| Mr Puggsly said: Halo 5 is great and looks fine for a large scale game locked at 60 fps. One of the best PvP games around as well. |
Hell no it doesn't.
Battlefield, heck every 60fps frostbite game is easily superior to Halo 5 in terms of visuals, Halo 5 also didn't have everything run at 60fps either.
Taken a look at Spartans in the Distance? They are sprites, operating at 10-15fps, it's extremely jarring.
Shadowing will often pop in-and-out at short distances... Same with some of the geometric details like rocks on the ground.
Texture animations on things like Jump Ramps are often 15-30fps animations as well.
Halo 5 was gross visually. It was flat and static.
Some of the texturing is fairly low resolution as well, but covered up with some clever art. The cliff/rock textures and geometry though were probably my favorite aspect with Halo 5 (And Halo 2: Anniversary) as far as image quality goes, 343i has nailed that.
The game also doesn't achieve a full 1080P resolution either which hasn't helped.
| Mr Puggsly said: You forgot 3 great racing games from MS. That is a genre Sony has has no answer for in about years. |
I didn't forget them, I am just not interested in sports or racing games. Haven't had an interest in them since Most Wanted on the Original Xbox. (Which I also own.)
But, people enjoy them. So it's a plus. I guess.
I also did leave out the colossal failure that was Halo: The Master Chief Collection. You don't want me to get started on that. :P
| Mr Puggsly said: Gears 4 is awesome. Great campaign, co op, and PvP. Its a total package. It rated in the mid 80s I think. |
I can only take your word for it and the word of reviews as I haven't played it myself, nor do I own it.
| Mr Puggsly said: I beat Quantum Break and Ryse twice. They weren't amazing per se but still enjoyable. |
I was hoping for something "more" from the people who brought us Alan Wake. (Which I also own.)
Ryse was everything I expected, lots of visuals, not much else. Crysis on PC in 2007 was easily my favorite game out of Crytek, it's hard to for Crytek to top that experience for me.
| Mr Puggsly said: I haven't played much Halo Wars 2 but its fun and its not like we have meant RTS options on consoles. So whatever, fun and unique content. |
It's Story is fairly convoluted and boring and suffers from bad pacing, by the time you start to get into the groove of things... They ended it.
Multiplayer online population is basically dead as a doornail in Oceania.
There was only 1 map for Blitz which was the one new and interesting game mode.
The best RTS on consoles is still the first Halo Wars in my opinion, shame Microsoft didn't support that title better, the re-release is good though, but suffers from lack of population in it's multiplayer component.
| Mr Puggsly said: Recore has achieved a cult status. Can't be worse than The Order, I will play it eventually. |
I expected more. It certainly is a better title than The Order 1886.
| Mr Puggsly said: I played a lot of DR3 and I will play DR4 eventually. But that's Capcom stuff. |
Being an early generation game, it just hasn't aged very well. I am a graphics whore though, so you might care less about things like static hair meshes and low resolution texturing.
| Mr Puggsly said: STAGE likes to complain about MS content but he would play anything on PlayStation it seems. I like all the consoles but I believe MS still makes the most enjoyable games. |
Lots of those kinds of people around, I think genuine criticism is good. Hating just because it's is bullshit.
It's because of criticism that forced Microsoft to ditch the Kinect to lower the price and open up more hardware power... It was thanks to criticism that the always online DRM was obliterated. It can actually benefit the platform as a whole.
| Mr Puggsly said: Rare was always over rated. But... Banjo NnB is criminally under rated. |
I know right? Nuts and Bolts had some solid mechanics... And I have to admit... It had me hooked for awhile there. I wouldn't complain if we got a sequel to it. And Kameo as well.
| caffeinade said: HBM uses less space and power, so there is a legitimate reason for them to use it besides performance. |
HBM does use less space and power.
But it's also more complex to implement thanks to the need for interposers and it being a stacked DRAM technology.
GDDR6 should be able to have higher densities and use less power than GDDR5 anyway.
I agree. 7nm needs to be a thing. Not a "fake" 7nm marketing process either. Just like 16/14nm Finfet from TSMC/Global Foundries/Samsung etc'. Aren't true 16/14nm processes.
| caffeinade said: The GV100 is hardly a next gen gaming GPU (though I do want to see what people can do with the tensor core for gaming, hope for the best, expect the worst). |
I disagree. It's a monolithic chip on a 12nm process (That has a 14nm FEOL or BEOL).
At 7nm, it should fall into the realm of being mid-range. Aka. Next-gen consoles.
I don't think you fully comprehend of how much of an impressive chip it is. Today. It's level of price/power/performance becomes affordable for next-gen thanks to Moores Law.
I am not an nVidia fanboy. And I am a tech-head. And I am stupidly excited for this chip. I probably haven't been this excited about any piece of silicon in about a decade.
Tulipanzo said:
Fair enough, tbh, but what I'm mostly disappointed in is their current gen line-up. I bought one in 2015, when with games such as Scalebound, Phantom Dust and Sea of Thieves it seemed like they were genuinely releasing games I wouldn't have expected from them. Their release schedule, beside being a bit barren, seems a lot more quaint now. If I can't trust the brand's direction why should I trust a beefed up One? |
I was being Sarcastic with my reply. I would never recommend buying the latest console to play 10 year old games.
If you want quality Exclusives though... My bet is on the Switch long-term. The Playstation 4 will remain strong in it's position as well of course.
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