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Re: Starfield Passes 6M Players
Sep 7, 2023, 19:41
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Re: Starfield Passes 6M Players Sep 7, 2023, 19:41
Sep 7, 2023, 19:41
 
Jesus fucking christ dude, it's not a competition.
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Re: Morning Multiplex
Jul 27, 2023, 19:13
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Re: Morning Multiplex Jul 27, 2023, 19:13
Jul 27, 2023, 19:13
 
Simon Says wrote on Jul 27, 2023, 16:14:
Heck, it doesn't even look that good to me.

You mean a YouTube video of a game with the settings turned down at 1080p doesn't look good? You don't say.

Every single card he used in the video supports DLSS. You really can't tell the difference in image quality with it on anyway, so if you're not happy with the FPS with it off... maybe just turn it on? Is the problem here that the game doesn't run well, or that it doesn't benchmark the way you think it should? Because only one of those things actually matters.

I can run it at a pretty steady ~160fps on my system with everything on Ultra with DLSS quality, and the closest thing I can compare it to graphically is Plague Tale Requiem, a game that everyone agrees looks pretty good (and benchmarked about the same, for that matter). Who cares if you have to turn DLSS on, this isn't Jedi Survivor where it only offers FSR, looks like blurry shit, and runs terribly whether it's on or not and no matter what your settings are.
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Re: Game Reviews
Jul 25, 2023, 17:35
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Re: Game Reviews Jul 25, 2023, 17:35
Jul 25, 2023, 17:35
 
Remnant 2 is really, really good...like, it has a solid chance of being a a dark horse GOTY candidate kind of good.
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Re: Game Crossovers
Jul 25, 2023, 17:30
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Re: Game Crossovers Jul 25, 2023, 17:30
Jul 25, 2023, 17:30
 
ldonyo wrote on Jul 25, 2023, 15:49:
It does, from any perspective, suck far less than season two, though.

I liked season 2. This one so far has just been discount Game of Thrones, it's good when the main characters are in the scene and pretty bad when they're not. And some things don't really make sense even then, like Yennefer going from being best friends with Ciri in episode one to using "Ugly" as a nickname for her in the next episode, followed shortly after by revealing her backstory to Ciri in a way that makes it pretty clear that she would never start calling someone she cares about "Ugly" all the time after what she went through.

I haven't read the books, though, maybe they're trying to emulate something from them and just not doing very well.
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Re: Sunday Tech Bits
Jul 24, 2023, 04:08
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Re: Sunday Tech Bits Jul 24, 2023, 04:08
Jul 24, 2023, 04:08
 
To keep with the theme since he took over, the new logo should be a flaming dumpster.
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Re: Remnant 2 Review Roundup
Jul 20, 2023, 14:04
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Re: Remnant 2 Review Roundup Jul 20, 2023, 14:04
Jul 20, 2023, 14:04
 
RedEye9 wrote on Jul 20, 2023, 13:46:
Jim wrote on Jul 20, 2023, 13:43:
Rhett wrote on Jul 20, 2023, 13:36:
Nice! Got the ultimate edition for essentially base game MSRP (GMG), and I never get ultimate editions... Looks very promising.
what region? I (US) show the same prices as steam
CheapShark is showing Cheapest Ever: $69.99 on June 8, 2023 for Ultimate from GMG
https://www.cheapshark.com/search#q:Remnant%202

It's $57.39 right now on greenmangaming for the Ultimate version.
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Re: Buffs, Nerfs, and Bugs
Jul 19, 2023, 22:17
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Re: Buffs, Nerfs, and Bugs Jul 19, 2023, 22:17
Jul 19, 2023, 22:17
 
1badmf wrote on Jul 19, 2023, 22:08:
i think there were lvl 100 dudes less than a week after it came out.

That's going to happen no matter what gets changed unless it's straight up made physically impossible to do within that amount of play time.
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Re: The Problem is Windows 11
Jul 17, 2023, 17:44
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Re: The Problem is Windows 11 Jul 17, 2023, 17:44
Jul 17, 2023, 17:44
 
Hanneth wrote on Jul 17, 2023, 17:24:
It isn't so much that Windows 10 is popular, it is more than Windows 11 released without support for computer more than 3 years old. Even some computers 3 years old wouldn't have worked because they were using last gen CPUs and didn't support TPM 2.0.

That really doesn't matter. If you do a manual install you can stick Win11 on an old Pentium machine, if you wanted to for some reason. Their official specs they released listed Intel 8th gen or newer for OEM builds, but it has always worked fine on older systems.

Hanneth wrote on Jul 17, 2023, 17:24:
Microsoft have given most people no upgrade route. Windows 10 is the end of line for Microsoft OSes for most people's computers.
The other problem is that most people I know don't like Windows 11. Microsoft keeps making decisions that their customers don't like, so some people, like myself, have decided on our computers that support Windows 11, not to downgrade to it.

People have always complained about new versions of Windows, because people don't like change. It's not any different now than when I was writing the support material 20+ years ago. I doubt most users would even notice the difference between Win10 and 11 aside from the change to the Start bar, and some context menu changes that are pretty easy to make work exactly how they do in 10.
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Re: OotB: Striking out?
Jul 15, 2023, 17:49
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Re: OotB: Striking out? Jul 15, 2023, 17:49
Jul 15, 2023, 17:49
 
1badmf wrote on Jul 15, 2023, 16:14:
off the top of my head, christopher nolan's the only one doing big films with any fresh ideas. everyone else is just chasing the tail of past glories; esp. the comic book films. the writers do the best they can but it's the big wigs that are completely risk averse and only green light past profits that are really responsible. they really shoulda fired kathleen kennedy a long time ago for all the mediocre garbage she approves. it's done irreparable harm to the quality of star wars and all the old lucasfilm IPs.

I guess I'd argue that George Lucas didn't do any better with the prequels than Disney has since it bought the franchise. The best moments Star Wars has had is when they're doing new characters and trying different things, but Disney wants to put faces on kids' backpacks and sell toys to make future fans spend money on it 20 years from now. It's not that big of a change; George Lucas kind of pioneered that entire concept.

The problem with all of it is that most of the entertainment industry is owned by a few big companies who aren't trying to make the next Star Wars, they're just trying to find new ways to market the IP's they already own. Studios putting up tens to hundreds of millions of dollars to get films made was never a long-term sustainable way of making original content, so they buy franchises rather than trying to make new ones. The strike right now is a turning point for the same reason; actors and writers making movies as we know them could easily go the way of the dodo if those big studios can start re-selling IP's they already own with stars they own the likenesses of. Arnold Schwarzenegger or Liam Neeson might not be able to star in Taken 38: More Takener at 85 years old, but an AI generated likeness of their 1980's self could. They're already paying programmers for CG everything, if they can cut out the cost of sets and actors and residual payments to mass produce fast-food McBlockbusters for a third of the price they will, especially with streaming favoring quantity over quality.

It's not just movies, though. It's hard to even find good original books these days that aren't derivatives of something that was done better decades ago. There's a sea of cheap content out there, and as often as not the deciding factor in what gets read is how much of a budget went into marketing it and putting it front and center where you notice it over something else. I don't think the problem is the writers, it's that publishers only want a certain thing done in a certain way because something else just like that already made them money, same thing with movies, and TV. Every now and then something new and original will sneak out as a labor of love, and then it'll get franchised and have four sequels in ten years until everyone is sick of it and the cycle repeats.
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Re: OotB: Draining experience
Jul 11, 2023, 20:15
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Re: OotB: Draining experience Jul 11, 2023, 20:15
Jul 11, 2023, 20:15
 
Glad you escaped the worst of it, Blue. It sounds like it got pretty bad for a lot of people out there.
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Re: July Humble Choice
Jul 9, 2023, 04:15
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Re: July Humble Choice Jul 9, 2023, 04:15
Jul 9, 2023, 04:15
 
JTW wrote on Jul 8, 2023, 17:56:
Make sure you do some reading before you buy into the Spacer's Choice Edition. It's generally seen as the worst option.

I have my doubts that it would be if it were looked at now rather than when it released. It released in pretty shitty shape and deserved the reception it got at the time, but they've fixed it since then. I don't see any reason why you wouldn't play the new version now instead of the old one. Even the main visual complaints between the different versions were mostly attributed to bugs that were corrected.

It's kind of the #1 example of why you don't release something in that condition, especially when they fixed the problems it had within a month or so. By the time they'd corrected things, they'd already destroyed the reputation of the game and the reviews and opinions of it were already set.
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Re: Diablo IV Season of the Malignant Next Week
Jul 7, 2023, 16:56
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Re: Diablo IV Season of the Malignant Next Week Jul 7, 2023, 16:56
Jul 7, 2023, 16:56
 
jacobvandy wrote on Jul 7, 2023, 13:36:
It is humorous how the exact opposite complaints are what caused these changes shortly after the launch of D3, though. A lot of people fucking hated getting drops for other classes. They'll never please everybody..

I think part of the problem is that they're trying to. They wanted to make fans of the old Diablo games happy, so they sort of half-assed everything new in an effort to appeal to people who were always going to like Diablo 2 or 3 better. The classes are the same, there aren't really any risks taken there. The locations are familiar, but in doing that you just sort of casually see somewhere like Tristram or Lut Gholein as a passing nostalgia reference. I don't want to give any spoilers since some people here haven't finished it, but the story goes out of its way to wrap up without really changing anything or having any impact. There's a whole new persistent online world, but everything is treated like it isn't; you play like it's Diablo 2 or 3 would but with open-join Battlenet turned on by default. People complained that Diablo 3 wasn't dark enough, so they made Diablo 4 into Warhammer levels of grimdark.

The reason why things like not being able to share loot stand out is because it feels like two different game styles mashed together, so you're struggling against MMO-style systems in a game that doesn't play like one. Sticking to one or the other style would make everything feel better than it does trying to straddle that line.
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Re: Diablo IV Season of the Malignant Next Week
Jul 7, 2023, 04:27
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Re: Diablo IV Season of the Malignant Next Week Jul 7, 2023, 04:27
Jul 7, 2023, 04:27
 
Braden wrote on Jul 6, 2023, 20:15:
Meh. I got my Barbarian to Level 50 and progress suddenly seemed to slow down and become more of a XP grind.

If you moved into World Tier 3, leveling actually speeds up at 50 from what you were likely doing from 40-49.

Braden wrote on Jul 6, 2023, 20:15:
I think I've also lost much of my initial enthusiasm as well.....but at least I managed to unlock my mount! I'll mostly be playing it in brief stints going forward. Maybe I've just finally reached the end of my liking for ARPGs after all these years.

I don't think it's that at all. I think it's just that, aside from the combat and the thrill of Diablo's casino loot style, it's not a very good game.

I was super excited for the game, and was looking forward to it from the time I played it at Blizzcon years ago now. The combat felt great (and is pretty much what you see now), it had a good feel to it, and if the rest around it was just Diablo then it was all going to be good.

But that's not really what they did. The combat is Diablo but everything else is their version of Path of Exile or Lost Ark, neither of which I liked. The classes are kind of same-y, with the same builder/spender style of play, so choosing one is mostly just picking an aesthetic and what legendaries you're more comfortable with. They made the game a persistent open online world, but didn't really do anything with it. There's nothing to really find aside from collecting statues in a game full of collecting things; there's no real reason to just explore the map other than to unlock each part for reputation as fast as you can.

The online portions of the game have no purpose and aren't designed for the MMO-ish world they stuffed them into; none of the open multiplayer group events feel better for having other people doing them. Legion events are a chaotic spamfest, world bosses are a chaotic spamfest, regular events turn into a spamfest when other people are there...if they even bother to help, and not just loot the chest when you're done doing them alone, which feels awful as well. Classes aren't designed for being thrown into playing together either, with half of them requiring something that needs you to stay in one place and the other half of the classes being decked out with knockbacks. The classes are mostly just updated copies of what they were in past games, which doesn't always translate well into this newer open world style. It's baffling how they just rehashed old things and threw them into a new kind of gameplay without any real thought as to what that meant. I leveled every character to 50+, except for the Druid because it's the ugliest, most awkward character model in any game I can think of, and it breaks down to things like Bone Necro being really similar to Ice Mage, Druid is a lot like Barbarian, melee Rogue is a lot like Frenzy/Bleed Barbarian, ranged Rogue is a lot like Sorcerer with a mix of things like Shadow Imbuement basically being Fireball Enchantment, and so on. They all feel kind of alike, or share gameplay elements that do.

And there's systems upon systems upon systems, just like they did to World of Warcraft in most recent years. You don't need different kinds of loot and currency and talent points at every step of progression, and then more new tiers of loot that makes 99% of what you find just shit your eyes glaze over trying to assess...until you progress to the next world tier, and now there's ancestral gear and so on. Legendaries are exciting right up until they start dropping like candy and it's all about whether the roll on it is garbage or not, so that you can trash it to save the aspect so you can enchant it into something decent...if you can get a decent sacred/ancestral yellow to drop worth enchanting, and on and on and on. And now with the seasons they're adding yet another currency and system onto it.

I kind of went off on a rant for a game that I absolutely hate being so negative about, but there are so many fundamental problems with the game that I can't see it ever becoming something I'd ever want to play into the future. Besides all those systems, having your character build be so wrapped up in random loot that your character either works or doesn't based on what drops you have just absolutely kills any desire to start a new character and replay through the game...but that's what they want you to do, probably every season. I'll give Season 1 a shot, but I already don't want to start over at all.

It's ok to not want to deal with the grind, because the game is almost all grind. It's a game designed to funnel people into an endgame that has no real point or purpose other than being a grind, and each tier of advancement makes the one before it feel like you only endured it so you could start the next. The only goal is to keep playing, and you've already started doing the things that comprise the 50+ endgame before you've even finished leveling to that point. I did the level 70 capstone at level 63, and I felt like I beat the game and haven't played since...I have no desire to grind to 100 just to fight a harder boss for no reason other than to say I did it.
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Re: etc.
Jun 30, 2023, 00:15
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Re: etc. Jun 30, 2023, 00:15
Jun 30, 2023, 00:15
 
Prez wrote on Jun 29, 2023, 23:35:
I game on PC too. But I don't just care about myself. It was actually very buggy on PC, but that was nothing new for CDPR, and I was prepared for that. The fact that they could be so dishonest and misleading, though, is fucking disgusting. This is revisionist history. You're already forgiving their bullshit, so it's not hard to see why they do this garbage. Yes, there was an overblown internet feeding frenzy, so the negativity was not entirely deserved, but welcome to the internet. What is enrages me is that they are hiding behind this instead of owning up to the vile shit they did. That's cowardly.

I think you need to read what the CDPR guy said and not just what the Forbes guy says he said, because the Forbes article is petty shit from a guy who always writes clickbait to get people from r/Games riled up. You can read the interview with CDPR here.

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Re: Baldur's Gate 3 to Open Early
Jun 30, 2023, 00:06
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Re: Baldur's Gate 3 to Open Early Jun 30, 2023, 00:06
Jun 30, 2023, 00:06
 
Darks wrote on Jun 29, 2023, 23:41:
That's a really poor way of looking at this game, Sure in the past their games were like that, but this game has been in EA for 2 years, and they got the support they needed to make this game. They have gotten so much great feedback and made the adjustments and changes needed that this game is going to be rocking out of the gate.

You can't really blame people for being skeptical. DOS latter chapters were half finished when it launched, and the latter part of DOS2 wasn't anywhere near as polished or complete (or arguably as good) as the first half. Both of those games had early access periods, too. It wouldn't be unreasonable to say that Larian's "definitive edition" updates have been them finishing those titles after release. That's fine to a point, since they aren't a big AAA studio rolling in big money, but since they've never released a game that didn't get one of those big post-launch remasters that they've made standard it might not be a bad idea to wait and see what people are saying after release.
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Re: etc.
Jun 29, 2023, 19:28
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Re: etc. Jun 29, 2023, 19:28
Jun 29, 2023, 19:28
 
Prez wrote on Jun 29, 2023, 12:26:
The author is exactly right. I love Cyberpunk 2077 but I played it as a pen and paper RPG many years ago so I am a bit of a fangirl. But seriously, this guy trying to pretend that the launch wasn't a fuckin disaster (how many AAA games has Playstation had to delist from their store to protect consumers in their HISTORY???) and that it somehow caught them by surprise makes me want to punch him in the face. And I am not a violent person.

It wasn't on PC. I played through the game twice in the month it came out without a problem, and I didn't have a single problem or crash until ~120 hours of time into the game.

The CDPR guy is right. People had gotten themselves so hyped before its release that it was somehow going to be this perfect near-religious experience, and the second there was anything to criticize it for the Reddit brigade that loves to shit on anything unloaded on it. And the knuckledraggers there still do, any chance they get.
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Re: Baldur's Gate 3 to Open Early
Jun 29, 2023, 19:19
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Re: Baldur's Gate 3 to Open Early Jun 29, 2023, 19:19
Jun 29, 2023, 19:19
 
RogueSix wrote on Jun 29, 2023, 15:40:
The quirky writing has been a major point of contention with regard to the Original Sins and more than a few people were concerned if Larian would be the right developer for Baldur's Gate 3 because everyone wanted a well written main story, characters/companions and side quests which Larian is precisely NOT overly famous for.

Judging by the EA, those concerns are well warranted. Larian likes quirky a lot and doesn't bother grounding their story or characters in a way that makes them real or relatable.

I'm hoping the game is good, and I'll still try to give it a fair shot since I bought the EA way back when it came out. I haven't even tried the game in the year or two since, or whatever it has been since it came out in early access, but the writing was a huge turnoff for me from the characters to the setting. It definitely felt more like DoS2 than it did Baldur's Gate; that might be a big plus for some people, especially the ones wanting a sandbox for tactical battles more than a good story and characters to get wrapped up in, but I'm not a fan.

RogueSix wrote on Jun 29, 2023, 15:40:
^ They were even calling it a "totally reworked story" ... and this is exactly why I have zero interest to play BG3 before there is an Enhanced or Definitive Edition.

I'm guessing it's largely because they hadn't actually finished the game when it released. The first two chapters were decent, but the closer you got to the end the more obvious it was that they had put all of their resources into the first chapter and never bothered to even finish the last portions of the game.
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Re: AMD Starfield Partnership
Jun 27, 2023, 19:44
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Re: AMD Starfield Partnership Jun 27, 2023, 19:44
Jun 27, 2023, 19:44
 
Simon Says wrote on Jun 27, 2023, 18:48:
Hint: Nvidia is doing it too.

Always remember, corporations aren't your friends, they don't care.

Nvidia isn't blocking implementation of FSR, and even if they were they own 84% of the PC GPU market compared to AMD's 9%. They aren't blocking FSR implementation because they don't have to; AMD's market share isn't big enough for some developers to bother implementing it.
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Re: 5+ years away?
Jun 24, 2023, 18:25
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Re: 5+ years away? Jun 24, 2023, 18:25
Jun 24, 2023, 18:25
 
Beamer wrote on Jun 24, 2023, 17:12:
A game six years out is "a flop already?"

Remember that episode of Arrested Development where Tobias carried a tape recorder around so he could listen to the things he said and see, in hindsight, if they sounded absurd?

You could try that.

lol
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Re: Aliens: Dark Descent Rises
Jun 20, 2023, 16:38
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Re: Aliens: Dark Descent Rises Jun 20, 2023, 16:38
Jun 20, 2023, 16:38
 
If you like Aliens, there's a lot to like. The pre-release material seems kind of misleading, though, since they show mostly the exciting firefight stuff and leave out that the game needs you to use stealth most of the time. I'm struggling with it since it's a bit awkward to control, and I'm absolutely terrible at stealth games, but it nails the atmosphere right from the start. For the $30ish you can get it for it's pretty decent, but it can be really difficult even on the easier settings.
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