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[Gamer79]

ROBOCOP unchecks all the boxes that have become standard with a ton of big name publishers

-Woke Identity politics= NOPE
-Shoving DLC Down your throat= NOPE (there is only a few available)
-A story that focuses on inclusion and Girl bosses with representation=NOPE
-Boring slow story elements that slow down the game for a garbled mess of a story=NOPE

So what does it have?
-Over the top Story that is simplified with insane cyberpunk characters that clearly represent an evil enemy
-The story is there but takes a backseat to the gameplay. Tight violent just fun shooting gameplay that throws in vareity of guns and an upgrade system. It puts FUN about all else.
-In Performance mode on PS5 or 60fps+ mode on pc the gameplay is smooth and vicious. It never gets old exploding a baddies head with a rain of bullets or blowing somebody's hand off. Gameplay is the core focus of this game

I just love a game that takes a concept and executes it well. It's hard not to have fun with this game. I commend this game!

 

[Topher]

Still need to play this. Heard nothing but good things about it.

 

[Sushi_Combo]

Still on my wishlist to get, looks like a great time.

 

[Punished Miku]

I'll be playing it soon. Pre-ordered it. Got the Terminator game as well so it's on my list for the near future.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Still need to play this. Heard nothing but good things about it.

Oh wow dude yeah get on it. For whatever reason I assumed you were in the OT during release and played with the rest of us

Probably the best movie licensed game since Riddick

 

[Topher]

Oh wow dude yeah get on it. For whatever reason I assumed you were in the OT during release and played with the rest of us

Probably the best movie licensed game since Riddick

No.....just have so many games right now. Good problem to have, I guess, but this is one I've had to put off.

 

[The Stig]

great game. love it. also love the movie

 

[Senua]

Rules and want more

 

[Dick Jones]

 

[Nihilum]

I absolutely love it because it's Robocop through and through and isn't ashamed of what it is.

 

[digdug2]

After reading nothing but great things, I got it on PS5 today because it's on sale. I have only played through the first level, but there is a good bit of framerate slowdown and graphical artefacts and I find that to be somewhat disappointing. But I'll keep playing it, and hopefully it will keep getting better.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Yep, I need to get this one in the near future.

 

[Hudo]

I read "nod" all in caps and thought that this was a Command & Conquer thread.

Well... I should've known better.

 

[stuminus3]

Cracking up at the OP being apparently unaware of what the original Robocop movie is. Reminds me of those yahoos that are somehow furious to discover that Rage Against The Machine are political.

Great game, though. That much is true.

 

[Humdinger]

Yeah, games like this and Stellar Blade give me hope for the future of gaming. I hope it was successful.

 

[BouncyFrag]

Now that’s a hat I haven’t seen in a long, long time.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Excited to play it when Im done with my backlog

 

[lughnasadh123]

A story that focuses on inclusion and Girl bosses with representation=NOPE

Yeah, it's a real shame we haven't had any other memorable, dare I say even iconic female characters, beyond us white dudes.

 

[Katatonic]

One criticism of the game is how they play the epic Robocop theme during the very first encounter against some random mutts. Not earned at all.

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

Making my way through it now.

Good stuff, great performance on ROG Z1.

 

[Gamer79]

Still on my wishlist to get, looks like a great time.

It is on sale on PSN right now.

 

[Gamer79]

After reading nothing but great things, I got it on PS5 today because it's on sale. I have only played through the first level, but there is a good bit of framerate slowdown and graphical artefacts and I find that to be somewhat disappointing. But I'll keep playing it, and hopefully it will keep getting better.

Play it in performance mode. The quality mode isn't that much better for the framerate.

 

[Shadowstar39]

After reading nothing but great things, I got it on PS5 today because it's on sale. I have only played through the first level, but there is a good bit of framerate slowdown and graphical artefacts and I find that to be somewhat disappointing. But I'll keep playing it, and hopefully it will keep getting better.

Are you playing at 4k or 1080p , and what mode. Don't know if resolution matters but I only have 1080p (figured it downsampled from 4k) and haven't had any hitching or fps issues om ps5. Game is amazing!

 

[peish]

Heard good stuff about graphic and gunplay, it does seem on the slower side of traversal mechanics

Waiting for game pass edition

 

[ToadMan]

After reading nothing but great things, I got it on PS5 today because it's on sale. I have only played through the first level, but there is a good bit of framerate slowdown and graphical artefacts and I find that to be somewhat disappointing. But I'll keep playing it, and hopefully it will keep getting better.

Performance mode helps and looks decent enough.

They had fps problems with all versions but clearly not fixed on PS5 yet - especially in quality mode.

 

[ToadMan]

Yeah this is a good game that got swamped by all the other great stuff at the end of last year.

I played the first several hours with a grin on my face - just great fan service all round.

Probably Alien Isolation was the last game I played to pay homage to a movie this well. I haven't tried the terminator game but its on the radar now.

 

[IAmRei]

Yeah this is a good game that got swamped by all the other great stuff at the end of last year.

I played the first several hours with a grin on my face - just great fan service all round.

Probably Alien Isolation was the last game I played to pay homage to a movie this well. I haven't tried the terminator game but its on the radar now.

I cant play isolation, xenos always scary for me. Marine is where i can still enjoy although not many will agree, at least i van shoot :')) but terminator and robocop, these two also under my radar again. I heard last terminator(?) Is okay. Havent try it. Still busy with many rpg and racing lately.

Old series always reminds me to what good entertainment are. I can only dwell in the past these time because certain way of thinking bugs me a lot in old franchise revival lately.

Now if there is any good animated series game such as thunder cats, he-man, or silverhawk, i will be surely happy. Although only if it good...

 

[consoul]

Yeah, right on OP.
Robocop really surprised me with how damn good it was. Totally understood what made the movies good and served up more.

 

[Vick]

Yep, felt like literally going back in time.

You have RoboCop himself, while discussing artistic integrity during a sidequest, saying: "We do not need to bow to outside pressure". This alone deserves support.

My true RoboCop 3. Piotr Łatocha is just that great with these games, loved his Terminator: Resistance even more.

Some screens from PS5 Performance:

 

[StereoVsn]

I got the game on my wishlist. Heck, I bought their Terminator game, played for a few hours and haven’t gotten back into it. That’s despite it being good.

Too many great games coming out. Still have W40K Rogue Trader, Infinite Wealth to play and FFVII R is coming out soon.

Hmm, maybe Robocop can be a palette cleanser after all the big RPGs, kind of what I do with racing games .

 

[Shadowstar39]

You know it's games like this, story based, single-player, fps games, that we need more of. They really tampered off in gen8, after the explosion that was gen6 and gen7.

Really what other games in the genre, from Gen 8 or 9 , have we had outside of meto exodus, Prey (awesome games), and atomic heart? Far cry, and borderlands 3 but that is kinda different being open world/rpg.

This fills a void in the market.whivh it did in style.
There is too many voids right now as publishers greed pushes for gaas, which in turn makes gamers like each with money buying less or getting retro games 2nd hand.

 

[Skifi28]

Yep, felt like literally going back in time.

You have RoboCop himself, while discussing artistic integrity during a sidequest, saying: "We do not need to bow to outside pressure". This alone deserves support.

My true RoboCop 3. Piotr Łatocha is just that great with these games, loved his Terminator: Resistance even more.

Some screens from PS5 Performance:

Looks insane for performance mode. Might be the first UE5 game to give me hope about the future of the engine.

 

[theHFIC]

Definitely will check it out once it hits the 10-15$ price point. Looks like one of those games that will be real fun to blast through and then forget about until reading about how the studio went under.

 

[DosGamer]

Oh wow dude yeah get on it. For whatever reason I assumed you were in the OT during release and played with the rest of us

Probably the best movie licensed game since Riddick

Riddick... now that is a name I havent heard in a long time!

Great game and graphics by the way!

 

[Gamer79]

Cracking up at the OP being apparently unaware of what the original Robocop movie is. Reminds me of those yahoos that are somehow furious to discover that Rage Against The Machine are political.

Great game, though. That much is true.

Oh I do know. That the thing, I remember how this movie had to be edited 14 times to avoid an X rating. I was a kid when the movie came out. That is not the point. What usually happens is they take a good material and ruin it by inclusion and throwing in gay characters and really dumb story plots. It stuck to it's source and that is why I love it.

 

[Bernardougf]

ROBOCOP unchecks all the boxes that have become standard with a ton of big name publishers

-Woke Identity politics= NOPE
-Shoving DLC Down your throat= NOPE (there is only a few available)
-A story that focuses on inclusion and Girl bosses with representation=NOPE
-Boring slow story elements that slow down the game for a garbled mess of a story=NOPE

So what does it have?
-Over the top Story that is simplified with insane cyberpunk characters that clearly represent an evil enemy
-The story is there but takes a backseat to the gameplay. Tight violent just fun shooting gameplay that throws in vareity of guns and an upgrade system. It puts FUN about all else.
-In Performance mode on PS5 or 60fps+ mode on pc the gameplay is smooth and vicious. It never gets old exploding a baddies head with a rain of bullets or blowing somebody's hand off. Gameplay is the core focus of this game

I just love a game that takes a concept and executes it well. It's hard not to have fun with this game. I commend this game!

Great recommendation... will check after a finish somethings

 

[Gamer79]

Great recommendation... will check after a finish somethings

IF you own a ps5 it's on sale in the store for half price right now. Happy playing! Thank me after playing.

 

[Giallo Corsa]

Bought it, and :

• image quality is very, VERY soft, one of the blurriest games on the PS5
• No HDR (and this is a 2023 game)
• textures popping in and out/bad texture streaming constantly
• weird pixelization during cutscenes
• Constant, and I do mean CONSTANT FPS drops, this holds its 60 FPS target half of the time
• character models are...amateurishly bad (besides Robo), we're talking about nightmare stuff
  
  Besides all that, it doesn't play that well, it's all bog standard stuff where the shooting is barely OK with no real feeling to it (no matter the amount of enemy gibs flying all over the screen), the aiming is shit on consoles (no dead zone/acceleration adjustments whatsoever) making fine-aiming almost impossible, the gameplay/shooting loses its edge since the framerate shits itself 90% of the time, exploration is banal/cliche' with a myriad things to collect (ie you end up scouring every corner for little shiny things which gets boring by the end) and...yeah

All in all, this is AA game through and through, it's Teyon, I get it, it's a budget game like their previous endeavors but I don't get the praise it's receiving (especially on the technical side of things) since it feels very underdeveloped most of the times due to all the technical deficiencies which...is a shame. I'm a big Robo fan btw, it plays OK, it sounds OK and the atmosphere is good but, if you're a stickler regarding the technical side of things wait until it drops to 20€ or even 15€, it's the most 6.5/10 game i ever played, regret buying it a t 50€.

 

[Vick]

Bought it, and :

• image quality is very, VERY soft, one of the blurriest games on the PS5
• No HDR (and this is a 2023 game)
• textures popping in and out/bad texture streaming constantly
• weird pixelization during cutscenes
• Constant, and I do mean CONSTANT FPS drops, this holds its 60 FPS target half of the time
• character models are...amateurishly bad (besides Robo), we're talking about nightmare stuff
  
  Besides all that, it doesn't play that well, it's all bog standard stuff where the shooting is barely OK with no real feeling to it (no matter the amount of enemy gibs flying all over the screen), the aiming is shit on consoles (no dead zone/acceleration adjustments whatsoever) making fine-aiming almost impossible, the gameplay/shooting loses its edge since the framerate shits itself 90% of the time, exploration is banal/cliche' with a myriad things to collect (ie you end up scouring every corner for little shiny things which gets boring by the end) and...yeah

All in all, this is AA game through and through, it's Teyon, I get it, it's a budget game like their previous endeavors but I don't get the praise it's receiving (especially on the technical side of things) since it feels very underdeveloped most of the times due to all the technical deficiencies which...is a shame. I'm a big Robo fan btw, it plays OK, it sounds OK and the atmosphere is good but, if you're a stickler regarding the technical side of things wait until it drops to 20€ or even 15€, it's the most 6.5/10 game i ever played, regret buying it a t 50€.

Disagree with a whole lot of this.

Plays great on my end, one of the best feeling FPS analog in hand I've played this gen with a fully upgraded full auto Auto-9 and max gore. Maybe it's your panel input latency?
Framerate does drop, but it's limited to certain chapters. Others are rock solid.
Texture pop-in, after all the problems I've read the PC version had in this regard when I actually played at lauch it was non-existent basically. Can't remember a single moment in fact where it happened, so it either got worse with patches, or it's a glitch you got, or I got somehow insanely lucky for the whole Platinum journey.

As far as the the "technical side of things", this game have the best geometry ever seen in a game before and approaches photorealism often later on, on PS5 Quality Mode is identical to the PC version maxed out, and resolution aside Performance Mode offers pretty much the same spectacle at 60fps (that it manage to hold in most chapters). Expecting more for a title with such budget and manpower is insanity imo.

Sure it's AA, but it's a honestly and competently written, old school title that never makes you roll your eyes at the authors thought process (and this is priceless), it plays fantastically (invest in Auto-9 and RoboCop upgrades, they make all the difference as you'll see), and it did an infinitely better job as a RoboCop 2 sequel than that insulting cancer of RoboCop 3.

 

[stuminus3]

Oh I do know. That the thing, I remember how this movie had to be edited 14 times to avoid an X rating. I was a kid when the movie came out. That is not the point. What usually happens is they take a good material and ruin it by inclusion and throwing in gay characters and really dumb story plots. It stuck to it's source and that is why I love it.

Yeah I don’t think you got it at all my dude. Even just the *opening scene* of Robocop is satirical political commentary on apartheid era South Africa. It’s not a shootbang movie.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Yeah I don’t think you got it at all my dude. Even just the *opening scene* of Robocop is satirical political commentary on apartheid era South Africa. It’s not a shootbang movie.

Oh please, don't compare proper political commentary with the trash-tier corporate-driven "political commentary" the blue-hairs of today like spewing and inserting onto media. Their ideological drivel is more equivalent to the religious fanaticism and mindless patriotism of the 20th century, the very type of things movies like Robocop liked satirizing.

 

[stuminus3]

Oh please, don't compare proper political commentary with the trash-tier corporate-driven "political commentary" the blue-hairs of today like spewing and inserting onto media. Their ideological drivel is more equivalent to the religious fanaticism and mindless patriotism of the 20th century, the very type of things movies like Robocop liked satirizing.

I did not do that.

 

[LoveCake]

It's a great game!

 

[Gamer79]

Yeah I don’t think you got it at all my dude. Even just the *opening scene* of Robocop is satirical political commentary on apartheid era South Africa. It’s not a shootbang movie.

Right, Let me look to Robocop for political values. There is no deep philosophical meaning here. It's a good action movie with an interesting plot. Maybe one of the best dystopian films of all time on old detroit. The movie was brutal for it's time but I a have seen worse on cable tv now. It pushed the envelope in violence and was a decent story. You could even argue this was an early Super Hero film. With that said, I do not care what any Hollywoke director cares about politically. Yes this was in the 80's and way before the woke movement but Hollyweird has been strange for decades. That is what happens when you mix a Ton of Drugs, Ton of Sex, Ton of Narrassitic people with a god complex who feel they know better than you from their high horse. Regardless of what you think of the film., The Game did plenty right.

The point is Robocop stuck to it's roots and did not allow the recent poison of Idenity politics or outside influence change what it was. Yes that is to be commended because plently of Icon shows or actors have fallen into the woke trap: Look at the new He-Man, New ThunderCats, New Transformers with a non binary member, Look at what they did to scooby doo with Velma, The Witcher was so woke the main star left the show out of disgust. It all makes me want to vomit. My point is it did not pander to the woke hive mind and stuck to what i was and it is becoming increasingly rare this day and age. More importantly it put gameplay first beyond all else.

 

[EverythingsOverrated]

I knew it would be good when I shot a dude in the dick and it exploded

 

[DeepEnigma]

Still need to play this. Heard nothing but good things about it.

Same. It's on my ever growing list.

 

[Chuck Berry]

I knew it would be good when I shot a dude in the dick and it exploded

And you get a trophy/cheevo for it

 

[Guilty_AI]

I did not do that.

Then how is OP's praise for the game not including modern woke politics somehow related to the original movie making an apartheid commentary or
"yahoos gettin furious at discovering that Rage Against The Machine are political"?

 

[stuminus3]

Right, Let me look to Robocop for political values. There is no deep philosophical meaning here. It's a good action movie with an interesting plot. Maybe one of the best dystopian films of all time on old detroit.

You’re an idiot.

Then how is OP's praise for the game not including modern woke politics somehow related to the original movie making an apartheid commentary or
"yahoos gettin furious at discovering that Rage Against The Machine are political"?

Merely pointed out that Robocop is not a brainless action movie, which is what they seem to think is. Also using terms like “blue hairs” make you sound hilarious. I’m sorry, there’s just no way to take that kind of talk seriously. It makes you sound more like a raving imbecile than someone worth discussing politics with, “woke” or otherwise.

 

[Vick]

There is no deep philosophical meaning here.

But there is. An awful LOT of it.



Well that's a crappy video, can't find quickly clips from the RoboDoc documentary but there's alot of great and eye-opening stuff in there.