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D-04got10-01 · Level 977
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'Succubus' on PlayStation 4 is a bloody, fucking mess.

I've been chilling w/ the 'Succubus' on PlayStation 4, recently. The game's a continuation of the 'Agony' mentioned before: https://pravda.education/posts/04b35a291718-started-playing-agony-on-nintendo-switch .

The PlayStation 4 port is more of a professional curiosity to me, instead of an actual fun. I own the PC version && a decent enough PC to run it on highest settings.

So... the port is a bloody, bug-ridden, fucking mess. It boggles my mind how the game passed the submission. But... probably can be played from start to finish so that may be a redeeming, baseline quality that allowed it to pass.

Apart from the mandatory censorship... so no looking at the female fun bits, /* Which, let's be honest, is the main selling point of this game... */ the game is just drowning in serious problems.

  1. Right after starting the game, I was presented w/ the Gamma setting, which I adjusted to my preferences so that I would be able to actually see things, instead of looking at too dark things. The setting is nowhere to be found in the Options Menu, but it looks like, after rebooting the game, it has conveniently forgotten my preference, therefore I am now looking at the game that's too dark for comfort.
  2. Sound settings don't get saved, for whatever retarded reason, so rebooting the game resets them to their original values... fun. /s
  3. The game suffers from random crashes.
  4. Whoever was the fucking retard that thought "Hmm... the game runs too smoothly. Let's add a special ability that spawns a lot of minions that will drop the game's performance to a slither." should be fucking flogged, then sent to hell where his perception of reality is at best 5 FPS.
  5. There's a 100% reproducible crash if you're the kind of person that wants to just have fun && kill a bunch of NPCs in a distance... for the heck of it.

Fuck me... these are just a few examples of the things that I've noticed thus far. I'd be fucking ashamed if this was my project.

So... if you ever want to play this game... do yourself a favor && just get the PC version, unless PC gaming is !an option for you, for whatever reason. The PlayStation 4 port is a vastly inferior product that should be played solely by those desperate to play the game, while having no good PC to run its PC version.

...You read this on DevRant first... https://devrant.com/rants/19448206/ive-been-chilling-w-the-succubus-on-playstation-4-recently-the-games-a-continuat . That awesome platform that's seen better days.

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Oh, right... forgot to mention... the loadings are fucking abysmal.

retoor retoor

I like the game itself. Game ports were always magical to me in general. Maybe now there are good frameworks for it and such, but its amazing how they do it imho. But on the other hand, consoles are computers now..

Indeed, the consoles have changed && they're all quite alike, nowadays. The differences between them in the early days were much greater && great skill was necessary to make good ports then. Now... it just takes some common sense, mostly. Just take into consideration the hardware you're targeting && tone down the assets, VFX, etc, to have a well-working product. Only the lazy && the retarded make bad ports, nowadays.