Death Stranding PC Review: a Great Port We Can’t Recommend Right Now [The Mako Reactor]

The Mako Reactor says: “ Unless you’re a dyed-in-wool Kojima fan who can’t budge from the PC we can’t recommend Death Stranding at its current price tag. It’s a fantastic game, but there are better ways to play it right now.”

[Father__Merrin]

ive just flossed over steam sales and tbh this and horizons is far better quality than whats on offer. pc only really is missing out

[MadLad]

That's normally your opinion. You're telling me the handful of games the big 3 push out each generation; millions and millions of dollars spent on development, results in a high quality product vs indie devs and AA developers?

Who would have thought?

[rainslacker]

There are a lot of good games on PC as well. But there is also a lot of trash which tends to fill the store fronts. Console games, the higher quality games tend to take more attention among the community. If you go to more PC gaming centric forums, they tend to focus on more of the quality games like we do, while ignoring those that aren't quality, or don't get enough marketing to get attention.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

Steam has always had the issue of wading through trash to get to the good stuff, I think they tried to crack down on it too at one stage.

[rainslacker]

It's the same on mobile markets as well. When you have open platforms and store fronts, it's really hard to manage content curation, because as a storefront, you don't want to seem like you're showing preferential treatment. Steam tried to get rid of the shovelware, which is different than trying to manage a high profile title vs a low profile title, but both titles are still what would be considered quality within their own scope. Steam doesn't have much which filters out the big from the small, which is why it seems like markets are flooded with almost nothing but shovelware, and make discovery extremely hard without paying the extra money to do so. In the mobile market for instance, you don't even get reviewed if you don't pay the publications to do so. It's a racket that isn't likely to go away, because the store fronts don't care, and the publications which handle that stuff are the primary way to market such games.

[Sieg]

This was tested on an Asus TUF FX505DT laptop with Ryzen 5-3550H and gtx 1650 @1080p. They complained that their test system only got around 24-30fps at MAXED setting..

They did no testing with DLSS and bother with any other settings with different hardware. Why write an article when you so limited on hardware or testing methodology?

Guru3D did a much better job and this site can learn a lot from them.

https://www.guru3d.com/arti...