This.
Scary legalize for "We collect telemetry and crash reports", essentially. How much H:ZD actually sends I don't know, AFAIK that's essentially generic data collection privacy policy thing from Sony.
Before you play HZD Sony requires you to affirm your compliance with the Sony terms of service, including the game’s capacity to scan your computer and report back to Sony, including the DRM Free version on GOG.
This may be limited to benign game related elements (scores, telemetry, crashes and bugs, etc.) but the TOS doesn’t limit it to this, and Sony is essentially mandating they can collect whatever they want about you. There are similar clauses in some AAA launch clients, such as EA’s Origin (Now, just The EA App ) but for me, that’s a deal breaker, especially from a company that has a history of installing malware rootkits as a DRM measure. Sony, like several major electronics and software companies, has earned my distrust.
It also raises questions regarding the veracity of the GOG guarantee that games are DRM free.
I believe the same click-through contract (or a similar one) is on every Sony PC game since HZD.
Telemetry is not digital rights management, nothing happens if you don't have internet access or if you block the game with a firewall, you can still play the game fine. It's a bummer you can't opt-out of it completely obviously, but "they can collect whatever they want about you" is entirely false as long as you select "Limited Data" when it asks for your consent - they are GDPR compliant after all.
Here, I created a full image for you. Limited data is system & hardware specs, game crash logs & load times, network/server logs and online game data (e.g on an MMO/online match, H:ZD is offline game so doesn't really apply) and "Legal information required by law". Again, I don't know when any of these are sent - it might be always you boot the game, it might be only when you send a crash log.
Really? The best Sony can do is 25% off on these bigger games? They’re just convincing me to wait for PC sales and not buy the PS5 games. I’m not paying nearly full price for games I’ve already beaten. In the future, I’ll just forgo them on PS5 and wait for the PC release…
I am spending more and more on older games these days. Every new full price game I have bought has disappointed me massively. I pumped hundreds of hours into Grim and the expansions for less than £20 in sales. Currently playing through shadow tactics: blades of the shogun. I bought that and the DLC Aiko’s choice for £8 earlier this week. There are a ton of these in the series, so i am set for a long time it seems.
My last full game price experience was Hogwart’s legacy. I have 108 minutes played. I reckon I have actually played 15 minutes in that. The rest was just video after video of story telling. I am normally someone who skips cutscenes, so this is a really bad match for me. Hogwarts has an 84% positive rating. A lot of people like this sort of stuff, just not me unfortunately.
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Never liked the whole “supported games” bit even back in the day and I hope they put DLSS and XeSS in even though I don’t particularly care for any of these technologies.
Every other amd-backed game has them. Not every nvidia-backed game eventually adds fsr. At least fsr works for every card, nvidia and Intel card owners can still use it until the ones specifically made for only their cards are added. When a game is nvidia-backed, Intel and amd cards can’t use dlss, so they have no option until something else is also supported. And way more games are nvidia-backed.
This feels like Bethesda wasn’t going to include any next gen graphics options until AMD dumped a bunch of money on them and said “FSR!” Intel may take them up on this but nVidia can be very divisive with their support and won’t touch a game AMD is supporting so openly.
Dragonball fighterZ is amazing with a controller. Played it solo. Loved it to bots as it channelled my inner button masher.
XCOM 2 is a absolute steal.
XCOM chimera squad… I love the game and bought it on day 1. For $3, it’s solid. It’s more Cops than XCOM, as you’re breaching and playing with each character’s strengths. I had a lot of fun breaking the game.
I remember when Elite Dangerous came out as a beta, the subreddit was flooded with Star Citizen backers trying to discourage people from enjoying Elite Dangerous as it was an “inferior game”. (I’ll never understand this divisive sort of attitude, as if games were mutually exclusive and you couldn’t enjoy two games in the same genre).
Many years later and Star Citizen is very much an unfinished product and resembles more a loose collection of minigames than an actual game, whereas people have actually enjoyed years of playing a finished Elite. Oh well.
Beats the hell out of me, I’m going to just assume no based on the article. I’m just more amused that this vapor ware is still being supported by people in this quixotic venture.
I mean I’ll probably pick it up when it goes on sale on Steam or GoG.
I wish I could go back and play it again for the first time. It was one of the first games I played after getting my first voodoo card. It felt like I was experiencing the bleeding edge of tech.
Thinking about it, i can’t remeber a time in the last decade that a game made me feel that way. Crysis was probably the last time.
More on topic, yes everyone should own it. I think I bought a steam or GOG bundle and got all the doom and quake games for like $5-$10 or something like that.
I remember getting a Voodoo card specifically to play Quake II as one of the first hardware 3D games. Isn’t it the one where at the beginning you get out of a crashed rocket or something like that?
I don’t like it nearly as much as the first but it’s definitely worth a pickup. Still better than the vast majority of boomer shooters that have come out in the past 8 or so years. The remaster is well done.
It’s the same with the smartphone chips. The newest high end smartphones are able to make graphics like the ps5, real time shading and so on. But there is not a single app that uses this.
Imagine you have 5 gears and you can only use up to the 2nd because the car manifacturer says that this way you are as fast as the majority.
Cache is something everything uses. Unlike your situation where a developer has to program an app to do something like raytracing, x3D is already exiting technology and requires 0 input from the developer standpoint to use.
Snapdragon 8 gen 2 gpu theoretical performance is closer to that of the ps4 pro. Even then you have vastly different power limits and architectures. It’s amazing what the gpus in our phones can do but they’re not in the same league as modern hardware in consoles and PCs.
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