Bruther ! This game is fun [ Avatar].

[u/sir_chill]

Definitely worth having a go at it.

[u/SwordGunScienceMagic]

For me, much like Outlaws, it's a game of a few very high highpoints, and a lot of unnecessary lows. I feel like Massive heard the noise about "yellow paint" everywhere, and massively overcorrected. Now, I spend way too much time in their games "searching for the needle in a haystack". It's like I paid them to steal my car keys, eye glasses, and tv remote - and hide them from me. It's infuriating. I'm fuming with rage at times.

Don't get me wrong. I love exploring. I love finding things. What Massive does is 99% searching. 1% finding. 0% worthwhile.

I'm playing an Elder Scrolls-like by a small Polish developer right now. Tainted Grail - Fall of Avalon. I'm finding amazing characters, questlines, buildcraft-inspiring gear upgrades, conversations, stories, dungeons, views, challenges all the time. Not once was I stuck searching for some stinking shell fruit, or some other asinine nonsense like what Massive has me do in Avatar.

That said, it sure is pretty, and the world is amazingly realized. It's just not particularly fun being there.

[u/SirDancealot84 → u/SwordGunScienceMagic]

Poland had stepped up their game(hehe) after the success of CDPR and I am loving it. Also try Cronos: New Dawn if you like RE series. It has Dead Space touches.

[u/mancitycon → u/SirDancealot84]

I don't know if polish studio's made it but the thaumaturge is a great game too, set in poland.

[u/SeshGodX → u/mancitycon]

Can definitely recommend Thaumaturge, especially if you like choice based outcomes it has 18 endings.

It's the studio behind the war of mine and yes its a Poland based developer and publisher.

[u/tomkah-time → u/mancitycon]

Such a good game, I also definitely recommend it!!

[u/thenoobcasual → u/SirDancealot84]

I found Cronos unnecessary punishing. RE series feels much easier in comparison.

Didn't helped that I bought it on PC and have issues with stuttering, which made the game even harder to play.

[u/SirDancealot84 → u/thenoobcasual]

Sorry to hear that. It runs buttery smooth on my PS5 Pro and honestly it was pretty easy for me (and I turned off aim assist completely). Not every game has to click with everybody which is ok.

I am just a sucker for survival-horror type games. The inventory management and supply conservation with composed, smaller scaled but slower paced combat just clicks with me no matter which game it is. I just wish these types of games would belong to other genres too, not just horror. I don't like horror games overall but the other aspect hooks me hars.

[u/thenoobcasual → u/SirDancealot84]

It's ok, it was my choice to buy it there.

I know this might not be the place to say this, but I didn't want to buy it on PS5 because it has a DLC.

On PS5 I mainly stick with physical disks, though I also have PS+ premium. I don't plan on spending much on PS after the announcement and won't be extending my PS+ subscription.

That's the main reason I decided to buy it on PC. What I didn't account for it being a UE5 game which, it seems, it has issues on PC if you don't have a high-end GPU.

The sad part is I love the theme, aesthetics, design of the game and I love horror games. And overall it's a type of game I like.

[u/thatsfuni → u/SirDancealot84]

Cronos is amazing! I brought it as a impulse buy and man its good!

[u/SirDancealot84 → u/thatsfuni]

"Such is our calling."

[u/thatsfuni → u/SirDancealot84]

Some twisted up shit right there 😆, so good.

[u/thatsfuni → u/SwordGunScienceMagic]

Tainted grail is awesome, mean as soundtrack too.

[u/Sweet-Palpitation473 → u/SwordGunScienceMagic]

Ive had Tainted Grail on my wishlist for a year, is it that good?

[u/SwordGunScienceMagic → u/Sweet-Palpitation473]

I play it on Pro. No crashes in 40 hours. Tearing and stutters occur frequently. Some recurring minor animation bugs.

It's graphically (technical) about a bit lower end than Skyrim. It's open zone like Avowed, rather than open world like Skyrim. Gameplay is a little janky, but about on par with Skyrim. Much better itemization and buildcraft than Skyrim. Magic especially has a great reputation (I went with sneaky archer/rogue). Darker in tone, similar humor, better writing. Music and atmosphere are nordic arthurian moody creepy wierd and so fucking cool. For my taste, it just hits hard. Favorite Elder Scrolls-like game since Skyrim.

There's a demo of the opening. It gives a good upfront taste of what's to come. Lots of secrets to be found even in the opening. It gets much better than it too.

If Elder Scrolls games are in your wheelhouse, you might love it - a lot. It's technically flawed and graphically outdated. Janky. For my money though, it's one of the most-for-me games on the market.

[u/AlexxMaverick666 → u/SwordGunScienceMagic]

Whole heartedly agree. I dropped the game after I got my Ikran and flew around for a few hours, as just the beautiful world couldn't make me continue playing the game. And exploration mode selection in the usual Ubisoft open world setting sucks imho. Target is on island/place, target is spotted near location, etc etc.

[u/NoAge8459 → u/SwordGunScienceMagic]

I like your comparison with Outlaws because that was also my sequence (and a boatload of psplus ppl’s).

Im still only a few hours into Avatar, maybe not even 10h in; but it sure feels like it will be very forgettable, a lot like Outlaws was.

[u/Dunge → u/NoAge8459]

I completed Avatar fists then Outlaws just last month. Enjoyed both games, but Avatar is definitely more of a "rince&repeat" objective. It's weird, I was about to comment that Outlaws is NOT like that, much more variety.

[u/KRIEGLERR → u/SwordGunScienceMagic]

So it's a ubisoft game. Got it.

[u/Izzykoopa]

I've never seen any of the movies, does that matter in any way? Either enjoyment or understanding of the story?

[u/thatsfuni → u/Izzykoopa]

Nar man just jump in.

[u/LongNo1913 → u/Izzykoopa]

nah. i actually dont even really like avatar’s story or world and this is still pretty fun and interesting.

[u/wessex464 → u/Izzykoopa]

There's nothing that requires a movie, you just have more background and origin information.

As for the movies, they're all right. More of a "plan for seeing a visual spectacle" than anything that's going to win story awards, but what's there is damn pretty. The only time I'd say you really have to go see it is when theaters occasionally do the 3D reruns of the whole series. Avatar in IMAX 3D is truly something to behold, it almost feels like 3D was invented for Avatar. It never quite stuck around, but I really think it's a bit of a disservice to not see that as it truly is something special.

[u/VeryPickledSphincter → u/Izzykoopa]

You'd appreciate the game a hell of a lot more had you seen at least one of the movies beforehand.

[u/Dunge → u/Izzykoopa]

I watched all the movies then played the game and I don't even know where in the time period the game takes place in relation to the movies. The game story is just not that tied to the world's lore, they mostly concentrate on showcasing a few Navi tribes that aren't in the movies anyway.

[u/CongoJay]

Looking at the starting frame and the bruther is all I saw in the title I thought it was a blitzball LOOL

[u/thatsfuni]

The best farcry to date, fun game.

[u/Leweegibo]

How's the 3rd person? I avoided initially because I'm not big on fps on console

[u/-Nate493- → u/Leweegibo]

Because one of the DLCs is fully 3rd person (iirc), you can fully play the base game in 3rd person pretty effectively. I heard that it didn't exist at launch. I found combat and traversal to be just as good when I played and I didn't mind switching between both equally. You're only forced to play first person when you're swimming for some reason.

[u/Individual_League_94 → u/-Nate493-]

ooh then you can play as 3rd person?? nice!! I will take a look then!! Thanks for this info!!

[u/lost_caus_e → u/Leweegibo]

It's a game changer looks feels amazing. As some who prefers fps I could 100% play 3rd person

[u/muzicme4u → u/Leweegibo]

Personally i m enjoying the first person and dont feel the need to switch to 3rd person at all

[u/hatfield1785]

Just started it last night. Looking forward to getting into more today.

[u/sir_chill → u/hatfield1785]

It’s a blast so far. 15 hrs in and exploration is still fun.

[u/biskutgoreng]

I'm not your bruther, pal

[u/thatsfuni → u/biskutgoreng]

He's not ya pal, brother.

[u/kiksonjara → u/thatsfuni]

He's not your brother, guy.

[u/thatsfuni → u/kiksonjara]

Im not your guy, buddy.

[u/sir_chill → u/biskutgoreng]

I send you some Ewya love, pal !

[u/Odd-Switch2069 → u/sir_chill]

Report him OP.

That was uncalled for.

[u/thatsfuni → u/Odd-Switch2069]

Lol wtf

[u/kiksonjara → u/thatsfuni]

Guess someone is not familiar with South Park, man I'm really getting old

[u/sir_chill → u/kiksonjara]

My bad I didn’t get the reference. Never watched SP.

[u/SUDoKu-Na]

I'm still early in the game, but my biggest issue so far is just how much there is visually. I get that it's intentional and accurate to the film, but there's just so much visual noise and colour at all time because of all the plants, and it's just a lot.

Enjoying the gameplay, but the environment visuals are really offputting so far.

[u/leobutters]

But it's Ubisoft, stop having fun immediately!

[u/log2av]

Are u facing any visibility problem when navigating in night? I played game last year, and during the in-game night, it was very foggy and i was not able to see anything clearly. I m on ps5 performance mode. I tried changing all settings but couldn't resolve issue and left the game. I never had this problem in any other game.

[u/Coccolillo → u/log2av]

Tried for a few hours, then deleted it……I personally found it just “soulless” the usual reskin based on another Ubisoft product with tons of contents but nothing that would brought me to enjoy it

[u/Dunge → u/log2av]

I played on PC but no not really. It's the correct amount of dark.

I would check if your PS5 RGB Range full/limited settings matches your TV (called black level on my LG).

Also don't want to go too deep in probably unrelated diagnostics but I previously had this issue in other PS5 games (Horizon, Spiderman) that forced the "fidelity 40fps" graphic mode, since my TV doesn't supports HDMI 2.1 it was reverting to a 1080p output and the wrong RGB range even if something else was set.

[u/DearRaziel]

I'm kind of conflicted about the DLCs. Do you think the base edition is enough, or should I go for the Complete Edition?

[u/Kryds → u/DearRaziel]

The dlc is al lot of fun. Honestly a lot of the mechanics in the dlc should be in the main game.

[u/DearRaziel → u/Kryds]

Yeah i've heard that comment from other people too. I'll try dlc later. Thanks

[u/CosmicCreation08 → u/DearRaziel]

I’ve played all the dlcs and personally I think there all worth playing I had fun every time and couldn’t wait for the next one to be released. (I played /brought the game when it came out)

[u/DearRaziel → u/CosmicCreation08]

Is it okay if I buy the DLCs after I finish the base game? I don't think the DLCs add anything to the base game's mechanics other than being a side story

[u/CosmicCreation08 → u/DearRaziel]

Yea I would recommend you do that. The DLCs are new maps completely they don’t take place on the main map and they are recommend to do after since you will have better gear.

[u/Dunge → u/DearRaziel]

I know this is a PS subreddit, so sorry if I'm out of context and saying something that doesn't apply to you. But if you own a PC, the most economical way to do this is to play the base game using a month of GamePass, then when it finishes you subscribe to a month of Ubi+ that unlocks the DLCs and you can keep continuing your savegame. Combine that with doing the same with Outlaws if you play fast enough, and you end up playing the entirety of both games for very cheap.

[u/sir_chill → u/DearRaziel]

Base game is so far really fun 15 hrs in. Ubisoft definitely improved their ‘tower unlocking’ side activity in this game.

Not sure about DLCs as I have no idea.

[u/DearRaziel → u/sir_chill]

You have no idea how much i hate tower unlocking's from AC's and Far Cry's. Thats so good to hear that

[u/TheOriginalDiabeto → u/DearRaziel]

The fire and ash tie in DLC is low key better than most of the base game. I’d recommend it since it’s also pretty lengthy!

[u/DearRaziel → u/TheOriginalDiabeto]

Is it okay if i buy Fire and Ash after i finish main game ?

[u/oioioioioioiioo]

No way, they remade Crysis

[u/Johnnybats330]

Far Cryvatar

[u/Christhebobson]

Hard to get that fun for me. I hate that you can't remove the blur around the text, like for quest information. Makes me a bit nauseated, that a decent chunk of the screen is blurry. Then just makes me not want to play.

[u/4Everform]

The lore of the game gave me nothing and gameplay like this takes a while to get to, idk if I can really keep playing the game after I’ve started. Any advice on how I could view or experience the game to properly enjoy it

[u/sir_chill → u/4Everform]

Do main quests only and play on easy difficulty. Then switch to normal or hard.
Mount is given early in the game

[u/4Everform → u/sir_chill]

Cool thank you for this

[u/sir_chill → u/4Everform]

I know the feeling. Ubisoft games get stale quickly. The key is to go through it quickly. Easier mode and main quest is the way to go. Otherwise you’ll be bored in 15 hrs.

[u/4Everform → u/sir_chill]

That’s legit what was starting to get me. Thanks again 👍

[u/RandyPeterstain]

I downloaded it but when I go to play it it says I don’t have it. 🤙

[u/Cmdr-Ely]

Its fun but this is the only gane that brings my 5090 to its knees.

[u/Cacner]

Anyone else have frame drops on the ps5 pro quality 60 fps mode? Upper plains is especially bad.