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Why do games have to release always when I am working?

Is it bad luck or does it mean that I spend most of my time working and my life sucks?
 
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What a shitty game, could they not idk maybe design good looking main characters?
Rarely have I seen so bad main character design, this is even worse than Edge of Eternity!
Boring "dungeons", I can't believe how bad this game is. Just the same old mediocre modern JRPG. I am so done with this Genre.
 
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What a shitty game, could they not idk maybe design good looking main characters?
Rarely have I seen so bad main character design, this is even worse than Edge of Eternity!
Boring "dungeons", I can't believe how bad this game is. Just the same old mediocre modern JRPG. I am so done with this Genre.

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What a shitty game, could they not idk maybe design good looking main characters?
Rarely have I seen so bad main character design, this is even worse than Edge of Eternity!
Boring "dungeons", I can't believe how bad this game is. Just the same old mediocre modern JRPG. I am so done with this Genre.
bitch slap GIF
 
What a shitty game, could they not idk maybe design good looking main characters?
Rarely have I seen so bad main character design, this is even worse than Edge of Eternity!
Boring "dungeons", I can't believe how bad this game is. Just the same old mediocre modern JRPG. I am so done with this Genre.
Checking Are You Ok GIF by First We Feast
 
Steam version?

The store page says it's fully supported.

gamepass version.
NG black gamepass just work with DS
This, nothing.

5090 21:9 1440p epic settings, seems smooth at intro segments, no CPU limitations but unskippable cutscenes...
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gamepass version.
NG black gamepass just work with DS
This, nothing.

5090 21:9 1440p epic settings, seems smooth at intro segments, no CPU limitations but unskippable cutscenes...
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Expected behaviour then.

I don't fuck with that so not really concerned tbh.
 
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What a shitty game, could they not idk maybe design good looking main characters?
Rarely have I seen so bad main character design, this is even worse than Edge of Eternity!
Boring "dungeons", I can't believe how bad this game is. Just the same old mediocre modern JRPG. I am so done with this Genre.

Go back to your mediocre waifu JRPGs, I'm pretty sure your opinion is not needed here based on your post history.

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Yeah pc version seems fucked wonder if Gaf is having the same issues. Got it on the pro anyway.
What a re the complaints? Just tried it and it seems fine. Still at work tho so I can't dive into it properly until later but the start seemed to run well at least.
 
new day, new session! Excited to see how the game develops!
 
Just started on XSX, town is gorgeous. Maelle is already top tier waifu.

That mime kicked my ass, guess I need to come back later for that. Combat is much quicker in terms of dodge and QTE presses than I expected.

Think this is gonna be a banger. Going to park Oblivion until afterwards
 
Crashing, the usual traversal stutter, 4k dlss max being blurry, 30 fps lock cutscenes, no framegen
Crash as in, once inside the game? Game has a weird bug where it crashes if you start without the Steam overlay but having it seems to fix it.

Are the 30fps cutscenes just a PC thing? That would be weird as hell lol.
 
Heads up, it seems like the SD version is borked, they locked the settings to Lowest and you are unable to change them in-game. To do so put the below in the command line:

steamdeck=0 %command%

This will trick the game you are running it o na regular PC and allow you to change all the options.
 
steam copy getting like 50fps on nobara linux, proton ge 27
medium settings dlss balanced.
i9 9900kf 5GHz/ 32GB of ram/ 3060 oc 12GB/ 2560x1080
 
Crash as in, once inside the game? Game has a weird bug where it crashes if you start without the Steam overlay but having it seems to fix it.

Are the 30fps cutscenes just a PC thing? That would be weird as hell lol.

Its a thing apparently on pc all the way back to last gen. Once I noticed it in Ac Shadows its been happening more and more. I played a bit of Quantum Break on pc: 120 fps gameplay ---> 30 fps cutscenes. Fucking why.
 
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What a shitty game, could they not idk maybe design good looking main characters?
Rarely have I seen so bad main character design, this is even worse than Edge of Eternity!
Boring "dungeons", I can't believe how bad this game is. Just the same old mediocre modern JRPG. I am so done with this Genre.

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Unless you post was missing a /s
Then miss me with thay shit!

gamepass version.
NG black gamepass just work with DS
This, nothing.

5090 21:9 1440p epic settings, seems smooth at intro segments, no CPU limitations but unskippable cutscenes...
PeaKg46.jpeg

Odd question.
Does the game still put black bars during cutscenes or do they scale correctly to 21:9???
 
On PS5 Pro here. Is PS5 pro support included on release? If so, what happened to the performance framerate on quality mode, because the current framerate on quality isn't great. Performance is fine and the image quality doesn't appear to have noticeably changed.
 
Its a thing apparently on pc all the way back to last gen. Once I noticed it in Ac Shadows its been happening more and more. I played a bit of Quantum Break on pc: 120 fps gameplay ---> 30 fps cutscenes. Fucking why.
I didn't mean it like that. What I was asking is if the cutscenes in console are 60fps for this particular game. I would be surprised if that were the case.

But yeah it fucking sucks and I don't understand why they still do that nowadays. KCD2 was the last offender and now this one too, shit sucks.
 
I think this will be my first turn based game ever since Pokemon Ruby on the GBA, lol. It looks too good to be bothered by that.
 
Its a thing apparently on pc all the way back to last gen. Once I noticed it in Ac Shadows its been happening more and more. I played a bit of Quantum Break on pc: 120 fps gameplay ---> 30 fps cutscenes. Fucking why.
I didn't mean it like that. What I was asking is if the cutscenes in console are 60fps for this particular game. I would be surprised if that were the case.

But yeah it fucking sucks and I don't understand why they still do that nowadays. KCD2 was the last offender and now this one too, shit sucks.

Quantum Break had prerendered cutscenes and the videos were encoded at 30fps.
The game was originally an Xbox One title that ran at 30fps through and through so its kinda understandable.
Interpolation tech wasnt great back then, and I imagine it wouldnt look good anyway.
The Realtime cutscene you could override to whatever fps in the menu.

The real question is why do devs use prerendered cutscene on PC at all, if my game drops frames in cutscenes it on me to use settings that work.

For pretty much every game that uses realtime cutscene use SpecialK to get ride of the 30fps lock.



Unless im mistaken I believe this game also has some prerendered cutscenes.
 
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Unless you post was missing a /s
Then miss me with thay shit!



Odd question.
Does the game still put black bars during cutscenes or do they scale correctly to 21:9???

full screen to me during in game and cinematics cutscenes. no black bars
Oh We can skip cutscenes, press F, and hold down ESC.
this game i definitely recommend turn off the 4 post-processing options such as motion blur, vignetting etc. Looks way cleaner.


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Game seems to be crazy good so far.
Main Menu music gave me shivers.
So far, in prologue, Artistic Direction is top notch. Remind me of Bioshock Infinite.

Lots of Unreal Engine stutter though, and the lack of HDR is unforgivable. I hope they fix that.

Now i leave this topic to avoid any spoiler. I half close my eyes everytime i click this OT to avoid all those annoying screenshots that people don't give a damn about hiding behind a "spoiler" tag or something 👀.
 
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Game seems to be crazy good so far.
Main Menu music gave me shivers.
So far, in prologue, Artistic Direction is top notch. Remind me of Bioshock Infinite.

Lots of Unreal Engine stutter though, and the lack of HDR is unforgivable. I hope they fix that.

also the english writing and dialogue is naturally good so far.

unlike FF7 janky translations.
 
also the english writing and dialogue is naturally good so far.

unlike FF7 janky translations.

I tried both English & French voiceover.
English is better strictly speaking, it has correct lip sync, better audio quality and better acting but the French one feels more authentic though uneven.

I opted for the french voices for my first playthrough for the sake of being a baguette but will play it in english afterward for sure.
 
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Yeah, the lack of a "repeat" button is kinda annoying.
Other than that? Game looking really promising so far. Been playing since 9AM. Visually it's great - really nice art direction - but I do think they went a bit heavy on the blur. The world feels a bit static overall. Not much interaction, and when there is, it's often missing animations. Tried playing the piano in the city - music played, but no animation. I get it though, it's not a AAA title, so little details like that probably aren't top priority.

Combat's excellent. Parrying is absolutely key - if you get the timing down, you can wipe enemies without taking a hit. Super satisfying.

Music is another highlight. Great atmosphere, really fits the tone and pacing.

Performance-wise, it's running super smooth for me. Everything maxed out at 1440p, no stutter at all. Was a bit surprised there's no FSR though - only TSR and Intel's upscaler.
 
I am testing now this on pc and the game is super over sharpened. Like wtf how did they thought this was ok?
 
Combat, story, music.. All S tier so far. I was a little concerned about the combat before I played , it's difficult to tell how good it is just by watching.
 
My copy arrives only on Sunday.... I could cancel it and go to the shop but I am anyway a bit busy till then. So I'll wait.

Review and feedback looks overwhelming positive. Really happy and eager to start it.

Now going dark, don't want to be spoiled and want to discover the game myself.
 
Someone tried it on the Steam Deck? Does it run? Can it handle 30 fps locked?
I'd love to purchase that game, but Steam Deck is my only gaming device atm.
 
Wow just killed the very first optional boss, the game's hard, or maybe i'm bad, guess im handicapped since i'm not a Souls player lol, had to put it on easy to beat it, last time i cheat, i'm going to try to play it on hard even tho i'll die hundreds of times.

Game's beautiful, i'm not noticing stutters, but im not too sensible to them, the only 2 weak points technically is the hair is ugly, kinda similar to SH2 (in this game i could clearly notice stutters btw, Expedition and Avowed both seemed fine) and i am noticing some input lag when moving? Maybe i am not used to third party games but i feel like there's a small delay when i move the camera, not sure if it's just me.

Combat is great so far, so is music, and story looks very interesting.
 
I'd really like to play this game but I'm really unsure where to buy it.

No PS5, just a PC and Series S. But the PC version is messed up -I guess? But it'd be dumb to pay more for Series S -I guess?

Currently checking whether there are still Gamepass tricks to cancel my decision paralysis.
 
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