Troubled PC Ports Revisited - Forspoken, Returnal, Callisto Protocol, Dead Space - Are They Fixed?
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- čas přidán 1. 07. 2024
- For a while now, PC ports have launched with various issues to the point where the day one experience is often disappointing, if not downright broken. We've already seen promising signs of improvement in The Last of Us Part 1, but what about the rest of the triple-A titles we've got issues with? Patches have been forthcoming across the weeks and months for The Callisto Protocol, Forspoken, Returnal and the Dead Space Remake, so in this content, Alex revisits them all. Does the PC experience improve over time? Do games mature into solid experiences? As you may imagine, the reality is complicated.
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00:00 Introduction
00:42 The Callisto Protocol
05:03 Dead Space
08:00 Returnal
13:09 Forspoken
19:29 Summary + Conclusion - Hry
Something very EA about the abandonment of Dead Space
EA the type who don't care once they already got your cash.
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I like how they put out a Game Demo on Steam for everyone to experience how bad the stuttering is. Damn shame the game is very good.
reminds me of Dragon age Inquisition, abandoned with glaringly obvious bugs for the modding community to fix
It’s tragic. A wonderful AAA remake… intentionally relegated to the bargain bin by lack of any post launch support for a technical issue that’s a.) totally fixable by devs and b.) should’ve never been launched with from the start.
I know it's a lot of work to revisit games, and also tiring to sometimes see the lack of improvements, but you're doing the community a huge service. Thank you, Alex!
its not a lot of work, not any more or less than any other video
@@xBINARYGODx
Oh?
And how would you know that?
There are multiple games to check.
How much time do you think it takes?
10 minutes?
15?
8?
@@xBINARYGODx yeah but they have no obligation to provide a follow up. They could concentrate on new releases.
Thus why people appreciate the work done here.
Especially since here Alex revisited 5 games. That's nothing to sniff at.
Thanks so much for revisiting PATCHED games! It helps me know which games are worth buying now after a few patches. Your content is always so thorough and well-structured :)
@Garrus Vakarian yet not a ending dlc so far.
@Garrus Vakarian I mean even if that game ran perfectly the core foundation of that game simply is not as good as Dead Space which it was supposed to be a successor to.
You can't make an alright game a great game just because it runs well, it's still just an alright game, but now you don't get a headache from all the hitching and stutters.
I'll pirate them and buy good releases at launch with the money, and feel great doing it.
Games with bad pc launches will never getting my money, that sends the company the wrong message.
Yeah
If a game doesn't launch in an acceptable state then it doesn't deserve your money. Giving developers a chance for do overs means this will keep happening.
Even more disappointing is the fact Motive has still yet to fix a progress-blocking bug that quite a few users, including me, have experienced and cannot finish the game because of it.
A lot of people can't play the game for a couple of minutes until it crashes because "Getdeviceremoved" something. It really sucks. I can't leave the first time settings before it crashes, running on a 4080.
Back when I played Skyrim, I couldn’t get past the first cinematic. That sucked.
@@Delucaass jesus a 4080 isn't the only bit of hardwaRe in your system
@@gozutheDJ so?
ill definitely be pirating dead space 2 remake after this, nice one motive/ea
Your reporting has done so much for the PC community. I remember posting on forums back 10+ years ago about stutters and everyone shouted that they weren't real. Glad to have consistent visual proof and enough of an audience to get developer's attention to fix a lot of stutter issues I feared would've been left unchecked otherwise.
Your comment reminded me of that silly meme:
Average PC gamer: *"stutter is not real and can't hurt you."*
2022 and 2023 PC ports:
me st 4090 ti and a i12
you are a liar! I don't any sttuter😒
Pipeline State Objects didn't exist yet 10 years ago. I'm sure you saw stutters back then, but to see the hardware invariance reported with PSO stutters these days and link them as proof to something you've been shouting about 10+ years ago is disingenuous.
Fwiw: traversal stutters have been a common issue ever since engines have started targeting open world games, which has gained traction pretty much since the UE3 era .. so maybe you were seeing those. That said, traversal stutters tend to be more amenable to hardware scaling .. especially in the era of emerging SSDs .. so if you were shouting about traversal stutter 10+ years ago, it may very well have been the case that some people legitimately didn't encounter them due to hardware setups.
Of course this doesn't take anything away from DF having done a lot to hold the general gaming industry accountable from a graphics perspective.
I love this idea! So many PC ports are unfinished that they are not worth buying on day 1. Assuming that this year of PC ports is a sign of future things to come, which it probably is sadly, then you should make more videos like this.
It's not. Most of the issues stem from development constrained or impacted by the pandemic. They're systemic issue that are buried deep in the early development of the games that the final push for optimization and even post-launch patches can't entirely fix. Performance in games will get better as the long term impact of development during the Pandemic lessens and we get further from that period in the industry.
@@TechnicalGamingChannel I certainly hope so. If these poorly optimized games were all just from the pandemic that would be nice. But I just don't see it.
The fact that the most glaring issues for these games were fixed after just a few months shows that the creators of these ports were just being rushed and we could have had good ports of all of these games if they were given a bit more time.
@@RegalPixelKing they were being rushed because their production deadlines were impacted by the pandemic
@Ching Vang Man, it's almost like everyone handled the pandemic differently, it had different impacts in various parts of the world, and game development is a massive and complex endeavor that everyone tackles differently...
Well I always purchased games when they are 50% off. It's always a win win
This is the reason why Alex looked so "exhausted" on DF Weekly😅Thank you for doing this Alex!
You forgot to mention that the Forspoken 1.2 version also has more cats..........come on Alex.
I am missing the forest for the trees again
-Alex
Or dare I say, the "hand for the foot".
How such a-meow-zing changes haven't caught hiss attention is a real head-scratcher. And a real armchair-scratcher as well.
You’d think Alex would have cat-alogued all the changes made in each game… or maybe he wasn’t feline up to the task?
They really know theur audience, cat ladies and homosexuals 😂
@@DigitalFoundry Diablo IV PC optimised settings when?! Many are waiting for it...
The depths you guys go to is impressive. Sometimes I kind of feel like it would be warranted for ya'll to post a 30 second video that just says "Nope, they are all still broken"
Now that you mention it, this content would fit shorts very well
I love that you guys did this video! Periodic "update"/"is it fixed?" videos like this are highly useful, and I for one would love it if you guys made them a regular thing.
I hope you all started a new playlist for this type of video because I have a feeling this is gonna be a monthly video. Awesome job coming back to these games and checking on them for the community and not leaving it in the dust.
Really appreciate these kind of vids, was very curious about the status of some of these games
Quick FYI, Callisto Protocol is still abysmal around the shanty town area later into the game especially if you have RT turned on even on something like a 5900x. Probably doesn't get much coverage cause it's much further on but something to be aware of cause it's pretty much the bulk of the last quarter or so of the game.
Should I opt for Callisto Protocol on PS5 (performance mode and 60 fps) or would it be better on 3090+RT?
@@llmc1971 since I wrote this, it seems they've improved the performance on PC quite a bit. Some of the real choke points run a lot better now. I think you could have a decent experience on PC now if you've got a decent CPU and can stomach some outlier FPS dips.
@@recordatron thanx.
@@recordatronwhich GPU u have
This is a fantastic format Alex - well-structured, in-depth and easy to follow. Please turn this into a mainstay format. Dankeschön!😉
I'd love to see more of this in the future.
That said, what I'd *REALLY* love to see more is day one releases improve to the point where this exercise becomes unnecessary.
Stellar as always Alex.
These types of videos are always super interesting, definitely interested in seeing more old games revisited! Especially for live service games that keep getting updated over multiple years.
It's all pointing to an utterly failed transition to DX12. There's been no 'onboarding' for developers. They completely ignored or failed to see all the extra steps they had to take, now that certain automated aspects of DX11 no longer existed. This is shown by the TLOU PC port patch having better textures with lower VRAM utilization - steps were ignored that used to be automated in DX11. Every hitchy stuttery PC game in 2022 and beyond are victim to this. DX12 has been an absolute disaster. In the right hands it's good and has a higher technical ceiling, but it's not being taken advantage of whatsoever and that's a tragic failure on the API and the gamedevs' parts
I honestly wonder if it wasn't possible to solve DX11's bottleneck of relying on a single cpu core to communicate with the GPU without completely giving low level access to devs? MSFT should have created two versions of DX12 , one high level and one low level.
They could have easily just adopted Vulkan API and it would have solved all the porting game problems to multi platforms. But M$ would not have allowed that to happen!
it has nothing to do with DX12 as there are plenty of DX11 games having stuttering issues. even The Callisto Protocol has nearly the same traversal stuttering in DX11 as it does in DX12.
agree, ofc i'm no api expert but dx12 seems faulty on windows
@@atariplayer3686 even with vulkan you need some"skills" to run it corectly. vulkan is not as automated like dx11 too.
Alex, you are perhaps the biggest consumer advocate of PC gaming cohort, we need you more than you deserve us.
This is the most helpful type of video you guys can make right now, thank you Alex!
Thanks a lot for revisiting these games and their patch effects. I hope to see more of this every once in a while for games that have a troubled start.
Thank you Alex! I love your in-depth graphical analysis, and these follow up videos are wonderful!
Amazing content that is actually interesting and helpful! Thanks for this great work guys ♥
Ive been playing Forspoken on PS5 and i was genuinely surprised at the improvements compared to that original demo. So good to hear the PC port has also received love and attention 😌
What a surprise of a video. I know you guys have a bunch of things on the go, so I appreciate you updating me on these games... Sad to see they're not doing too great.
7:41: It's so nice of Motive Studio to release Dead Space (2023) to us plebs a decade before they were intending (when the 23900KS and 14090 come out).
Thank you, really appreciate the revisited ports. Hope you will make more in the future. I will keep wait for DS and Returnal to be better.
I would say that this problem (bad optimization and/or shader compilation stutter in UE4 games) has already started before 2022. 2020's Observer: System Redux had this problem and also Kena: Bridge of Spirits that came out in 2021. But back then there wasn't that huge of a backlash because of this. In fact, Jedi Fallen Order (another UE4 title) already had (loading related) stutters and that one came out in late 2019 (and also Borderlands 3 to some extent).
Fallen Order was the first game I really noticed it in. It broke the game for me and I couldn’t finish it.
DF has acknowledged those games before when they initially released. 2022/23 is just a bit different due to the amount of high profile titles that have released in such a short period.
Poorly optimized PC ports were the norm before 2015-ish
I think the problem of bad optimization of PC ports got exponentially worse since the launch of the current generation.
@@PHOBIAx57x skill issue
Thank you for going back to those games and checking them out!
I wanted to upgrade my rig but seeing some of those examples, it seems that it does not really make sense when many games are simply or still unoptimized at the moment.
Please do more of these videos! valuable information to know how much games have been fixed or not, really helpful to see if purchasing the game is better after the wait
Thanks for doing this! I haven't been able to finish Returnal because the stutter is just too much and too gamebreaking for me. Hopefully this vid pushes them to finally fix their game.
Man I hope so. I REALLY want to buy Returnal but not with it still stuttering.
Forspoken becoming one of the most competent PC ports of this year was certainly not on my bingo list.
Too bad that they kinda fix the port, but the game it self is 6/10
I mean they had triple aAA budget & it's has potential, but they didn't use it wisely
I'll pick it when it's like $20.. not really worth $60
@@Jack_Sparrow131 For sure, I was only referring to the technical aspects.
Even 20 bucks seems kinda high to me (although I tend to cheap out a lot, the most expensive game I've ever bought was BOTW for 50 bucks).
I personally like the game, does it have bad features? Definitely, but the combat, the world and the traversal are really solid.
@@Maya_Ruinz Most people consider the combat messy, the world bland and uninteresting, the story and dialogue equally as bland and uninteresting.
@@paulustrucenus I can see that criticism but having spent roughly 40 hours with the game I have it down to muscle memory and once you understand it, it flows very well and provides a lot of options which I tend to like. The combat by itself is just good but mixed with the speed of the traversal system it’s pretty kick ass once you get in the flow 👍.
Cool. We need more videos like this. Re-visiting old titles to see if they are fixed.
Considering the state of many recent PC ports, it was a much needed video, so thank you a lot for that. Hopefully, there will be some other patches for the games that need them (mostly Dead Space and Calisto); in that case, it'd be nice to have another follow-up sometime in the future.
I thoroughly appreciate you guys coming back to games and updating us!!
Curious that deadspace has such positive reviews on steam. There's even people claiming that it runs great on their mid range PCs. Do some people just not notice stutter? How?
Yep it's pretty bad for a bit but I also ditched windows 11 for Linux on my main rig since I use AMD open source drivers. I feel the drivers are way better and Linux outperforms windows for me.
They probably don’t care about stutter. Most people just play a game and move to another.
Great idea for a video! Keeping these companies in check is essential not only around the launch window. DF could make a game (or rather developer) award category about post-launch support/fixing games. Considering the commercial lifespan of these games on PC, it's important to put as much pressure as possible to achieve some results- someone has to and publishers or sometimes devs themselves get too comfortable once the initial outrage/complaints phase cools down.
These days even AAA titles are often released in beta-RC technical stage, and 'v1.0' technical evaluations lose a lot of value anyway when it comes to purchasing help.
This video is a great idea. Love seeing where these end up and how long it takes looking back.
Ah yes, the long awaited PC port revisitation! Thank you so much for doing this Alex. I Hope you'll do it more often!
Thanks for this video. Would love to see this kind of 'bundled' status of AAA game updates in the future.
please alex never stop making these videos!
ps: the last deadspace cutscene, isaac could be us pc gamers, the exploding ship could be pc ports, and the incoming infected could be stutters, that would make a good meme.
Dankeschön Alex! Unfortunatly we need videos like these as there are many games out there having a terrible launch experience but at their core could be a great game.
Interesting video, it would be nice to have a follow-up with Hogward, Jedi 2 (maybe too soon), and some others
It's good to see that most of them are fixed, but that should have been on launch...
This video is much appreciated! Thanks for the hard work as always
I love how you do follow ups like this.
Great content!
Alex you missed another serious issue with Dead Space on PC, if you use DLSS or FSR the textures become lower quality than when using native TAA even if VRS toggle is off.
So they even ignored the advice of the vendors to use a negative LOD-bias... that's just sad.
@@MLWJ1993 i don't think its because of the LOD bias, i think VRS toggle doesn't do anything when upscaling is on, so VRS is still on while using DLSS or FSR. Because it looks like lower res textures.
@@achyutde13 If you're doing reconstruction not doing a negative LOD-bias would also give blurry textures. Might still be either, or god forbid, both!
@@MLWJ1993 Yeah i know, i tried forcing the negative LOD bias using nvidiaprofileinspector for quality mode which was -0.5, but it was still blurry, it's as if when using DLSS it's using a lower texture setting.
@@achyutde13 Eh, you probably can't manually override it, many NVCP options don't really work in Dx12/Vulkan API's.
I really like this video concept. Great work as always, DF. Does anyone know if the new Star Wars is fixed enough?
It’s not
for the love of god keep doing these revist videos Alex. they are very important and it may influence companies to do better on their games.
I always enjoy your work Alex : ) Thanx for keeping us informed about this stuff.
No update on whether RTAO now works properly in Forspoken?
Props to Forspoken team for fixing the game even though it was poorly received.
I know your comment is good faith but damn is it sad this is the norm now. Praising a studio for fixing a product for which they charged 60 bucks
Game is complete trash with or without fixed textures.
@@David-ki2xt It was 70 bucks ☠ but still I liked the game. At least they didn't abandon it and fixed problems.
@@symptomaticblackout speak for yourself
@@GAGPalia would you recommend it at half off? I am interested but I just was not spending 70 on a so so interest.
I'm so sorry you had to revisit these but thank you from all of us for doing so. 😀
Excellent content. Hope this becomes a standard. As releases are not one and done, so too should be reviews be updated every so often to check where things have gotten better and where they have become worse with the inclusion of malicious practices such as overzealous ingame stores.
I really REALLY appreciate this video. I have swore off purchasing any games that stutter, it is an awful experience. Sometimes it's hard to know if updates actually fix a game or not, videos like this will inform me 100% on the state of a game. I'd love to see more videos like this in the future please.
If it stutters, I don’t buy, simple.
@@George-um2vc agreed. I just did 2 playthroughs of the OG Dead Space and was super excited to pick up the remake this steam summer sale. I thought to myself "oh yeah, they've fixed the game by now."
Lmao nope. Still stutters. Guess I'll just purchase it in 4 years when my PC can power through the bad optimization AND the fame is $5 on sale. Like damn EA I want to give you my money just fix your shit.
appreciate the updates on performance for these. it's not a topic many yt channels would go back to after getting their initial videos out. DF continues to shine.
EA is incredible, 1 year after the release of Dead Space and it still has problems of stuttering even having an R7 5800x and and RX 7900 XTX
Simply amazing video with a profound message at the end as the icing on the case. There needs to be more of these as there are a lot more struggling ports out there that need to be kept tabs on. But hopefully that trend will die as time prıogresses. One can only hope after all.
Let's Go patch update reviews, Thank Alex!
Still waiting to play Hogwarts, Star Wars, Dead Space, Last of Us etc. Etc....
I was hoping to finally buy a PC with an intention of playing Callisto protocol and Dead Space primarely- suspecting these are fixed by now. Thanks to this video I'll be saving my money. PC gaming really sucks these days. It be great to see a follow up video in a few months with a more down to earth testing system included
Just pirate these shitty games don't pay them for this crap
7:55 did not expect C&C music :0
It's a shame this video is necessary, but I really appreciate it. Was planning on playing some of these games so thanks for revisiting them!
AMD stop being jerks and let your sponsored games to use other upscaling solutions :/
Disappointed with Dead Space's lack of follow up. I've been holding off on buying the game due to the stuttering issues, and I don't want to resort to the console version.
Recently I've noticed Hogwarts Legacy's latest patch has drastically reduced stuttering (practically eliminated entirely) in problem areas like Hogwarts and Hogsmeade, but some people are still reporting issues on lower end hardware.
About Dead Space, I have an RX6600XT with a i3 12100F, I bought the game at launch and did have some stutters only shortly after the beginning sequence where the ship they arrived in exploded, thats all. I remember seeing many people having stutter issues all throughout the game but idk how it was not happening to me, I really feel truly blessed lol otherwise I'd be really pissed since Dead Space (2008) is one of my all time favorite games. I really hope EA releases a patch for it since I thought those issues were fixed already. Great video!
Thanks Alex, always nice to watch your content.
I'm saving more money by not pre-ordering and waiting a year later when the games are complete. Thanks, Devs and Publishers for looking out for us!
True!
Beta testers should be paid - not otherwise ;-)
Nice to see better SSAO in Forspoken. I just hate when areas meant to be in shadow but are actually all lit up.
I love this idea for revisiting games and reviewing patches and performance. Thanks DF crew!
this is such a helpful video, absolutely great idea, as other have said some of us don't pre-order or buy day 1 games anymore, so knowing if they have been patched and working better now is awesome, thanks Alex
Wow. I wanted to play Dead Space on my Steam Deck. I got it, and I refunded it. It was obvious that it just wasn’t there yet. It wasn’t ready and I don’t know why the game is put at a verified status. I couldn’t get the game to run properly on it without being a blurry mess and without having my steam deck heating up so much the fan were screaming the entire time, to the point where I refunded it, not just because I couldn’t get acceptable performances, but because I was legitimately worried about it damaging my steam deck.
Seeing that the game basically got no update since is genuinely sad, considering how amazing the game seems to be otherwise. What a shame…
I played through Dead Space back in march using Proton and my experience was practically stutter free on a 7900XTX. The only time I'd notice shader comp is if I'd received a new Mesa update and started the game before steam was able to do a recompile in the background or at idle. And even then, after the obligatory 360 spin around, the stutter was gone.
I'm using Linux mostly hyprland arch Linux and I have the latest Mesa drivers. It performs way better then windows does. I love these open source drivers I also have a 6700xt Gpu. Hope you enjoy your Linux machine as much as I do.
@@ssdemon96 @the.wanginator Have you guys managed to fix the stuttering demonstrated in this video with UE5 games? Most of my games are stutter-free with MESA but the ones which aren't ruins the entire experience
@Mr.Dorsok only linux has it completely fixed with the mesa drivers. I think it's gotten better on windows for some reason. Unfortunately I have to use windows for college coding. So I'm dreading using it but lol it's OK.
@@ssdemon96 Ahsorry, I ment that I'm using CachyOS/Arch Linux but still having stutters. Was curious if there is a trick to fix it (I'm just fishing for ideas)
My condolences, Windows is awful.
I would also like to mention that Striking Distance Studios has yet to address a nasty frametime spike that occurs during auto saves (of which there are a lot in this game) when playing Callisto's New Game Plus mode more than once, which greatly hurts replayability
Great analysis and great background music.
These Revisits are great for patient gamers, and also to encourage developers who fix their games after release.
Patient gamer = wise gamer ;-)
Love the revisited ports concept! Hope you do more of these.
Loving the idea behind this video! Any chance you'd do a similar format (3-4 games) on some indie titles you've mentioned being great? As someone that doesn't PC game it'd be cool to see a video from this channel on that topic
I really think Forspoken is a fantastic game. At least played with a controller. I love the combat and the atmospher/graphics/music.
Shame it launched in such a bad state on pc and even on ps5.
The game was greatly patched on ps5. They fixed GI that John mentioned, draw distance, fps and so on. A game well worth playing
Yeah, it's unreal how much they improved the game since launch - a Square Enix PC port no less. It's a damn shame SE pushed the game out in its OK state - they really did it dirty.
Forspoken upgrade are surprisingly good
That's great update service! Thank you! Would be awesome, if you please could do another trouble update in a few months or so an the same games.
Cheers
I was really looking forward to this video, thanks so much for making this :D
I feel like Returnal shouldn't be on this list. Sure, the game use a lot of RAM on PC but that's because the devs had to find a workaround for the lack of direct3d storage technology with SSDs on PC at this moment. And the game still works fine on my rigs (around 70 fps on average) with an RX 6700 xt, a Ryzen 7 3700x and just 16gb of RAM, although I'm playing at 1080p high.
The irony that Forspoken out of all games gets the most improvements since launch
EDIT: what I mean is everyone was badmouthing forspoken because of the dialogue or whatever else yet it got improvements on PC compared to the other games in this video ignore my take lol
I don't think you know why ironic means
Forspoken was never that bad for me compared to the majority of buggy unoptimized games released lately. I doubt majority of the people who complained even played the game.
@@tyler-hp7oq I think they mean the game was bad
@@tyler-hp7oq they didnt. It was really good. And then a game comes out thats actually, fundamentally shitty and it more of less gets ignored, while to this day so many ppl are like hurhurForspoken x.x
@@tyler-hp7oq it was pretty bad especially performance, stutters, it was the worst out of these until jedi survivor came
i hope you keep doing these videos. thanks for the update
4 Months later and Dead Space still never got patched EA Motive have just walked away from it, I won't be buying DS2 Remake if they release it because the support is a joke
December 2023 and it's still broken if your interested, I still had to use FSR2 quality/Balanced even when I upgraded to a RX6600 8GB but played better than in the RX580. But the forums are still full of issues to this day
I loved the Callisto Protocol and cant wait to see where they take a sequel.
Agreed, it was a great start to a franchise
They wont make a sequel 😂😂😂😂
The story expansion us out soon.
I highly doubt that there willl be a sequel.
Average reviews and much lower than expected sales. Can't see a sequel happening.
"The game failed to meet the sales expectations of Krafton, who expected sales of five million units, but lowered their estimate to reaching two million units sold within 2023; in response, investors in Krafton lowered their target stock prices"
Shit optimized still, all of them
OMG 8:42 I see even less rain with FSR 🤔
thanks for doing this with a 3600/3080 too. This is my exact setup as I had no reason to upgrade my CPU given everything I was playing at the time!
Every time I watch and listen to Alex I can't help but wonder that if the development teams analyzed their games by doing half of the work Alex is putting into his analysis videos, games wouldn't release in such a poor state.
Watch a few episodes of "What Happun?" and you will understand situation better ;-)
I'm hoping to see Darktide in the next one of these. They now consider the game to be in an acceptable state since they are beginning to add more macrotransaction cosmetics to the shop.
lol, wtf are fatshark smoking.
MTX are crap. Even if "just" cosmetics. An entire game should be available when you *buy* it.
@@Dorraj I really want to agree with you... But!
What would be the reason for developers to keep improving the game? They have to generate money to keep working on that ;-)
@@igorthelight bro no one is "improving" the game with microtransactions.
How about we go back to making expansions for games? Why did we stop doing that? Instead of paying minimum wage interns to make crappy skins to take advantage of people with spending habits, why not actually innovate the game, and sell the content? Expand the game, and make your money that way. Way way less shady than how mtx works.
@@Dorraj Agree! I liked expansions! If you liked the game - buy more of it!
Cosmetics just easy to make and they cost too much for what they are! Let's say a game costs 60$ and one skin costs 5$. But that skin is not 1/12 of a game - it's 1/100 (in terms of resources needed to create it). That's why I just avoid buying skins - they literally do nothing and are overpriced ;-)
This is a great idea. It's good to see if any of these things had been addresssed.
Thank you for this, Alex. Your work is beyond appreciated.
Where is Jedi Fkin Survivor? 🙃🙃
Hasn't been any change.
@@pipgoesthepossum And never will. That's why I asked. :D
@@pipgoesthepossum6 months at least for significant upgrades
Maybe we'll see it in a part 2. Four games is already quite a lot.
@@leonro there's just nothing new to talk about unfortunately. Nothing has changed. Supposedly a patch is coming though.
Amazing content! Please revisit hogwarts legacy too
Instant like as soon as I saw the title haha. This is an awesome topic for a video! Cheers DF
DO NOT UPDATE YOUR NVIDIA GPU TO THE LASTEST DRIVER which 535.98 if youre playing Dead Space Remake on PC. The latest nvidia update crashes the game every time...
Its so unprofessional and childish that this dude never reviewed the PC version of Hogwards Legacy. The game had issues and Digital Foundry never address it. That game is one of the biggest launches of the year.
Excellent video as always, Alex. Looking forward for your PC Tech Review of Street Fighter 6.
Thanks for making this Alex, these re-test videos are always super useful. I might give Forspoken a spin now that it has improved!
7:57 Random Command and Conquer OST cameo!
XeSS - I am so happy you are mentioning it now in most videos Alex. It may be a small player now, but I’m hoping a Battle Mage card is my next upgrade and the more we make people familiar with the tech, developers, etc, the better the competition landscape will be.
nVidia needs competition.