Ryse: Son of Rome - the Digital Foundry verdict

[Munkeh111]

selnor1983 said:

Munkeh111 said:

I don't see how its "an awesome victory" Ryse is competing with Shadow Fall and despite you insisting it is the best looking game, views are divided. Most other games look worse on Xbox One, how is that a victory?

The article also says the game isn't fun...

Are you argueing that linear games don't make it more easy to impress than more open games?

Its a victory in respect that

Before launch people tried to say Xbox One was extremely weak. And part of it was due to being harder to develop for as IW said when making Ghosts.

Microsoft stood to their guns saying that the changes in architecture to the One that they made makes raw numbers less important.

And they are so far proved right.

It may bite them a little in 3rd party games being more easily optimized on PS4 similar to PS3/360. But first party games are off to a good start. Hopefully my hunch on QB and Halo 5 continuing that trend next year is right.

All in all, if people didnt dismiss Microsoft comments on hardware so fast, then this wouldnt be such a big surprise. But it is because what people were saying about the hardware before launch.

There is 1 game that looks good, but has a few framerate issues and runs sub 1080p. Forza apaprently has issues and downgrades since E3, but I didn't bother reading the article and Dead Rising has frame rate issues again. I don't see why we should be so impressed that Crytek managed to make 1 good looking game, that's all they do!