• Maple@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    But do we reeeeeaally trust them? Don’t get me wrong, I like them for their analysis games, but I just really don’t like when they put up opinion pieces about games, like I still remember that comment about Stellar Blade being a gooner game. Maybe if they tried it, they’d have seen more than just the surface level stuff in the game. Not to mention the Cyberpunk review that they took down saying that the game ran fine at 1080p (unstable)30fps, as if the standard wasn’t already 60fps at the time, not to mention that they tried to gaslight people into saying the game wasn’t as buggy as people were claiming.

    I don’t watch their videos because of stuff like that. But good for them going independant, that’s always good when you can safely support yourself financially.

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      15 hours ago

      Honestly, I mostly trust them. I did feel they went too easy on some corpos, especially nvidia with series 50, but also amd and iirc they barely said anything about the Intel gen13/14 issues. Their attitude towards lower-end hardware is also a bit annoying, especially alex’s. However they do have great retro reviews for both tech and games, and john’s fascination with older tech is infectious. And I love that they have a positive attitude towards linux gaming and privacy in general, unlike many other channels. I wish them lots of luck with this newfound independence.

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        I did feel they went too easy on some corpos, especially nvidia with series 50, but also amd and iirc they barely said anything about the Intel gen13/14 issues.

        As someone who’s been following them for ages now, my understanding is that they say what needs to be said and move on when it comes to things that are beyond their control - personal opinions are for their weekly podcast. They could criticise pricing and customer hostile behaviour more but they seem to be very cautious about not contributing to unproductive negativity that’s so prevalent in video game commentary. Ultimately it’s up to consumers to vote with their wallets because talking about things doesn’t fix them. Blaming journalists for not speaking against things enough is not going to fix them either.

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      16 hours ago

      I must be living in some parallel dimension where unstable 30 FPS was the standard through nearly the entire previous console generation, even in non-open world games, which was still an upgrade from PS360 days. I wished I lived in your time continuum though.

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          15 hours ago

          Current gen is a big improvement as to what’s expected and what’s delivered on 60FPS front. I really doubt 60FPS can be squeezed in GTA6 even from PS5 Pro given how it looks in trailers. I do hope that 40FPS performance modes become more common though, it’s way more achievable and still quite responsive.

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            With the amount of ray-traced reflections in the game, I doubt the ps5 with the previous gen amd gpu can even hit 40fps with a 1440 render resolution. It would probably have to drop to 1080 or less. It’s definitely going to be game that will be best played on pc.

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          I really hope not. Though in saying that, I’ll probably wait for the PC drop anyways.

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      15 hours ago

      like I still remember that comment about Stellar Blade being a gooner game.

      No lies detected. Glad to see they’re still providing accurate analysis.

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          9 hours ago

          I mean, it could still be a good game, I don’t know what it is not ever heard of it, but the name sounds like something Japanese that has anime waifus.

          Either way, I don’t see why a gooner game can’t also just be a good game as well.