Esteemed video game website Eurogamer announced today that they are discontinuing the classic numbered scoring system on all their reviews, to generally positive feedback. Given the state of the industry and its relationship with aggregating site Metacritic, this is a bold move – more likely than not, it is also the right one.
Digital Foundry’s latest tests on Xbox One and Xbox One X, with comparisons to PS4 and PS4 Pro.
If you purposely limit the output resolution to 1080p on both the pro and X, does it make the framerate more stable?
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They need to implement a more aggressive DRS to maintain a stable framerate.
The very same thing DF stated for AC Valhalla.
No, Xbox does one internal setup of rez, then has a scaler chip that upscales or downscales that rez to your tv output setup. It doesn't matter.
PlayStation Pro is the same only for some games you can force the system to 1080p, or better yet to a regular Ps4 by turning off super sampling. But for some games it doesn't work either like Uncharted 4...Gow...Dark Souls Remasterd...internal setup in those games itself bypass that super sampling off.
Its bad...and we must all wait for patches.
The system output resolution doesnt actually affect in any way the game’s internal resolution.
I think it's just the video output. The games internal resolution is fixed by the developers.
I am on a 1080p screen and it will automatically super sample the image down but when your driving around it hits 900p more often on the pro so I don’t think it matters we will just have to wait for more patches until the frame rate gets more stable
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Man. Pro nearly always has a bit of an FPS advantage over 1X. At least it happens frequently when the resolution is lower.
Yeah exactly that Devs try to squeeze more out of the X and end up with a inferior product my personal preference is fps over resolution either hit a stable 30 with as high as possible res or drop the res until you do.
On the flipside we can see going for a higher resolution on Xbox paying dividends based on players getting a higher resolution on sx than ps5 but it's nothing to write home about only a few rare games I felt like the X gave a better image over the pro rdr2 bring one fit it's grass fidelity but it was minor at best
Still can't believe they released this like this, I've played a bit on ps5, no mad glitches yet but have had 3 shut downs.... not good enough.
it's kind of crazy they didn't push back console releases but I bet they needed that pay check. Not to mention all the delays already to get the game where it currently is. CDPR, while notorious, is still a smaller studio who likely doesn't have massive cash reserves. For a brief bit I thought the industry was realizing it shouldn't announce games to early but that doesn't seem to be the case. Though imo more developers should wait until deep enough into development to announce a game that actual footage can be shown and the games release could be w/in a year or two tops.
As for the shut downs. Honestly I don't think it's Cyberpunk causing the shut downs. I finally got my hands on a PS5 Wed. Which is the only reason I bought Cyberpunk. I decided to finish Shadows Awakening before starting CP because if i put something down I tend to not finish it & I prefer what I start unless it's a terrible game. Anyway I'd wager that game crashed at least 5x a night from Wed night through Sat night when I finished it. Shadows Awakening is not a very demanding title & ran completely fine on my Pro; though it had super slow load times lol. Personally I think there's just issues in the software on PS5 that Sony needs to iron out. We early adapters are again beta testers.
A friend also got one Wed after I gave him a call to let him know they were in stock. I swung by tonight and he started talking about the Cyberpunk shut downs but once I said what my experience was he quickly realized. Dam, that's actually been happening to me too with other games. Though I don't believe he's had a problem with any of his PS5 games. Just PS4 titles he's playing and he tends to play half a dozen titles at the same time. I haven't actually played a PS5 game but imagine those run fine. It's just a kink in the software causing shut downs on PS4 games atm.
Its not the system from my experiance, I've played ghost, god of war, need for speed, tekken 7 and spiderman so far on my system with no issues, I've also played astro bot, spiderman miles and remastered, dirt 5, godfall, and cyberpunk, only dirt 5 and cyberpunk have caused a shutdown issue. Both devs have acknowledged these issues too by the way.
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If it wasn't for them defying Belgian law, you may not have seen this response. They're their own worst enemy.
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Each to their own. I still think review scores have a place but the weakness isn't so much on the ones doling out the scores (aside from some troll ones on Metacritic) but on the people who place too much weight on them.
If the removal of the scores mean people pay more attention to the substance of a review then yeah its the right move.
But an aggregate score can help gauge the quality of a title if you're on the fence about it.
Ultimately, you alone are the best judge of a game and its quality.
They have just replaced their 10 point system with a 4 point system so they are still giving it a score of sorts. My main issue is their refusal to re-review games with so many games being patched and rebalanced I believe that they should be revisted, as if they were to review Driveclub, AC:Unity and Halo MCC again the scores would be very different.
The main thing is game companies actually use review scores to determine if devs will be paid, and even if they will stay hired. This move has an undebatable upside.
It is perfect.. I love it. In fact, all other sites should do the same. Something similar at least.
We don't need scores, leave that sh!t in school.
It's time we stop grading an expression of art.
I feel like reviewers have too much power. With a number one person decides on they can help a game to sell millions or completely shut it down. This puts an unbelievable pressure and stress on developers to to adhere to what they think critics will praise.
I understand we need a way to know whether we should spend $60, but I do think the opinion of a few weighs too heavily on a games success or failure, and therefore, have too much weight on what games developers feel forced to make.