DF Direct Weekly #20: Resident Evil Village DRM, Skyward Sword HD, 120Hz Unlocked FPS

DF Direct Weekly is back with a 20th episode milestone - shot before the Steam Deck reveal. We will have a Deck-specific Direct a bit later in the week. In this video, we talk about the lamentable Resident Evil Village DRM situation, Skyward Sword HD on Switch and the 'stealth 120Hz support' in A Plague Tale: Innocence - which is actually a good old PC-style v-sync off, unlocked fps scenario. All this and much, much more.

00:00:00 Introduction
00:01:03 RE Village DRM situation
00:18:04 A Plague Tale Innocence 120Hz unlocked frame-rate
00:27:11 Zelda Skyward Sword HD impressions
00:36:40 Powerslave/Exhumed returns!
00:41:12 MiSTer gets CPS2 arcade support
00:46:54 DF Content Discussion/Supporter Program schedule
01:12:01 Supporter Q1: Does the PS5 Shortage indicate a long PS3-era console generation?
01:19:33 Supporter Q2: What are the chances of other PS4 titles getting 120fps support?
01:24:11 Supporter Q3: Any plans for more switch overclocking videos?
01:29:22 Supporter Q4: Do you think the die shrink switch we got a couple years ago or the new oled switch will run cooler?
01:31:29 Supporter Q5: Would you be interested in digging into some of the older computer titles for DF Retro?
01:36:24 Supporter Q6: Will Sega ever tap the vast and excellent Saturn library? Also please talk about the Saturn more.
01:42:54 A NEW CHALLENGER HAS ARRIVED!
01:43:48 Ending

[CakeMelons]

Huge props to Rich for speaking out in such a straight forward manner on DRM matters and for phrasing it the way he did, without sugarcoating. I think whole situation is unacceptable, Alex raised concerns 2 months ago in his video and so did community and Capcom just didn't care. And only now they've reacted when the whole thing kinda blew up. It is depressing, i agree.

[starmanhov]

No one has ever lead better than Leadbetter leading us to better performance!

[blumiu]

Underneath that deadpan expression, the child in Audi unleashes his magic with his editing.

[MarkP]

Tom shocked that he was introduced first. I was too brother, DFs unsung hero.

[bunonregs]

that music for Rich's speech ended me, 10/10

[leonthesleepy]

LMAO the music when rich is making his speech at 15:00

[robertofumagalli]

i remember crysis warhead having chickens instead of bullets when playing cracked version of the game

[markhubenthal]

Great to see Tom be a part of the weekly update from time to time. Would also be cool to see more videos with Tom as a guest on other DF videos or vice versa.

[gambino]

That heroic music during Richards DRM work :)

[Gamekod]

Ha ha thanks for the shoutout! Glad we found it and you were able to dive in and do some testing!

[MlSTERSANDMAN]

from reddit on trackmania: "After years of Sunrise being unplayable, so many years. you were forced to downgrade to Windows 7 to play it which is out of support now and modern systems have issues with drivers too!

Well, now you can play it on Windows 10, natively - just open the game and play - no VM or downgrading BS."

[Archivist]

I love how podcasts are choosing to come out on Mondays. It’s the worst day of the week but the content is a fantastic offset

[b.h.]

1:37:14 John stares lovingly at his off-screen Sega Saturn game collection...

[Saif]

Epic music playing as Richard gives his speech 😂

[Anthraxbees]

I'm so glad this 'DRM that hampers gameplay' issue is finally being talked about more openly, and hopefully this increases general awareness of the issue. I've been hearing about Denuvo slowing down games since at least AC Origins, and I don't doubt it's been an issue for longer than that.

[joshuaewalker]

That rising, triumphant music that kept getting louder and louder during Rich's little speech had me laughing pretty hard at first, but then it was getting just a little too loud.

[koilkondaraviteja]

When the music started rollin, denuvo hatin and PC gamers rejoicin'

[SITSIndustries]

26:55 "Rich says in-the-here-and-now" drinking game

[Fuuntag]

15:00, background music was slightly inappropriate here, sorry Audi. I feel rich was making some great comments about a huge problem in the industry surrounding “drama journalism” and what makes Digital Foundry different and the editing really undermines it.

[azazelleblack]

The reason these companies stick with DRM is because the DRM companies show their C-level execs scary slides that say "your last game was pirated X number of times! think of all those lost sales!" while the execs are too ignorant to realize that none of those people probably would have (or would have been able to) buy the game in the first place. I've sat in on one such meeting a long time ago, back when SafeDisc was popular, and it was disgusting the degree of emotional manipulation they try to use.