05-13-2022, 08:31 AM
Outside of ones for ripping projects, just a few.
DriveClub is one that I wanted to like and played for about a week but there are just too many issues. Literally had to stop playing due to unable to get any further. So what are the issues? Firstly it runs on a border like Everybody's Golf but unlike that game, there is aggressive blur and depth perception issues. To explain as best as I can, when you drive you are meant to see the corner coming but because of the blur and the low resolution, it messes up with the background so you don't see the corner until it's too late... Those GIFs that people posted of those awesome weather effects? It's like it's the resolution of a postage stamp... I'm not someone who must have the games running at 4K, 120fps, etc however in a game like this, you got to have the visuals as clean as they are and have some consideration for more visual impaired people. If a game runs at a low resolution especially for the PS4 then at least see the screen rather than cake it with effects, ironically it feels like Forza Horizon on the 360 having better graphics because you could see the screen more clearly and full screen to boot despite only being 720p (might be less). Then its the views themselves, having behind the car makes them handle like shopping trolleys so I had to play in window view for better handling. The window view is just too low to the ground so then had to change it to in car view with the steering wheel but because of said issue makes the worse to the point where you can't see the speedometer at all.
Then you get points knocked off just because the AI rammed into you and the game blames you, also means the clean lap goals are next to impossible for me to do. The last straw was the final batch of races that I could get into where they were using faster cars that you can't use yet, AI driving so aggressively and you could feel the rubber band effect. Don't seem to have much luck with PS4 racing games.
Did like the car models and the cars themselves, the diversity of the tracks and can see the developers taking a bit of influence from the Project Gotham Racing series. Unlike the reviewers, actually liked the menu system. Sadly it wasn't enough for me to keep.
So afterwards decided to play Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV and oof... Didn't expect to play a single map for 6 hours, the longest that I've played on a game for a very long time (the last was trying to do the Battlefield 4 campaign in one sitting due to a save bug), not having much of an idea what to do despite playing the tutorial at first and still managed to lose. Seem to have no luck with strategy games at all due to also getting rid of Fire Emblem Awakening and some of the Disgaea series (6 seems to be fine and hopefully fingers crossed that I can get further).
DriveClub is one that I wanted to like and played for about a week but there are just too many issues. Literally had to stop playing due to unable to get any further. So what are the issues? Firstly it runs on a border like Everybody's Golf but unlike that game, there is aggressive blur and depth perception issues. To explain as best as I can, when you drive you are meant to see the corner coming but because of the blur and the low resolution, it messes up with the background so you don't see the corner until it's too late... Those GIFs that people posted of those awesome weather effects? It's like it's the resolution of a postage stamp... I'm not someone who must have the games running at 4K, 120fps, etc however in a game like this, you got to have the visuals as clean as they are and have some consideration for more visual impaired people. If a game runs at a low resolution especially for the PS4 then at least see the screen rather than cake it with effects, ironically it feels like Forza Horizon on the 360 having better graphics because you could see the screen more clearly and full screen to boot despite only being 720p (might be less). Then its the views themselves, having behind the car makes them handle like shopping trolleys so I had to play in window view for better handling. The window view is just too low to the ground so then had to change it to in car view with the steering wheel but because of said issue makes the worse to the point where you can't see the speedometer at all.
Then you get points knocked off just because the AI rammed into you and the game blames you, also means the clean lap goals are next to impossible for me to do. The last straw was the final batch of races that I could get into where they were using faster cars that you can't use yet, AI driving so aggressively and you could feel the rubber band effect. Don't seem to have much luck with PS4 racing games.
Did like the car models and the cars themselves, the diversity of the tracks and can see the developers taking a bit of influence from the Project Gotham Racing series. Unlike the reviewers, actually liked the menu system. Sadly it wasn't enough for me to keep.
So afterwards decided to play Romance of the Three Kingdoms XIV and oof... Didn't expect to play a single map for 6 hours, the longest that I've played on a game for a very long time (the last was trying to do the Battlefield 4 campaign in one sitting due to a save bug), not having much of an idea what to do despite playing the tutorial at first and still managed to lose. Seem to have no luck with strategy games at all due to also getting rid of Fire Emblem Awakening and some of the Disgaea series (6 seems to be fine and hopefully fingers crossed that I can get further).