Microsoft has just released Ninja Gaiden 4 on PC. Developed by PlatinumGames and powered by its in-house engine, I was a bit cautious about it. You see, Ninja Gaiden 2 Black had numerous PC issues. Thankfully, though, I can say that Ninja Gaiden 4 appears to be running like a charm on PC.
Microsoft has not provided us with a review code for this game. So, before publishing our PC Performance Analysis, I wanted to share my initial performance impressions. How does the game run on a high-end PC, equipped with an NVIDIA RTX 5090? Let’s find out.
For these early benchmarks, I used an AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D, 32GB of DDR5 at 6000Mhz, and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090. I also used Windows 10 64-bit and the GeForce 581.57 driver.
PlatinumGames has added very few graphics settings to tweak. PC gamers can adjust the quality of Textures, Shadows, Ambient Occlusion, Reflections, and Volumetric Fog. You can also enable or disable Wind Effects and Motion Blur. The game supports NVIDIA DLSS and AMD FSR. However, there is no support for Frame Gen. Not only that but you cannot set the quality mode for DLSS via the in-game settings. Although FSR has proper settings, DLSS only has an Enable/Disable option. What’s also a bit insulting is that the devs themselves suggest using the NVIDIA App to adjust the quality of DLSS. How on Earth can you implement support for DLSS but not add in-game settings? Who coded this? Was it AI? It shouldn’t be hard to add in-game settings when there are already ones for FSR.
Anyway, the good news is that Ninja Gaiden 4 can run really smoothly at Native 4K with DLAA and Max Settings on the NVIDIA RTX 5090. During the first two stages, I did not experience any stutters. This was a silky smooth experience. So, kudos to the devs for releasing a game that can run great.
The downside here is that Ninja Gaiden 4 is not a visually impressive game. Now I’m not saying it looks bad. The characters are great, and there are some cool dismemberment effects. There are also numerous cool special effects. However, after the prologue in the cave area, you can easily spot the limitations of its rasterized lighting.
One of my key criticisms about Ninja Gaiden 2 Black was its awful mouse movement. Thankfully, it appears that PlatinumGames has learned its lesson. Mouse movement in Ninja Gaiden 4 is amazing. Everything feels great, and the game can be greatly enjoyed with KB&M. This is easily the best game from PlatinumGames (when it comes to its KB&M controls).
All in all, Ninja Gaiden 4 appears to be running great on PC. The game does not use Ray Tracing, meaning that it can run with really high framerates, even when not using DLSS or FSR.
Stay tuned for our PC Performance Analysis, in which we’ll be testing numerous GPUs from both AMD and NVIDIA!
John is the founder and Editor in Chief at DSOGaming. He is a PC gaming fan and highly supports the modding and indie communities. Before creating DSOGaming, John worked on numerous gaming websites. While he is a die-hard PC gamer, his gaming roots can be found on consoles. John loved – and still does – the 16-bit consoles, and considers SNES to be one of the best consoles. Still, the PC platform won him over consoles. That was mainly due to 3DFX and its iconic dedicated 3D accelerator graphics card, Voodoo 2. John has also written a higher degree thesis on the “The Evolution of PC graphics cards.”
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Ninja Gaiden 4 was developed by Platinum Games, not Team Ninja.
Yeah, it's a collab between Platinum Games and Team Ninja. Fixed.
Your avatar gives away the fact that you'e a weeb (aka pedophile aka f4ggot) but you still got owned by John, what a pleb.
this is because it doesn't use Unreal crap engine LOL
You were cautious about Platinum's "in-house engine" but very comfortable with Unreal 5, which was used in NG2 Black and because of which it had numerous issues in it… ?? Unbelievable John!
But, but, but rasterized lighting! Limitations!
Bayonetta, The Wonderful 101 Remastered, and NieR: Automata had AWFUL PC controls. The same can be said about Ninja Gaiden 2 Black. So, when you combine Team Ninja and PlatinumGames, you expect a BIG clusterf*k. Common sense for those who can actually think.
I think considering the article here, the point was performance and optimization when you were comparing NG 2 black and talking about engine & now you're suddenly bring "Controls" being awful..really?? When everyone knows these games are meant to be played with a controller. Brace it john, you messed up here.
You are an idiot. From this article (which you did not even bother reading, but you sure as hell commenting on it):
“One of my key criticisms about Ninja Gaiden 2 Black was its awful mouse movement. Thankfully, it appears that PlatinumGames has learned its lesson. Mouse movement in Ninja Gaiden 4 is amazing. Everything feels great, and the game can be greatly enjoyed with KB&M. This is easily the best game from PlatinumGames (when it comes to its KB&M controls).”
You can also find articles for the games I mentioned in which I heavily criticized the mouse implementation.
https://www.dsogaming.com/articles/the-wonderful-101-remastered-pc-port-is-not-that-great-suffers-from-major-mouse-issues/
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/nier-automata-input-overhaul-mod-is-a-must-have-mod-that-adds-raw-mouse-input-and-more/
https://www.dsogaming.com/news/heres-how-you-can-somehow-fix-the-awful-mouse-camera-in-ninja-gaiden-2-black/
Face it. You are completely wrong, and you cannot accept it. Seriously, there is no reason to die on this hill; there is no “gotcha” moment for you here. The longer you argue about it, the more foolish you look. Plus, I’ve showcased MULTIPLE times that I have no problem accepting and admitting when I’m wrong (you can find lots of comments in which I admit I have made a mistake, and then fixed what was incorrect).
Hey, calm down. Take it lightly. First you said numerous issues but stated only mouse issue and ignored others which were probably typical UE5 issues. Well, I'm not in a battle here, I'm simply saying NG4 performs better than NG2 black due to using their in-house engine instead of UE5. That's IT.
Appreciate sharing those articles btw.
You know, I genuinely adore modding and fixes articles and this site is probably the only trusted these days.
My bad for sounding like an as*hole.
These games should never be played with "mouse movement" in the first place.
The visuals don't look all that great on a technical level because apparently the devs targeted 120fps on consoles, which is pretty cool IMO. I just wish these Japanese developers would show a bit more love for the PC ports. They've been making pretty good money through PC games, so it's high time they showed a little bit more respect.
They're forced to partner with fishy publishers. Platinum was already abandoned after kamiya & team left, so with the remaining staff and assistance from team ninja they have to prove themselves to stay relevant. Greedy xbox own this franchise & they were failing so they had no choice but to give freedom. Ultimately, the team did their best given the time and budget. I hope they continue making games, But the records of their publisher shows sword pointing at their heads waiting to shut down the studio anytime.
" apparently the devs targeted 120fps on consoles"
then why are pc specs so stupid? read the recommended and what that gets you.
Because the PC team is incompetent, which is sort of what the rest of my comment alludes to.
Congrats to f4ggot community who are into this type of button mashing games.
Off-topic:
Guys, please do yourself a favor and START DOWNLOADING EVERY SINGLE GAME EVEN IF YOU ARE JUST 0.1% INTERESTED IN in the case of possibility that you may play it in the future.
I just went to one of my bookmarked piracy sites only to see that the Jewnited Trannigger Snakes the Great Satan and world #1 terrorist have seized it, and not only that one, but I saw another post about ANOTHER site getting just the exact same image as below.
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The Jewnited Trannigger Snakes just can't have enough with destroying the world by burning literal BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS (stolen from none other than Iraq and Afghanistan and pretty much every war it ignited in the 21st century) into the infantophilic terrorist "state" of IsraHell to fund the literal worst genocide of the 21st century so it then comes to ruin the fun for gamers too (AKA "pirates" because a buyfag tranny soyboy like those on REEEEEEEddit aren't gamers and are actually subhumans with "dignity" less than that of the filthiest bacteria and exterminating them is a virtue for all of mankind).
Lying to illegally invade other countries and destroy them to steal literal BILLIONS from them to dump them into not just "wars", but the literal worst genocide of the 21st century. Yeah, THAT'S the so-called ((("free, peaceful, innocent pacifist and civilized West"))) when their TRUE faces are exposed for who they really are.
"aCtUaLlY aCtUaLlY iT's nOt tErRoRiSm oR gEnOcIdE oNlY iF iT sUiTs uS!!!" -((("The free, peaceful, innocent pacifist and civilized West"))) that invaded 99% of the entire planet and is now coming here to lecture you about their so-called "mOrAlS aNd vAlUeS!!!"
Yeah the so-called "good guys!" my ass.
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which site was it? Also yes, i never thought in my life that putting an indian in charge of the fbi would result into no epstein files and banning all the piracy sites.
Patel is a crypto-juish name they're beni-israel or coachim or whatnot indian cryptos. Patels are all over the usa taking over low end motels, gas stations and whatever their gangster brethren will give them a 0% no down payment loan for. Itsvan Bakony has a whole series about this crypto-ju army. jumasontrannee satanic cult.
Game-2u(dot)com, the first site that I mentioned. To be perfectly honest, at least this one wasn't very useful for me to find pirated games, so it's not a big loss for me personally.
The other one is NSW2U(dot)in. It was a ROM site that also hosted Jewtendo ROMs.
This lad is quite the mad one!
With a bit of reason, I reckon, but alas…
Just keep searching, lad… Tis a vast ocean, indeed!
John is actually being a bit too kind here. This game looks like a PS4 title.
well duh it looks like a x360 game so yeah.
This game sucks anyway, without Itagaki's hand this franchise turned into shït.
Cant even run it without crash whats up with that