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- Comment on HELP! Im looking for a game like CIV 6 where the point is to go to war 1 day ago:
I second this, it‘s not 4x but it might just be what OP is looking for regardless. Paradox‘ DLC policy hell is something to be aware of before jumping in without a doubt
- Comment on 'Oh god': There's a buried Steam help page that shows how much money you've ever spent on the platform, and you may not want to know 2 days ago:
I‘ve basically spent 17 bucks a month for 650 games and countless hours of fun, it‘s alright. I‘d be way more disappointed with myself if I looked at my League spending
- Comment on Day 266 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing 1 week ago:
I wonder what Steam was on with those updates
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 Launches on June 5th Worldwide; 1080p Screen With 120 FPS and HDR Support, Docked Mode 4K Resolution Support Confirmed 2 weeks ago:
I wanna see what the price is and what reviewers think of the screen and I might get one and sell my Switch OLED.
However, with these game prices I sure as hell am not getting any games, I‘ll play through my backlog games which I‘ll also check whether and which will get updates. It‘d be really nice if the games I have that play at 30 fps would play at 60 and at 1080p native. Maybe I’ll get physical copies of Switch 2 games heavily discounted later on.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds: First Impressions After the Long-Awaited Release 2 weeks ago:
Performance is utterly ridiculous, straightup the worst I‘ve ever experienced from a visuals vs hardware load standpoint ever. It runs almost as bad as CP2077 on ultra raytracing for me - but without any raytracing and on medium settings.
Also, try running the game at native without any upscaling or anti-aliasing; not for performance sake, but just to see what the game looks like „raw“: It‘s incredibly noisy, the upscalers have to work miracles with that input.
It is hands-down the best MH gameplay-wise though. My biggest gripes with the series (played the other entries for like 600hrs) were always how long you‘re stuck in animations and how stiff the attack animations are, often leading to missed attacks (or even finishers) because my character refuses to turn an inch to the left during a combo.
The „aim“ button fixes this completely and recovery animations don‘t seem to take ages anymore either. In World when I get hit I have time to literally put my controller down and facepalm for messing up (in Rise you can „wiredash“if you have charges), not in Wilds though.
As an LS main, I absolutely vibe with the new moves it got and the wound system is also very intuitive and accesible.
The story is pretty meh IMO as in every MH I‘ve played, they seemingly did put a lot of budget into those cutscenes though, they look good. I ended up skipping towards the end regardless, and I can’t help but feel half the cutscene budget would have been better off used for engine work.
I saw a bunch of complaints that the game‘s too easy, which I don‘t disagree with but first of all: Tempered Gore. Second of all: Wait for the expansion, the base game is always easier and then the expansion knocks our teeth out.
If I can run Wilds at a stable 60 in performance mode on high settings (should be doable on a 3080), it‘ll be in my top10 fav games ever, but since it runs like total ass, I prefer World still. This is my opinion on the game.
- Comment on The struggle is real 3 weeks ago:
The last time I had something like that was when BF3 was still the most revent entry in the franchise. I knew how the game would go by looking at which side had more names that I recognized lol, good times
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 4 weeks ago:
I always thought CIV was „that game“ for me until I played CK3 and realized that what CK3 does was what I had looked for in CIV but had never really gotten
- Comment on Your all-time favorite game? Let's discuss the best options! 4 weeks ago:
I can‘t really pinpoint one game, it‘s easier for me to list a top 5ish in no particular order (but even then I‘ll probably answer differently in a month from now when I remember games I‘m forgetting about right now). It goes something like this:
Crusader Kings III
Monster Hunter World/Wilds (the latter if it didn‘t run like shit)
Nioh 2
Rocket League (haven‘t played it in years though)
HITMAN
maybe League of Legends if it still was season 7 lol (haven‘t played that in a while either)
Counterstrike 1.6
Dark Souls II (my first soulslike that I played on release with an active online population, so I have the fondest memories of this one, DS1 and its awful PC port was nothing to make fond memories with for me)
Seems like I‘m a competitive/challenging game enjoyer
- Comment on Fields of Mistria adds lava caves and pets you unlock by having a 'pet dream' 4 weeks ago:
I‘ve played 20 odd hours of the initial release version on my Deck and hadn’t hit its content cap. It ran smooth, I didn‘t encounter any bugs or crashes.
Gameplay-wise, it‘s more shallow in the farming aspect but cozier in its atmosphere compared to SDV. Personally, I had a lot of fun, probably the most in a farming sim after SDV. I loved the cast.
I‘ve read criticism that it‘s just a clone which even if true (which I don‘t it is), I don‘t think is a problem: I‘ve played so much SDV, I really needed a different flavor of farming sim to get over the fatigue, but without any extra BS.
It‘s a good and competent game by its own merits, IMO. But it’s not the second coming of farming sim Christ. This is just my 20 hours impression.
- Comment on Jackbox Games coming to Smart TVs for free 5 weeks ago:
My LG OLED autoupdated through the internet last year and now VRR is broken (flickers no matter what or how stable the FPS is), only way to „fix“ it is to set the refresh rate to whatever my FPS is gonna be (most of the time) and then lock my FPS to that and hope it doesn’t dip below that too much (or it‘ll flicker). Support is as helpful as you might imagine.
So yeah, don‘t connect your TV to the internet or you‘re at the mercy of the manufacturer. Lesson learned.
- Comment on Monster Hunter Wilds | Review Thread (89/100 OpenCritic) 1 month ago:
I cannot for the life of me get to a stable 60 fps on half decend settings, I cancelled my preorder and I‘m waiting for the DF review… I might as well grab it on a discount in the future when I have future hardware… The game itself was fantastic, it just ran like ass.
- Comment on Evidence For A Persona 4 Remake Is Mounting Up Thanks To Singer Shihoko Hirata 1 month ago:
The kinda game I can‘t replay cause its mystery carried it so hard for me, and now that I already know the answer…
More than enough people who will replay it or play it for the first time though, so I hope it‘s gonna be good
Seems like they’ve realized remasters of their classics sell
- Comment on Day 214 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
I also picked the cute cat when I first started the game blind and had no idea what it was gonna evolve into, that it’d go from kitty to wrestling star was not on my mind lol
- Comment on Day 212 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games l've been playing until l forget to post Screenshots 1 month ago:
Maybe unpopular opinion, but USUM is my favorite Pokemon game. The graphics were great and fitting, and it had a nice cozy feel with a banger OST.
Going from that to SwSh broke my heart. I literally just wanted a less pixelated USUM and instead they „evolved“ to that weird plastic/clay look like so many other Nintendo-close franchises…
I‘d say I‘m excited for an USUM remake in the future, but I don‘t think they‘d go with the vibrant and clean anime look anymore, and that‘d be over half my excitement gone.
- Comment on Is Civilization 7 not fun? 2 months ago:
100€ for a singular videogame sounds so crazy to me
- Comment on James Bond Game by IO-Interactive 2 months ago:
I loved their last three HITMAN games, easily in my top 10 favorite games ever (the actual story portion of it, not the liveservice), so yeah, I‘m very excited.
I also wished they would‘ve not gone the liveservice route with their last HITMAN title and kept making proper entries. Have there even been new maps since the story ended? Last time I checked all they did was throw out new targets with a shallow story on - at best modified - existing maps.
That being said, I‘m so ready and excited for actual new content from them. Exploring their maps has always been so fun for me.
- Comment on Dynamic Lighting Was Better Nine Years Ago | A Warning About 9TH Gen's Neglect 2 months ago:
I found that channel a couple weeks ago and without having much insight into the development side of games myself, I just thought their videos couldn‘t look more shady if they tried. Especially the plugging of their own company (?) and call for donations among other things left a bad taste. They should work on their presentation IMO.
- Comment on Day 200 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 2 months ago:
What‘s in your new rig?
- Comment on Creator of Bloodborne 60fps Patch Says Sony Has Sent Him a DMCA Takedown — but Why Now? 2 months ago:
I really don‘t understand how FROM, with all their success and talent, fumbles so often on a technical level
- Comment on Dino Crisis 1 & 2 just got enhanced PC re-releases, courtesy of GOG 2 months ago:
TimeSplitters for sure
- Comment on Cyberpunk 2077: Patch 2.21 2 months ago:
Time to put the DLSS 4 dll into other games and see how it looks!
- Comment on Steam REAL TIME STRATEGY FEST is here!!!! 2 months ago:
Wholeheartedly agree with your take on CK3. Considering how greedy they are with their DLC policy, you‘d at least think they‘d be able to get proper multi-core optimizations into their engine so games don‘t grind to a halt lategame…
I did the Lingua Franca achievement in CK3 before mods etc. were allowed for it (essentially a world conquest challenge), and lategame was crazy slow while my CPU was snoozing.
Also it feels to me like the more DLCs they add the more forced/unpolished it gets, the features don’t fit in nicely, but that‘s just my personal opinion. Also lots of oversights in text when I last played.
It‘s a great game regardless which honestly should be pirated, or the base game bought and pirate the rest. The DLC policy is just batshit insane. Don‘t they even have a monthly DLC subscription for some games? Like fuck off lol
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
I hope at least the ninja part plays like an actual assassin instead of brawling with half a dozen guards
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 months ago:
Yeah, I get that, I was just trying to say that the above is probably their reasoning in my mind. They‘re scared shitless to fuck the transition up, calling it „The Stuff You Guys Loved 2.0“ is the lowest risk move.
I like your Super Switch though lol
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 finally officially revealed 2 months ago:
They wanna be very clear that this is their best-selling console ever but better, I would‘ve been surprised if they didn‘t just slap a 2 on it. There‘s so much riding on this for them.
- Comment on Nvidia Announces RTX 50's Graphic Card Blackwell Series: RTX 5090 ($1999), RTX 5080 ($999), RTX 5070 Ti ($749), RTX 5070 ($549) 3 months ago:
My last new graphics card was a 1080, I‘ve bought second hand since then and will keep doing that cause these prices are…
- Comment on Call of Duty's massive development budgets revealed: $700 million for Black Ops Cold War 3 months ago:
Sounds sustainable af
- Comment on Day 173 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I’ve been playing until I forget to post Screenshots 3 months ago:
The game has become more of a brawler‘s creed, I wish it was more about figuring out how to cleanly assassinate your target instead of leveling up to match the level of and fight a buncha goons…
I hope Shadows won‘t just be a bad Tsushima…
- Comment on From Bloodborne, The Witcher 3, Metal Gear Solid V will turn 10 in 2025, believe it or not 3 months ago:
It‘s also crazy how they‘ve aged. Do top games nowadays look better? Yes. Do they look a decade better, though?
- Comment on what was the last game you played in 2024? 3 months ago:
NFS Unbound… I was just trying to finish it lol