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IGN: Lego Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga - The Final Preview
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Nice, haha. I always get excited when they get games early
I thought this was supposed to be the first one. Gonna have to pass.
That doesn't sound too bad. Looking forward to see how they handle story sequences in the open world.
Thanks for the info.
Wow. That's practically glowing praise.
Dammit, I'm double dipping.
Can you please tell me if the resolution looks anywhere near 4k? I would hope a game like this would have fairly sharp image quality.
Yeah, trying not to get my hopes up because one person could be way off, but it's definitely what you want to hear. And the screengrabs I've seen (handheld only, granted) it looks like it may still be a very pretty game.
Idk what system you're playing on, but I've had good experiences playing Lego Harry Potter online with my girlfriend using steam's remote play together feature. Hoping this one includes it too!
So it looks sharp. I am not a pixel counter so I can't tell if it's in 4k, but it does look good. There's some weird framerate stuff happening with the cutscenes though as they look like they're recorded at framerates of mostly 30 fps. I wonder if they were trying to preserve a movie feel in the cutscenes.
The game is nice. It's about what you'd expect from a Lego game. The camera is a lot closer. And there's a lot of game here, even if the gameplay is simple. I am mostly through A New Hope now.
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Thank you, I'm looking forward to playing it on Tuesday
Lots more impressions and some Twitch footage on that sub now if you sort by recent!
Played a bit with my son and it looked pretty good at first in some cutscenes, and the jpg info for the screenshots below say its 4k resolution, but some of the IQ is a bit spotty. some dithering and even the lightsabers aren't as sharp as I was expecting. I *think* the IQ hit is to hit 60fps even in split screen, but I'm no Digital foundry.
As stated above, the cutscenes look like they're trying to run in 24fps, but come off looking a bit choppy.
Reflections are nice, though. With the lightsabers, it reflects off of a lot of surfaces. I think there was some minor screen tearing in split screen as well. See pics below (PS5, straight from capture to usb). I wanted to use the app but my screen caps don't show up in it for some reason.
The sand trails/footprints are cool, but they disappear quickly.
If there is one series that guarantees to be rock solid on Switch, it's Lego. Tt Games are a very, very talented multi-platform studio.
You'd be surprised, LEGO City Undercover ran like crap undocked on Switch, almost headache-inducing in spots, and I've heard similar things about LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2.
In any case, TT games had promised better performance on Switch for this title, so it's great that they seemingly managed to fullfill that promise.
What? LEGO Undercover might be the worst performing Switch title, lol.
Saw a Twitch VOD for the Switch version last night, but can't find it now. Tough to judge because of stream quality and being scaled up, but textures looked muddy and overall IQ looked meh. Might be decent on the OLED like the image above though. I'm still undecided on which version to get.
If you're on PlayStation you can use share play to play games that are local only with a friend online. I've used it quite a bit with my nephew who lives in another city and it works great. https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/games/ps5-share-play/#start
I know a year ago they said they wouldn't have full Dualsense and 3D audio support at launch, but considering the game was delayed an entire year, did they have time to add it?
No dualsense options that I'm aware of. I don't feel any haptic feedback/triggers.
No FOV option, just checked.
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I did notice there is an option to target 30 or 60 fps. I might mess with that to check out if there's a graphical difference
Not even close. Undercover runs great compared to Lego The Incredibles. And OH GOD the loadtimes.
My friend is a decently well known reviewer who got both PS5 and Switch copies, so we played both in co-op at his place. Played three areas on PS5 (beginning of IV and two areas of VII) and one on Switch (beginning of VII).
The PS5 version runs great! The Switch version very much does not! Woof the Switch version is ROUGH.
I didn't really enjoy the game, personally. Take that with a grain of salt though - I'm not much of a fan of the prior LEGO games. I was hoping for a more drastic revamp in gameplay, but it largely remains the same at the core. Impressive scale though. To be clear, I haven't played these since... LEGO Marvel? So maybe there are things in these games that would cater to fans of the franchise. By and large, I felt like I was doing a lot of similar things to those older games. Aiming over the shoulder was new to me, but aiming felt a bit... loose? Still pretty cool though.
I think if you like the LEGO games, you'll love this. Otherwise, this won't change your mind.
Edit: for what it's worth he's really enjoying it.
I think he said he's gotten around half of the game complete, including (I THINK) Episodes IV and V fully finished. All on PS5. He's had it since... Tuesday? I think?
The PS5 version runs great! The Switch version very much does not! Woof the Switch version is ROUGH.
I didn't really enjoy the game, personally. Take that with a grain of salt though - I'm not much of a fan of the prior LEGO games. I was hoping for a more drastic revamp in gameplay, but it largely remains the same at the core. Impressive scale though. To be clear, I haven't played these since... LEGO Marvel? So maybe there are things in these games that would cater to fans of the franchise. By and large, I felt like I was doing a lot of similar things to those older games. Aiming over the shoulder was new to me, but aiming felt a bit... loose? Still pretty cool though.
I think if you like the LEGO games, you'll love this. Otherwise, this won't change your mind.
Edit: for what it's worth he's really enjoying it.
I think he said he's gotten around half of the game complete, including (I THINK) Episodes IV and V fully finished. All on PS5. He's had it since... Tuesday? I think?
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My time was limited (see my post above) but my friend said he didn't see any.
So like my post above alluded to, the different doesn't feel as pronounced as I would have hoped. You're still collecting a ton of blocks, you're still doing the "Hold X to build" thing, similar humor (though I love the voice acting in this).
The biggest changes I noticed were things like walking around in the world and being able to interact with NPCs. That was really cool! I have no idea if they introduced that in an earlier game. Like I mentioned, the last that I played was Marvel and I didn't get far at all.
Muddy. Should have been better. I don't know how to measure resolution, unfortunately.
I've seen worse than this, but I would have expected better IQ.
Edit: also in the game's defense, this was off the opening of VII. Maybe it's better in other areas. Framerate was pretty stable, but it just didn't look good at all to me. Significant pop-in and that thing that happens where a texture looks really bad and then suddenly looks really sharp? I guess texture loading? It wasn't constant but enough to be really annoying.
Played a bit with my son and it looked pretty good at first in some cutscenes, and the jpg info for the screenshots below say its 4k resolution, but some of the IQ is a bit spotty. some dithering and even the lightsabers aren't as sharp as I was expecting. I *think* the IQ hit is to hit 60fps even in split screen, but I'm no Digital foundry.
As stated above, the cutscenes look like they're trying to run in 24fps, but come off looking a bit choppy.
Reflections are nice, though. With the lightsabers, it reflects off of a lot of surfaces. I think there was some minor screen tearing in split screen as well. See pics below (PS5, straight from capture to usb). I wanted to use the app but my screen caps don't show up in it for some reason.
The sand trails/footprints are cool, but they disappear quickly.
Thank you for the pics and feedback
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it's a texture streaming issue- the memory bandwidth on the Switch isn't great so getting textures into memory and fully loaded can be a problem if you don't adjust how it's handled on the platform by your engine.
They have, but nowhere near to the level of this game. The major step forward in Skywalker Saga seems to be just how much care was put into the open world aspects.
The games sure have come a long way since Lego Indiana Jones 2 (the first game to have it's hub be more than just a place to select levels and shop).