Troubled PC Ports Revisited - Forspoken, Returnal, Callisto Protocol, Dead Space - Are They Fixed?

For a while now, PC ports have launched with various issues to the point where the day one experience is often disappointing, if not downright broken. We've already seen promising signs of improvement in The Last of Us Part 1, but what about the rest of the triple-A titles we've got issues with? Patches have been forthcoming across the weeks and months for The Callisto Protocol, Forspoken, Returnal and the Dead Space Remake, so in this content, Alex revisits them all. Does the PC experience improve over time? Do games mature into solid experiences? As you may imagine, the reality is complicated.

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00:00 Introduction
00:42 The Callisto Protocol
05:03 Dead Space
08:00 Returnal
13:09 Forspoken
19:29 Summary + Conclusion