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PC Gaming ERA | September 2019 - The Girls Are Back In Town
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Rami is just making shit up as he's going along is he...
On Act 3, almost Act 4 of Gears 5 now and I honestly don't understand the praise around the game.
Sure the PC version is well optimized, it runs very well, but the campaign is way too similar to the Gears 4 one, the story is here as it was here in the other Gears games just to justify some shooting.
It's nice they added a semi-open world, but honestly it's not so interesting to navigate, so after I cleared the first snowy area I didn't bother with the desert one even because you can live without those ultimate upgrades for Jack.
To me Gears 5 is exactly what Gears 4 was: an honest, funny week-end game you'll beat and forget in about one week. If you are not interested in the multiplayer there's no reason to dump 70€ on this.
Also I wonder, since the game uses XBox login, if you share savegames between the Win Store and Steam version.
Sure the PC version is well optimized, it runs very well, but the campaign is way too similar to the Gears 4 one, the story is here as it was here in the other Gears games just to justify some shooting.
It's nice they added a semi-open world, but honestly it's not so interesting to navigate, so after I cleared the first snowy area I didn't bother with the desert one even because you can live without those ultimate upgrades for Jack.
To me Gears 5 is exactly what Gears 4 was: an honest, funny week-end game you'll beat and forget in about one week. If you are not interested in the multiplayer there's no reason to dump 70€ on this.
Also I wonder, since the game uses XBox login, if you share savegames between the Win Store and Steam version.
So is the Steam version all good? Was hearing people having stuttering issues on the Windows Store version.
Thanks for the link. That was an interesting read. Waypoint continues to be a good place for quality commentary. Should've known to check them by this point!
Let me just quickly dampen your expectations here and point out that the turn based tactical combat of This Is The Police 2 wasn't it's strongest suit
And going by those screenshots, this one seems to be the exact same gameplay, hud and mechanics.
Man, playing Gears 5 crossplay with Xbox has been all but problem free... cinematics getting out of sync with huge audio delays, objects that you shoot around are not in the same places for host and client, getting disconnected several times so host has to restart the game in order for me to rejoin... but the most annoying issue is that I had to play with like 500 ms lag all the time. In the end I got permanently disconnected so we stopped playing, but the servers have been updated now so hopefully it will be a better experience next session.
I'm playing the Game Pass version and it's totally ok with a 970, a very well optimized game.
EDIT: Just completed the game. Overall it was very short, but as I wrote I skipped all the optional objectives in the second open-world location. Enjoyable game to spend a couple of days on, expecially with a coop buddy, but totally not worth the 70€ Microsoft is charging unless you aim to spend a lot of time on the multiplayer.
The game crashed on me twice, one in the final act right before I triggered a checkpoint, another in Act 2, but it runs very fine considering the 970 is like five years old or so.
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I..uh, am one of you now. I just ordered a pre-built unit (due to store credit at a retailer that doesn't sell parts themselves), so I will now be adding (more recent) PC games to my library. Not that I needed to get a new PC to upgrade from my laptop, but I'll be going from:
EDIT: Forgot to add that I play indies almost exclusively on my Switch (previously Vita), but I'm probably only going to focus on the big AAA and/or PC exclusives for my PC (since I already have a ton of games across my various consoles already).
- i7-4800MQ
- 32GB DDR3 1600Mhz
- GTX 765M
- i9-9900K
- 16GB DDR4 2666Mhz
- RTX 2070 Super
EDIT: Forgot to add that I play indies almost exclusively on my Switch (previously Vita), but I'm probably only going to focus on the big AAA and/or PC exclusives for my PC (since I already have a ton of games across my various consoles already).
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So if highlight game interests you consider getting it.
I expect games preaviously free on PS Plus or Epic store, like Conarium, Celeste, Subnautica and similar.
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So if highlight game interests you consider getting it.
I need to get back to Wuppo, game seemed incredibly charming and novel outside of some cumbersome inventory elements.
Carrying around a loud squaking hint bird on your head that annoys everyone is great.
Carrying around a loud squaking hint bird on your head that annoys everyone is great.
So I just need a Total War Access account to get them in October?
State of Mind is cool, and I was going to pay Guacamelee 2 on Game Pass but I'd rather own it. rest of the Humble Monthly is meh but c'est la vie
Pretty solid Monthly
Gods Trigger, State of Mind, Guacamelee! 2 were on my radar, Slay the Spire is great, Distance looks interesting and Shady Knight has style.
The Battletech highlight hurts a little because I bought that game at launch but still haven't played it...
Gods Trigger, State of Mind, Guacamelee! 2 were on my radar, Slay the Spire is great, Distance looks interesting and Shady Knight has style.
The Battletech highlight hurts a little because I bought that game at launch but still haven't played it...
The season pass for the game costs more than the game itself.
I dunno what's all that hard to understand about the praise, the campaign is an extremely solid third person shooter with co-op and great graphics, and the multiplayer modes are like 2/3rds of the game.
I think when you manage to nearly beat a game in like 24 hours and then say "what's the big deal" you kind of undercut your point a bit. A lot of people can't manage to put half that much time into games they truly adore in that small time frame.
I don't think I've beat a game in a day or weekend in ages. Aside from ones that are like 2-3 hours long, that is.
I don't think I've beat a game in a day or weekend in ages. Aside from ones that are like 2-3 hours long, that is.
I had 2 days off work and I beat the game, what's so hard to understand? It's a Gears game, the campaign is very short.
I don't even watch the trailer through if it opens with 10 seconds of fading through the game name and developer name like the one in that post. Typically a store icon looks interesting, I click it then immediately skip to the center of the trailer and watch a few seconds, only looking at more info if the gameplay or graphics are interesting. I think some stuff slips through the cracks with this method, but the throughput is high.
Thats a very interesting article. Also part of why I loved the 6 second microtrailer steamlab, and was surprised about the backlash by indie developers (although it is understandable as they already struggle to make a really great trailer).
Trailers is something I really only look after the game has peaked my interest nowadays, or during big events, and only as a sort of confirmation of the game being interesting, but the art behind them is also very interesting:
I sort of base myself off of theory that if the overall page/look of the game doesn't draw me in after I read its like 20~ word description I just mark it as ignore and move on.
I only ever spend more time looking at stuff like more screenshots and the trailer after the original "Ooh what's this" phase
I only ever spend more time looking at stuff like more screenshots and the trailer after the original "Ooh what's this" phase
Its a Paradox game, now you are hooked, and your next paycheck is owned by your swedish overlords. See you in Berlin next October!
You need to pick which platform becomes dominant. Should be able to on https://www.bungie.net/7/en/CrossSave.
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