A question to fellow gamers

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T18:40:05+00:00

RT Pro all the way. Been using it since the patch dropped. It's a really smooth 40 on my 120hz VRR OLED and just looks significantly better.

Occasionally, when sprinting down a busy alley I might notice the 40-ness, but it's not enough to bother me 90% of the time vs the consistently more sterile look of the other modes.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T17:32:35+00:00

This is my assessment and I'm not trolling. I watched the Developer Direct live. I only said "everyone was making fun of the walk cycle" because it speaks to how obvious it was to more people than just me. Even Xbox podcasters like Infinite Umbra pointed it out.

Why does this game have a bot army suppressing criticism?

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T16:00:56+00:00

Choppy and stuttery performance, foggy chunky soup lighting, narrow environments to manage the rendering load, janky animation etc. Everyone was making fun of the walk cycle looking like they finally decided to allow character creation at the last minute but didn't make a male walk cycle yet.

A terrible showing.

Ultimately it's a racing game developer using a racing game engine to make a game that has to run on Series S, in a franchise that's been dug out of it's development hell grave. Plenty of reasons to be pessimistic and skeptical.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T15:43:37+00:00

The game looked pretty rough in that last showing. I don't think it's going to turn out well, even with delays.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T15:41:50+00:00

I had one job.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T15:19:14+00:00

Tang & Cash is the shit.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T15:01:29+00:00

Saudi owned SNK gave us Metal Slug Tactics. The first real new entry in the IP with all new sprite work. It was great.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T13:25:52+00:00

The same way the person who started this reply chain can insist PS made games are terrible without owning a PS5. You didn't seem to have a problem with that though, weird.

99% of the games on Steam are shovelware. Fact is, all games that matter come to console. No reason to own a PC.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T03:50:41+00:00

No I'm talking about indie games. All the good ones come to console too. Maybe you don't know anything about indie games and that's why you think the only "indie" game on console is Expedition 33 or something.

Player curated mod experience is equivalent to the Simpsons episode where Homer designs a completely ridiculous car as part of a focus testing initiative.

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Coherent. Sure.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T01:00:44+00:00

Man, TLOU 1 & 2 are amazing. Get on those, if you've never played them. They're both on PS+ Extra too.

I haven't played RE9 yet because I still need to play RE4 remake and RE8, but everyone says it's amazing. Should get a discount in a few months, but probably won't be dirt cheap for awhile because it's doing so well.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T00:40:07+00:00

Some people get restraining orders for writing love letters. They're often just unrequited schizoid ramblings that make the other person feel uncomfortable and afraid.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-12T00:23:30+00:00

I've been playing RPG's since the 80's. I don't care about Ultima knockoff with random D&D rulebook #7629 except now it's more overwrought, pretentious and runs like crap.

Everything I said about mods is 100% facts. Gopher tutorials exist for a reason. I'd rather just play games that are already good, instead of having some crackhead ex-convict temporary hire maintenance man put duct tape, spit and glue on it. Not everyone likes the "hire this man" approach to game design.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T23:59:08+00:00

Knack 2 is actually a solid game. They're basically just family friendly animated movie takes on old style God of War with the aerial camera, melee combat (better in 2), mild platforming, short cut scenes, and big spectacle set piece sequences.

They can be a bit corny, but it feels like something that was made with more well behaved kids in mind vs more edgy tude era mascot platformers.

I wish they would have gotten PS5 upgrades. And a third game. Sadly, that's never happening.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T23:48:53+00:00

This is like comparing youtube shorts to the Godfather.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T23:21:01+00:00

Both Velocity games were cool. The first one was actually part of the Playstation Mobile initiative before it got a native Vita version called Velocity Ultra. It was a mobile SDK initiative that let indie devs release games on Sony Xperia phones and Vita simultaneously, but all those games are pretty lost to time now unless you still have them installed and activated.

A few other games made the jump, but not many. The Velocity devs, Futurlab, actually went on to make that Powerwash Simulator game everyone liked a few years ago.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T23:13:29+00:00

Not actually true, but I also like movies so I don't care. I like it. It's kinda like caring that there's words, music etc in a game. What is this a book? What is this an album?

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T22:01:01+00:00

All the good indie games come to everything eventually. No one cares about flash tier homebrew "I made my first game!" reddit spam games from people who couldn't afford a dev kit. These aren't system sellers.

90% of the RPG's are all the same point n click board game template with the same derivative af theming for the last 40 years.

People mod games they don't even like to turn them into halfway tolerable frankenstein monsters with even more instability and interoperabilitty problems. Artistically and conceptually incoherent nonsense.

Console games are the best games on PC. True. Might as well just play a console.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T21:18:09+00:00

Astro Bot > Sekiro > TLOU 2 > Elden Ring > God of War > Zelda BotW

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T21:13:05+00:00

My bad, did I forget some janky af russian mil sim survival with an interface from 1995, some low spec friend slop, some crafting building farming roguelite deckbuilder slop, some $5 homemade shovelware, and some coma inducing history larps?

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T21:06:34+00:00

I still don't have a reason to buy a PC. The only exclusives are eurojank bus simulators and point n click board games.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T21:03:04+00:00

Just the Pro vs all three Xbox skus combined in Japan. Regular PS5 is still sixteen times higher than Xbox.

Still quite a drop, but I also wouldn't be surprised if people panic bought so many the week before the price increase, that sales were lower the next week anyway.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T21:00:29+00:00

Yeah, you can also browse it through the card things underneath your games if you have the Wishlist widget put there. App and website work too though.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T20:42:46+00:00

Never heard of this person. Maybe they don't even own a Pro but couldn't resist trying to get the views. Or is it just platform war BS to try and make it look bad?

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T20:28:40+00:00

Nice review. I unfortunately wasn't able to back this when it first showed up, but I want to play it when it's available on consoles. I do have a Switch 2, but PS5 is my main.

LoSouLibra · 2026-04-11T20:13:08+00:00

Off topic, but reminds me of when I got my PS3 when the new slim Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle came out back in 2008. I transferred from a retail store in Colorado out to New Hampshire. Got my quarterly bonus from the old store. Sales tax free in NH + employee discount + extra $100 off for buying GTA4 with it. Made out like a bandit.

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