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[Shake Your Rump]

How spoiler-y is this? I know John spoils the shit out of PlayStation games in his Digitsl Foundry deep dive videos.

The game is released tomorrow and you will have it finished in a week. You can wait to watch any videos!

 

[dottme]

I’ve waited so long, I’ll wait for PS5 pro. Please Sony, announce ps5 pro soon as there’s finally a bunch of game I want to play.

 

[RoadHazard]

The Plucky Squire is also releasing later this month! It has a really cool 2D and 3D switch up mechanic.

Not really a platformer from what I've seen. But it does look neat.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

A nice win for PS here that was needed after the constant doom and gloom.

Agreed, but it’s par for course when their nearest competitor has shit the bed and its zealots continue to feel the sting. Pretend Concord is all that released in a year that has stuff like Helldivers iI and FFVII in it.

In the real world, it’s actually been a decent year for PS5. 2025 should be a return to form though!

 

[RoadHazard]

Knack 3 was sacrified to let concord fly.

Praise the Jim.

 

[Roxkis_ii]

"- Locked 60fps without any dips"

 

[Caio]

Holy crap, Goty material, DF in love with it. How the hell this will run on a PRO ? We know this will be shown during the beast presentation

 

[RoadHazard]

How spoiler-y is this? I know John spoils the shit out of PlayStation games in his Digitsl Foundry deep dive videos.

Not really at all. He does show some stuff of course, but he seems to very consciously stay away from most of the really cool stuff.

 

[GymWolf]

I can see pro doing a 4k60 for this one.

Probably one of the few new games that are gonna achieve that on pro.

 

[Physiognomonics]

Agreed, but it’s par for course when their nearest competitor has shit the bed and its zealots continue to feel the sting.

In the real world, it’s actually been a pretty good year for PS5 with more still dropping. 2025 should be a return to form though!

Maybe. But all goodies are coming from eastern studios. For 2025 I am hyped only for a Kojima game. Creativity in western studios is DEAD.

 

[RoadHazard]

Holy crap, Goty material, DF in love with it. How the hell this will run on a PRO ? We know this will be shown during the beast presentation

I mean, probably the same. Maybe at 120fps? Maybe at a constant 4K instead of sometimes dropping to 1440p? But this isn't that kind of game. It's a Nintendo kind of game, that does amazing things with the hardware provided.

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Maybe. But all goodies are coming from eastern studios. For 2025 I am hyped only for a Kojima game. Creativity in western studios is DEAD.

I’m keeping an open mind. We’re currently in a bit of slump, to be sure, but this is PlayStation. They have those from time-to-time , know when to strike hard and get things going again!

 

[kevboard]

if this gets a Pro patch where all screen space based effects are replaced with RT, then it truly would be perfect

 

[Caio]

I mean, probably the same. Maybe at 120fps? Maybe at a constant 4K instead of sometimes dropping to 1440p? But this isn't that kind of game. It's a Nintendo kind of game, that does amazing things with the hardware provided.

Who knows, maybe 120 fps mode, and better graphics/effects/lighting at 60 fps. At this point I'm just dreaming

 

[Jesb]

Maybe the first legit 10 of the generation. If Sony ever wants a new ratchet or Jax these guys would be perfect.

 

[SweetTooth]

When someone optimize for consoles, results will be mighty fine!

 

[Team Andromeda]

John loves to show his PS cock

 

[Darkkahn]

John loves to show his PS cock

You love to see it!

 

[onQ123]

Basically 4D

 

[nick776]

After watching this video, it is sure going to be tempting to NOT buy the game tomorrow and wait for the PS5 Pro to play it.

 

[Klayzer]

Agreed, but it’s par for course when their nearest competitor has shit the bed and its zealots continue to feel the sting. Pretend Concord is all that released in a year that has stuff like Helldivers iI and FFVII in it.

In the real world, it’s actually been a decent year for PS5. 2025 should be a return to form though!

Decent? It's been great. A lot of great games from the far east.

 

[cyberheater]

It looks stunning.

 

[CLW]

 

[sncvsrtoip]

After watching this video, it is sure going to be tempting to NOT buy the game tomorrow and wait for the PS5 Pro to play it.

its already 1440p-4k dynamic res, with that high res pro will not make big diff unless asobi would add some kind of ray tracing to pro and keep res...

 

[CLW]

Preordered this and went ahead and blew an extra $10 for the “deluxe” those avatars DEFINITELY worth the extra $10 - or just supporting a developer making a quality video game

 

[Tiago Rodrigues]

After watching this video, it is sure going to be tempting to NOT buy the game tomorrow and wait for the PS5 Pro to play it.

If you don't have a PS5 anyway just wait for 2 months and buy with the PS5 Pro. Probably somewhere will have some black friday promo for the physical version of it (just my 2 cents of course)

 

[HeWhoWalks]

Decent? It's been great. A lot of great games from the far east.

I was being conservative for the children in the back.

 

[PeteBull]

Holy crap, Goty material, DF in love with it. How the hell this will run on a PRO ? We know this will be shown during the beast presentation

likely instead of 1440p-4k drs it will be 1800p-4k drs, maybe they could add some raytracing on top but no idea if it would be worth the dev time

 

[Sooner]

Since this is a game celebrating all things PlayStation, Astrobot should face off against the evil "X-bot" at the end of the game.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Since this is a game celebrating all things PlayStation, Astrobot should face off against the evil "X-bot" at the end of the game.

Except, before the battle starts, the X-bot blows itself up and the game ends.

 

[Shin-Ra]

The one clear weakness that I’ve seen is sometimes shadow map resolution/filtering.

Zelda: The Wind Waker used a novel filtering technique (can’t remember the speculated technique name) and it’s always disappointed me that games with stylised visuals don’t play around the weaknesses of cascaded shadow maps more.

Nice to see the close pop-in on the little tufts of grass geometry seen in the reveal trailer seems to have been fixed.

Another standout from the trailers, the lavish liquid physics, ‘sprinkle’ hard physics and cloth physics. It’s up there with Demon’s Souls’ ethereal soft-particles (and soft shadows) for astonishing eye-candy.

 

[Kerotan]

Some solid 80+ single player games launching recently and concord, X defiant, apex, suicide squad bombing.

Astro at 94 is the icing on the Cake.

 

[Shin-Ra]

We don’t yet know the resolution ‘sweet-spot’ (at 60fps) for PSSR to construct a clean 2160p image. We don’t know how well it copes with dynamic resolution changes.

But if the max resolution only needs to be around 1440p, there should be plenty of headroom for higher quality shadows, raytraced shadows and reflections would look a lot better. Anisotropic filtering at 1440p input res might need increasing.

 

[Caio]

likely instead of 1440p-4k drs it will be 1800p-4k drs, maybe they could add some raytracing on top but no idea if it would be worth the dev time

Yes, it depends on what the developers consider feasible within the budget limits. I believe that Sony, in this case, should be more generous, and I would make this game a clear demonstration of the PRO’s power by creating a version with two modes: one at 120 fps, and another with dynamic 1440p-4k DRS, with breathtaking graphics, effects, and ray tracing. The game is a masterpiece, and I think the best way to present the PS5 PRO is to show its version of this game.

 

[Ironman_Bad]

I've always been the wait for pro patch on games like red dead 2, cyberpunk etc but this is gaming perfection, looks so clean and runs like butter what are some of you waiting for exactly lol

 

[OrangeSun77]

The question is how the market will respond to this game. It would sell quite well on Nintendo, but I don't know if PlayStation users who are used to playing God of War or The Last of Us would be interested in these types of games and paying full price for them.

 

[Danjin44]

Good art direction always beats out high tech graphics.

 

[MisterXDTV]

The question is how the market will respond to this game. It would sell quite well on Nintendo, but I don't know if PlayStation users who are used to playing God of War or The Last of Us would be interested in these types of games and paying full price for them.

I have two nieces that fell in love with Astro's Playroom....

As soon as I saw the reveal trailer it was an instant buy....

 

[Zacfoldor]

Wow those bullet points are like they were in my dreams.

I feel like I'm in Vanilla Sky right now.

 

[Jesb]

I feel like this is one of those exceptions Sony should make and put this out on switch 2. Would make them a lot of money.

 

[SweetTooth]

I feel like this is one of those exceptions Sony should make and put this out on switch 2. Would make them a lot of money.

No.

-Sony

 

[Shakka43]

Crazy good
Sony you win, but stop developing gaas shit right now!

First we have to show up and buy this masterpiece so they know where the money is at.

 

[LoveCake]

I hope my copy is delivered tomorrow!

 

[RagnarokIV]

Can’t wait for PC unlocked FPS on my OLED for CRT fluidity!

 

[daclynk]

GOTY Material.

 

[Fake]

A piece of art. Japan will save gaming.

 

[Quantum253]

A piece of art. Japan will save gaming.

They already did with Mario

 

[WhamBamThankYouMaam]

Looking forward to the ps+ release.

 

[Fake]

They already did with Mario

Not even Mario can save the western industry. They need to have a great amount of japanese games this year, thats my post take.

 

[Zathalus]

A piece of art. Japan will save gaming.

A lot of the team isn’t even Japanese. Most of the leads (included the director) are from Europe.