We got another look at Horizon Forbidden West, showcasing a number of Aloy's different outfits that she'll be able to equip throughout her adventure.
PS Plus Extra and Premium subscription tiers are set to lose a majority of Square Enix's RPGs in September, 2024.
If you are playing on the harder difficulties then you could be looking at well over 100 hours of gameplay and I am not taking into account the "so called minigames". Of course the ultra hard dificulty will add many tens of hours to the gameplay since the enemy is toughter and can detect you easily especially if you are trying to strip parts from the robotic enemies which you really need to do if you want to upgrade your weapons and armour. Smoke bombs can help here.
IMO the game does have quite good replay value.
I still have to play Forbidden West and the dlc. I don’t have to worry about Premium since my digital code came with my console and then I bought the dlc when that released.
From what I can gather you need to finish Horizon Forbidden West before you can play "Burning Shores". Still you will need to put in well over 100 hours especially if you are playing on the harder difficulties.
As for the ultra hard difficulty I hope you are willing to die allot especially in the first 30+ hours of the game.
Oh I plan to tackle Forbidden West and Burning Shores during the winter months. The have a few games to tackle come this winter.
Back in the days I use to finish a game in three days, now in my older age I struggle to keep myself interested. So no ultra hard difficulty for me, I’ll stick with normal and hard (maybe) thank you very much.
Dying a lot, might as well be playing a From Software game.
Not sure what you were waiting for, but Forbidden West is a great game. Burning shores content should be played after you beat the main story. A quick tip I can give you is that don't be in any rush to kill any machines, instead scan and break off the parts because crafting is huge in this game. The consequence of this focus is that battles now last longer and you will be spending some time grinding machines for crafting materials. You also want to unlock perks that increase medicinal plant yield from early in the game so you will have a surplus by the time the difficulty increases later in the game.
Thanks for the tips.
“ You also want to unlock perks that increase medicinal plant yield from early in the game so you will have a surplus by the time the difficulty increases later in the game.”
Is it really that much of a significant spike in difficulty?
@Adnor_Mal
"Is it really that much of a significant spike in difficulty?"
Eventually you will be taking on bigger and more dangerous machines later in the game and the difficulty comes from trying to detach the crafting parts from the machine while avoiding the attacks. When you get to that point in the game where you are grinding for machine parts, you don't want to also have to grind for medicinal herbs so I recommend you get those perks early and loot every twig and herb plant as you move from point A to point B.
Why removing a game of their own studios HFW out of their own service, it doesn't make much sense...
Nixxes just added FSR 3.1 to all recent Sony titles on PC. This update improves quality and temporal stability while boosting frame rates by up to 10%. It also allows you to pair AMD’s open-source (works on everything) frame generation with DLSS-based upscaling.
I'm genuinely curious on results when stacking DLSS+FSR. I imagine it will create some inconsistencies but I haven't seen any circumstance where they're paired.
Maybe I'm just not looking hard enough because something like this would definitely be tested and analyzed.
DLSS plus AMD frame Gen can be used together via a mod that's easy to install on most games that support DLSS 3.0. It's a difference maker and both work very well in tandem with each other. I can see it being implemented moving forward as the Frame Generation aspect of FSR does not need to be coupled with it's it's upscaling tech. That said. FSR is getting better with each and every upgrade. Honestly it's getting hard for me to see a difference at this point with my 40 year old eyes.
Started up Last of Us, and honestly I had a really hard time finding quality issues with the new FSR vs DLSS. Yes. DLSS has an edge, slightly noticeable when you stop moving and analyze all the details. However I'm not playing games to simply judge the games fidelity.
If AMD can figure out how to beef up their Ray Tracing performance they'll really be on to something. I personally will find it difficult to buy another Nvidia GPU when I fear a set of features will be locked behind a paywall in 2 or 3 years.
It shouldn't be a problem at all. The tech is completely independent of eachother. If NVIDIA wanted to they could do the same.
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A lot of the first-party games published by PlayStation on PC have been updated today to add support for AMD FSR 3.1.
Have you ever seen God of War, Horizon, Death Stranding, or FF7 go from 16:9 on PS to 32:9 on PC? Its like a totally new experience! 120FPS helps too.
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yet be it on console or pc aloy will never be in the center of the screen that always got to me.
Oh and the framerate drops on ps5 never played H2 on pc yet.
But yeah you can not beat pc for the xess/fsr on any game with any card and that ultra wide when a game support's it.
I have been enjoying some days gone native 4k maxed out at 120fps locked.
Nixxes is really off the charts with their PC support. Honestly Sony made a really good choice by purchasing them.
"Major" exaggeration but sounds fancier than "improved upscaling over FSR3"
The actual interesting thing with FSR3.1 is theyve decoupled the frame gen so you can use it with a better upscaler, DLSS (useful if you dont have a 40 series).
I'd say it is pretty major though. Five Nixxes titles in one day, their entire PS5-PC portfolio including their earliest port Spider-Man Remastered.
It's rare seeing a unified approach like this covering years of titles. Nixxes must have an incredibly thorough and consistent tech stack to pull this off
Agree. Impressive support.
Although im sure you actually understood what I was saying. Its an decent incrimental update to AMDs upscaling software which is arguably the worst of the big 3 solutions. Native, these games still look better, as they do with DLSS.
Oh yeah I upvoted you too, totally understand what you're saying (and I know my framing of "major" is different than the article's)
It shows what a real port studio is unlike iron galaxy
I agree its rare but i also see it as a sad situation with the millions/billions made we should have seen this with many many other games in mass updates. But sadly only a few games are using 40 series tech then fs3 can be used on any game but the big features are per game dependent its like come on now.
Atleast when you see nixxes you know your getting a quality port.
While they keep releasing Remasters on PlayStation at a Price... It's FREE on PC
The gameplay and graphics looked amazing! All I can say it wow👍🏻
Yep it is a must play, looking real good.
Looked really smooth and that cobra was amazing looking.
Wow this looks amazing
+Best open world graphics
+Ultra giant enemies
+Superb atmosphere & underwater O_O
Looks amazing!
When she glided next to the flying robots i so hoped she would climb on...there's still hope.🤞