I listened to impression of a guy who completed the game on the hardest difficulty. He said State of Play was on one of easier difficulties. Enemies were significantly more challenging on Survival. Better sight, better coordination, heavier damage. They wait much less to shoot you.
I'll never play it because I don't have a PS4 and it's not my cup of tea anyway (post-apocalyptic setting, and guns), but I watched one video of it and heard a hilarious pun/joke. Which I always appreciate.
6ish hours in so far, great cinematic experience, impressed with animations as usual from ND. Every single action is animated and not in a slow and clunky way.
I finished it after playing almost non-stop for 24 hours (took a 6 hour nap only). Technical side is incredible. Graphics is easily the best current gen has to offer. Gameplay is a lot of fun, imo. Though some claim it gets repetitive. I didn't feel that way. Richness of animations alone is beyond belief. Graphics is great, but obviously it was downgraded in comparison to the demo from 2018. I more mixed on the story. I don't think these characters needed this much abuse to tell the story they wanted to tell. I think they overdid it a few times.
WTF 18 hours? I've heard it takes 28ish... Are you super fast (possible) or people super slow? I'm 15ish hours in so far (played a lot on Sunday) but won't play it for a couple of days. So far I can confirm every single word you wrote.
No, 24+6. But you can finish it in less than 20 if you avoid exploration and fights. Speedruns will be a lot faster. They will probably be able to do it in 3-4 hours.
Ofc, I was referring to normal walkthrough.
Absolutely, but I also hope they won't need to use that many loading tunnels anymore. Not a big problem per se, but their games are full of them. Wasn't all Cerny's conference about this anyway? I've good vibes for next gen.
I hope sony won't go for paid remaster again to be honest.
Cinematic animations and transitions is impossible to add back, as well as more complex effects like very detailed and naturalistic blood, explosions and stuff like that, but I'm talking what they can. Self-shadowing, drop shadows, occlusion, more complex reflections...
Sure, I wasn't suggesting those could be back. Just sorry they were bullshots.
