I remember playing that with my friend Nate over the modem all the time. That was some fun shit back then.

What do people think about the best "ongoing game"? My favorite on-going games are FFXIV and Guild Wars 2, haven't touched too much of Borderlands 3, though it was pretty good.

That 3070 is a great price. I bought a 2070 Super Black in January for around the same price. It's been pretty nice having every game I've played run beyond 60 FPS in Ultra, besides the likes of Flight Simulator 2020. And while not many games utilize the DLSS (Death Stranding's implementation of DLSS was absolutely amazing) or raytracing yet - the real reason I got it was for Cyberpunk which is right around the corner. If your rig needs an upgrade and you want in on Cyberpunks raytracing, ya might want to consider grabbing that 3070. And to the 3080, DAMN, 28 BILLION transistors, that is crazy! The Singularity is right around the corner as well, lol.

I'm still a sucker for isometric RPGs, but I just couldn't get into Wasteland 2. That was a game that I was bored with within the first hour and came back to it every now and again to try and push forward but stopped about 8 hours in. That said, this has been quite enjoyable right off the bat, but I'm only 4 hours in, but pretty much every aspect of W2 that was very "meh" seems to have been addressed right from the get-go. Hopefully, it carries through.

A recent review of Death Stranding by someone with some balance and brain cells left:, I mean to call a game highly ridiculed and financially unsuccessful overrated, once again - just plain ignorance.
https://youtu.be/PXCrRLFrHKo

What is it with project managers and on up who are unable to face reality.

I've had a few problems with this game related to freezing, crashing and being the only game I have ever played that said "NOPE!" to being on Ultra settings.
But, even on high settings, holy shit, couldn't be happier for my computer to take a dump on ultra settings. I was flying over my old haunts in San Francisco last night and I could literally see graffiti and murals on street corners; that level of detail is absolutely bonkers and the lighting was a little buggy in terms of light sources being way too high in the sky, lol, but SF at night looked like the neon CPU that I stared at for decades in real time.

I can't stand Facebook enough that I will never create a FB account. My rift probably won't last another two years anyway.

I want to see this engine put to use for a new Red Baron game, they should just feed the AI some WWI footage and then tell it to approximate.

VaranDragon wrote on Aug 11, 2020, 04:21:

heroin wrote on Aug 11, 2020, 03:01:

VaranDragon wrote on Aug 11, 2020, 02:29:

Drayth wrote on Aug 10, 2020, 17:21:

heroin wrote on Aug 10, 2020, 15:55:
I kinda like the game - reminds me of AC:Odyssey a lot. But, the sky looks terrible on Ultra settings. Overall, it might be the fast-pace of the game but it doesn't look as good or is as optimized as Death Stranding. Sure, Death Stranding is totally different all the way around. But, playing this, thing, that is like AC:Odyssey x 1.5, it's ok, but for all of those Death Stranding detractors - quite frankly this game is crap/pales in comparison. Go buy yourself Death Stranding, smoke some pot or something to quell your ADHD.

I know next to nothing about Death Stranding, and I've been trying to keep it that way while make up my mind on whether to purchase or not. This may have just sold me.

LOL. Dont, just dont. Death stranding is like, literally one of the worst games ever made.

Worst game ever made, huh? An original, superbly designed game with impeccable sound design, using the same engine as HZD, yet is fully optimized, has DLSS, the sky isn't all funked up and the textures are so much more crisp than HZD. Add into that innovations in movement, even the vehicles can get around the most inhospitable landscapes ever put to an open world game and brilliant asynchronous multiplayer elements. Walking across water in HZD is laughable after how DS handled it. But, somehow it is the worst game ever. Yeah, right, lolz! I'm going to boot up this AC Odyssey 1.5 right now and keep laughing. Amurica what have ya done to these peeps, why don't they get it?

Lol dude. Where is the gameplay? What IS the gameplay loop? Its boring, derrivative barely comprehensible HIPSTER horseshit that has less going on than No Man's Sky had at launch. It's an interactive movie (and a terribly boring and shit one at that) that barely passes for an over-hyped "game". It's only popular because it stars B list hollywood actors, has great production values and is made by the fucking Andy Warhol of gaming. Kojima sucks balls. He even said that he doesnt know what Death Stranding is about. And people are lapping that shit up like its cocain mixed with cool-aid. Jesus H. Christ. If you consider going from point A to point B a game, then go for it. Get your kicks. If you have two braincells in your head, then avoid Death Stranding like its the plague.

Sheer judgmental ignorance.

VaranDragon wrote on Aug 11, 2020, 02:29:

Drayth wrote on Aug 10, 2020, 17:21:

heroin wrote on Aug 10, 2020, 15:55:
I kinda like the game - reminds me of AC:Odyssey a lot. But, the sky looks terrible on Ultra settings. Overall, it might be the fast-pace of the game but it doesn't look as good or is as optimized as Death Stranding. Sure, Death Stranding is totally different all the way around. But, playing this, thing, that is like AC:Odyssey x 1.5, it's ok, but for all of those Death Stranding detractors - quite frankly this game is crap/pales in comparison. Go buy yourself Death Stranding, smoke some pot or something to quell your ADHD.

I know next to nothing about Death Stranding, and I've been trying to keep it that way while make up my mind on whether to purchase or not. This may have just sold me.

LOL. Dont, just dont. Death stranding is like, literally one of the worst games ever made.

Worst game ever made, huh? An original, superbly designed game with impeccable sound design, using the same engine as HZD, yet is fully optimized, has DLSS, the sky isn't all funked up and the textures are so much more crisp than HZD. Add into that innovations in movement, even the vehicles can get around the most inhospitable landscapes ever put to an open world game and brilliant asynchronous multiplayer elements. Walking across water in HZD is laughable after how DS handled it. But, somehow it is the worst game ever. Yeah, right, lolz! I'm going to boot up this AC Odyssey 1.5 right now and keep laughing. Amurica what have ya done to these peeps, why don't they get it?

I kinda like the game - reminds me of AC:Odyssey a lot. But, the sky looks terrible on Ultra settings. Overall, it might be the fast-pace of the game but it doesn't look as good or is as optimized as Death Stranding. Sure, Death Stranding is totally different all the way around. But, playing this, thing, that is like AC:Odyssey x 1.5, it's ok, but for all of those Death Stranding detractors - quite frankly this game is crap/pales in comparison. Go buy yourself Death Stranding, smoke some pot or something to quell your ADHD.

He did try something new - it was called The Witness. A lot of people liked it too.

Been playing for the last 3 hours without any hitches. The install was supremely aggravating and crashed about twice.
Regardless, the game is a lot of fun so far. This is the same engine Death Stranding borrowed from Guerrilla Games.
Interesting that Hideo Kojima was able to put DLSS in his game (HZD doesn't) and overall
I think Death Stranding is a better looking game (doesn't have mobs of huge resource eating robo-dinos of course),
but it's a good engine so, HZD isn't so shabby, either.

I just removed Modern Warfare from my SSD to pre-load Horizon Zero, that game was a whopping 192 gigs or something like that.

I was never big into any of the Borderlands, played them both and when 3 came out wasn't expecting much. There's a lot in there, very fun and definitely think it's an underrated game in this day and age of everyone being a negative cynical/critic/prick.

bigspender wrote on Jul 31, 2020, 20:16:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xY_D8SMNtE

Love this clip of Joe Rogan. But seriously though, anyone with 1/2 a brain should stopped taking that guy seriously when he said that our brains can read the signals from 5g towers....

Haha, that clip is extraordinary, never saw that one before. I like Joe Rogan, he says massively idiotic stuff all the damn time but I still like him. It's a little give and take that I don't allow someone like Trump to get away with. Trump says massively idiotic stuff all the damn time too... but I fucking hate that guy all the way around.

Also, if any of you scally wags are looking for a new game, Obsidian's "Grounded" was released in Early Access.

Hopefully, we're gonna see Baldur's Gate 3 early access this month.

Dash wrote on Jul 20, 2020, 03:41:
Death Stranding seems to be one of those games, where I don't want to see ANYTHING about it, to spoil anything. Story-rich, but weird gameplay/mechanics. And normally, spoilers don't really bother me if its something I won't ever bother with, like some movies and such.

That is exactly the way this game is supposed to be played and luckily I only ever saw people hauling cargo lol so I never spoiled any surprises for myself. It's a cinematic experience right from the beginning and then they keep adding stuff and taking away stuff. That is what makes it so enjoyable, the curation of the experience.

This comment was edited on Jul 20, 2020, 14:17.