Rise of the Ronin Review (TheJackyking)
Is it really that hard to not make bad PC port? Stuttering on a 4090 is just... no.
Nioh 2 ran pretty fine and the graphics aren't exactly that far behind from this game (I'd argue it looks better mostly because of the art direction). I'm getting seriously sick of PC ports these day struggling hard on even the finest machines. Combined with the fact that getting a beefy GPU is harder than ever these days, developers should really put some efforts into optimizing their PC ports, rather than... god knows what led to this monstrosity of a port.
If you insist on buy this awful port in its current state, my recommendation is to forget about going beyond 60 FPS. Capping the game to run at 60 should alleviate the stuttering issues. Also, turn off RT reflections too, it's simply not worth it. Frame generation doesn't seem to help much with my setup, though play with the settings yourself to see if it improve things for you or not.
Other than that, I'm liking the gameplay so far. If only they spend at least some efforts into making the PC port not total trash.
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Addendum: It seems that the developers are working on a patch to fix the performance issues. That's a good, but I'm not sure whether I will be changing my review back to "recommended" even if the issues have been addressed. This "release a broken thing then maybe patch later" mentality I don't feel is particularly great for consumers, esp. when it is this broken, and that they had almost a full year to prepare for the PC launch. It seems that some reviewers already warned them about the bad optimization ahead of time, so it's quite unacceptable that this whole mess even happened.
Settings-wise, I tried knocking down the graphics to medium/high, the frame pacing issue is still noticable on 60fps 1440p, however to a lesser extent compared to ultra. Still, the point I'm trying to make here is that if even a beefy PC is having *any* problem running it smoothly, what about folks who use a lesser CPU/GPU? I don't mind the graphics fwiw, but there is a serious disproportion on what is being presented vs. what is being asked for here.
Anyhow, in the event that I do not change my rating, even when the performance issues are no longer a thing, this would serve as a permanent "please stop with the day 1 bad releases" note. I platinum'd this game on my friend's PS5, really liked it. It's a real shame that the PC version got released in this sorry state.