Rise of the Ronin - Team Ninja

[TecmoZack]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

Seems all the people who bad mouth this game haven’t played it and just see the graphics and say it sucks.

Bingo.

So many hate to hate.

[NoFro]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

The game is loot city though. I’m spending so much time selling and changing my gear. It’s actually crazy how much loot there is.

This is one thing that's really putting me off. I hate loot systems. They keep me stuck in menus organising gear and comparing stats and usually the wealth of weapons doesn't lead to interesting combat variations. The ROR one looks particularly bothersome. Just give me 10 or 20 weapons that have had a lot of design work go into them and have been effectively balanced.

Anyway, the rest of this game looks great but I still struggle to spend £70 on pretty much any game so I'll wait for a sale.

[Doctor Jack]

It’s not bad actually. Just sell 98% of it or break it down for materials. I found two weapons I like and have stuck with them. It’s not time consuming at all, the loot.

[TecmoZack]

Originally Posted by NoFro

This is one thing that's really putting me off. I hate loot systems. They keep me stuck in menus organising gear and comparing stats and usually the wealth of weapons doesn't lead to interesting combat variations. The ROR one looks particularly bothersome. Just give me 10 or 20 weapons that have had a lot of design work go into them and have been effectively balanced.

Anyway, the rest of this game looks great but I still struggle to spend £70 on pretty much any game so I'll wait for a sale.

Once you get your Longhouse the loot is not overwhelming at all.

The first 3ish hours I was always going in the menu and swapping.

Once you can transmog (Longhouse) it’s no thang. I just check once every few missions to make sure I have the best stuff equipped.

[Doctor Jack]

One of the treasure chests in the second map is glitched for me. It’s open but I never actually opened it. My completion for area 2 is at 99%. That is going to bother me so much.

[Doctor Jack]

Finished this morning. 55 hours. Have a 5 trophies left for a platinum,but I won’t go back and replay missions and such that is needed for some of them. I liked it, but it was too long. I kind of checked out in the last 10/15 hours. I’ll probably sell it as I won’t ever play it again. But I had fun with it.

[ps3bd_owner]

Originally Posted by Doctor Jack

Seems all the people who bad mouth this game haven’t played it and just see the graphics and say it sucks.

It being a PS5 exclusive (at least for now) there was a lot of hype and high expectations of Rōnin having excellent graphics, but it just looks like an early PS4 that's optimized.

I'll probably buy the game when it's on sale as I enjoy these types of games. So, don't be too bothered by it.

[deckard82]

looks like they (finally) fixed a lot of the performance issues with patch 1.008.000 and 1.008.001. Not all of them but a lot of them. There are still some micro stutters but the frame rate in general is much better, compared to when the game launched. Or even months after. They also finally seem to have fixed the glitchy shadows.

I actually like this game quite a bit, bought it when it was released and got the platinum trophy. I think it does some things better than Ghost of Tsushima and vice versa. The latter obviously being much more appealing visually.

I just wish they added a traditional new game plus mode. That would make me replay the game for sure.

[NARMAK]

I was a bit skeptical of the game based on the graphics in terms of not wanting to pay full price however i do wonder if maybe they could spruce the graphics up a bit with a PS5 Pro patch. Probably won't fundamentally alter things but nonetheless iron out performance issues as mentioned above and pretty up the graphics a bit more too.

[deckard82]

I wonder if the performance issues are tied to the obsolete engine that's been used for this. A game that looks like this one (it doesn't look terrible but it doesn't look like a PS5 game either) shouldn't have any trouble running with smooth 60 fps. Seems like a lot of these japanese games with dated graphics have this issue with frequent stutters. But I think it's now patched to a point where the remaining issues aren't much of a problem anymore. Just a few months ago, using the glider was not a lot of fun, thanks to the performance issues. That has really changed for the better.

I don't think it's ever gonna look better than it does now though. It could have and should have looked better on the base PS5 already. Not a deal breaker for me, but I think it was for a lot of people.

[deckard82]

You can't make this shit up. So patch 1.009.000 has been released and all the stuttering and the glitchy shadows are back again. Both things were fixed with 1.006, then they were back in the game after patch 1.007, then fixed again with patch 1.008 and now they are back again. Like I said...you can't make this shit up.