Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II Enhanced Arrives August 12 (PC/XBS/PS5 - $49.99)

lughnasadh123 said:
There are certain games - hell, whole genres like walking sims and visual novels - that are primarily about an interesting experience with very light gameplay that don't get shit on half as much as this series does. Not every game should have the same goal for what they try to get their audience to feel and or how they do it. It's also a little weird how much the artistic visions gets romanticized only to quickly dumpster it to wonder how hard does that sword swing.
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There's good walking sims like Still wakes the Deep etc., but HB2 was just torture for me :D
 
SJRB said:
50 bucks?????


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How retarded are these people, seriously?
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Should have been $40 at best. I'll buy it for $30 though.
 
Oof, I'm starting to worry about Ninja Theory when this flops like we all know it will.

I can't see anyone buying this.
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Let me get this straight y'all complain about this walking simulator being 49.00 and 69.00 for 2games But praising 2 other walking simulators Death stranding and Death Stranding 2 both charged 69.00 but no complaints???Go figure
 
Have to say, if I bought this game on Xbox console then I would be pissed off having to wait on the PS5 port to get the "enhanced version".
 
I'll check out the graphics when it hits Ps+

lughnasadh123 said:
There are certain games - hell, whole genres like walking sims and visual novels - that are primarily about an interesting experience with very light gameplay that don't get shit on half as much as this series does. Not every game should have the same goal for what they try to get their audience to feel and or how they do it. It's also a little weird how much the artistic visions gets romanticized only to quickly dumpster it to wonder how hard does that sword swing.
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Eh, I think a big part of the hate this game gets is the context in which it was released. Walking sims and visuals novels usually aren't hyped up to be this major first party release.
This was THE game used to announce the Series X in 2019, it then took 4,5 years to come out and was teased and hyped by MS multiple times over the years. That's not the sort of treatment a 6-7 hours walking sim usually gets.

The first game didn't get nearly as much hate because it was a third party game that was literally presented as a smaller game made by a small team with the aim of making a story heavy indie game with AAA graphics
 
Fbh said:
I'll check out the graphics when it hits Ps+



Eh, I think a big part of the hate this game gets is the context in which it was released. Walking sims and visuals novels usually aren't hyped up to be this major first party release.
This was THE game used to announce the Series X in 2019, it then took 4,5 years to come out and was teased and hyped by MS multiple times over the years. That's not the sort of treatment a 6-7 hours walking sim usually gets.

The first game didn't get nearly as much hate because it was a third party game that was literally presented as a smaller game made by a small team with the aim of making a story heavy indie game with AAA graphics
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the actual real problem here is the lackluster average story that they came up with
it is nothing special. it is just a place holder. it somehow is worse than the first game in this regard. first game's story had substance. i felt like the second game is just worse in this regard

if this game had a great story like the walking dead game from 2012, I can assure you the reception it has gotten would be wildly different today
 
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Fbh said:
I'll check out the graphics when it hits Ps+



Eh, I think a big part of the hate this game gets is the context in which it was released. Walking sims and visuals novels usually aren't hyped up to be this major first party release.
This was THE game used to announce the Series X in 2019, it then took 4,5 years to come out and was teased and hyped by MS multiple times over the years. That's not the sort of treatment a 6-7 hours walking sim usually gets.

The first game didn't get nearly as much hate because it was a third party game that was literally presented as a smaller game made by a small team with the aim of making a story heavy indie game with AAA graphics
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I could understand that if they marketed it as something it's not, but even with the first one there should be some expectation, hype or not, of what kind of game this was going to be. Nor, imo anyways, is it fair to have budget arbitrarily set the standards of what to expect regarding gameplay when even small teams with cheap budgets can do the same but they don't get that level of complaints leveled at them when that's not their focus.

Lootlord said:
There's good walking sims like Still wakes the Deep etc., but HB2 was just torture for me :D
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You like what you like, that's fair. I just hate artificial parameters of what to expect out of games.
 
No thanks. I watched the first half hour on Youtube and did not like it. They even screwed up the voices, turned them from psychotic subpersonalities into tutorial guides.
 
mckmas8808 said:
Being that it's 60 fps, that would have been really dope to see in PSVR2
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Yeah, the first one was a pretty cool experience in VR. Played a bit via PCVR while visiting a friend a few years ago. Was memorable.
 
Ultralow35 said:
Let me get this straight y'all complain about this walking simulator being 49.00 and 69.00 for 2games But praising 2 other walking simulators Death stranding and Death Stranding 2 both charged 69.00 but no complaints???Go figure
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Huh? Where do you live?
Pre-order the Standard Edition for $59.99 USD MSRP/ $79.99 CAD MSRP and immediately get a voucher to download a Chibi Ludens PSN Avatar – a stylized version of the iconic logo for Kojima Productions – plus, a Death Stranding PS4 Dynamic Theme at launch.
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Death Stranding Available November 8 on PS4

Watch the new trailer and get your first look at its Special and Collector's Editions.
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lol i wouldn't suffer through this shit, if you pay me $50
hopefully they don't have much of an engagement target, otherwise it looks grim.
 
Ultralow35 said:
Let me get this straight y'all complain about this walking simulator being 49.00 and 69.00 for 2games But praising 2 other walking simulators Death stranding and Death Stranding 2 both charged 69.00 but no complaints???Go figure
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Let me get this straight you're compared a 7 hour long game with piss easy puzzles, simple combat, and no other gameplay to speak of….

Versus a 50+ hour game with more content and things to do than I care to list.

Go play FIFA. This is beyond you.
 
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By far the best graphics I've ever seen in a video game, I'll be loading it up again to see what the high preset offers.

Hellblade 2 with high preset + 5090 + 83"oled + 7.4.4 dolby atmos = 🤯
 
SJRB said:
50 bucks?????


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How retarded are these people, seriously?
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These days a PS1 game with a mobile phone filter is selling for that. Not surprising, at all. $30 less than what Borderland 4 was going to sell for. Plus, now when it's on sale for $30, it will seem like a bargain!
 
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The game already looks like one of the best looking games ever made as is, what can they possibly do to make it look even better? Full hardware RT / PT perhaps and better fire textures on torches? Nothing else comes to mind.

Anyway, looking forward to replay the game with the dev commentary and to mess around with the updated Photo Mode.
 
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Agent_4Seven said:
The game already looks like one of the best looking games ever made as is, what can they possibly do to make it look even better? Full hardware RT / PT perhaps and better fire textures on torches? Nothing else comes to mind.

Anyway, looking forward to replay the game with the dev commentary and to mess around with the updated Photo Mode.
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I imagine shadows and LODs, plus lighting can always be improved.
 
Arsic said:
I imagine shadows and LODs, plus lighting can always be improved.
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Shadows for sure, but LODs? I haven't seen a single pop in anywhere during my playthrough - nanite works perfectly in this game, but I guess they can add nanite trees, foliage and stuff + 4K textures everywhere on top of what the game already has. We'll see, they only mentioned new Very High settings they'll be adding and didn't go into much details and specifics, maybe closer to release they will.
 
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Reading comprehension through the roof here, congrats. It's a free update.

And the game is still cheaper than many low-budget counterparts. It's linear? It's short? Plenty of games like that and no one gives a shit.

It's well reviewed, well received, and gamers definitely like it. Deal with it.

Hellblade 2: sour grapes edition?
 
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Idk how good this one is, but ms put waaaaaaay too much pressure and attention on this game. Leaned on it for years and tried to temper expectations when it was only a month out. Then it came and went like nothing.

It should have been positioned as an eccentric labor of love thing to fill in the catalog and it would be judged much more kindly today
 
$50 for a movie game.

If you check YT, longplays are 5-6 hours long, and speedrunners 3 hours.

Click on any longplay video and randomly just click through the video. There's a good chance every click you do is a cut scene or the character just walking/trotting around talking. There's hardly any action.

Just GP it on Xbox/PC. PS gamers, wait for it on PS sub or if youre that itching, wait for $10-20. Hellblade 1 was bargain binned to those lengths.
 
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twilo99 said:
Aren't PS gamers the biggest proponents of glorious 30 FPS gaming?
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Not at all. I think every PS game is 60 FPS this gen. On the other hand, several Xbox games only launched with 30 FPS: Starfield, Hellblade 2, Redfall, etc.

It seems like Xbox players and developers are the biggest proponents of 30 FPS gaming. They even called it a "creative decision" to make the games 30 FPS.
 
I want it but I'd much rather get the physical version b/c these games are NOT replayable. I beat them on Series X and while I enjoyed my time with it, if it wasn't on Game Pass, I don't think I would have been happy with the length for the price. $70 for 2 games isn't as bad but again, gimme Physical so I can play the hell out of them, platinum them and then trade them in and get $20-30 back.
 
SRTtoZ said:
I want it but I'd much rather get the physical version b/c these games are NOT replayable. I beat them on Series X and while I enjoyed my time with it, if it wasn't on Game Pass, I don't think I would have been happy with the length for the price. $70 for 2 games isn't as bad but again, gimme Physical so I can play the hell out of them, platinum them and then trade them in and get $20-30 back.
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When HB1 was at $19.99 on Xbox, I tried on GP.

I remember the game got decent reviews, got good graphics, and I remember some cool trailers with the lead character fighting some kind of vulture dudes dressed in rags. I didn't know anything else, so went in blind thinking it was more of an action game with a story. More like a story with no action, combined with the worst game mechanic in history.... unskippable cut scenes to drag on the game length.

Never saved myself $20 better. Played for maybe 45 minutes or so and deleted it off my drive. The most boring game I'd ever played on Xbox history. I think in that 45 min, it must had been 30 minutes of cut scenes, 14 minutes of walking around opening puzzle doors with red marks and I think 1 fight. Maybe 2 fights tops.
 
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Topher said:
Have to say, if I bought this game on Xbox console then I would be pissed off having to wait on the PS5 port to get the "enhanced version".
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I think a lot of people would still be pissed off.

Series S still did not get 60 FPS, so the majority of Xbox console owners won't be able to play the game in 60 FPS, but every PS5 user will be able to.
 
metareferential said:
Reading comprehension through the roof here, congrats. It's a free update.

And the game is still cheaper than many low-budget counterparts. It's linear? It's short? Plenty of games like that and no one gives a shit.

It's well reviewed, well received, and gamers definitely like it. Deal with it.

Hellblade 2: sour grapes edition?
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Remember, Microsoft reviews are paid for while Sonys fly you out for previews, send you huge media packages plus threaten you with loss of access to review codes if you are too negative, are completely honest. Oh, and dont forget the reviewers are completely unbiased too.

So basically, you can ignore those hellblade 2 reviews. 😉
 
DenchDeckard said:
Remember, Microsoft reviews are paid for while Sonys fly you out for previews, send you huge media packages plus threaten you with loss of access to review codes if you are too negative, are completely honest. Oh, and dont forget the reviewers are completely unbiased too.

So basically, you can ignore those hellblade 2 reviews. 😉
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Again with you, that it's just Sony..

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In anticipation for the DOOM Slayer's next outing, id Software went on a global hands-on preview tour, inviting over 200 select media, press and content creators from North America, Europe, Australia and Hong Kong for an opportunity to play the game and interview the developers
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Giallo Corsa said:
Played the 1st on PS4, mid, 6/10 experience.

I'll play this out of pure curiosity when it's either down to 10 Eurodollars or "free" on PS Plus, there's just no way I'd shell 50 for an interactive, 6 hours experience® no matter the dev/publisher or platform.

Same thing for the order 1886, rented it, finished it in 2 sittings, spent (almost) 6 Euros, had my fun - had i spent 60 for it though we would be having a whole different conversation...
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Its literally the same replayability as the first one meaning none. I finished the game in a little less than 5 hours. Thank god for gamepass.
 
In Hellblade 2, the decision to lock the game at 30fps on Xbox Series X/S was a deliberate artistic choice made by the developers, according to Ninja Theory. They prioritized achieving a specific cinematic look and feel, believing that 60fps would compromise the desired visual fidelity and overall experience.



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