I’m playing Star Wars Jedi Survivor on PS5 and it’s such a frustrating experience:
• Great story, acting, animation, environment design
• Extremely STAR WARS
• Good gameplay—though at times frustrating
• Constant, frustrating graphical issues
EVERY time I play I see bright flashing white polygons, textures failing to load, environmental details popping in a meter away, and wildly inconsistent framerates. It’s the worst gaming experience I’ve had since… well, Jedi Fallen Order.
It breaks my suspension of disbelief every time; I’m constantly reminded that this is a poorly-optimized, over-rushed game put out by a publisher who couldn’t be bothered with quality control.
Why it’s especially frustrating to me is that I had this SAME experience with Fallen Order on PS4, and according to Reddit, anyone complaining is told they are crazy—it’s the most hardcore fan gaslighting I’ve ever seen.
Maybe I am just used to well-made PlayStation games like Horizon, Uncharted, The Last of Us, Spider-Man, Ratchet & Clank… basically all of my favorites?? They play beautifully without any of the issues I see here.
I’m happy I got it as a gift (and I know it was purchased during a good sale!), but sheesh. You’d think a YEAR after release it would not be this rough. And Reddit tells me “oh yeah they fixed that all with the update” which came out before I even started playing the game—I can assure you, if this is “fixed,” the game was COMPLETELY broken before.
The worst part: not a single “review” mentions any of the issues I and others see.
Oh, and yes, I have tried the two graphical modes, turning off a bunch of graphical features, disabling HDR, running it from the on-board storage vs. the expansion PCIe Gen 4 expansion SSD… but also, I play console games because I shouldn’t have to fiddle with all that shit.
And it doesn’t fix it, anyway. And again, other extremely beautiful, taxing games play perfectly fine out of the box—as they should.
This mirrors my experience with Jedi: Fallen Order, too, where I was appealed by how dogshit the game played on PS4. I assumed at the time the game was designed for PS4 Pro and just didn’t work as well on my PS4, but it looks like that’s just how this series is made. The quality standards aren’t just low, they’re subterranean.
Shame on the tech press for not calling this out, either.
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