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Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II launches to VERY POSITIVE reviews on Steam
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Mowcno
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I think the internet did a good job getting it out there what type of experience this title is. It's certainly not for everyone. This is why players are so low and reviews are high. Because the people that don't want a 5-6 hour cinematic experience for £50 aren't going within a country mile of it, and thus can't leave a negative review.
Only the small niche that are willing to put money down on a title like this are going near it.
Only the small niche that are willing to put money down on a title like this are going near it.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
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firing up his review farm as we speak.
Buggy Loop
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Majority of Neogaf right now
ricardo_sousa11
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The 3.9k people that got it enjoyed it really well
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Not doing the game any favors in, well, actually getting people to play it.
Also just IMO, from what I've seen it's a big downgrade from the 1st in story, combat & puzzles. Almost shockingly so. The visuals are very, very good though. I'd say about tied with HFW: Burning Shores and Cyberpunk (w/ mods) as one of the best-looking games of current-gen available.
Though HB2's doing a lot less than either of those games in multiple aspects.
Ass of Can Whooping
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Buggy Loop
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What the hell, way too fast of a response with AI image. How much ammo you have stashed prepared for all occasions in this war
Ass of Can Whooping
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What the hell, way too fast of a response with AI image. How much ammo you have stashed prepared for all occasions in this war
It's bigger than Hellblade i'll tell you that
HeWhoWalks
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
What the hell, way too fast of a response with AI image. How much ammo you have stashed prepared for all occasions in this war
I hacked into his computer, that mofo is prepared.
SEGAvangelist
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DenchDeckard
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Not doing the game any favors in, well, actually getting people to play it.
Also just IMO, from what I've seen it's a big downgrade from the 1st in story, combat & puzzles. Almost shockingly so. The visuals are very, very good though. I'd say about tied with HFW: Burning Shores and Cyberpunk (w/ mods) as one of the best-looking games of current-gen available.
Though HB2's doing a lot less than either of those games in multiple aspects.
From a fidelity, tech and pretty much everything outside of scope of areas hellblade 2 pisses all over horizon.
It's literally a tech demo.
its an xbox studios game so yes? xbox isnt just consoles.A Steam thread is now an Xbox thread?
LiquidMetal14
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This is making Starfield look good.
Another boring game. Pretty though.
Another boring game. Pretty though.
thicc_girls_are_teh_best
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Fake news
Not really. I mean I agree the game is practically a tech demo (if I'm being honest it's like a modern-day SEGA CD FMV game and even stuff like Night Trap had more player freedom). Not the other stuff though.
I don't know how you quantify "tech" considering the game's just using UE5 and its features. Something having photogrammetry doesn't by default make it look better IMO. While I would say HB2 edges HFW out in areas of lighting and native resolution, you really need a capable PC to get something approaching the best for this game. Whereas HFW: BS looks (and runs) extremely good on a PS5, let alone a 4090.
Also maybe just personal take, but given HB2 only really has visuals going for it, they just aren't "clearly above" other games to justify all the other areas HB2 falls short in. The game also spends lots of time in dark caves that are visually uninteresting, and it's already a short & small game. On top of even that, since it's so on-rails there's almost a cognitive dissonance in having this beautiful world around you but walking up on tons of invisible walls all over the damn place.
It's not even that easy to directly compare HB2 with HFW because of artistic differences but yeah, outside of lighting-related effects, some hair physics, and output native rendering resolution there isn't anything on a technical level that puts HB2 above HFW:BS. Artistically though some will probably prefer it over Horizon just like others will prefer Horizon over it.
James Sawyer Ford
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Yeah the other problem with HB2 is that its visuals are not playable for games that actually have gameplay
Letterboxed, low resolution, blurry, and smeared with post processing Vaseline.
Despite being pretty in certain areas it’s actually nauseating to actually play
SEGAvangelist
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It looks God damn amazing. I'm only playing on Series X, but holy shit I'm impressed. Of course, it's very limited in where you can go and what you can do, but visually, there isn't anything better out there on a console.
James Sawyer Ford
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There’s countless games that look better, because playability, clarity, and scale matters.
HB2 has the best confined micro detail but it all gets smeared on the ridiculously low resolution and post processing
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