the 139th edition of it, no less.

Why not?🤔

unbelievable!

I know. I thought it was butter.

Why?

I agree

I just skip to the topics I care about. Which is why I love the chapters.

Nah I would probably fall asleep after less than an hour.

​@EarthIsFlat456 well you didn't in this video and it goes just over 2hrs 😂

@@craigsampson3386 I didn't watch the whole video, I never do, only the parts that interest me.

Classic!

My favorite comedy movie, Ever!

THOSE AREN'T PILLOWS

Fun(?) fact: Many Europeans have adopted PT&A as a Christmas movie.

I watch it every year over Christmas. Favorite holiday movie!

Agreed. Easily the best 'podcast' in tech/gaming out there.

@@denisruskin348 Agreed entirely. I'm finding myself drifing more and more into DF because of the more relaxed approach but high quality and knowledge. Too many companies nowadays are going for as many views with big thumbnails and shouting at the screen to keep teenagers interested.

Which episode was that?

@@ghableska In this. Go to the timestamps within this video, the red slider where you slide through the video, the topics are written there, or just click here 53:23

"I hope this show never ends" See you in 8 years. 😢

Will it ever release though?

I mean, it's like already in engine... And they also showed an actual game using all of this, so let's wait and see ?@@EarthIsFlat456

​@@EarthIsFlat456no thanks for pointing that out I'll uninstall now

@@splooshnoonley5620 uninstall what?

@@EarthIsFlat456 wouldn't one assume I'm referring to the game we're both commenting on?

21:25 a better start point. 21:27 was always late for some reason on my YT app. 😊

I think that's more in line with most gaming PCs no longer have a build in dvd/blu-ray drive. Hell, you're hard pressed finding a case that has room for one. If you have one, it's a USB accessory. Also, PC gamers seem have moved to the digital scape faster, not necessarily more willing, than the console crowd.

Yea, I recently built a PC for my father and was really not happy that he insisted on a blue ray drive. Finding a case was such a chore that it was just easier to squeeze everything in an ancient HP desktop I canabalized.

@@sasquatchsenpai My bequiet dark case pro 901 has room for one but I don't use it. It's also the only modern pc case I know that has a dedicated spot for optical drive.

​​@@drworm73why not have external one?

@@schwartzy65 Not what he wanted. He has a very specific idea of what a complete "computer" is.

I actually watched it last year on Christmas, since we don't have Thanksgiving over here. Very good movie.

no, it was mostly the online stuff and they didnt move quickly enough to get rid of it, then they had a more costly console (but not extra horsepower over ps4 to justify it) becaues of a camera that mostly no one cared about anymore - just like nintendo couldnt REALLY just make a wii 2 and be handed success - the camera being on every box and most games not even using it and those that do scoring poorly - well, why bother, Sony has all the good press, is $100 cheaper, and blah blah blah. Most people didnt even know about the NSA stuff in terms of consoles.

no, it was mostly the online stuff and they didnt move quickly enough to get rid of it, then they had a more costly console (but not extra horsepower over ps4 to justify it) becaues of a camera that mostly no one cared about anymore - just like Nintendo couldnt REALLY just make a wii 2 and be handed success - the camera being on every box and most games not even using it and those that do scoring poorly - well, why bother, Sony has all the good press, is $100 cheaper, and blah blah blah. Most people didnt even know about the NSA stuff in terms of consoles.

*per se

Awesome! :-)

This is so cool! ❤

changed my life

The product was truly taken ,quote unquote, out of the box. Powerful stuff.

Yeah same thing in Belgium. I think they just consider it an option to either get the box or get the app on pc. Because I get the feeling that PC gaming in Belgium is becoming pretty popular. Could be an idea :)

Marketing wouldn't change the fact it hasn't had any good exclusives since the original Xbox and 360. There is no point owning one. Plus I bought an official Xbox controller to use with my laptop, and one of the shoulder buttons failed within months, whereas my PS4 pads have thousands of hours on and are both still fine.

Xbox lol

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At least it's consistent with the strategy from the Xbox One days, where lots of the features where NA exclusive.

What an excellent comment. Well put 👌

Its likely a necessary evil though in order to actually move to a point where games have no baked lighting at all. Its always been a bit rough when big rendering changes like this are in their infancy, it just hasn't happened for so long.

Since it’s “baked” that approach gets you perfect quality cause it’s not done in real time while playing the game while real time lighting needs to be able run in real time and can never match a offline render.

It's wrong to compare AW2 against TLoU 2 since the former one still does some amount of SW tracing against SDFs for specular GI with rasterization, while TLoU 2 doesn't. So, in TLoU, you won't find a proper specular occlusion, while, in AW2, you would, but there will be noise as well due to point and stochastic sampling of SDFs.

@@revolverocelot2769 my point is that the amount of noise and artifacts are so annoying that I would rather prefer not having any specular GI at all. I prefer to have a better looking image and experience than having a newer technology just for the sake of being new instead of giving a better result…

The problem is, with stagnant wages and economic distress in many countries, gaming is having a cost crisis. Many are feeling left out by new hardware developments when the games really aren't getting any more entertaining because of them. We've hit such a huge wall of diminishing returns in what tech can fundamentally change for gaming, and it feels like wasted money to just have better image resolve when you zoom in at 16x like Digital foundry does. Its like, what is the point of this? Why are we championing these marginal pedantic changes? It sure isn't improving the gaming landscape. It seems like gaming is in a really rough spot for a lot of reason, really.

I think he tried it only after RandomGaminginHD tried it first. But yeah, Alex’s efforts are much appreciated.

@@PopOfAfrica I get what you're saying and I'm fortunate to be able to afford at 4070ti but lemme tell ya, playing Cyberpunk with Path Tracing BLEW MY MIND in terms of immersiveness, jaw dropping good looking, no way I would have been nearly as immersed if it looked like any other game. To your point that's exactly what Alex's optimized settings are for, you can get top tier visuals with 6 year old hardware. Very few games if any require the latest hardware if you turn down the right settings and throw DLSS into the mix etc.. As DF mentioned, I hope Crysis 4 really does push the boundary because there is a lot of gameplay in more advanced graphics, such as how UE5 Niagara particle system can be used, or games that use path tracing to make immersive dark areas. The reason it seems like graphics haven't changed gameplay much is because devs are well aware most people are playing on toasters. When the standard of PCs is a 12th gen i7 and 40 series cards, you absolutely will see games where the advanced graphics tech heavily aids gameplay.

Like saying a popular science fiction movie is Star Wars.

It's been a lot closer in North America.

impossible challenge: John lets someone speak without blatantly interrupting them/cutting them off mid sentence

He's just passionate and loves to ramble about games and knows he does.

@@Jshvc_ I think he's just a passionate guy but I tend to interrupt people myself sometimes and try to be more self aware. It's not out of some need for attention, I hate attention but its more of a habit thing which is not very good of course, should let the person finish what they have to say to some extent.

@@blumcole Yeah but that's no excuse.

@@TerraWare exactly. I used to have the same issue/still do to some extent. but that doesn't mean other people should be just expected to tolerate it. it's on me to be mindful and pay attention to make sure I'm not doing it.

Go on lads, stay retro

Except they don't right. The last of Us show and part 1 were months away with the game coming out first. I guess not too far, but part 2 remaster and season 2 are seemingly a year away from each other at least. It's not like there's no cross promotion, but there's just way less exposure when the marketing run for the game was over months to a year prior. It's not like HBO show has ads of the games running during the episodes.

It's really disappointing that they just chuckle this off. Ray Reconstruction in Cyberpunk is unusable, full stop. It doesn't matter that reflections and shadows are a little more accurate. The ghosting and oily effect on ALL NPC faces, which you'll be seeing constantly, is a non-starter. I don't understand how any developer saw that and thought "huh, yeah that's fine." It's awful and in that configuration (Path Tracing with RR) certainly does look worse than TLOU on PS5.

There also was not a massive culture war campaign against Part I.

TLOU remaster released 1 year after the ps3 version. TLOU part 2 released in 2020

It doesn't. However TLOU2 has really great art design, but one has to remind themselves that TLOU2 is baked lighnting at its best (along with the Horizon game). I'm sure it beats low- slightly below mid level pathtracing efforts, but a good path tracing game absolutely beats it. I wonder what Naughtydog, etc will do once they start utilizing stuff like pathtracing in their engine.

I imagine we won't see Naughtydog really make the switch to path tracing until the next generation of consoles. They're just not the types to compromise loads of other things to free up enough performance. Insomniac did pull off near miracles with a lot of very clever tricks though. Naughtydog probably pull off something comparable@@awsomeboy360

sometimes? not all the time?🤣

It's like saying "You're not a real writer if you're using a computer"

Exactly who it’s for. I like remasters cuz i like revisiting the games i love with a new coat of paint, but, like movie remakes, the idea is to hook new fans. It’s there, new, in their face, instead of a retro game they’ll research and wonder if it’s something they will like. And Sony was smart cuz they lined up Part 1 with TLOU show and it was a double whammy of success because of the new fans.

I agree. i never would have played the last of us if the remake didn't exist, because I'm a PC exclusive gamer and i rarely enjoy emulating old games.

My main counterargument to this is that the tlou2 remaster and tlou remake were pointless at least on ps5, since both tlou remastered and tlou2 are completely playable and those projects took away time and resources which could have been used for actually new games. Also, on the front of TLOU remake on pc, it would have been cheaper and easier to just port TLOU Remastered to the platform, than a full on remake missing the factions mode

I very much agree but I am upset that naughty dog has spent the last 4 years doing a remake and a remaster. At least remake uncharted 1 or 2. That would actually be needed. Again I agree with you but I just think it’s lazy when it’s not needed. With the horizon games it’s not either. I’ve played the first twice and dlc and second one and dlc once but as a fan of those games I want something new. Those games can’t be that much better. Just make new things. Sony is starting to play things so safe.

@@vladalexan Well not everything is about you bud, its pointless to you because as OP said, its not meant to interest everyone, just the hardcore fans and new buyers And they probably didnt take away from new projects since releases like these are typically used to get newer devs more experience while the vets work on the new games

Yeah mass effect and gears of war were too good to pass up the 360 for me. I dont know what xbox would have done with bioware but surely it has to be better than EA.

They refused to fund alan wake 2… Like that says it all when it comes to what xbox is focusing on… Especially how all of their main titles have turned into microtransaction filled messes, gears of war, halo, forza…

​@@Luke973TI don't think they would force BioWare to use the frostbite engine for starters.

@@markedone494 it really is sad. I love Xbox but they just fumble so much it's crazy. They could have finally had their GOTY contender if they just kept giving Remedy a chance. Actually if they funded Control and AW2 they would have 2 GOTY contenders from them. Big fumble giving up on Remedy after Quantum Break

@@AFryingPan that's a plus.

My favorite is when people proceed to list their hardware and the amount of FPS they get which is often extremely cherry picked at best and complete fabrication at worst. I think what they do is pick the highest FPS they have ever seen while playing the game, which could be looking at the sky and say thats the amount of FPS they get in the game. The hilarious part about it all is that all hardware is very well documented here on KZfaq lol so its easy to just see what the actual performance is.

It's likely to come to PC a year or so later, as has been the trend in playstation releases for the last couple of years.

Only a matter of time I think.

The amount of trolls runing the steam forums hurt sales, so i understand them. Trust me, ive seen all the backlash months ahead of the first game, where there was no indication that the port would suck. Trolls regardless spilled their hate. Can you actually imagine what a controversial game like the second game would do here? The forums would blow up. The best thing Sony can do here is to wait with the announcment 1 day before they ship it.

PC players are second-class citizens for them, they need to wait.

@@SaithMasu12 Steam discussions has no impact on a games perception, every single game on steam discussions is extremely toxic

Strange, got it on disc to but it was only 2. Maybe they were DVD. Can’t remember

I have the physical edition of Counter-Strike Source 😂. Thats how I originally got it back in the day. I just realized those disks probably have the OG version of the Steam.exe on it.

I think you mean powers of 2. 192 is a multiple of two (2 x 96) but not a power of 2, i.e. there's no integer x such that 2^x = 192.

That's something I super appreciate about DF - they give almost everything they cover a fair shake. Dismissive, negative coverage can be found anywhere you look.

I dont find the actiony sony titles very appealing either i quit on god of war and horizon zero dawn they were very boring

To each his own, I guess. You are missing out; the God of War games have some of the most polished and satisfying combat ever. Also some of the best story and high quality acting/setting. I might be biased as I have a young son, however, so the story resonated with me a bit more as it revolves around a father and son. Horizon Zero Dawn as well, was very good; even if he story is not the strongest, it was a fun ride. I actually got my PS4 for HZD after my colleagues could not stop talking about it at work. And this is before we even get to Spider-Man 1 & 2, the Uncharted series, and I can go on and on... I still have Ghost of Tsushima (arguably the most beautiful PS4 game), and Horizon Forbidden West (apparently the most beautiful PS5 game yet) in my backlog. Looking forward to play them both eventually. Basically, IMHO, Sony has MS beat hands down on console exclusive games, which I believe is the general consensus amongst the gaming community, as John said in the video.

nearly all sony games go to PC, so your claiming Sony has a thing they dont even have anymore - I guess simply purchasing a PS causes brain rot, or maybe its the other way around.

Firstly, I want to thank you for your very insightful comment. The lack of punctuation/grammar says all I need to know about state of mind when you made the comment. I know you were probably trolling - and rude as your comment was, I curious and actually thought that maybe you are right. I thought I'd check the actual facts rather than just take word for it - so I played around with AI for the first time to answer the question for me. So, without further ado, according to Bard (Google's AI sytem), the PS games that have since come to PC are: | | PlayStation Release Date | PC Release Date | | |---|---|---|---|---| | | 2019-11-08 | 2020-07-14 | | | | 2017-02-28 | 2020-08-07 | | | | 2019-04-26 | 2021-05-18 | | | | 2018-04-20 | 2022-01-14 | | | | 2015-10-09 | 2022-07-15 | | | | 2021-08-23 | 2023-01-28 | | | | 2018-09-07 | 2022-08-12 | | | | 2020-11-12 | 2022-08-12 | | The average time difference between PS and PC release is 1,086.25 days. So, while you are in saying thatI can play the above PS games I would have had to wait for an average of about 3 years before it is possible. Oh, also, this list does not include games that are yet to release on PC - God of War Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2 to name but two. However, as I enjoy mostly single player, story driven games, I place more value on being able to play some games on release or a few months after when the physical game price goes down, and I can always share/resell the game to get some money back - an option that has not existed on PC a very long time - I am willing to bet you were not even alive when Physical games were around for PC. If you would have bothered to read my comment above, I play with my son, who has grown up playing the Spider-Man games - much easier to do on Playstation than on PC. I've allowed him to play Minecraft on PC in the last year, but before that, he was only allowed on the PS/Switch as he had his own account set up with no online connection etc. Try telling a young child that's excited for a game(Spider-Man / Miles Morales / Spider-Man 2) that they can't play that game that's out already because they have to wait for PC release...by that time, most of the story is leaked online and the magic is gone. I could go on, but my brain can only handle so much due to the brain rot as you say... TLDR: Yes, some games that are initially "PS exclusive" are (eventually) released on other platforms (PC), but I value being able to play games sooner for story purposes, so mostly choose to play those games on PS.

Elden Ring is probably one of the only open world games I could see myself replaying.

Arkham Knight is very replayable imo

1st party story game looks better than 3rd party open world game, no shit

Cyberpunk at times looks better than anything.. views of the city especially

TLOU2 is basically a linear street where as 2077 is an open world game TLOU2 can put all of it's resources into that linear path over 2077 that has to spread those resources out everywhere

Between that and free online play, was why I never owned a 360. When the red ring of death made its presence felt, I knew I had made the right choice. I do love my series X and revisiting a lot of the games I missed, though.

​@@dustinhilltenorYeah, but the PS3 had HORRIBLE network, more times than not it was down, and when they attacked the Xbox network it was down for like 3 hours... not 2 months or some shit like that ☠️

@@rodrigosanay4351 lucky me then, I got 2 free games for 23 days of no online services I barely used. Other than that massive hacking attack the PSN hadn't more problems than any other service.

Because macs are less mainstream compared to windows and also mac-os is unix based.

​@@rodrigosanay4351you're exaggerating like no other, i had a PS3 for its entire life cycle and beyond that one major hack the network was always online and functioning. that console is what got me by as a broke starving student. buying games secondhand and playing them online for free was a godsend back then

Dll swapping, they are using the dll from AW2 in CP2077

Theres nothing to be mad about, its just ps haters hating and since its naughty dog, also every bigot whose digital daddy got murdered in tlou 2… Every other first party game that came out closely to the ps5 launch got an official ps5 version. This is literally that with some cut content.

That’s really not the point of peoples issues tho

They'll need new much better writers for TLOU 3 before I'm convinced. Won't fall for that again.

@@skycloud4802 Pretty sure they will follow the footsteps of their fastest selling game ever, you know, even after it was leaked with bigots yelling everywhere it sucks because there is a woman with muscles yall thought was trans XD

What’s it called?

@@hedimaster1 I think he's talking about Cyberpunk 2077

Aren't you tired of trying to get that lemon of a game to work.

@@snakeshepard9761 I know I want to know what the mod is called

@@hedimaster1 it's literally in the last sentence of my comment.

He is doing it all the time...

The cynic is you would be great at business. *Create* a problem for a captured market & you can sell whatever kind of solutions you want at different price points REPEATEDLY! 😂 F*CK THE CUSTOMER!

it's two tone so idiots don't break it trying to remove it vertically (long ways)

It's designed for people who have an Xbox and PS5 on their desks / under their TVs, so the Xbox can see its reflection in the PS5 Slim's shiny body, and stare at itself with shame for having such poor sales and being home to Starfield.

you need Windows hdr tool

They still use the USB dongle.

I think that is a bad design choice

I'm kind of getting bored of these Sony/PC releases. I couldn't give a dam about TLOU2 or Spiderman. GOT though. That's one of the last great game on PS we still haven't got on PC. It's beyond annoying. But i do see the trend your talking about. What Sony keeps missing is that most of their games would have a long-term player base on PC. The mods alone keep them active. And yet they want to push TLOU2 so many people didn't even play or had interest in 🙄

Doesn’t games like days gone and returnal disprove that logic?

Days Gone, Returnal and R&C don’t have sequels and are on PC.

​@@MrAden1307TLOU2 was wildly popular. Sold over 4.1 million copies in the first 3 days and outsold Ghost of Tsushima by a country mile. You can always tell when someone is stuck in the online bubble.

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