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Game Of The Year: 2023’s 10 Best Games

Video Gamer writes: "In a year packed with stellar video games, our Games of The Year 2023 list celebrates the best delights among them all."

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repsahj303d ago

For me, this list is spot-on.

Crows90303d ago

For me the same except for the diablo 4 mention. That game disappointed many. I'd replace it with lies of P

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Take a look at the first teaser trailer for Remedy's CONTROL 2

It appears that Remedy has included the first teaser trailer for CONTROL 2 in the latest DLC for Alan Wake 2.

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Diablo 4 Vessel of Hatred meta decimated as banned mythic becomes available for all

The Diablo 4 meta has been decimated by the arrival of the Shroud of False Death in the Vessel of Hatred expansion.

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Alan Wake 2 on PlayStation 5 Pro - Behind The Scenes

Take a deep dive into how Remedy's Northlight engine team updated the technology behind Alan Wake 2 to support the new features of PlayStation 5 Pro.

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Einhander197210d ago (Edited 10d ago )

So, as I said in the lead up to the Pro, the Pro would be able to play PS5 Quality mode at 60fps. We see here that not only was it able to do that, it also increased the resolution from 1440p to 4k with enhanced post processing.

Performance Mode

The Performance Mode on the PS5 Pro features significantly higher output resolution and has more visual detail compared to the base PS5. The Pro Performance mode uses approximately the same image quality (render) settings as the base PS5’s Quality mode.

The overall image stability, fog, volumetric lighting, and shadow accuracy have been improved on the Pro.

60fps
Using approximately the same render (image quality) settings as the base PS5 Quality mode.
Base PS5 Performance mode version runs at lower render (image quality) settings
Render resolution 1536 x 864
Output resolution 3840 x 2160 (4K)
Base PS5 version outputs 1440p.

Neonridr10d ago

it still doesn't render at quite the same resolution 1224p vs 864p. But considering you get all the extra bells and whistles and the output is upscaled to 4K and you get 60fps, that's a solid improvement. I'd probably run the game in Performance Mode on my Pro since quality mode still looked really good on the base PS5.

Einhander197210d ago

That is irrelevant, you're not seeing the render resolution, you see the output resolution. Remedy is telling you that the image quality is better through PSSR and you have improved post process. What your showing is how much better PSSR is vs FSR2 which the game originally used if it can resolve a cleaner 4k image at a lower internal resolution.

Remedy is saying the PS5 Pro version is better looking than the PS5 version and it's 60 fps.

And this isn't limited to this game.

Bathyj10d ago

People need to get native resolution out of their heads. That's irrelevant now. It's the whole point of AI upscaling.
Results will vary of course but judge the image at the end not the number assigned to the native resolution.

Neonridr9d ago (Edited 9d ago )

@Einhander1972 - if the render resolution is higher, that means that the AI has to do less work to get it up to 4K and it will look cleaner as a result. I'll always take a higher base render resolution any day of the week.

That's like saying there's no difference in 720p vs 1080p when upscaled to 4K.

Einhander19729d ago

Neonridr

That's a bad take, while it's true that higher resolution means less work for the AI, it doesn't mean the results will be better when compared across two different AI solutions.

FSR2 is not going to look as good as DLSS (or presumably PSSR) even if the resolution is dramatically different which isn't even the case here.

I'll always take PSSR over FSR2...

And you're not even arguing with me, Remedy is telling you the image quality is better on the Pro.

But whatever, keep up the downplay... I didn't expect it to be coming from you...

Neonridr9d ago

@Einhander1972 - I'm still trying to figure out where I said that it wasn't good looking.

Alan Wake 2 was my favorite game this past year and it looked gorgeous. It will only look better on the Pro. That's undeniable.

Again, I have a 30th Pro on order, I am looking forward to the improvements, they will make games look and play better.

I think you misunderstand the term "downplay" considering all I did was point out that the render difference was slightly less but that it's more than made up for with all the extra features you get in the Pro Performance mode. I'm happy to see that because I tend to use Performance modes usually on my PS5.

Einhander19729d ago

Everything you have said here has been downplay, nothing you said had a positive connotation, you're calling out minor irrelevant resolution differences you're saying PS5 Pro isn't next gen your talking about how good it looked on PS5 not on the Pro... every comment here has been downplay.

The basic thing here to me, is that the game has a 4k output resolution using the quality mode settings even with some improvement to shadows, lighting and other post process. It's playing the quality mode and 60 fps, I think the vast majority of people would agree with what I said, which is also what Remedy is saying.

Neonridr8d ago

@Einhander1972 - are you saying the game didn't look good on the base PS5? Get your eyes checked dude, it was one of the best looking PS5 games to date.

Nobody agrees with what you are saying because you are making no sense. Calling me out as some sort of hater when all I did was specify a simple fact that the render resolution was slightly different between the two versions. Sorry that somehow got your feathers ruffled.

Einhander19724d ago

What are you talking about, it was you who got all the downvotes here, no one agreed with you. No one cares about render resolution, it's irrelevant. And your tech comment was uninformed as well.

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Blad3runner0010d ago

Does the PS5 Pro Quality mode offer any other improvements compared to PS5 quality mode outside of ray traced reflections? Watching on phone at the moment, so hard to tell, doesn't help that its a YouTube video either.

Neonridr10d ago

doesn't sound like it, although it's possible that the render resolution could be slightly higher. But considering how much taxing the RT and reflections add to the game, I wouldn't expect too much considering the GPU upgrade, while noticeable, is not a next generation leap or anything like that.

Einhander197210d ago

It's using unreleased RDNA 4 RT, and PSSR is unreleased FSR 4, it is next generation for AMD.

And the GPU went from 10.3 RDNA 2 to 33.5 TF RDNA 3.

fr0sty10d ago

PSSR is proprietary, so don't be surprised if FSR4 is behind in quality when it launches. Sony isn't just going to give them the tech they developed in-house, even if AMD helped develop it.

Neonridr9d ago

@Einhander1972 - I'm saying that this game is taxing even on the most powerful PC GPUs.

Einhander19729d ago

You said this.

"GPU upgrade, while noticeable, is not a next generation leap or anything like that."

It's downplay, the Pro is factually using next generation tech both from AMD and compared to the base PS5.

Neonridr9d ago

@Einhander1972 - when I say next gen I'm talking like 4090 or above level here. Forgive me, I'm not as up to speed with AMD tech as I am with Nvidia (as that is what I use for my PC)

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truthBombs10d ago

Nice of Remedy to share details.

Great use of PSSR as well

Native resolution especially at 1440p/4K, and ray tracing are expensive processes.

A.I upsacling let's us push image quality close enough to Native Res whilst enjoying benefits like higher frame rates, higher settings and ray tracing.

Neonridr10d ago

this video goes to show that the game is still very pretty even on the base PS5.

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