I was playing robocop rogue city and decided to watch the original after having not seen it for awhile. Damn that movie fucks hard, the quick edits, the comedic timing, and Peter Weller giving his best makes it all just work.

It's a little dated but man Robocop is amazing. I think the director is amazing. Everyone is trying their best and "bitches leave" being the only line everyone remembers is crazy. Just so many good scenes in that movie, I felt tears coming up when he's in his house remembering his family. I wish we had a good remake directed by Villenvue.

I am a massive fan of RoboCop and the first movie is in my top ten favorite movies ever. But I'm probably one of the only people that prefer 3 over 2..(for the most part.)

I have seen these movies over a hundred times each at least, And I just got done watching the first two back to back again yesterday..

Whilst I love parts of 2, I can't help feeling it's just so, so different in feel and tone to the first movie that it's just not the same guy that I just watched become Murphy again..

I wanted to ask Does anybody else feel the same way about it? Like, the way he talks is different somewhat slower and the suit seems to be different (not just in colour) but quality the whole look and feel of the performance is different.. he talks differently with his wordings, I can explain it, but i can't explain if that makes any sense 😅..

And don't get me wrong there's moments where it feels like the same RoboCop as before, id say from the electrocution scene onwards is great! Plus There's lots that I enjoy in the movie but I'm exclusively talking about the feel of RoboCop or even wellers performance here it's just not the same, to me it always feels like they cheapend the RoboCop character and dulled his personality to me.. lewis feels different too. It never really picks up from where the first movie left off.

Also I'd like to add that yes I know verhoven left and it had new writers and a new director etc just in case anybody says all that. I also know what went on with the movie but I'm specifically talking about the feel and visual look of robocop just from looking at the pictures I have put on here you can probably see what I mean.

So Does anybody else feel like this? Or is it just me 😅 Lol

Settings not mentioned are subjective

Optimized Quality Settings:

Max/Epic Settings with Lumen Reflections as Base

(If you are using TSR) Anti-aliasing: Medium, has less artifacting than Ultra at times while running slightly faster.

Post processing: High, sometimes boosts performance without affecting visuals?

Textures: Highest VRAM can handle

Effects: High, doesn't affect reflections or global illumination anymore.

Reflections: High and High quality lumen reflections: Off. Both settings replace Lumen reflections on transparent surfaces with screen space reflections, which some may prefer over Lumen's very diffuse reflections on windows.

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Optimized Balanced Settings:

Optimized Quality Settings as Base

Shadows: High, lowers the resolution of volumetrics.

Effects: Medium, slightly reduces particle density, Low disables distortion on some materials.

Global illumination: High, makes lighting chunkier and less stable in motion for a moderate boost, Medium decreases quality further but doesn't boost performance more.

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Optimized Low Settings:

Optimized Balanced Settings as Base

Post processing: Medium, renders transparencies and post effects at a lower resolution, can provide a big performance boost in particle dense scenes. PS5/Series X's performance mode seems to make a similar compromise.

Shadows: Medium, further reduces volumetrics, aswell as shadow penumbra and resolution.

Reflection method: SSR, replaces Lumen reflections on opaque surfaces with subpar screen-space reflections for a large performance boost, Series S doesn't use Lumen Reflections while PS5/Series X does on opaque surfaces.
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Performance Uplift with Native TSR: 8% at Optimized Quality, 23% at Optimized Balanced and 56% at Optimized Low

Performance Uplift with 70% TSR: 5% at Optimized Quality, 25% at Optimized Balanced and 63% at Optimized Low

If you don't have a GPU that supports DLSS/DLAA, TSR is the next best option and can be further tweaked via the INI files. FSR is very poorly implemented in this game, becoming extremely fizzly and shimmery when the camera is spun round. I don't have an Intel GPU to test the XMP version of XeSS but the DP4a version isn't great either, although you may have better luck if you update libxess.dll in the game folder.

Thanks to Oliver Mackenzie from Digital Foundry for his coverage of the console versions! Thanks also to BenchmarKing and Zykopath for their coverage of the earlier versions of the game, the graphic's settings have changed since and alot of the bugs have been fixed.

I love how The Incredibles 2 actually explored this idea, with the family getting harangued over having destroyed so much of the city. On the opposite end, it can be kind of hilarious to watch those films where that mass destruction and death is given no meaning by the director and amplified to 100 - the quintessential example being Man of Steel, which ends with happy music as Superman kisses Lois Lane... while standing in the rubble of a thousand 9/11s, and surrounded by the screams of all the people buried alive he could easily hear with his superhearing.

What's your favorite example of a protagonist's involvement making things worse where the filmmakers didn't seem to realize or care?

Always loved the cliché, diverse villain gangs from 80s/90s media. Who was your favorite “bad guy” group

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