Don't know if these were already up on Prime previous months but Close to the Sun on that list, looks aight, like walking simulator with Bioshock/Prey influence about alternate reality Tesla. Yooka Laylee and the impossible lair and Overcooked are also free on Prime.

I have it on my computer for free stuff that I never install, because I absolutely hate that launcher. The thing is designed like a pig's arse and that is, so nasty that I can't even think about it. I had the stupid ass thing on some crappy external hard drive, once I removed that drive it was like impossible to uninstall or reinstall the damn thing, I should have just left it to the dust. Piece of shit, that is all it is. A massive stinky, pile of semen, shit, blood, guts, brains, rotting away in sun baked hell and smellin up the damn place. Get outta here Epic, you stink.

Armengar wrote on Dec 20, 2020, 13:08:
I have found CP77 overall fun. Overly buggy but patched quickly. Hiwever the AI is shockingly bad, there are glaring problems once the dust settles and you start to look harder.

I didnt preorder but did have a bunchnof steam vouchers burning a hole. Plus I had a love for pen n paper cyberpunk back in the day.

I would caution people on buying cp77 if you are buying blind.

I just reinstalled GTA IV after 10, 11 or 12 years, just to compare the open world aspect of Night City to it.
Even in the first 2 minutes of GTA IV's open world is soooooooooooooo much better in terms of AI behavior.
Surprisingly, GTA IV holds up pretty well for being a damn old game at this point. They are like complete opposites though, Cyberpunk is really made for the missions and not so much the open world and GTA games are mostly about the open world (missions are very linear, simple and not that interesting). I just think they could have gotten Night City's open world to be at least as good as GTA IV.

The fact that I can run this on Ultra with all bells and whistles on a machine that is 3 years old (+ a new RTX graphics card) just suggests to me that consoles continue to hold back the industry. I don't see why, either, considering if this game and WoW Shadowlands became the "fastest selling PC games" of all time, I would think that there would be a developer out there willing to develop PC only games and start pushing the boundaries again. Not that I think Cyberpunk 2077 didn't push some boundaries (immersion) but the tech isn't that incredible. The funniest low-tech thing I observed in CP77 were vehicles from a high rise, just like a fleet of funny looking pixel cars all over the places like ants.

Burrito of Peace wrote on Dec 12, 2020, 10:39:
Running everything on Ultra at 1080p here. Smooth as butter and looks pretty gorgeous. 5700XT GPU, Ryzen 3900X.

Happy for CDPR. They definitely earned my shekels and I am thoroughly enjoying myself.

I definitely wouldn't consider my PC "beefy" by today's standards - but I am playing on Ultra 1080p with all raytracing options on and ray-traced lighting turned up to "psycho" and it's smooth AF.

16 RAM, I7 7700, RTX 2070 Super Black

It took me 8 hours to get to the intro logo. I haven't seen too many glitches either. Just saw Night City at night for the first time in all its ray traced glory. Game is definitely a 9/10 for me too, totally sucked me in with it's unparalled immersion.

It's fucking fantastic so far, I don't know why there are so many people out there that just chew away at the sails of awesome shit. Depressing mfers.
It runs great too, from the specs they released I should only be playing this on Raytracing Light, but the game put all my settings to Ultra by default and still running at 60fps.
About 4 hours in the Cyberpunk logo/intro is finally ran and I did run into a bug right before that, couldn't get something off someone, reloaded and that person
reloaded/floated outside the building where I couldn't get to, so had to reload the whole mission. A little aggravating but definitely not a dealbreaker besides that haven't seen too many glitches so far. Looks, sounds and plays awesome - combat is better than expected.

OpticNerve wrote on Dec 8, 2020, 04:23:
My friends and I were talking about the various reviews out and how wildly divisive some of them are (aside from the bugs - that's unanimous).
IMO, it sounds great that side quests are actually important and can affect the main quest rather than just being filler to give the player more money, exp and loot. But I wonder if this might bite CDPR in early reviews due to how so many people simply want to be "First!" when it comes to beating games and posting youtube/message board reviews based on that lesser experience.

The whole review process for this game was pretty much shit. People blowing through an immersive game in 4-5 days to write a review, I don't see how anyone could get truly immersed when they have a tight deadline hanging over their head. Then on top of that, not allowing people to show new video in their reviews. That might have been an incentive for the reviewers to actually go off to record video of other things other than focusing on the main quest or side quests and maybe actually getting :-immersed-: ....I know I'll spend hours upon hours just soaking in that ray traced atmosphere.

Steele Johnson wrote on Dec 2, 2020, 14:15:
GTA: Cyberpunk

I've heard quite a number of times that it's Deus Ex: Punk. That's a good thing.

Eh, different strokes, but it's true their fries are unique and will also vary a lot even between shifts (whoever is cooking them) because they're one of the few places actually starting with raw potatoes, cut fresh at each location. They don't bring in pre-cooked frozen fries and then re-fry them like the major chains do.

Yeah, see I like their fries, just not really their burgers. 20 years ago when I moved to the west coast from the east coast, In-N-Out seemed unique amongst the McD's & BK's.
These days if I need a fast food burger I'd much rather go to a Culver's, which moved out west from the midwest.

This game bored my socks off, it seems pretty cool at first then it just turned into an Ubi-fest. Ironically, I find both Odyssey/Valhalla more entertaining to play.

It's ironic that all of the right-wing gun toting militias exclaim, having a gun is their right to overthrow tyranny.

Now I'm not saying that I'm not a fan of guns, but obviously, they have no clue of what real tyranny looks like.

About a month away now. Hope it lives up to the hype we've all built up for it lol

Osmos was probably the most relaxing game I've ever played.

eRe4s3r wrote on Nov 3, 2020, 15:24:
Does Blizzard even still make games?

Yeah, right? Probably going to announce some more "mobile" gamezzz. I'll give em some credit through, Heroes of the Storm was sucking really, really badly, for years and they really fixed it up recently. I mean, some games are totally unfair steam rolls - but the majority of the games are feeling pretty good. Good enough that even garbage levels like Temple of Doom and Blackheart's Bay feel decent enough.

There goes my Thanksgiving lol

The little bit I played @ 6-7 hours was fantastic. I also played DOS 1 & 2 EA the same way. The game will change drastically when it's finally released, but what is there is already pretty good. I don't think it ruins the experience, to play it and help test. I know I am going to pay $60 for this well crafted game, anyway. I know I am going to play this multiple times in single-player and multiplayer. I get the cynicism for EA, but for me as a full time artist of all sorts, it's nice to see the blemishes and then observe how they are fixed. When I go back to play the full release I will be ready to roll on that character I really want to play and it's not going to ruin the immersion, for me, at all. And like I've said, I've seen Larian do it twice now and I like how they do EA. Most other companies are bullshit when it comes to EA.

Rhett wrote on Oct 7, 2020, 21:45:
Anyone dive in? Thoughts? I LOVED Div 2. Did not play any Baldur's Gate games previously, and couldn't get into the old DnD games (Icewind Dale etc), but this studio is fantastic. Just curious if it's worth trying right now...

Unless you're a massive fan of DOS 1 or DOS 2 and don't mind testing and reporting bugs and shit I'd say wait. I used to jokingly say DOS 1 & DOS 2 were Baldur's Gate 3, but now that they have a game actually called Baldur's Gate 3, I'm realizing that Larian's style really doesn't remind me of Baldur's Gate games, lol. That's fine, as we have Pillars of Eternity 1 & 2 aping that pretty well. This game reminds me of a good mix between old school Bioware & DOS2; as the game is absolutely filled with that Bioware cinematic dialogue style and it's done surprisingly well. Pretty much everything else still needs a lot of work.

Yeah, no doubt. I mean that is why this "alpha" is pretty solid. Solid foundation, tried and true. Though, I do not see settings for changing the controller on PC at this point, just keyboard and mouse. Which is totally fine, I like both, but it is pretty awesome playing a game like this on controller in the excellent way it was implemented in DOS2.

In DOS2 they added in really great controller settings at a later point. It was something else as I've never experienced an isometric "PC" rpg with X-Box controller support before and it was so well implemented and easy to use. Hopefully, they add that into BG3 by 1.0. Disco Elysium recently added in WASD support and that's been pretty cool too.