PC Gaming Era | December 2018 - We got 99 problems, but 76 ain't one
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No idea. I'm guessing the in game AA setting does very little if anything. I've never seen AA listed as a numbered scale so I have no idea what each one means lol.
I need me some quintessential PC FPS recommendations, peeps.
Just so you know what I'm looking for:
I'm getting hyped for Witchfire. I fucking LOOOVED DOOM and BLOOD back in the day. Currently thinking about getting Painkiller and Bulletstorm Full Clip. Also thought about Shadow Warrior and Serious Sam for some wacky shit.
Love me some atmosphere too. F.E.A.R. was my shit for the longest time. Never got to play 2 or 3(heard it was ass)
Don't mind a bit more story and world building than straight gameplay.
Suggest away please!
Just so you know what I'm looking for:
I'm getting hyped for Witchfire. I fucking LOOOVED DOOM and BLOOD back in the day. Currently thinking about getting Painkiller and Bulletstorm Full Clip. Also thought about Shadow Warrior and Serious Sam for some wacky shit.
Love me some atmosphere too. F.E.A.R. was my shit for the longest time. Never got to play 2 or 3(heard it was ass)
Don't mind a bit more story and world building than straight gameplay.
Suggest away please!
Not really. I couldn't get into them back when they were the zeitgeist.
Probably the same reason i couldn't get into Dishonored and Prey. Which is odd because i love the Deus Ex games to death.
Try setting the trigger to digital mode instead of analog.
Definitely get Painkiller. The "Black Edition" to be specific, ignore the sequels and remake. It's my favorite of the Serious Sam series-of-arenas formula FPS games. Nothing fancy, just weapon/level/enemy design all very much on point.
Overload is great. It's Descent 4 by another name, from some of the original Descent devs.
Give Amid Evil a look too, it's a modern Heretic.
Also if you don't know how sick Doom and Quake modding have gotten: they're very sick. The current hot thing is Eviternity.
Dark horse non-retro-style pick: Singularity. Famous case of development hell, tried to hop the BioShock bandwagon, but the end product was a very silly piece of sci-fi-horror cheese with weird overpowered guns and time powers. Once you get past the slow, survival-horror-ish intro it's the next-best thing to a good FEAR sequel.
Well I didn't find a way to improve AA for DQXI but I did find this in the pc performance thread and it seems to have made quite the difference. There's virtually no pop in anymore and shadows extend further than 5 feet now.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/742120/discussions/0/3338745825890596031/
https://steamcommunity.com/app/742120/discussions/0/3338745825890596031/
You're saying all the right names. Heretic... that takes me back.
Singularity! For some reason I got that one mixed with Timeshift. They both ran like shit on PS3.
Haven't played the others, but Divinity 2 is one of the best games I've ever played
Divinity 2 is one of the best games of recent years. Hitman 2 is also very good but if I was to play a single game, it would be Divinity 2 all the way. Hitman 2 feels more like a side dish, something to play alongside other games.
What the fuck? From what I've seen in his response under this tweet, he changed russian regional price within 5 minutes and then when it was still the same, he said "dammit, it usually takes 5-6 seconds to update the prices, it should be fine now".
I highly doubt he contacted with the devs before all those price changes. But I guess, since SMB is free devs don't care how much it will be priced after the giveaway?
That is, in a subpar store with less than 30 games.
People tell us to wait until it gets better. What a bunch of idiots.
The store is fucked up. The launcher is fucked up. The priced are fucked up. Fuck this noise.
Any impressions on this actually?
Seemed like it has it's 15 seconds of fame with the trailer and then was forgotten :/
Judging by the amount of reviews on Steam 428 didn't sell all that well. Shame, it's one of the very few VNs that I think never dragged and is interesting to read from start to finish, plus, one of the very few there translators actually worked their asses off to adapt it in a way that makes prose itself sound good.
Hitman 2 has super cocain.
Any other games with super cocain? No? So buy Hitman 2.
Dude.
Thank you. This looks fucking magnificent. It's like Hexen, Heretic and Blood all rolled into a beautiful love letter.
I'm just reporting what a friend told me so I can't really elaborate on that but he said he had a lot of fun with the game but it's also pretty linear and once finished there's no reason to come back to do other stuff like beating high scores, finding secrets, and things like that.
I think this might be good or bad depending on your preferences. I think I might like that.
Decent action and a story less tiresome than the previous ones?
It's a shame but it came out at a very busy month and was arguably priced too high :(
Thanks for the replies!So it's between Hitman2 and Divinity 2 now. Both reasonably priced in my region but i only have time for one. Might go for D2.
If you like RPGs at all, I'd go with DOS2. Aside from how good it is mechanically, it is also a one-of-a-kind roleplaying experience.
I got a refund for it. It's nothing like oldschool shooter. No quicksave, no manual load/save, no checkpoints in the maps, tacked on RPG light elements, no verticality in the maps, often unfair placed enemies, etc. Also, they have removed head bobbing completely, no option to enable it. I liked the head bobbing. :(
I'm interested in it, but the price was a bit too much for me personally.
Interesting.
Btw, same price in RU region in Epic/Steam (299 rubles)
I love RPGs! my only problem it takes me months to finish them :p.
There is kinda less action than in previous games. Game is more exploration based, and tombs are bit more bigger and complex than in previous entries. Story is not any worse than in previous games. That is how i see SotTR so if you are in for more exploration and enjoying great environments go for it.
From my experience, there is a very little action, it's okay but gunfights are very rare. It more focused on exploration and simple puzzle tombs. Didn't bother with story much, but maybe that's because of the fact that I enter photomode almost every second of cutscenes so I can't follow much what's going on.
Shadow Warrior 2013 is really great. The plot wasn't quite what I was expecting from the dialogue writing. SW2 on the other hand... unless you have friends interested, probably best to avoid.
Try the demo. It's quite generous.
1 Intro story driven section.
1 exploration tomb section with puzzles
1 combat/stealth section
1 escape sequence section
I quit during the last section as it was getting too late, but the demo hadn't ended yet (although I assume it ends soon after that).
Should be more than enough to let you know if you'll enjoy the game. I found it far more enjoyable than I thought I would, but I liked TR2013 and skipped Rise (tried it for a couple of hours but didn't get into it)... I could see it being too similar if you played the first two, or not TR enough if you didn't like 2013, etc...
But the demo is free, and generous, so definitely try it.
Yeah, the price definitely didn't help to bring more sales, Chunsoft overestimated the amount of people who were actually waiting for the release. I also think the presentation of the game alienated a lot of VN fans.
After reading a ton of stuff yesterday from articles to ERA comments and threads to Reddit comments to YT videos, I just ordered myself a Rift.
Why? Because the original Rift price is a lot cheaper than the VIVE, plus I don't want to spend more money on the VIVE deluxe headset strap, plus I got a 10%% referral code for the Rift + Touch bundle from someone on Reddit, plus the Steam kunckles, if they are sold by Valve, will never arrive in my country just like all other Valve hardware and accessory anyways.
I have no idea why Valve stuff like the controller, the link and so on does not exist in Norway, but they don't for whatever reason.
My main reason for the Rift is simply just to play my Steam games and the Oculus exclusive games.
Why? Because the original Rift price is a lot cheaper than the VIVE, plus I don't want to spend more money on the VIVE deluxe headset strap, plus I got a 10%% referral code for the Rift + Touch bundle from someone on Reddit, plus the Steam kunckles, if they are sold by Valve, will never arrive in my country just like all other Valve hardware and accessory anyways.
I have no idea why Valve stuff like the controller, the link and so on does not exist in Norway, but they don't for whatever reason.
My main reason for the Rift is simply just to play my Steam games and the Oculus exclusive games.
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There's something amusing about the amount of care over the exact pricing being slashed out over the free release period on Super Meat Boy during the past couple pages.
I'm really going in on Yakuza 0's side stuff at the moment, it's all pretty goofy and fun but I could see some people getting rubbed the wrong way with a few things in particular. Kiryu is one shallow jerk. Whenever he sets up a date at the telephone club and goes to meet, if his date isn't a JAV actress he's always put off and acts like he's been scarred for life after.
I'm really going in on Yakuza 0's side stuff at the moment, it's all pretty goofy and fun but I could see some people getting rubbed the wrong way with a few things in particular. Kiryu is one shallow jerk. Whenever he sets up a date at the telephone club and goes to meet, if his date isn't a JAV actress he's always put off and acts like he's been scarred for life after.
Well to me it's a question of hoping they establish actual policies for not just overcharging certain regions by default.
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