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The story
Over footage from the new Wolverine game, a post by an overseas X (formerly Twitter) user claiming the lava and water effects look like graphics from the “PS2” or “N64” era went viral, racking up over 20,000 likes. On 5ch’s hardware/gaming board (Geha), reactions poured in from every angle — some said it looks worse than even the Ocarina of Time HD remake or the Wii’s Twilight Princess, others voiced concern over the state of developer Insomniac, and still others pointed out the ironic “boomerang” of PlayStation fans getting mocked with the very same insult they’ve long used against other platforms.
lol
Wolverine’s lava is the worst-looking thing I’ve ever seen in a video game! PS2 graphics. Yikes!
Source: x.com / Original post here
What people said
https://x.com/MichaelDoesLife/status/2100053783082316260
Wolverine's water is absolutely the worst I've seen in a modern video game. N64 graphics. Yikes!
That's exactly why it's blowing up like this…
Over 20,000 likes now — way to embarrass yourself in front of the whole world, Sony…
I was about to post the exact same thing, lol, already beaten to it
You'd never believe this is actually real
It's shabbier than the Ocarina of Time remake, lmao
Forget the Ocarina of Time remake, it even loses to Twilight Princess on the Wii…
Shipping something like this is clearly not normal
They cut Kojima Productions loose, so maybe PlayStation's just running out of runway
Seriously, even the throwaway indie games people call 'UE5 slop' have nicer-looking magma and water than this
By the way, Nioh 3 looks just as bad — are old-school Japanese developers off-limits for criticism or what?
Hey, wait — bringing up B when we're supposedly talking about that is just deflecting, isn't it?
A's position hasn't changed one bit
Hey, we're talking about A here — bringing up B is just changing the subject, you realize that, right
A's position hasn't changed one bit
Comparing Wolverine to Nioh 3 — don't you think that's disrespectful to Wolverine?
Nice try, hater
The post literally says Minecraft's lava looks better
Talk about a boomerang coming all the way back around
This is genuinely hilarious lol
Re: #47
I wasn't even defending Marvel and this guy's furious, lmao
A Koei fanboy, huh? lol (Koei Tecmo — makers of Nioh)
You're just deflecting
and then the SB folks who don't even care about games forced the difficulty down to something anyone could clear?
Sony did a massive round of layoffs sometime last year,
so this is probably just Sony shooting itself in the foot, nothing to do with SB…
If they'd actually gone and looked at real lava, this wouldn't have happened
Someone posted a picture of gratin, lmao
It's literally right next to the main route though
Apparently you can clear it just by mashing buttons. Yay
Background and Key Points of This Story
The phrase “PS2-level graphics” is a long-running cliché on 5ch’s hardware/industry board (Geha), where console performance debates have raged for years — and part of what fueled this thread’s excitement was the irony of PlayStation loyalists getting hit with the very same insult they’ve long used against rival platforms. Developer Insomniac is known for the Spider-Man series, and while some posters speculated a link to Sony’s major layoffs the previous year, the only confirmed fact is that those layoffs did happen — any causal connection to this footage’s quality remains pure speculation within the thread. Alongside this, defenses arguing that “gameplay matters more than graphics” appeared side by side with criticism of the game’s unusually easy difficulty, showing the reaction wasn’t simply split into good versus bad.
※This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry (Geha)) thread “[Sad News] Wolverine’s ¥30 Billion Budget, Yet Its PS2-Level Lava Graphics Get Mocked by Foreigners and Go Massively Viral lol“.
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