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[ZehDon]

Gotta echo the sentiments here: that doesn't look very good. Gameplay seems stale and the graphics are ridiculously flat. Like, Halo Infinite levels of "... what the fuck happened?". There really is a pattern here for Sony's PS5 sequels: they all basically look like PS4 DLC. I don't know what's going on, maybe it's a cost cutting measure somehow, but I'm not expecting this to post numbers.

 

[Terenty]

Sony porting to mobile phones now? Interesting

 

[Disco Dave]

The enemy AI looks bad. That video didn't do the game any favours. Wiping out an enemy camp like it wasn't even a challenge.

 

[blastprocessor]

PS4 version a few months later looking at the visuals.

 

[MagusMajul]

Yeah bro, games are our things, we should only have space marines with huge jaws and huge muscles to admire, wimmin should be cooking and cleaning. We're all incredibly good looking so that's why it bothers us if a video game character is not as hot as the harem of supermodels that flock around us in real life amirite

it's my money and i will spend it the way I want to our not. I am not going to fund an agenda that I don't agree with.

 

[Johnny Concrete]

This is wo-long. It looks way better than Wo long


And Team Ninja games, like Wo-long, have some of the best combat animations in the industry. Shouldn't be a slight

Wolong, Wuchong, Wukong

 

[Fabieter]

No it's just sony bullshit strategy this gen by giving us last gen games

Easier to port stuff over if you don't push things.

The game looks really average at best for 2025.

 

[sigmaZ]

That looks great! I really should go back to playing Tsushima. I think I just played 20 hours or so, started over after the PC version and played even less. What should I do to stay interested? Should I just push forward in the main story?

It's just a boring game after awhile take it or leave it. I would play it when you have nothing else to play.

 

[Shmunter]

Fucking late Gen PS5 . Even 3rd parties care more.

 

[Ar¢tos]

The wooden walls seem low res, the floor often seems blurred too.
Is that the best that a 1st party studio can do?

 

[Cakeboxer]

You guys are absolutely brutal. What happened to "That's just because of YouTube's lousy compression" or "On an OLED TV it'll be a better experience than the second coming of Christ"?

 

[Ar¢tos]

You guys are absolutely brutal. What happened to "That's just because of YouTube's lousy compression" or "On an OLED TV it'll be a better experience than the second coming of Christ"?

Reality happened.
Gamers had enough of Sony lazy sequels made of reused assets, with barely any graphical improvements that play exactly the same as the previous game (like GOW ragnarok and Spider-Meh 2).

Maybe the inevitable PS6 remaster of this will finally make it look like a PS5 game...

 

[DeceptiveAlarm]

Animation work isn't feeling as polished as PS4 era titles (Tsushima)

Looks like they have cut budget in major way. Not a complaint BTW.

It has to run well on Switch 2 in 6 months.

 

[existensmaximum]

Obviously won't feel as impressive as GoT did when it was released but the gameplay looks really fun!

 

[ecosse_011172]

it's my money and i will spend it the way I want to our not. I am not going to fund an agenda that I don't agree with.

The evil agenda being having a female protagonist in a 300 year later sequel, evil incarnate !!

 

[viveks86]

Where did you saw the ragdolling?

Pretty sure they still use all precanned animation with no ragdoll like sushima (and all their games really)

I might be wrong, but a lot of death animations in the previous state of play had the enemies stagger, collapse, flip in line with the direction of the attack. Probably not full ragdolls as most games don't seem to do that anymore (God, don't we all miss that?) but some physics perhaps? May be just more variety of canned animations with some directional logic, but seemed an improvement from the comically limited, stiff death animations from GoT.

 

[LordOcidax]

Day 1. I prefer this to the horrible performance of Chinese games on consoles. Japanese settings is King.

 

[GymWolf]

I might be wrong, but a lot of death animations in the previous state of play had the enemies stagger, collapse, flip in line with the direction of the attack. Probably not full ragdolls as most games don't seem to do that anymore (God, don't we all miss that?) but some physics perhaps? May be just more variety of canned animations with some directional logic, but seemed an improvement from the comically limited, stiff death animations from GoT.

Most games do have full ragdoll tho, the vast majority of games where you kill stuff really.

I think the game is not using ragdoll at all, maybe some more variations in the kills so they look more directional but any expert player is gonna notice thaat are not dynamic by the time you kill the first enemy, they literally glue in the terrain with a fixed position...

Sucker punch has always been allergic to ragdoll, in their infamous games and now in their samurai games.

 

[DavidGzz]

Gotta echo the sentiments here: that doesn't look very good. Gameplay seems stale and the graphics are ridiculously flat. Like, Halo Infinite levels of "... what the fuck happened?". There really is a pattern here for Sony's PS5 sequels: they all basically look like PS4 DLC. I don't know what's going on, maybe it's a cost cutting measure somehow, but I'm not expecting this to post numbers.

They have a handheld coming. I wonder if they aren't pushing graphics next gen like usual so that their games can run well on it.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

If I'd have gotten a Pro this gen I'd be mad as all hell at Sony for pulling this shit: sell a super expensive console at a price higher than any console ever with a promise of better visuals, then put out one or two first party games all year that look PS4 level in graphics.

Thank you, Sony.

 

[Zacfoldor]

My take.

The graphics aren't bad. The lighting is terrible. It makes the game seem like this:

The lighting makes the backgrounds seem artificial. The graphics are good as ther is a lot going on in these scenes but it seems like they have not implemented hdr. If you took this same game and added ray tracing and fixed the tone mapping it would shine. The graphics haven't been reduced but the whole lighting situation seems like some kid adjusted the game so they could see easy with no mind to the artificiality that creates in the final image. I don't get it. Simple lighting fixed could make this game look a lot better.

 

[Fake]

just realized what this game's missing: a non-japanese samurai co-star:

They got you cover.

 

[ReBurn]

I don't hate the gameplay there

 

[kruis]

They have a handheld coming. I wonder if they aren't pushing graphics next gen like usual so that their games can run well on it.

That rumored handheld is going to hold the PS6 back even worse than the Series S has been doing to its bigger brother. Raytracing, in particular path tracing held the promise that one day it would make games development easier and cheaper coz devs wouldn't need to bake lightning if every game would have full RT support and there'd be no to support weaker systems. With mandatory handheld support that dream is dead. It means they have to do both and with limited resources and money, that means both options will suffer in quality.

 

[viveks86]

they literally glue in the terrain with a fixed position...

Right. That was my observation in GoT and found that not be the case in many instances in GoY, where they weren't glued to a fixed position. Will post some samples when I can. May still not be rag dolling like you said, but just… more directional than before.

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

What has happened to this place? Yall were so positive about this game last year

 

[DavidGzz]

What has happened to this place? Yall were so positive about this game last year

I personally am excited for it, just discussing graphics which are by no means a huge deal to me. Performance is more important especially when graphics are good enough. I think this will look much better live on my Pro versus some youtube video. Look at the impressions for Mafia when it comes to graphics compared to the videos. Youtube videos never do games justice. This will look better than Tsushima which is still beautiful.

 

[CGNoire]

That.. looked akin to a QTE sequence. Everything was so lovingly placed

Infact, the more I think about it, the more I just want an updated original Tenchu



Sony, do the right thing after this game comes out.

My Man!!

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

This is the kind of posts we see in the game announcement thread. Aged wonderfully.

 

[Flabagast]

If I'd have gotten a Pro this gen I'd be mad as all hell at Sony for pulling this shit: sell a super expensive console at a price higher than any console ever with a promise of better visuals, then put out one or two first party games all year that look PS4 level in graphics.

Thank you, Sony.

I have a Pro and yes, it's bad. It seems that past the launch period where Sony probably closely partnered with devs to do significant differences the upgrades for new releases are getting worse and worse (basically now it's only slightly better IQ and +10/15 fps in unlocked modes), and even latest first party games have no significant upgrades (no added RT or enhanced graphical features)

As time goes by I think we will enter a vicious cycle as disappointing upgrades will lead gamers to not buy the console, which will lead devs to put even less efforts into specific Pro versions.

This feels like a miss overall, and worth buying only if you have sufficiently disposable income that it has no impact at all on your bank account

 

[CGNoire]

That.. looked akin to a QTE sequence. Everything was so lovingly placed

Infact, the more I think about it, the more I just want an updated original Tenchu



Sony, do the right thing after this game comes out.

Tenchu 1 is still the best and even though I love 2 it desperatly needed music. Can imagine if it would of had the same quality god tier score that 1 had. The silence killed it reaching its full potential.

One of these days Im gonna commision AI to write tracks for 2 in the same style as 1 composer. Shit could be fire. Heres hoping.

 

[Gambit2483]

The enemy AI looks bad. That video didn't do the game any favours. Wiping out an enemy camp like it wasn't even a challenge.

Right?

I know they are trying to show how much of a "badass" the MC is...but this ain't it.

GOT Worked because damn near EVERY battle had weight and consequences to it, or at least felt like it. It wasn't a power-trip gore-porn action fantasy (like this trailer portrayed).

Complete tonal shift.

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

I have a Pro and yes, it's bad. It seems that past the launch period where Sony probably closely partnered with devs to do significant differences the upgrades for new releases are getting worse and worse (basically now it's only slightly better IQ and +10/15 fps in unlocked modes), and even latest first party games have no significant upgrades (no added RT or enhanced graphical features)

As time goes by I think we will enter a vicious cycle as disappointing upgrades will lead gamers to not buy the console, which will lead devs to put even less efforts into specific Pro versions.

This feels like a miss overall, and worth buying only if you have sufficiently disposable income that it has no impact at all on your bank account

From my perspective, it seems like the 5 Pro would be a good purchase for those wanting to extend this generation, and might not want to engage early in the next one. But yeah, it sucks not getting any excitement on the investment so far, I would imagine.

 

[semiconscious]

They got you cover.

zeke's long-lost sister? who knew?...

 

[SILKYSMOOTH30FPS]

From my perspective, it seems like the 5 Pro would be a good purchase for those wanting to extend this generation, and might not want to engage early in the next one. But yeah, it sucks not getting any excitement on the investment so far, I would imagine.

I don't see it extending anything. Usually, the ones that will spend this much money on a discless upgrade, will be the more hardcore gamers. The more hardcore gamer cares about frame rate, and because the cpu is the same piece of garbage that's inside the ps5, you're guaranteed to be running future titles at 30fps and below, which i don't see those gamers being fine with, especially if the ps6 is out.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

They got you cover.

I'm no slim jim fitness pro.

But I got bigger tits and a smaller gut than her.

 

[archangelmorph]

Snow environments almost always look poor in games, especially when your "snow" is just a flat texture on the ground. You need to be out of touch to showcase your game in circumstances like these.

I remember the old DICE Star Wars MP shooter had amazing looking snow levels.

 

[BlackTron]

This just looks like more of the same game I still never finished. I was impressed technically with Ghost when it came out, not so much now.

 

[Fess]

If I'd have gotten a Pro this gen I'd be mad as all hell at Sony for pulling this shit: sell a super expensive console at a price higher than any console ever with a promise of better visuals, then put out one or two first party games all year that look PS4 level in graphics.

Thank you, Sony.

Yeah that's me right there. Paid $1150 for the Pro with discdrive at my area. And now I've unplugged it because I don't use it and needed the hdmi port…
Not my best purchase so far that's for sure!

But once Intergalactic is out, or Cory's game, or if I decide to try GTA, then I think I'll feel better about it.

 

[Danjin44]

If I'd have gotten a Pro this gen I'd be mad as all hell at Sony for pulling this shit: sell a super expensive console at a price higher than any console ever with a promise of better visuals, then put out one or two first party games all year that look PS4 level in graphics.

Thank you, Sony.

This exactly why I didn't buy Pro, I'm happy with my current regular launch PS5 and Pro doesn't even come with basic feature like god damn disc drive.

Also this gen I'm mostly using my PS5 for mutiplatform 3rd party games and lost interest in most Sony 1st party games.

 

[Flabagast]

Snow environments almost always look poor in games, especially when your "snow" is just a flat texture on the ground. You need to be out of touch to showcase your game in circumstances like these.

Snow environnements in Death Stranding 2 look fucking good though, and are nearly the most beautiful environments in the game

 

[Karim]

Lighting looks like complete shit. Those who bitch about RT should want that game to have it.

Indeed. Would be cool GI RT on pro but eh. Graphically is really underwhelming. A pity because the gameplay seems cool. Anyway is such a big disappointment not to see Sucker Punch on ps5 show a comparable generational graphical leap offered on ps4.

 

[Ridicululzz]

This exactly why I didn't buy Pro, I'm happy with my current regular launch PS5 and Pro doesn't even come with basic feature like god damn disc drive.

Also this gen I'm mostly using my PS5 for mutiplatform 3rd party games and lost interest in most Sony 1st party games.

I'm in the same boat. Was really considering getting a Pro, but I'm glad I stuck to my regular base PS5.

 

[Lux77]

I`m shocked how bad this looks

 

[pulicat]

Shadow vs Yotei

 

[Feel Like I'm On 42]

The fact that, at best, this looks only 10% better than Tsushima is fucing WILD.

This needs a Halo Infinit3 typw of delay because how the hell did they not bother putting effort into improving the visuals on a PS5 only developed game??

We're 5 years in now. They even have access to the ps5 Pro and this is considered acceptable? Like gamers, Sony fans, ps5/ps5 pro owners ....what are we even doing here accepting this garbage effort from such an anticipated PS5 game?

 

[SlimySnake]

Shadow vs Yotei

Wow. It's like Sucker Punch is an indie team or something?

Do we know what happened? They made infamous and Ghosts was a decent late gen game. Jason Schrier needs to do an expose on this. My guess is that all the talent left or the game was in development hell, and they just turned this DLC into a $70 game.

 

[SlimySnake]

The fact that, at best, this looks only 10% better than Tsushima is fucing WILD.

This needs a Halo Infinit3 typw of delay because how the hell did they not bother putting effort into improving the visuals on a PS5 only developed game??

We're 5 years in now. They even have access to the ps5 Pro and this is considered acceptable? Like gamers, Sony fans, ps5/ps5 pro owners ....what are we even doing here accepting this garbage effort from such an anticipated PS5 game?

Fans dont care about graphics. I mean look at CoD, Fortnite, and other popular games. The mass audience really doesnt care about graphics.

Devs are the ones you need to care about graphics. They are putting their heart and soul into a game for five years. You'd expect them to ship something they can be proud of. Something they can point to and say hey, I MADE THAT. Honestly, i am surprised devs can ship something like this and not be ashamed of their output. Especially after seeing chinese and indie studios like Sandfall Interactive. It's obvious that devs have stopped caring and take zero pride in their art. No one at sony is shipping something that looks this dated last gen. Something has gone really wrong there, and it's the devs who should be held responsible. Not just for the lack of graphics and gameplay upgrades, but for sheer laziness, lack of effort, and a complete lack of shame for putting out something this bland.

I would've resigned before charging $70 for this. Have some self respect.

 

[The Infectious Paradox]

I can't believe they're fumbling this. Wow.

 

[Guerilla Munch]

Holy shit that looks terrible, and I say that as someone who adored GoT and got the platinum