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[Cryomancer]

Why people seems to hate returning 2.0 so much?

Anyway, Solasta + G3

 

[anvi]

I wish I could paste stuff in here like discord.

 

[curds]

Why people seems to hate returning 2.0 so much?

I can't speak for anyone else, but personally I think the changes and additions to the UI look ugly and unnecessary. The mod comes across to me as a case of "modders gonna mod" where a bunch of shit was changed just because.

 

[SerratedBiz]

I wish I could paste stuff in here like discord.

I wish you would just stay in discord.

 

[anvi]

I wish you had a signature quote from a real comedian.

 

[abnaxus]

 

[Yldr]

Nostalgia (2009) on DS

Nostalgia would be a mediocre unremarkable cookie-cutter jRPG were it not for the airship battles.

Emulation often accidentally answers the question "what would the budget version of [x] feel like?" and today's episode, of course, is Skies of Arcadia.

Let me get this out of the way first: the writing is absolutely fucking garbage. It was obviously not written by a native English speaker and most of it feels like hastily written filler, a laziness and lack of budget weirdly contrasted with elaborate in-engine cutscenes.

Credit where credit is due, it's refreshing to have a fantasy game using real-life locations, and the larger cities have been crafted with a lot of care. The game also deserves praise for never getting bloaty: trash mobs are resolved quickly and even bosses aren't very tanky. The one exception is the aerial battles as there is a hard cap to how powerful your airship can be, meaning some flying enemies will remain dangerous until the end.

The writing is so bad I felt like I had just played a placeholder, a proof-of-concept for a Skies of Arcadia demake... but seen through that lens I have to admit it's enjoyable in the end. My handheld can't keep up with Dreamcast emulation, much less GameCube; unearthing these UFOs from the PS1 and DS libraries is part of the fun.

Spoiler

 

[Nifft Batuff]

(Cloudpunk)

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Perfect Cyberpunk atmosphere

 

[User was nabbed fit]

RDR2 Online. Everything on Ultra will still push even an RTX 3080. There are several options you can disable with no noticeable effect to improve FPS, which I did pretty much right after this.

Some graphical details in the online mode are actually nerfed compared to single player, but it still looks pretty nice... particularly the long view/draw distances. A screenshot is one thing, but in motion it's far more impressive with the dynamic lighting and ray tracing.

 

[Jinn]

Emulation often accidentally answers the question

Hey, what emulator is that? I've been looking for one where I'm able to do a screen configuration like that.

 

[Gamezor]

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty great so far

Finished it recently, and yeah, I was surprised how good it was.

I expected to like it based on what I'd heard and the fact that post-apoc is one of my favorite settings, but it's actually the best game I've played so far in 2020.

I thought the combat was the best for any open world game i’ve played, and there was a legitimately interesting sci to story. I finish almost no games and finished this and the dlc.

 

[Gamezor]

RDR2 Online. Everything on Ultra will still push even an RTX 3080. There are several options you can disable with no noticeable effect to improve FPS, which I did pretty much right after this.

Some graphical details in the online mode are actually nerfed compared to single player, but it still looks pretty nice... particularly the long view/draw distances. A screenshot is one thing, but in motion it's far more impressive with the dynamic lighting and ray tracing.

Man this game is gorgeous. I have not tried online, is it fun? I didn’t even get close to finishing the story. They built this gorgeous open world with all these mechanics. But I finally realized from a gameplay perspective its pointless to engage with.

 

[Catacombs]

I have not tried online, is it fun?

Have you played GTA Online? If so, it's similar: you complete missions to build up cash and "rep," and dealing with trash players who can one-shot you from across the map.

The setting is different, but the bullshit stays the same. This time, those trash players are one-shotting your ass in the dark, riding upside down on their tricked-out horse (it might as well as be a car compared to your little red wagon of a stallion), draining your health with a Mountain Dew sponsored shotgun they got with the preorder several years ago.

You're 200 yards away. How are they killing you so quickly? In multiplayer, logic flies out the window faster than you're flying off your horse and wounded on the ground. As you lie wounded, that player (dressed in nothing but a hat and underwear) shoots his gun tauntingly around your body, telling you how awful you are and how big of a dipshit you are for roaming around "his turf." You soon discern you're talking to a 15-year-old kid from Boston. Before you can say anything, he pumps a slug into your dome. Wasted.

Rinse and repeat until you're back here bitching about the multiplayer and wondering why on earth anyone would spend time in that hellscape.

 

[CyberModuled]

Decided to try out RealRTCW as an excuse for a replay of RTCW and so far it's pretty good stuff. Definitely like the new texture work, new weapons, and sound design. Architecture looks pretty as ever and the new textures only help with it.

 

[User was nabbed fit]

I have not tried online, is it fun?

Have you played GTA Online? If so, it's similar: you complete missions to build up cash and "rep," and dealing with trash players who can one-shot you from across the map.

The setting is different, but the bullshit stays the same. This time, those trash players are one-shotting your ass in the dark, riding upside down on their tricked-out horse (it might as well as be a car compared to your little red wagon of a stallion), draining your health with a Mountain Dew sponsored shotgun they got with the preorder several years ago.

You're 200 yards away. How are they killing you so quickly? In multiplayer, logic flies out the window faster than you're flying off your horse and wounded on the floor. As you lie wounded, that player (dressed in nothing but a hat and underwear) shoots his gun tauntingly around your body, telling you how awful you are and how big of a dipshit you are for roaming around "his turf." You soon discern you're talking to a 15-year-old kid from Boston. Before you can say anything, he pumps into your dome. Lights out.

Rinse and repeat until you're back here bitching about the multiplayer and wondering why on earth anyone would spend time in that hellscape.

That's brilliant. There are supposedly tricks to avoid coming across other players (loading into empty instances), so I'm going to see if that's possible as well as playing in passive/defensive mode. Doubt I'll play long but I'll take in the scenery for a bit. PvE gunplay is fairly satisfying too.

 

[Yldr]

Emulation often accidentally answers the question

Hey, what emulator is that? I've been looking for one where I'm able to do a screen configuration like that.

That's DraStic for Android, but melonDS on PC can do it do.

On PC or on a tablet the small screen will probably be 100% functional as is. On my 5-inch tablet it's very small so it's fine as long as it's a map or some random info, but the custom shortcut you see in the black space is for screen-swapping if I need to be able to read something.

 

[Cryomancer]

 

[octavius]

Unleashing the Bloodthirsty for HoMM 3.

One of the legendary HoMM 3 user-made maps, this is quite brutal with some very tough enemy heroes with all the right skills and spells and nearly god-like stats. So I thought I'd beat up some Azure Dragons, since an event text suggested they hold a powerful artifact. Once I was able to recruit an Arch Devil (being devilishly slim and agile) I was ready to carry out my cunning plan.

Sure, what can possibly go wrong (except the Arch Devil freezing in fear, that is)?

WTF?!? No room to place Force Field? This is not fair...
And that stupid First Aid tent blocks a possible Clone spell, if I put a Force Field in the lower left corner.

But destroying the tent with a Meteor Shower made room for the Clone, and the fact that the Clone don't inherit any of the clonee's statuses, including number of shots left, saved the day.

But all I got for my troubles was a measly 50,000 gold. Yay, now I can by 10 Titans!

 

[Madawc]

 

[Riskbreaker]

Some of my own NuAmnesia pics.

Spoiler

Can't say I've been enjoying myself too much. The Foreign Legion fortress was the highpoint for sure. Great blend of exploration, puzzles and tension, somewhat open environment, extremely limited resources, contrast between the pitch dark, claustrophobic, corpse-laden insides and melancholy desert sunset & desolation on the outside, the story still shrouded in mystery. Everything afterwards kinda blended together, I'd already have issues remembering much about particular sections save for for moments - for example there is one bit later on that brings to bind the bit with sleeping bloodsuckers from Stalker CoP.

 

[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Spoiler

 

[Psquit]

It's been some time since I played Binary Domain.

Welcome to the rice fields!

Spoiler

Bretty gud, 3.5/5. Some generic popamole gameplay but I dig the story. Basically, it's Fallout 4 with more coherent writing. Some twists and betrays.

 

[Fedora Master]

Sword in my hand,
Axe on my side.
Valhall awaits me,
When I die.
Bear skin on my back,
Wolf jaw on my head.
Valhall awaits me
When I'm dead.

 

[octavius]

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Sword in my hand,
Axe on my side.
Valhall awaits me,
When I die.
Bear skin on my back,
Wolf jaw on my head.
Valhall awaits me
When I'm dead.

That must be the Valhall with a whisky hall instead of a mead hall.