I'm in the same boat. I think the devs don't want to offer flying mounts. It would be a largely different game and if the machine denisty is anything like it was on HZD, then it would be rough to address that. I did some attacking from the tops of long necks in HZD and was trivially simple due to machines view radius AI and maneuverability on the head...I just don't think this is something the devs wanted to figure out right now.
I'm in the same boat. I think the devs don't want to offer flying mounts. It would be a largely different game and if the machine denisty is anything like it was on HZD, then it would be rough to address that. I did some attacking from the tops of long necks in HZD and was trivially simple due to machines view radius AI and maneuverability on the head...I just don't think this is something the devs wanted to figure out right now.
Exactly.
Games don't "struggle". It's a choice developers make.
Obviously there can be a difference between what they want generally and what they want in terms of their game design.
The problem with Horizon's open world was that it was a lot of space with little varity/detail, adding big flying mounts allowing you to bypass it doesn't solve the problem - actually might make it worse if they feel they need to make the map bigger to have them be useful. I actually hope the map is a little smaller than the first game and it's just more dense. Smaller flying mounts would still be a great benefit without them having to spread things out more.
Hopefully gyro aiming is also in the game. The lack of it in the first game really held back the combat for me.
Btw, that blue jelly looking water exclusive to PS5 looks to be the same in GOWR too so they must have shared the same techs for next gen PS5.
My takeaway is that this is just a PS4 game running at a higher resolution/framerate with some minor upgrades unique to the new hardware. Jim's "built from the ground up" comment is just more PR spin. I wasn't really expecting more after the cross-gen announcement, and I'm confident it's still going to be great, but can't help feeling disappointed.
I hope they have an option to disable the "cinematic lighting rig" on PS5. It just makes her glow in a completely unnatural way, especially when she's standing in shadow. I had a hard time not noticing it in the gameplay reveal.
I hope they have an option to disable the "cinematic lighting rig" on PS5. It just makes her glow in a completely unnatural way, especially when she's standing in shadow. I had a hard time not noticing it in the gameplay reveal.
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So far that has not being true for any PS5 release from Sony I have no idea where this came from. Also you just ignored pretty much everything in the OP for whatever reason.
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GT7 has confirmed it is exactly the same game at higher quality in the settings and anything like ray tracing is only in photo mode/replays. Physics/AI etc... are all the same - the only real differences are fast loading and adaptive trigger "gimmicks" - everything is the same running at higher res/framerate/quality etc... all the same stuff they mention for Horizon apart from the lighting rig (which is in cinematics in PS4) and better water? (without knowing the details of that, it wont be a huge difference as they are the same game) - so yeah he is correct in that, unless something radically different happens here, they are PS4 games running at better resolution and frame rate with some small hardware specific upgrades, there is nothing different gameplay wise
If it's gonna support gyro, they probably wouldn't say so in a post about PS5-exclusive features (though it likely won't)
Don't know if I needed a blog post to tell me that the PS5 version will have faster loading and Dualsense features.
Look at games like Forspoken or Death Loop for stuff like that. Not multiple games that started development for a nearly ten year old console.
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All dualsense features are not the same we had plenty of topics detailing features of various games. Also this is not a blog post
If you dont want to know this info thats fine others do.
While technically you're right it's not ps5 exclusive I still think it would've been mentioned as an additional detail somewhere since it's still really not normal for playstation games to have that option. So still new for a lot of people
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Thanks. glad to help.
I dont get it either we have these topics all the damn time.
the real question is if we are gonna have a Performance RT mode like Insom games.
I really dont mind cranking down the resolution to get all the bells and whistles while at a smooth framerate. Especially when the res is still pretty decently high
I really dont mind cranking down the resolution to get all the bells and whistles while at a smooth framerate. Especially when the res is still pretty decently high
I feel like the industry has been doing this song and dance since console inception. It's never the case. It's always just better and faster tools and more shit on screen.
Can't really change up the game design all that much when it's cross-gen sadly.
Cross-gen games are the same games. One is just prettier with better performance (and DualSense features). It's not like you're getting a different game because you play it on the PS5.
I'm making (a poor) joke about how on PSN they are still selling the PS5 version for $70 even tho they've said PS4 version will give a free upgrade to the PS5 version. They haven't even put that on the PSN page for the PS4 version so I expect a lot of people to pay $70 for HFW on PS5 without knowing the PS4 version at $60 will give them the upgrade.
Someone else might have mentioned this already but Sony has been very careful in its wording for things like this since they faced a lawsuit over Killzone: Shadow Fall not being native 1080p in all game modes. The case was thrown out, but since then they've been more careful about using words like "targeting" and "dynamic", etc.
People still have an axe to grind about this game being cross-gen
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The Dualsense is awesome when done right it's an innovation. I expect FW to have a great implementation. Hit us with some cool underwater haptics GG.
Will be interesting to see the DF PS4/PS5 comparison. I expect the usual stuff like foliage, water, and draw distance to take a hit: but it'll still be a great ps4 port.
Will be interesting to see the DF PS4/PS5 comparison. I expect the usual stuff like foliage, water, and draw distance to take a hit: but it'll still be a great ps4 port.
Yeah. After playing a game for over 9 hours one particular weekend, my controller really started drifting. I felt the middle of the controller (not the part where I was grasping) and it was particularly warm. One suggestion online said to turn off all the extra stuff in the controller to reduce heating and possibly solve drifting. The drifting problem did improve somewhat, but did not go away completely.
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The middle of the controller is where the battery is, it's likely that heating up, it might be a bit dodgy if it's getting very warm constantly, but if it's just after very long sessions or charges it's probably nothing to worry about too much. Though you should probably get it replace regardless due to drift.
I agree 100%.
Everything on PS5 so far is basically
- better, faster graphics (more particles, detail, better lighting & reflections)
- faster loads
plus the haptics which are nice and all, but
I'm waiting to get excited to see anything new that is pushing game design creatively. It can all be done on PS4, just with reduced graphic fidelity. Even AI is not improved.
I think RT is used for audio, so I expect this to be available at 60FPS as well.
That's just false, especially if you meant what console generation's bring in general and not just cross gen games. But even if you focused on cross gen games, your statement is false. After all games like FH2 or Shadow of Mordor had gameplay changes on next gen consoles. To be fair, cross gen games with different gameplay are rare. But they absolutely do exist.
Same. Probably one of Sony's game that required the most precise aiming. Fingers crossed that it is added day one
I'm guessing the targeting 60fps mode is going to be pretty damn solid, especially for a game like this. I'd be shocked if it wasn't.
I would argue that game design generally has been at a standstill since basically the PS2 (or the early PS3) era, especially in the AA(A) space. But that makes sense since a lot of concepts are derivatives of earlier work. For many games and franchises it has been been "more of the same" for years; I think you need to look at the 'indie' space for more creative / out of the box ideas.
"it'll vibrate funny when you shoot an arrow"
boy it sure was worth going through all that headache to get a ps5 early..
boy it sure was worth going through all that headache to get a ps5 early..
