Hi Fi Rush - 9 GS

@hardwenzen said:

@kvallyx said:

@hardwenzen said:

@zaryia said:

@hardwenzen said:

Looks exactly what i'd expect to see on GP. The kind of games that wouldn't even sell 100k otherwise. Shovelware.

@sakaixx said:

Usual gamepass fluff.

These 2 guys are always upset that a game with large amounts of actual gameplay gets a high score.

And I love it. Have fun with a distant 2nd/3rd again, just like last Gen.

You can't use my gif. We talked about this.

You stole it from IP. I asked his pemission, and he gave me the green light.

This is my gif

I play way more games than you, so your excuse for me following games that i am not interested in buying is🥱🥱🥱I think you're annoyed by the fact that i predicted Halo Infinite's failure two years before it was even launched🤭

clueless as always. on gmgow enemies level up, you can't button mash anything or get punished instantly. You have to focus target to interrupt them leveling up, constantly having to watch who you're fighting and focus annoying shits like the Nightmares if they spawn. All of this while doing what you'd do in a Souls game, dodging and parrying. But you have not done anything on this difficulty, because just like a game journo, you want to advance your games from one cutscene to the other, and that's why you play your games on Normal. Pretty disgusting if you ask. Might as well not play the actual game, and go watch someone else play it🥱Not like you're learning anything by button mashing, or improving at the game you're playing when its as easy as it is.

Nice assumption, but I play games on the highest difficulty as well.

Difference is, the highest difficulty in the games I play actually MEANS something rather than "hurr durr we raise HP and damage by 100%".

Things like improved AI, New THreats, New Side Objectives, new Conditions, changed enemy placement, Faster Gameplay, Harder To Dodge, Fewer Resources and so on. Things that actually test your skill, rather than your patience.

But again, you would know this if you actually played good video games for once in your life.

And you literally just proved my point with the bolded. Self ownage much?

@randy_lahey said:

@hardwenzen said:

@kvallyx said:

@hardwenzen said:

@zaryia said:

These 2 guys are always upset that a game with large amounts of actual gameplay gets a high score.

And I love it. Have fun with a distant 2nd/3rd again, just like last Gen.

You can't use my gif. We talked about this.

You stole it from IP. I asked his pemission, and he gave me the green light.

This is my gif

But I trademarked it, copyrighted it, and triple stamped it.

You moaned about gmgow because of spongy enemies🤭Enemies are only spongy when you let them level up, which you obviously were allowing them to do so, because you were playing it like its normal mode, aka brainlessly button mashing what's in front of you, and pressing the W key🤷‍♂️No wonder the likes of you call Sony titles as movie games lmao. You play them like an IGN reviewer that b lines the story and sees nothing but cutscenes since the actual gameplay is so easy, you can go through it while watching Netflix.

It's funny that you mention Halo. Unlike games like GoW, where harder difficulty just buffs enemies health; in Halo, higher difficulties increase the combat awareness of the enemies' AI. Not only do they have stronger shields, but they become smarter.

Damn, so you are saying Hardwenzen would benefit by becoming enemy AI in Halo?

You have no idea wtf you're talking about. A typical Normal Mode gamer. Way more things are happening in GoW when played on the highest difficulty than Halo. What are your tool to deal with enemies in Halo? You're doing exactly what you would on easy or normal, and the only difference is that you have to hairglitch behind cover as much as possible or you die. Its fun in coop, but solo, when your whole game is trying to kill as much as possible out of the enemies aggro range, or having to hairglitch, its just meh. In GoW, your gameplay changes completely, and i am not implying that you'd be hairglitchin' behind cover and unload 3 clips into an Elite head before he drops🥱I have played and beaten all halo titles from Halo CE to Reach on legendary. They're massive bullet sponges, especially in Halo 2. Still great fun in coop, but if you compare singleplayer gow on max difficulty to halo on legendary, there's no competition, gow demolishes Halo in everything that makes difficult-to-progress titles "fun".

Hush casual.

Coming from a mobile gamer that likes to play the victim on SW?

Oh yeah man. I finished the game day after release, have already beat it again on very hard, knocked out a few missions on rhythm master, have been playing the shit out of the tower, and have a good 4 hours of just labbing combo setups in training mode alone.

I know the game pretty well lol.

A bit busy now, but will be right back on it when I have the time. Great game.

HUSH, Omega Causal.

Go back to Angry Birds.

You have no room to talk. You haven't played this game, nor have you played the Halo Infinite campaign. So...

@kvallyx said:

@hardwenzen said:

@zaryia said:

@hardwenzen said:

Coming from a mobile gamer that likes to play the victim on SW?

HUSH, Omega Causal.

Go back to Angry Birds.

You have no room to talk. You haven't played this game, nor have you played the Halo Infinite campaign. So...

I love how at first you were saying that i haven't played Infinite, but now you specify that i haven't played its campaign. At least you're learning. When i do play it, what will be your cope for this failed video game?

Please GameSpot give me the option to mute users!

The point I am getting at is that GMGOW tries to be difficult with high numbers, rather than in ways that are actually interesting.

Things like better AI, complexity, threats, and so on. The enemies levelling up thing is the closest thing this game has to a threat. But even that is only threatening through big numbers rather than in mechanically interesting ways.

Why? Because the people at Santa Monica are talentless hacks. Hi-Fi Rush is a far better action game than pretty much any Sony game that isn't TLOU2.

Look at all the Salty Sony Fannie s 😂

We will not speak of this any further in this thread. You complained about gmgow difficulty for all the wrong reasons, not understanding that the combat system of the game can ONLY shine on that difficulty, and if you don't play on it, the tools on offer can be completely ignored, and button mashing to victory is all what's needed. From now on, every single time i see someone bitchin' about GoW being a movie game, i will assume that the scrub that has played it, played it on Easy or Nomral, where its so easy to progress through the game, that all you're seeing is cutscenes, because you might as well be warping between cutscenes at that point. You and all of those people are scared of experiencing the game the way its ment to be played. You're no better than an IGN reviewer.

Fake cows and Sony shills aren't taking this review too well 🤣

A shadow dropped game with no marketing and Ragnarok and forgotten west Sony's biggest hitters couldn't beat it.

But then no one would see Cow posts.

@zaryia: That doesn't sound like a bad thing.🙂

@Pedro: Clowns, are honestly really entertaining.

Be it casual frauds who think they are "Sony Professionals" because they play against enemies with bloated stats, idea guys who obviously have no idea about how game development or infrastructure works or even that guy who would argue with people with nothing more than nu-uhs, then insult them and complain about people using scientific evidence.

Finally managed to put some hours into this game and holy smokes, fantastic!

1440p on XSX

4k on XSX

(both run pretty much a locked 60fps in gameplay)

@regnaston: I think you have a typo.

@simple-facts: dont know what you are talking about GoW sold 11 millions, to bad HiFi has QTE or are Xbox fanboys now fine with that all of the sudden

Someone hasn't played HiFi Rush^. There are no button prompts in the game.

@Pedro: fixed thanks

Wait until you get further into the game. It just keeps getting crazier.

@kvallyx: no, i watched the DF, its more timing based really no difference from any qte game and if you watched DF video there are button prompts, 2:40 minutes into the video which to me looks like qte, game is looking great and just saying all of the sudden Xbox fanboys love this kind of game

@gotgames said:

@kvallyx: no,

its more timing based really no difference from any qte game

I don't think you ever played a rhythmic game before. You don't even have to play within the rhythm to beat the game.

There are required parry sequences that might as well be QTEs. Enemy telegraphs the sequence, you repeat it (usually just parries, sometimes parries mixed with dodge).

Then you get these environmental challenges that are definitely QTEs. I mean, they're straight up micro-sequences of a rhythm game, but ultimately the same result. Button prompts are displayed, you hit them on time, thing happens.

None of which bothers me here, it's pretty much on-brand for the game and they're brief. Not like some other action games where they force you through some new game mode that doesn't even make sense for what you're playing.

Again, sounds like you haven't played the game. It's not the same as a QTE game at all. I have played the game. The only time you see button prompts are to interact with random AI to talk to them, or when you are shown combat moves in a dialog box after you obtain the new moves. The game is not QTE at all.

You haven't played it, we have. You are wrong. We are right.

Yes, the loot boxes are QTE. Combat is not.

@kvallyx:

Well it's not just the loot boxes, there are others throughout the game. Like when getting the laser grid up and running with those spheres in the three elevators stage for example, or opening certain gates, etc.

Feel like it's just splitting hairs in regards to the combat sections. With some enemies the combat stops, you're presented with a rhythm sequence, you dial them in. Don't want to call them QTEs, fine. They're just not all that different in practice.

Again, these don't even bother me. Of the few complaints I do have with the game, these don't really register.

It's a rhythm game so there are rhythm-based combat sections where all that is required is a button press. It's basically what you'd do in a game like Parappa the Rapper or DDR, no big deal. There is a QTE here and there but by and large, the game isn't a QTE. You get a few challenges that rely on them but they're short and sweet.

The one thing I didn't enjoy is that one boss fight though.

Are you talking about Korsika? If so, yeah I felt they dragged that out a bit.

But yeah agreed, this isn't stuff that gets in the way of a good time by any means. Completely makes sense for the game tbh.

Yep, that boss fight. Not a big fan of when I have to sit and wait for the boss to do something. That's also why certain enemies that pull you into that QTE like that samurai bot annoy me.

@kvallyx: again no i didn’t play the game i watched the DF video, 2:40 minutes into the video had button prompts, so that one part must be qte, now that Xbox has an game with qte it not qte fanboys are a confusing breed,

@jaydan: no you wrong

@Juub1990:

Yeah, doesn't help in that boss fight with all the dialogue bits between you have to speed through lol.

Think the samurai can be extra annoying with that. Obviously not the only enemy that does it, just his QTE rhythm is so weird lol. Managed to down him without that shit a couple of times, just unloading with beat hit assists and specials, so he couldn't get the sequence started.

Meh. It is what is.

@kvallyx:

For sure, it's whatever.

I get the other dude is just trying to drag it down with "omg QTE". In most cases though, I'm not one to say a mechanic/system is automatically bad at face value. Context and execution do matter.

Game definitely has stuff you can chalk up as QTE, but it's like, who cares? Not detracting from the experience to me.

@gotgames: Is it written anywhere the Xbox games can't have QTEs? Kind of a weird thing to say, that all Xbox gamers hate QTEs. Any particular game that got trashed for it and left you butthurt?