Sacred Symbols+, #413 | Moriarty x Jaffe: The Feeling of Fall Gaming

Good old jaffe bashing religion by talking about eating food. Dude you're not well.

larry Seitz

I hear complaints about Until Dawn remake not being able to run @60fps on PS5, and how it's down to the engine used, on the second LSM podcast now. Is anyone aware that it uses 2 or 3 ray tracing features (UE5's software lumen, RTAO, and probably reflections that are used scarcely throughout), some sort of fluid simulation for blood, sweat and tears, and other stuff like vastly improved volumetrics? Please correct me if I'm wrong, though, since the game is so popular, that googling any technical info on this game yields zero results, and I've heard it only once briefly in a DF video. The devs were fully aware of how taxing it would be and it must've been a deliberate choice early in the dev cycle to include all this stuff and make it run @30fps for fidelity sake, cause PS5 couldn't possibly handle all of it @60fps in a non-potato-immortals of Aveum-like-sub 720p-FSR 2-abused resolution. It's not a question of engine used, or the skill of people involved - it just goes to show how RT is mostly barely noticeable(since the general consesus is that it looks worse than the og release), even though it's very taxing, and how obviously it's just not worth it.

MISZCZOGRZMOT

It's probably just sub-pixel detail not being able to properly resolve due to the low res the game runs at internally. Par for the course this gen, especially when RT is involved.

MISZCZOGRZMOT

This was good, and these 1-1 are some of my favorite but love that Colin just doesn't pay attention to the views / time, variety / flexibility seems like the right pocket

Vito Chiaramonte

I beat Dread and countless other metroidvanias. Like I said in my original comment, the whole “shooting random blocks cuz they might open a new passageway” is something I don’t see in many games of the genre except the Metroid series

Diddy’s Dong Quest

lol have you played Metroid dread? That was a hilarious skill issue. There’s a reason it went viral. Especially in proportion to the games overall traction. Also, not like the mob knew or gaf who Jaffe was at that time. Those types of fans probably know of like Todd Howard and kojima and absolutely no one else

Bartevious

Dread runs well and looks well on switch. And I don’t like the switch.

Bartevious

Silent Hill remake blew my fucking mind. I played mostly sports and wrestling games back when the original came out. But as an adult, I absolutely adore horror games and when I finished Silent Hill 2 this past Sunday, I immediately felt a ton of emotions. So far it is my game of the year as well. What an excellent experience.

Michael Mashpotato

Vegetables make you gassy, bloated and are hard to digest.

The Rose Experience

Could it be because developer Mercury Steam’s social media team blocked him on Twitter? He has made mention of that on the podcast, but it’s likely the fact that he just doesn’t play anything without a dual sense anymore. His loss. Dread is fantastic.

Kid-Organic

Random but this is for Jaffe, in case he missed it: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/navgtr_davidjaffe-godofwar-twistedmetal-activity-7206007327253020672-L-fO?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Gr8S

When hearing about the new King Kong game, Colin: “That’s cool though, I’ll play just about any “MetroidVania””. Unless of course it’s an actual Metroid game on Switch. 😑

Kid-Organic

Your colon: “< vegtables”

Kid-Organic

The 4 horsemen of LSM Colin Gene Brad Jaffe

Bailey Callis

I also experienced the SH2 shimmering on Performance, but adjusted to Quality mode and had a great time. Took a minute to adjust, but ended up doing so just fine.

Cameron

The person who wrote the huge write-up about how to test the shimmering thing in alan wake 2- I heard colin say he has more than 1 ps5 in the house and he hasn't even tested the game on the other PS5 yet. can't imagine he will be in for ANY of this unfortunately.

Guybrush Threepwood

Jaffes inability to admit a mistake or ignorance with things like Metroid dread years later is so funny. Dude was the laughingstock of the industry for a day or two for a reason, his takes were extremely ignorant and blatantly incorrect at times. Stop clinging to it and just move on man 😂

Bartevious

Yep he'll never admit it though. Love him either way but sometimes it's a bit obvious lol

Matt The Outlaw 🤠

This would honestly make him a legitimate psychopath

Jimmer

But it’s not graphically demanding. Need another excuse. We know he’s not a fanboy and likes games first and foremost regardless of platform so it’s gotta be something else 😂

Jimmer

Hi Colin. Regarding your shimmering issue on the PS5 with Alan Wake 2 and SH2. Is it possible you can take 2 video captures of this. One directly from in game on the PS5 and one from your mobile phone filming the TV. Would be enlightening to find out whether the issue is indeed within the Ps5, or if its possibly amplified due to the display, maybe an HDR setting or even the HDMI cable. You could do a side-by-side comparison which would prove if the TV is in fact amplifying the issue. I am seeing this light shimmering on my version of the Silent Hill2 remake on Performance mode, but it is ever so slight it's not really an issue. Now this could be subjective, and I am blind as a senile bat. But it is definitely possible that a TV/display could worsen the artifacts making it unbearable to play. I do recall you mention you had 2 of the same TV's which may or may not be setup the same way with the PS5s. Does it appear like in this video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N44FB2FkFTo You may have already done this and are done with it and don't care. All good. But 1 other good test would be to run it from the portal. See if it occurs on that device as well. You may just have the eye of a hawk and this just isn't tolerable. Anyway, have a cracking day.

kiNeMs

I love me Jaffe episodes

Dana Anderson

Meat >

The Rose Experience

No

The Rose Experience

Stinky Switch trash

The Rose Experience

A question for the ages

Brandon V

Brenden

The Until Dawn movie needs to be meta. It needs to be about the characters feeling like they are being controlled. They need to be in a game and not know it. That’s the only way it will work.

Brandon V

Loved the talk at the end about the glut of games. I am what I think you’d call a “casual enthusiast”—I’m subscribed to LSM (obviously) and like to follow the industry closely, but my actual time to play games is pretty limited these days (I can get through maybe 3-4 games a year). Which honestly means that I have a veritable *feast* of stuff to play at all times. I mean, in just this year we’ve gotten FF7 Rebirth, Shadow of the Erdtree, Astro Bot, Like a Dragon Infinite Wealth, UFO 50, SMT V Vengeance, Silent Hill 2, and Metaphor (just to name a few)—these are all on my list, and it will probably take me 2 years to get to those titles alone. And honestly a lot of my casual gaming friends are the same. Trust me, as a representative of the ‘normie’ gamer audience, we are eating very, VERY good.

Supes

All this D&D talk, for whatever reason, reminded me of Eye of Judgment, on PS3. I wish I could have seen that initial idea evolve into a bigger beast. Imagine not just turning cards over but being able to have a figure for your character, that digitally stores its stats and story arc? There may be many logistics to how that wouldn’t work, but I’m a non-D&D player looking through the foggy glass. 😀

Directional Joy

Trophies

Noah Friscopp

If colin loves metroidvanias so much why did he skip metroid dread?

Jimmer

Great episode. These guys really roll right into it . Retrowares Iron meat is cool.Check out Retrowares, The Translyvania Adventure of Simon Quest. No joke lol. I played it at TMG. It's fantastic.

Stewy108

Love the concept

GameSimp

Over 12 hours and no complaints about Jaffe. Is it really a Jaffe episode. BTW I regret not screen capping the response he made to a comment once. I remember laughing out loud at it. However I can't remember what it was but when I think about it I laugh again. It's either autism or alcohol catching up with me.

AngelOfCake

I truly think these episodes are some of the best content here.

Caleb Peacock

Another really great one. When Jaffe reins it in and focuses, which he’s better about every episode, we get some of the most engaging content on the network. Loved it. Side note - loved hearing Jaffe call out Advent Rising. Yes it was messy but I loved it, it was so fucking cool. Disappointed that the promised trilogy was of course cancelled.

Dante B

Another one with Jaffee? We are blessed 😎

Chris Strommer

To be fair to Jaffe, most Metroidvanias don’t require you to just shoot walls randomly. Great episode 👍🏻

Diddy’s Dong Quest

This was a fun listen on my morning walk. Love when you just shoot the shit with Jaffe. Thanks to you both!

Meatball

The Creator of God of War gets grossed out by chicken legs at Disneyland? What the actual hell? 😆😆

Robbie Agnew

It’s always a good weekend when there is a new Moriarty x Jaffe or Sacred x Duke episode

Steve

I’d pay good money to lick chocolate off of Jaffe’s nipples.

Russell Garrett

Shaun!

Jamie Hexum

ba dum tss

Alan Wake 2 - Alan WOKE

gaming has been in free fall for like a decade

Special Needs Cannon

Always a good time when Jaffe is involved!

Alan Wake 2 - Alan WOKE