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Marvel's Spider-Man: The Complete Digital Foundry Analysis!
- Thread starter zombiejames
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Great work, DF. Game looks amazing. Laughing at the folks who were so caught up in the downgrade nonsense.
Ah, unfortunately, there is not. Just a brightness adjustment. On my particular set (C8 OLED) it looks fantastic *BUT* I could see issues arises depending on how your TV deals with it. It's definitely not the best example. We'll be releasing an HDR video this Thursday as well, by the way.
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Really awesome that they're using dynamic res in conjunction with their awesome temporal injection method. I really hope that sort of thing becomes commonplace in the future. Excellent image quality without throwing away a ton of GPU resources. I want to hear a lot more about how Insomniac achieved it because it's a great method.
Put this in your OP:
Here's Digital Foundry with the last word on Spider-Man's supposed downgrades. "What if we told you it's been upgraded instead?"
Edgar Allen Poe drowned in a puddle ... still haunts me. That's why I almost passed on Spider-man: puddles.
But, this sounds amazing; I can't wait until Friday.
Talk of downgrades are just silly when you see what this game is doing visually, even on a 5 year old console. On the Pro it is something else. Crikey I don't even know what to expect on the next gen, this gen surpassed anything we could have imagined when you look at this or TLOU2 and so on... Ooft.
Sure.
My favorite super hero games to date have been, honestly, the Batman Arkham games. I did quite enjoy Neversoft's take on Spider-Man, though, and have had some fun with other Spider-Man games but they always felt somewhat barebones/unrefined.
I'm not sure Spider-Man replaces Arkham for me but it's definitely on that level.
I appreciate the reliance on bespoke mission design with interior spaces and lots of unique mechanics. There's some good variety in the mission design and lots of shifts between gameplay types including Arkham-like stealth sequences, great chase sequences, traversal, combat, boss fights and more. Lots of gadgets and fun things to play with too.
The actual controls feel remarkable and I believe the game solves a major issue with open world games that I've always had - that being traversal. In many games, just driving or walking to your next objective marker can be moderately enjoyable to kinda boring. The swinging in Spider-Man is SO good that I often found myself not making a bee-line to the next objective. It made going between those points really fun. There's a lot of little side things you can do along the way - something I normally don't care about - but because the mechanics feel so great to use, they actually became worthwhile.
The other major surprise for me is the story - it's really engaging stuff. Like, far and away the best storytelling Insomniac has ever produced by a country mile. The characters, writing and acting are all fantastic and charming.
From the very first moment the game was shown it looked impressive. Awesome to see Insomniac deliver on the final product. They did a great job of making the city feel alive.
Also appreciate John's honesty about the E3 2017 puddle room looking better than the final. I definitely felt that way too, even though the overall game is still very impressive.
Also appreciate John's honesty about the E3 2017 puddle room looking better than the final. I definitely felt that way too, even though the overall game is still very impressive.
NGL I felt this has been true about several games in recent years, including Arkham Knight.
But this is Spider-Man, so
OP
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Next stop: "the game is actually not as good as the hype led me to believe" "boring, repetitive game featuring generic Sony formula" etc.
Can't wait for the release of Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima ;) especially the first one will get many concerned citizens chiming in, it's the first Sony game in a long while I'm not too confident in myself though, it'll still be a very good game I'm sure, but could be the "worst" out of the 1st party lineup since The Order, hope I'm wrong.
I'm sure people will shortly apologize to you/everyone at Insomniac for calling you liars and saying you deceived everyone.
Also, reviews are looking good. Congratulations.
An open world game with stable 30 fps and faster loading screens on both PS4 and PS4 Pro? How tf?
Well I was anticipating a spoiler, and started to click away, but not before the video shows someone that was probably left out of the trailers intentionally.
Probably only an early game thing, but this close to release it's probably worth avoiding.
Sweet vindication, great morning at Insomniac I'm sure. Can't wait for Friday.
Similarly smooth performance on base PS4 compared to Pro is all I needed.
but the one on the right looks more puddle-like cmonhehehe
Gosh, it was difficult to read all those comments knowing how amazing the final game looks. Can't imagine how frustrating it must have been from your side. You guys nailed it, though! Well done.
This sounds sooo good. Thank you very much, I also think Arkham is the golden "standard" for superhero games, but the potential that a superhero like Spidey has with such an amazing studio as Insomniac is enormous.
Really interested in the story, the prequel novel was pretty good, and most of the story shown has looked really interesting.
Please, let it be Friday already.
Gamers Rise Up! Or something.But.. but... what about r/gaming cause!
Thanks and I'm glad someone noticed all those juicy puns. ;)
Well, it's actually an UPGRADE over earlier builds of the game which were just locked at 1440p!
Guess i am happy i just got a pro thank god its a silent one too so i won the fan lottery xD.
Sounds neat!
(with nintendo its screens with sony it's fans xD)
Sounds neat!
(with nintendo its screens with sony it's fans xD)
I just want to see a few peeps come and eat some crow, cause honestly that thread was a shit show then and if you go back to it would be even more of a shit show now.
I expect this thread to be pedestrian.
I'm not sure I could have shown that much restraint.