Quick Look: Lords of the Fallen

@lawgamer: I have had an almost entirely positive experience with the PS4 version from a performance and bugs standpoint. No crashes. There have been a few frame rate hitches, but it is generally fairly stable and feels well above 30 95% of the time. I have absolutely no data to back it up, but how it feels to me is that it generally runs somewhere in the 45-50fps range and occasionally bogs down to 30fps for one or two seconds. There is some unsightly screen tearing from time to time, which doesn't bother me all that much but might be an issue for some people. Overall it is a pretty gorgeous game and it runs fairly well on PS4.

I've seen at least one other person here comment that they are having terrible frame rate issues on PS4 and I don't know what to say about that as that has just not been my experience.

Does anyone know approximately how much money Alex and Vinny put into that PC they built at GB East? Well, not including all the motherboard and processor mistakes of buying the wrong parts, haha.

I can't remember if it was mentioned or not.

I wish developers prioritized a stable framerate first and foremost. I guess I can get over it, I didn't mind blighttown.

Bearer, Seek, Seek, Lest.

I'm the opposite. I'd take 60fps with shittier graphics any day of the week. Pretty graphics are nice and all, but I'd rather have a smoother playing experience. Just my opinion though.

I also don't care at all about this 1080p war going on between consoles. People on forums are all worried about that and i'm over here like "yea sure, but what's the framerate?" lol

I love great visuals, don't get me wrong, but graphics eventually go out of date (fairly quickly these days). A good solid framerate though....that lasts forever.

Will keep an eye on this over the next few weeks, especially if another optimization patch comes out for PS4. Souls-lite sounds like just the thing unless I pony up for Alien: Isolation, instead.

I was freaking out watching the first fights in the quicklook because i expected the weapong swings to make contact with the walls in those tight corridors as in a souls game. Realizing that was not the case was in conflict with my strategic "memory" that the souls games ingrained into me by force. Weird.

I felt slightly embarrassed when the giant warden started pirouetting...

Yes, is xbone really that bad or are the GB crew messing things up?

This guy doesn't look that tough. Oh man the frame rate. Come on man !!!

So glad Vinny and Alex put up a Quick Look of Lords of the Fallen.

I think that boss at the end has 50 Cents skull, somebody get Fiddy on the phone.

Is that dude intentionally Tom Selleck?

Is this another 60fps video on the site? anyone know?

Ok I've watched this whole thing now and I've gotta say Vinny, it's kinda not ideal that you cranked the brightness up on the Xbox version and just left it oversaturated as Alex pointed out for the remainder of the video. Yeah the Xbox has that "black crush" weird darkness issue but you could've tweaked it somewhat down a little bit in the middle ground?

Also you pointed out the frame rate like 5 times, yeah it was worse than PC, so were the graphics too! but if you finish watching the PC segment, then watch the Xbox segment for about 5 minutes, you adjust and realise, "hey, this looks kinda perfectly fine/good?"

Those kind of comments about the frame rate (or rather, repetitive comments) just seem like fuel for the NeoGAF "1080p/60fps only!!!!" crowd. I think most gamers with common sense know that the consoles will always be behind the PC, always. The PS3/PS4, Xbox 360 / One - it doesn't matter, it's going to look at least slightly worse, run slightly worse. While watching the video I saw it dip very slightly a couple of times into what I'd guess might be 25 rather than 30 - but it honestly looked completely fine to me?

I'd expect you to mention "yeah ok, it's not as smooth as PC obviously" - but unless it was dropping into visibly awful territory, who cares? I come to GB for their game insight and comedy. Please don't turn into just another technical analysis site.

Hope this doesn't come across as some huge rant, the game looks pretty great, I think I'm sold on it even. Also to be honest I was impressed with the Xbox One version, being a PS4 owner, I know I'll be able to get a version which looks at least as good as the second half of the video.

P.S I'm thinking the nickname for Lords of the Fallen, should maybe be "Fast Souls" based on what I saw.

I'm pretty sure the souls games would kill me. This however looks alright.

I wonder when boss patterns won't be a thing anymore. Might be interesting fighting a boss where it could do anything, not just one of four different swings/combos.

Well it seems the PC version currently is busted all to hell. Guess I should have waited to buy it. Fixes coming soon, i hope.

Ghostbusters reference in the first 90 seconds: love it.

always wanted more games that take inspiration from dark souls, but this is egregious. and the way the character screen almost completely steals from diablo 3... the whole thing looks bad

You know? For the crazy sale this game has going on the Xbox One right now, it seems totally worth it.

Call me crazy, but I liked Dark Souls 2 better than Dark Souls 1. And for how much of a rip off of the Souls game that this one is, I think I may even like Lords better than Dark Souls. The final boss was a bitch if I remember.