This week's new Cloud Monday video is part 2 of playing #Humankind on #PS4 via the #PlayStationPlus Cloud Streaming Service to my Japanese launch model #PlayStation4.
In Part 1 we learned that the game saves after each turn and that it also has manual saves, too. this already makes it a great fit for being played in the Cloud as we're only given a 20 second warning before a disconnection. but by the end of that video, i was starting to wonder if the console port was actually worth playing.
i could hear audio issues and now we've had a much smoother streaming experience in this Part 2 i feel like the audio is just poor in the game. This PS4 port also felt like a degraded version of the game because of the visuals. we got to meet more characters in this part and each of them looked low quality. from my recordings, i know that the game isn't 1080p either, tho i don't have the ability to determine what resolution it runs at. But the thing that bugged me the most about this port was the apparent decision to prioritise esthetics of accessibility.
The menus are a joke. you'd really have to get right up close to your TV to read them and the game has no options to increase the size of them either. the tutorials were also frustrating because of their size but also in their timing. there were other minor inconveniences like the camera and cursor being separate meant that i would often see something i'd want my troops to investigate but would have to wait for the cursor to manually move from where it was, resetting the camera to that spot.
There were aspects of the game that gave me the "one more turn" vibe and you can see that by the end of this part. but it wasn't satisfying, i wasn't enjoying my time with the game. so whilst this game is a good fit for being streamed from the cloud, i don't think it's a good fit on the PS4.
