Am I just lucky, or the game isnt that bad?

[mr_froge]

No idea, if I'm lucky or they have improved the performance, but I'm having 60 fps on default settings 1080p without FSR/DLSS on rather mediocre laptop with mobile 3070.

I've played for ~1-2 hours, did the prologue:
- the graphics are not terrible, the usual team ninja thing
- the combat is fun
- the plot is cheesy as hell, double so with English voices where they all speak with heavy Japanese accent, but not as crigeworthy as it was in Ghost of Tsushima

[mostly5]

Messaggio originale di belangf:

It runs fine... on Low settings where I get about 50 fps. No real performance issues but it doesn't look that great. Ghost of Tsushima is a lot more pretty and runs way better. Even Dark Souls 3 from 9 years ago looks better. Overall the game is very enjoyable, but for the graphics quality it should run at a much higher fps.

Don't forget Batman Arkham Knight. That game's graphic look like something that should be in the current console generation.

[gungadin22000]

Game looks fine to me, honestly. It does, however, also look quite bland most of the time.

Compared to the fantastic locales of Nioh, magical floating isles, giant trees and scary demons, RotR is just 19th century Japan. Looks fine, but the art style is kind of uninspired, in my humble opinion.

So in my view, this is as much of an art direction issue as a graphical one.

[PvWolf666]

I've never had an issue since day one and I turned most of the post processing off.

[PvWolf666]

Messaggio originale di mr_froge:

No idea, if I'm lucky or they have improved the performance, but I'm having 60 fps on default settings 1080p without FSR/DLSS on rather mediocre laptop with mobile 3070.

I've played for ~1-2 hours, did the prologue:
- the graphics are not terrible, the usual team ninja thing
- the combat is fun
- the plot is cheesy as hell, double so with English voices where they all speak with heavy Japanese accent, but not as crigeworthy as it was in Ghost of Tsushima

Hence why I never have English dubs on these games. Bad actors

[medion_no]

They downgraded the graphics and the LODs severely for all users, medium is now Ultra etc... Of course it has more perfomance now...

[zartiavan]

Is one of the best game that I played last 2-3 years. If you notice, no one talks about the game being bad, other than few dumb people. People are unironically complaining about the most irrelevant stuff for this game and try to depict it as a major issues.

LOD, for example, is way better than Elden Ring. However, no Miyazaki in the credit, so no pass.

[LArc7thHeaven]

Messaggio originale di medion_no:

They downgraded the graphics and the LODs severely for all users, medium is now Ultra etc... Of course it has more perfomance now...

I'm not noticing the graphic downgrade but LOD yeah, they've butchered the LOD with people literally spawning every now and then

Messaggio originale di mr_froge:

the plot is cheesy as hell, double so with English voices where they all speak with heavy Japanese accent, but not as crigeworthy as it was in Ghost of Tsushima

The en dub VAs is mostly composed of literal who while JP VA is mostly composed from top line VAs

[causality]

Messaggio originale di LArc7thHeaven:

Messaggio originale di medion_no:

They downgraded the graphics and the LODs severely for all users, medium is now Ultra etc... Of course it has more perfomance now...

I'm not noticing the graphic downgrade but LOD yeah, they've butchered the LOD with people literally spawning every now and then

Messaggio originale di mr_froge:

the plot is cheesy as hell, double so with English voices where they all speak with heavy Japanese accent, but not as crigeworthy as it was in Ghost of Tsushima

The en dub VAs is mostly composed of literal who while JP VA is mostly composed from top line VAs

It's honestly like that for a lot of Japanese games. I was playing some indie dev jrpg and they had Daisuke Ono voicing a character.

[Age]

Quite honestly, the game would be ton of fun if they didn't make "countering" and blocking separated and got rid of the stupid "PARRY NOW, NOT A SECOND AFTER RED FLASHH" crap they introduced with "Call of Souls". I don't care if it makes it easier, it is fun.

That ♥♥♥♥ gets VERY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying in boss battles or worse, when you go against 1vs5 since the "Parry" are timed to specific "animation frame" and yes, I don't like that ♥♥♥♥, especially when the bosses allowed to go full DMC/Dynasty Warriors on me.

They can do that, but i can't and get punished for aggressive playing with "Hyperarmored boss" or "Mini-boss" just doing a 0.5 grappling "animation" ♥♥♥♥.

[causality]

Messaggio originale di Age:

Quite honestly, the game would be ton of fun if they didn't make "countering" and blocking separated and got rid of the stupid "PARRY NOW, NOT A SECOND AFTER RED FLASHH" crap they introduced with "Call of Souls". I don't care if it makes it easier, it is fun.

That ♥♥♥♥ gets VERY ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying in boss battles or worse, when you go against 1vs5 since the "Parry" are timed to specific "animation frame" and yes, I don't like that ♥♥♥♥, especially when the bosses allowed to go full DMC/Dynasty Warriors on me.

They can do that, but i can't and get punished for aggressive playing with "Hyperarmored boss" or "Mini-boss" just doing a 0.5 grappling "animation" ♥♥♥♥.

Some bosses do feel like they're playing DMC with Bury the Light in the background but honestly it's just a matter of learning a new/different game where in Nioh 2 you could zero ki combo bully human bosses so they never got to play the game.

[Kalikoded]

Messaggio originale di Lahoo Eckbert:

Graphics were slandered for no reason imo. Most people still use PS5 screenshots to tell you the game looks bad while on PC high/ultra graphics, game looks pretty good.

No one is using PS5 screenshots. They're playing the game on PC and they complained because the game looks NOWHERE as beautiful as Ghosts while having a lot more performance issues. No reason to lie here. They've done a pretty good job of cleaning up the performance issues and the game is pretty good. I'm just irritated that people named it the spiritual successor to Way of the Samurai and it doesn't fit the bill. Enjoying it so far regardless.

[ghoul]

Messaggio originale di Lahoo Eckbert:

Messaggio originale di mr_froge:

No idea, if I'm lucky or they have improved the performance, but I'm having 60 fps on default settings 1080p without FSR/DLSS on rather mediocre laptop with mobile 3070.

I've played for ~1-2 hours, did the prologue:
- the graphics are not terrible, the usual team ninja thing
- the combat is fun
- the plot is cheesy as hell, double so with English voices where they all speak with heavy Japanese accent, but not as crigeworthy as it was in Ghost of Tsushima

Graphics were slandered for no reason imo. Most people still use PS5 screenshots to tell you the game looks bad while on PC high/ultra graphics, game looks pretty good.

Combat is fun but gets more frustrating as you get deeper into the game, your skill level can't catch up to spiking difficulty, unless you plan on sinking 1000 hours into the game. Combat isn't intuitive but rather memorized. Parry is essential, so you have to memorize timings. Becomes near impossible with so many attack patterns and variable parry timing based on the stances you use.

Plot was ok'ish. Better than Wo long, I think characters were more memorable, it just becomes a bit too annoying to fight the same dudes over and over again. I wish the game had more unique bosses like Wo Long.

I think the graphic complaints were mostly from launch. There was this weird smeary ghosting going on and it made the game look awful. Dont have that problem anymore and now the game looks pretty good. Its far from Ghost of Tsushima good but it does the job. I dont really understand why alot of people think every game nowadays needs to look super ultra hyper realistic with 4k fart particles and raytraced sweat droplets. Nobody cares about that ♥♥♥♥

[Lahoo Eckbert]

Messaggio originale di Kalikoded:

Messaggio originale di Lahoo Eckbert:

Graphics were slandered for no reason imo. Most people still use PS5 screenshots to tell you the game looks bad while on PC high/ultra graphics, game looks pretty good.

No one is using PS5 screenshots. They're playing the game on PC and they complained because the game looks NOWHERE as beautiful as Ghosts while having a lot more performance issues. No reason to lie here. They've done a pretty good job of cleaning up the performance issues and the game is pretty good. I'm just irritated that people named it the spiritual successor to Way of the Samurai and it doesn't fit the bill. Enjoying it so far regardless.

Messaggio originale di ghoul:

Messaggio originale di Lahoo Eckbert:

Graphics were slandered for no reason imo. Most people still use PS5 screenshots to tell you the game looks bad while on PC high/ultra graphics, game looks pretty good.

Combat is fun but gets more frustrating as you get deeper into the game, your skill level can't catch up to spiking difficulty, unless you plan on sinking 1000 hours into the game. Combat isn't intuitive but rather memorized. Parry is essential, so you have to memorize timings. Becomes near impossible with so many attack patterns and variable parry timing based on the stances you use.

Plot was ok'ish. Better than Wo long, I think characters were more memorable, it just becomes a bit too annoying to fight the same dudes over and over again. I wish the game had more unique bosses like Wo Long.

I think the graphic complaints were mostly from launch. There was this weird smeary ghosting going on and it made the game look awful. Dont have that problem anymore and now the game looks pretty good. Its far from Ghost of Tsushima good but it does the job. I dont really understand why alot of people think every game nowadays needs to look super ultra hyper realistic with 4k fart particles and raytraced sweat droplets. Nobody cares about that ♥♥♥♥

I started playing on the day it came out and graphics were pretty good. Granted I had most of the stuff on ultra-high and I used DLSS 4(used dlss swapper).
Some people probably lowered the graphics and used terrible upscaling like fsr 3 or xes and decided that the game looked bad.

I do agree with the performance. It was pretty bad and I still don't think it is acceptable now. Certain areas the CPU usage goes up to 80-90%, and I'm guessing it more has to do with the npc's.

I never played GOT so I never made a comparison but I highly doubt a game that came out 5 years ago can have better graphics than this one. Must be cherry picking.