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[Taka-Haradin puolipeikko]

Spoiler

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Nothing personnel, kid.

 

[Catacombs]

Him: "Wait. It's been brick this whole time?"
You: *Cocks guns*
You: "Always has been."

 

[PulsatingBrain]

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty great so far

 

[Ninja Destroyer]

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty great so far

How is the performance right now? I remember, that during the initial release the game had problems with that, even on good hardware.

 

[PrettyDeadman]

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty great so far

How is the performance right now? I remember, that during the initial release the game had problems with that, even on good hardware.

Define good.

 

[Catacombs]

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty great so far

How is the performance right now? I remember, that during the initial release the game had problems with that, even on good hardware.

I'm running a 3700x with GTX 1070 and 16GB of ram, and I can play it on High no problem, if that helps.

 

[PulsatingBrain]

How is the performance right now? I remember, that during the initial release the game had problems with that, even on good hardware.

i5 9600k and a 2060 super, running very smoothly on very high. It suggested ultra but I was getting the occasional fps dip and knocked a few settings down.

 

[JDR13]

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.

 

[JDR13]

Horizon Zero Dawn is pretty great so far

How is the performance right now? I remember, that during the initial release the game had problems with that, even on good hardware.

I'm running a 3700x with GTX 1070 and 16GB of ram, and I can play it on High no problem, if that helps.

I played on Ultra settings at 1920x1200 with a i7-4790K and GTX 1080, and it was almost always completely smooth for me.

 

[dextermorgan]

 

[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.

 

[Lyre Mors]

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.