lustyargonian

@lustyargonian@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would like to predict the future too but alas I’m quite bad at it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah you’re right. It is quite a lot, especially with this kind of an IP and expectations to deal with

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say Forza Motorsport reboot had its issues, Flight Simulator 2024 had issues with cloud infra and Red Fall had various bugs and T poses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually there are two studios within Playground Games, I’m sure there’s cross pollination but the other studio is still making Forza supposedly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fable delayed to 2026⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  *Late is just for a little while, suck is forever" - Lord Gabe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean Skyrim is kinda cool

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 16th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mafia 1 DE and 2 both were largely linear and didn’t waste your time with fluff. I really enjoyed those two. Mafia 3 on the other hand had good story drip fed to you after hours of grind.

  Ubisoft like mechanics:

  • Each area has wiretaps that help a lot, but are very much like liberating radio towers, less grand.
  • Once you open up a district, you’ve to do a checklist of repetitive missions, x2, and then go back to one of the areas from the already done missions to kill the underboss. Rinse and repeat 9 times. So that becomes more like (6 missions + 1) x 2 x 9. Some missions are optional. But it’s quite a lot. There’s some variety and some interesting story beats, but when it’s given in such grindy manner you have to have a lot of patience to enjoy it.
  • A lot of the missions are set up like far cry outposts or assassinate a target style. In fact you are incentivised to play stealth, to the point you start feeling like an assassin or hitman.
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 16th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mafia 3. I’m probably half way through and starting to get burnt out by the grind and the buggy nature of the game. It is infected by Ubisoft formula, but it’s much more notorious and less fluid. Glad they are going a different route for Mafia 4

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD FSR 4 Upscaling Tested vs DLSS 3/4 - RDNA 4 Delivers!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty cool that AMD stuck the landing, rather exceeding the expectations by beating DLSS CNN. Sure transformer model is better but it is slightly more costly too, and this is effectively v1 of FSR with ML. This is especially great coming off of shimmering woes of PSSR.

  Now the competitive edge moves from DLSS and RT to Multi Frame Gen and Path Tracing. I find the newer goal post to be less exciting for sub $500 GPUs as the added latency or lower base frame rate isn’t justified, so in a way AMD is genuinely a better choice this time around for the price range.

  Let’s hope the $200-400 segment also sees such competition thanks to Intel.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 23rd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know since I’ve only played DE, but the sound tracks were very nostalgic and reminiscent of game radios like Fallout 3.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 23rd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds good. I really like changes that just flow from start to end, though they’re rare. It’s easy to forget about collectibles if they’re too annoying, so that’s that.

  That sounds great! I’ll be playing it on Series X, should be okay.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Avowed made me scream to my doctor: “I am a wizard!”⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doc be like “Oh I see you’ve returned to the living lands”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 23rd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m planning to play Sleeping Dogs next after completing Mafia trilogy! Hope the base game is not too repetitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 23rd⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just finished Mafia 1 DE and 2 DE. Taking a breather before I dive in 3, which I suppose will require a lot of patience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of Feb 2nd⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  About to finish Alan Wake 2 and its DLCs. It’s a great game but for me it’s bit too artsy fartsy. The flow breaks each time you switch the character, which in turn affects the pacing. Having said that the concept is cool, the fmvs integrated into the game are really high quality, they act as emmisive light sources, causing surroundings to reflect it. Pretty cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (retail, PS5) early, AMA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah damn. I wish they add an option for that

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (retail, PS5) early, AMA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Do NPCs get angry even though your charisma is high but the moment you engage in dialogue they get very sweet to you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got Kingdom Come Deliverance 2 (retail, PS5) early, AMA⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the crosshair remain active when you aim using the bow?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of January 12th⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doom 2016 and Alan Wake 2. Enjoying both of them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD's new AI-based FSR 4 upscaler impresses in hands-on testing at CES 2025 on RX 9070-series hardware [Eurogamer/Digital Foundry]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s a marketing slide from AMD saying they’re renaming their GPUs to better match competition. So 9070 series cards are supposed to match 5070 series cards, that’ll be 5070, 5070 Ti as of now and super later on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dr. RFK Jr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Depends on the dose. Too much of it can cause inconveniences.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China's internet is upset that a knock-off of its darling video game, 'Black Myth: Wukong,' is listed on Nintendo's store⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Nintendo store’s seal of quantity strikes again.

  Scoop!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Orcs Must Die! 3 is free to claim for 24 hours on Epic⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for your sacrifice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA makes more patents public in commitment to improve gaming accessibility⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EA lost its reputation but objectively they’ve been trying to undo that. Jedi Fallen Order and Survivor, while stuttery, had no micro transactions or online requirements, Dead Space remake was as simple as possible, Dragon Age ditched live service plan and was released in a very polished state, NFS Unbound just got a new update and has been well supported. The games may not be 10/10 or exactly what gamers wanted, but they’ve been trying to put their head down and do the work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Stalker 2 had bugs on launch yet it easily sold 1 million copies. Black Myth Wukong uses frame gen to achieve 60 fps on PS5 and otherwise it locks to 45 fps, yet it has broken all records. Elden Ring is still a stuttery mess on PC and barely hits 60 fps on consoles, even the $700 one, yet it’s beloved.

  These people aren’t the ones talking about resolutions and frame rates on X, but just playing the damn game in millions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happened to gaming?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel it’s a bit like any hobby. You’d see casual film enjoyers and then those who refuse to watch unless it’s a bluray on their 4k Dolby Vision TV with 1000 nits OLED brightness. There are some who just enjoy listening to music on their airpod knockoffs by streaming on YouTube music and then there are those who buy $500 headphones with high quality gold plated aux wire and a custom DAC and use some obscure format to really enjoy music. There are some who enjoy team sports and then there are those who know personal routine of each player and the wetness of the grass or the year of the ball’s manufacturing and its impact on throw.

  It’s a spectrum.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 Gameplay - The First 43 Minutes | IGN First⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. It’s not hard because it involves skill it’s hard because your stats are low. Once you raise them up by doing things, it’s just mechanical clunk.

  However I really like how this simple RPG system ties in with the story of Henry and how ordinary he is in the beginning of the story. It really makes you feel like a loser in the first half of the game and then a murdering millionaire working multiple jobs and an expert in couple of disciplines towards the end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sniper Elite Resistance dev defends asset reuse - “if they’re there to use, why not use them?”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember it being a big deal, well, some deal for a brief while, that God of War Ragnarok had reused boat animations from the previous game. Similarly for Horizon Forbidden West I think.

  Anyway, sports games come annually and literally feel like the same game with some adjustments here and there and they’re usually the best sellers lol, so this issue feels like a very “online thing”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is your favorite vehicle in GTA:SA?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Shenanigans: hydra

  Car: Sultan

  Bike: NRG500

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024's launch has been marred by long load times, server issues and now it has overwhelmingly negative reviews⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the issue was precisely that. They didn’t plan for the surge of users coming in on day one and whatever cloud hybrid system they have for this game got overwhelmed. We’ll get to know about the game’s actual quality a week from now I guess.