DF Direct Weekly #183: Until Dawn Has Issues, Nintendo Ryujinx Takedown, UE5 MegaLights, FF16 Xbox?

Another packed Direct sees Oliver, Rich and Alex tackling Nintendo's various takedowns - on the Ryujinx emulator and YouTube emulation content. Oliver spends some time with Until Dawn on PlayStation 5 offering up impressions that range from the good, the bad and indeed the ugly. Alex talks us through the UE5 MegaLights technology and the new God of War Ragnarök PC patch, while the new STALKER 2 documentary basically demands to be watched.

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0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:53 News 1: Nintendo takes down Ryujinx
0:17:28 News 2: Until Dawn remake tested!
0:33:20 News 3: Unreal MegaLights tech demoed
0:48:26 News 4: Square Enix wants FF16 on Xbox
0:57:39 News 5: Next Guerrilla game reportedly Horizon online
1:06:04 News 6: God of War Ragnarök gets PC patch boosts
1:14:02 News 7: STALKER 2 documentary shows war torn game development
1:22:20 Supporter Q1: Was Strix Halo designed for a new Steam Machine? Could Steam Machines match the performance of a PS5 Pro at the same price?
1:28:56 Supporter Q2: What is Naughty Dog working on?
1:35:04 Supporter Q3: Will Switch 2 support the newest UE5 features?
1:38:43 Supporter Q4: Can the Switch 2 compete performance wise with the Steam Deck? Does it need to?
1:42:34 Supporter Q5: The PS5 Pro hasn’t sold out, so is this a sign of underperforming sales?

[RetroGameCorps]

Appreciate the mention guys, huge fan of this channel!

[TechGamesAU]

Alex about to be sued by Nintendo for emulating pokemon when he was 13 years old.

[Mechamatsuura]

Gotta say, the lighting in the Until Dawn Remake completely changes the mood of the game for me. Doesn't seem like a good choice.

[Chasm]

In Until Dawn I thought I had VRR flicker on my OLED until I found out it's actually that badly implemented film grain Oliver mentioned. 😂

[DanteBellin]

Can't wait for an "Unreal no more stuttering tech demo"...

[mistersurrealist]

I absolutely hated what they did to the lighting and the camera angles in Until Dawn.
It completely changed the atmosphere of the game, and not for the better.

[cosmosofinfinity]

I really appreciate Alex not beating around the bush when it comes to piracy. Others in his position often dance around the issue, at the expense of the god's honest truth

[MAXISORAWIGGLES]

Thank you to Rich for fixing your lighting situation so that you don't look like you're staring into the sun anymore.

[vitaminjuk]

The "geniunely sincere welcome" makes me doubt the sincerity of the welcome!

[HaroldTheWizardCat]

Alex talking about pirating games like he was a recovering addict at the time 😂. “I was at a point in my life where I didn’t buy games” 😂😂

[NothingHereForYou]

the cooler color tones fit the Until Dawn way better than the warmer tones. Until Dawn? More like Already Dawn. Dawn is Now

[heilong]

Until Dawn, The lighting looks way better in the PS4 version, Much more pleasent to the eye and for me that beats realism any day as that is how films are done, As in lighting the scen to look good artistically. Final Fantasy 16 is great on PC with the INI hack so the story runs at 60fps also, Worth the wait IMO.

[bjchid]

"Guerilla knows what they're doing." Ya, so did Rocksteady before they were forced out of their lane of making fantastic single-player games to now making online multi-player games such as Suicide Squad. We saw how well that worked for them:(

[rossbalch]

The thing is with the video showing interfacing a switch cartridge and a PC, is that whilst it's legally murkier than emulation, it's actually definitively not an instance of copyright infringement. It's even more clear cut than the emulation example. Using copyright law in such a case is both frivolous and illegal. The issue as always is having the resources to legally fight these things.

[julianburford]

Remaking 1 gen old games is one thing. But why do they look worse in some cases than the original?

[AP-hnwd]

John Linneman still living it up in Japan 🇯🇵 awaiting his return for next week’s show.

[theotheronethere]

With regards to the Until Dawn remake, I suspect the fact they are making an Until Dawn film is part of the reason why they are remaking it. The Video Game-Film/TV show feedback loop (which Sony did with TLOU)

[Choteron]

props to stalker 2 devs. cant imagine how difficult can be develop a game in the middle of a war.

[Mmmjakis]

Rich has to be the wisest person in the Youtube gaming space, I love listening to him and I wish he was my dad

[ozzyg]

I think at this point it’s clear that Sony over invested in the idea of games as a service and underestimated the backlash against those types of games now have had to bin and cancel so many projects. Now they’re panicking because they’ve nothing else on their immediate portfolio so they’re rushing out loads of remakes to fill in the gap until the first party studios produce something worth presenting which is taking years.