Definitely a bit of a disappointment in terms of performance on Series X, game runs better on PS5 on just about every mode, likely thanks to the Sony 1 year paid marketing and exclusive content deal. Also a shame that the 40 fps balanced mode requires an HDMI 2.1 screen, even though HDMI 2.0 is more than capable of running a game at a max of 1728p 40 fps. 

Interesting. For the lack of a Digital Foundry video I watched the next best video yesterday and there the Series X had better performance than PS5 in every mode but one (I think PS5 only had the upper hand in RT mode.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cKmXJBBXvc

At least it’s not as bad as Callisto Protocol where Sony devs intentionally gimped the Xbox version.

Yeah, I watched that same video myself last week. Only thing I can think of is that the other test is before the latest patch, which was supposed to have performance improvements. Digital Foundry waited on the new patch before testing because WB asked them to. So maybe the new patch pushed PS5 ahead with larger improvements while offering smaller improvements on Series X. Or maybe even the new patch hurt performance on Series X as a result of a bug, I'd have to watch the average framerate difference on Series X between the two videos to see if the framerate is about the same as before or actually worse in the DF test. We have seen bad patches in the past that actually made things worse for a certain platform, the latest Witcher 3 Series X/PS5 patch made framerate worse on the framerate mode on both consoles for instance, saw that on a digital foundry video last week. 

Predictions on Atomic Noble's metacritic? Think it will drop tomorrow.

84

I'll go with an 81 on Atomic Heart. I think that some critics will struggle to set aside their biases over the game being Russian developed in the midst of the Russia-Ukraine war, and a few critics like that could drag it's score down if Metacritic and Opencritic count those reviews. Hopefully they will not count any obviously bias based reviews just like they did for some of the worst Hogwarts Legacy reviews, but we shall see. They should at least toss anything 4/10 or lower as those will very likely be biased reviews, but all it would take is a handful of 5 and 6/10 reviews to drag down it's average alot.

I’ll change my AH prediction to 74 due to this 

Just finished A Plague Tale: Requiem.

Overall a great game that started out strong but declined during the middle section and especially towards the end.

Visually probably the best looking game on Series X. Truly breathtaking. Therefore, I guess it's understandable that it doesn't run at 60 FPS even though I don't see why they didn't try to implement a performance mode. During gameplay this doesn't cause a lot of issues because the game doesn't require fast and precise inputs.

Unfortunately the puzzles in this game are very simplistic. Some of the hardest puzzles involve opening locked doors by spotting a hole in the wall where you can then shoot the lock with your sling. The rest is just moving from one illuminated place to another which won't cause any problems since it's what you're doing all the time in this game. Needless to say, the puzzles are very similar to the ones in the first game.

Another thing that disappointed me from the half-way point during the end was the story.

After the credits they apparently teased a sequel that plays in modern times. I guess that would at least lead to new kind of puzzles.

8.5/10

Reviews look all over the place on this one!