I don't know, I guess I am in the minority here, but this game runs perfectly fine on my 3 year old laptop.
Operating System: Windows 11
CPU Brand: AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with Radeon Graphics
RAM: 15 GB
Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop GPU
Primary VRAM: 6 GB
....anyway lol.
Really love this one. I can't tell you how long I've been waiting to use Green Goblin in a fighting game. Okay, I actually can tell you. 26 years. I have been waiting 26 years to use this character in a fighting game.
Arcsys does what they do best, and gave each character a incredible design. They all look great, and their roster picks are fantastic. I am praying this game goes the distance and the roster stacks up. If I see Beast, Sabretooth, or Rocket Racoon in here, I am going to be a very happy gamer.
On first inspection, this game seems way too simple, but it didn't take but a moment to realize there is a lot of character depth in these movesets, with setups that are crazy easy, to insanely hard to pull off. Some of these movesets are hyper specific to what you can do and when, which I really love. There is ease of use for a casual, and there is plenty to lab really hard on if you want to master a character, which again is fantastic.
The sound design is great. Not all the music tracks hit home, but the ones that do really stand out. Storm and Black Panther have some real good tracks. Love the voice casting, and not only that, but lol, I decided to go into the options and listen to some of the other languages, and they are great too, and there are a lot of them.
Performance... Well, this is awkward, because for me the game runs smooth. The attacks come out as I want them, the tags, no issues on my rig, hence the 8 hours played on release.
The lobby system is cool. I dig it.
There are a few modes to dig into. I wish there were more.
The Cons are, Sony. I don't care for, or wish to have them running along side my PC game. I am not a fan of consoles for many reasons. Hilarious that they are putting their crap on PC games, removing physical media in the near future. I get it Sony, you want to be PC so bad, but you're not, you're just getting in it's way, and I mean that from the very bottom of my heart. If their involvement was not here, I think this launch would have been very smooth, but here we are, it's apparently hurting a lot of players from enjoying the game. I just pray that a game this fun does not suffer the same fate as UNDER NIGHT IN-BIRTH II. That game was dead on arrival just because PC player were salty they had to wait one single week for a fix to roll out, so I can imagine it's VERY possible, especially given how touchy and critical the FGC has become over the last decade.
