to get better. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything.


At what point in the video are the options detailed?
 
O.k everybody! Finally got my footage to process in proper HD. Performance Mode, PS4 Pro, 1080/60, first hour leading up past the first boss fight. I also included a look at every option in the settings menu. I edited out a lot of deaths, this game is harder than Nioh, at least so far.

https://youtu.be/GI5jRvWxXhw
Thanks for all the kind words as well, I will try to get better. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything.

Does the game have a difficulty option...?

EDIT: started to watch the video and there's none...oh well.
 
O.k everybody! Finally got my footage to process in proper HD. Performance Mode, PS4 Pro, 1080/60, first hour leading up past the first boss fight. I also included a look at every option in the settings menu. I edited out a lot of deaths, this game is harder than Nioh, at least so far.

https://youtu.be/GI5jRvWxXhw
Thanks for all the kind words as well, I will try to get better. Meanwhile, feel free to ask me anything.

Thanks for posting this. Pretty much sold me on the game, looks great
 
All the options are nice, especially being able to turn off the slow mo cam thing for finishers and even setting it at different levels if you like it but not all the time. Gotta say the opening is surprisingly well done as well and the graphics are pretty sharp even if the MC is a bit bland.
 
Well guys. I'm glad I have helped but I have to remove the videos. They sent me a polite email saying that they are happy that my videos are positive and they are excited to see people being sold on the game because of them but somebody from neogaf and YouTube has sent multiple emails complaining about me posting the videos.

I kindly explained the situation and because he was very polite I will put them down until the 12th. Just kind of crappy somebody here went and complained. Oh well, I hope that my videos were informative for you guys!
 
How's the environment variety and level design so far?

i've watched gameplay up to that point, the majority of enemies are the 5 different kind of guys in suits.
But theres some little yellow pod things that suit lazers, and robot doggos.
(Not really a spoiler, but for other people who might not want to know anything)

Can't really comment on level design just by watching, it all looks the same with different color tones. (Like really heavy red lighting in one area,really blue in another)
 
Well guys. I'm glad I have helped but I have to remove the videos. They sent me a polite email saying that they are happy that my videos are positive and they are excited to see people being sold on the game because of them but somebody from neogaf and YouTube has sent multiple emails complaining about me posting the videos.

I kindly explained the situation and because he was very polite I will put them down until the 12th. Just kind of crappy somebody here went and complained. Oh well, I hope that my videos were informative for you guys!


I'm confused. Why would they care if someone complained? Complained about...what?

It's their game.
 
Why would a neogaffer complain to the publisher? Just to be mean? Anyway I watched some of your video last night Phloxy and the intro came as a surprise. Left a real good impression on me.
 
Why would a neogaffer complain to the publisher? Just to be mean? Anyway I watched some of your video last night Phloxy and the intro came as a surprise. Left a real good impression on me.

A other youtuber probably. And indeed the intro was pretty good. Sounds maybe weird but its "cool" to see you play someone
who is in a weelchair in the beginning.
 
A other youtuber probably. And indeed the intro was pretty good. Sounds maybe weird but its "cool" to see you play someone
who is in a weelchair in the beginning.

I get what you mean. It's just so atypical and I think that's what makes it "cool". I'm suddenly a lot more invested in the whole thing. That came out of the left field. I'm almost definitively going to buy this at launch now.
 
Just found the 4th boss and... Omfg. This game is getting harder and harder. ;_;

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How's the environment variety and level design so far?

The level design is confusing me sometime. Need a lot of time to get used to it. lol

show us walkthrough not only bosses :)

I can't live streaming this game until the official release date. :(

hey devil your yt channel, you from asia? middle east? :)

I'm from Thailand. :D
 
So I guess Cohhcarnage wont be streaming it if Phloxy's video was taken down...

And they probably assumed it was someone from GAF because of this post and the guy from the game that has an account here but yeah,probably some YouTuber that complained just to be a dick.
 
I heard that the game is 1080P/60 and dynamic 4K/30 on Pro. This is a good way to do pro support but I do hope that the 60FPS is actually 60FPS and not a target 60. If it is then that's be mighty impressive.

The other thing I hope is that this game turns out good, not just because I want the developers to be supported but also because (a bit more selfish reasons) I don't want to put faith in them and get this full price to play on launch day only for the game to drop in price 2 weeks later because it turned out to be mediocre.
 
Why would a neogaffer complain to the publisher? Just to be mean? Anyway I watched some of your video last night Phloxy and the intro came as a surprise. Left a real good impression on me.
People on YT and even here can be surprisingly petty. Going to great lengths like mailing a publisher because they saw someone post videos of a game that already has lots of video footage online available with commentary.

Yes I know embargoes and all but come on lol. Someone here took time out of their day to do all this.
 
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