Seikenfreak

Digital Foundry also put up their comparison. Runs great on my PS5. Sounds like it's solid on PS4 as well. You're just getting less fancy visuals and resolution. And old-school load times. My buddy is playing on base PS4 I think and seems happy with it so far. But ignorance is bliss so lol

Played all day yesterday. Had to make myself stop around midnight.

It's a pretty traditional GT game and I love it. Still only using the controller because I've had an absolute nightmare of a week trying to get my order here. Fanatec sucks; FedEx sucks; And my sister sucks. Hopefully it's getting delivered on Sunday.

Visuals are great. Music is great. They've definitely changed the physics/handling characteristics (I was expecting mostly the same as GT Sport) and it all seems great so far.

My only complaints are:

As a veteran of GT games, games in general, and an car enthusiast with real cars I don't necessarily need the super structured game progression. Licenses tests are great, I just mean the whole mandatory Cafe to unlock content stuff. GT2 is probably my favorite and I'd be fine with that. Give me some credits, a choice of a dozen or more cheapo starter cars, and then let me figure out what I want to do to progress from there. I played all day yesterday, I think I'm somewhere around menu book 16 at the Cafe and I'm still unlocking tracks and content.

And of course the more standard complaint is.. Need more content. This game has tons of content. It's not enough lol They need more tracks. More cars. They are missing a lot of very obvious car choices. Part of this is that it just takes forever to make a car at this level for the game compared to the olden days. And another part is so many cry babies who barely understand cars or what GT is about whined and complained back in the day about similar cars i.e. "omg 1000 skylines" non-sense or "omg who cares about all these shitty slow cars" that they seem to go out of their way to not add more of these.

Good news is Polyphony really delivered on the DLC front for GT Sport, at least with cars, and they had a pack of like 9 cars coming out every month or two, for free, for a couple years I think. All of those cars have been carried over into GT7 so hopefully they can pick up where they left off.

Excellent racing game.

@nodima Great to hear you're trying the GT series again. On the subject of the Camaro, and really any RWD car, particularly an old one with bad suspension and skinny old tires in this case, don't forget you can adjust to add more or less traction control while racing via the DPad at any time. I didn't have any issues handling it at TCS 1 so don't completely discount the car ;)

@spacemanspiff00: It sounds like you are mentally where I was yesterday. You'll get over the hump. I could barely get him to half health just doing it by myself. For whatever reason, noticed the NPC summon sign and beat him on first or second try I think. No parrys or spirit summons. No funny business. NPC just gave me enough of a distraction to get in there and land some hits. Also, at least with my Samurai dude, my weapon skill does a lot so I just spam that when I can. Easier when NPC is distracting him.

Only things I found in the open world that made anything "easier" was more seeds to buff up my flask. Had it at like +3 at the time I think? With 5 or 6 health flasks (and 0 FP flasks) but at that point I felt I had enough that I could spare one for FP so that also helps with being able to spam my weaponskill. My uchigatana was +2 or 3 I think. Same armor I started with. None of the Talismans really helped at this point. Used the Wonderous Flask at the start of the fight.

Point is, the hang up is all in your head. Margit seemed like cheap bs to me but honestly, thats how I feel about every boss, especially a first boss, in all of these games lol I'm tellin you.. gotta get your souls legs.

I did Margit yesterday and just spent most of today going through the castle. Whoever mentioned above about the castle being like its own city wasn't kidding. It's big and dense and hard. Clearly they designed these areas to contrast the giant open world. It felt like much more of the traditional Souls structure. And then once I was out, I felt relieved being back in the open world and cheesing shit on horseback

I agree with pretty much everything @humanity said. The game seems great, but it also just seems like a From Soft game in an open world. It isn't necessarily doing anything new.. Like Breath of the Wild didn't feel new to me, was pretty weak for a Zelda title, and I don't understand the reverence for it. Elden Ring is far better than that.

Funnily enough with people mentioning missed NPCs and summoning.. I finally found the NPC that lets you buy the crafting kit yesterday. He's right near the start. I must've just walked around that structure, proceeded to explore nearly this whole map, and then came back down to the start area looking for this crafting kit. I also noticed my first summoning sign at Margit (maybe it was there before and I didn't notice) but yea.. obliterated him on the first try with that.

I guess it doesn't bother me if I don't know about it? I'm trying not to look up guides or "don't miss this!" videos etc. Ignorance is bliss in this case. I'll just continue to meander through the game, doing whatever, and hopefully I beat it which I will then allow myself to watch all the lore and secrets videos.

Think my save has roughly 15 hours on it so far. Level 21 ish? I still have not made it past what I guess would traditionally be considered the first boss lol

Always find that part amusing. I've beaten all of From Soft's stuff. Dark Souls 2 is great stfu ;) Platinum'd Bloodborne. Multiple playthroughs of Sekiro and nearly platinum'd it (didn't feel like going through the whole game a third or fourth time just to pick a different story branch) And yet here I am. Struggling with the first boss. I know it should be easy, I just can't execute it. Just how these games go.

Every time a new one comes out, I need to get my Souls legs under me again. This time is maybe harder though because I just moved into a house so I feel guilty because I have a million other things I should be doing.. And also I'm playing Horizon FW.. And also GT7 is coming in a couple days and I'm dying to play that.

So all my time has been spent wandering the world and finding items. Practicing combat on other enemies. Beating side/smaller bosses I guess. Love the horseback combat.

Excited for a GT7 presentation. Can't wait to get my hands on it.

I don't feel like typing up a whole thing; about to go to bed.

I never read any comics as a kid. Wasn't into super heroes etc. I find the movies generally entertaining.

I don't know most of these characters and thus it gets to be a surprise. And I love how everything is tied together so that there is more there for the people who are deeply knowledgeable about this stuff and I also get to feed off their enthusiasm because I get to hear/watch the "oh oh but did you notice X thing in the background and when Y character says this, it's probably a reference to Z which is this whooole other thing they could be hinting at for the future!"

An aspect of that is how they've managed to tie so many movies together now so well. Just about every movie or show can stand on its own but is also part of this whole bigger piece. And the fact that they can maintain a certain level of quality across each one. Even the movies I don't like still feel like decent movies. It just feels like a masterclass in.. production management? Most media can't even make a decent sequel or maintain a consistent narrative thread or quality across them. This many movies? It's insanity. Whether you like the movies or not, you have to understand and appreciate how crazy this whole MCU thing is.

I also like a lot of the actors that get cast.

Out of curiosity, what were the budgets of each of the original trilogy (adjusted for inflation) vs what Resurrections was?

@topcyclist: I was going to ask if this friend of yours isn't really a "movie person" per say, til I saw the last line. Then again, I guess a person who's seen a lot of movies doesn't necessarily have to be an enthusiast/passionate.

I don't know what I'd classify myself as as a movie watcher. I watch a fair amount of movies I guess? I like.. thoughtful movies? I'm not an expert or anything. I also enjoy the Marvel stuff for example. And when you watch/listen to some of these more serious movie folks.. I'm definitely not that. I really like the original Matrix. I think Reloaded and Revolution have their moments. I like a movie that I watch and think.. that was great, and then I can go watch/listen to people who are more knowledgeable in cinematography or narrative etc and find that there is even more to a movie than at first glance and it makes it all that much more enjoyable and rewarding. These sorts of movies rarely happen. Inception is one of those, which you happened to mention. Blade Runner?

I don't think the fourth movie was anything but a cash grab and an attempt to defib the IP by Warner Bros. We didn't need a fourth movie but I'm sure someone could've found a way to make another really good Matrix movie. It would need people behind it who were likely young and witnessed the zeitgeist of the original and the reverence it deserves. With the way everything is tech these days, with the Cloud, VR/AR, Block Chain, Deep Fakes, AI Learning, Streaming, Global Warming, Resource Scarcity, the rich getting richer, personal data collection, digital ownership etc etc.. And much bigger other topics plaguing the world today that are beyond me. All sorts of topics that someone who's very in touch with all this could've picked and chosen to piece together some sort of relevant modern narrative. From what I'm understanding, Resurrections was about how this movie didn't need to be made.. And love is a powerful emotion..? /shrug

This is to say, I fully expect a casual movie-goer to find Resurrections to be "fine" or maybe even "cool" if they weren't of age when the original was released.

Ive watched a handful of reviews and I tend to agree with all of their thoughts. They generally align with the.. this was a bizarre, bad Matrix movie. I guess as in, it kinda had none of the things that made the original good, or even the good stuff from the rest of the trilogy. Felt kinda like any other plain ol modern action movie.

Count me as part of the crowd that never asked for a follow up to the original trilogy. I think a more interesting story angle of this movie would've been to just make a reboot, which fits with the story, but then tie it back into the trilogy at the end. Entirely new cast etc. Like, whats a Matrix 2.0 so to speak. What did the machines learn and change. I get that that's what they tried to do here.. Except they did it with some of the same people, and the people who weren't the same were just the same but played by different actors. And all the exact same story beats as the original. And a lame story angle with Neo and Trinity. Ugh, just a weird mess the more that I think about it.

Honestly, if they had found a way to translate the Matrix into "the block chain" and draw parallels to what is happening in the real world today.. Probably would've been good. Make a Matrix movie about how all this NFT stuff is bullshit and we're doomed.