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Giant Bomb #25 | A Fun Time with Friends
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Oh shit, is that where all the Y2Kev jokes where coming from?
Well yeah, it's more cinematic
1910s cinematic
BreezyLimbo
Banned
If it was y2kev saying it, it was probably him being facetious.
sammyCYBORG
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In the early impression thread.
It wasn't Y2Kev, I don't know what his name was.
Jim and Eurogamer confirm fears about controls and framerate.
Real shame. The PS3 versions of Ico and SOTC fixed all of the PS2 versions problems, but I doubt this game will get such treatment. I'll have to suffer the dips into the single digits(!!!???).
I'm definitely gonna play it since I loved the other two (especially SotC).
It seems to be "another one of those", a game that fans of Team Ico will like and people who don't care for it, probably won't.
It won't surprise me if we see super divisive reviews.
CNET gave TLG 8 Bakalar's out of 10 https://www.cnet.com/products/the-last-guardian/review/
Jeff seemed to like it a lot
10 years of waiting and it still looks like you'll need to wait for a patch before playing
Start developing a game for a ps3
BreezyLimbo
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I didn't know they went through with their plans for the Cell!
sammyCYBORG
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Well according to Eurogamer it drops to single digits, well below his very high standard of 15fps!
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Well according to Eurogamer it drops to single digits, well below his very high standard of 15fps!
Ugh
Even Shadow of Collosus ran decently enough. Single digits? It sounds horrifying
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I mean it's not like gaf mods can't have bad opinions.
sammyCYBORG
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I don't think it did - wasn't it sub-20 on PS2?
It took the PS3 remaster to make it playable for me. The PS2 version gave me a headache.
The problem is I think I'll love TLG - these types of games and stories really appeal to me - but I hate that it has to be such a compromised experience, both in terms of framerate and apparently controls.
Seems more ICO than Shadow of the Colossus though, and I only liked SOTC. I'll wait until it's cheap and then i'll try it out. Jim Sterling's review reminded me of how I felt playing ICO for the first time, so i'll definitely be waiting.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
Its fascinating to me that Last Guardian and FFXV are dropping within a couple weeks of each other and they couldn't reflect their 10 year development cycles more differently. Everything about TLG seems to show its age and that it had a rocky development, while a lot of FFXV, from what I've seen, if you told me it started development in 2014 I'd probably believe you
XV looks like it just managed to remain current even throughout its development cycle
XV looks like it just managed to remain current even throughout its development cycle
I think you're misremembering SotC.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Shadow of the Colossus was one of the worst-performing games I've ever played.
FFXV actually manages to seem like it was made extremely rushed.
BreezyLimbo
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I remembered it being passable. Framerate was like, the least of my complaints for the PS2 version.
...maybe the motion blur hid it really well. The only boss I remember having noticeable lag was the lizard who spit stuff at you from close range.
broncobuster
Banned
Last Guardian, so far, is sounding the first game where a Pro is almost necessarily. That didn't take long.
Hmm both things are viewed as the artistic highlight that everyone has to view as gods gift 🤔
The combat isn't the best but those guys are easy to deal with. Phase th through shots and just teleport to the ranged guys.
You must not have the best memory then. Performance of Shadow of the Collosus is atrocious on PS2. Game can easily go below 20fps.
Here's a video of TLG's framerate at its worst apparently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQINg_uAGzE
Or your standards were just lower.
Sleeping Lesson
Member
Oof, that's rough. I'd forgotten the game is 20 fps WITH dips.
sammyCYBORG
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It should genuinely be illegal to sell games that perform that badly (or legal to demand a refund and get it - one of the two).
Awful.
We're at N64 framerate levels now.
stump sock
Member
I tried to mute him a while back. Turns out you can't mute mods.
Pretty sure it's a bug rather than, like, what the framerate normally is but yeesh, it is ridiculous
it really feels like a movie! 9.5/10
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
I mean that's not so ba *boy starts moving* oh hooooly shit
They needed more time
mine is this and a bunch of Maximillian Dood reaction faces. After the Overwatch beta ended I basically just did nothing but watch Overwatch videos and I'm forever marked.
Liquid Shake
Member
Jesus. I guess I'll hold off on TLG, then.
The Technomancer
card-carrying scientician
sammyCYBORG
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If it's a bug then that's not as bad - but if that is an example of the dips to single digits which Eurogamer mentioned, then the product isn't fit for purpose.
Imagine going to a film and the framerate dipped to 5fps in some scenes. Just doesn't happen.
Game developers and publishers need to have higher standards.
More like the buyers.
People just don't give a shit about framerate except for me or something
Any game below 60 shouldn't come out and the devs should be jailed
only half kidding
About the shouldn't come out part
About the shouldn't come out part
Sleeping Lesson
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If anyone sees a review that specifically covers Pro improvements, please let me know.
broncobuster
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It does look like a memory leak, but the fluctuating 20-30, usually 25 is rough. I'd play at 900p or 720p given the option. That's kind of sad.
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