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Ghost of Tsushima - Review Thread
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mejin
Member
My friend who is a Nintendo fanboy who hates Sony is laughing his ass off because Paper Mario scored higher than Ghost of Tsushima on Gamespot and its triggering me!
Keihart
Member
yep, it does remember witcher 3 sometimes.
Keihart
Member
Yeah, i agree with this, i think they have to focus on systemic gameplay as much as posible to fill this open worlds.
I mean, sucker punch always keeps you engaged with combat and traversal and some story context, they don't need too much "content" to keep you exploring their worlds, they might as well milk their combat and traversal know how as much as possible and focus on sandboxes as systemic as posible.
Slothbeing1209
Member
roach was a bitch to control, fuck him
let's see how nobu is gonna turn out.
strangely enough i didn't find a single word about horse riding in any review.
Just saw a video of this girl said the horse control is great. Don’t have time to find the link for you tho.
Kamina
Golden Boy
Nah, i just uploaded “small” to not post a 4k image here.
Be happy that i share with you guys
Also I want to avoid you guys seeing me doing my Ahego face in the reflection. Brap would just start stalking me.
Horse controls are aweosme, proably the best i have ever seen.roach was a bitch to control, fuck him
let's see how nobu is gonna turn out.
strangely enough i didn't find a single word about horse riding in any review.
What are you talking about?
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THEAP99
Banned
"but if you own only a base PS4 like yours truly, you’re better off avoiding the game. Much like most other console games these days, the base PlayStation 4 version suffers heavily from its older hardware; frames are dropped all over the place and loading times are borderline unbearable. If you’ve got a PS4 Pro, though, have at it. The game will run at a stable 30 fps which, while not ideal, is still better than the jittery mess that is the base PS4 version."
Keihart
Member
One of the reviews talked about it, no more karma system, so no real implications in the story development because of your playing style.
I don't buy this, has any other first party game ever run bad in PS4? in can only recall The Order maybe and...Days Gone? which was an Unreal Engine game so it makes sense...
"but if you own only a base PS4 like yours truly, you’re better off avoiding the game. Much like most other console games these days, the base PlayStation 4 version suffers heavily from its older hardware; frames are dropped all over the place and loading times are borderline unbearable. If you’ve got a PS4 Pro, though, have at it. The game will run at a stable 30 fps which, while not ideal, is still better than the jittery mess that is the base PS4 version."
TLoU2 runs almost flawlessly and Infamous had variable frame rate but pretty stable most of the time...
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Lionel Richie
Member
My friend who is a Nintendo fanboy who hates Sony is laughing his ass off because Paper Mario scored higher than Ghost of Tsushima on Gamespot and its triggering me!
Your friend sounds like a total chad. Invite him in!
THEAP99
Banned
Don’t know. It’s weird. First I’m hearing about major issues. Digital foundry are doing a video comparison tomorrow
Kamina
Golden Boy
On Pro it runs butter smooth in Resolution Mode. Not one single dip.
GribbleGrunger
Dreams in Digital
"but if you own only a base PS4 like yours truly, you’re better off avoiding the game. Much like most other console games these days, the base PlayStation 4 version suffers heavily from its older hardware; frames are dropped all over the place and loading times are borderline unbearable. If you’ve got a PS4 Pro, though, have at it. The game will run at a stable 30 fps which, while not ideal, is still better than the jittery mess that is the base PS4 version."
I do not believe a word of this. I'm not some anal PC gamer.
Kamina
Golden Boy
HotPocket69
Banned
Are the ?’s on the map right there from the get go or do you need to find maps, talk to NPCs etc to make them appear (similar to something like Far Cry 5)?
Kamina
Golden Boy
From my understanding the Map Locations show up when NPCs point you to a point of interest.
I believe the ? show up when exploring the world, but the player is too far away to discover it. I may be wrong though and its all an NPC thing. (I only have very few ? atm)
The default map shows no locations at all and is „fogged“/needs to be uncovered.
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sol_bad
Member
Yeah, I like all the stance stuff that I am hearing about and how all the enemies have a lot of variety. Like there are swordsmen but there and 3-5 different types of swordsmen that act differently.
WellSheet
Member
Yeah! I heard that in a few reviews too. I’m more hyped after these reviews for the combat.
Hobbygaming
has been asked to post in 'Grounded' mode.
I swear y'all have every excuse in the world when Sony games get high scores: SJW, fear, because it's cinematic lol
Kamina
Golden Boy
So far i have encountered:
Mongol Sword
Mongol DualSword
Mongol Spear
Mongol Shield + Sword
Mongol Brute with Club
Mongol Brute with Large shield
Mongol Archer
Mongol on Horse with Sword
Mongol Leader with Sword&Shield
Bandit with Katana
Samurai with Katana
Dogs
Bear
Boars
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Moriah20
Member
..yet the brief framerate test in the DF video showed 26-27 fps sustained during a combat scene. So it certainly is not "buttery smooth" (describing 30 fps as such is fucking insane anyway) and does have drops. If it didn't, they wouldn't have included a performance mode, I don't think
Kamina
Golden Boy
Dont know which areas they tested. But i have been on it for hours now and didnt notice any dips.
The existence of a Performance mode has noting to do with „bad performance“ in a resolution mode. Its just an option.
Bryank75
Banned
Knowing DF, they ran around and found the one worst place and most demanding circumstance.... you know how they are with PlayStation.
MaxwellParrish
Member
Actually, The Order 1886 had one of the most stable 30 ftg ever, having very very few occasion of a single frame loss exclusively during cutscenes. For an example of suboptimal framerate in a Sony producer game, I would rather look at Until Dawn
Xaero Gravity
NEXT LEVEL lame™
DragoonWalker
Member
I'm guessing they had something like it at some point and it was scrapped. The samurai/ghost dichotomy is so obviously similar to good/evil powers in infamous games.
THEAP99
Banned
Shawn Layden is to thank for this game lol not Hermen Hulst
HotPocket69
Banned
D
Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Alright, I pulled the trigger on Amazon. I'm in at launch.
What sealed the deal for me was the Japanese localization. I really wanted to play this in Japanese, but was concerned by a screenshot of the main menu that got floated a while back with some sketchy Japanese localization (looking possibly machine translated). After seeing some screenshots on 4Gamer and reading impressions from Japanese media, it looks like Sony did a stellar job (which I assumed they would).
What sealed the deal for me was the Japanese localization. I really wanted to play this in Japanese, but was concerned by a screenshot of the main menu that got floated a while back with some sketchy Japanese localization (looking possibly machine translated). After seeing some screenshots on 4Gamer and reading impressions from Japanese media, it looks like Sony did a stellar job (which I assumed they would).
Azelover
Titanic was called the Ship of Dreams, and it was. It really was.
I knew from day one this game would be special. I mean, it's just too beautiful.
Bryank75
Banned
The real world looks a bit dull and ordinary in comparison to me!
Glad I can spend the next week in this...
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PanzerAzel
Member
The combat looks incredible when under the thumb of a skilled player:
WellSheet
Member
That’s my feelings too!
that’s the best part about games this generation - weather open world games can be rote or not - it’s nice to see these really beautiful and expansive open worlds to exist in.
Obviously one can argue which worlds were done well, but Tsushima looks to be up there with the best of them in terms of exploration and just pure beauty.
Bryank75
Banned
Yes, I'm really glad we got away from the grays and browns of 7th gen. It's clear that devs have learned a lot from BOTW and Red Dead (first game) and others...
It's not enough in an open world game to just fight and fight and...fight. There have to be varied and interesting activities and sights, things that stimulate your curiosity, interest and inspire you to invest in the world etc.
I love that I will be taking pictures, playing music and creating haiku's and loads of other stuff.... like the hot springs.
I actually feed foxes every night in real life, so I am excited to let the foxes lead me and pet them in this too.
WellSheet
Member
That’s awesome! That’s gunna make the Inari Shrine Activities that much cooler for you.
I’m excited in general we’re getting an open world that seems to find a way to make exploration so rewarding.
PleaseDontBanMe
Banned
it must really suck being an xbox and/or PC gamer only this gen
D
Deleted member 17706
Unconfirmed Member
Oh shit, I hadn't paid any attention to Famitsu in ages, but they totally revamped their site to actually have relevant content. Looks like they're doing long-form (well, for them) reviews now, too.
www.famitsu.com
『ゴースト・オブ・ツシマ』レビュー。オープンワールド時代劇と化した対馬は遊び応え満点。秀逸な剣戟アクション＋豊富な探索要素の傑作！ | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com
2020年7月17日に、ソニー・インタラクティブエンタテインメント（開発：サッカーパンチ・プロダクションズ）より発売される、『Ghost of Tsushima（ゴースト・オブ・ツシマ）』。本作のレビューを担当ライターの西川くんがお届けする。
www.famitsu.com
DavidGzz
Member
Anyone know if games unlock on PSN even if you're offline? I have to pack up and take my PS4 to work before it unlocks by about 2 hours. If worse comes to worse I can connect to a hotspot to validate my purchase, I just hope there isn't a last second patch since I have limited data...
thelastword
Banned
For a publication people make fun of, they have only given 27 perfect scores and they have been reviewing games for a while, lets be clear. I'd say that's pretty commendable. Also, only three Western games receiving a perfect score from them. putting Tsushima In the same league as Skyrim and GTA. Must say Famitsu seems really impressed...
A Western company making a Japanese game and the Japanese are wholly impressed. So this is no Tom Cruise type of reception here. The game looks amazing. After I play I really wish to se some of the pro guys play Tsushima. At this point, I think a perfect Famitsu score would go nice with Final Fantasy type sales in Japan. I hope Tsushima sells a tonne.
Vroadstar
Member
When Sony's boot-stomping their console of choice to the ground for 7 years now, what do you expect?
ToadMan
Member
Not to mention that this game uses 1274 as the backdrop time period but the Mongols swept through Tsushima for another attempt in 1281.
But this game is clearly not a historical reenactment so I don’t think it’s critical, but there’s clearly enough history to explore in direct sequels if SP want.
ToadMan
Member
Sekiro has the prosthetics instead which fill a similar purpose to stances from a gameplay perspective. Choose the right prosthetic for the job or the combat is more difficult.
JimiNutz
Banned
I listened to this earlier.
Both the environmental exploration and the combat sound incredible.