I absolutely cannot recommend Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (PC Review)

[@SkillUp]

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[@inigomontoya619]

Should played it on your sponsors computer...

[@kaos88888888]

If the settings didn't do much then it's a CPU bound issue, this is usually related to AI or any kind of coding not optimized. Also very present during development, shouldn't be present at launch tho

[@Genethitami]

It's so disappointing that it runs like that, and even more so how if you have a Czech keyboard or comparibly "rare" language keyboard, the game doesn't register your 1-9 keys no matter the layout. But, on the other side, I have to say the game runs completely fine on both my gen 1 Acer Nitro 5 (the 1060 one) and my PC (with 3060 gpu). Pretty stable 30+ FPS, which makes me happy considering my hardware. But the keyboard thing is unforgiveable. It was similar issue in JFO, but at least in JFO switching keyboard layout in Windows to en/US or en/UK worked fine. Jedi Survivor just doesn't register the keys at all.... So purely unplayable unless I go back to Germany and play on German keyboard :/

[@reanaa]

I played on pc using a keypad. This game is better than the first. It took me about 60 hrs to complete and during all that time I never, not once, experienced lag and I only encountered one bug (bad guy's cape was stretched across the room). It's a magnificent game. Spectacularly beautiful and characters I really cared about. Top 10 all time gaming experiences (minus a sadistic developer on a couple of the force tears minigames). It breaks my heart that so many people are hating on it because it's everything they promised and more. That being said, you need a good computer. But you always need a good computer to play these types of games.

[@CharlieHepp]

Playing on Jedi Grandmaster and you def right about having to learn certain enemies' move types before even coming close to beating them. Still on my first play-through. Playing on Jedi Master. Having a lot of fun. No real brick walls that stopped me for a while but plenty of challenges. I found Jedi Knight to be a good difficulty for me, it wasn't so easy it became boring or monotonous and it wasn't such a challenge that I got frustrated, although a few of the bosses were particularly difficult. I considered going with Jedi Master at first since I managed to beat the fallen order on Grandmaster with relative ease, but I'm definitely glad I decided against it, at least for my first playthrough. I'll probably go on Master when I try New Journey+ though. I started last night on Jedi Master. It feels pretty good. It's challenging but not super intense. Mostly, it's the groups of 3 or more enemies where you have to play smart. Fun game! Managed to beat the game on Grandmaster and am going through on new game plus on the same difficulty right now! Those DT droids are still my least favorite enemies to come up against, but it seems like they can be staggered if you're aggressive enough and that can open them up to an instant kill animation at about 50% hp. Jedi Master is the perfect balance between difficulty and immersion to me, The Grandmaster one is doable but just less fun, you feel way too fragile. Maybe if Cal's damage output was higher okay, but it feels like hitting enemies with a wooden stick. I just finished a run on Fallen Order on Jedi Master so I felt good about my first survivor play through being on Jedi Knight. It’s about what I expected. Not so challenging that I’m frustrated but not so easy I feel invincible. I found the drop-down from grandmaster to master was surprising, GM was hardcore af, the moment you get surrounded by more than four or five enemies you need to be absolutely perfect with your dodge and parry. Master was a breeze after trying and failing at that lol Played through on Jedi Knight mode just because it felt right since Cal's a knight. It was certainly a grind, but had some pretty satisfying kills. (that's only when the damned game wouldn't crash though) The difficulty is also shown on the HUD. In the bottom left where the d-pad buttons are shown, there is a dot in 1(2 if Grandmaster) of the 4 corners. The lowest starts top left and goes CW from there with Grandmaster having 2 dots top right and bottom left Whenever I’m playing on Grandmaster, I find it much easier to use a defensive stance such as the cross guard of double saber. It really helps prevent your block meter from running out too fast Playing on the higher difficulties I found the double blade stance to be so useful against ranged attacks I feel like for Grandmaster, dual wield and cross guard are gonna be the move. Dual wield for just running around killing enemies, cross guard for those situations where your block is being drained quickly I started with Grandmaster, and personally, I used some of the force powers but it was mostly about picking off your opponents from ranged to melee or from weakest to strongest with lightsaber attacks. I was using duel wield and blaster stances. So glad to hear I’m not alone in wanting to play on the Padawan difficulty. I was playing Jedi Knight, but it wasn’t fun. It was annoying, and I couldn’t seem to get the party right. Padawan lets me not get so involved in the fight and I can step back and learn. 100%, the double blade and cross guard stance were my go-to stances in Grand Master. Cross Guard takes a lot of learning, but once you have it down, it shreds.

[@uhhhpersoniguess]

My favorite part about a lot of modern releases is that by the time they're playable, they're on sale

[@dabluntz19]

It blows my mind that people do pay full price for games nowadays when, like you say they’re on sale in 3 months with far fewer bugs. Gamers have been groomed to accept that this is state of the industry and people seemingly have no issues with it. It’s quite sad.

[@dantauche7917]

Right!?!

[@radicalxg8282]

Being a patient gamer has its perks, everyone can beta test it at full price while we buy it with a good discount and already patched

[@SenterSen]

Hell yeah! Only time I've payed full price for a game was God of War Ragnarok

[@technocore1591]

Fully patched, all DLC included, GOTY edition for 20-30 bucks FTW!!!

[@mattbeauchem6772]

The desynced audio happened in Fallen Order for me as well, so nice to see that feature carried over

[@tot4099]

I beat fallen order shortly before survivor came out and my entire last 2 hours of the game were desynced. I closed my app like many websites said but nothing happened and ended up watching the V**** scene with the voices all fucked up.

[@iamatim6039]

The way my game froze as cal said “yeah we had uh…technical problems”

[@Haydawg06]

same lol, he didn't even say it either the subtitles popped up and it froze before he said it

[@webbedshadow2601]

Lmao that sounds great

[@Tigerhearty]

Denuvo drm is AGAIN part of the performance problems too

[@nolsee1176]

I remember when games were properly finished and quality checked before they were released. Good times.

[@xntt-xo5qi]

So before patch releases. Back when a game had to be finished before sale..

[@E-Chap]

I hear ya but games are probably a lot different to make these days

[@Eonymia]

Sooo... never?

[@bymicromize]

Lol its like saying. Aah I remember the time I had to wait one month for a certain magazine to release with one review that I wanted to read. Good times.

[@Dan_Kanerva]

@@redshift912 oh yeah , so simple... so simple that no devs can re-create GTA 4 , or Half Life 2 , or Halo , or Mass Effect 2 with todays technology . VERY SIMPLE , you can do it too

[@chiprahn]

As a wise man once said, "When you buy a game on release, you are paying the most amount of money for the worst version of a game."

[@selectionn]

and yet here we are in the god awful state of the games industry with morons still pre-ordering to get that sweet keychain for their gun pre order bonus garbage.

[@gleyno]

No one learned from cyberpunk

[@PepoX2612]

I pre-ordered re4 and I didn't regret it one bit, there are still good companies out there

[@pratikhazari3701]

You're paying to be an unpaid beta tester

[@chillinoutmaxin4630]

@@PepoX2612 It's only games like RE4 and Dead Space Remake (despite the stuttering, which I managed to mitigate, and VRAM leak) that keep me holding on to being a PC Gamer. I was about to just go buy Jedi Survivor on PS5 (despite me having a 3080 Ti and 5800x3D) - but now I think I am in no great rush, which is sad because it was one of my most anticipated titles of 2023.

[@JPOG7TV]

Wow I can’t wait to play the game in 3 years when all the bugs are fixed!

[@anshitgupta1294]

Lmao. Fallen order still has bugs and glitches and loading issues

[@D44RK_Iced_Yogs]

It’s the same issues with FO when it released. It still has bugs but honestly, the gameplay made up for it imo. That’s why I’m excited to play Survivor once it gets a couple patches.

[@JoeEver123]

On gamepass

[@yashsoni7614]

Lol only PC players are experiencing bugs PS5 has no bugs

[@CorporateShill66]

and at 1/3 the price!

[@Jollyroger84103]

The lightsaber customization system in the first game was one of the best parts about it. So seeing it return in such an enhanced way, is awesome! I'm so excited to play Survivor in 6-12 months!

[@Jim26D]

I was wondering if they explain where all cals previous parts and crystals went

[@Argonian0727]

I’m surprised Bobba fett showed up!

[@xxrocketshark216xx4]

​@The Rotten💯 Iirc Deus Ex Mankind Divided did it okay by saying Adam Jensen got abducted or something after the first game while on a mission and had alot of his more advanced augs ripped out and/or damaged. (Been awhile since I played it)

[@Jim26D]

@@xxrocketshark216xx4 I wish we were getting another dues ex. Just to think it got scrapped for avengers

[@aussieseal9979]

Wait around a month and it'll be better. Trust me. People are blowing the bugs out of proportion. It's not cyberpunk level.

[@BackwardsPancake]

I have to say, the sort of game design you describe from 20:30 on is the exact kind of thing I have been hoping for more of in modern gaming. Cosmetic/side content that's treated like respectable gameplay and which stands up on it's own. Things just being fun for their own sake, not just busywork you put up with for rewards and bonuses. Core gameplay that's fun and intuitive enough that it doesn't need to be papered-over with numbers, stats and pointless upgrades (Although, from your combat description, I guess they did not stick the landing on this one). Still, it is kind of shocking to see this kind of design philosophy from an EA-owned studio. I figured the management would have smothered ideas like these in the crib for being "not monetized enough" and "not psychologically manipulative enough to retain the attention of the lowest denominator" or whatever. I might pick this up in a year or so, once the performance is hopefully fixed. Here's hoping they don't use the technical problems as an excuse to kill this sort of design in the future.

[@sixish]

It's kind of been established that Respawn Entertainment gets to do things somewhat their own way compared to most other EA studios

[@vincent207]

This is one of the benefits of having a large backlog. By the time I get around to this game, all the patches will have long since been out.

[@THE_BEAR_JEW]

Agreed. Worked for me with Cyberpunk and No Man's Sky.

[@xiRePeNTx]

@Giritto bruh just described me

[@mikefidborg1]

Ain't that the truth.

[@StrikeWarlock]

Pretty much my experience with Cyberpunk. I basically got to enjoy it recently because of the anime and I didn't experience most of the bugs that it had on release.

[@rundown132]

Based take, and its cheaper too

[@Patterrz]

On the brightside, by the time the game is fixed it'll probably be on Game Pass or on sale

[@connorhutchinson9615]

W

[@RECXFX]

Yes it will be on EA Play soon

[@znubionek]

they never fixed fallen order though

[@ace052330]

@@znubionek Fallen Order runs just fine. I have video of its performance up on my channel on hardware way weaker than what I am currently using. Was playing it at 1440P max settings around 100 fps or higher. Nothing wrong with its performance. Now I have a much stronger CPU Ryzen 5800X3D and a RTX 4070 Ti and it will barely each 60 fps at the same resolution. Fallen Orders performance compared to this games is amazing.

[@lum1notryc828]

​@@RECXFX a year

[@tsbulmer]

Sounds like this'll be a joy to play next year.

[@acurisur]

Nope, the review is out of date. The Day 1 patch fixed the PC version for me.

[@XX-121]

@@acurisur so how much is disney/EA paying shills these days?

[@paulsmith5684]

I can just imagine the problems on consoles that most Gamers will have. I will take a look at radbrad video and see if there's any problems because he is already up to part 3.🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿🤞🏿.

[@mcride9773]

At half the price or less

[@marvelbladez993]

​@@acurisur cope

[@Stretch2024]

I watch all your vids but never comment. I gotta say your review style is superb, u clearly put a lot of work into your scripts. No matter the game u do due diligence and know what your talking about. Keep it up mate 👏

[@Deathshuck]

Review was posted 1 minute ago and people in the comments act like they already watched a 30+ min video. KZbin comments in a nutshell.

[@dcptiv]

3min into it & it's all mostly negative & it does not get better by 5min so you that combined with the title tells you what the rest of the review entails.

[@rickylovesyou]

Ikr

[@alfredong6850]

With the performance issues all over the news, the comments are in no way surprising. Its a confirmation.

[@5lim.0]

Jokes on you, I watch videos at 30x speed 🤣

[@aaaaaaaaaaaaabbbb]

@@dcptiv watch the video u weedbrain

[@TheFawz]

So a true iterative sequel, double-down on the bugs, jank and performance issues

[@johnswanson1977]

Yeah on pc anyway

[@Firebacon1gg]

I have not really gotten bugs im ps5 though.

[@taikajorma7276]

@@Firebacon1gg yeh in ps5 its great

[@undefined69695]

so I’m good to go on ps5? Or should I wait for a patch or two? My butt still hurts from battlefield

[@klaxxon__]

Twice the pride, double the fall.

[@Mediados]

This is exactly why I am glad to be far behind in games I want to play. By the time I get to play a new game, it has been out for months.

[@khangvinh4656]

Tbh, you’re like me but I’m like years behind lol. I usually do this just because I can wait for both the games and hardware prices to drop so upgrading is cheaper. Buying things upfront on release day these days suck ass.

[@MikeTheD]

We're literally trained into that mindset after years of this junk, and yeah it would be happening anyways for people like us as we got busier

[@chs_ambs8356]

Yep. Lol. I used to buy games at launch, but it's not 2013 anymore. I'm just now playing Tales of Arise.

[@danceyrselfkleen]

Literally no one cares

[@xdeevex428]

Most of us PC gamers have such a huge back log of games on our Steam accounts that we can afford to be patient. There's plenty of games I can spend time with until they fix this.

[@TheRansomed55]

The interlocking lightsaber on paper has the potential to be one of the coolest morph weapons ever; it's such a shame that they didn't capitalize on that and develop the combat experience more. Switching between 4-5 stances seemlessly depending on your situational needs or to create combos and strings would have been so cool.

[@fraundakelmbrilpondaprost90]

They could have looked at Nioh 2 and basically did that.

[@gman2570]

@@fraundakelmbrilpondaprost90 got to leave some stuff for the next game

[@Frankthegb]

It should have been at the very least a post-game unlock like in DMC5. It also would have been better with more delay and multibutton combos. Still though, it's clear they wanted you to master 2 stances at a time, and it goes with Cal still not being a master Jedi.

[@BiggieJ4224]

This. I mainly am so bummed out about this game not reaching what it should have been because one thing, and that is that this game could be fantastic on a CONCEPTUAL level. What I mean by that is like you said with interlocking lightsabers, mixing force abilities with melee combat etc. I think the souls approach was a horrible idea tbh with this game, it’s hard to explain why this games combat feels so bland and repetitive. But I don’t feel like narrowing down every reason why it’s bad, all I’d say is just make the third game so much more fast paced and free flowing, god of war ragnorok is probably the best combat system I’ve ever played, it strikes the perfect balance between very challenging enemy design (although I do have a few gripes with that) and very satisfying and fast paced combat. Jedi 3 or whatever they call it should completely branch off from what it’s done so far imo. It should stop trying to be the Star Wars version of souls, and just be A Star Wars combat game, that is more akin to god of war and other Great combat systems. It’s actually surprising because the combat director/lead was the lead on god of war 3’s combat, which yea I get that those two systems are completely different but I’m surprised how he went from formulating such a satisfying, exhilarating combat experience from that game, to making this buggy, janky, slow, sluggish and boring combat.

[@debonaire_nerd]

Not supporting pre-order culture would go a long way to improving the quality of products at launch because developers would have less incentive to rush the product. It wouldn't entirely resolve the problems, but it would be a great first step to sending a very clear message to the developers and publishers.

[@Shinkajo]

People are obviously way too weak-minded for that

[@monke_man4096]

Pc is the only one with issues I don’t know how they get console perfect but not pc then they release it

[@Diegoshadow85]

@@monke_man4096 You are obviously wrong. Go watch how it drops to 15 fps on PS5.

[@shawngaetz8161]

I haven't preordered a game since......well...ever. what's the point? It's available to download day one with no limitations in stock. Any preorder bonus is never worth it to me personally and I have been waiting to buy any game for years until its st least 50% off or it ends up free on ps+ because money 😂.

[@debonaire_nerd]

@@shawngaetz8161 Pre-ordering for digital goods betrays what was intended for the overall concept. It was introduced as a means to securing a copy in the event of stock being limited. That issue doesn't exist with digital.

[@nohbodhi1120]

The biggest problem with combat is enemies can animation-cancel you but you cant animation-cancel them. So whenever you get an opportunity for a cool move or a combo type move they can just tap you before you get it off and you just take a hit edit: to the "get good" guys in the replies. Yes, I also play on the hardest difficulty. Yes, this game is easy to abuse the dodge mechanic and it's very easy to time parries. Thats not what I or anyone is complaining about.

[@Omega77232]

So this game needs a poise system like in ER or something like that

[@Mat-ss8uw]

@@Omega77232 From playing Fallen Order, I think the combat desperately needs a visual spidey-sense dodge system like in Spider-man. Remember Luke "feeling the force" when Obi-Wan gave him a helmet with an opaque visor for his first training? You're a damn Jedi but in this game you're relying entirely on watching the enemy's animations and trying to get the timing just right for your dodge/parry window and it's not even a very generous window.

[@mikeclarke3990]

Use grab and guy still hits you, feels bad.

[@slvrcobra1337]

So many of the animations look so janky and don't blend into each other, and there's times where Cal has a fucking giant double-bladed lightsaber taking up the entire screen and yet manages to miss enemies that are directly in front of him. Maybe it's not so bad actually playing it, but seeing these wonky goofy animations made me not wanna play the first game or this one.

[@dannymorrow6024]

Wrong. Get the 2 single blades...problem solved. Also get fucking good lol I'm playing on grand master and have am having an awesome time

[@otaku2567]

I absolutely like how your title absolutely gets to the point

[@justinbezaire8115]

Absolutely

[@Gunstar-ys2ph]

absolutely

[@justdewitt5409]

Absolutely

[@richardkirigaya8254]

Absolutely

[@BlastbeaterPT]

Absolutely

[@JustKatchup]

I'm glad I played this on console. It had a few frame drops but overall it was a completely playable experience. And I absolutely loved this game. It had me completely hooked from beginning to end. Amazing story and gameplay

[@bobby_c07]

Gotta be honest I'm always looking for a reason to not spend a hundred bucks.

[@silotx]

It's always worth it to play a bit older games and wait until the price has dropped, bugs have been fixed and new content released there are so many games to play already.

[@Drstrange3000]

Same xD

[@billymays1761]

Yup. Thankful for AAA games for making me save $100 at a time multiple times a year. Time to carry on with the older games backlog.

[@Shajirr_]

Rather than buying a game in a bad state on release, I buy 2-4 games for the same total price half a year later. If I bought everything full price, I probably would have had 3-4 times less games than I do.

[@aschente8455]

@@Shajirr_ so true, and if u wait about a year a bunch of these games are given away for free in EGS... Playing games at launch nowadays is pain.

[@gleyno]

You have my respect for having a dedicated mid range hardware that is representable of most PC rigs now adays for reviewing games

[@zbigniewsmyk]

>rtx 2080ti >mid range Meanwhile most of bobs on steam play on gtx 1060 or rtx 3060 Lmao

[@ashb7]

@@zbigniewsmyk It's not mid range, yeah, but it's still closer to the average than what most reviewers use. Besides, a huge number of players on Steam literally just use their PC to play CSGO or DOTA which are not very demanding at all, so the most used GPUs list might not be the perfect representative of the ones who are gonna buy and play AAA titles day 1.

[@maaren3150]

2080ti is far from mid range

[@TheJacyn313]

Yeah but reviewing a multi-platform game on the most inferior platform is crazy to me. I get he reviews it on his preferred platform but let's be honest, games are made for console so reviewing on pc this day & age is knowingly asking for an inferior product for 90% of games.

[@Dung30n]

@@TheJacyn313 Games are made for profit, not console. its just a coincidence (and result of PC piracy) that console is the better market, so PC players get shit ports. Any game made primarily for PC tends to be a better experience, compared to titles back-ported to PC after dev/publisher decided to focus on console.

[@1.21gigawatts2]

Being a PC player makes me feel like Kevin McCallister when his entire family forgets to bring him on vacation.

[@CornOnDeCobb]

Except you paid double or more compared to your siblings

[@BaldLezB_In]

PC players aren’t gamers. You’re a bunch of spec nerds. You don’t care about games you care about how many frames there are.

[@michska53]

But they are the master race... their rigs are so much better then those weak consoles...

[@irishstew9951]

​@@CornOnDeCobb hahahahah brilliant

[@NGBH]

@@michska53 seems like someones pressed lmao. it aint about their rigs. its about the game being godawfully optimized by the DEVS. lol

[@epicllama8061]

Incredible review, I also purchased and "played" the game on pc on release and the fact that a ton of big name reviewers failed to mention the terrible performance is ridiculous. I love that you review games on more of an average consumer PC

[@sidecharacter7165]

How many of those got it for “free”

[@machineofadream]

It does not have poor performance on every system. They may have been unaware of the issues others were having when they were playing their review copy.

[@AgentRedShirt]

My older system ran things better than people with newer systems. The main problem was that you were systems have a different type of p cores and e cores. And the game for whatever reason didn’t take into account for that. At least at first. It runs great now. But yeah, for whatever reason the game was treating the processor as all the same cores. It wasn’t putting them to power ones. My sixth generation i7 6700k and 980ti was able to run things on high settings and I wasn’t experiencing anywhere near the FPS drops that people with much stronger machines were experiencing. That’s my guess anyway.

[@damonekstrom4363]

This is a shining example why you don't ever want to pre-order anymore.

[@AirDrifter77]

Unless it's FromSoftware game. Only one they ever had a really bad port of was Dark Souls 1

[@SirSabzZa]

@@AirDrifter77 tbf Elden ring was bad for the first month on pc, choppy frames on PCs way higher specs than necessary. Didn't get fixed till the next month.

[@razorburn645]

Complete products. What a concept.

[@youtubeisracistx]

zero problems on console

[@SirSabzZa]

@@youtubeisracistx its because consoles are one spec. You can optimise for one ps5 and it will be the same for all PS5s. There's so many different pieces of hardware you can have in a PC is so much harder to optimise for those systems.

[@CHMgamemedic777]

The cutscenes going all "Otototototototraffick" had me in the gut 😂

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

They are charging $70 for this kind of shitty quality, oh boy...

[@antm7368]

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[@ElrondKaresh]

😂 took some hits back there lol

[@ElrondKaresh]

​@@RRRRRRRRR33bro it's so wild to me that were paying next gen prices for last gen games..

[@Pedro_Le_Chef]

11:14

[@wiper7000]

Hey, I've noticed and really appreciate the fact you put the specs of which ever hardware on screen to make it easier to visually identify :) I know you've done it for a while, but the sentiment is appreciated every time. Keep up the great work. You're the best gaming news outlet out there in my opinion

[@MsOpportunity68]

Hi Skill-up. Loved the review, and like you I can confirm that no matter what I do to the settings nothing seems to matter. I didn't have the audio issues that you had, although occasionally you could tell the cutscene wasn't streaming well with a minor hiccup. I'm playing on an I9 9900k, RTX 3080 10GB, 64GB RAM @ 2666Mhz and Audio output through a SoundblasterX Ae-5 dedicated sound card.

[@UnfitToLive]

I've saw a breakdown of performance showing that the issue is a CPU bottleneck, which may be a bug but it's why changing settings doesn't help. If you take your system and plop a better CPU in it, you should see an improvement but changing setting will still not change the performance. (A better CPU will result in a performance bump but the game still can't utilise the CPU properly and it will still hold the GPU back.)

[@TheShicksinator]

The patch yesterday helped quite a bit for me. It's still not optimized by any means but playable.

[@jonmv]

‎US$ 69,99 for a broken game... and then they complain about piracy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@sr.wyller2022]

🏴‍☠🦜

[@Dryvlyne]

It doesn't even deserve to be pirated. It should be boycotted. People continue to put up with this crap.

[@onesadlittleboy]

If piracy is your first thought then maybe they shouldn't fix PC version and just focus on consoles.

[@stephenhutchinson7054]

@@Dryvlyne plays fine on my PS5

[@KevsShwaShwa]

It’s not broken. Cyberpunk was broken. This is simply very un-optimized. Quality mode on ps5 runs well enough. Needs work but hey even naughty dog is releasing crappy pc ports.

[@Xander-Gen]

So glad the alpha testing for this game has officially started. Can't wait to play it in a year

[@Globodyne]

at 50% off

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

Same. I still have to play the first game anyway, so I should play this in a year for about half the price.

[@davidhanousek9874]

@@Globodyne in gamepass ... 15.

[@MrParis215]

Straight like that lol

[@TimOD-hm9eu]

Doing that with most games but I got it day one on ps5 and have no regrets since it runs great and I will have a blast the next few weeks

[@Nwakanma1]

Thank you for being the one reviewer that didn’t treat the terrible performance issues like some minor gripe unlike soo many other reviewers for this game apparently.

[@ZEFFYRooo]

Skill Up always seems to prioritize performance in his reviews

[@wotler6862]

Mutahar also talked about it

[@LukeNineK]

The build on release seems solid, ive had no issues so far and am quite far into it now (been playing non stop since release hour)

[@Nwakanma1]

@Wade Halvorson Agreed. While the performance on there isn't perfect either, at least its playable and doesn't hinder my experience as bad. I keep hearing that some people can't even get past the title screen on their PCs.

[@idowatiwant9]

could just not be reviewing on pc, I wish more reviews would be multiplatform!

[@Cleric314]

I made some changes to my Nvidia control that helped a ton! also if you download lasso process, disable smt, enable high performance priority for CPU and power management within lasso. In Nvidia control panel: 1. Turn image scaling on within Jedi survival program settings in the manage 3D settings tab. 2. Turn on Multisample for anti aliasing transparency. 3. Set power management to prefer maximum power. 4. Set texture filtering for anisotropic sample to on. 5. Set texture filtering for negative lod bias to allow. 6. Set texture filtering quality to performance. 7. Set texture filtering trilinear optimization to on. In game settings. I'm running at 2k/1440p All settings high. No FSR. No RT. On an rtx 3070, and Ryzen-9 5900x. I went from 40fps to 73fps and the picture quality looks better. Don't forget to reset game and system after implantation of new settings.

[@JesseAnderson]

Cool to see them improve the cosmetic drops from the previous game. Going the whole game only getting poncho and robot skins got pretty old so it's nice they added a lot more to that reward structure

[@danieldevito6380]

Not to mention that 90% of the ponchos were hideous. I usually just kept the poncho off and wore all black. I did mess with my Lightsaber about a million times, though.

[@shacuras8201]

It was fine imo, and the Lightsaber customization was actually really good

[@Rebelscum264]

@@shacuras8201 it was shit

[@drangus3468]

I cannot express enough how much I value the authenticity of your reviews.

[@Drothen-]

maybe u should stop being a fanboy

[@kluneberg8952]

weird that he doesn't recommend this game due to tech issues but praised cyberpunk.

[@omegaxtrigun]

@@kluneberg8952 That's because cyperbunk had the opposite problem of this game. It ran poorly on consoles, but better on pcs. This game runs worse on pc and better on console.

[@skrotaa3187]

Bro you're saying that this dude who said Doom 2016 was better than Doom Eternal and praised Horizon Forbidden West is authentic? Lmao, im dead 💀

[@TheGrades90]

It would be far better if he could discuss performance on consoles, like most reviewers can.

[@ObsidianShinobi801]

So basically the game is good….just not for PC😂

[@yashsoni7614]

Exactly... I am playing this on my PS5 performance literally 0 bugs so far best star wars experience

[@hia5235]

PC players never learn

[@elpolodiablo5486]

​@@hia5235 Never learn what ?

[@jormungandr4690]

Dunno this game looks like something from 2015 in terms of quality.

[@minhgiangtuan96]

@@hia5235 Did they ask the studio to make it buggy or what?

[@ethancowan3431]

I’ve been playing in ps5 and have experienced no issues. Ig it wasn’t optimized for pc but from experience outside of pc and in console it’s my favorite game this year. I absolutely love it

[@TheBenLambert]

Thanks for the honest review, 100% on wishlist until a sale now.

[@scottiiiejames]

It’s almost like we have to start reviewing AAA games at least a year after release

[@MaxRamos8]

Honestly that's what the competionist mostly does haha

[@AKdagr8]

Or just play on console

[@kamcatka13]

@@AKdagr8 why would I? I have a beast of a pc,I would never pay lazy developers any money,because they are not competent enough to make decent pc port.

[@lucifermorningstar8387]

@@AKdagr8 tbf the game is a stuttery mess on ps5 as well.

[@mullaoslo]

that would actually be good for the gaming industry..

[@BeegGorg]

I love Skill Up because even if I dont always agree with him I find he is the most consistent in his opinions across games that I can always TRUST his opinion.

[@wadesymes1703]

I usually agree with you but not this time. This review is trash! play it on PS5 and he wont have these issues. But not only that, putting performance issues aside, he is just wrong about the combat and general gameplay loop. Its awesome! I feel like he shat on it way too much

[@tiagoschramm5789]

Cyberpunk

[@goldenghost2001]

I dont even watch this guy, but going through his channel i can tell he is wildly inconsistent and wrong about many games. Place your trust elsewhere, or view it as one of many opinions to consider

[@wadesymes1703]

@Payton Mollo nope. I finished it 100% and it was awesome every step of the way. How much longer should I play it for?

[@Lastyearsjacket]

Couldn't agree more on the combat and platforming complaints. I often find myself missing the linear, more focused levels of Fallen Order. In Survivor it feels like every turn is platforming, climbing, swinging, puzzling etc. and it gets exhausting. I'm aware FO was the same way but it wasn't as repetitive with its smaller levels (except the damn slides man I don't miss those). Survivor makes that "on rails" feeling stand out a lot more. There's also a lot of gotcha moments that become predictable. Any time I see a set piece that might break or whatever I just assume I'm gonna fall down a hole or something is gonna throw me off the course. It's a little bit overused. The combat is pretty much the same. The actual mechanics of it are fine, always have been, but the stances are kind of meh. They don't add enough to really shake things up but there's still more ways to play so whatever. Crossguard is my favorite so far with double (saber staff) being very close behind. The larger mobs and force resistant enemies are just kind of annoying. It's all doable, I'm not even having trouble, but it can be tedious. Some fights I feel like I either get shot in the back every time drop my guard/swing, or I'm heavily defending/parrying/shooting/pursuing until the ranged nerds are done for and I can clean up the rest. It is easy to get stunlocked if you aren't careful and it sucks. At least the beasts knock you down and it resets combat to neutral. They give you these long windup moves in every tree but a lot of times you get hit, shot or both while trying to charge them. Which is fine other than the fact that, per the descrpition, a lot of these are meant to be your crowd control/AOE moves. If they were high risk, single target attacks I would feel better about them (crossguard is the only stance I use since I got it so idc that you have to think/time), but I was looking forward to these moves and I've since respecced and spent those points elsewhere. There's so many better ways to dismantle large groups that they aren't worth the effort. There's definitely stuff from the first game that needed improvement. Unfortunately, they kept in some of those annoyances and favored adding more of them and, well, more of everything. More is great in some aspects and very samey in others. I'm enjoying the game overall but I find myself condemning the same things in Survivor that I did in Fallen Order.

[@homerrrrrrrrrrrrrrr]

I couldn't agree more about the platforming, puzzling and climbing. More than half of the game are annoying platforming puzzles and the combat encounters are few and far between. You have to jump around like a madman for 20 minutes just to fight some random storm troopers that get knocked off in less than a minute. What a waste.

[@np2118]

It’s crazy though that every game I was hyped for this year I haven’t actually played. Just waiting for fixes somewhere down the line

[@BillMan5000]

Hopefully Zelda/Spider Man are goated at launch.

[@gavo7911]

@@BillMan5000 Sony would move mountains before they let a game launch buggy lol

[@Deliveredmean42]

​@@gavo7911well, I suppose as long as it's console first...

[@johnnyboy3476]

Welcome to modern gaming

[@nailinthefashion]

​@@BillMan5000 Tears of the Kingdom will be one of the greatest games ever released. People will copy it like they do with BOTW. No one should doubt Nintendo tbh, even splatoon 3 had a very smooth launch and that had networking issues to sort out.

[@RichardPlaysStuff]

Iconic Star Wars lines "I am your father" "These aren't the droids you're looking for" "I have the high ground" "TOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTOTO-"

[@user-zl9vh2xr6b]

an instant classic, iconic before release just like that guy's hat

[@WayStedYou]

You forgot. "Hello there!"

[@hauslerful]

roger roger

[@tylermatchett9144]

No one told me I’d be adventuring with Charles Smith again! Also, I love your honesty and the info you share in your reviews. There’s a reason you’re one of the best! Keep it up!

[@gleam6370]

I keep expecting him to say “c’mon, Arthur”

[@noamias4897]

Noshir Dalal is absolutely awesome

[@mhutch5082]

Nah this aussie guy tries to be edgy with opinions just because. Gameranx is much better. He lost me with the "swashbuckling adeventure" talking about star wars lol

[@jaredjones1846]

​@@mhutch5082 he lost me at the last of us remake

[@tylermatchett9144]

@@mhutch5082 I definitely am a huge fan of gameranx. They’ve been so consistent with their content for years now!

[@RavenousSpectre]

Yet ANOTHER REASON to not buy triple A games on day 1. I play mainly on console so I'm glad Gamefly exists for renting regardless of if these problems were to happen or not. Which I've heard the ps5 version still has some of the same issues.

[@persinitrix]

Regarding the stance issue made me wish they went the DMC5 route for combat. Edit: Dante's stance mechanics specifically

[@Alltimefox]

Final Fantasy 16 will solve that

[@AntonKontsevoi]

Yeah, I liked Fallen Order a lot but I wish it had combat from The Force Unleashed rather than from Souls games. I guess the same thing applies here but I’ll be sure when I give the new game a try

[@Bungycb]

@@AntonKontsevoi same. Those games are far better

[@Mr.Scott86]

Me personally I like the combat, it has a lot more thought to it then spamming 2 buttons during combat

[@AntonKontsevoi]

@@Mr.Scott86 I’d somewhat agree with it. The Force Unleashed combat is more about “how do I kill the enemies in the most stylish and sick way to get as much points as possible” when Fallen Order combats is more like “how do I kill the enemies with the abilities I have”. To each their own, nothing wrong with enjoying any of these approaches to do in game combat.

[@TheWindwall]

As a PC gamer using a 3070, I truly appreciate the diligence you put into your review in terms of settings testing and attempting to find a stable baseline. I was a fan of the first one and was looking forward to this, however I have big backlog of free stuff to get through as well. MIght wait for some more patches first.

[@corruptedpoison1]

I wouldn't buy it yet on a 3070 the 2080ti is basically the same card but the 3070 has less VRAM.

[@scwyd6769]

i got a 3060 game runs great..

[@tobiasbracknagel4998]

The audio stuttering in the cutscenes is apparently caused by the VSync function when turned on - at least according to German publication GameStar you mentioned in your review.

[@ThaLiveKing]

I have v sync turned on and have had no issues. I7 and 3080.

[@swords1717]

if VSync causes that, the devs should fix it, because VSync doesn't fucking cause that kind of problem, not to mention it's high end pcs. It tells the gpu when to draw a frame, not messing with the audio.

[@ThaLiveKing]

@@swords1717 I doubt it's the problem lol

[@Lmfaocj]

Can't wait for this game to be fully released. The Open beta is tempting. But I want to wait till it's finished.

[@chrismagistrado6014]

My first game review I've seen, and this is VERY detailed. I love how much testing you've done and hope to see more

[@GarrettHope]

Skill Up sets the standard for reviews. Keep up the great work!!

[@swedishZ0mBi3]

​@The Artist Formerly Known As WarBot cope 😂

[@DrJayPlays]

@The Artist Formerly Known As WarBot then you must've missed the part where he's talking about the PC experience, not console. Cope ~

[@Thats-Akumetsu]

​@@DrJayPlays cope 🤡

[@F-aber]

@The Artist Formerly Known As WarBot dude he literally tells you the game is good and that he doesn’t recommend it because of the pc performance. Media literacy 0.

[@TheWefikus]

Too bad he chickened out with Hogwarts Legacy

[@IBooey]

EA never fails to amaze lmao

[@smokethatgameb9937]

😂

[@lalo38th41]

You act as if EA are the only one's having issues with porting PC games.

[@ToMmY-lt7dw]

Yea, unfortunately all these new titles being released are awful on performance wise… They shouldn’t be releasing it until they are fixed, but most likely they dont have the final say on it…

[@jediflip2515]

​@@lalo38th41 nope that's just how you perceive it. EA has consistently released poor pc ports, and they haven't stopped. That fact doesn't mean other publishers don't do the same and it wasn't inferred in op's comment.

[@Raiders-wm5kb]

EA are greedy

[@edwaaard46]

I respect your opinion about the combat, I also need to add that for me personal this combat system is a lot of fun. And I come from the dark souls category of player lol. Anyway, I think they improved the combat significantly compared to the first game. I would love to have the same FO in combat attack that allows you to switch to another stance. The New Game Plus allows you to skill up the other stances. So you have excitement for that after beating the first run. Overall this is my game of the year, and never before in Star Wars game history, I felt like a true kick ass Jedi.

[@superbatman421]

Ah yes, the immortal battle cry of all Jedi warriors: "CHO CHO CHO CHO CHO CHO CHO CHO CHO TRAFFIC!" Now that's podracing.

[@markyturner]

Question: has a day zero/one patch ever fixed serious performance issues encountered by reviewers using earlier builds?

[@J3wFro69]

Not that I have ever seen or that comes to memory. I don't think there's normally just one thing bogging down performance it's a bunch of things

[@swmtothemoon6660]

I doubt it

[@zavri8543]

on a 5800x3d with 4090 at 3440x1440p performance isn't nearly as bad as this review, so they probably pushed a patch a few hours after launch. Still not great though.

[@Supadrumma441]

nope. Anyone that says "day one patch will fix it" is huffing that copium HARD

[@Ehh.....]

Borked pc launches usually take a month at the minimum to start seeing massive faults fixed. This game as big as it is probably won't have alot of those big issues ironed out until around a little over half a year from now by my guess. Hopefully by that point there will be a decent sale.

[@onlyontuesdays4483]

I was really excited for this one after spending the last week playing fallen order for the first time. I’m so glad I resisted the urge to preorder

[@MonkeyDLuffy60073]

I pre ordered, gonna order a refund right now lol

[@swmtothemoon6660]

NEVER preorder

[@sneaky5141]

yet youll all go on to talk shit about consoles and the people who buy them to avoid this hassle lol

[@universesixhit642]

@@MonkeyDLuffy60073 Never pre-order.

[@Revoltingmind]

Bruh... this is just clickbait... The tittle suggest there is something wrong with the game mechanics or something like that, not bugs or fixable issues... We all know AAA games are not worth preordering and its recommended to wait until patches are applied but this title just says that there is something wrong with the game but doesn't specify that is a technical issue not a game issue... This type of content sucks

[@mattsteets2369]

Fantastic review! A game should be graded based on how it plays on day 1, not what I could play like in a few months after several patches.

[@krakesh5915]

Gotham knights purchase made me realise to trust your reviews mate , keep going

[@blueblur02]

Tbh, a blindfolded, unconscious Stevie Wonder could've took one look at that from the jump and knew it was a big nope.😅

[@bpmcmanson8701]

​@blueblur02 yup u called it, anyone with 2 eyes and half a brain could have seen that game was gunna blow hard chunks

[@crazebear]

Never pre order

[@CP077]

understandable

[@leoanderson3035]

What gave me a bad vibe about Gotham is ps5 being at 30fps…

[@samb9645]

I guess I’ll play this in a year or so when it’s hopefully discounted

[@bankerlmth]

It will end up up on EA Play/ Game Pass too.

[@JakeGottfriedStudios]

Why not get it for console, I was thinking of getting it today but definitely not for PC as it would be how videogames should be played in my opinion

[@mja101]

​@@JakeGottfriedStudiosit runs like shit on console too. Performance mode is horrendous

[@TheGintama86]

​@Jake Gottfried mods too a good reason for pc but the 1st gane ran better on pc then on ps5 for me even on performance mode better just get it for pc if u can

[@zoinksscoob6523]

Wait for game pass

[@NaskaRudd]

In Fallen Order there was a near unanimous bug with the cutscenes, the longer you played, an increasingly noticeable audio delay would stockpile. Only a reset would resync the audio Almost all platforms had a near 15 second delay during one particular cutscene where Cal got a new crystal in an ice cave. Strange to see that the sequel has weird audio glitches of its own

[@akmal94ibrahim]

Reminds me of Dying Light 2. Also had the same audio desync issue and worse, dialogue randomly skipping. Never had that issue in Dying Light 1.

[@chaost4544]

I never experienced that glitch. It sounds like a you thing.

[@aviatinggamer9051]

I don’t like the idea of Cal killing mind controlled fauna that he’s done with. At least not as a Jedi. If this game had a dynamic choice system where choices affect the character and ending sure. Such choices should lead you down the dark side. But a Jedi? No. Jedi are supposed to be spiritually attuned with the force with connects all living things. Would’ve been far better if Cal put his hand on the head of whatever creature he controlled and released it from his control.

[@kevting4512]

Always rewarding to be a patient gamer these days.

[@iamastrangeloop96]

most of these games never even get fixed. Look at fallen order, or elden ring, or dead space, or stray, or ghostwire tokyo, the list REALLY goes on

[@davemeredith6964]

It is if you have the time and flexibility. Some of us have not Either way. There is no excuse for products that we pay for to be this poor at launch.

[@yourmomslover1]

​@@iamastrangeloop96 why did u mention elden ring It was fixed a few days after launch

[@Firebacon1gg]

Well all I know i haven't had many bugs or I have not seen them im on console though not alot of bugs on console.

[@MMACinephile]

​@@iamastrangeloop96 I don't understand. Those are all good games aside from Ghostwire Tokyo.

[@dillonmalbrue4179]

This is why i like your channel so much. Theres no edging on viewers to get more viewtime, you get straight to the point

[@kanecassidy9126]

Thanks for being a real reviewer and not ignoring the way the game actually runs like other reviewers

[@666slateran666]

Yeah, it's weird that Ralph chose to play a huge modern triple A game on PC when every other games has come out in a bad state recently. Fool me twice shame on me...

[@ahobbyist9520]

I think most of them just have console

[@kanecassidy9126]

@@ahobbyist9520 @slateran look at pc score on metacritic, there are only two mixed reviews others are all positive

[@dejuanhickman3175]

Game looks great on my ps5

[@666slateran666]

@@kanecassidy9126 The other issue with pc gaming (coming from a guy who has built his own rig) is that they vary so much that some people will have a better experience. I've heard bad things about the newest graphic cards, I just don't see why you wouldn't get a ps5 for new games at this point. They have been readily available for months

[@LordMarlle]

"This is a video game and we shouldn't overthink it" Wrong, if we don't, most games will stay bad

[@The_Devil_Breaker_]

Bruh my jaw dropped when you showed the audio bug for the cutscenes

[@seanbirch]

Time please?

[@johnfitsch7781]

I laughed out loud.

[@endoroboto]

@@seanbirch 11:13

[@Neves7561]

Publishers keep forcing hard release dates... and unsurprisingly it keeps not working XD

[@albertoacosta9415]

Man Dunkey is going to have a field day with this one.

[@hihihi1q23]

Dunkey doesn't play on PC

[@zoinksscoob6523]

​​@@hihihi1q23 doesn't matter, also he plays on pc.

[@Maikeru101]

@@hihihi1q23 it’s gonna be on console too

[@AA-BB]

Who?

[@XxGamer42069xX]

@@hihihi1q23 where you getting this from 😂

[@MyNameIsNurf]

I personally didn't run into many performance issues and this is with out a doubt my favorite star wars game ever made. From a story standpoint, KOTOR is king but from a gameplay standpoint it's VERY hard to argue against this game.

[@theelectricprince8231]

I hope the KOTOR remake takes alot of their gameplay mechanics from this game

[@Dung30n]

@@theelectricprince8231 I am scared for KOTOR, since it too is going to be a console port.

[@shahrouh]

I'd agree. Didn't really run into performance issues (on PS5) when playing through the story. Postgame though, I entered an area and fell off the map on solid ground multiple times, leading to loss of major progress. The game even threw me off map during combat, crashed and got me losing progress. Besides these issues though, I had a blast with it, even getting 100% completion eventually. I wish the game autosaved.

[@Azaketh]

“This video is brought to you by nvidia, not that they can help you here.”

[@TheTha411]

Great zinger lol

[@HeisenbergFam]

In the words of Kratos: "keep your expectations low and you will never be disappointed"

[@E2STOPTV]

If you keep your expectations low then your standard will become super minimal, demand more - expect better.

[@-Scrapper-]

He didn't say that. I did

[@RodgyFlapps]

True words have never been more spoken

[@hashaskinner]

I found Ragnarök underwhelming

[@yashsoni7614]

You didn't even watched the full video lmao... I'm still not dissapointed with this game... Only PC players crying because of bugs & crashes... Works fine on my PS5... It's the best Star Wars Adventure

[@KingInfernagon]

I always appreciate the honesty and transparency you have with these reviews, especially this one. I was in awe with the premise of using the more common cards used by the masses as I think this is something most reviewers should do (if they have the budget of course for more tests with different setups). Great review and it certainly shows why you're in the top (if not the best) at reviewing games, cheers!

[@frankaliberti]

Honesty = I love this game but because it doesn’t run on this obsolete method of playing games I’m gonna recommend no one play it. Even though it runs great on consoles, the platform of choice for 80% of gamers.

[@nairocamilo]

@@frankaliberti "The platform of choice for 80% of players" I really tried to read this right, and I almost thought I had either a migraine or early signs of a head stroke. 80% of gamers play in a console?

[@frankaliberti]

@@nairocamilo I’m not taking into account mobile because we’re obviously discussing a triple A release here. So if the market is divided between consoles and PC, 80% of people are on consoles.

[@TimOD-hm9eu]

@@nairocamilo yes. Switch, Xbox and PlayStation all generations are 80% of gamers not counting mobile

[@jemandetwas1]

@@frankaliberti If he played the game on PC, then he will rate the experience he had while playing on PC. How is he supposed to review a version of the game he hasn't played?

[@Esauofisaac]

It's super refreshing to see a review where someone can outline the numerous benefits and that he loved it, but also refuse to recommend it based on performance. Most reviews would just have chucked it in the trash without outlining each area positively or negatively. Definitely going to sub, and thanks for saving me $60 till this game is fixed.

[@JKneisley]

Funnily enough the game isn't $60, it's actually $70.

[@rocketguardian]

The performance in the first game completely soured the experience for me. Looks like I will be waiting a long while to play this one.

[@SlothzyyTv]

Worst news to wake up to today, appreciate the great reviews as always though brother, thank you

[@JaydevRaol]

Yeah 😢

[@sammysalgado1475]

Dont just take his review to heart,others have had little issue with the game

[@D44RK_Iced_Yogs]

100% pick up, maybe not now but in the future 100%

[@LeoCooperMMA]

​@@sammysalgado1475 i can't stress enough how bad the performance on pc is. Skill up is absolutely right

[@Forestgravy90]

it's fine on series x

[@iNoScopedMLK]

It's really too bad, because it looks like there's so much good here. That cutscene at 11:40 looks awesome

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Combat and traversal felt weird tbh, game looks like a typical sequel, more of the same, but copying the combat gimmicks from Tsushima

[@a1pha_star]

@@RRRRRRRRR33 Why do sequels have to be bigger and better or pushing the envelope? I don’t mind if a sequel focuses on refinement.

[@jaxs5231]

@@a1pha_star I just put 10 hours into it... they have Refined almost nothing unfortunately 😥

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

@@a1pha_star Refinement is pretty much what they do, you just phrased it differently. It's rare when sequels fells "legit", like you can notice the "jump". Mario World 1 and 2 are the classic examples, the sequel is so different and more advanced it ended up spawning a Yoshi spin-off. Considering how this Jedi sequel arrived just 3 years later, it's not a surprised the devs just followed the "more of the same" route, it's the standard of the industry really

[@ACLA23]

@@RRRRRRRRR33GOW ragnorok was also a “typical” sequel. Still good. Tears of the kingdom is also a “typical” sequel

[@headcode]

What aggravates me about these Jedi games is that exploration is so limited (invisible walls, like you said), killing any creativity in exploration, yet, they force you to get creative sometimes with no obvious clues/hints at how they expect you to navigate certain paths (hopping on/off the animal to get to the higher ledge). Either reward creativity by giving more freedom to explore, OR make it linear but give some prompts/hints when an expected path isn’t super clear.

[@clayxros576]

The design philosophy reeks of the rather outdated "Don't trust the player, just make your game" which was commonly accepted in the industry...until indie games utterly blew that notion out of the water. Respawn seems stuck with that mindset, with the addition of the studio killer EA hanging over their head. I can't blame them, but it's sad they haven't tried to improve

[@xroukle8137]

This really summates my feelings and why im having difficulty finishing this game, it kills my flow everytime and honestly im so bored of the movement.

[@BryoLawrence]

This sort of contrived gameyness of the exploration and traversal has really gotten to me recently. I really like trying to scour maps but not when all the goodies are hidden by the usual suspects of puzzles. For me most of these things never feel failable, so instead they just feel like obtuse uses of time.

[@victorn1291]

Yeah... thats what killed God Of War Ragnarok for me. I really wanted to love that game but quit half way after getting tired of the endless puzzles.

[@BryoLawrence]

@@victorn1291 yeah I hate how everything starts to feel so artificially stretched out. It’s like if you wanted to get a drink of water but it took 10 minutes to open the cupboard. I felt the same way about Horizon Forbidden West. The puzzles were never hard but just huge time sinks

[@razorburn645]

Some of the jumping and dashing reminded me of a platform game. Which is fine when its something like Hi-Fi Rush or Spyro... not so much when its a game trying to be dramatic.

[@BryoLawrence]

@@razorburn645 myself I’m not bothered by that per se, just that I don’t like how it feels like you snap to everything. I realize on some level that’s how games are designed but it all feels so thinly veiled in some games.

[@johnlocke4715]

I totally agree. I understand not every game can be Skyrim. But, I need some form of interaction. I can’t stand these vast open worlds beautifully detailed with no interaction: pretty to look at but shallow as a puddle. People don’t even want this game I think we’d all prefer KOTOR3.

[@gnashfish]

You've quickly become my favorite game reviewer. Your honesty is awesome, and the little things like reviewing games based on average PC specs using an entirely different machine are so telling at how much this stuff matters to you, and I appreciate that.

[@eproductions5115]

deadass tho give this man his flowers

[@robertthekingful]

Humble yourself peasant

[@MiseryRG]

"Runs like my ass after Taco Bell." Doesn't that mean it runs smooth?

[@MTG69]

Fluid and violent.

[@ultimamage3]

Explosively violent and vaguely painful beforehand as a warning

[@FreddySavage3]

Means it runs like shit lol where’d you get smooth? You felt their ass before or something? 🤣

[@eleternauta2640]

"Ohhh hey babe"

[@RobTheDoodler]

Irregular and disgusting.

[@djstuntfox]

I'm a PS5 gamer and I am LOVING this game. Now, there are still some technical issues. I fully see them, but for me im just having so much fun with the story, exploration, and the combat. The framerate does dip from time to time. The backgrounds clip. But what they get right is immerse me in the Star Wars world. If only the recent movies had this this kind of lore and care.

[@siggimatti1129]

Bruh on my ps5 its literally unplayable with the framedrops on performance mode

[@schism15]

45 min ago EA released the obligatory "We're sorry the game is not up our usual standards".

[@moosepotato4116]

Unplayable IS the EA standard.

[@Taima]

“The game is actually functioning a bit better than we’d aimed for, and we’re terribly sorry for this.”

[@rdowg]

It's really not up to RESPAWN's standards, but it's well within EA's "quality standard". It's almost been 2 years and they still cant even push DICE to get 2042 up to snuff, the bar is low. I guess dead space was alright, but I wouldnt call that game optimized at all.

[@scimbrelo]

The only thing unusual about this EA game is that I was considering purchasing it *was

[@phr3ui559]

can you link it

[@Label07]

They were BRAVE to send you a review code...

[@birdup6684]

20 years ago Jedi Academy and KOTOR was released. Hasn't been the same since...

[@ben3129]

Rosh penin makes any game better

[@StudioMod]

As an enormous fan of Jedi Academy and Kyle Katarn, this game is vastly better.

[@2xRainb0w]

The game itself is fantastic, just unlucky that PC is hard to optimise for devs these days

[@peterthecoll]

Stuck in the past

[@JorgeBorges_00]

Buddy Kotor still isn't fixed lmao

[@kendalljones5540]

This has actually aged very well. PC version still crashes constantly and they gave up on the PS5 version. I'm the idiot that bought both thinking they couldn't possibly be that bad...

[@fracti9443]

Wasn't expecting that title!

[@F4TAL0B5OL3T1ON]

Just for PC

[@xtalpax902]

classic clickbait,on console it's work just fine,but one can look at the title and think "oh it's shit";still on them for not watching the video tho :I didn't see the PC review part,i don't remember if it was there before,however my bad i guess(yeah the game should have released later,but may for zelda,june for everything,maybe july was too late for just ""patch fixes""")

[@succes885]

@@xtalpax902 its not as bad on console but its still not good. Certainly nothing you want to waste full price on.

[@gregrothschilds8453]

​@@xtalpax902 Except it's not fine on console. Sure it's not as bad as PC but it still struggles to even hit 60 fps and that's if you turn on performance mode which HEAVILY turns down the graphics so you're trading off a quality image for barely 60 fps. Not worth the full price.

[@Sly_404]

@@xtalpax902It's not fine on console either. Plenty of documentation out there that makes it clear. Also how is it click bait if he literally had PC Version in the title?!?

[@awesomemark1234100]

One thing I can appreciate is that Ralph notified people of the poor optimization on twitter before posting the review. Love ya ShillUp 👍

[@xXEBUDDASXx]

Shillup? I hope that's a typo on your part. Ralph is far from a shill.

[@omegaxtrigun]

@@xXEBUDDASXx It's a joke. People would insult Ralph with it, but he eventually embraced it and uses it himself jokingly now.

[@dreayven6705]

Great review Skillup, I was hearing some bad thing about the PC port. But you covered everything, not just performance, but the all aspects of the game. Thanks :)

[@dantauche7917]

What does the PC have that consoles don’t??……….Denuvo…….

[@cu5197]

​@@dantauche7917 ]0

[@xtalviper]

I saw a bunch of IGN posts in my FB feed gushing over this game and the combat. Then I run across the title of your review and I'm like WTF? Thank you for never selling out and putting the truth out there.

[@goldenghost2001]

An opinion is nit the truth, you just like negative reviews

[@xtalviper]

@@goldenghost2001 K. Thanks dad.

[@Kriss_ch.]

Bode looks so suspiciously huge he's just gotta be a boss

[@mitchh5596]

lol he's the opposite

[@logan6172]

im only 2 hours in but he's just an ally to you

[@quantommy]

If I speak, I'm in big trouble

[@seanbirch]

It doesn't bode well

[@chrisgilligan5682]

That’s nuts

[@dailyhubranx]

You know what's funny? When we made a video about the bad parts of the game the people thought it's clickbait 😂 thank you Skill Up for for this in depth take❤

[@halflucan]

It's sad I think there is more incentive for smaller reviewers to use clickbait to grow their channels But you was absolutely spot on. Copium is one helluva drug

[@anullojoe]

I'll sub, just for that

[@dailyhubranx]

@@halflucan Man... I'm to keep everything positive ..95% of my content is positive .. I gave the game 80/100 I had another controversial video game that "blew up" in views. First incentive was make 5 more. But I refused. If i make my point on something that's it. If it gets a mil views okay. I want to make quality content. And grow nice and slow. Please don't take it as self promotion I'm just emphasizing my point.

[@478Johnnyboy]

@@dailyhubranx I truly don’t get why people get mad if reviewers say a game is bad and people call that being “negative”. If you’re just reporting FACTS then negativity has nothing to do with it. I think people make too many excuses for publishers/devs when they put out a hot pile of 💩 and if you insult a game people had been waiting for they’ll label it as being negative. Truly some 🤡🤡 behavior.

[@TheWefikus]

Keep doing what you’re doing, catering to simps is not worth it.

[@Ryan-zr4fj]

I luckily didn't get the desync audio issues but however during this cutscene 11:13 for me the wielder guy that shows up for a brief moment, his meshes and textures didn't load in like at all

[@willropa4226]

Played this on PS5, things were more or less running smoothly, don't remember coming to a moment where the game started getting choppy. The only real things I have to complain about is settings and characters. For settings, it's a battle of quantity vs quality for me. Quality is topnotch, the game is vast and there's a ton to it, but it's been compacted down to 6 planets, 2 of which are preestablished locations. I just feel that with the galaxy as their canvas, the devs could've spread things out instead of keeping us bouncing between 3 planets for the majority of the game. For characters, don't bring in preestablished characters like Boba Fett or Darth Vader, they're nice cameos but if they get into a fight, we just know who's going to win since they have plot armor. Another moment for characters is Bode, no joke, as soon as he announced that he was a father, I knew the twist they would pull, either A) he backstabs us in the name of his child or B) he is tragically killed and in his last moments begs us to protect his child. Just, don't use tropes that are way too predictable, the twists don't hit as hard when they finally come.

[@alexholker1309]

I like your suggestion about stance-switching attacks. I could certainly imagine a combo starting with a single lightsaber, leading into a hip shot with the blaster, then continuing in lightsaber+blaster stance. Or dual-wielding, throwing one lightsaber and fighting in single lightsaber stance until it returns.

[@Phunatic]

I think Yakuza/Judgement has a good example of stance based combat. Each stance has many skills with endless combo potential with stance switching

[@Ron_Swanson]

by the time this reaches game pass, it’ll probably be 10/10 so I can wait

[@shinysuitx]

its a 10/10 on PS5 right now.

[@hardliketissues7463]

@@shinysuitx same for series x! You just get it guaranteed with game pass if you wait a little so it makes sense why people will.

[@ktdagoat1289]

​@@shinysuitx cap even ACG said on ALL PLATFORMS it's have issues

[@wakeupzeke]

@@ktdagoat1289 i played for 2 hours on ps5 today and had no lag, frame drop, bugs or any other issue

[@aussieseal9979]

​@@ktdagoat1289 I had a few frame drops on ps5 but it's still fantastic. Not as shit as pc

[@FatControllerOfficial]

Love the in-depth PC analysis. Keep it up.

[@TheCephalon]

Even if it ran perfectly, I’d still hate it. This is 2023 on a next gen console, why is the movement and physics system so archaic and not smooth. Make the jumping and movement better

[@adachezero]

The clips of you fighting big beasties looked weird because you can see all the lightsaber burn marks all over their body and they're not bothered in the slightest.

[@Fuzzylad69]

YES! Arguably my least favourite part of these two respawn star wars games, there is no dismemberment or anything interesting happening when you hit things with a fucking lightsaber! Its just stupid lines... It honestly feels like you're swinging a humming baseball bat and it just feels so bad to hit things with it. Like how do you choose to do that? I can only assume its so that they can get a lower age rating so that more people can play it? So annoying...

[@RRRRRRRRR33]

Yep, it looks weird, it's like the hitboxes are all over the place. Also the linear "platforming", the way the character jumps and flips around, Sands of Time running on a PS2 had better looking / smoother animations if compared to this "nextgen" game

[@jacknicholson9558]

Well luckily with this one they DID add dismemberment

[@Peapodzilla]

@@Fuzzylad69there's plenty of dismemberment in this new one

[@itsgonnabeokay9341]

They should do finisher moves like in the witcher 3

[@mash2481]

There are lots of micro stutters on series X, even with a VRR display.

[@888thediego]

Bro I hate it, idk if you can get refunds on Xbox but I’m seriously debating it. There’s nothing “next gen” about this

[@GrimCitizen]

Same on ps5 for me, not bad enough that I don’t want to play but it’s really annoying if you’re in a large area

[@Dryvlyne]

Many mainstream reviewers it seems were paid off then. When IGN gave it a 9 I immediately questioned it.

[@GrimCitizen]

@@Dryvlyne would give it an 8 if it ran properly, it’s good don’t get me wrong but with the fps drops and I’ve also had quite a few bugs where I can’t move or something like that and have to quit to the menu and load in again

[@uestiosnoranswer5598]

It’s not Xbox’s fault on this. It’s the optimization from the devs. But yes it sucks that both consoles are getting stutters and stuff

[@captainpjarker]

It’s gotta suck being a part of a video game team and being like “oh man I can’t wait for this project to be over, I’ve spent weeks designing these lightsabers, I hope the team working on PC a optimization are working just as hard!” And then to have the game launch and just become a laughing stock of a video game.