sounds like they are going for a sort of Mass Effect in the Dragon Age universe type of deal with the combat and really making it more of a action RPG.

i'm fine with that if they pull it off. I think the biggest question I still have is around the quality if writing/characters.

40fps is not really smooth. It might feel alright if you've only ever played games at 30fps, but once you get to 60fps it feels so much better.

Once you get to 80+fps, better still. 60fps should be the absolute minimum acceptable frame rate for almost all games.

I think it'll be tough to compare it to big open world RPGs.

I suspect from a atmosphere/immersion standpoint it'll be up there if they execute properly. I'm not expecting much from the story - and I know, a great story alone can't make for a great game. But it can help invest you in the world and what you are doing. That is why I'd take RDR2 or The Witcher 3 over Elden Ring even though ER is much stronger from a gameplay perspective - because I had no idea WTF was going on in Elden Ring, I just ran around killing stuff. So I always felt a bit detached from the experience even though stuff often looked really cool and interesting.

Those other two games had me invested in the story and setting and that helps with immersion and escapism, which is really the point of singleplayer games IMO.

having said that, Stalker 2 should have a sort of baked-in story premise of surviving in the Zone that will help with some of that even if the actual plot of the game is nonsense. I just hope if its bad it doesn't get in the way of the good bits.

I bought a PS2/3/4 but not a 5

mainly because they are bringing their games to PC now. don't mind the wait.

Male Protag: Arthur Morgan

Female Protag: Amecia from the Plague Tale games (probably spelled wrong)

Can't be arsed to think of antagonists right now

Company of Heroes 1 era Relic would be awesome

@jg4xchamp: hey now my unfortunate hairline has nothing to do with my lack of skill as a gamer

Looks rough. I've liked everything Massive Entertainment has done before but this really doesn't look very interesting to me. The forced stealth stuff sounds really annoying.

I wonder if some of the talent left or Ubisoft just forced them to make a game that doesn't suit their skill set.

Oh well I'm still very backlogged so not too fussed about this one turning out mid

@mrbojangles25: yeah I was in the same boat. For a while I could put up with 30 FPS but only if I didn't play any games on PC for comparison. After a few days I'd adjust.

But I just can't do it anymore. I tried getting God of war Ragnarok on PS4 when it came out and gave up after a few hours. Straight up unplayable to me

I find it a bit irritating that they never fully fixed the Jedi Survivor performance having played it a month ago but they've been working on last gen console versions.

In any case I just started playing Baldur's Gate 3 so I'm pretty sure I won't be playing much else this month. Space Marine 2 looks fun though I'll probably get it eventually