A Plague Tale: Requiem

Unless you have a magic Xbox you are having frame issues but you don't notice them The controls also feel quite muddy at that framerate compared to how it should be.

I'm currently on English voices but am in a bit where I'm not spending time with the kid at all really.

Even in the brief cutscenes I saw, the lip sync looked rather off. Wonder if switching to French dub fixes it




Kids like 10 years old, on the run from a religious inquisition and a swarm of rats across a literal pile of decaying battlefield of bodies at one point and has an incurable illness. He's allowed to whine.

I'm sorry for your loss.

Makes sense, everything in French is easier to stomach (cheese, wine, bread etc).

You didn't have to swallow Jambo, spitting is an option.

Why did I even bother preloading 47GBs yesterday, if it's now making me download a 45GBs patch?

I dunno, feels like some improvements could be made on that front. Pretty sure the patch didn't update every single asset.

Yeah, on PC. Good thing I have fast internet here, but it sucks that it needs to be like that.

Edit: finished the update, tried to launch and now it's updating 47GBs again. Wtf is this...

Managed to give it a very short go, just to see how it runs on the trusty 1650 laptop. It's... not as terrible as I expected, though of course I have no idea if things would get worse later on.

Despite asking for 16GB of memory as a minimum requirement (!), RAM usage was only 6GB in the starter area. GPU usage was expectedly insane at 1080p, even with minimum settings I was running at 15-20fps. The resolution scaler works okay, but looks quite bad if you ask me. Dropping the resolution outright is better (at 720p I was getting 30-35fps), but you still have to contend with the crappy automatic TAA or whatever it uses. What I wouldn't do for a few jaggies nowadays...

There's also no setting to cap the game to 30fps, so that kinda sucks. I suppose the Steam Deck would take care of it, but I'm not sure how well it would run the game at all, given that it's about half the GPU power of my laptop. Maybe less than 480p?

I'm up to chapter 7 and I am enjoying but not so sure it is as wonderful as a lot of reviews are stating. The aiming lock on is still shite, like first game and it feels more like 1.5 than a full sequel. To be honest it is probably a bit more "stealthy" than I was hoping, so I rush through areas instead of soaking it all up. I also think it would benefit from maybe playing one or two chapters daily and not 8 odd hours straight like I have done today (day off work!)

Morning mate. I have 6 chapters beat out of 16 ? each one taking me around 1 hour to 90 mins, so sounds about right. I mentioned before but I think one or 2 chapters a day is more than enough, depending on how much time you have to game. I agree that maybe 10-15 hours is idea for a story driven sp game, unless it is Gears...in which case I want a 100+ hour campaign 

You weren't kidding Duff, played a little, it's very much version 1.5.

Looks more of the same, so hope the story is still interesting enough.

Made a start on this on the Series S.

I’m sure Digital Foundry will be along with some proper Science on it, but I strongly suspect I’m not getting the best visual experience. It’s very grainy and there’s a constant pixelated fuzz around characters. Hair is particularly bad. Shame, because the actual art looks really nice.

Turning off chromatic aberration helped enormously (I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a game where this is a welcome feature) but it’s still only ok in the visual quality stakes. I’m sure the X and PS5 (or a decent PC) would be much better - the first game was beautiful on the PS5.

I also had some glaring pop-in, visible texture transitions on rocks, and clipping issues - Hugo ran right through Amicia at one point. But the frame rate doesn’t feel too bad so far - seems a pretty consistent 30fps.

And all this is just from the first chapter, so I’m somewhat nervous of the rest of the game when all the rats will be doing their thing.

Gameplay feels much the same as the first game - breaking stealth is pretty unforgiving, slingshot aiming is a bit improved but still not great. It’s… fine.

But!

I’m really enjoying being back in this world and with these characters. Amicia is great (playing with English voices) and Hugo is a lot less annoying than the first game so far. I mean, I think he probably could have grown up a bit between the games, but I didn’t hate him after that first chapter (in which he features a lot!).

I’m glad to be playing it, but I suspect Series S isn’t the best platform. Still it’s what I’ve got and I’m not going to turn down free on Gamepass.

And done. For me it's a better game in almost every way than the first, the stealth sandbox is excellent and gives a lot of options on ways to do things. The last chapters were so much better this time around other than the beach fight in Marseille which was dreadful. The performance is barely hanging on by a thread though and is what's causing a lot of the frustrations as it make the sling controls a bit muddy at 30fps.

The ending was great though and a complete contrast to the first.

I'm not sure mate as I played on 2 different platforms, the last chapters are pretty short in comparison to the others though. You are probably one half decent play session away from completion but you have the worst fight in the game to go.