I think this video here my provide some hints as to why games and halo turn out poorly while some other games turn out great. I think the commentary in the clip here could offer some great reasons as to the why Halo looks particularly flat.
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Yes, I do. Chalk it up to PC gamers lack of interest, maybe their marketing wasn't enough this time? Perhaps some other release drew attention away from their games?
I agree but that wasn't on your list.
You think that a company that spends millions building and marketing a game, just leans back and cross their fingers when they ship the game? And has nothing in place to pickup why it went good/bad to improve their "formula" for the next game?
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If they can enable FSR2 across the board, they should seriously consider doing so, IMO. When frame time issues crop up on the Xbox platform, they seem consistent across all Xbox machines this generation. When it does pop up, it usually affects all Xbox consoles, both last-gen, and current. I know people don't want to hear the tools' excuse, but I really do think there is something that developers are missing that allows issues like that to make it into shipped products.Wild Hearts: a potentially great game impacted by tech issues on all platforms
PS5, PC and Xbox Series versions tested.
Well yeah, of course they wont be having proper/complete data for proper surveying. Not selling enough at launch is a lot different than having some good sales initially and low sales very soon after launch. The latter gives info that the interest was there and then lost, so you can survey the people who bought it. How can you expect people to complain in surveys about an issue they havent experienced? The game issues are not known until a game is purchased. A game cant be boycotted for something that is an like an unknown. You cant get proper surveys without knowing whom to direct them to. Surely people who didnt buy it can claim something they heard about but from where? How large was the population whom they heard the information for?
This this this. Skip the 30fps "high resolution" mode and put in some FSR2 for the 1080p modes! It would go a long way
I find this a really sad state of affairs nowadays. Developers used to get more than one crack at something before being called a complete failure. Sometimes they dont get it right the first time, but improve hugely the second try once their workflows are established and they've got a clearer picture of what they're aiming at.
When gone gold meant something.
How do you stop an Xbox game switching the refresh rate to 60Hz?
As far as I'm aware games on Xbox, since at least the 360, have no control over the display output settings.
Wouldn't that impact games that offer Performance and Fidelity options? E.g. there are plenty of TVs in use that support 4K and 120Hz but aren't HDMI2.1 so can't do both. So if you set your Xbox Display Options your console to 120Hz, and the game can't reduce it to 60hz, it'll be limited in driving higher resolutions.
On Xbox if you have such a TV, it won't allow you to set 120hz at 4k in the system menu. Output resolution and refresh rate are controlled by the system and games cannot change it. So even if games have a 120hz mode, it won't be selectable unless you already have 120hz enabled in the menu, and therefore must be at a resolution your display supports 120hz at.
No. Because while it would make sense for companies to try to enforce some sort of glitch free, level performance experience, such restrictions would mean that games made by From Software, Bethesda, Deck 13 and CDPR would likely never be released.
