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It's a guy playing the beginning of the game, it's filmed in vertical with the phone :) Will most likely be taken down very soon.

I didn't watch the intro, just skimmed through the gameplay parts, looks really good.

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[–] twistedtxb@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Filmed his TV using his phone in portrait mode. Just as Todd intended it to be.

[–] ProcurementCat@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

When the first gameplay video of Tears of the Kingdom leaked, people complained how bad the person was playing and that they basically had the gaming abilities (and temper) of a child.

People who leak those super games do this precisely because they are not smart. This person here is probably not smart enough to even consider recording in landscape mode.

Also they are going to get their ass sued off by Bethesda/Microsoft.

[–] lud@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also they are going to get their ass sued off by Bethesda/Microsoft.

Has that ever happened? Feels extremely unlikely.

Worst case (if you leak this close to launch, otherwise good luck) is you getting fired if you work at the game company.

[–] OrangeCorvus@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It all depends on how you got the game. If it was sent early, by accident etc they can't do anything to you. You didn't sign an NDA so you can stream as much as you want, sure they will ban you but they can't sue you since you legitimately got the copy.

[–] EeeDawg101@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looks basically as expected from the official trailers! Cool to see more backgrounds; I think I’m going to go with Explorer but it’s gonna be hard to choose.

[–] Blxter@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Only thing holding me back from pre order is PC performance and just performance in general. Imo Bethesda games on PC don't play well. So I have been holding out hope reviews before release can tell me. PC ports have been terrible this year :)

[–] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not going to be a port AFAIK. Bethesda always made games focusing on PC and modding, and with a decent performance.

[–] all-knight-party@kbin.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let's not pretend that just because Bethesda started out as a PC developer that it means the games run well. I still can't get a stable frame rate on Fallout 4 in all areas, shit I still can't get a stable frame rate in Oblivion due to the game's own optimization being a bottleneck. Their games are very moddable, but their huge amount of content and dynamic mechanics have clearly made it difficult to optimize.

Hopefully the game will run decently, but I doubt it'll be a totally seamless and smooth experience, though I'd love to be proven wrong.

[–] Arkarian@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I said decent, and not good or amazing for a reason. Their games aren't the pinnacle of optimization, but also they are far from the shitty ports out there, specially given how massive their games usually are.

That said, I would never preorder a game. I'm confident that it will be good, but I will see that when it's released.

[–] dudewitbow@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Bethesda is hamstringed by their game engine, that is just an engine whose roots stem all the way back to gamebryo

[–] h3rm17@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Still, I prefer "poor" (bethesda games don't not perform that poorly, really) performance with lots of system driven interactions and absolute modability like almost no other games out there than "good" performance.