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Kilimmaic 
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 Topic: The Video/PC Game Discussion ThreadPosted: 19 Jan 2025 at 11:58am |
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Lately, I’ve been diving into VR gaming, and it’s been so immersive and fun. One of my favorites is Beat Saber on the Oculus, it’s such a great workout disguised as gaming! I had an issue with my headset recently but got everything sorted out quickly after finding the Oculus VR phone number, their support team was really helpful. On the PC side, I’m all about strategy games like Civilization VI or cozy indies like Stardew Valley.
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Posted: 11 Jan 2025 at 6:06pm |
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Recently beat the RE2 and RE3 remakes. I had beaten the former before, on my sister's PS4 but did so much better this time. Both games are a blast to play. I'm now tackling the RE4 remake, which seems just as awesome as those two.
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Posted: 14 Dec 2024 at 3:54am |
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Still haven't played Cyberpunk.
I was put off when early reports since its PC performance was terrible. The spec also claims it requires a SSD and not a traditional hard disk. Even on minimum spec for newer games that's what's pulling my current rig up short and I'm pretty sure it's the reason I'm struggling even with Horizon Zero Dawn because I can run that at 60+ FPS on 'original' graphics and even turning them up without a big hit; it's just the loading times in a seamless open world doing me in. I've just completed it recently all the same, but I won't be getting the sequel until such a point that I can afford a new system. Pretty much anything new and AAA is off the table for me for the time being. I have plenty of unplayed games on Steam though I can enjoy in the meantime. Hoping my eight year old rig doesn't die a death in the meantime. I've looked after it well, but you never know when an expensive component is going to go. It's already on its third hard drive and second GPU (first isn't dead just upgraded but also well out of date). If something goes now it's really not worth repairing. The thing is this PC has served me well for gaming so long because I was able to future-proof its spec for a good few years. This is not the same rig I had when The Witcher 3 first came out, but it improved my performance of that game a lot. I don't really want to have to get a new one until either The Witcher 4 or Elder Scrolls 6 is imminent because that will give me a better idea for required spec.
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Posted: 13 Dec 2024 at 1:23pm |
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Yeah, it's likely gonna be either a late PS5 or early PS6 game, I'd think. May even ended up being cross gen, and if that's the case, the PS5 version could be a total debacle, like Cyberpunk was on PS4. Hopefully tha tisn't the case, though, and they learnt heir lesson this time, but I guess we'll have to wait and see.
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Posted: 13 Dec 2024 at 12:38pm |
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There ain't no way that's gonna be on PS4. I need to start saving for a PS5, because there's also GTA 6 in the pipeline.
And in other gaming news, I finally platinumed Assassins Creed: Origins yesterday. It took me 18 months (compared to 4 months for the Horizon games and 5 months for Skyrim). Some people reckon it's a drag, especially the Old Habits trophy where you have to complete about 450 locations, but I've loved it because ancient Egypt (well, Roman-era Egypt anyway) fucking rocks.
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Posted: 13 Dec 2024 at 12:16pm |
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Yeah, unfortunately gaming can be a very toxic community.
Personally I was hoping for Ciri or second choice would have been making a custom Witcher.
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Posted: 13 Dec 2024 at 8:19am |
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^Yeah, I imagine it's going to be a very demanding game, as usual. I'm guessing you will be extremely hyped for it, though, once you do have everything in place to run it, because I know Witcher 3 is one of your all time favorites.
I'm already seeing a bunch of morons complain the series went "woke", because Ciri's the protagonist now, even though that feels like the most logical continuation from how my Witcher 3 playthrough ended, so I'm quite pleased with the direction they're takiing.
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Posted: 13 Dec 2024 at 12:43am |
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First look trailer for The Witcher 4 has been revealed and confirms Ciri as the protagonist.
Definitely going to have to start setting some £££ aside now for a new PC because even if this came out tomorrow I doubt the rig that has served me for the last 8 years is going to cut it. This is definitely not the only 'next game in series' that my current system isn't going to be able to handle once they drop. I struggle as is with the first Horizon game.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2024 at 2:59pm |
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I know exactly what you mean. I remember when Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth was adapted to TV as Legend of the Seeker. It had a 22 episode first season. I think something like 4 episodes had anything to do with the book and so much of it went out of its way to do the complete opposite to what the book said. I didn't watch season 2.
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Posted: 14 Nov 2024 at 2:45pm |
Honestly, if that is true then they are already off to a better start than most if you ask me.
I'm not the sort to demand a complete 1to1 from any adaptation really but I've gotten more than a bit tired of a lot of the bad faith adaptation sorts, the kind where it always feels like the writers think they can do the story better than the original and end up just ruining it for everyone. I could do the whole rant but I reckon you all get the point and lets just leave it at that. |
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Posted: 08 Nov 2024 at 4:45am |
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I've heard that Amazon is moving ahead with a TV show based on Mass Effect and there are rumblings about them being concerned about how not to alienate fans due to the choice-based narrative of the games.
If this comes to fruition I think the only way it would work is to make something in the vein of the Fallout show, which was excellent. Make it canon to the games, but telling its own story. Don't adapt Commander Shepard. If they do that its also a given that they were go for the generic Shepard as the template and that would alienate me from touching the show for a start. In my headcanon, FemShep is the protagonist of that story. I don't actual care how the in game decisions are reflected in a TV version, but the lack of FemShep would be an instant deal-breaker.
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Posted: 21 Jun 2024 at 5:43am |
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I've just noticed that Steam is doing a deep sale on the Dragon Age series. I loved the first one back in the day - played it several times with different origin characters - but always struggled with the second one despite starting it more than once. I would have to complete it one day. Tempted to buy the complete editions of II and III (about £6 for the two) and start a run from the first game through. I only own the base game for II and on Origin or whatever they call it now, not Steam. Call me old fashioned but I like my games on one launcher.
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Posted: 15 Aug 2023 at 2:47pm |
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Posted: 17 May 2023 at 8:34pm |
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Been playing the Final Fantasy Pixel Remasters series lately. I've beaten I and II, and am now at the end-game of III. Still have the next 3 to look forward to after that. Really enjoying it so far!
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Posted: 14 Dec 2022 at 9:12am |
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So, the 'Next Gen' update to The Witcher 3 has pretty much broken it on PC. The game, which could be made to run silky smooth probably 99% of the time with just a few performance tweaks, is now tanking hardware far above the power of what I possess, with even owners of RTX 4090 GPU's, which cost in excess of £2000, having to turn settings down or off to get even close to 60FPS and even then not stable.
They have fortunately provided a legacy build on Steam, which I will be reverting to as soon as I seriously want to play this again. If the update had been all that was promised I might have started it anew today, but the update is an absolute fucking train wreck.
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Posted: 12 Jul 2022 at 4:08pm |
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So I finally picked up the Mass Effect Legendary Edition and have been playing through ME1.
ME1 was definitely the biggest draw to this remastered version and it has a lot of quality of life improvements. Unfortunately the game's performance is not up to snuff as soon as you go on any uncharted world. It's usually fine, but as soon as you go over any rough terrain the performance absolutely tanks. It isn't a hardware issue either as it happens whether your frame rate is set higher or locked to 60 and it can normally run well above that. But for every quality of life improvement made to ME1, there is probably two missed chances to make the first game as good as its sequels. ME1 was always held back by all those featureless uncharted worlds and the constant recycling of the same map layouts for ships, mines, etc. I was really hoping the updated game would address this. Along with making all the gameplay systems consistent across the whole trilogy. I get that its a remaster and not a remake, and it's certainly the smoothest ME1 experience I've ever had outside of the framerate issue, but that doesn't stop it being a missed chance to do something amazing.
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Posted: 10 Feb 2022 at 3:31pm |
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Just nearly lost a 100 day plus custom survival run on The Long Dark because of a glitch. Fucking annoying and would have been really pissed if this had ended the run.
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Been replaying the Prince of Persia Sands of Time trilogy. Actually there's a fourth game made later that takes place between 1 and 2, but I decided to replay the series in release order. I'm playing on PC for the first time instead of my old Gamecube copies and I have to say the series really holds up. A few tweaks easily get the games running in 1080p and they still look pretty good. Better than on my Gamecube where they look blurry as hell on modern TV screens. I just started the third game and have mostly been having a blast with them, beyond a couple of really frustrating sections here and there, mostly in the first game.
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Posted: 12 Sep 2021 at 2:55pm |
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Been playing The Darkside Detective: A Fumble in the Dark lately as well as Metroid: Samus Returns on a 3DS emulator. The former has excellent writing, a great sense of humor and I've always enjoyed the Metroid games(even Other M)!
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Black Geyser: Couriers of Darkness seems awesome! Especially for the ones who love CRPG games like Baldur's Gate. It is said that its complete version will be released in the first quarter of 2022. I'm loving it so far! Hence, I'm now using this avatar and signature.
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