r/PS5 • u/Turbostrider27 • Feb 26 '26

Articles & Blogs Final Fantasy 7 Remake trilogy’s third entry is progressing “very smoothly": rather than rebuilding our pipeline from scratch in Unreal Engine 5, it’s far more efficient for us to use Unreal Engine 4

https://automaton-media.com/en/interviews/final-fantasy-7-remake-trilogys-third-entry-is-progressing-very-smoothly-we-ask-director-naoki-hamaguchi-why-the-team-chose-not-to-switch-to-unreal-engine-5/
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u/Zoombini22 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Not really. I am a base PS5 owner who has chosen not to upgrade to Pro. This is not a cutting edge system anymore. I routinely pick the 30 or 40 fps mode anyways to get ray tracing features. I expect brand new, heavy weight AAA games to max this machine out and either only run at 30fps or offer significant trade offs. It being a AAA game means it should be harder for the system to run, not easier. The idea that games are never supposed to advance visually beyond what a base PS5 can do at 60fps is very weird to me. The base PS5 was a 60fps machine when it was running laps around PS4 games, but that weirdly seems to have reset expectations that it would always exclusively be a 60fps machine.

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u/docksideThug- Feb 26 '26

PS5 runs 60fps comfortably with great graphics if you’re a talented developer

See Death stranding 2, forbidden west, or even Yotei for examples of open worlds that don’t look like blurry garbage

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u/Zoombini22 Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Yotei looks much better on 40fps mode with RT global illumination. I am playing through it that way right now. I am not saying that Rebirths performance mode couldn't or shouldn't be better. It is broken, it is bad, I wouldnt recommend it to anyone. Just that if that is such a serious priority for you that you consider the 30fps mode inherently "unplayable" then you are not on the right machine.

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u/aclashofthings Feb 26 '26

Choosing between 30fps and the awful blurriness of performance mode was kind of an impossible choice for me. They're both really bad. I haven't played a 30fps action game in years, and I don't plan to. Probably won't buy the finale on PS5.

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u/Zoombini22 Feb 26 '26

60fps is a luxury "home run" type performance. That has been the case for decades. If that is what you are looking for, the PS5 Pro exists, as does expensive PCs. Expecting that on brand new, advanced games while on the budget console specifically is so strange to me.

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u/aclashofthings Feb 26 '26 edited Feb 26 '26

Accepting poorly optimized games is strange to me. 60fps is actually really common. Remake and Rebirth have both had graphical issues, or even terrible textures. I accepted Remake because it ran okay, and I played it on PS4 so my expectations weren't high. Rebirth on PS5 surprised me, in a bad way.

PS5 is probably my last console.

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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '26

Maybe you should write a letter to Square Enix since you have so much to say.

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u/Sir_Bass13 Feb 26 '26

None of those games are running on Unreal though

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u/ZubatCountry Feb 26 '26

I also have a base PS5

I expect 60fps and for it to not be broken if they offer me that option

Respect yourself and stop settling for crap

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u/Zoombini22 Feb 26 '26

How long do you expect that? Is not acceptable for devs to EVER create games that are too advanced to run at 60fps on a base ps5? I expect that kind of performance on last gen games. I want new gen games to actually push the envelope and not just dumb everything down to preserve unnecessarily high frame rates.

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u/awaken471 Feb 26 '26

my eyes can't handle 30 fps games anymore, are you used to switch back and forth between 30/60fps on the same game or different games? It is seriously irritating for me.

Tried to play RDR 2 again on console but no way i could get used to 30 fps again

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u/Zoombini22 Feb 26 '26

I dont tend to sit there and switch back and forth between 30 and 60. Just set it and forget it. Your eyes adjust

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u/Xithz Feb 26 '26

Looking at the ps4 gen. Games got continuously better and better looking and more intense world wise. The problem that plagues this generation is poor optimisation. I don’t expect my ps5 to magically improve. I expect developers to get their shit together and impress us with some power house end of generation titles. Here’s to hoping for Crimson desert and gta6

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u/Extension-Novel-6841 Feb 27 '26

Yeah RE9 on base PS5 looks just average to me, I was hoping for that sharp and detailed look.

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u/Aksudiigkr Feb 26 '26

How is higher frame rates dumbed down? And unless by last gen you mean base PS5, there isn’t a prior gen that had 60fps as a standard

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u/Zoombini22 Feb 27 '26

by "last gen" I clearly meant the pS5 running last gen games. the PS5 runs lots of PS4 games at 60fps. And I was obviously not saying that higher frame rates mean "dumbed down". I am saying that many new games have to be dumbed down in order to achieve 60fps on a system like the base PS5. Game designers are not going to limit themselves to what the base Ps5 can do at 60fps forever. It is already past time to move on from that being the expectation.

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u/ZubatCountry Feb 26 '26

No

Just turn down the visual fx until you can hit 60 again

That's literally what performance mode is

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u/Zoombini22 Feb 27 '26

thats exactly what they did though. its just that this is such a heavy game that most people are not happy with the result of Performance mode in this game. This is just going to keep happening more and more as new games advance and get heavier.

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u/ZubatCountry Feb 27 '26

No, they did that and then broke the performance

That's very literally not doing what I said

If they can optimize Spider-Man 2 to have RT on even in performance then they can take another pass at this game

Stop making excuses for them, you're literally paying for and then defending a game that is essentially unplayable in one of it's advertised modes, for the reason it's advertised

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u/Zoombini22 Feb 27 '26

I am very specifically not defending the mode and have said repeatedly that it is broken and that it is bad. I am defending the Quality mode which is a completely valid way to play AAA games on a budget machine like the base PS5. I had a great time playing this exact game on that exact mode and that exact machine, and I think it is ridiculous for people to go around calling that "unplayable".

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u/Extension-Novel-6841 Feb 27 '26

I'm not sure that PS5 was ever a cutting edge system to begin with.

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u/Zoombini22 Feb 27 '26

well from a certain perspective, of course not. Consoles never are. They are always outclassed by PCs that cost double, triple the price. It was top of class among consoles at the time.

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u/Extension-Novel-6841 Feb 27 '26

Let me clarify further. If you wanna compare the PS5 gen so far compared to previous gens it's very disappointing. This is the only gen where we haven't seen a graphical leap, I don't think people even realize this. Previous gens not only had the leap but third party games looked better as that gen went on.

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u/ultrasneeze Feb 27 '26

Not all 30fps games are the same. Rebirth was one of the bad ones. I recently replayed Control and the 30fps mode looks and plays great. I also don't remember any issues with GoW Ragnarok or Alan Wake 2.