Jaybe
Member
Is it correct to call it 1440p when 20% of the horizontal is reserved for black bars?
-
Hey, guest user. Hope you're enjoying NeoGAF! Have you considered registering for an account? Come join us and add your take to the daily discourse.
Is it correct to call it 1440p when 20% of the horizontal is reserved for black bars?
FunkMiller
Gold Member
I'll play it eventually. The first one was decent, but not exactly a must play. I've no plans to sign up to GamePass again any time soon, so I'll probably wait for a sale. I've got a backlog of three other games right now, and this doesn't feel worth dropping any of them for.
Roman Empire
Member
My GP sub expires in June 2025, so I'm playing everything that interests me until then. I did like the first one, but am disappointed they said it'd be about the same length as the first. Still, I doubt the game will be bad by any means if it's more of the first but better graphics.
Skifi28
Gold Member
What are you talking about it? Aaron twitted at least twice about the game, the marketing campaign is still going strong. They even released a launch trailer!
Last edited:
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Is there confirmation the game having some form of RT?
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Bless them for adding camera bob and motion blur toggles.
It uses Lumen, possible RT reflections too.
Hellblade 2 looks like the most visually ambitious Unreal Engine 5 game yet
Digital Foundry's take on the latest Hellblade 2 reveal.
www.eurogamer.net
Last edited:
MR ARCADE FOREVER
Member
Good question!
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Since it's UE game, we'll be able to turn off all screen effects and make the game look much better and more clean via simple .ini edit.
Probably software and not hardware Lumen, like in every other UE5 game so far.
Lumen (as well as Nanite) will be in the game for sure, maybe in combination with standard SSR, but we'll have to wait and see.
Last edited:
Chromatic aberration first thing that gets turned off if there is an option. It's very strong in this game.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Fortnite has hardware Lumen on PC so there is hope.
ChorizoPicozo
Banned
show don't tell
Jaybe
Member
DeaDPo0L84
Member
Negotiator101
Member
It's out tomorrow.
Mortisfacio
Banned
Good to see! My wife wants to game, but has a hard time doing it anymore. Ever since she was pregnant with my son, she seems to have developed a motion sickness issue (not sure the coincidence vs correlation, but she gamed a lot prior). Hoping these features will let her at least get to play this.
Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
It doesn't count - Fortine is cartoonish, far less demanding, visually complex, realistic and ambitious multiplayer game.
balls of snow
Member
Really sounds like a plea to the fans to show up and buy it if not papa ms gonna show up.
Nah just me reading into things.
Saddle up with my coffee tomorrow, lets go.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Showed this to some non-hardcore friends and they all agree with me that this reads like an apology you release AFTER bad reviews. I don't know what PR is thinking.
TerribleAtThisGame
Member
Everything now has to be some saccharine sob story, I swear. This is like those "I quit my job to make my dream game, please love it" reddit posts for some aggressively mediocre Indie game that 500 people play because they feel bad for the dumbass who made it.
Current culture is so fucking weird and alien to me sometimes.
tommib
Member
It does read like a LinkedIn post of some corporate rat changing companies. 0 doubt that thing came out of ChatGPT.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
They did the same thing a day before the first game released as well. I don't think there's any specific conspiracy or plea behind it.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Releases Tomorrow, Read Ninja Theory's Note to Fans - PlayStation LifeStyle
Hellblade releases tomorrow for PlayStation 4. Before you play it, read the Hellblade developer Ninja Theory's note to their fans.
www.playstationlifestyle.net
Last edited:
Saber
Member
They could simply release a badass pic, artwork or clip and saying that the release is close.
Nah, lets make bigass text sob thank you that looks like its about being sorry for something, that also looks like it was made by an AI.
King Dazzar
Member
That's a strange tweet. Its almost like they've got their fingers crossed that it does well. It comes across as though they're lacking confidence.
Probably got it wrong, but its a bit of a head scratcher...
King Dazzar
Member
That makes more sense, kind of normalises it. Not sure why the empathy to my post. But you do you I guess.They did the same thing a day before the first game released as well. I don't think there's any specific conspiracy or plea behind it.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Releases Tomorrow, Read Ninja Theory's Note to Fans - PlayStation LifeStyle
Hellblade releases tomorrow for PlayStation 4. Before you play it, read the Hellblade developer Ninja Theory's note to their fans.
SEGAvangelist
Member
That's consistent for sure, but Xbox PR should understand how weak it looks and cut the post.They did the same thing a day before the first game released as well. I don't think there's any specific conspiracy or plea behind it.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Releases Tomorrow, Read Ninja Theory's Note to Fans - PlayStation LifeStyle
Hellblade releases tomorrow for PlayStation 4. Before you play it, read the Hellblade developer Ninja Theory's note to their fans.
GHG
Gold Member
They did the same thing a day before the first game released as well. I don't think there's any specific conspiracy or plea behind it.
Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Releases Tomorrow, Read Ninja Theory's Note to Fans - PlayStation LifeStyle
Hellblade releases tomorrow for PlayStation 4. Before you play it, read the Hellblade developer Ninja Theory's note to their fans.
Before seeing this I would have said that tweet reads like a goodbye.
It still reads like a goodbye.
rodrigolfp
Haptic Gamepads 4 Life
Doesn't matter for the PC version. Path tracing on CP2077 and AW2 is far more demanding than hardware Lumen.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
King Dazzar
Member
Sorry mate. Nah, I read Topher's capture and then responded straight way, before getting to yours. But your post gives some context.Cause you skimmed past my post originally
Still reads like they're nervous. But then who wouldn't be with recent events. I wish the team well.
Dazraell
Member
Studio co-founder who was a "face" of Ninja Theory left the studio less than two months before Hellblade 2 release, reviews embargo are set one hour before actual launch, now this twitter post... I mean, if these are not red flags, I don't know what else to say
I don't think the game will be a complete failure by any means, but at a same time I also don't think it will be a smashing hit that will sell tons of copies and score plenty of awards at the end of the year. It'll be just okay, similarly like the first game. But yeah, it most likely won't meet expectations of the general public
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
I think the main issue with the game won't even be about the game itself. It's going to be, why did a game this short take so long.
I get they did a ton of mocap and a new engine and blah blah blah. But I think most of us are ok with shorter games assuming they'll take less time to make.
I get they did a ton of mocap and a new engine and blah blah blah. But I think most of us are ok with shorter games assuming they'll take less time to make.
King Dazzar
Member
Yeah, unfortunately theres been many raised eye brow bits with this release. But I'm still thinking, surely there isnt much to mess up here.... we'll know soon enough
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Nah......he's saying more than thank you there.
digoutyoursoul
Member
I will be pretty pissed off if this is a step back from the first and a disappointment. The usual shameful folk in Microsoft’s pocket will be praising this regardless however I do think it will be received well from others and I’m glad there’s a reason to use my Series X after a while.
Last edited:
DAHGAMING
Member
digoutyoursoul
Member
"We see you and we hear you" I think we all know who wrote this masterpiece.
He’s saving that for his Ryan McCaffrey interview .
Ass of Can Whooping
Gold Member
Gamer_By_Proxy
Member
Well I hear it's only 1v1 fights. That's the part I'm curious about cause that's the only thing that made the first one challenging, multiple enemies attacking. If it's all 1v1 and the parrying is as easy as it was in the first one. This might be a cakewalk.
I think the game itself will be fine. But I don't want studios spending 5 years to make 5 hour games. ha! I mean Kojima made a new studio and death stranding in less time. Insomniac has one multiple games in less time. etc.
But I also heard they sent review codes to all the xbox shills on youtube/x. Even ones that don't review games normally, like xbox podcasts. So there is going to be a lot of skewed takes.
Gudji
Member
SEGAvangelist
Member
Team size, likely. That also means the budget may have not been as high as we think.
nial
Member
This is releasing tomorrow?
Topher
Gold Member
Yep
Punished Miku
Member
Unreal 5 probably.
adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
I don't know why folks keep bringing up the Tameem thing in this disingenuous way even after being corrected multiple times.
He wanted to leave after shipping the first game but stayed on 2 extra years to help the team out. He said as much himself.
Similar threads
- Locked