The Game Awards – aka ‘The Geoffs’ – are back once again, bringing a deluge of new trailers and announcements for Rich, John and Alex to pore over in the latest DF Direct Weekly. Meanwhile, Stadia devkits are starting to emerge and Microsoft is raising game prices – but before all of that, the team takes a look at a dramatically improved build of The Callisto Protocol on PC.
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00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:59 News 01: Callisto Protocol PC updates
00:09:12 News 02: The Game Awards game reveal rundown!
00:50:33 News 03: Stadia devkits dissected, analyzed
00:54:03 News 04: Microsoft increases game prices to $70
01:01:21 DF Supporter Q1: Is Alex doing better this week? Has DF considered doing numbered ratings to send a message about certain issues?
01:04:37 DF Supporter Q2: Would you consider giving a “seal of quality” to games that meet technical standards?
01:05:44 DF Supporter Q3: Would you prefer to play on a huge projector screen, or a top-of-the-line OLED TV?
01:08:46 DF Supporter Q4: Portal RTX demands DLSS, so is Quality, Balanced, or Performance the best DLSS preset?
01:13:04 DF Supporter Q5: Rich, do you still think that Xbox OS and PlayStation OS will become interchangeable on consoles?
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I LOVE MY OPEN WORLD games.. The are the best. Linear are pretty much 1 an done games. Very little if any reasons to play again
Sorry, but the people who post the timestamp and optimized settings videos amazing for people like me who already watched the video before purchasing (glad I did on Callisto protocol) and just want to see optimized settings when messing around with settings after getting a game.
Nope, never paying $70 for any base game. I got a back catalog and a bit of patience. I'm not supporting increased corporate profit margins. Video games are profitable af. Prices did not need to go up. I call bs.
All converging to UE5 will lead to similar looking games. I don't know why cdprojekt leaves Red Engine behind, given they already have it optimized for current gen with cyberpunk dlc and the witcher 3 next gen patch.
Enhanced AA techniques should be standardized and included in the APIs like DirectX and Vulkan. They use the same type of input data so should be doable
Remember when video games ran at 60fps
The forbidden west not coming to ps4 sale wise makes no sense… If they want to up the graphics etc why not leave that for Horizon 3 and let that be next gen only.
Quality goes down prices go up.
Alex was praying for Returnal to come out on PC and he is getting his wish. But the game is using Unreal Engine. I am genuinely worried about his mental health, because that is the game that could break him.
Man, i love RED Engine and h..ha..ha..hate UE.
I was curious and checked Markiplier's gameplay of The Calisto Protocol, and instantly noticed some terrible stutters. TBH, I wouldn't be able to play the game in that state, especially knowing it's running that way on a monster PC.
It has been 59$ from at least the NES days so way longer than 2006, try 1987.
I wish I could find someone who looks at me the way that Rich looks in this thumbnail
DF hates budget gamers lmao
Thnx
I'd like to dedicate this comment to my reformed traditional gamers.. Digital Foundry!
70 dollar pricetag argument falls apart as soon as you see what game publishers do with ingame trxs, batle passes, microtransactions etc. Its just greed
Skip to 1:02:46 to see what Alex thinks of numbered ratings
I like the idea of the 'fake YouTube thumbs'. It reminds me of the very similar images of the guys in Zzap64 beside their reviews back in the late 80's. I think they did YouTube thumbnails decades before YouTube existed.
The fake Youtube-Thumbnails killed me, amazing!
59:20
I miss those event moments too. They are going away but the most recent moment was when GoW Ragnarok released. I stood outside and other gamers were excited too. Reminded me of MW2 (2009) release day.
that's intel 12th and 13th gen behavior on buggy windows 11
no problem on ryzen 5800x3d here
Ngl those Richard troll thumbnails are the best thing to ever happen on this channel!
Witcher 3 update waiting
Game of the year, Bill Clinton
So dissapointed by Calisto, technical issues aside the game just sounds crap.
Games are NOT worth $60+ dollars anymore because you never get a complete game or you get a bug addled game. When they start releasing games with enough content that is not buggy and doesn't require further downloading then and ONLY then will they be worth that much. I never buy games at full price anymore. I have enough patience(game backlog a mile long) to wait for them to fix their games and bring the prices down.
I saw the "highlights" of The Game Awards and remember picking every game which didn't win one of their awards lmao
Dark Souls II is the best Dark Souls 🖤
I would counterpoint that while games cost most to make, there is also much more consumers in the space buying games tho
Big L from John saying Kojima predicted the future. That’s such a vile, surface level take. Did armored core also predict the future? Have you played any post apocalyptic game that doesn’t involve zombies before? It’s all pretty standard stuff I wouldn’t stroke Kojima’s frighteningly big ego anymore
Of course the bargain which is Game Pass will come to an end, but what a deal to pay $80 with sale prices for a year of the service. As long as you play just 2 games in a year, you’re saving money. Then you can buy a game you played on the service to keep at a big discount down the road.
So Xbox has around 25 million Games Pass subscribers, but I assume they have way more active consoles. So there are still quite a lot of consoles with no Games Pass sub so I do think this can affect those people.
I can't accept paying 70 dollars for triple-A games that are bugged, broken, unfinished, of stuttering upon release. If they want to charge that much, the games need to be of good quality.
Surprised they didn't mention GOTY also about the Bill Clinton comment.
As long as the subscriber has Game Pass for $15 bucks a month it like they're paying for a New game every 5 months guaranteed on XBOX end.
Before Game pass they might not have bought a game in those five months.
They laugh at Xbox 4% but when optimization of Unreal Engine 5 comes into play they will frown.
Regarding Callisto Protocol, I don’t know who at the studio ran this game, saw it stuttering to hell, and said ship it. Shameful. Improve your standards please.
I've abandoned Callisto Protocol, after about 6 hours in the game, it seems dull beyond words – and some of its instant enemy attacks without warning are cheap. I regret buying it. Maybe later I'll come back for more dull trudging through identikit hallways, hallways, hallways, hallways, hallways on my PS5.
So you're defending Microsoft price $70 but when PlayStation do it they so bad
Glad to hear Digital Foundry have an actual realistic and reasonable take on game prices. It's absurd to expect games to constantly get better and more expensive to make, without the price changing at all, especially considering inflation
Looking forward to your Portal RTX review Alex.
The dev menu looks a lot like reshade.
Where the heck is Witcher 3 next gen update review. Pc port has some really interesting stuff to go through.. and I don't mean as a good thing. Dx12 version is a mess as performance wise and dx11 version has pretty bad stuttering and frame pacing..
28:20 If you ask me: compared to other Tripple A Open World Games (like Witcher 3, Horizon Forbidden West etc.) Forspoken looks… boring. Rocks, A LOT of gras and a couple Trees… Thats it. Even the original Witcher 3 looks a lot more interesting.
What is the ratio of sales these days digital vs disc?
In my opinion discs doesn't make any sense anymore. You need to update a fresh bought game with a full download (40/50/60GB) because of a day 1 patch anyways. Discs have a horrible carbon foot print (very retro there Dark1X, also sad and not understandable to me) compared to digital.
Callisto Protocol should not have been released. Why the heck not delay it two weeks and implement the patches they already have? It would have at least been playable at launch….
Curious your thoughts on Tesla getting Steam support for Deck Verified games. Seems it's only the new 2022 Model S and X. Is it time for DF to get a new Tesla?
90 episodes in and you guys just get better and better. I love this channel.
Yet another game rushed to market ignoring quality. The damage is already done….do these games ever go though QA ?
I wish ps5 and series X were just called next gen for sometime at least until the ps4 switch and Xbox one consoles are well and truly phased out. It just makes more sense to me. Bc otherwise the phrase next gen will only be relegated to theoretical new technologies while we wait for them to materialize
21:30 Thanks for spoiling the ending of Death Stranding.