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[jshaver488]

Lol the pc version is lowering the opencritic

https://opencritic.com/game/13283/the-last-of-us-part-i

 

[lh032]

im surprised Sony would ship this out with these kind of performance.

 

[Pedro Motta]

They should have been honest about the specs. Game runs really well on a 3090ti. It’s made for high end PCs.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

So, did they actually port it in house?

I was under the impression that's what the drunkman said?

Yes Naughty Dog developed it in-house. Source: https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/celebrating_the_release_of_the_last_of_us_part_i_on_pc

IG only helped out a "tiny bit" the studio head was on an interview on the Jeff Gerstmann confirming it. You can it on the Jeff Gertsmann show YouTube.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

Why indeed.

NeoGaf should have a "like" option with the thinking emoji .

 

[Gamerguy84]

Exactly, it's not like they needed to recoup some money back it's just a port to them. The game already made them a lot of money.

Who Is responsible for what gets released on PC?

This is a bit baffling.

 

[Ansphn]

Because it was rushed. PC base don't buy games and instead pirate it. That's why a single player narrative games rarely sell well on PC. Only multiplayer games have extensive success. So I don't blame ND when they can be focusing on making they next game.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

I think the bigger question is why Sony/ND allowed the release of arguably their most valued IP to get botched this bad.

And why didn't they let Nixxess, the studio *MADE* for quality conversions, handle this.

Naughty Dog developed the PC version themselves, it's not like they handed it to somebody else. It makes sense that Nixxes is likely working on other games. Naughty Dog will continue to develop PC games so I expect them to learn the ropes and get better with time.

As for why did Sony release the game? Others have covered pretty much every theory, I go with basic but usually dead on theory: money.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

No. It was ported by Iron Galaxy.

This was proven wrong by Naughty Dog and Iron Galaxy. IG only helped a "tiny bit", ND developed the game in house.

Celebrating the Release of The Last of Us Part I on PC || Naughty Dog

Reflections on the studio’s journey of bringing Joel and Ellie’s story to fans and new players alike on PC

www.naughtydog.com

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

Wow, I had Naughty dog on a pedestal after the Uncharted ports. What the hell happened here?. It got outsourced or given to the students?. Even amateur modders are more consistent that this.

First PC port made inhouse by Naughty Dog. Seems they aren't PC wiz's: https://www.naughtydog.com/blog/celebrating_the_release_of_the_last_of_us_part_i_on_pc

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

They should have been honest about the specs. Game runs really well on a 3090ti. It’s made for high end PCs.

The 3090ti is vastly more powerful than a PS5, you'd hope it ran an unoptimized PS5 game well.

 

[Rea]

Is the score reflects the performance or the game itself?

 

[Pedro Motta]

The 3090ti is vastly more powerful than a PS5, you'd hope it ran an unoptimized PS5 game well.

Its about VRAM. Not speed of the card.

 

[ADiTAR]

Because they ran out of ink.

 

[GymWolf]

The 3090ti is vastly more powerful than a PS5, you'd hope it ran an unoptimized PS5 game well.

That looks like and high def ps4 one.

 

[ReBurn]

Sony is just letting them buy their own copies like the rest of us.

 

[aries_71]

Yes and their standards is this:

No Craig-like six month long meme spell for this?

 

[ClosBSAS]

But it sounds counter-productive? Naughty Dog is one of the most admired and respected developers in the industry. There was really no reason to rush it out the door. They even delayed it by 3 weeks from its initial release date to polish and then this? This is just bizarre. Tarnishing your reputation and blowing up in the gaming community for all the wrong reasons seems like a horrible trade-off to sneak in a few pre-orders that would result in at most a couple of millions of dollars.

They have lost a lot of goodwill and need to redeem themselves now.

Sorry, as a PC gamer...me...what goodwill did they lose? To Sony gamers they didn't lose shit, they are still good ol naughty dog. To PC gamers? They never existed. And after the uncharted PC fiasco, it was to be expected. They don't care about PC market and it's obvious

 

[Clear]

So you are saying they gave it a half effort and called it good.

No, what I'm saying is that they likely demanded they stick to date in order to ride the wave of interest following the HBO show. Knowing that even if the PC version would need patching post-release, it was better for them to have something rather than nothing, ESPECIALLY given that its far from the only way to play the game and the one with the heaviest hardware reqs and therefore smallest potential market.

 

[Gaiff]

Sorry, as a PC gamer...me...what goodwill did they lose? To Sony gamers they didn't lose shit, they are still good ol naughty dog. To PC gamers? They never existed. And after the uncharted PC fiasco, it was to be expected. They don't care about PC market and it's obvious

I think we're all aware of their reputation. I personally never cared for their games outside of Uncharted 2, but I did rank them highly solely based on their technical prowess and polish of their games. Now, I'll be wary of their releases on PC at least. This is definitely a stain on their track record. Not a big one that they won't recover from but a blemish nonetheless.

 

[MasterCornholio]

No. It was ported by Iron Galaxy.

Looked them up in Wikipedia and guess what I found?

Damn now that's a blast from the past.

The studios work seems like a mixed bag to me.

 

[Satansblade]

hopefully this is the last pc port for a while

It's not. This was Sony being dumb to push it out before people forgot the HBO series. Sony will absolutely continue to put its games on PC. Not only that, the time between them is probably going to shrink. They saw how big Spider-Man and GoW were on Steam. LoU will probably sell well regardless of problems as well. ANd they will get fixed. PC is a fact of life for first party now, there really isn't a good reason to leave that money on the table.

Some like GaaS may have to come day 1. You can't ignore the PC community if you want a GaaS to survive.

 

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[BennyBlanco]

hopefully this is the last pc port for a while

hopefully they port bloodborne and demon souls next, you can keep the rest.

Nixxes is reportedly working on Ratchet and Clank, and I just have to wonder why. Nobody is asking for it. Its gonna flop.

 

[Gameplay Gods Bless]

Its about VRAM. Not speed of the card.

That Vram is high for the same reason the rest of the card is high performance. The quality(GDDR6X), speed(around 1TB per second of bandwidth) and capacity(24GB) are all really expensive compared to chucking sub 16GB of standard GDDR6 memory on a card.

 

[Fake]

Because they want to take advantage of the show so they rushed out the port.

 

[aries_71]

im surprised Sony would ship this out with these kind of performance.

They wanted to ride the HBO series hype, but crashed and burned instead. The Daedelus effect.

 

[Kataploom]

The port is too good for humanity to deserve, people wouldn't believe the technical marvel of Naughty Gods until they see it themselves, there's clearly no other reason

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

The last of us... Lately it has had content of inclusivity. .

 

[geary]

The should get the CDPR treatment, but sadly they wont.

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

Yes and their standards is this:

No way!!!

How can it be possible? Even the PS3 version was better optimized and PS3 had a lot of technological limitations.

Should put the Ps4 version.

 

[Thebonehead]

No Craig-like six month long meme spell for this?