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- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 24th 20 hours ago:
I played a ton of Cyberpunk 2077. I’ve done a lot of side missions, a bunch of the main missions and then started the DLC, when the game pointed me in that direction. The game still has many bugs and glitches, but they are pretty minor. The DLC seems to be worse than the main game, although even then it’s minor stuff.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 16th 1 week ago:
I usually do as well, but for some reason not this time.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 16th 1 week ago:
Four more levels of Final Doom’s TNT: Evilution. After it’s done, I’ll take a classic Doom break for a while. I gotta play Dark Ages first, before continuing with Plutonia.
The some more Cyberpunk 2077. I’m a bit pissed at myself and the game, because of a glitch, that blocks some side quests. Foolishly, I just used a single save slot, and the auto saves don’t go back far enough, before the glitch happend, so I might try something to avoid it. The cause is probably a mod, although from what I read this bug isn’t uncommon and can happen without mods. Through the use of a save editor I’ve managed to make the next quest available at least, but wasn’t able to get the broken quest working again or “finish” it. I just hope it doesn’t happen again.
Then I started A Game About Digging A Hole today. Just like the title says, you’re digging a hole. You find stones and ores along the way, that you can sell, to upgrade your stuff. I’m two hours in, and looks like there’s nothing to upgrade anymore, which is a bit of a bummer. Now i just have to go deeper, blow stuff up with dynamite, and look for treasure.
- Comment on Spectre Divide shutting down six months after launch reminds us how hard it is to make a live-service game 1 week ago:
Don’t think the last point is true, since there was a report recently that said almost 50% of game time over one month was spent on live service games.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 9th 2 weeks ago:
I finished Final Fantasy III. This one had a weird bug for me, where the game wouldn’t start and stop my mouse from working on my main monitor, when a Stream or Video was playing on my second screen. Never had this with any other game and took a bit to figure it out.
Then more Final Doom TNT: Evilution on the Doom + Doom II port. The second half is definitely a step-up in difficulty, and three levels took me a while to beat. Level 16 had a nasty start, that I had to replay for a while, and not much ammo, if you don’t know where the secrets are. In Level 18 and 20 I just constantly messed up, plus some late Archviles or a Cyberdemon, to surprise you. I’m on Level 23 now, hopefully I can finish this soon.
Finally, I was going to buy the Rise of the Ronin PC port tomorrow, but according to a review it needs to cook a bit longer, just like all the other Team Ninja games on PC. So I started Cyberpunk 2077. I watched a playthrough on Twitch last year, and it looked pretty good. So far it’s pretty good. Right now, I’m doing some side content before continuing with Act 1.
- Comment on Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG adds 100-floor megadungeon for a fiver 2 weeks ago:
Former Fable dev behind hit free Ultima-style RPG
How about you just tell us the name of the game, and not just drop a dozen others, and magle your title.
- Comment on Tony Hawk's™ Pro Skater™ 3 + 4 | Reveal Trailer 3 weeks ago:
Iron Galaxy had some misses in the past, most notably probably the PC port for Arkham Knight. More recently, Last Of Us Part 1 on PC, which had some bad performance at launch, I think. They did the PC port for THPS1+2 though, and I don’t remember hearing some big complaints, but I also haven’t paid too much attention.
- Comment on Split Fiction - Review Thread 3 weeks ago:
Same. I’ve played the other games with a friend and they were always a blast.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 23rd 3 weeks ago:
I finished Final Fantasy 7. Compared to Remake or Rebirth this thing just moves, and doesn’t constantly waste your time. However, that also leaves little time for character interaction or development, so that’s where the new games are much better.
Next was Mushroom 11. I played it about halfway almost 10 years ago, and finally decided to go back and finish it. This is a game, where you control some mushroom blob, by erasing parts, causing it to regrow somewhere else, e.g. you erase the backside, and the blob regrows in the front, which makes you move forward. The first three levels are great, but the four levels after that, sometimes require precision, that the game just isn’t build for. I still like the concept, but it really can be frustrating.
Then I started playing through Final Doom’s Evilution episode. It took me a bit to get my FPS legs back and the first half dozen or so levels were a bit rough, but nothing too bad. I’m playing on Ultra-Violence and with a Pistol Start, so a lot of times, I have to re-play the beginning a couple of times, to get oriented, and look for weapons, while the game just throws Shotgunners and Chaingunners at you.
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 3 weeks ago:
Nothing. PES is now eFootball, which only had one release 2020 (and an update for 2021).
Probably just not as many people spending money on Ultimate Team packs.
- Comment on BREAKING: EA releases C&C source code under GPL3! 3 weeks ago:
I feel like it might be a bit like Ubisoft, although not as bad.
Ubisoft is going back and adding Steam Achievements to all or many of their games to maybe get on the good side of gamers again, after a few rough years.
EA has some bigger titles not perform like they’d like, e.g. Veilguard, FC 25, maybe Immortals of Avernum, Wild Hearts, Dead Space remake, etc., so they might not want to let it get as bad as Ubi, with some small, easy “wins.”
This is just my theory of course, I don’t really know anything.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 23rd 4 weeks ago:
I played some shapez. It’s fun, but some of the later designs are definitely a puzzle on how to make them. The sequel seems to be the same thing, but 3D graphics. Shoutout to the soundtrack by Peppsen, it’s fantastic.
Then I started re-playing the OG Final Fantasy VII, since I just finished Rebirth. I played the New Threat mod after Remake, so I didn’t really get how similar Remake is to the original game, and now Rebirth as well. Yes, the new games are a lot slower, and you get a bunch of fluff, but otherwise they are the same.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 16th 5 weeks ago:
I’m at the end of Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. This game is all quantity over quality in my opinion. I also think, the devs never thought if the gazillion minigames or one-off quest mechanics are fun. Just add more and more, so you can brag about how much there is to do in your game. If players enjoy themselves, it’s a nice coincidence, but never a goal. I just want this game to be over at this point. The last couple of hours just completely destroyed any remaining interest I had
- Comment on Are we going through another scalping apocalypse? 5 weeks ago:
I think we’ve never really left, and it’s been going on for much longer. All the popular tech gets scalped. Switch, PS5, Phones GPUs, etc. If you can’t launch with infinite products available, it’s going to get scalped nowadays.
- Comment on Are we going through another scalping apocalypse? 5 weeks ago:
AMD have said, the 9070 series is going to be up to 4070 ti performance. Leaks have also shown the performance between 7800XT and 7900XTX, so you can trust these numbers of course.
As for the price, AMD can say what they want, but how they’ve handled this launch so far doesn’t sound promising. A vendor, who has the cards already, speculated about the price, and it was horrible.
Things have changed since then, but until AMD has released concrete numbers, all these leaks are useless.
- Comment on Are we going through another scalping apocalypse? 5 weeks ago:
I want what you’re smoking.
- Comment on Monster Hunter: World sold over a million copies just in the last 3 months, despite being 7 years old 5 weeks ago:
Every one of those got confused about the title and thought it is Wilds.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 1 month ago:
You still got a week. You could squeeze in a quick Pillars 2 run.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 9th 1 month ago:
I couldn’t put down Baldur’s Gate 3, again, but managed to beat Honor Mode for the first time. It felt like my characters were doing twice the damage, compared to my previous time in Act 3, so I just mopped the floor with pretty much all the bosses. There are a few more playthroughs I want to do, but I want to wait a bit. I’ve had like over 150 hours of BG3 this year already.
If anyone is interested, here are some more details of the run:
Honor Mode
Act 1 and 2 were three permanent party members and two that alternated. Fire Sorcerer (MC), Gloomstalker Assassin (Astarion), Life Cleric (Shadowheart) and switched between Berserker Thrower (Karlach) and Battle Master Fighter (Lae’zel). Act 3 I shelved the Cleric and just went full DPS. For some quest fights I took the appropriate companion (Wyll for Ansur, Jaheira for Minsc), but for the House of Hope fight I went full caster comp and just stacked AoE spells on the choke point and hid, while the enemies slowly died. I also found out that a thrower build with returning weapons doesn’t work for the very final fight against the Netherbrain, since the weapons just fall through the non-existent ground and never return. The rest of my party had more than enough damage, so it didn’t matter, but I should have kept some of the gazillion Daggers I got shortly before.
Then, I continued Final Fantasy VII Rebirth today. I completed a quest, won a Chocobo Race and fought a boss. Not much progress, but with BG3 done, maybe I can focus on this one.
- Comment on A deck-builder for busy people, Bramble Royale: A Meteorfall Story plans full Steam Deck support for launch 1 month ago:
Finally, a rogue-like deck builder, there really aren’t enough of these.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd 1 month ago:
I’m definitely not as down on Rebirth as you, but I liked Remake more.
I’ve also been thinking of re-playing the original, when I’m done, just as I’ve done after Remake. Like you said, I remember the pace throwing me for a loop.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY VII REBIRTH gets stability fixes and a Steam Deck graphics setting tweak 1 month ago:
I have to check that out tonight. Performance was mostly alright for me, but yesterday in the Gold Saucer I had some big frame drops, every time the camera jumped in cutscenes.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd 1 month ago:
I played a bit of FFVII rebirth at the start of the week […] I’m not sure if I wanna continue it tho
I’m also playing the game, it’s kinda disappointing, since I loved Remake, but I like the characters enough to continue.
- Comment on Are mods usually confusing as hell or am I just an idiot? 1 month ago:
Yeah, I usually follow the instructions, which seems to work 99% of the time.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd 1 month ago:
Mostly Final Fantasy VII Rebirth. Feels like this game took half a step forward and two steps back, compared to the first part. It tries to do a lot of things and doesn’t do many well. There’s minigames-ish for so many things. The open-world stuff kinda tries to be Assassin’s Creed lite, but all zones are huge, but pretty empty, with the same two types of “events” in them. Of course the game has a shitty crafting system, so you can pick up material in the empty zones. Combat is a bit better than before, but then the devs managed to craft the perfect enemies to make some fights feel like hell, even worse than the worst fights in Remake, and I’m not even done with the game yet. I’ve played the game for 40 hours, but the story has barely moved. I think there’s supposed to be an alternate timeline, but I think I’ve seen like five minutes of it. It’s been pretty disappointing so far, but I still like the characters, so I’ll continue playing.
Then a bit Baldur’s Gate 3. Started another run, going with pretty much the same party build as my first run, where I almost made it. The full fighter playthrough has to wait for the next Patch.
- Comment on Try this mod to calm Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth’s stuttering on PC 1 month ago:
Imma try this, but I haven’t had too much stuttering. Some rare frame drops, but Junon and the base had a bit more in a few spots.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 26th 1 month ago:
Of course, I had to run it back in Baldur’s Gate 3, Honor Mode, after I failed shortly before the finish line. This time I went four Fighters, two melee, two ranged. My run ended in Act 2, not because of my party comp, but I let Isobel die in Last Light Inn. I forgot to block a door and the enemy crit three or four attacks on her. I did survive the fight with all the zombies afterward, got into another fight and ended it there. I’ll do another run like this, but probably after Patch 8, when Fighter gets a proper ranged sub-class. No idea, what my next run will be, but it will have to wait a bit.
Then, Final Fantasy VII Rebirth finally released on PC. I’ve been looking forward to this, and just recently re-played the first part. I’m at the beginning of Chapter 4 and it’s good. The big zones are kinda meh, pretty empty, and I don’t think the devs ever used a Chocobo to run around. Unless you only follow the roads, there are small ledges everywhere, and your Chocobo either slows down or stops completely, which is a pain. I still have fun, although the constant short breaks are kinda annoying. Like in the first game, you need to wait for certain animations to finish, before you can go into the menu, or when you completed a “World Intel” objective there’s a 10-second jingle and animation you have to wait for. Often you also get a call from a dude, who tells you he’s found another one, and you just have to stand there and listen. Like I said, I still have a good time, so it’s not a big deal.
- Comment on Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears 1 month ago:
This is much older than 2023. I remember Fallout 4, the console version was apparently almost unplayable at launch, so Giant Bomb actually lowered the score, compared to the PC version. And even that example isn’t when this started.
Similarly, what if the reviewers don’t get a specific version, that runs like shit? Like what happened with Cyberpunk, where nobody was able to play the XBONE or PS4 versions.
The thing is, as always, a review is subjective. If the game has problems, but the reviewer can look past them or doesn’t care, why should they change the score.
Someone mentioned it already, but review copies might also run outdated code, and reviewers are in contact with the publisher or devs, and they might say some problem is fixed on release. If the reviewer believes them, it probably won’t affect the score.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 20th 2 months ago:
I played an unhealthy amount of Baldur’s Gate 3 and finished my run. Sadly, Ansur, the last boss before I started the finale, ended the Honor Mode part. I’m a bit salty about it, since it wasn’t the boss being too hard or something, but mainly bugs, that did me in. My first try I got him to half HP, then the game just didn’t want to use any skills anymore. I couldn’t even save and quit, but had to go through Task Manager to kill it. Next try I get him to like 80hp, fresh turn with all of my characters, but the game just crashes. Third time, he’s at 80 or so again, but because of terrible animations I didn’t see that he was supposed to be flying in the air, charging his giga attack. Because of some debuff, he was just writhing on the floor, so I just couldn’t really tell. I had a dozen Globe of Invulnerability scrolls, so I could have survived easily.
Anyway, I’ll do another run next month, after Final Fantasy VII Rebirth, and maybe the new Diablo 4 season, but dunno about that last one.
- Comment on Large Language Models in Video Games? 2 months ago:
NVIDIA not just tried, but still doing it, and apparently soon you’ll play with these NVIDIA ACE NPCs in PUBG and a few other games.