God of War (PS4) Hype Thread - It's out!! Cory Barlog weeps! GIF galore!

[BananaKing]

Banana understands keeping expectations in check.  

It's cause banana has a mega lollipop and a mega brain.

[Dr. Pezus]

Boy! Yall missing the point of a hype thread.

[Legend]

Boy! Yall missing the point of a hype thread.

I can't even buy the game. Not hype time!

[Dr. Pezus]

I can't even buy the game. Not hype time!

Says the guy making a digital game!

[the-pi-guy]

Says the guy making a digital game!

VizionEck coming to a store near us?  

[Dr. Pezus]

VizionEck coming to a store near us?  

Literally a few feet away

[Legend]

Literally a few feet away

It's me your neighbor.

Says the guy making a digital game!

Well it's not like I was going to make it out of paper...

VizionEck coming to a store near us?  

I'd love that, except for the fact I'd go broke and spend the rest of my life working off my debt.

[Kerotan]

Sure didn't monster Hunter do 5m first week with probably 4m of those ps4 sales.

I'm guessing God or war does 4m. That's only about 1 in 20 buying it. I think digital will be over 1m.

[Legend]

Back in stock on Amazon. Now I can get hype again.

[Dr. Pezus]

I'd love that, except for the fact I'd go broke and spend the rest of my life working off my debt.

Which is why digital is life

[Xevross]

Sure didn't monster Hunter do 5m first week with probably 4m of those ps4 sales.

I'm guessing God or war does 4m. That's only about 1 in 20 buying it. I think digital will be over 1m.

That game was absolutely huge in Japan though, and big in the west. It was an anomaly which hasn't really happened before (launching at the same time in Japan as the rest of the world as well).

It depends how much bigger GoW will be than MH in the west. I think 4m is the ceiling.

[Dr. Pezus]

6 days!

God of War is another tech powerhouse for PS4 • Eurogamer.net

Bit about Pro advantages

"It's a visual showcase whether you're playing on a regular PlayStation 4 or the 'super-charged' PS4 Pro, which features one of the finest implementations of checkerboard rendering we've seen to date with a level of clarity not far from native 4K - at least perceptually. That's the thing about checkerboarding - it's almost akin to interlace versus progressive scan. If you look closely at a still image, you can see visible artefacts because of the checkerboard technique - during normal gameplay, however, the effect is convincing.

Ultimately, while the debate will continue to rage about the effectiveness of the technique, checkerboarding makes a lot of sense here - it would be impossible to render a game like God of War at native 4K on a PS4 Pro while maintaining a smooth frame-rate, and the visual payback compared to some of the 1800p and 1620p games we've seen is self-evident. As you might expect, the regular PS4 delivers a 1080p presentation. Pro offers greatly enhanced image quality but the rest of the visuals are mostly equivalent between the two save for slight variation in ambient occlusion - which makes sense as the extra hardware is put to use in massively increasing the pixel count rather than boosting fidelity. All versions are clean thanks to an excellent anti-aliasing solution which handles edges and temporal artefacts quite well. Texture filtering is also generally of good quality across both platforms."

"When using checkerboard 4K mode, the game does a reasonably good job of holding steady at 30 frames per second in most scenes, with even intense battles that pile on the visual effects sticking mostly to the target frame-rate with only small pockets of dropped frames. It's not quite perfect though, and some effects-heavy scene will see performance drop. Thankfully, this is more of an exception than the rule and most of the game delivers a stable 30 frames per second, but it's not a perfect lock.
Is performance mode the answer? Well, there's a significant increase in frame-rate when you trade in the vast pixel-count for standard 1080p. A stable 60 frames per second is off the table here and the frame-rate is left to run wild instead with noticeable judder. What this mode basically delivers is something more in line with, say, God of War 3 or Ascension on PlayStation 3. The frame-rate averages in the mid to upper 40s most of the time during any skirmish while some of the quieter moments can jump up to or around 60fps. It's not our cup of tea, but if Sony follows Microsoft's example and embraces FreeSync technology, it may improve matters. As it is, it's a nice option then for those that prefer the fastest possible performance and don't mind the judder you get from uneven frame-rates on a 60Hz display."



https://m.imgur.com/w5gAtAv?r

[Kerotan]

So performance mode in 1080p is only for pro owners? Regular ps4 doesn't get that option?

So a 1080p TV owner can choose resolution mode and it will downsample with 30fps on the pro? Or is it just 1 option for 1080p owners

[Dr. Pezus]

So performance mode in 1080p is only for pro owners? Regular ps4 doesn't get that option?

So a 1080p TV owner can choose resolution mode and it will downsample with 30fps on the pro? Or is it just 1 option for 1080p owners

Two options for all pro owners I think. Downsample

Wrong Kratos?

[Dr. Pezus]

Let's get this hype started, it's at 95 on Meta!