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DF Direct - Spider-Man: Miles Morales PS5 Gameplay Reaction - Ray Tracing, Image Quality + More

Andodalf

Banned
The video is good though. Besides Alex probably purposefully forgetting the name of the game, there’s really no reason to downvote this.

He was just memeing on the name being

“Marvel’s TM Spider-Man Miles Morales” which is a very silly title to see 20 times in a paragraph like Sony’s explanation of how the cross gen stuff worked
 

Kazza

Member
Digital Foundry being positive about a Sony title goes against the SonyGAF narrative that DF are Microsoft shills.
So they need to nitpick something in the video to be angry at anyway, because simply giving Digital Foundry juice is not part of the SonyGAF manifesto.

Yeah, and Alex in particular seems to have become a figure of hate. Even his mere appearance in a video seems to trigger some.

Even though they both talked positively about the game. You can see the console warriors loving (or hating) that bit. He simply could not remember the exact wording of the title. I like that they leave interactions like that in, makes their videos more natural and less scripted feeling.

To be fair to him, the official name is a bit of a word salad. I remember John himself put out a tweet mocking Sony trying to explain what was BC and what was exclusive about the game, where they repeated the name of the game about 10 times.
 

Thedtrain

Member
That mall scene is nuts!

Miiight have to buy it. I usually find the gameplay repetitive but launch games are underwhelming usually anyway.
 
I believe his name is 'Bugaga'!

I think you're correct. Alex Bugaga.

They put out a video on such short piece of footage. Kinda odd. Seems harmless here. Then again if the NDA leaks are correct they would have to wait for the 5th or 6th to preview and review games. So much Godfall footage out there however...

Neither DF nor NXGamer have picked on that.
 
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Darklor01

Might need to stop sniffing glue
I think if we combine a previous explanation of how budgeting resources available and still being able to hit 30fps could be working in a game like Spider-Man MM, I’m impressed to see the visual presentation we’re seeing. Combining techniques in various ways to get more from these machines is only going to get better for the dev teams with the experience and resources to take advantage of the power.

This is a good video overall IMO, but it is easy to feel that way when there really weren’t negatives to have to hear and think about.
I do feel it is a sad state to feel that I have to judge who we’re hearing the detail from and then still consider the information itself And it’s validity based on the source.
 
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FlyyGOD

Member
Wow, Xbox fanboys Digital Foundry doing PS5 exclusive gameplay analysis and speaking positively about Sony game, including "the hater" Alex himself. Microsoft check must have bounced.

/s
you guys blow with the wind, make up your mind. As soon as they say something positive about Microsoft you'll be back at their throats again.
 

mejin

Member
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Yes I know Insomniac have an excellent temporal technique, which just gets better and better, question is will it be an Insomniac only technique or could it be incorporatd in ps5.

We dont know yet whats in ps5 really, so its unknown. If Ps5 has a temporal upscaling maybe with some ML technique, which would Sony choose from their first party engines ?

now that they're first party anything is possible.
 

Panajev2001a

GAF's Pleasant Genius
you guys blow with the wind, make up your mind. As soon as they say something positive about Microsoft you'll be back at their throats again.

DF is a team of people not a single being.
You have two of them at best make gnashing of teeth backed / backhanded compliments when they have to towards Sony if not a “good, but...” and heavy dose of skepticism and do not lack superlatives on the other direction or “hope springs eternal” attitude while the other ones seem more balanced. Guess where Leadbetter and Battaglia stand... where John L. stands.
 
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Riven326

Banned
Not sure where you were reading, but you are going for the punny points over accuracy so fine :).
They really did though back when it was assumed PS5 games wouldn't also be on PS4. They said it was bad because it would hold the new Xbox back. Then when the same thing happened on PS5 they were like, well cross-gen is okay.

I'm still in the anti-cross-gen camp. Regardless of platform.
 

Panajev2001a

GAF's Pleasant Genius
They really did though back when it was assumed PS5 games wouldn't also be on PS4. They said it was bad because it would hold the new Xbox back. Then when the same thing happened on PS5 they were like, well cross-gen is okay.

I'm still in the anti-cross-gen camp. Regardless of platform.

Cross generation definitely holds PS5 back, it can look good but I do not believe it is how for example Spider-man would look if they had spent 2-3 years or more making a fully PS5 exclusive title. In 10-15 years maybe it will be different, but IMHO it is not today.
 

Entroyp

Member
So does Miles Morales sound too ethnic to that guy? I guess he lives in some part of Europe or Oceania then.
 

FrankWza

Member
Cross generation definitely holds PS5 back, it can look good but I do not believe it is how for example Spider-man would look if they had spent 2-3 years or more making a fully PS5 exclusive title. In 10-15 years maybe it will be different, but IMHO it is not today.

I disagree a bit. Yes it would look better, but I think it’s time to retire the 1.5 designation. There’s a ton of next gen features in this game and they spent money to get them in. I think where we are in video games and displays technologically we are truly at a point where cross gen has made the biggest jump graphically since the jump to PS3/360 and performance wise I believe it’s greater.
 

Piku_Ringo

Banned
Alex featuring in a video about a Sony exclusive - this thread isn't going to end well.

"Hello John! Excited to talk about Marvel's..............Miles...........whatever it's called, yeah.........." - oooh, SonyGAF gonna be mad :messenger_tears_of_joy:
Musk Jr ruins everything. :pie_neutral:
 

DustQueen

Banned
A Neo account saying DF Bad? I'm shocked.


Did you really need to make a new alt to say this?
I got an impression that Gaf mostly in bed with DF. And this video is kinda too much of nothing even for DF.
Usually videos with Alex have at least some resemblance of a competent technical analysis.
 

FranXico

Member
Ah man mr battaglia is at it with the magnifying glasses and super slow down speed about ssr being used at objects far into the distance. Don’t be such a killjoy sir!
If only he did that consistently, regardless of which platform a game runs on.
 
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Riven326

Banned
If it's a consistent 30 with a frame drop here and there, ala Uncharted, GoW, TLoU2 etc there's nothing wrong with that. And I also play on a RTX 2070, so...you should get your eyes checked.
I agree. Consistency is key. I really don't understand this hard on people have for 60hz all of a sudden. Console gamers never used to care. Now everything has to be 60hz. PC guys have been playing games at 120hz-240hz for years now. It's quite comical.
 
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