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Will GoW: Ragnarok will be the first game that really shows us the power of the SSD
- Thread starter iswasdoes
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Ehhh I think that's just video editing, not an in-game load. The player doesn't spawn at another bonfire in that clip.
...its the same thing though? Instead of purple portals you just have a bigger level. You won't "feel" a difference unless you can feel where a shuffle through a crack loading section was supposed to be.
That's really just a faster loading time in practice, and the original Demon's Souls makes that transition surprisingly fast. I'm looking forward to seeing if they do the same thing with the Archstone travel. Ratchet and Clank though, yes, pure next-gen.
Edit: Actually this is likely just a video edit, based on this:
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If I can open a portal and hop from one planet to another in R&C I'll be pretty satisfied
I actually tend to waste a lot of time on the planetary transitions in those games cuz I forget to do like 1 thing and have to go back constantly lol
But yeah, going from God of War 2018's world traversal to the new game's way of doing it could be much more of a wow-factor including how crazy some of the setpieces will get.
That's Ratchet & Clank sir.
Every other game will take advantage of it with normal loading of course but R&C is the first title designed around the SSD.
Though Demon's Souls might surprise us with the new 'Fractured Mode' that they have yet to detail.
Every other game will take advantage of it with normal loading of course but R&C is the first title designed around the SSD.
Though Demon's Souls might surprise us with the new 'Fractured Mode' that they have yet to detail.
The game likely like every other PS5 game will have instant loading as has been advertised. I dont think it is a video edit. The player is actually slowly appearing into the next area and not just there like it would have been in a video edit.
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What R+C did or DS is just the same as my PC when I have a really fast loading time with my SSD when I fast travel. Its cool but Im not impressed.
Some devs were hyping differences in level design, fast movement like the unreal demo or other more interesting things that I want to see.
Some devs were hyping differences in level design, fast movement like the unreal demo or other more interesting things that I want to see.
I mean you got Demon's Souls, ratchet and clank, and arguably Star Citizen on a technical level.
Medium will probably be, as doesn't it basically have two worlds you can freely switch between, anyone who played Dishonored 2 will know how cool level switching on a button can be for level design and it was much smaller scale there.
Demon's Souls will show how convenient it is.
Demon's Souls will show how convenient it is.
Its the same as in the original, see this post:
So yeah I'm agreeing with everyone saying Demon's Souls and Ratchet. SSD is doing work for both of those games and it looks glorious.
That's the promise of the ssd. I love that it's so fast folks are claiming it's edited. They obviously had ui and difficulty edited for the demo.
Ratchet is the one.
Some games releasing this year aren't cross gen, date doesn't mean anything.
Some games releasing this year aren't cross gen, date doesn't mean anything.
Lol no. This video is not accurate of what happened in the actual trailer. They paused and cut it so that they loaded in at the same time. There was a comparison video posted earlier. It took 10+ seconds for Demon's Souls PS3 and we even got a lore/tooltip screen. It never even faded to black on the PS5.
He doesn't seem to be a fanboy and to be fair, DS is a remake and the insanely quick transition isn't a new gameplay element. But he clearly forgot about ratchet
I want to have an inter-dimensional fight where Kratos is being thrown from one realm into another, seemlessly.
Well this is my understanding of whats exciting about having a super fast ssd at base- open world/wide liniar game design totally changes when you dont have to factor those buffer moments in. In ways that I don't really understand yet till weve seen them in something like GoW. I understand whats happening in ratchet (in as much as ive seen the same trailer as everyone else) - dimension jumping mechanic that works because theres a fast load time...but it IS a fast load time here, not a transformed game world
Maybe expectations are inflated?
No idea, we know nothing about Ragnarok.
Ratchet is the first game where the SSD is required for the game design to even work, but it doesn't mean games like Demon Soul won't be helped significantly by the SSD, not just load times but asset resolutions if they are streaming the assets. (I don't know if they are, it certainly looks great)
Later in the gen, UE5 is the engine to watch for...
Ratchet is the first game where the SSD is required for the game design to even work, but it doesn't mean games like Demon Soul won't be helped significantly by the SSD, not just load times but asset resolutions if they are streaming the assets. (I don't know if they are, it certainly looks great)
Later in the gen, UE5 is the engine to watch for...
My answer: who knows?
My question: is the game actually called subtitled "Ragnarok?" I hope not.
My question: is the game actually called subtitled "Ragnarok?" I hope not.
R&C is loading a new worlds, not just loading a new part of the map and then unloading. Unless you mean something else.
I mean... it IS a transformed game world? You're transitioning from one distinct world to another in gameplay seamlessly. That's more impressive than anything else you're suggesting
I think R&C and Spiderman: MM will make great use of the SSD. Wasn't Spiderman the first game they were showing off behind closed doors demonstrating the new speeds? I think Insomniac is on top of it.
I really have no idea what you mean lol
It sounds like god of war without all the ledge climbing that hides the loading/asset streaming which is far less impressive than what ratchet is doing.
The most impressive bit for the next god of war will be fast travel between realms....like ratchet lol
I just realized that the fractured mid-world there sneakily functions to hide loading of the pirate ship world.
teleport in under a second compare 20 second on a PS3..... with these graphic !
For Ratchet - Wouldn't the "Spider verse" loading screen just be longer on a HDD. And the midcombat warping is set points, so doesn't seem completely out of the realm of possibility, probably doesn't even pull from SSD, just RAM - since you are staying in the same local environment. Maybe some LOD pop.
No. The main mechanic of Rift Apart - teleporting between wildly different levels one after the other in very quick succession - could technically be done on a HDD, but in practice it would be completely insufferable because it would be a relentless onslaught of minute-long loading screens. It's a type of game that effectively can't be done without the devs being guaranteed an SSD.