I tried 'Ghost of Tsushima' on PC...

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Ghost of Tsushima is a 2020 action-adventure game developed by Sucker Punch Productions and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The player controls Jin Sakai, a samurai on a quest to protect Tsushima Island during the first Mongol invasion of Japan. Jin must choose between following the warrior code to fight honorably, or using practical but dishonorable methods of repelling the Mongols with minimal casualties. The game features a large open world which can be explored either on foot or on horseback. When facing enemies, the player can choose to engage in a direct confrontation using Jin's katana or to become a legendary warrior known as "the Ghost" by using stealth tactics to assassinate opponents. A multiplayer mode titled Ghost of Tsushima: Legends was released in October 2020 and made available separately in September 2021.
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[@LukeStephensTV]

For the record, that was not the dragon picture I was actually referring to... Jacob took some liberties while editing ;) ╔═╦╗╔╦╗╔═╦═╦╦╦╦╗╔═╗ ║╚╣║║║╚╣╚╣╔╣╔╣║╚╣═╣ ╠╗║╚╝║║╠╗║╚╣║║║║║═╣ ╚═╩══╩═╩═╩═╩╝╚╩═╩═╝

[@leana339]

The japanese version is just basically tuned down in regard to gore. That's because japan is quite tight in that regard. There is also a different Nioh version etc.

[@DeathComeInPeace]

Best "charcoal" dragon, Luke! No shame to admit it!

[@jermonius]

W jacob

[@soap.7931]

that was comedy gold hahahah

[@steveb6598]

I laughed

[@SirTheobald]

i forgot how classy of a choice it was to use the wind, the chimes, the foxes and the birds to guide the player as you explore the land. it's brethtaking how relaxing the whole game is, with the point being the balance between chaos, fight and death versus calm, peaceful, and life. This game is a poem put to video. straight up.

[@TheTsuyuki]

And then you open the map and it vomits 50 question marks on top of your screen for every location that you DARED to ride near. Let's not pretend like it's perfect with that flowery language of yours.

[@zbeatza9910]

​@@TheTsuyukithat's the thing, you go near it and marks a waypoint in case you missed it or want to come back later, the game doesn't vomit anything unless you avoid doing any of them. Most of the time you would use the wind or look for smoke in the air which is explained in the game that there is something there. Way to exaggerate 😂

[@sandeshvantveen]

@@TheTsuyukiI was actually kind of thinking the same thing. I noticed I kept opening the map to make sure I was still going the right way lol.

[@firzokkhan6443]

@@TheTsuyuki Sony first party studios can't create a good open world game, their games are just using the Ubisoft formula with more polish and decent story, I actually loved Sony games till the start of PS4 era after that they have lost my interest.

[@shahrbanooShadpoori]

Ok then move the F on, millions of ppl still plays ps exclusives daily, so you getting lost on other games doesnt effect anybody​@@firzokkhan6443

[@TheHiddenOne690]

The optimization of this game on PC reminds me of Days Gone on PC.. Simply incredible. I get over 150fps on max settings on Days Gone

[@jkeez959]

bro we don't need a 140 fps whatsoever a lot of badly optimized games can reach 150 fps but the frametimes are all over the place even a 60-70 fps with smooth frametime graph will make u completely forget about fps

[@GarrettTobyC13]

60 feels like shit when i have a 360 hz oled panel. Ill settle for 200 fps for now. ​@@jkeez959

[@realtalkrealthingsent.8024]

Just seen your vid on ac shadows new mechanics 👍

[@chaseray7321]

Can you actually tell a difference above like 100? I have never seen frames above 60 so I have no clue. I really want to see though cause idk how it could get much better than 60

[@SPRAYEDYT]

Finnaly Days Gone getting some love

[@thanos2715]

Yeah the wind mechanic is probably one of the best game mechanics ever seen in a videogame

[@graf_marcula]

Specially on how it ties into the Story. I dont want to spoil anything. But if you listen carefully, then even to Wind becomes something special and a character

[@tochukwuudu7763]

​@@graf_marculaThe wind is his dad.

[@joshmobijohn]

I remember a kids game called Tak and the Power of Juju on PS2 on GameCube that used the wind mechanic to guide the player around. At the time I thought it was ahead of its time 😂

[@graf_marcula]

@@tochukwuudu7763 yes, i didnt want to spoil it for new players

[@tochukwuudu7763]

@@graf_marcula my bad.

[@Streek2202]

I believe Ghost of Tsushima was one of - if not, the only - video game I ever 100% completed. I did this back on my base PS4. Now I can finally do it all over again in all its optimized glory and beauty.

[@c.anthonyjohnson259]

Itw was amzing on the PS5 wtf are saying lmao

[@Streek2202]

@@c.anthonyjohnson259 I don’t own a PS5 so I had to wait till now to finally join the party lol

[@jesseoverdijk318]

That's a little strange there's so many other good games on PS

[@AldousHuxle6662]

Same

[@TimberWulfIsHere]

death stranding directors cut was the only one i 100%ed too. played it first on ps4 and then modded it and played on PC

[@shahrbanooShadpoori]

The moment at the beginning when you are on your horse, touching the grass, that music and then the game telling you act 1: rescue lord shimura is one of the best things i've experienced o In my entire 25 years gaming life

[@AtheismF7W]

Title Drop

[@ovwarrior]

I agree and it hurts my heart when I see people turn instead of going straight because the music is perfectly timed to cut off right as your horse stops by the water

[@GoGicz]

it was really good, i could compare it to ac2 cinematic start, that was also really good.

[@purwantiallan5089]

​@@GoGiczAC3 cinematic start also good.

[@GoGicz]

@@purwantiallan5089 yeah it was also good, to be honest i never completed the third game cause i got bored but many people like it....

[@KiomonDuck]

I dont see ACS beating Ghost. Its just to good to be beaten by the slop Ubisoft drops on the ground for us. I dont even care about the historical inaccuracy in this comparison. Ubisoft doesnt have what it takes to make this level of quality.

[@maineman5757]

I haven't played a AC game since Ghost of Tsushima came out.

[@CallMeTeci]

@@maineman5757 Because we didnt got a single real Assassins Creed since 2015. We just got corpses of casual RPGs with that name slapped on it.

[@noamias4897]

Ubisoft get to rely on skin sales to carry their lack of quality.

[@ISGAMINGFORNERDS]

Ghost is such a mid game with boring story boring characters and repetitive missions with a bunch of ubislop open world design so it ain’t much better buddy

[@x0Fang0x]

​@@ISGAMINGFORNERDS your opinion. don't make it seem like a fact😂😂

[@andreypokesaround]

The sequence after unlocking Ghost Stance is probably one of the best moments in a video game ever (personal opinion)!!!

[@bushmonster1702]

The personal opinion part is not necessary. We don’t think it’s your neighbours opinion.

[@exxem2543]

@@bushmonster1702hes just clarifying that he isnt talking for the whole community. So if you have nothing to add dont say something

[@KalinhoPL]

Yeah it's definitely up there. Jin is actually a great character. You don't need to make them black to be cool 😎

[@taylorfredrickson7750]

Just did that last night.

[@YumiSumire]

14:29 what a beautiful piece of art

[@chaseray7321]

That was not what I expected 💀

[@BraapTales]

Think he got punked by his editor, lmao

[@noamias4897]

I was looking at the background and thought you meant the game, then I started listening to Luke and then I saw the image lol

[@TheSoxor123]

LOL!

[@roykalager2360]

I was like no way this is real. I think it's the artists pfp. Not the actual art work. They're like no discrimination. The the artist made good art we got to shout them out. The most I've laughed in a while.

[@checkevolution20]

Crazy how the three best looking games (in my opinion) that I’ve played are all from the ps4 era; RDR2, Witcher 3 and Ghost of Tsushima

[@maverick608]

Forbidden West too

[@toxic_studio8914]

@@maverick608they put that on ps4?

[@vishaldepala8547]

The Last of Us 2

[@ZiroWatt]

Cyberpunk with path tracing can get insane, and there are mods that make freeze frames almost indistinguishable from live footage (when looking at environments ofc)

[@lestat305]

Can't forget god of war

[@theduck2970]

Nixxes were behind the port. They're usually the most reliable dev for releasing PC ports so it's no surprise it runs well. It even runs decently on Medium settings at 30FPS on the Steam Deck. Not bad.

[@thealgerian3285]

Port's pretty good for the most part, but there might either be a memory leak that halfs your framerate if you play long enough, or it's a problem with the towns that do that and then your framerate doesn't come back to normal even after you leave the town, until you restart the game.

[@cmdrfokker]

@@thealgerian3285 I heard something about frame generation being part of the problem IF you're using DLSS at the same time. Of course, I don't know what your circumstances are, so I won't presume that's what you're using. For what its worth, I played for about 4 hours on PC the other day, and didn't see any serious issues. But also, my PC is getting a bit long in the tooth (10700k, 2080 super), so I don't turn up all the bells and whistles that could potentially be a problem. Hopefully they do patch the bugs people are experiencing soon!

[@Crazy09starkillor]

​@@cmdrfokker yep it was frame gen, it's very buggy overall in it's current state. Turning it off and playing it for hours without a hitch or stutter or visual bug, no memory leak, no crashes.

[@thealgerian3285]

@@cmdrfokker I've not used frame generation at all in this game thus far and I'm always checking these kind of settings before I launch a game for the first time. Also, it only happened once so far. So I'm not sure what the problem is or was. But I know I've not been the only one. However, since the game only came out mere hours before I saw people experience this, it's also possible it only happened once for them.

[@jacksonreynolds420]

I run on high on 60fps on steam deck

[@ChaoticD3sTroYeR]

Yeah, It's ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS, way better than my experience on ps4 and it was already beautiful back then. I can't wait for the mods the community comes up with.

[@Endys22]

In my eyes it looked exactly the same even I know it did not. But still. One of the mot beautiful ame I have ever played for sure. I am not about to jump right into pc port now. I platinumed the game on ps4 like 3 years ago... There was no kiki island or whatever it is at the time. But I will play this port one day and will play it as well. I am excited for that. But right now I am deep in my first play trough in RDR2 and I am going to play this game for a while. But this wind mechanic is great af. Just pure visual porn this game

[@gamingoptimized]

Amazing PC Port, I can run this game at 60 fps with an 8 year old GTX 1060!

[@shock226]

if thats the case then i should have no problems with a 3060

[@cxngo8124]

​@@shock2261440p high settings with dlss will get you 70 fps

[@splinterborn]

720p or 1080p low?

[@gamingoptimized]

@@shock226 indeed

[@gamingoptimized]

@@splinterborn Medium-High 1080p using FSR 3 Quality + Frame Generation

[@JohnHydeisawesome]

14:30 Thanks Luke for reminding me that master class art still lives on the internet.

[@NoxBruh]

To all of my beautiful people finally trying this game on PC, my only advice: TAKE YOUR TIME! Truly immerse yourself. Take the time to fully, and I really mean fully explore objectives, towns, etc. There are tons of other cosmetics, lore, unnecessary but cool details, etc that are worth finding!

[@ENTERTAINtheDUDE]

But is it like the Witcher where you can harvest materials for crafting etc and does it have all the other elements of open world RPGs and an economy with traders? Or is it mostly just about the quests and lore? Thanks

[@swizz.fodules]

@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE There are tons of crafting materials scattered troughout locations

[@ENTERTAINtheDUDE]

@@swizz.fodules ok cool, so it rivals the top RPGs yeah? I didn't know if this game was a linear experience in a n open world so to speak. I prefer games like Witcher and red dead where you can really go off and explore with purpose.

[@swizz.fodules]

@@ENTERTAINtheDUDE If you like Witcher and red dead, I am sure you will love Ghost of Tsushima

[@_MrToast_]

@@swizz.fodules The open world really isnt worth exploring besides views. It feels pretty dead most of the time. The open world is its biggest flaw imo.

[@trs8696]

according to the insomniac leaks, GoT had monster stats on PS+ downloads and the PS5 version sold amazingly well for a re-release. I think the sequel could be a big, big hit.

[@blushingralseiuwu2222]

There's sequel in the making?

[@EdgeyStyle]

​@@blushingralseiuwu2222there is some rumor but nothing official. Storywise there should be a 2nd and last one

[@chainsaw8507]

@@blushingralseiuwu2222 Nothing official, but it's almost certainly being made

[@PerfectFitGE8]

Sony make the some of the best graphical games.

[@TheRealUcanUwill]

Yes. This game was why I bought PS4, my personal system seller. Highly recommend if you haven't played it already. Graphically, it often reminds me of WItcher 3 style. Now, looking back, Witcher 3 shows its age in some parts, NPC faces look pretty bad by now, Geralt himself looks awful, but I think W3, just like GOT, will always look beautiful, because of its color pallet, the colors are just so bright and beautiful in those games, it is like opposite of Behesda titles lol. In Witcher 3, its a 10 year old game almost, but if you go near the water, and the lake and sky will be so blue, sand will be so yellow, while the fellow forest is bright green in the background. It is like a painting, I guess there would be people who dislike such style, cause it is not very realistic, or too bright, but I don't know man, it just looks amazing. Its been a long time since I have played this game, this remains the only game ever that I pre order, but I remember that one quest where I had to find a shrine or smth, and I had to follow the clues, there were no markers, anything, but just clues what I need to find with my actual eyes. And I remember I had to look for a blue flowers, I ride my horse back and forth and suddenly I see a hill full of blue flowers, and it just hit me - this is amazing, what an experience. They had Akira Kurosawa mode, that makes the game black and white, and it was more than a filter, they put effort to make sounds and effects look and sound more like Akira's films, but that mode, while great homage, is still so needless, because if you choose to play this game black and white, you are a fool.

[@TheRedRaven_]

Can't disagree.

[@RobinsMusic]

God of war Ragnarok is the most beautiful game I’ve ever played

[@PerfectFitGE8]

@@RobinsMusic Horizon and Ghost of Tsushima are also pretty insane if you haven't checkedbthem out.

[@theegg8621]

Yeah, it's sad all their games play the same

[@Bearded.Nobody]

Literally just started playing this for the first time on PS5 yesterday. Excited to get stuck into it!

[@mitchh5596]

My advice would be take your time with it, it's truly one of the best games of all time.

[@Bearded.Nobody]

@@mitchh5596 Definitely seems like a game you wanna take slow. I just wanna walk everywhere tbh 😂

[@stealthieOne]

It's like some crazy moments that don't have anything to do with combat...just finding a beautiful field and my jaw just dropped how gorgeous it was...

[@phsyan]

Best title screen I've seen in a game. Still gives me goosebumps when I see it.

[@FutureExitsMedia]

I'm playing this on a 4080 Super with everything maxed and it is absolutely stunning. Then again, it was stunning when I played it on PS4 too - art design goes a hell of a long way in games.

[@PCgamerChannel]

Same here, I beat it formally on my ps5. In 4k on pc though it looks so much better. PS5 had more of a cartoony look.

[@roflo2296]

I started replaying this after watching Shogun, and it's still awesome

[@noamias4897]

Ghost of Tsushima is the only game that gives me the same feeling of beauty I get from looking at nature IRL. While games like RDR2 and Elden Ring look amazing in their own ways GoT is special

[@liloni444]

play kingdom come deliverance

[@noamias4897]

@@liloni444 I have and I love it. But while the game is beautiful and the forests especially look super realistic something about the beauty disappears in the screen compared to real life, but with GoT even if it doesn't look exactly like real life manages to capture the feel of looking at a beautiful vista.

[@denniston85]

Started both RDR2 and ER a couple times, still intend to give them another shot but after starting Ghost can't put it down.

[@crimsonstudios680]

Perfect timing. I just got done with my current session of playing it. Glad I have a 4050 to be able to crank this baby to max. I’ve always been more of an Xbox guy, so I’m glad I can finally play this amazingly beautiful game

[@bvnjmngames]

I can’t wait to see the mods people come up with for this now

[@shock226]

kratos as a samurai

[@noamias4897]

Sekiro parrying

[@ThePresidentofMars]

More whacky armour like the monkey set from ishi island

[@ghost_of_nyc]

Obviously cj from san andreas on a horse battling mongols lol

[@andreypokesaround]

I'm fully expecting someone to turn Khotun Khan into Thomas the train

[@DeanT1987]

This is what ppl thought they were getting with Rise of the Ronin. Meanwhile this looks two generations ahead of that game

[@ISGAMINGFORNERDS]

Who cares how a game looks rise of ronin at least it’s focus is on gameplay and not movie slop that’s why sony bout to cut back on movie slop

[@x0Fang0x]

​@@ISGAMINGFORNERDSlmao Ghost if Tsushima did magnitude better than Rise if ronin what are you yappin about?

[@DeanT1987]

@@ISGAMINGFORNERDS movie slop? Have you even played this game? You’re confusing this game with ur typical Naughty Dog title. This is purely game play focused, and a huge polished open world experience with great animations and outstanding visuals that outclasses most games that come out today including ROTR

[@ISGAMINGFORNERDS]

@@DeanT1987 I love how everything you mentioned had nothing do with gameplay the open world is trash and repetitive my guy it’s slop buddy

[@ISGAMINGFORNERDS]

@@x0Fang0x nah u just like watching games and a boring story with boring characters and a Ubisoft type of open world

[@thedonzhorzh]

Interesting fact about the grass in the game: in most, if not all games, we have a pack of grass blades positioned on the ground. The larger the number of the pack is, the denser the grass is respectively, which requires more processing power and can hinder performance. What the devs at Sucker Punch did is that they took the grass blades and simply bent them in U shape there for creating the illusion of having twice as much grass from a single grass blade. Simply incredible and very clever

[@Swampboiii]

I’ll say man when I got my PS5 last year one of the first games I got was Ghost of Tsushima and to this day it is what I call a work of true art The gameplay and story are awesome but the world and how fluid everything is Simply breathtaking Very happy more people will get to enjoy this

[@marintripalo3773]

imo THE best ui , most immersive game you 'l play

[@addynaruto1221]

Switched from normal mode to lethal mode. Its night and day... the combat feels more fluid and immersive.

[@imperialknight3942]

Lethal is the only way to play this game.

[@alexosullivan4354]

I only found Luke Stephens channel very recently... and I wish I found it much earlier. Only channel on YT I watch every video of. Keep up the good work. A legend of the video game medium at the moment in my opinion and severly underrated.

[@purwantiallan5089]

Ghost of Tsushima as of September 2024, sold 32.87M copies worldwide.

[@Bella-zp8rn]

Can’t wait to dig through the game files and look through the amazing textures

[@bloodyassault803]

lol. I can’t wait to get the game and use Reshade with it. See how much more beautiful it can take

[@xSaintxSmithx]

I've been playing a lot of Horizon before this came out and I gotta say I love that Sucker Punch included the Horizon control scheme in the options as an alternative to the default controls. It's gonna make playing both of these games alongside each other much easier lol

[@tombadil64]

Don't mind me watching this video on the same 720p phone screen i watched the last two GoT graphic update videos on. 'Yes luke I agree, this update does look breathtaking!'

[@5ean5ean22]

I stayed up till 4am playing...just woke up. 7800x3d, RTx 4080 ai get 120 fps at 4k with DLSS Quality Frame Gen.

[@bvnjmngames]

I did the same with Ghost of Tsushima, for some reason on ps4 I just couldn’t get into it but once I got a ps5 something just clicked and I RAN through it!

[@Ray-dl5mp]

This game is tremendous overall. It's nice to see so many people appreciate it now. I feel like there was a lot of love when it came out, but a lot of people tried to bring up negatives too. I won't comment on the one negative the game has. The combat, visuals, and feel of the game is tremendous. I love how the combat is a challenge but isn't souls like. Super nice for the average gamer.

[@Yshtola.]

playing a game that looks this good at 120+fps shows that a ton of developers don't give a fuuuuuuck about optimization

[@juauke]

Totally agrees and it is pretty astonishing that it runs as well as it does on the OG Steam Deck (about 50 FPS with occasional drops)

[@marcusclark1339]

2:20 they're not a Japan based studio, they're main base is California and closed their japan studio years ago, they're as western as can be

[@SpottedHares]

Wasn’t that a while melt down of suburbanites that the game was made in the west. Meanwhile the place in Japan that the game was set loved it for how it repeated their home.

[@masudnakhooda2436]

He didnt say that listen to it again.

[@stealthstandard]

He said Sony is a Japanese company. PlayStation itself is American based...

[@GlockLesnar777]

Hearing Luke speak about how the wind leads direction in game made me think of the Mafia game and how they'd use street signs for direction. I'm all for developer's being creative like that.

[@hussein477]

I can’t play on my country so I downloaded cracked sorry Sony :(

[@carlossanchez6510]

fuck sony, they do this to inflate their user numbers for corporate😢

[@jcampos002]

Don't apologize to injustice. -Pirate's code

[@wurshraggwurshington2284]

Yahr Harr Harr

[@lordiblees]

Still remember the first time I experienced the moment when the title appears after the conclusion of the intro sequence with that music. Had goosebumps. Nice to relive that

[@caramelada6687]

14:29 Glad to see pyrocynical's editor getting more jobs

[@roykalager2360]

Is that normal haha?

[@Martinlavell]

Ghost of Tsushima isn’t “woke”, it’s just pure entertainment and fun. A great plus. Assassins Creed Shadows is “woke” and I will not waste my money on it.

[@rolfvansoelen8916]

Enjoyed your video quite a lot. Your calm presentation feels relaxed and natural, highly appreciated ! This game has my attention now, thanks a lot!

[@magnumninjagaming]

the guiding wind is your father helping you find your way after losing everything and having nowhere else to turn

[@keiichi8191]

Thank you for actually being honest about the single-player being available without a PSN account and the game actually being available in Japan. I've seen so much misinformation and rage-baiting about the PSN requirements lately from people trying to make things out to be worse than they are just because going after Sony is the current in thing to do.

[@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc]

Yeah but excluding all those countries and all the potential money is asinine. Players who live in those countries aren't treated fairly imo.

[@cmdrfokker]

@@ANGRYWOLVERINE2060-ft2nc The ironic thing is that prior to the Helldivers 2 debacle, those people were able to open accounts in other regions and access PSN in regions close to their own, and buy games accordingly. In fact, Sony's own MISERABLE customer service acknowledged the limited reach of PSN and said that people COULD OPEN ACCOUNTS IN OTHER REGIONS without copping a ban, outside of some very specific cases (China being one of them, but that has a lot to do with local laws that ban access to content their government would otherwise censor).

[@tonydeluna8095]

A true Samurai game than AC Shadows. Ghost of Tsushima is one hell of a game on ps4/5

[@bushmonster1702]

Some devs need to learn what the joy of discovery is. Having a mini map with a gazillion markers is not engaging gameplay.

[@T.O.Wallee]

“Mom I want the new assassin’s creed!” “Son we have an assassin’s creed at home” :

[@user-ra8ia7ag4w]

Tbh ac is becoming ghost of Tsushima at home lately, sorta like with tomb raider and uncharted

[@crazyfnjoey]

Just picked it up myself because it was suggested by two of my work buddies. My jaw was on the floor. I, too, have a pretty powerful pc so I was able to crank everything and still run it at 80-100 fps native. It's become an action game third to a walking simulator and a background wallpaper generator- so much time spent in photo mode. I haven't played a game since Skyrim that has such a serene and magical atmosphere.

[@shaunkennedy174]

This game is jaw-dropping even on PS5. Holds a buttery smooth 60 fps even at 4k resolution, so I’m sure with the right hardware you can easily get 120+ frames at 4k on PC. 110% one of the best optimized game I’ve seen on PS5 yet, so it doesn’t surprise me that its incredibly well optimized on Pc

[@testing448]

Truly an amazing game and a truly masterpiece. Beautiful graphics, captivating story and just captures everything I’ve imagine a samurai video game will be. I played this on PS4 but now experiencing everything on PC the directors cut version and extended story like iki island. It’s crazy to think that while this game is not historically accurate but imagine that the samurai’s from the 12th century would never know how much impact they left even making a video game about it.

[@wonderfred]

I'm glad it's s good port. Personally I think this is a top 3 game of last generation so I'm happy more people get to experience it.

[@TrueJanTES]

I appreciate the concern you share for us who can’t make a PSN account or let alone buy the game in steam. A masterpiece like this should never have been restricted. It is somewhat a painful thought that games of interest of mine got restricted twice, mines were MGRR and this. I’m curious if anyone else has games in mind they liked to play but couldn’t due to region restrictions?

[@poppabeard9105]

I’m having a good time. Finally got to play this masterpiece.

[@BigBoss-nc7tz]

Enjoy it .. its one hell of an Experience 🎉🎉

[@_MrToast_]

Yall call everything a masterpiece these days...

[@deathmark1940]

​@@_MrToast_why u crying hard in every cmnt weirdo

[@_MrToast_]

@@deathmark1940 Keep defending your 7/10 game. You guys need to play more open world games if you think this is a masterpiece.

[@deathmark1940]

@@_MrToast_ keep crying no one is defending just keep crying like a kid

[@HangOnThereSlick]

I really love the wind mechanic because it's like nature telling you where you are destined to go

[@yes21g]

ayyyy Ghost of Tsushima is removed from steam in my country thank you sony looks like sony doesn't want my money

[@gwalker3092]

Played this ps4 then ps5 I’m saving the PC version as a treat and once it gets the inevitable tweaks. Along with RDR2 one of the most immersive and beautiful game your ever play. Puts to shame the efforts of many other so called AAA games and studios.

[@jediflip2515]

Stating the game "runs well", without disclosing your hardware, nor your frame rate, means nothing Luke. There is no frame of reference.

[@Da1Rocky]

Wow! Looks amazing! Im glad PC players are able to enjoy such an amazing game. One of my favs for the last gen.

[@obredaanps3]

Lethal mode is the best and only way this game should be played.

[@kbthegoat824]

Absolutely..and prepare to be one shotted in a lot of those duels.

[@broggie123]

What makes this game look so good is the scale of the world. The trees and rocks make the world feel massive as they block your view. The last Halo felt tiny it felt like you could see the whole map. Sort of like the San Andreas remake when they didn’t add the fog effect.

[@MauaCedeiros]

Pyrocynical on 14:49 LMAOO

[@skjaldulfr]

I agree about ray tracing. I think game developers' graphics priorities are backwards. There are so many other more important facets to the visual presentation, like clipping, or pop in.

[@exodore2000]

I loved Ghost of Tsushima.

[@addynaruto1221]

4:53 Thank you for mentioning the vsync issue. I was wondering what setting was causing glitchy particle effects in my game.

[@animon9819]

The biggest issue with Assassin's Creed bullshido is that Ubisoft is insisting the black samurai is historic. yasuke was a real guy bu never a samurai.

[@nicolaeionescu4646]

I wish I had the dough to buy it on Steam, but I'm broke af right now. Reminds me of the same immersive experience as Days Gone. Love that game!

[@Rubycore]

Ac Shadows will never come close to this level of quality, and I will not be paying overpriced for a worse experience when I can just replay this whenever I want.

[@ISGAMINGFORNERDS]

What quality boring missions movie game with horrible characters and a repetitive open world wow so fun

[@Rubycore]

@@ISGAMINGFORNERDS Yeah glad you agree with me, assassin's creed sucks now.

[@ISGAMINGFORNERDS]

@@Rubycore oh yea of course it sucks but don’t try to white knight ghost of slop as if it’s much better it’s just as boring as well

[@Rubycore]

@@ISGAMINGFORNERDS L take. Ghost of Tsushima is one of the best single player experiences from the PS4 era.

[@ISGAMINGFORNERDS]

@@Rubycore L take ghost is boring mid and a Ubisoft clone through and through but worse because at least I can skip cutscenes in ubislop games Sony movie games of course not not to mention i need psn Ls all over the place your probably a pony thoa so it makes sense

[@SmallusDicckus]

The only game i was waiting for so long man, last year i got ps5 played it some. Would live to buy it for my pc one day.

[@king_gt7996]

How does the game look so beautiful? Well when your character is the only living human in the world with the occasional 2 to 4 enemies you take out there is nothing but grass and trees

[@Overlord_Rei]

That Charcoal art section got me lol.. Needed that laugh. Thanks for this video Luke!

[@balajithegreat4519]

Those Who are exited to play ghost of tushima on your pc like here. ❤

[@vangmx]

It looked amazing back in the day on PS4 (1080p 30FPS) and even on my PS4 fat with its stock HD, loading took seconds. Sucker Punch really pushed the hardware to achieve such great performance and I can’t imagine how great this will look on PC.

[@yaminahmed5372]

I shouldnt be able to play this but thank god for piracy.

[@void39247]

It works smoothly with my GTX970M 9 yr old card. And I love fighting mechanics so much. So far it is an amazing experience.

[@Realience]

One of the best things about the wind mechanic in my eyes is that you never need to call the wind I didn't know how to call it for the first couple hours, and so I just followed the actual wind, all wind blows to your pin, so even when not calling the wind, it still passively blows that direction anyways, meaning if you've got a good eye, you see where you need to go

[@CowboyBoomBoomSlim]

This is just my take, but I thought the game was very mid. The graphics were alright, but the game environment mostly consisted of open fields, a few trees, minimalistic buildings, and a lot of atmospheric fog. I appreciated the minimal HUD, but the gameplay felt repetitive, often just following a bird or fox to a lackluster event. The world also seemed empty and not very interactive.

[@ManiLink]

💯 agree with you

[@kinoromantic]

Playing the Island of Iki DLC on the PS5 just now, after completing main story over a year ago. This game is a masterpiece. It made me interested in learning about Japanese history and Samurai culture 😊

[@MrAnony07]

A RX6800 & 5800X3D can run max settings at 3440x1440p & never drop below 60 then you turn one setting down one notch from ultra shadows & then it never drops below 80 then you turn on FSR3 FG & it's 144 at all times & it's so well implemented I can't even see anything different but my fsp doubled. This game is crazy good optimized no stuttering or anything just straight performance it did crash a couple times in the first hr with Frame Gen but niw it works fine. I am so glad I never got a console after the PS3 & I played Ghost of tsushima on pc.

[@shah_rizal]

One of the things I love about this game is when Jin has finished killing the enemies, and you choose to sheath his katana, Jin will do these cool animations to clear the blood off his katana before sheathing. It’s so cool.

[@zedetach]

Let's also not forget the ridiculously good force feedback implementation on the dual sense controller. Really adds so much depth to the game.

[@Otsutsuki-san]

I cannot wait to see what the mods are going to be like

[@AlgorithmMockery]

Important! For you folks WITHOUT a 4000 series card, I’ve a 3090ti. I’ve got everything maxed, DLSS quality. It’s running between 125 and 144fps at 4K ultrawide. Even though the pre 4K series cards don’t support Nvidias frame generation, turn on the AMD frame gen. I went from 80-90 fps to the 125-144. 0 loss of graphic fidelity. Quite impressed. Also, suggest using dramatic lighting with small adjustments to brightness. Really helps with contrast and depths to shadow

[@fantomeduchateaux8136]

Ghost of Tsushima is certainly not a game with "bad or outdated" graphics, but is still a prime example, just like Elden Ring, that Art Direction can make a game look like a living portrait and absolute beauty even whitout the best textures or polygon count

[@McElvisss]

Totally agree about ray tracing. It’s a cool technology but the difference it actually makes to visuals is not the worth the hit to performance, in my opinion.

[@jax_wildguess]

Just the intro alone, is absolutely shivering! What a phenomenal game

[@nukert658]

I havent had a console since xbox 360 so I cant say how good other games are that were console exclusives but I couldnt tell you the last time I got a pc game that is this impressive. It does SO much right... it runs amazing it has great interface useful and well executed tips/guide, it looks incredible, the story is awesome, the mechanics and game play is fun and interesting, the sound design, I could go on and on its an easy 10 because its been easily 10+ years since a games impressed me this much. Baldurs gate 3 is close tho!

[@sspacegghost]

im loving it - having just completed elden ring and its DLC - I'm happy to play this on hard mode and its beautiful...taking it nice and slow...basically walking everywhere so i can take in the beauty.

[@yagsipcc287]

I played the hell out of this on my PS4 and loved it. I am going to pick it up on steam at some point, pretty much only play PC these days anyway. So much fun playing this game cant wait to go again and having it look even prettier :-D

[@Myrmidons]

Ok Luke, when the Ghost of Tsushima 2 comes out, it will keep AC in the Shadows for good. One of the very few times I ll disagree with you is that we know already a lot about AC Shadows. 1) All Ubisoft had to do was to explore the incredible narrative and lore they have in their hands but once again, they keep the Brotherhood, the Abstergo and the Templars in the games' Shadows since 2018! Check the Japanese Brotherhood Assassin's Wiki to see what am talking about. 2) I can't wait to parkour with Yasuke and hide in the shadows with his shiny armour.

[@sandeshvantveen]

The port is amazing! I love how the PlayStation ports are also well optimized for ultra widescreens.

[@TheosekMechanes]

Amazing gameplay/music/art/script. The port to PC runs great. I'm playing Newgame+ just to go back and finish all the quests I missed the first time.

[@robertkennedy8503]

Ghost of Tsushima came out at the end of the PS4 life cycle and it shows, is one of the best PS4 games I've played, it has been said some Japanese game studios were jealous of what Sucker Punch accomplished with their awesome game.

[@MisterBolticus]

I was playing this during my transition to pc Finally time to finish it, such a majestic experience of a game

[@misterros94]

Hey Luke, I'm sure you know this since it was in the IGN article but I don't think you touched on it in your Shadows coverage - thankfully Ubisoft is taking a bit of inspiration from more minimalistic games like Ghost of Tsushima and Elden Ring in regards to hand holding and overbearing icons, and they are changing their approach to relaying that information to the player. Viewpoints no longer add a billion icons to your map, you'll be able to see points of interest to tag and then you'll have to navigate there via your own markers. I agree with you that this is one best parts of Tsushima and Elden Ring, and I'm hoping it improves Shadows. Tsushima is one of my favorite games but it scratches a different itch for me than AC, so I don't see it as a replacement like some people do. I'm hoping Shadows really ups the quality (come on Ubi, put some effort into your animations) and I hope it's amazing. I hope you like it too since I know you're a big fan of the series (as critical as you are). I'll be curious to continue following your coverage.

[@sunsoar1822]

8:40 i dont think that they think we're stupid, i think they're just creatively bankrupt and their corporate overlord don't want them to try new things, just repeat what it already proven to work. Minimap, every RPG needs a mini map, add it in. And then they do, like its a given. Never even occurs to them that there could be a new and interesting way to do it. I'm remembering when the first FPS gave you a sprint button, then every FPS after that had it, had to have it or it was outdated out of the gate. Imagine 20 years of inivations, to come up with the standard's we have now come to expect. Then every now and again, someone is ballsy enough to try something. Someone who come up with the idea of the wind and birds and bugs, guiding you, that person was inspired. And clearly empowered enough to get it done.

[@KingArthur7777xbox]

Wind, chimes, finches, foxes light gray smoke, and massive pillar of black smoke. Using your eyes in the world to go explore instead of a map with a billion icons. This is how you remove the hand holding and how invigorate an audience to explore and have wonderment in your game. This is an awesome game, Im very looking forward to playing this on PC. I wish the legends mode could have a few more maps, weapons, and builds but that’s only because it is gosh darn amazing, that I want more. That’s how incredible the full package of this game is. Phenomenal single player, and a phenomenal multiplayer. Hope that quality like this doesn’t completely die out in the future of the games industry (as mega corps are favoring live service, heavy micro transaction, or gacha).

[@verde5738]

AC Shadows getting "a mixed reception" is one hell of an understatement. The game got shit on for trying to pander to the DEI mafia and Ubisoft's stock tanked as a result.