DF Direct Weekly

[@DigitalFoundry]

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[@DennisJDoesVoice]

Your ad says you've tested them. Can you link the video or article with your testing results?

[@v1kt0u5]

@@DennisJDoesVoice They should produce a video!

[@dkerr200]

They took a sponsorship on an HDR 400 screen. Historically that has meant HDR in name only. That is not a very DF move if it’s still true.

[@cowboylou]

@@dkerr200 Nah, "HDR400 True Black" on an OLED isn't the same certification as the typical (useless) "HDR400" on LCDs.

[@tykjenffs]

Yea yea Digital Shillery at work

[@Stinkytwinkie312]

The Nintendo alarm clock will also wake you up with courtroom noises to simulate getting sued by them.

[@Jonathan-fw6ty]

OMFG LOL SO FUNNY AND ORIGINAL!

[@robertlawrence9000]

Imagine being a Nintendo fan and having this alarm clock that wakes you up to get you ready to be on time for your trial against Nintendo. 😮‍💨

[@nabilfarooqui7930]

​@@Jonathan-fw6tywipe your face after you are done lil bro

[@Finger112]

The Nintendo Legal Alarm Clock.

[@Paradisoflo]

The Ace Attorney add-on will fix you up!

[@Gitaroo236]

Thanks John for asking Sony about the VRR thing.

[@SlayerSeraph]

@@Gitaroo236 where was is at? Can you give me the exact timestamp? Also, what was the question and answer exactly by Sony?

[@Dezzyyx]

@@SlayerSeraph 47:00

[@BigO161107]

I’ve waited 14 years for the PC port of read dead redemption, I can wait for however long it takes for it to drop in price.

[@drunksquirrel2051]

Have fun

[@MurCurieux]

And for it to be patched... I hate the modern gaming cycle.

[@mota2028]

same i never played it at all. only RDR2 on pc which i did for the first time last year. cdkeys, dont fail me now!

[@mphylo2296]

And yet I bet you'd be the first to pay full price for an inferior, soulless remake if Rockstar announced one.

[@lionceau1410]

Or.. You know... I little repack won't hurt Rockstar 👀

[@royconner8045]

I'd love to see Alien Isolation from last gen get a 4k 60fps patch.

[@benjwallace7479]

I'd legit go back and play that 20 plus hour campaign for that

[@A1D4Nk]

On pc it’s insane. It looks better than a lot of the current gen games coming out right now, I really hope they do something for consoles too

[@christopherbennett1173]

Get it on PC...

[@MoonOvIce]

They could release something based on the PC version. I played it at 60 fps back then, didn't know the console versions ran at less fps.

[@femto8402]

It runs at 60fps on Xbox Series thanks to fps boost, but the resolution is still 1080p unfortunately

[@odytrice]

16:49 Fun Fact, Most people over 30 don’t use an alarm clock.. Your problems just wake you up at the right time 😅

[@consorte101]

Facts! 😂😂

[@postjm9]

@@odytrice wait until you're over 40, and you need a prescription to sleep at all.

[@DiegoSilvadosSantos1]

​@@postjm9 way ahead of you. I've been taking pills since my early 20's, now I'm 40 and wake up as soon as the pill slightly wears off, at about 3 or 4 AM. Anyways, yeah, life's hard and all... Since Nintendo doesn't even care to sell their things officially in my country, I'll only see this alarm clock on KZbin.

[@SlayerSeraph]

Wrong. I use my biological clock combined with alarm. Sometimes I beat my alarm clock by minutes. I go running nearly everyday at dawn before sunrise

[@ShadowMan64572]

I have my phone like almost any normal human in 2024, buying an alarm clock let alone for over a hundred dollars is an absurd concept to me.

[@prosperigboeli2948]

I wish John asked about psvr2 enhancements on the pro... at least on GT7

[@johnclark926]

The PSVR1 adapter for the PS5 still works for the Pro, correct? Performance with VR games has historically been pretty spotty, I’m curious if after running on the enhanced version of the enhanced version of the enhanced version of the base PS4 hardware those PSVR1 titles can finally hit their performance targets 100% of the time.

[@TheMusician25]

Same… ps5 pro would make a looot more sense to me if there were real psvr2 improvements to gt7 and other big titles. I also find it really disappointing that the 120fps mode is not even mentioned.. it seems 4k120 is possible and it would be 100% the best way to play

[@spawnofapathy]

It depends on what the limiting factor of PSVR2 is. If it is the GPU of the PS5, then it could improve with the pro. But if like the Quest the limiting factor can be the headset then some games may not see much enhancement.

[@chettlar212]

​@johnclark926 man what....what are you talking about

[@johnclark926]

@@chettlar212 Since PS4 games with unstable performance have been successively benefiting from each hardware upgrade, I’ve been wondering if PSVR1 games (which primarily targeted the PS4 Pro) have maximized the performance benefits on the PS5 Pro. I apologize for the confusion, it’s an extremely niche curiosity and it’s quite difficult to describe the Matryoshka doll that is modern PlayStation’s architecture.

[@jacobterpstra7490]

31:30 I really appreciate the LOVE you guys are giving Alien Isolation. Felt the same way about that game. The devs deserve the praise.

[@WhosThere26]

The devs, producers and execs.

[@Mopantsu]

Hardly any of the original team are working on AI2. Could just end up like a lot of the slop we are fed.

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

​@@Mopantsu maybe instead of being cynical you could look at the people working on it and have even the tiniest midge of respect for them.

[@ThatOneGuyDudeThingy]

​@@Mopantsu OG team didn't work on Dead Space remake & it was fantastic. Could go either way or anywhere in-between.

[@GeneralKenobi69420]

Alien Isolation 2, GTA 6, Half Life 3?? WHAT IS THIS TIMELINE???

[@leonthesleepy]

Is half life 3 even real?

[@DrakeTech-kh8hs]

HL3 only exists in dreams.

[@binarycode9893]

I'd love HL3. In the meantime. They 1&2 could be remade. Not remastered.​@@DrakeTech-kh8hs

[@DanielFerreira-ez8qd]

​@@DrakeTech-kh8hs and valve's recent leaks.

[@jonteguy]

Full price for Red Dead 1 on PC is insanity. Game is good but it is also a game from the 360 era. Seriously? 59$?

[@mjc0961]

It's $50 USD, not $60 or $70 USD, so it's not "full price" BUT it should still be like $20 USD max. $50 is outrageous

[@oliverdavis4642]

​@@mjc0961todays $50 is like 2010's $35

[@v1kt0u5]

@@mjc0961 even $30 would be ok... but anyway, I won't play again story that I already know pretty well

[@fenixa2z936]

And it’s not like they overhauled the graphics. Greedy bastards lol

[@gavinderulo12]

It makes sense though. The people who have been waiting eagerly will buy it at that price. And then the game will probably be on sale often for the rest of the people.

[@alperduman9294]

GTA 4 needs a ps4/ps5 port

[@MisterReen]

Please no, as much as I like these games, please no more remasters.

[@0v55llox1]

​@@MisterReenso how would people play it on PS5? Buy a PS3?

[@TypicalAlec]

I would rather the PS5 get backwards compatibility

[@GreggyAck]

@@MisterReen You say that like you’re being forced to play every single one of them.

[@matiaseee8273]

​@@MisterReen he said port, not remaster

[@Sportsfan255]

Alarmo sounds like the name of a creepy super-villain.

[@Egurius3]

He probably distracts his opponents by throwing alarm clocks around. Daredevil would hate him.

[@legacyreaper1834]

@@Sportsfan255 I don’t know about you, but I’m really looking forward to Alarmo getting added to Smash Bros as a playable character

[@Blumenkind97]

Alarmo - The Ringing Man - Famicom Detective Club

[@ThatReplicant]

Ps5pro so good John calling the base ps5 PS4 now 😂

[@v1kt0u5]

yep XD

[@fenixa2z936]

I think he did it twice 😂

[@andyv6476]

​@@fenixa2z936I count 3 times so far - it's officially a drinking game!

[@chasethechosenone8478]

This just solidified my purchase very excited!

[@victory7763]

​@@chasethechosenone8478me too

[@ReelFiends]

46:30 Rich: “Constructive criticism” Alex: “Sure” Me: 😂

[@JTSuter]

Alien Isolation was a perfect use case for the Kinect, at least for the audio detection. I remember one night I was playing in complete silence and darkness, only for my then girlfriend to barge into the apartment loudly with bags of groceries proclaiming "I'm home!" and then hearing the alien coming right for me. It was outstanding.

[@bdbtbb]

Fascinating to hear about John's trip to Japan, having learned the language. Sounds like an amazing experience.

[@klaas-wimvandiermen]

John is referring to base PS5 as PS4. 😂 Come on John, just call it PS5 Amateur.

[@Sneakyboson]

PsPeasant.

[@WH250398]

I like how everyone looks confused on every thumbnail

[@beyondearth6418]

The biggest challenge we face in the gaming industry is the lack of software technical quality and optimization.

[@echoshatter]

The biggest challenge in the gaming industry is the abuse and neglect of it's workers. The combinations of crunch time and contract work is just baffling from a long-term viewpoint. The second biggest challenge is the funneling into a handful of game engines, so if those engines have problems it carries into every game that uses them.

[@Maximus2261]

I am cautiously optimistic for Alien Isolation 2 because the game director for the first one is coming back in the same role for the sequel.

[@Ward413]

Oh hell yeah. Great news.

[@jdgonzo1982]

so happy to see Red Dead Redemption ([mainly due to the DLC being included) but I'm not paying 40 quid for it. Rockstar are pushing their limits with the price and I'm not encouraging it. At most, 30 quid (£29.99) would have been much more reasonable. They've got a money problem...and it's not cool...

[@StephenN.Parker]

The whole streaming GameCube doesn’t make sense while Nintendo want you to have 2.2GB space to download the app. You don’t need that much space for a streaming client app, other streaming games on Switch only took around 100MB.

[@CalculoEspacio]

Welcome back John. Thanks for having a shout-out to Nasir Gebelli in a DF direct a few weeks back. The man is a living legend. And like all true legends, he keeps a low profile. Thanks.

[@Tan4223]

Having an AMD CPU with 3D V-cache on the PS6 sounds pretty interesting. Better latencies and more performance out of less wattage vs. traditional CPUs. Seems like a no-brainer for a console.

[@dante19890]

I'm not sure why a console needs 3d v-cash. It is specially designed to not have any latency problems.

[@DavideDavini]

RAM is much faster on a console though, and you don’t have to shift data between system and VRAM because it is the same pool. I’m not sure it’d be as effective on a console. But I could be wrong.

[@pedro.alcatra]

Really not on consoles

[@Joostinonline]

Setting aside the other issues people mentioned, it's also more expensive and generates quite a bit more heat. Neither of these are ideal for a console.

[@dante19890]

@@Joostinonline and the clock speed is lower

[@zakwojnar4714]

I love when Alex uses an English saying but gets it slightly wrong, like “having your pie and eating it, too,” instead of cake. It’s genuinely adorable. And I’m not making fun of his English at all, heaven knows his English is 1000x better than my German.

[@postjm9]

It's really frustrating to feel like there's just no CPU time to add the environmental interactions and physics simulation that I'd rather be seeing. Everything is taken up just feeding the GPU.

[@konczdavid]

To me, Alien Isolation looks better than most of today's so-called AAA games because of its clever combination of art design and graphics features, plus its dense, richly detailed environments and textures that help to make the world feel palpable and real. And it runs at hundreds of frames per second on pretty much any modern hardware. The same can be said about many games from the early PS4 era (e.g. Uncharted 4). Modern games look maybe 10% better, 90% just different, but run at 1/5th the speed.

[@Shantara11]

And it also looks crispy sharp and detailed with no upscaling blur and artifacting

[@konczdavid]

@@Shantara11 Yeah it's crazy how bad TAA blur is in many modern games. Sure, you may get 2160p AA at 1080p, but your overall resolution will also look like 540p. I'm playing on a 4K TV and on a 3840x1600 UW monitor so it's not that big of a problem for me, but I would still like to see alternate AA solutions or at least the ability to turn of TAA (which isn't even possible in some games).

[@GreggyAck]

It sticks quite close to the style of the first movie so hopefully it’s just as timeless. I agree that it’s more pleasing to the eye than most of what the big studios are showing us today.

[@MegaKiri11]

And it runs on phones!

[@DeadPixel1105]

Yeah, I was playing Alien Isolation last year on PC. 4k resolution, maxed out graphics settings. And the game still looks GORGEOUS. Like "Woooow" levels of good. And the game has witchcraft levels of optimization. People with a 1660/1660 Ti are able to play the game at 4k, maxed out graphics settings, and 60+ fps. Amazing game all around, from the gameplay, to the AI, to the optimization.

[@captainthunderbolt7541]

John: Jetlagged Alex: Traversal lagged

[@aaronaton]

I wish there was more PS5Pro PSVR2 news. What are PD, Capcom and others doing to improve the visuals!

[@anabang1251]

Exactly

[@fffrrraannkk]

I hope there's a VR mod for the new Alien Isolation. The first one felt like native VR and it was creepy creepy.

[@TheDarksideFNothing]

Fuck I didn't know there was a VR mod for the first!!!

[@MrJekken]

lollipop chainsaw should have just stuck with being a straight port of the UE3 version with stable 60fps, high res options and touched up textures. why they made it a ue5 port is beyond me

[@tyrus1235]

Oh hey! They selected my question for the Alarmo section! I questioned John specifically since I know he really enjoys Nintendo stuff, but I did want to get a rise out of the DF crew. You guys are awesome! Love watching the DF Weekly show and all the reviews and other variety videos you put out!

[@TarnishedRyry]

For anyone looking to play alien isolation there's a mod for anti aliasing called alias isolation if highly recommend!.

[@vampiszon6620]

Agree and the game supports win11 auto HDR, looks insane to this day.

[@ghost085]

Great mod, it totally fixed the main problem I had with the game.

[@DeadPixel1105]

I don't even bother doing that. I just play the game at 4k resolution, which vastly diminishes any aliasing.

[@TarnishedRyry]

@@DeadPixel1105 I ran it at 4k on a 1440p monitor and this mod was much better

[@steel5897]

@@DeadPixel1105 it really doesn't, maybe if you run it at 4k on a 1080p monitor, but I'd bet it'd still have aliasing even then.

[@TurkeyRoo]

Wow, thanks to that guy who actually implied the clock is aimed at children! It's painful hearing people in their 30s and 40s raging over a little red clock that plays animations and sqeaky noise just because it's not for them.

[@kingfrozen4257]

As an electrical engineer with PhD in chip design, I can assure you that I was baffled and hopeless of software engineers once I launched TLOUP1 and got 24FPS while staring down into an empty ally with a GPU utilization of 45%. It's like, what is this 5900x of mine even calculating? Did fellas at Iron Galaxy simulate brick walls at the quantum level?

[@quantizedanson]

They were also responsible for Arkham Origins and Arkham Knight's PC ports. Origins still got gamebreaking glitches like sudden dolphin dives and falling through the void, While Knight was so bad on release, WB had to literally "un"-release the game afterwards for a period of time.

[@IsaacSperrow]

Iron Galaxy seems to struggle porting games that focuses on realism. It seems like other studios still doesn't know this, and continues to contract IG with porting their games anyways.

[@saladien9987]

To be honest I’m always wondering why they are still in business…

[@OmgAdaam]

Im guessing you played it early on and it probably improved slightly by the time I bought it last year as I dont think I ever dipped below 70fps (using a r5 7600, 6750xt ultra/high settings mix), saying that I dont think iv ever seen or heard my CPU work so hard on a game before, especially in a single player game with limited play space and physics, BF2042 works the CPU to a similar level but thats a large map multiplayer game with 128 players and destructible buildings/vehicles. No reason for TLOU to be so CPU heavy

[@MegaLazygamer]

It's because programmers nowadays never learned efficiency. They see gigabytes of system RAM and gigahertz of clock cycles and don't think it's worth it to save a few cycles or bytes. Sloppy programming, reliance on features like garbage collection, inefficient high level languages because C/++ is just too complicated for them to understand, all of it is so wasteful.

[@rhoharane]

19:00 the alarmo page says > Alarmo does not communicate any information to Nintendo. Nintendo Account and internet access required for online features

[@regularguy3879]

Yeah, i always said this, even back in the day : 7th gen models with normal maps looked like aliens wearing stretched human skin Not all of them of course, there are some good examples

[@OllieOtterOxen]

Yeah. They had incredibly low amount of ram to work with at the time. Even PC was stuck with consoles being the bottleneck. Dark times.

[@JamieR]

Alien Isolation has always been my favorite survival horror games. Played it twince on hard back to back when it first released. Watched a full twitch playthrough over the weekend and honestly the game holds up so well. It's truly magical. The A.I of the alien is also miles ahead of other games from that era. Sound design and music, atmosphere, tension building, pacing, art design etc... the game was just one of a kind. This feels like another Half Life 3 scenario. It will be incredibly challenging to bring something new that can top it. I believe the success of the latest movie has a lot to do with the sequal. No thanks to Ryan from IGN might I add (yes, you'll hear it until the end of time).

[@HueyTheDoctor]

49:30 so Rich why is it a news story then? Because you're right, it's mandated by Sony. Everyone is doing that. It's not optional. So why is this being presented as news? Saying the PS5 Pro will have the best console versions of software IP owned by Microsoft is again not news. Of course it will. It's a fast computer. Microsoft is a games publisher. I'm struggling here guys. There's no news.

[@NiGHTS1980]

2016: NES classic ✅ 2017: SNES classic ✅ 2024: Nintendo 64 classic ❎ Alarm Clock ✅

[@steerj07]

John deserves a raise for getting We Butter The Bread With Butter in to this episode.

[@yTcensored24]

I was planning on trading my ps5 slim for a pro, but in my country the stores are asking for a $640 US difference, that's just insane. I'll wait for the ps6.

[@ItsGianotti]

2 hour df show makes my Monday better

[@julianorozaa]

Rich has really abandoned the randomhdgaming mentions, truly the end times

[@aggies11]

Yes, it is a well known fact that if only Sega had been brave and actually released the Elevator Door Peripheral for the Dreamcast, it could have saved the console. And prevented our current Dark timeline....

[@CRTOGRPHR]

Had a video format idea. "Dear _ Dev Team." For devs making sequels/reboots of games. Notes on things to look out for regarding engine choice and visual niceties to have. with an announcement like Alien Isolation 2, it's at an early enough state of development for them to find a lot of value in a targeted video. You could almost structure it like a dfretro, but call out certain key points to look out for if you want to capture the things that made the original special. Get granular, call out ways of avoiding shader comp stutter. Call out traversal stutter, and potentially ways to avoid it in there upcoming game. We know devs watch your videos, and we all love seeing you guys talk about behind the scenes stuff. being able to have a video structure designed around early game announcements could be a cool way of capitalizing on the buzz and giving the devs a nice took to shoot for through development.

[@mjskillz23]

Alex already illegally downloaded Alarmo and is emulating it.

[@fenixa2z936]

“You know there was a point in my life where I pirated games” 😁😁😁

[@UGDEP]

53:58 I never in my life thought the Tony Danza Tapdance Extravaganza would be name dropped on DF. Love that band so sad they broke up and I never got to see them live.

[@Stephen_Black]

I was gonna say “Hey go check out Car Bomb” and then realized there’s pretty much no chance a TTDTE fan isn’t already well aware of Car Bomb, so carry on.

[@JustAnotherGamer1005]

1:41:38 - I don't know about there, but over here, the PS5 (Slim) Disc version has gone down in price since a few weeks. From 550€ to 470€.

[@steverix8181]

The VRR implementation being unchanged on the PS5 Pro is a total bummer. I've been waiting for some confirmation either way, but I hoped that Sony would have used the Pro as the time to improve VRR. Sony, please update the VRR implementation, so at very least, it matches the Series X. I literally just bought Metaphor: ReFantazio on PS5 and it frequently dips below 48FPS, therefore outside the PS5 VRR range. It runs God awful, to be honest and not even in the built-up areas. This happens with SO many cross-platform titles, it's literally insane why there aren't more people being more vocal on this subject. The PS5 Pro will in theory help this issue with providing a boost for GPU bound titles, but further down the line, this will be an issue again... unless Sony provide a minimum 40FPS of low frame rate compensation.

[@randyrrs7028]

The pro will release with cpu bottleneck at launch and that 10% boost is not gonna be enough to run games like space marine 2 at a locked 60fps

[@Reallynotnick]

PS5 Pro enhanced is not mandatory, it’s just mandatory to be certified on PS5 Pro to ensure there is no odd issues when running on the hardware. Same thing happened with the PS4 Pro. There is no way mandating PS5 Pro enhanced makes sense as what would that even mean for a pixel art game that runs at 4K120?

[@dacracking5768]

im not buying my child a £99 alarm clock. Thats just called being spoilt. I however will buy it for myself

[@narcisopedro3474]

Well said brother!

[@samgoff5289]

I’m sure all those people who don’t have a phone and need an alarm clock will be so happy to spend $100

[@FungeHucker]

​@@samgoff5289 "you guys all have phones, right?" 🤣

[@RepublicofODLUM]

If it had the Mario 64 water level music I'd buy it in a heartbeat

[@JaiArah]

😂😂😂

[@JazerMedia]

Seeing the comments full of Alien Isolation fans makes me happy. That game was a masterpiece.

[@SabiJD]

Does a masterpiece wildly overstay its welcome, and run out of ideas and yet keep repeating the same mechanics loops? It was a masterpiece of production design, but was flawed as game design, and needed editing down - or substantial additions made to loops and mechanics towards the end.

[@JanMachovec]

DX12 is required for FSR, that's why it's used guys

[@curiousmind_]

but then they could just gray out that option for the other versions of the api

[@Funnky]

FSR can work on DX11 but you need to ask AMD for the code and that's only for upscaling, FG needs DX12 or Vulkan.

[@forasago]

@@Funnky so DX12 is needed only for the WORST PART of FSR. DX12 is not dodging the "useless API" accusations. I wonder if anyone has looked under the hood of ASHES OF THE BENCHMARK and found that its DX11 version is comically wasteful. I bet it is. Just like Crysis was rigged to lose some effects in DX9 to advertise DX10.

[@AndyGilleand]

RDR1 supports HDR on PC? It didn't support it in the PS4 version did it?

[@Outlander-tm6gd]

If Gran Turismo 7 gets some sort of PSVR2 enhancement on the PS5 pro, it's insta-buy for me.

[@FurBurger151]

Same here.

[@davidmuller6011]

Are you guys gonna do a tech breakdown of Dragon Ball Sparking Zero?

[@EvilSlothsTony]

I'm more curious what the modding community will do with RDR1.

[@Jaggith]

Our old 50" Mitsubishi rear projection tv with a huge wood cabinet lasted us well until plasma panels came out. That thing had amazing picture and color.... until the bulbs got out of alignment or worn out. When our receiver died, and we lost the ability to output to component, was when we finally got rid of it. I remember the wii was the last system that had the high grade component output cables that worked well with it.

[@hughJ]

I like that the Nintendo press release for the alarm clock makes the effort to say that the sounds are merely "inspired by" Nintendo games. It sounds like the sort of language you use when you're afraid of copyright infringement. Maybe they're worried that Nintendo will send Nintendo a cease and desist letter.

[@saladien9987]

The company that they outsourced this too might be afraid :D

[@drunksquirrel2051]

I never in my life as a gamer thought I would witness a DF direct video being censored. But here we are

[@Gametism]

The Founders are back with more Digital finesse

[@themightyant.]

“The worst product in the stack is probably the 4060 Ti, and yet there it is on the steam hardware survey top 10…” What does this tell us? - Price is important. Many people don’t want to, or can’t, spend more than £350 - £400 on a GPU alone. That is where the masses are. - Users want the option of more than 8GB VRAM - Nvidias marketing for its laterst cards and DLSS is working over AMDs, or even their own, better options at this price point.

[@jamesmorris7844]

Meanwhile Shadowman remastered remade nearly every texture, converted the hole game into a new engine, added content back in that never made it into the original game, and allows you to choose an API like Vulkan, and all for half the price of the Red Dead on PC, and let's not forget ran on nearly anything and had little to no bugs, Roclstar well and truly go f yourself's with this joke of a re release.

[@GURken]

2:02:41 I can't understand what was the TV John was talking about?

[@ErneX]

It’s a Bang & Olufsen Beovision 1

[@turrican4d599]

But John, Philips PW9551 HD CRT has certain options! You can get 50hz, 60hz, 100hz and pseudo SD to HD upscaling!

[@DeadPixel1105]

Regarding the RDR recommended system specs: I saw someone in the comment section of another video suggest that these specs are targeting 4k resolution, maxed out graphics settings, and 60+ fps. Meanwhile, the recommended specs for RDR 2 target 1080p with low-medium graphics settings. That's why the RDR requirements are higher than RDR 2. Don't know if this is true. But someone suggested it and that would makes sense.

[@lgolem09l]

so excited to see that it's another CPU generation my 5800X3D can sit out!

[@hankolerd]

Any info if GT7 on PS5 Pro will see improvements to PSVR2 gameplay? Presumably more or less same but with RT reflections added?

[@nebadon2025]

I ended up emulating the xbox version on PC in 4K, and now I don't really feel like i need to play this or buy it again, Rockstar took to long, sorry.

[@v1kt0u5]

Same. What's the point of repeating the same story so many times already?

[@fenixa2z936]

Alex is proud.

[@bepkororoti8019]

Honestly I wouldn't even consider an Intel CPU until it's clear what exactly happened with the 13/14 series, how long they've hidden it and what they're going to do about it in the future... Plus the e-cores thingy, I mean, everyone saw that coming as soon as they announced it. As if threading wasn't a hard enough problem just add some more complexity, what could possibly go wrong?

[@brendenm8646]

I really don’t understand the comparison of the ps5 pro version of GTA with Forza. Strange. This not only fuels a stupid/silly flame war between the consoles but isn’t really fair in any sense. Just dumb.

[@gabrieledibari2168]

Ign+sony money

[@spandel100]

System Shock 2 left a permanent mark on me for its atmosphere.I remember when those lab monkeys escaped and I could only hear them and not see them.Jeepers creepers that was terror inducing

[@KhromTX]

32:52 did DF forget that Alien: Romulus just released with critical acclaim? That's the reason SEGA is jumping onto making a sequel to isolation. Romulus is a very popular "soft" reboot of Alien, so obviously SEGA is responding by announcing a sequel to Alien Isolation to capitalize on the Alien franchise regaining popularity due to Romulus. It's not a coincidence.

[@Arcona]

7.3 on IMDB and 64% on Metacritic is critical acclaim?

[@mitchjames9350]

Mate you have no idea what critical acclaim is.

[@KhromTX]

@@mitchjames9350 Doesn't refute my point, nice strawman though.

[@Aaron-iz3hk]

@13:18 I do as well! Being able to "max out" older hardware for its generation and then play the appropriate games is fun.

[@SteveJonesOwnsDSP]

The PS5 Pro is justified just for Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth.

[@Jean-jk4zv]

I agree, stopped playing it after 30 minutes of pixel soup watching and bad frame rate.

[@rangersnut]

Nah nothing will justify being ripped off for me. They probably gimped the game for this.

[@jamesgodfrey1322]

Red Dead Redemption 1 specs are odd to me taking this into account. RDR 2 requirements copied from Steam Recommended: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 (64-bit) Processor: Intel Core i7-4770K/AAMD Ryzen 5 1500X Memory: 12 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060 6GB/AAMD Radeon RX 480 4GB I do feel that RDR 1 should have been made as DLC for RDR 2 and number unfinished assets in the game that do suggest this could been on cards at one point. I also think after RDR1 is mod we see a very good uplift for this game.

[@Sam-K]

I believe you need DX12 API to run FSR3 which, will be used for anti-aliasing (along with optional upscaling), which is how current gen. consoles run the game. It'd be nice if there's an option to apply old school MSAA, but chances are pretty slim. At most, there will be two options: post-process FXAA/SMAA and FSR working as TAA.

[@curiousmind_]

yeah I was hoping for an MSAA option too but that seems highly unlikely

[@BreadBox42]

Microsoft having their first party game look and run better on a competitive console compared to Xbox consoles is wild. What are Phil Spencer and Sarah Bond even doing?!

[@corey2232]

The God of War "Greek Collection," is going to get censored & piss people off anyway, so why do it?

[@opinali]

A good reason for these remakes to use DX12 is compatibility with modern upscalers. DLSS has been around for longer so it supports DX11 and up, but both FSR and XeSS are only for DX12 (or Vulkan). And yes you want those even if the game runs super fast native because of superior AA.

[@Arcona]

FSR works on DX11.

[@opinali]

@@Arcona FSR 2.0 and later doesn't. The only exception is God of War, one of the release titles for 2.0 but that uses a special build for DX11 that AMD made only for that game and was never made public or available for other games. Very likely a partial build, a hack, given that GoW was among the worst FSR 2.0 integrations.

[@Arcona]

@@opinali Oh damn, that sucks

[@Dr.BaLLista]

Lohn Jinnemaaaan!!!! He is back maaaan!!!!!

[@danfry909]

So good to have you back John.

[@lucasromerova6150]

I've never played Red Dead so I'll finally be able to play it.

[@fffrrraannkk]

It's a great game. I can't wait to play it again.

[@fenixa2z936]

@@fffrrraannkkPC Master late

[@DavideDavini]

@@fffrrraannkkI played it on PS3. Replayed it on PS5. Imma replay it on PC. Probably waiting for a sale though.

[@XXLpeanuts]

I know this is a tech channel but I also love just listening to these guys talk about what they like about games cus they seem to align with a lot of my thoughts and this commentary compared to the nonsense from most gamer youtubers is so much better.

[@Yobleck]

54:45 Intel Core Ultra Processor abbreviates as ICUP lol

[@Datenschutz_Datenschutz]

Alien Isolation with VR Mod is one of the most terrifying experiences you can get :D

[@dannyhallsworth6580]

It’s clear now why PS5 pro exists. PS4 pro was obviously to cater to the fact we all started buying 4K TVs so it made sense. But PS5 pro seems to be a brute force solution to bad software development. I can’t believe the games John talked about in his hands on. FF7 rebirth and Gran Tourismo 7 are such bland looking, not overly complicated games that should absolutely be able to run crystal clear on base PS5. Just look at the base console specs irrespective of it being ZEN2 it’s still an 8 core 16 thread CPU up to 3.5ghz. A 10tf+ GPU with 16gb of high speed memory and a super fast SSD. There should be no need for a pro console to be able to “lift the blur away” from FF7 rebirth. We are getting absolutely mugged off as consumers by lazy developers.

[@dante19890]

Gbh6the horrible TAA implementation is what fucked up Rebirth. The internal res of the 60fps mode was above 1080p but still manages to look like 720p.

[@Feanaro5503]

Angry gamer kid has no idea how development works.

[@fayte0618]

Will you pay for the additional manpower and rnd time to make it perfect? No, not really.

[@ericbaker8781]

Sounds like you should build your own pc instead of crying

[@gabriel99nv]

uhhh GT7 is native 4K60 on regular PS5

[@Bluth53]

The answer is VR - if you're doing it right, you'll never be CPU limited.

[@TylerNessss]

23:25... We still lack that F Zero GX Remaster though... never want a game like that via streaming, but we definitely need it on Switch/Super Switch

[@aquaglow1]

Alex has zero interest in Red Dead Redemption; never heard him express enthusiasm for playing games, only ray-tracing 😅

[@kicapanmanis1060]

It's a old game that's been available to play in emulation with improved res/fps for awhile so I'm not surprised

[@DavideDavini]

He said in multiple occasions he doesn’t share the interest that most people have in Rockstars games. Or at the very least that it is how my brains store it. Cheers.

[@Starfals]

Yea, 7800X3D is an amazing CPU. It only takes around 40W during gaming, sometimes even 35. Its madness. Also, I make a lot of videos too. It is a bit slow but at the same time.. its not bad at all either. It's 8 Core at almost 5ghz speed. It's not horrible at all. As mainly a gamer, this CPU is a total killer, Intel just can't compete it with it. I often go to lower resolutions too, so a good CPU does matter.

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

jfc, not 2 seconds after the PS5Pro is announced/released talk turns to PS6. Can we take a minute for like, a minute?! this endless spiral of discourse and attention economics and speculation is exhausting.

[@unknown-jx5yt]

thats because most PS gamers dont want the PS5 Pro and are waiting on the PS6.

[@satyasyasatyasya5746]

@@unknown-jx5yt true, but i'm speaking to a larger motif or behavior in the gaming discourse space. the arms race, the endless hype, the sleepless kissing of corporate boots and letting them frame all conversation. idk

[@unknown-jx5yt]

@@satyasyasatyasya5746 i see.

[@anabang1251]

@@satyasyasatyasya5746KZbinrs just crave content

[@bladewolflq-84i86]

​@@unknown-jx5ytkinda dumb because your gonna stuck with cross gen until PS6 Pro arrives. There is no point on buying launch consoles anymore

[@desmondbrown5508]

@1:03:55 I think the real issue with E-Cores is that they perform so wildly different from regular cores and require you to specifically account for them, that it's just not realistic to expect most games (let alone engines) to have some general, good solution for multi-threading with them. Generally if you want to multi-thread some work load, it's because you want it done faster, and e-cores tend to perform much slower than p-cores, which sometimes is fine, but not always. And so you have to create edge cases for that. And then at some point you begin to wonder why you're having to go through all this extra effort just to get consistent performance (talk about frametime spikes, inconsistent CPU core performance will only make that worse). I get the idea of allowing a "low power" mode of sorts with something like e-cores, but realistically e-cores should've been the MINORITY of cores, not the majority (and not even 50-50 with p-cores). Because any cheaper task literally won't need that many cores/threads to operate. KZbin doesn't require 16+ e-cores, nor does browser viewing. Yes, each tab operates like another process, but you only view one tab at a time. So, in my mind, in any logical/realistic implementation you'd have CPUs with the same number of p-cores as most powerful CPUs contain 12 - 16 with multiple threads (or higher cores if not) and only maybe 4 e-cores. That way games could just deliberately choose to not use those cores period, or only use them for absolutely simplest of tasks. But even then, this is all more complex than it really should be for a developer. I will also say (a bit against some devs) that the excessive inheritance/OOP chaining that modern games do IS a serious issue. Capcom's RE Engine for example, abuses OOP principles to a ridiculous degree, so much so that it uses C# (a classic OOP designed language) for game logic. These types of programming paradigms get REALLY slow when over-utilized. I've seen some RE Engine games with 10 inheritance deep class structures, which is a LOT of indirection when accessing virtual functions/methods. Ideally you want to minimize it to ONE level of inheritance everywhere possible. Maybe have an entity class that everything that can spawn inherits from. But beyond that, something component based is probably the more ideal option. The inheritance issue doesn't always show up as easily in performance metrics either, because it's like a death by a thousand cuts. Each inherited class itself isn't super slow, but when a bunch of them interact vs. similar code with no/little inherited structures interacting, you see some pretty noticeable random dips in CPU performance do to the massive increase in pointer indirection. And a BUNCH of that gets helped out by having more CPU cache since it minimize the required indirection in memory, but it's still not great. And I think Capcom's RE Engine (just as an example, because we have more insight into their engine with tools like REFramework) would become a WHOLE lot better performing if they put a hard limit on class hierarchies. I believe a lot of their CPU issues might come from the inheritance chain amongst other things (C# is a garbage collection language as well... with very little control over how it operates).

[@Zenon00007]

Bring on the ps5 Pro..‼️

[@SlayerSeraph]

Wish it had better CPU, RAM and even GPU specs really

[@faisalmohamed328]

​@SlayerSeraph they are screaming bloody murder for the $700 price tag. Do you want the first gamer riot to happen!

[@faisalmohamed328]

​@SlayerSeraph they are screaming bloody murder for the $699 price tag. Do you want the first gamer riot to happen!

[@kamikazilucas]

how about no

[@King_Slime1xp]

Hearing the Tony Danza Tap Dance Extravaganza name dropped on DF is something i didn't expect today

[@chaosconspectus]

Unreal 5 is not a good engine, change my mind.

[@Arcona]

It's great... for prerendered videos. As a game engine.. yeah, it needs work.

[@Spendingryan]

​@@Arconaactually, not always lol, did you see the remake of until dawn, pre rendered intro video stutters like crazy it can't even do that right.

[@Arcona]

@@Spendingryan wow really? that's bad.

[@Spendingryan]

@@Arcona Yeah, if you see the newest video from digital foundry on until dawn they cover the most recent patch which still hasn't fixed the issue properly.

[@krzysztofdeoniziak5618]

About Alien Isolation and technology that CA can use in sequel, you forgot about hyenas, canceled project they working on last few years. Its probably same tech that they use in that project, but i dunno what it is.

[@edsondinho1404]

Nice, red dead redemption CJ edition

[@curiousmind_]

lol after 14 years on consoles, it was time to go home

[@Psychotoxic86]

Totally disagree about Lollilop Repop, but if their critics will make this game better - why not.