Gaming.

Spil, hardware og e-sport.

1418

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is Finally Getting its New Game+ Mode, Nearly Six Years After Coming Out Ubisoft tilføjer en New Game+-tilstand til Assassin’s Creed Valhalla den 5. november, næsten seks år efter spillets udgivelse. Opdateringen indeholder blandt andet en ny valgfri progression, runer, achievements, et stash-system og materialet Mithril til opgradering af divine gear. Ubisoft har også varslet yderligere oplysninger om kommende opdateringer til nuværende konsoller, men uden at specificere indholdet.

IGN Gaming for 1 time siden

0 0

Apex Legends Update Lets You Dual Wield the Wingman, Brings Back Lifeline Revive Shield Apex Legends-opdateringen Cipher lanceres 3. november med mulighed for at bruge to Wingman-revolvere samtidig, dog med lavere præcision og højere skade. Crypto får en større omarbejdning, mens Revenant og Lifeline modtager forbedringer, herunder Lifelines genoplivningsskjold. Opdateringen introducerer også Strongholds, nye Ranked-regler med legend-bans i Diamond-lobbies og derover samt flere ændringer til spillets evner.

IGN Gaming for 1 time siden

0 0

Assassins Creed Codename Hexe Gets Cryptic Update That Fans Will Surely Decode Ubisoft har delt en kort opdatering om Assassin's Creed Codename Hexe, der ifølge selskabet fortsat er under udvikling. Spillet beskrives som en mørkere oplevelse, men der er stadig få konkrete detaljer om handling og udgivelse. Ubisoft lover en større opdatering i 2027 og har samtidig offentliggjort en kryptisk besked, som fans forsøger at afkode.

IGN Gaming for 2 timer siden

0 0

After Shipping 8 Forza Motorsport Games and Building Turn 10 from Scratch, Dan Greenawalt Is Retiring From Microsoft After 27 Years Dan Greenawalt går på pension fra Microsoft efter 27 år i selskabet. Han var med til at grundlægge Turn 10 Studios og stod i spidsen for otte Forza Motorsport-spil på tværs af fire Xbox-generationer. Turn 10 er for nylig blevet lagt sammen med Playground Games, og 2023-spillet Forza Motorsport forventes ikke at få mere nyt indhold.

IGN Gaming for 2 timer siden

0 0

The Elder Scrolls 6 Will Reportedly Show the History of the Titular Artifacts En ny rapport hævder, at Bethesdas næste Elder Scrolls-spil får undertitlen Sentinel og foregår i Hammerfell. Ifølge rapporten kan titlen blive offentliggjort allerede næste måned, muligvis i forbindelse med Skyrims 15-års jubilæum eller Xbox’ 25-års jubilæum. Oplysningerne er ikke bekræftet, men spillet ventes tidligst at udkomme omkring 2028.

IGN Gaming for 3 timer siden

0 0

'Flattered' to See His Style Live On: Original GTA Artist Explains How His Signature Visual Identity Continues to Shape the Massive GTA 6 Cover Art Stephen Bliss, tidligere kunstner hos Rockstar Games, siger, at han er smigret over at se elementer fra hans visuelle stil videreført på coveret til GTA 6. Det gælder blandt andet det karakteristiske gitterlayout og helikopteren i øverste venstre hjørne. Bliss understreger samtidig, at han ikke selv har bidraget direkte til coveret, men ser referencerne som en fortsættelse af seriens kunstneriske arv.

IGN Gaming for 3 timer siden

0 0

How Former Rockstar Senior Artist Stephen Bliss Defined the Iconic Pop Art and Comic Book Visual Style of Grand Theft Auto Stephen Bliss fortæller i et interview med IGN, hvordan han var med til at forme Grand Theft Autos karakteristiske popkunst- og tegneserieudtryk under sin tid hos Rockstar Games. Han beskriver blandt andet arbejdet med seriens ikoniske billedgitter og coverdesign samt sin rolle i den visuelle arv, der stadig kan ses i GTA 6. Bliss arbejder i dag på egne kunstprojekter og intellektuelle ejendomme.

IGN Gaming for 3 timer siden

0 0

The Hellraiser Franchise Is Getting Three New Tabletop Adaptations for Halloween 2027 With Clive Barker's Approval Salt Entertainment har indgået en aftale med Clive Barker og Park Ave Ent. om at udgive tre officielle Hellraiser-baserede bordspil. Det første, Hellraiser: Puzzle of Flesh, bliver et terningbaseret spil med escape room- og social deduction-elementer og ventes udgivet omkring Halloween 2027. Der arbejdes også på et Hellraiser-rollespil samt et endnu ikke nærmere beskrevet stort brætspil.

IGN Gaming for 4 timer siden

0 0

Minecraft Creator Notch Is Selling His L.A. Mansion for the 'Low' Asking Price of $70 Million — the Same Amount He Paid for It in 2014 Minecraft-skaberen Markus “Notch” Persson har sat sin enorme villa i Beverly Hills til salg for 70 millioner dollar, samme pris som han betalte i 2014. Den 22.300 kvadratmeter store ejendom har blandt andet 15 badeværelser, en slikbutik, privat natklub, biograf, swimmingpool og optagestudie. Persson siger, at han ikke længere tilbringer meget tid i Los Angeles, mens markedet for luksusboliger er kølet af.

IGN Gaming for 4 timer siden

0 0

Some People Who Paid for WoW Forever Name Reservation Couldn't Reserve Their Name Due to a Weird Bug Blizzard har rettet en fejl i navnefilteret til World of Warcraft Forever, som fejlagtigt forhindrede mange spillere i at reservere bestemte karakternavne. Filteret markerede blandt andet navne, der indeholdt bogstavkombinationen ”c-o-n”, som begrænsede. Problemet skulle være løst efter en servergenstart, men enkelte spillere rapporterer fortsat vanskeligheder med at reservere navne.

IGN Gaming for 5 timer siden

0 0

FromSoftware's Nintendo Switch 2 Exclusive The Duskbloods Officially Delayed Into 2027 FromSoftware har udskudt det Nintendo Switch 2-eksklusive spil The Duskbloods fra 2026 til 2027. Studiet begrunder beslutningen med feedback fra den seneste netværkstest og ønsker mere tid til at finjustere kamp, strategisk dybde, spillerudtryk samt spillets regler og balance. Der er endnu ikke meldt en konkret udgivelsesdato ud.

IGN Gaming for 5 timer siden

0 0

Want to Play with the Latest Tech But Don’t Have the Specs to Match? Use NVIDIA GeForce NOW to Play with PC-Only Technology - IGN Artiklen beskriver, hvordan NVIDIA GeForce NOW kan give adgang til krævende PC-grafikfunktioner via cloudgaming, selv på enheder uden kraftig hardware. NBA 2K27 fremhæves som det første spil med DLSS 5, der ifølge NVIDIA bruger en AI-model til mere fotorealistisk lys og materialer. Tjenesten tilbyder gratis adgang samt Premium- og Ultimate-abonnementer med forskellige ydelsesniveauer.

IGN Gaming for 5 timer siden

0 0

Jacksepticeye Is Hitman's New Elusive Target, and He Told Us All About It Jacksepticeye medvirker som den nye Elusive Target i Hitman, hvor spillere kan forsøge at eliminere hans figur Finn Colton frem til 25. november. Figuren er en satirisk blanding af kontroversielle influencere fra manosfæren. I interviewet fortæller han også om samarbejdet med IO Interactive, sin rolle i 007 First Light og arbejdet på den animerede Bloodborne-film.

IGN Gaming for 5 timer siden

0 0

The GTA 6: Original Score Has a Release Date and a Brand New Track You Can Listen to Right Now Rockstar Games har annonceret, at soundtracket til Grand Theft Auto VI udkommer 11. december på streamingtjenester samt på dobbelt-CD og tredobbelt vinyl. Albummet er komponeret af den franske duo Justice og indeholder 30 numre fra spillets musikalske materiale. Samtidig har Justice udgivet nummeret “Pusher”, der er lavet i samarbejde med Gesaffelstein.

IGN Gaming for 6 timer siden

0 0

A 'High-Tech' Atari Hotel Is Officially Being Built in Phoenix, Arizona, Complete With an Esports Venue and Creator Studios Atari Hotels har taget første spadestik til et nyt gaming-inspireret hotel i Phoenix, Arizona. Projektet skal blandt andet rumme højteknologiske værelser, creator-studier samt en esport- og koncertarena med plads til over 2.000 gæster. Derudover planlægges restauranter, butikker, immersive oplevelser og en sportsbook. Byggeriet forventes færdigt i slutningen af 2028 eller begyndelsen af 2029.

IGN Gaming for 6 timer siden

0 0

Phantom Blade Zero Day-One Update Brings Performance Improvements, Nvidia Driver Warning Phantom Blade Zero har fået en day-one-opdatering på omkring 5 GB til pc og 2 GB på PS5. Opdateringen forbedrer blandt andet ray tracing, path tracing og den almindelige grafik samt retter flere fejl. Udvikleren advarer samtidig om ustabil ydelse med Nvidia-driver 621.01 og anbefaler pc-spillere midlertidigt at rulle tilbage til version 617.42.

IGN Gaming for 7 timer siden

0 0

'Emulation Fans Are a Perfect Target' — Scammers Are Taking Advantage of Hype for PS5 Emulators by Tricking Gamers Into Downloading Malware Sikkerhedsforskere advarer om en svindelkampagne, hvor falske PS5-emulatorer på GitHub bruges til at sprede malware. Programmerne udgiver sig for at være emulatorsoftware, men fungerer som infostealere, der forsøger at undgå Windows Defender, stjæle data og slette spor efter infektionen. Kampagnen udnytter den stigende interesse for at køre PS5-spil på pc.

IGN Gaming for 7 timer siden

0 0

Phantom Blade Zero Protagonist Voice Actor Revealed as Sonic the Hedgehog's Roger Craig Smith Roger Craig Smith er blevet afsløret som den nye stemmeskuespiller for Soul, hovedpersonen i Phantom Blade Zero. Rollen blev oprindeligt indtalt af Jay Maksenuk i spillets trailere, men han blev udskiftet inden udgivelsen. Smith er blandt andet kendt som stemmen bag Sonic the Hedgehog, Ezio Auditore og Batman. Spillet har samtidig fået en stærk lancering på Steam og PlayStation 5.

IGN Gaming for 8 timer siden

0 0

Through Checkpointing, Phantom Blade Zero Doesn’t Make Boss Fights Annoying, and I Hope Other Devs Pay Attention I denne kommentar fremhæver Travis Northup, hvordan Phantom Blade Zero gør bosskampe mindre frustrerende ved at begrænse unødvendig ventetid og gentagelse efter nederlag. Spillet benytter blandt andet checkpoints, så spillere ikke konstant skal gennemføre lange første faser igen. Ifølge skribenten bevarer det udfordringen, men forbedrer tempoet og respekterer spillerens tid.

IGN Gaming for 8 timer siden

0 0

Helldivers 2 Review Bombed on Steam Amid Backlash to Mod-Killing Anti-Cheat Helldivers 2 er blevet mødt af negative Steam-anmeldelser, efter Arrowhead har indført Easy Anti-Cheat for at begrænse snyd. Spillere kritiserer systemet for også at blokere harmløse mods, der blandt andet forbedrer styring, klatring og kunstig intelligens. Nogle brugere hævder desuden, at spillet ikke kan startes uden installerede mods, og i Storbritannien er det aktuelt ikke synligt på Steam.

IGN Gaming for 8 timer siden

0 0

Asha Sharma Insists There's 'More Demand Than Consoles Available' as Xbox Hardware Sales Continue to Plummet Xbox-chef Asha Sharma siger, at konsolsalget er begrænset af udbuddet, og at efterspørgslen overstiger antallet af tilgængelige konsoller. Microsoft rapporterede samtidig et fald på 14 procent i Xbox-hardwareomsætningen i årets første kvartal, mens den samlede Xbox-omsætning faldt 2 procent. Virksomheden vil blandt andet øge antallet af istandsatte konsoller og fokusere på store spilserier.

IGN Gaming for 9 timer siden

0 0

Phantom Blade Zero Gets Off to a Flyer on Steam, Behind Only Counter-Strike 2 as the Most-Played Game Phantom Blade Zero har fået en stærk start på Steam med 448.000 samtidige spillere og en førsteplads på listen over bedst sælgende spil målt på omsætning. Spillet ligger kun efter Counter-Strike 2 i antal aktive spillere på platformen. Actionspillet fra kinesiske S-Game er også udkommet til PlayStation 5 og har Donnie Yen med i rollebesætningen.

IGN Gaming for 9 timer siden

0 0

GTA 6 Dog Poop Gameplay Premieres in the Latest Episode of South Park GTA 6 optræder i det nyeste afsnit af South Park, hvor knap 20 sekunders eksklusivt gameplay viser en hund, der efterlader afføring på en strand. En figur samler den op og bruger den i et komisk slagsmål. Scenen fremhæver også spillets tætte NPC-miljøer og kommer, mens Rockstar øger markedsføringen frem mod udgivelsen den 19. november 2026.

IGN Gaming for 10 timer siden

0 0

Rockstar Games Has Honored a Beloved GTA 4 Meme With One of GTA 6's Mechanics GTA 6 får en ny mekanik kaldet “Scooter Brothers”, opkaldt efter et populært GTA 4-meme fra en video fra 2008. Spillere kan tilkalde deres bil via en app, hvorefter en NPC leverer køretøjet og kører væk på en scooter. Funktionen gør det lettere at hente bilen i singleplayer, hvor våben og andet udstyr opbevares i bagagerummet.

IGN Gaming for 16 timer siden

0 0

GTA 6 Developers Say They Are Still Discovering New Locations in the Game Rockstar Games oplyser, at GTA 6’s verden åbner relativt tidligt i spillet, så spillerne frit kan udforske staten Leonida uden omfattende blokeringer fra historien. Spillets meddirektør fortæller samtidig, at udviklerne stadig opdager nye steder, blandt andet fordi verdenen indeholder langt flere håndlavede interiører end tidligere Rockstar-spil. GTA 6 udkommer 19. november 2026 til Xbox Series X|S og PlayStation 5.

IGN Gaming for 16 timer siden

0 0

Indlæs flere

Gaming IGN for 8 timer siden

Through Checkpointing, Phantom Blade Zero Doesn’t Make Boss Fights Annoying, and I Hope Other Devs Pay Attention

I denne kommentar fremhæver Travis Northup, hvordan Phantom Blade Zero gør bosskampe mindre frustrerende ved at begrænse unødvendig ventetid og gentagelse efter nederlag. Spillet benytter blandt andet checkpoints, så spillere ikke konstant skal gennemføre lange første faser igen. Ifølge skribenten bevarer det udfordringen, men forbedrer tempoet og respekterer spillerens tid.

Fra IGN

This is an IGN opinion piece from Travis Northup. He loves action RPGs, including Phantom Blade Zero. Read his review here.

I play an obscene amount of soulslikes and sweaty action games, and although I largely enjoy my time facing off against these intentionally challenging gauntlets, one thing I’ve grown increasingly irritated by in recent years is something I’ve taken to calling the Scrub Tax.

But what is the Scrub Tax exactly? Well, it can take many forms. Sometimes it’s a nearly minute-long walk back to the lair of the boss I’m trying to beat. Or maybe it’s a super obnoxious unskippable cutscene I’m forced to watch every time you beat the boss’ first phase as they transform into an even more gruesome monster. Other times, it’s just a good ol’-fashioned 30-second loading screen that has me rubbing my temples in annoyance between failed runs. In other words, the Scrub Tax is an irritating procedure (intentional or otherwise) that games make you go through after getting yourself killed like the low-skill scrub that you are – things that waste your time unnecessarily beyond the hours you’re already investing in learning the encounter and “gitting gud.”

Phantom Blade Zero, though, shows us it doesn’t need to be this way, just by sprinkling a little sugar over the medicine that so many modern boss battles force you to swallow — Mary Poppins would be so proud.

Don’t get me wrong: I love getting my butt kicked in every single FromSoftware game – learning the attacks of some horrifying new foe and slowly building confidence after multiple deaths before utterly dominating the enemy is an impressively compelling loop. But I’m much less enthusiastic about the tiresome ways in which my time is wasted while I’m working to hone my skills. It’s already an odd choice to make players go through this kind of stuff in an era when more things are competing for our attention than ever before, but it’s an especially bizarre thing to include when you’ve specifically designed a game with repeated failure in mind.

This brings me to one of the most infuriating forms the Scrub Tax takes: a complete lack of checkpoints during boss fights. Nowadays it’s not just common, but almost universally accepted that if I die at any point in any phase of a boss fight, I should have to start over again from the very beginning. This means that every player is destined to spend significantly more time replaying through less exciting phases of these encounters than the later phases that are actually still challenging them. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve been excited for a final confrontation with a boss I’ve crawled over hot coals to face, only to find myself irritated 20 minutes later when I’m grinding through the first phase of the encounter for the 10th time, just so I can enjoy about 30 seconds of the second phase I keep dying on.

Having precious hours eaten up by tedious boss checkpoint design has become an accepted cost of doing business.

For example, I have a vivid memory of playing Lies of P for the first time and facing off against an extremely cool and challenging boss that had a very slow first phase. What should have been a highlight instead became incredibly frustrating. I’d fought my way through that first phase dozens of times, to the point where I’d done several completions of it in a row where I didn’t even take damage, effectively shifting gear into autopilot for the three minutes it took to get through it. By the time I finally did beat the final phase of this boss, I was so vexed at having over half of my time wasted repeating the first one that I couldn’t even enjoy my hard-fought victory.

This practice has become so shockingly common that I don’t even think most people understand just how much of their time is being wasted by these tedious roadblocks. In fact, this philosophy of game design has been so ingrained into my expectations that until I recently played through Phantom Blade Zero, it didn’t even occur to me just how much of a thorn in my side this has become. I can count on one hand the number of games that haven’t followed this format over the past decade, the most notable being Final Fantasy XVI, which isn’t really all that concerned with providing the player a challenge. God of War Ragnarok included the choice to turn on checkpoints for certain boss fights as an accessibility setting, which is an interesting option for those not wishing to bang their head up against a wall repeatedly, but I’m referring to a more specific niche of players who crave a tough fight and simply don’t want their time wasted. For people like me, having precious hours eaten up by tedious boss checkpoint design has simply become an accepted cost of doing business for a long time now.

Phantom Blade Zero has shattered the idea that this is just the way it has to be. Developer S-Game’s stellar action RPG succeeds not just because it’s full of badass, challenging boss fights that show off its grade-A combat, but because failure doesn’t cost you momentum. It trims a ton of fat and empty calories by making it easy to get right back into its showpiece showdowns. This improves its overall pacing massively. Instead of spending twice as long as you should on each boss fight, you work through each one at an incredibly steady clip, move on to the next obstacle faster, and, frankly, have more fun in the process. The 50 hours it took me to get through my first playthrough was such a refreshing experience; it made me increasingly irate that more games don’t choose to handle boss encounters this way.

“But Travis, adding checkpoints to boss fights trivializes difficulty, and we like difficulty.”

I agree that difficulty is a good thing! But if the only way you’re able to make your encounter difficult is by bloating its duration with multiple phases, effectively turning it into a test of patience as much as skill, then you have not created a very engaging boss battle. This kind of difficulty is aggravating because it’s so patently artificial. Most of the time I’m not being challenged at all by an opening phase that I’ve more or less committed to memory after a few runs – the challenge is in having the stamina to engage in the Sisyphean task of replaying the same series of blocks, parries, and dodges ad nauseam.

Wouldn’t it be nice if, by removing the need to replay prior phases, developers really took the gloves off and made those later rounds as brutal as their wicked hearts desired? Imagine a boss fight where half the attacks kill you instantly, and you don’t even mind because you’re only losing a handful of seconds with every failed run. I want to live in a world where instead of being punished as I go through the completely normal process of learning an encounter, every failure has almost zero friction to it.

Phantom Blade Zero is a fantastic reference point for this, because even when some of my deaths felt cheap (like attacks that killed me in one hit), it was incredibly easy to shrug off since I was instantly thrown right back into the action. PBZ’s philosophy of checkpointing bosses meant that I was less irritated by enemies who had ludicrously powerful attacks. That allows S-Game to experiment more with boss scenarios that simply would not fly in a game without checkpoints where the developers know each death is going to cost upwards of five minutes of your time. A death in Phantom Blade Zero is likely to cost you less than 30 seconds, so when the crazy badass warrior with a lightning spear impaled me on his weapon and launched me into space, I relished the loss and jumped right back into the fight. I want developers to be able to take more chances with boss encounters, and checkpointing is a truly powerful tool that allows them to do just that. By freeing us from repetition, it also unshackles the developer’s creativity.

Even if you think restarting from the beginning is something devs should keep around, surely there are better ways to handle this unnecessary Scrub Tax, right? For example, shouldn’t I be able to skip the first phase of a boss fight after I’ve managed to clear it without taking any damage? Or maybe after the tenth time I’ve beaten it consecutively, I finally get that checkpoint unlocked? Heck, feel free to take half of my healing items away if you want! I’m just trying to reclaim some of the lost time here – I don’t even mind if you want to make it harder.

I’ve come to the conclusion that forcing players to restart boss fights from scratch is quite a cheap way to make those encounters feel more challenging.

I’m not saying that every developer should add checkpoints to boss fights immediately across the board, but Phantom Blade Zero has made me question whether or not it’s a good thing that so many games seem to forgo them by default. Elden Ring had the courtesy to drastically reduce the length of its runbacks to bosses when compared to earlier FromSoftware RPGs, but no checkpointing still meant a lot of time was spent repeating boss phases. Would defeating Malenia still have been satisfying had I been able to face off against her second, devilishly difficult form straight away after reaching it once? I think so.

I’ve come to the conclusion that forcing players to restart boss fights from scratch is quite a cheap way to make those encounters feel more challenging than they actually are, and I think that once players start finishing Phantom Blade Zero later this week, they might very well share the same revelation. In the meantime, I will continue my solitary war on the Scrub Tax, blade in hand, and ready for the next brutal boss.

Phantom Blade Zero Bosskampe Action-RPG S-Game Spildesign Soulslike

Læs artiklen på IGN.com Artiklen er på Engelsk

0 likes Gem på liste

Kommentarer

Log ind for at kommentere. Log ind

Ingen kommentarer endnu. Vær den første.

Gaming.

v5 er en social RSS-læser.

Du er ikke logget ind

Log ind med en gratis bruger for at

v5+ — 9 kr. pr. md.

Through Checkpointing, Phantom Blade Zero Doesn’t Make Boss Fights Annoying, and I Hope Other Devs Pay Attention

Kommentarer