Horizon Forbidden West

There's a known issue with the sound, something to do with 3d audio I believe. You need to either enable it or disable it at the system level, I forget which.

You guys got Game mode on your LG though? You need that.

If you don’t, you may just have anti-judder notched up in Motion Display, which massively helps in 30fps, but you’ll have input lag. Game mode eliminates input lag but 30fps looks terrible….. only after some good time in 60fps.

So there’s a chance you’re just used to 30 now.

One thing about this game is the jumping. One jump animation is immersion breaking and looks crap when jumping over smaller rocks.

That’s a problem I had with the original, it never feels as if Aloy is actually a character in the world. The hair physics, the jumping animation, the climbing )and the fact that you couldn’t climb knee high walls unless the game wanted you to) - it all just felt off. Few games seem to get that right, to be fair.

I've seemingly been near the end of the first game for the last three days, but that's something I'm dreading heading into the second game. I've finally worked out how to make most of the combat system, but I've got all the tools and I'm leveled up, and that's mostly what's made these big dino fights manageable. I'm dreading starting back at level one with just a spear and bow again.

Yeah, the jumping and climbing really is a bit duff. Just general traversal is a pain in the arse when you should be able to quickly mantle half the stuff you have to jump over.
It's especially noticeable having come from zipping around the place in Dying Light 2 to clumsily hobbling around in this.

It hasn't quite gotten its hooks into me yet. I've just unlocked merchants and grabbed a couple of new bows, so hopefully combat will be spiced up a bit with fire arrows and the heavy one. Combat has been the best bit so far anyway, especially satisfying when a different type of enemy enters a fight and you immediately switch to whatever they're weak against and clap some robo cheeks.

I can't comment on this game but ever since moving to a larger TV and PS5, 30 fps games are just a bit too hard to chew. I think the smaller screens and distance to TVs that we had (still have) lets the eyes the fill in the blanks and forget about the blurriness. With bigger screens its a lot easier to notice because it is more in your face. Even fidelity mode on Miles Morales PS5 is janky looking, its unavoidable after 60fps.

I do hope they get a clear 1440p 60fps patch in the future, the upscaled 1800p sounds a bit blurry.

Not really, no.

Its definitely where they fall down with these games, the animation. It isn't a patch on the recent stuff Insomniac has done with Spiderman. It is just a little bit off with the humans. The robots are fantastic though.

Ha, yes, that did make me laugh.

The human race is fucked

What's worse Jambo is the first picture is a funny drawing done in paint that lures you into a false sense of security, and then the horror begins.

Be plenty more peach fuzz I'm sure.

Some of the faces and animation are really good but I find Aloy and her weird eyeballs odd. Her expressions in photo mode are quite creepy.

Agree about platforming as well - considering Sony have got a dev or two under their wings who really know how to do third person control, they could have shared the secret.

All about that combat. Found a thunderjaw really early in so hope that paves the way for something ludicrously big later on.

I had a look and did think WTF at the first picture then obviously shit got real the more I scrolled. Anyway I need to go buy some toilet paper...