IGN : This week we look ahead to the Game Awards and speculate about the game announcements we might see at the big show. Will we see more of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League? Maybe a new look at Breath of the Wild 2? Will Horizon Forbidden West's robot dinosaurs make an appearance?
Even though it’s a Microsoft exclusive coming to Xbox Series X|S, PC, Cloud, and Game Pass day one, the next chapter in Senua’s Saga is set to be one of the biggest games of the year after it releases on May 21st.
it will be such an unique experience blended with unparalleled realism, visuals and art.
May 21st can´t come soon enough.
"Unique in what way? “Unparalleled realism” in what way?"
If you don´t played the first game you can´t possible understand.
Have we never had realism, visuals and art in games before?
How exactly will this be a 'unique experience', and why do you always have to sound like a salesman?
"it will be such an unique experience"
I agreed here.
"blended with unparalleled realism, visuals and art."
Ah come on, bro.
You can't tell me you're not laughing your ass off when typing such PR babble. You've got to be kidding me if you say otherwise.
Why ... do you do that? What's inside you causing this awkward type of overacting?
I really, really wish you and plenty other die-hard Xbox and Hellblade 2 enthusiasts that this game won't go down as a 65 scored metacritic/opencritic Xbox first party title.
Otherwise hell freezes over then I guess.
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No arguments there; that is the focus of the game so far: PResentation. Kind of like a Ryse situation so far.
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I own the original. Unless it is drastically different from that, I don’t see what so unique. Visuals look fantastic, yes, but not a blowout if the best of the best currently out there. And, it’s doing far less.
I own and have beaten the first game. Yes, the mental health aspects (particularly with headphones) was cool. Outside of that however, I don’t see anything new and unique from it (though I’m sure once it’s out, we’ll have a better idea).
Potentially the best looking game to release? Yep.
I'm keeping my expectations low on this one because I thought the first game was mediocre at best with good-looking graphics. The gameplay had no depth in the first game and I remember doing more walking than fighting in the first game. It has the potential to win graphics of the year though.
Replies(3)Good idea. MS has been doing a banger job at hyping up their games...they don't typically deliver.
It's probably going to be a solid 3/5 game..maybe a 4
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I guess we all liked different aspects of the game. I actually wanted a little less fighting so I could concentrate on Senua's psyche.
My fear is exactly that they'll "mainstream" the game and make it more hack'n slash, in detriment of the deep dive into Senua's mind that the first game had.
That headline is the most unfortunate setup for a dig at Xbox, given the lack of games that have warranted even purchasing an Xbox (and that can date back to 2013). It's almost a notable Xbox game by default.
"No they don't"
Really name a 1st party Xbox exclusive that was GotY for Xbox in the last decade? Or that sold 10+ million? So yeah sales and reviews definitely do back it up
I can’t wait to play. I’m also very eager to watch Digital Foundry’s technical analysis of Hellblade 2.
"I can’t wait to play. I’m also very eager to watch Digital Foundry’s technical analysis of Hellblade 2."
Don´t pay some serious attention to that jealous PC fanboy Alex Battaglia, though.
He was caught lying about the original Hellblade in the last video. Lol!
He said he couldn´t understand the combat mechanics and or how it works, if players can dodge, if players can block, he couldn´t tell by the footage that he saw.
Clearly perplexed, Richard had him Interrupted and asked him:
"Sorry, you don´t have a sense of the combat mechanics is that right?"
Which Alex replied:
"I still don´t have a sense of it, no. Because when I look at it a see a number of finishing animations at times... uh... I see what looks like slashing animations which could be from like tapping X or A... I don´t really know... um... which... I just don´t have really good sense of like what the beats and what you´re avoiding and like... are there invulnerability frames or can´t you block? There´s like a lot of things that I just exactly know about the combat yet "
A few minutes later, when a confused John asked: "Have you played most of the original, Alex?"
Alex gagged and responded: "Yeah, I´ve, I´ve beaten it."
John: "Wow! Okay..."
Lmao! MF lied through his teeth!
He couldn´t make a sense of how the entire game works, and yet, he had the balls to claim he´d beat the first game.
What a sad liar! Smdh.
That clown got both Richard and John clearly embarrassed by his clueless comments. Lmao!
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Are you sure it's that and not his comment about the game looking really soft? I know it wasn't just me but the game looks really soft on some videos. They alluded to the YouTube compression but I am interested to see a proper comparison. How does it look on PC and what can we expect from UE5 on consoles for the rest of the Gen.
I suspect, looking at Immortals of Avian and Remnant 2 and their incredibly low native resolutions that this may be impacting Hellblade 2. However let's hold off judgement until Immortals gets the FSR 3/framegen treatment. I feel like these techs would boost Hellblade up nicely.
Alex Battaglia is a graphics purist. The console currently on the market and the ps5 Pro coming to market simply cannot come anywhere near what PC's are doing right now. Graphics are his passion and he is an enthusiast. Saying he is jealous, what exactly is he jealous of?
His critique is valid. The game is cinematic to a level kinda not seen before in an action game. I'm also very skeptical there will be any meaningfull engaging gameplay at alll. He's digging at the fact the game literally feels like a cutscene. Not like Last of Us or Metal Gear which have a lot of cutscene, the whole games feel like a one-shot cutscene.
Ninja Theory combat director Benoit Macon sheds new light on the surprising inspiration behind Hellblade 2's improved combat.
This game has so much atmosphere. I loved the first one. Everything from gameplay, graphics, combat, really looks to be a major step up from the original. Looking forward to it.
Ninja Theory's sequel in the Hellblade series is the latest to run at "only" 30 FPS on Xbox Series X/S to a mixed response.
Not for me. Hellblade II is my most anticipated game of the year.
Hellblade II is not powered by some old gen tech like UE4. This is a rich feature UE5 game. A true current gen one.
Many of us grown accustomed with old gen and crossgen games running at 60fps, even 120fps in a few cases.
But its past time to face reality. Those consoles aren´t powerful enough to run true current gen AAA games powered by UE5 at 60fps without some major cutbacks.
Not even a 4090 can come close to run Immortals of Aveum at native 4k/60fps.
So I can wait to see the faces of the hypocrites talking crap about 30fps for current gen games by calling it unplayable and unacceptable, when GT6 finally drop next year. They´re in for some major shock.
I’ve always preferred performance over resolution in my gaming. Given the choice, I would choose higher fps over better visual quality. But with that being said, 30fps is not a deal breaker for me. I’ve enjoyed far more 30fps games in my life than 60fps. Maybe I’d notice it more if I gamed primarily on PC with higher fps, then played the same game on console at a lower fps.
If they can hit 40 I'll be ok, it usually solves the control latency issue. But I'll be honest, 30fps night look pretty but I find it unplayable
I just want options, 30 fps is not unplayable or unacceptable, and you are right about GTA6, but that game will be re-released on the next two consoles and eventually be 60fps like gta5.
Hellblade 2 could have easily offered a performance mode, giving them the pass is laying down as a consumer.
I mean yeah if you're going Native 4K. I'd still never do that on PC compared to using lower and DLSS. 150 fps with DLSS on with an image that's practically identical to native 4K. Or using 4K at below 60 fps. I know what I'm picking. Immortals is a poor option to pick anyway to make a point of hiw difficult it is to run well. Even a 2070 is getting 60 fps on that game with DLSS on
Yeah but come on be honest with yourself. You won't actually be buying it anyway will you? You'll just rent it from GP.
"Those consoles aren´t powerful enough to run true current gen AAA games powered by UE5 at 60fps without some major cutbacks."
That may very well be true, but 30 fps is a major cutback compared to 60 so why not offer the alternative for people that prefer responsiveness and motion clarity over high fidelity assets and static pixelcount. If they add a performance mode via patch, will that make it less of a "true current gen AAA game" even if the 30 fps mode remains untouched?
Rockstar will probably have a harder time implementing a 60 fps mode in GTA 6, but people are expecting that game to set a new benchmark for open world simulation, so it might get away with it. Hellblade 2 is a short, hyper linear, slow paced game, so I doubt it's facing the same kind of challenges, especially as far as CPU load goes.
"Hellblade II is not powered by some old gen tech like UE4. This is a rich feature UE5 game. A true current gen one"
Unreal engine 5 has been used since 2021 and probably before that 😂 and some of these games had a 60fps option. Sure they probably had to lower the resolution. Btw alot of games can run in native 4K 60fps on a rtx 4090. The 4090 can run most New games in 4k well above 60 fps, unless you put some crazy amounts of Anti-aliasing or if it's using DLSS and it's also up to the developer. Keep the lies going though. That's what you're good at. You should have said most CPU intensive games struggles in 4K 60fps on all the RTX cards. *Every game* is not cpu intensive.
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All this shows is how biased the gaming media is towards Microsoft and how much money/control they are exerting.
You have sites and people who were skewering games like Gotham Knights and other 30 fps games and writing how it was unacceptable ect. now writing articles defending this and making every excuse under the sun to convince people 30 FPS is the best thing ever.
Could you imagine if Spider-Man 2 had been 30 FPS, all these same sites and people would have been saying PlayStation was doomed all it's developers are incompetent ect.
But the truth is 30 FPS just shows that Microsoft really doesn't care about quality, there is no reason this game shouldn't have a 60 fps and other graphics modes other than Microsoft didn't want to take the time it would have taken to optimize develop both 30 and 60 fps versions, and it probably didn't help that they actually have to make 4 versions since they have the series s dragging everything down.
Let me remind you that every PlayStation game this gen from the launch with Miles Morales, Demon Souls ect. and all their remasters like Ghost of Tsushima TLOU and Uncharted, Death Stranding, and every other game that has been published or was a console exclusive like Final Fantasy, Rise of the Ronin, Stellar Blade has had multiple graphics modes even Bethesda's own Deathloop and Tokyo Ghostwire had 60 FPS modes. It was only after they started working with Microsoft did you start having Redfall whatever that was and even Starfield that only had 30 fps.
But of course no website is going to write that..
Weird that the narrative is that the Xbox has the most powerful system according to Xbox fans, but, 4 years in games run worse than Playstation versions in general and their own studios can't even make their own hardware work well. Yet there's articles explaining how it's time for Nintendo saying they need a new system and just last week articles about how some developers saw no need for the Playstation 5 pro. But Xbox gets a pass? Weren't all those Xbox fans singing praises at the top of their lungs at how superior the Series X was?! Now those same people who made this idiotic statements are making excuses? Really?! Lol
...spider-man 2 does have 30fps for those who prefer the highest visual fidelity. I have to say it looks DAMN gorgeous when set to quality mode but its too fast of a game to be hamstrung to that slower fps. This game... seems perfect for 30. Especially since the first one was mostly played at 30 as well and only later was upped to 60 for anyone who wanted to play it that way.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has performance, performance RT, and fidelity graphics modes, as do all Insomniac's PS5 releases.
And it's not strictly that this game has a 30 FPS mode the problem is they didn't take the time to make 60 fps modes.
If you keep defending this all you're going to accomplish is giving Microsoft a pass to crap out games with the least possible effort instead of taking the time to make fully polished and finished games like PlayStation.
"And it's not strictly that this game has a 30 FPS mode the problem is they didn't take the time to make 60 fps modes."
Did you ever play the first game? Did you know it too was only 30fps at first? The 60fps mode wasnt added until the release of the mid gen systems. which is to say the majority who played it did so at 30fps because sales of the Pro and one X were significantly lower than the base systems. When the 5/Series were released, many tried it again at the faster speed. So your assessment of them not "taking the time" is wrong. You don't know if they have something similar planned for the next gen hardware release. So stop with the concern, which we know you dont really have.
Darth... your using a PS4 game as the example, and you made a poor argument when you pointed out that the mid gen version had a 60 fps mode, this is a next gen game and next gen games should offer 60 fps.
And again you guys made excuses for Redfall then you made excuses for Starfield, apparently you guys just want to stay gaming at 30 fps forever...
I'd think after all this time you would start to realize that Microsoft is just going to keep being bad for the industry when you guys keep defending them.
I was reminded about what a rip off xbox ssd's are by that other article today. They are on sale but charging more for a 2tb SSD than I paid for a 4tb that's twice as fast and compatible with PC. Or the xbox controller which is the same controller they have been using since the 360, but it's not even as good as the 360 controller they are way cheaper build quality yet about the same price as a PS5 controller which offers so much more and actually had two generations of innovation.
People like to claim that xbox is keeping PlayStation in check but PlayStation and never done anything but try to set the highest quality standards for gaming, it's PlayStation that is keeping Microsoft in check. Microsoft just wants to get PlayStation out of the business so they can offer the cheapest crap for the highest price and eliminate ownership despite what propaganda they might spout.
I'd like to remind you that the terrible idea that was the xbone didn't fail because Microsoft realized they were on the wrong path, it failed only because consumers had another option PS4, if PS4 hadn't been there you would had already lost ownership and resale and trading and been strapped with a Kinect and no matter how much customer complained they would have just kept on that path. And I can look wo Windows there Microsoft ignores everything that consumers say and keep making buggier and more bloated versions of windows since Windows 7, the only truly stable version of Windows they have ever released. And they only made Windows 7 stable because so many people were so sick of XP that Mac was actually starting to gain significant market share.
You guys are going to ruin this hobby we have all enjoyed for our whole lives.
hope to here more about ps5 exclusive ff16 or forspoken or lost souls aside project awakening and give us a release date as well for god of war as well 2022 is going to be a big year 2022 ps5 maybe a sf 6 exclusive to ps5