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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Literally both games that came out on other consoles that the PS5 so you don't actually need a PS5 to play either of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are you talking about the original Demon's Souls? From what I've heard, there are so many QOL improvements they can't really be treated as the same game.

Also, Ratchet and Clank made me happy to have a PS5 (at that time the PC release hadn't been announced).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

there are so many QOL improvements they can’t really be treated as the same game.

there's a few, but it definitely doesn't make it a superior version or anything. Honestly Bluepoint did what Bluepoint does best and fucked with the lightning and color palette too much and the PS5 remake of Demon's Souls loses a lot of what made the original's aesthetic so great.

The PS3 version of DS is better than the PS5 one.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why does it feel like every remake messes with lighting? As if making things brighter means it looks better. Halo CE is another that gets blasted for ruining the anesthetic of the original.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"Graphics:" are the only thing consoles can actively advertise on since "graphics" are the easiest thing to showcase in a screenshot or video.

It's why so many gamers whine and complain about "graphics" being the most importnat thing that determines whether they buy a game or not, which I find completely asinine.

Notice I put graphics in quotes a lot. That's because I distinctly and separating graphics/fidelity and art direction/aesthetic. I would much rather take a great game with a unique art style and lower fidelity over a game that has good fidelity, but a bog standard boring art direction and a color pallete of mostly browns and grays where 90% of the budget went to visuals and not the gameplay or content.

It's why I pretty much don't play modern AAA games. Year after year it's just the same crap rehashed in a slightly differnet $60 package. Why would I buy Call of Duty 26 or Open World Collectathon But This Time There's a Spider-Man Coat of Paint On It when I can play shit like Signalis or Crow Country or any of the Yakuza games or Nier or Antichamber or Death Stranding or Monster Hunter

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I played through Demon's Souls on a ps3 emulator and then the PS5 version. The PS3 version with a 60fps+1440p mod is great but the new version is still worth getting a PS5 for imo