Mister Jack

I've wanted a 4K TV for a while but I don't have a lot of space and until now nobody has ever made one in a 32-in size, which is nuts. I've heard people claim that you can't tell the difference with a screen that size but I am telling you now that's a load of crap. The picture on this thing is amazing.

Three crashes in my last session, which was only about two hours long. I hate to have to do it but I think I'm gonna have to put this down until 1.07 comes out. The only reason I don't return it is because the PS5 upgrade will be free.

Geez, even on PS5? CDPR better put out some free DLC or something to make up for this shitshow. There's a good game buried under this mess but this whole thing has severely tarnished their reputation in my eyes.

I was in Act 1 when I made the post before. Act 2 now.

Aaaand it's also broken the console version even more somehow. Allegedly it's suppose to fix the crashing, and I admit I have not crashed yet, but it seems to have come at the cost of...well, everything else. My performance in the last session was noticeably worse than the one before it. Edit: Never mind, I just crashed. Way to suck, CDPR.

Got the remaster at a discount because I bought the original version.

Yeah I had a Best Buy thing for $10 that expired in a month which was why I decided to just go ahead and do it now but that's a good idea.

Played roughly 4 hours so far. I turned off all that motion blur and film grain and other shit I never liked to begin with and at least so far the performance is...adequate. There is still some texture pop-in, mostly with cars, and I had one crash at the end of my session. I haven't had any significant frame drops so far, although I can tell this is a game that really begs to be played in 60 FPS. I can't explain it but it just feels like it's designed around that extra smoothness. The biggest issue I'm having is that the camera change while driving takes several seconds to take effect. More patches are definitely needed, but for the moment I can say that it is playable.

So, uh, KFC wants to make a console. Yes, as in the fried chicken joint. They even want a spot in it to heat up your chicken. This is apparently not a joke.

Nope. Not gonna be able to get a PS5 until they're back in stock. I could wait, in theory, but fuck it. I'm gonna give it a chance and see if patch 1.05 made it tolerable. If not I'll just hold on to it until I can get a PS5. I can always replay it on another route. I'll probably be posting my experiences in this thread since, if I'm not mistaken, I'm the only person here playing the PS4 version on a base PS4 console. Worst case scenario, maybe my rage will be amusing. But I'm hoping it's at least playable now.

My PS4 copy is supposed to finally arrive today. TWELVE DAYS LATE. Pray for me.

Yeah fuck the shareholders too.

Here's one article about how publishers will wine and dine reviewers before they review their game. https://www.cinemablend.com/games/Publisher-Admits-Game-Review-Scores-Heavily-Influenced-By-Trips-Parties-Swag-48395.html There was also the Jeff Gerstmann scandal if you remember that, where he got fired from Gamespot for giving a bad review to Kane and Lynch and Sony threatened to pull their advertising over it. Eidos may not have been directly responsible but it was still a huge controversy back in the day. I don't really remember which specific videos he says it on because there are so many but Angry Joe has repeatedly mentioned being blacklisted by certain companies after he shat on their game or made videos calling out their anti-consumer practices. Jim Sterling did a video on the topic at least once.

They absolutely deserve to be sued but it always pisses me off to be reminded that shareholders are the only ones who can ever actually force these companies to do anything.

Also, while reviews might not be "paid" in the sense that money exchanges hands, sometimes it is paid in the sense that there are reviewers on record who had to consider the possibility that their review copies and industry event access would be revoked if they were too harsh on some big budget, high profile release from a large company. Just look at all the reviewers on Youtube who no longer receive early copies from one publisher or another because they shat on a previous release.

Is it me or does this new Spider-Man movie sound like it's going to be completely awful? Three Spider-Men, Molina Doc Oc, Electro, Venom, rumors of three goblins, Chameleon, Scorpion...That crap all seems exciting in isolation but if the rumors are true then this movie is going to be so bloated there won't be any room left for a damn plot.

Monster Hunter I saw this for free. It was big and loud and dumb but not really as bad as the trailer made it look. It's kind of weird because Paul W.S. Anderson is definitely a hack but I can tell there were people working on this movie who are big fans of Monster Hunter and they tried their best to make it as much like the game as they could within the limitations they had to work with. The monsters, costumes, and weapons all look surprisingly accurate to the games to the point where I have to wonder if they consulted Capcom when designing them. The hunters even speak the Monster Hunter language from the game so there's a language barrier between Milla Jovovich's character, Artemis, and the hunter characters that requires using nonverbal communication. And yes, there is a palico that wasn't in the trailer for some reason. Of course, if you aren't already a fan of the game then the only thing that's going to have any appeal for you are the giant monster fight scenes, which are cool. This movie is kind of weird in the sense that the only thing that seems to be holding it back is the studio being afraid to spend a lot of money on it. The monsters and props all look fine, but you can tell they cut corners everywhere else they could to lower the budget. There aren't many human characters and most of the movie takes place in a desert, which I always found to be the least interesting Monster Hunter biome. If Sony was willing to take a risk and increase the budget on this franchise they could probably make a really cool fanservice movie for Monster Hunter lovers with more sets, more weapons, more monsters, and definitely more palicos. I definitely feel that the designers and effects people would be up to the task. Alas, I'm pretty sure that Sony is going to keep playing it safe by churning out low budget sequels that are serviceable enough but don't quite live up to their potential. I also have to go on a bit of a rant here. I can't stand Hollywood shoving the US military into films where they're not needed, especially movies based on toys or video games or whatever. The soldier characters in this movie don't play as big of a role as the trailer implied and they're mostly there just to show that conventional weapons are useless against monsters, but you really didn't need this in the first place. Nobody goes to see Monster Hunter or Transformers or Godzilla because they want to watch soldiers dicking around. They want to watch monsters, Transformers, and Godzilla! Can they please stop shoehorning this shit in all the time? If they did it to keep costs down, they could have just made the main character a native to the Monster Hunter world and spent first 15 minutes or so building up their backstory. The isekai bullshit was not necessary. Audiences don't need a protagonist to be from the same world they're from to get invested. In fact, Tony Jaa's hunter character was way more interesting than Milla Jovovich's soldier character and he didn't even speak English. If this had been a thing through the whole film I might have stuck it in the crap movie thread but thank god it's only a factor for maybe 15 minutes total.

If I was naming the Quarantine Game of the Year I would definitely pick Animal Crossing for that.

That's a rather odd claim since those are settings that usually cause big hits on performance in PC games. I guess I'll find out when my copy gets here.

@TheMightyEthan That video you watched, were they playing with motion blur/depth of field/chromatic aberration and all that stuff all turned on?

I really gotta play Hades at some point. Maybe in the next Steam sale.

Electoral college just solidified Biden's win. Bring on the Trump cope.

I've been hearing that patch 1.04 has brought the last gen versions into a state where it's playable and not offensively ugly. Obviously it isn't going to match the PC or next gen versions and there are still issues they're working out, but if reports are to be believed then at the very least the game isn't broken now. Of course I would have preferred that they at least delayed it until January to iron this shit out, but we all know why they didn't do that.