General gaming discussion

Watching some character footage of that new Warner Multiverse thing.

Basically Smash Bros with Warner properties

But it's surprisingly more on the nose being a smash bros rip off then even the Nickelodeon one a few months back.

I mean I'm calling it now the Game of Thrones characters are basically filling the "pretty anime boys with swords" role in the smash bros games, they'lll be able to fart out characters from that show over and over and they'll all be "pretty medieval fantasy character with a sword"

Tom and Jerry are the ice climbers and I cant tell if Taz or Jake the dog is the kirby equivilent, both seem to be about eating their opponents?

credit where credit is due some ideas are nice, tom and jerry are actually attacking each other in every one of their moves, the other players are just caught in the crossfire

some of the alt costumes, if you are fans of the properties are genuinely surprisingly clever (jake the dog being Cake the Cat and alt batman is samurai batman)

Just played about 2 hours of Fenyx Rising. Really good so far. Not going to dissect the game now or compare it to THAT game, as that just ruins things.

The main thing so far is that it's fun and polished and smooth on XBox Series X.

I'm looking forward to be playing Sniper Elite 5 this day next week. It's brilliant it's coming onto game pass.

Shooting enemies in the nuts is the best thing about the Sniper Elite games.

Another developer embracing UE5. It's quickly becoming ubiquitous for this generation of titles, for better or worse.

Some first world problems ...

UE5 will probably result in incredible next gen gaming on latest consoles, but at 30 FPS. I'll dig out the Digital Foundry video if someone complains about this assumption. So, basically incredibly realistic worlds, but back to lower frame rates to compensate for the extra grunt required.

Now, 30 FPS looks bad on OLED TVs as the TV responds so quickly, the frames are more pronounced and the image is juddery, whereas slower refresh rates blur the frames, so it's not so obvious.

So, juddery UE5 games on OLED displays or maybe lower resolution.

Current Gen can hit 60FPS on pure-raster/non-RayTraced games that are natively scaled at around 1080p and then checkerboarded/Dynamic 4K'ed. When they quoted 4k/120Hz on pre-release really they were just quoting the HDMI 2.1 spec and not remotely what they could do. Over time optimisation will lead to some improvements but not to the point where RT or even raster native 4K will run at 60Hz. Hell an Nvidia 3090 has trouble with intensive RT games at 60Hz without DLSS. I know UE5 aims to bypass some of the RT cost but I think Super's right in his estimate, and the usual mainstream tech media jumping on the bandwagon and lazily reiterating supplier claims will really bite them in the ass this generation. We've seen it over the last 20 years with them constantly parroting how each console gen would wipe high end PCs and in reality coming in at hugely more bang-for-the-buck but overall mid level performance point. Now most people who have consoles have a decent PC that can game to some degree. They have a personal reference and less of the nonsense PC master race vs. Console noise in the way. But it's also going back to an old PC game principal of games can be written to run better on future hardware today. Can it run Crysis :) , let it murder current gen but still look good doing it and then look better in 5 years without a remaster when you play it again. I think that may be the true advantage of games using UE5 across all 3 major platforms (deliberately excluding Nintendo Retro, hah, take that BoTW2 ... your non-existent map markers will have to be rendered in peasant engine 2.0 :) )

I always wondered what percentage of PC gamers had rigs that are as good as, or better than, current gen is now. Tried to Google, which seems to think my search was about PC vs Console...