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Re: Starfield Bethesda's Biggest Ever Launch
Sep 20, 2023, 16:31
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Re: Starfield Bethesda's Biggest Ever Launch Sep 20, 2023, 16:31
Sep 20, 2023, 16:31
 
Tom wrote on Sep 20, 2023, 16:27:
Good quests, dialogue, combat, world design, soundtrack, overall feeling of immersion and freedom.

Baldur's Gate 3 completely killed Starfield for me in every way.
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Re: Starfield Released
Sep 1, 2023, 11:47
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Re: Starfield Released Sep 1, 2023, 11:47
Sep 1, 2023, 11:47
 
Acleacius wrote on Sep 1, 2023, 11:42:
Could the confusion of bethesda, be they are not AAA because of quality but sales due to modding?

I guess I don't know who is AAA or not. Honestly, the last Bethesda game I actually enjoyed was Oblivion, so maybe this game just isn't for me.
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Re: Starfield Released
Sep 1, 2023, 11:35
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Re: Starfield Released Sep 1, 2023, 11:35
Sep 1, 2023, 11:35
 
The "HDR" is absolutely garbage and non-existent. Not sure how they think this is ok with a triple-A game based on space travel and exploration... or really just any modern "high end" game.

Playing this on a 5800x3d with 3080ti -- frame rate bounces between 40-70 at 4k. Dropping to 1440 helps a little bit, but the game just looks.... bleh? It's like there is a weird haze over everything even after turning off all motion blur and film grain (why are these the default anyway?). The character models, and especially the textures, are not impressive and look like they were pulled from Doom 3 and then upscaled. The world looks like it's a jpeg with quite a bit of compression. Places where I'd expect to be in complete darkness shows heavy banding from compression. The screen should be black, but on my OLED it is tinged grey/brown. The flashlight amplifies this ugliness.

The keybind setup is pretty bad, as well. The defaults have multiple keys bound to WASD, etc., depending on different scenarios or interfaces you're working with. If you change WASD for main movement, then try to change the other bindings to match these changes (exactly how they do), the game throws all kinds of warnings about multiple overlapping key binds. In the few situations where it doesn't throw the warnings, you can be in one menu, press the key listed at the bottom to, for example, open a menu, and it does something completely different like scroll the view instead of opening the menu. There isn't an obvious way to DELETE a bind, either, so if you screw up once, you have to reset all of them to defaults to undo it.

The gameplay itself seems ok, but it feels bad after having played through Baldur's Gate 3. In the first area, I ran ahead of the starting NPC helper, found a drill, and started mining all the ore I could find before running back to the extremely exciting part of the game where the NPC slow-walk escorts me down what is a straight hallway. Started shooting at the NPC's to see what would happen, and no one really responds. They say ouch and eventually hunch over, but then regenerate and stand back up and act like nothing happened.

I am pretty sure this is what they are talking about when they say don't set baseline expectations around Baldur's Gate 3. With that said, I would return this game if I could, but I've "played" it for more than two hours now after dealing with key bind hell and trying to figure out why HDR looks so bad. Hard pass on this.

If you are having to choose between this and Baldur's Gate 3, BG3 is easily the winner -- in my opinion.
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Re: Ubisoft Unveils NFTs
Dec 8, 2021, 09:03
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Re: Ubisoft Unveils NFTs Dec 8, 2021, 09:03
Dec 8, 2021, 09:03
 
Secret Lair
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Re: Diablo II: Resurrected Launch Timing Specified
Sep 9, 2021, 14:20
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Re: Diablo II: Resurrected Launch Timing Specified Sep 9, 2021, 14:20
Sep 9, 2021, 14:20
 
christheshitter wrote on Sep 9, 2021, 14:10:
Personal stash in multiplayer is going to destroy D2R. The new team is destroying the vision of Blizzard North.

Hardly. Now I won't need 10 different mule characters just to transfer and hold my spare equipment. It won't change anything.
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Re: Enhanced Quake Released
Aug 20, 2021, 11:48
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Re: Enhanced Quake Released Aug 20, 2021, 11:48
Aug 20, 2021, 11:48
 
"dark fantasy" Shifty
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Re: Apogee Returns to Publishing
Apr 20, 2021, 16:20
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Re: Apogee Returns to Publishing Apr 20, 2021, 16:20
Apr 20, 2021, 16:20
 
Cutter wrote on Apr 20, 2021, 14:11:
Yeah? How about bringing back shareware and let people pay what they think it's worth.

Calm down old man
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Re: Google Facing Stadia Class Action Suit
Feb 18, 2021, 22:36
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Re: Google Facing Stadia Class Action Suit Feb 18, 2021, 22:36
Feb 18, 2021, 22:36
 
Gamers gamers gamers gamers Rolleyes
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Re: Burnout Paradise Servers Closing
Apr 18, 2019, 11:49
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Re: Burnout Paradise Servers Closing Apr 18, 2019, 11:49
Apr 18, 2019, 11:49
 
I could never get into this game because of the open world.
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Re: Morning Metaverse
Jan 21, 2019, 13:41
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Re: Morning Metaverse Jan 21, 2019, 13:41
Jan 21, 2019, 13:41
 
Cutter wrote on Jan 21, 2019, 13:20:
How about a list I can sort alphabetically, FFS?

And these workers can't go out and find temp work because? There's zero shortage of it out there.

Bro, you gotta relax. These people have skills so finely tuned and precise that they are only applicable to the most segregated of tasks.
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Re: Morning Tech Bits
Nov 20, 2018, 17:04
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Re: Morning Tech Bits Nov 20, 2018, 17:04
Nov 20, 2018, 17:04
 
My standing desk at work really helps with my lower back pain.
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Re: Diablo Mobile Backlash
Nov 4, 2018, 01:17
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Re: Diablo Mobile Backlash Nov 4, 2018, 01:17
Nov 4, 2018, 01:17
 
VaranDragon wrote on Nov 3, 2018, 19:33:
eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 3, 2018, 19:22:
DangerDog wrote on Nov 3, 2018, 17:24:
Did the Blizzard guys need to call for security so they could exit the stage safely?

The disconnect from their fans and what they want is double facepalm Picard worthy.

The company that made Warcraft 3 and Diablo 2 does not exist anymore so this surprised only people who don't understand what kind of shitty publisher Activision really is.

This. D3 doesn't hold a candle to the awesomness that D2 and D2:LOD was. Blizzard lost the magic touch a long time ago.

D3 is good, but I definitely prefer D2.
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Re: FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION Released
Mar 7, 2018, 07:18
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Re: FINAL FANTASY XV WINDOWS EDITION Released Mar 7, 2018, 07:18
Mar 7, 2018, 07:18
 
Luke wrote on Mar 7, 2018, 05:24:
necrosis wrote on Mar 6, 2018, 21:51:
Only game to actually use all ov my Titan X's 12GB of memory.

So why did ya buy that card in the first place

I take it you're a minimum/recommended requirements kind of guy?
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Re: Overwatch Patch
Jan 31, 2018, 08:41
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Re: Overwatch Patch Jan 31, 2018, 08:41
Jan 31, 2018, 08:41
 
As a Junkrat player, I am ok with this change.
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Re: Mad Catz is Back
Jan 4, 2018, 15:02
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Re: Mad Catz is Back Jan 4, 2018, 15:02
Jan 4, 2018, 15:02
 
Legendary for the wrong reasons.
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Re: Take-Two Financials; GTA5 Now All-Time Bestselling Game in U.S.
Nov 8, 2017, 08:44
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Re: Take-Two Financials; GTA5 Now All-Time Bestselling Game in U.S. Nov 8, 2017, 08:44
Nov 8, 2017, 08:44
 
Cutter wrote on Nov 7, 2017, 23:47:
Whatever shortcomings GTA may have the overall stories are amazing. And 5 is the best. The whole dynamic between Trevor, Michael and Franklin was brilliant. And I don't know how you can call RDR tired when there's only been one. And that's hands down the best game Rockstar has ever made. I can't wait for RDR2.

Red Dead Revolver
Red Dead Redemption

Looks like two to me.
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Re: Astro Boy: Edge of Time Launches
Jun 20, 2017, 20:05
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Re: Astro Boy: Edge of Time Launches Jun 20, 2017, 20:05
Jun 20, 2017, 20:05
 
I don't understand
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Re: Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Released
Jun 9, 2017, 08:32
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Re: Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap Released Jun 9, 2017, 08:32
Jun 9, 2017, 08:32
 
One of my absolute favorite games as a kid.
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Re: Friday the 13th: The Game Launch Hits Bad Luck
May 30, 2017, 09:00
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Re: Friday the 13th: The Game Launch Hits Bad Luck May 30, 2017, 09:00
May 30, 2017, 09:00
 
Dev wrote on May 30, 2017, 01:50:
aka_STEVE wrote on May 29, 2017, 15:31:
Our hopes & prayers go out to the total of 5 people who bought this and can't play now..... Gossip
Part of the problems (I RTFA) was they planned for 30k players and got 75k and it blew up their database so bad it corrupted.
Being as that's simultaneous logins, probably the actual sales are higher

Because databases just corrupt themselves when attempting to write excess data?
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Re: Chet Faliszek Leaves Valve
May 2, 2017, 12:12
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Re: Chet Faliszek Leaves Valve May 2, 2017, 12:12
May 2, 2017, 12:12
 
Yeah, unless no one has contributed anything to Hlaf-Life 3.
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