Grofit

@Grofit@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨how is final fantasy XVI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Really enjoying it so far.

  I was initially saddened to hear it was going to follow in the steps of 15 and be an action based rpg, and I thought 15 was brain dead “warp strike simulator” with horrible story pacing and poor characters (until last 5% of the game).

  This game though has simple but effective action combat with enough variety to be fun and the characters and pacing are a joy.

  I still wish we could get some FF games like 7 or 9 where there is depth to equipment, magic and turn based combat, but jrpgs have been iterating away from complex battle systems and sell well so can’t see them going back.

  I still think FF7 was the pinnacle as material mixing and matching with equipment was really simple and super fun.

  Anyway rnat over, FF16 is good, recommend it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not against early access as a whole, if devs want to get player feedback earlier on in the life cycle and players are happy to be pseudo testers then it’s fine.

  I get some people would rather wait and buy when it’s finished, and some studiosd/devs would rather bypass EA and just release the game outright, but I feel both paradigms can exist as long as both parties (devs/consumers) continue to benefit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Devs should not be "forced to run on a treadmill until their mental or physical health breaks", says publisher of Manor Lords, citing how gamers seem to be trained to expect endless content work now⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think part of the problem is down to how a lot of games come out as “Early Access” which implies it’s more bare bones and will get fleshed out over time.

  If a game releases as EA then the expectation is you will get more content until release, if a game just comes out without EA then it’s assumed it has all content and anything new is dlc/mtx/expansions.

  I’m not gonna bother addressing Live Service games, wish they would go in the bin with most other MTX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lossless Scaling: Frame Generation For Every Game - But How Good Is it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This tool is great for people who play fullscreen games, but if you play windowed it currently won’t work properly for you (even in windowed mode).

  I got it to try and bump my 1440p@60fps to 1440p@120fps without making the GPU want to take off via the frame generation, and unfortunately while it does have a windowed mode that either draws over your window (it’s wonky and slow) or a mode where it just does fullscreen but with black space to pad to your window size, which looks silly.

  I like what it does but I have other stuff I want to see on my screen while playing so want to keep my games windowed.

  I would also say if you are playing a game that supports dlss/FSR with frame generation, just use that instead as it will use frame buffer data to drive the upscaling/frame generation, which is pretty efficient and the data is already on the gpu. Lossless scaling is basically taking REALLY FAST screenshots of your game and upscaling/frame gen then drawing it over your screen quickly.