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PS5 OS introduces Game Presets. System wide preferences for Performance modes, difficulty, Camera view and Subtitles/Audio
- Thread starter Lacrimosis
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This is a system level setting and should be easily applicable to games at large like any other system wide setting.
Neither is Gamepass but that doesn't really change anything. If you do something better it's still valuable. It doesn't need to be new.
who's to say this won't be part of the certification process for every game? that every game has to work with the entire system from going to the UI when pressing the PS button to changing the difficulty according to the settings in the system?
Most difficulty settings are just "Very Easy, Easy, Medium, Hard, Super Hard" in some form. Most games aren't doing what TLOU2 did with its various difficulty settings, not even close.
It was a good feature on the 360, but why did MS drop it? Does there need to be some sort of developer support.
Like for TLOU2 if I set my presets to "hard" how will it distinguish between that and Grounded?
Like for TLOU2 if I set my presets to "hard" how will it distinguish between that and Grounded?
Not a big fan of this idea, but as long as you can turn it off, there's no harm done.
Each game is too different to merit a system-wide setting. This seems like it assumes games are all similar.
I'm quite surprised at all the positive feedback this is getting - pragmatically speaking, I expected more people to tweak their settings on a per game basis.
Each game is too different to merit a system-wide setting. This seems like it assumes games are all similar.
I'm quite surprised at all the positive feedback this is getting - pragmatically speaking, I expected more people to tweak their settings on a per game basis.
Performance Mode = On.
I was dreaming about this feature and discussing it here on Era months ago!
I was dreaming about this feature and discussing it here on Era months ago!
If they allow to set subtitle font for ALL GAMES at a readable size, PS5 is the best console in history of gaming.
Not the whole thing. Stuff like camera options and subtitles/language is pretty neat. But game specific things like difficulty and performance mode depends too much one the individual games. An universal option for these does not make much sense in my opinion.
Yeah seriously. I never got over how the Xbox One stopped supporting this. Glad PS5 is doing this, and hopefully Microsoft and Nintendo do it too.
I am failing to see how you are seeing this as a bad thing. Presets are there for a baseline of how you play. You can then tweak per game just like now.
Lots of new audio settings such as number of channels your system has and speaker arrangement. Very cool.
Same here, I'm guessing to make sure this option gets used it requires strict mandates that dev's probably don't stick to.
Sony will need mandates this gen to make sure everything gets properly utilized.
No one is saying it's a bad thing. So chill out. All I'm saying is that the difficulty setting is not really helpful as different games vary greatly in regards to difficulty period and the labels that those difficulties carry. You must be mistaking me for someone else who's complaining about the whole thing. Sheesh.
Can't even critique without people making blanket statements about your opinion.
Devs still will have to make the hooks into the OS to see what settings to take.
On the other hand, it isn't really analogous to the DualSense because it's just having to read data in a straight forward way. Don't have to come up with ideas on how to get it put together. It's super straightforward for pretty much every game.
Yeah. I loved seeing that and thinking "MS knows what's important" and then... nothing.
The only problem I see with this is how it handles differing options among games. For example, if a game has three performance modes like dirt 3, what would it choose if you select performance in the ps5 menu? Same with difficulty, what if one game has two difficulty modes and another has 5? Devs could standardize what they do I guess, but I could see them not doing so, even though it would be nice.
How is it "pretty useless"? Almost every game with selectable difficulties has the concept of "normal", many also have "easy" and "hard". If you want to play all games at what their developers consider "normal", then this would be a good option for that so you don't have to go into settings to change it. Most people don't micromanage difficulty, look up what all the differences are and choose that way, they just look at the names of the difficulty modes and choose one. Me for example, the only times I ever choose anything other than "Normal" on my first experience in a game is if I specifically read somewhere that the game is too easy, and much more fun on higher difficulties. And in that case I could still go in and change it as I desire.
The game would be programmed to choose which difficulty matches up with the "hard" preset. These are really only for setting default settings.
I can't wait until you go into a topic about 360 BC for the new Xbox and say the same thing.