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Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears (lemm.ee)

submitted 5 days ago by delitomatoes@lemm.ee to c/gaming@beehaw.org

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So this problem started back in 2023 as in still occurring. Dead Space Remake, Jedi Survivor and Silent Hill 2 are some of the offenders. All these games were highly rated on gameplay and graphics

Basically, even if you have a 4090, the stutters and poor fps still exist due to the way the game is designed.

Its exceptionally frustrating because open world devs do optimise for performance while corridor type REMAKES like Dead Space and Silent Hill forget the work their predecessors did on worse hardware years ago

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[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Frickin Dead Space remake. I'm playing through it now and even on the lowest settings it was pretty bad. My computer crashed while the shuttle was crashing, which honestly felt kind of apt

I've never beat the original, but my wife wanted to see the game and has never played it. Even after tweaking things to get them running on my computer it's still not super stable. We might have to switch to 2008

The game looks super tense, gross, and scary. Personally, I think it'd be scarier if it was buttery smooth, but I guess there's a certain amount of anxiety to be had wondering if walking through a door is going to freeze the game while I'm being chased by xeno horrors

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago

One of a handful of reasons that I've been turning to console for AAA games with this level of graphic fidelity.

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It ran incredibly well on my machine and looked amazing. This is not a poorly optimized game in my experience. Could it be that it also ran fine on the machines of most reviewers?

[–] Bougie_Birdie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It wouldn't surprise me if reviewers have the budget for top of the line computers. Sadly, that does little to soothe my frustration that my computer - which meets the advertised recommended specs - falls short

[–] DdCno1@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

My PC is anything but top of the line though. R5 5600 + RTX 2080.