#NIOH PC REVIEW DRIVER#
#NIOH PC REVIEW PS4#

Combat is fast, but also highly tactical. If you try and approach combat in Nioh like Dark Souls, or even the much faster Bloodborne, you will find yourself вЂњFreed from this mortal coilвЂќ more times than you might expect. Team Ninja does an amazing job of taking elements that make Souls such a massive hit and adding in elements of Ninja Gaiden and other difficult games for a really balanced, different experience. Having attained all of the achievements across the three Dark Souls games and getting the Platinum Trophy on Bloodborne, something new to test myself against was refreshing. As the resident Souls-Borne expert here at Gaming-Age I was beyond thrilled to get to dive into yet another soul-crushing, curse-inducing, ultra-hard RPG. Ok, negatives about performance and ports out of the way, letвЂ™s talk about the game itself. Sure, this could be my PC struggling to run it, but at the same time I look at what I can achieve with a game like The Witcher 3 and am left wondering what could possibly be giving me these issues with Nioh: Complete Edition on my end. I still have framerate drops at absolutely random times throughout the game.

#NIOH PC REVIEW DRIVER#

On the PC, however, I was hoping for some real improvements, not just a slightly smoother sister experience to the console.Дuring my first day with the game, I experienced pretty consistent crashes and stuttering, but a few driver updates and playing with the settings calmed that down pretty quickly. They are good enough and the environments are all dark and dreary, which makes it feel better than it really is sometimes.

#NIOH PC REVIEW PS4#

It is mostly given a pass on the PS4 due to console limitations and the fact that the game really doesnвЂ™t NEED super high-end graphics. The game quite honestly looks old, not like something from earlier this year. Locked 30 or 60 fps can keep things smooth, but there is no way to really get that WOW factor here. At no point should that much effort go into changing the settings, especially in a game that, admittedly, doesnвЂ™t even look that great no matter what you do. This is another problem, as it means you will be switching back and forth between launcher and game just to adjust simple graphics. High Medium and Low are the only choices you have, leaving you wondering what the resolution settings all mean and forcing players to mess around in game to see which setting works best for them. Rendering Resolution and Screen Resolution are two totally separate settings, again with no real explanation why. Running the launcher allows you to adjust these settings but without any real freedom or explanation of what their settings mean. If you run the game without running the launcher first, you will be greeted with a windowed game screen and locked graphics properties. Nioh has two options when booting in Steam, either play Nioh: Complete Edition or run Nioh: Complete Edition launcher. I understand the frustration coming from someone like that, and they are not wrong. Partly because it is inconvenient to be forced to play with something you are not used to and partly because it is yet another in a long line of ports to come to the PC but not actually support PC players.

This doesnвЂ™t hurt me greatly, I am a controller player primarily with everything, but if you are a keyboard and mouse gamer, this is frustrating. If not, the controller is your only real option. If you want a challenge similar to that of playing Dark Souls III on a Guitar Hero guitar, play this game with a keyboard. Keyboard support exists but is an absolute nightmare. You cannot navigate a menu with a mouse, much less play the game. To start things off, there is NO mouse support.

Unfortunately, I ended up getting about 50% of what I wanted here, with the game still being absolutely fantastic, but the port ending up with more issues that I had hoped. This looked to be the definitive version of an already amazing game, but I tempered my excitement, mostly due to being bit by PC ports too many times in the past. Then out of nowhere, they announce not only a port, but a вЂњComplete EditionвЂќ coming to PC, and coming soon! The Complete Edition includes the base game, as well as the three-story expansions that came to the PS4. The Dark Souls/Ninja Gaiden inspired RPG was incredibly well received, but something that the community largely assumed would remain a PS4 exclusive, not unlike 2015s smash hit, Bloodborne. The original game released in February of this year exclusively on the PlayStation 4. The announcement that Nioh, the ultra-hard, Samurai action RPG from Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo was going to be released on PC came out of nowhere.

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