Although not happy about the no SS for Evil Within 2, I'm partly starting to not care and am getting pretty fucking sick of all this resolution bullshit when it is becoming more and more apparent that developers aren't giving a fuck about performance and/or the gameplay of the game when all they seem to give a fuck about is resolution (obviously not ALL Developers).
A couple of examples;
Skyrim SE @ 4K on Ps4 Pro = Stutters like fuck and is a fucking mess on my 1080p PJ yet is smooth as butter on a standard ps4. The SS doesn't improve things nearly that much, perhaps other than on interior parts of the world/caves etc. Bought the game digital and is unplayable for me. Yet if I had a standard ps4 I wouldn't have any issues at all. Fucking joke you can't decide to not have the update...
Wolfenstein The Colossus @ Higher Resolution on Ps4 Pro = Not impressed that much with the graphics at all. Look great at times to ok at times (art style helps a lot). The Dynamic Resolution is a fucking eyesore at times too and with the patch 1.02 that has removed a huge amount of volumetric lighting, it does look a lot flatter than before. Sometimes in parts of the game, the resolution doesn't even look 1080p in my eyes. I can't remember the last time I saw slow down at the end of level one that bad. Pffft. DOOM was far more impressive. More impressive visually and more impressive gameplay.
Now perhaps I just don't get the gameplay in Wolfestein but the game feels like it hasn't been tested for GAMEPLAY what so ever! WAY Too Hard. WAY Too Easy. I feel like there is a great game underneath but it's impossible to get at it due to the way the game has been designed. Fucking health kits and armour everywhere looted around without any care for creating GAMEPLAY. Perhaps the Developers could have spent more time making a better game cos what I'm playing at the moment, I'm really struggling to keep engaged. The game also has plenty of glitches.
For me, too much emphasis on 4K when that doesn't seem the best way to budget making a great game.
I play @ 65" on a 1080p PJ @ 6ft away. The Witcher 3 looked and played great before the pro patch. I was unable to not install the patch even though I selected not to do updates in my system, it fucking updated anyway. Now it has slowdown in some areas but acceptable enough performance and the SS looks ok. At first I didn't like it cos I thought it made the game look too soft but I've got used to it - I've got no fucking choice!
Doom looks great without SS or 4K. Am I gonna be pissed when I am forced to install a fucking Pro patch that I can't prevent and then the game doesn't run as smooth! Arrrrrgh!
Still not bought HZD yet after watching some gameplay with the dumb ass Ai on the human encounters - although I realise the main part of the game looks great and the gameplay against the robots/machines looks great, after watching the Ai when attacking the humans, it turned me off (as did some of the lip syncing/acting) enough not to buy the game Day 1. Maybe if I had a 4K tv I would have done but I aint and I don't intend to buy one until there is a bit more maturity in the hardware. I will buy HZD eventually but the emphasis on making the game run at such a high resolution obviously meant certain areas of the game with budget/time/available resources to the game engine were cut.
However, like with everything in life, there is always the other side. Alienation (amongst others) looks quite a bit like shit on a 65" Screen and that could def do with a resolution boost and one I'd welcome lol!
With that I can see it can't be easy for Developers - they aren't always going to make the right choice that pleases everyone. Perhaps Sony could help though by starting to allow options for (updated or not) pro patches and whilst they're at it, put something in place to stop those who only own 1080p screens not getting fucked with no SS (as an option) if they want it (if the game has a higher res mode).
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