Topic: The PlayStation Fan Thread

@Ralizah Metaphor's pretty good, yeah. My only gripe is that the first real dungeon is feeling like it drags on a bit. Withholding my judgement though for the other ones coming up.

@Ralizah How's the performance on Playstation?

I've tried the demo on my PC and both the visuals and performance are frankly abysmal. I'm using a laptop so I'm used to compromises...but I'm finding myself having to play in 720p 30 fps with low quality textures for a stable frame rate. It looks about as good as Fire Emblem Three Houses, I'd say - and on much more powerful hardware than the Switch.

Edit: I notice your signature says you're playing on PC...so I guess similar question. ..how are you finding the performance on PC?

@Buizel Dunno what hardware your laptop is packing, but that seems bad. Like, pre-patch demo bad.

On Steam Deck, it holds to 45fps (could probably go higher, but I capped it there) in dungeons and smaller environments. Dips to the mid-high 30s in certain city areas. Low textures, but running at full resolution. There's some sort of On/Off visual setting in the menus, and I have it turned off on Deck.

On my rig, my fps counter isn't working for some reason, but it's very smooth, so I assume 60+ at all times at 1080p. On both high and low textures, but I turned it back to low because I didn't really notice a difference lmao. Would rather have the performance overhead for the inevitable more demanding area.

No matter what you play it on, it looks like Three Houses. Pretty big downgrade from P3 Reload visually, but it looks nice enough for me. The worst thing is the aliasing when playing on Deck. It's less noticeable on my main PC.

EDIT: Oh! Make sure it's running fullscreen and not windowed. The game ran way better once I discovered and changed that in the pre-patch demo.

@Ralizah I've got a RTX 2080 Super Max-Q. Again, mobile graphics so I'm used to compromise - but it falls between PS4 Pro and PS5 I'd say (closer to the former). I'd imagine it's better than Steam Deck. I've never had trouble running games at 1080p 60fps before - including games that are far more graphically impressive than Metaphor: ReFantazio.

That said, I was about to grab some screenshots highlighting my issue and...wow, suddenly things are running at 1080p 60fps (although maybe not consistently - I might opt towards a slightly lower resolution or a 30fps cap). Not sure what happened overnight - might a driver or patch downloaded automatically or something. PC gaming, eh?

Unfortunately I'm playing the Microsoft Store version which somehow manages to have fewer options than the Steam version (no fullscreen for some reason, only borderless window).

Still not the prettiest game, ngl. But at least now it doesn't have me envying the look and performance of Echoes of Wisdom xD

Grunt-wise, Steam Deck is a little below PS4, I think. It's a gigantic step up from Switch, but still very much a handheld.

And yeah, the game is poorly optimized regardless. Especially compared to other Atlus releases this year on PC.

Maybe the Microsoft Store version didn't get the patches as soon. At least in the demo, there was a DRAMATIC uptick in performance when it was patched.

wtf
Good thing I never buy games on there.

The game looks and runs fine for me, other than the times where it stutters hard- which seems to be Denuvo checking to see if I’m connected to the internet. The game runs around a pretty consistent FPS, and the graphics are pretty decent quality. Doesn’t look like Reload, but to be fair- this game was in development before Reload even started development, and was made in the Persona 5 engine instead of Unreal.

The only gripe I have are the muddy textures, but even those are something I can get by due to how nice the game’s visual style is. Heard people have issues with thick outlines around the characters on PC, but I never had that issue. Maybe because the way my pc is built (I have an AMD 7800XT).

Oh man, so I load up the game again and the performance is more like my initial experience. Seems I'm gonna have to frame-limit this to 30 fps if I want to play on PC.

Had a go at the Xbox and PS5 demos as well and neither of those runs runs perfectly (quite surprising for the PS5 in particular - but I guess they opted for resolution and uncapped frame rate over a consistent 60 fps) so seems to be quite an unoptimized game across the board.

Ah well, not enough to put me off the game - just very surprising to have these compromises on something that isn't Switch!

Edit: Okay, so it seemingly goes from periods of stable 60 fps to periods of wildly erratic fps...probably Denuvo as @VoidofLight mentions. Rather annoying.

It's so hard picking what Archetypes I want to focus on. There's so many, and all of them offer something different in terms of gameplay. It's a really well done job system in my opinion, and the game constantly has me thinking what I want to do with my team given the time-limit it has.

After beating the second chapter of Visions of Mana, I have to say that I am really looking forward to the Final Fantasy IX remake.

I’m not looking forwards to any IX remake. Not after Yoshi P said that he has interest in splitting the game into three parts.

@VoidofLight IX is my favorite FF entry, and I actually played through again a couple of years back. IMO this game really doesn't need a full-scale "VII Style" remake.....

Instead, a really solid remaster of IX would be the best way forward. Something of the same quality and improvements like Metroid Prime exhibited, true to the original with QoL updates and graphical upscaling.

@CJD87 Exactly. It just needs a visual facelift if anything at all. Out of all the games that actually need/deserve a remake, Final Fantasy 6 or Final Fantasy 8 actually need one. 8 due to how the story was written and how Square lost the sourcecode, and 6 because I just want to see it with the same treatment dragon quest 1-3 got.

Making three games out of it sounds even better, to be honest. Final Fantasy IX is a game I would love to go all in. If the Final Fantasy VII remake trilogy games were pegi 12 rated, I would play them too.

Edit: This is the biggest reason why I am dissapointed with the new Final Fantasies, because they used to have a USK 12 rating and XVI is even grim dark with a 16 rating. I feel left out for no good reason. But I feel like they would not go that route with Final Fantasy IX.

@Jhena ehhh. Stretching one game into three isn’t a good idea. Only worked for 7 due to having a ton of lore in external materials. IX is just the single game, so stretching it out into 3 would feel more artificial and awful.

@Jhena
The last Roman number Final Fantasy game I played is FF XIII despite it has terrible gameplay that made the game harder.
FF XIII was rated PEGI 16 surprisingly despite it rated USK 12 on the disc.
Also, it was unfair to rated FF XII as PEGI 16 when the game itself was rated USK 12, 12+ in Chinese age rating.
Both FF 12 and FF 13 are still PEGI 12 / USK 12 material.

@VoidofLight
I have not played the remake yet, so I can not tell if it would feel stretched out or not. But I am sure they have enough ideas to expand the lore and sidequests, if they feel like they can make three games out of it.

@Anti-Matter
Yep, I would also say Final Fantasy XII and XIII deserve an age rating of 12.

The human designs in Metaphor are genuinely terrifying at times, and I love that so much. The game really pushes that T rating that it has, and doesn't seem to throw many punches outside of cropping out seeing people being eaten or hung.

I also love how a good number of the human designs are actually based off of demons that Bosch created for his piece "The Garden of Earthly Delights," a three panel piece showing, Heaven, Earth, and Hell. It helps to give these creatures a genuinely uncanny feeling, especially compared to the unique monsters that are supposed to be "normal" in this world.

Just got done with the second dungeon, and I'm looking forwards to the third one. The story feels a slight bit generic, like I could probably tell where everything is going to end- but I feel like even then it's pretty well written. Really enjoyable in the moment, and I feel like the dialogue is well handled as well.

Yo, I bought Bluey on PS5 on my birthday last time. 😁

The game looked pretty good with Paper Mario style + 3D pastel colored environment + smooth 60 fps. 😉
One more support for Outright Games.

Guys...
I got Barbie: Project Friendship PS5 this afternoon! 😁
My GOTY 2024 on PS5.

Oh, also.
I bought Ice Age: Scrat's Nutty Adventure PS5 this afternoon with Barbie: Project Friendship PS5.