PC Gaming ERA | October 2019 - No Truce With The Outer Worlds
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Personally, I don't think that more than 10+ hours is a good length for FPS game. Right now I'm playing Ion Fury, and while it's a great game and I have fun with it, I don't understand why it's still going. Even with great level design and music, gameplay loop gets old after the first 5 hours and there's no new exciting weapons and enemies, so it mostly plays the same. In my opinion, 7-8 hours is the perfect length for the FPS game.
I just want to spend more times with characters. That is why it is short for me. I would say that 12-13h is minimum I would like to see. CoD is basically non-stop action, adding more slow paced moments where you spend more time with characters would bring playtime above 10h for sure.
Short of posting each image separately, no. The order of multi-item activity posts is random.
19 hours of gaming ago, I started KOTOR, just a humble scoundrel, not a credit to my name.
I travelled far and met a lot of people. I did things I'm not proud of.
But I finally got to Dantooine and trained in the ways of the Jedi...
... AND EARNED MY DAMN LIGHTSABER.
Not happy about its colour, but hopefully I can change it with a crystal or something.
19 FRIGGIN HOURS.
I travelled far and met a lot of people. I did things I'm not proud of.
But I finally got to Dantooine and trained in the ways of the Jedi...
... AND EARNED MY DAMN LIGHTSABER.
Not happy about its colour, but hopefully I can change it with a crystal or something.
19 FRIGGIN HOURS.
It depends on the game but I think 5-10 hours is fine for CoD. Playing MW right now and it's pretty short but missions are really varied and budget is obviously super high so I prefer short and sweet instead of games dragging out throwing all the different enemies/weapons at you for the first half and then the second half is just different levels without anything new.
I like that in MW they put more effort into story progression and the characters, there's some type of missions I've never seen before in a CoD game that are more like story missions. Not just all out action. Also the shooting part is surprisingly solid. It feels like old times in CoD4, gameplay is actually super fun.
I like that in MW they put more effort into story progression and the characters, there's some type of missions I've never seen before in a CoD game that are more like story missions. Not just all out action. Also the shooting part is surprisingly solid. It feels like old times in CoD4, gameplay is actually super fun.
Potential EGS title Dying Light (2) is having some kind of cross over event with L4D2. Now idk what the chances of DL2 being EGS exclusive are but it seemed like the talk was it could be one of the potential titles to get snapped up by Epic awhile back but here they are doing a event with Valve.
Giveaway
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Hello, I am bot! I come bearing 5 gifts from
SteveWinwood!
SteveWinwood!
This is a raffle that will expire in 12 hours. The winner will be drawn at random! Any prizes leftover after the deadline will become available on a first-come first-serve basis.
SteveWinwood said:
These are our awesome prizes:
i didnt know how to delete a random game input i skipped over so i just wrote theres nothing there instead
dont enter for it
dont enter for it
Which imo is a great addition, something that was needed for a while.
19 hours of gaming ago, I started KOTOR, just a humble scoundrel, not a credit to my name.
I travelled far and met a lot of people. I did things I'm not proud of.
But I finally got to Dantooine and trained in the ways of the Jedi...
... AND EARNED MY DAMN LIGHTSABER.
Not happy about its colour, but hopefully I can change it with a crystal or something.
19 FRIGGIN HOURS.
I want to play KOTOR but it's like ten deep in my backlog and new games are jumping in all the time :(
about fkn time19 hours of gaming ago, I started KOTOR, just a humble scoundrel, not a credit to my name.
I travelled far and met a lot of people. I did things I'm not proud of.
But I finally got to Dantooine and trained in the ways of the Jedi...
... AND EARNED MY DAMN LIGHTSABER.
Not happy about its colour, but hopefully I can change it with a crystal or something.
19 FRIGGIN HOURS.
what a journey
Fantastic addition.
I'm sure some whiners will find a way to call this bad.
This sounds like a highly complicated and suspicious ruse. Entered.
Chris Avellone is a big contributor to Dying Light 2. I don't know the exact title but he's heavily involved in the narrative stuff. He's very much against the idea of EGS exclusivity so hopefully they listen to him.
I mean, in the end he has no power at all, but I don't think it would be a good idea to make your big name angry like that. Might not get him back for DLCs!
(I'm just hoping and hoping and hoping it won't go to EGS...)
If that is true you should probably cancel and redo the giveaway.
Seriously, how did it take you so many hours?
First time I played KOTOR, Tanis took me about 8 hours to complete. Granted, I didn't do all the side quests on that run.
But my second playthrough, I did pretty much every quest on Tanis (skipping some Pazaak though probably) and left Tanis after.... 5 hours?
How do you end up at 19 hours? That must be a record! 😆
I was in the same situation as you, but I'm trying to be methodical about tackling my backlog this year. I'm ignoring new games, they all release buggy on day one anyway. I was playing Apex Legends on PS4 for several weeks, enjoying it, but then it started to stress me out. The horrendously awful rando teammates, that is. I was also getting annoyed by dirty drivers on GT Sport and F1 2019, so I decided to take a break from all online games and needed something narrative heavy.
I tried Thronebreaker, but sadly I found it disappointing. With a new SW movie on the way, I figured it was time to finally check out KOTOR and see what all the fuss is about. I'm enjoying it quite a lot, despite the hammy acting and simple story, it's still more compelling than some modern RPGs, everything about this game just feels like it had a lot of passion put into it, and the execution of the premise is excellent, you really feel like you're on an epic journey.
I didn't even play Pazaak!!! I decided to ignore it, not a big fan of card games. If there were achievements related to it I might have, but this game has no achievements so I didn't feel compelled to try it.
Honestly, I didn't do anything weird, I ran around Taris doing all main and side quests. I check the map regularly so I never got lost or even stuck on any fights. Which kind of surprised me, because it's taken me a while to get used to this type of combat. The hardest part of the game so far has been the bit where you're in space firing at enemy spacecraft. I don't think my mouse sensitivity was high enough, so it took me ages to swing around and target them, lol.
19 hours of training and you get given a lightsaber? Boy the Jedi Order used to just hand em out. And to a random scoundrel too!
A yellow lightsaber. The first Sith I encounter is going to die laughing. :|
As a big strategy fan, it's a shame there aren't many SW themed ones. I went down the Steam rabbit hole and found this little gem though.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack on Steam
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?
Spec Ops: The Line finished. I remember it being longer than the 5 hours it turned out to be, but there's so much packed into those 5 hours that it's well worth a playthrough. It's a real trip of heavy subject matter and high concepts, reaching to be about something more than the rest of the military shooter brethren. An American Military Unit goes into the Middle East, ostensibly to help, but after the inevitable mission creep they wind up caught up in a quagmire they can't escape from before countless civilians and military are killed. I wonder what this might be in reference too?! It's all about taking a sledgehammer to the idea of moral absolutism and certainty that 'we', i.e. the West, are undoubtedly the good guys in all those military shooters, while also tearing down the idea of 'moral choice' in games which suggest that everything outside of those binary choices is morally irrelevant. I love the physical degradation of the team throughout the five hours too, going from typical wise cracking military hero types (helped by Nolan North being cast as the lead, I think it might be his best role) to brutal and brutalised killers only caring about getting revenge for what they did.
Also, Bruce Boxleitner pulls a real Commander Sheridan as the legendary Colonel you're after, John Konrad. (Yeah, Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now are huge inspirations for the game, which is fine by me.)
Makes sense; opinions can easily change over a period of time, so I'm fine with this.
i actually really liked that they waited a decent amount of time to give you one. The easy thing would be to lean into the fanservice immediately.
I wanna give a shoutout to Spin Rhythm. If you're into rhythm games that feature complex reading & multitasking (SDVX, DJ Hero), Spin Rhythm is for you.
The game is hard. But when it clicks, it becomes super rewarding. Great selection of licensed music as well.
The game is hard. But when it clicks, it becomes super rewarding. Great selection of licensed music as well.
This looks sick though not like something I could play with my current wrist problems
Hey guys... So I started playing Children of Morta (that game is amazing btw!) and noticed that I was still getting screen tearing even with the in-game VSync enabled so I decided to go force it via NVIDIA Inspector instead.
I realized that the version of Inspector I am using is 1.9.7.8 from 2016... I see that the game profiles are still getting updated everytime you open the second window but is there a more recent version of the overall tool available or this is still the latest? Not finding much on Google
I realized that the version of Inspector I am using is 1.9.7.8 from 2016... I see that the game profiles are still getting updated everytime you open the second window but is there a more recent version of the overall tool available or this is still the latest? Not finding much on Google
Hey guys, quick question... I have never used Origin Access before...
Do all the first party EA games automatically get added day 1 to the "Premier" tier?
I'm thinking of grabbing one month for 20$ to play through Jedi Fallen Order on release... Kinda like what I just did with UPlay+ and Ghost Recon lol
Do all the first party EA games automatically get added day 1 to the "Premier" tier?
I'm thinking of grabbing one month for 20$ to play through Jedi Fallen Order on release... Kinda like what I just did with UPlay+ and Ghost Recon lol
Hmm interesting. Not quite sure if I'm feeling in right now, likely in part because I'm also just not sure if I'm that in the mood for another platformer right at this moment, but looks interesting enough to keep an eye on.
Since you don't seem to think there is a problem with an empty giveaway I am guessing you actually did put something there then.
You actually get them a handful of days early. Usually somewhere between 4 and 10 days early.
I mean, I don't see why there would be a problem myself. All people have to do is just not click it and ignore it, just like the option says. Easy. Not getting where the problem is exactly.
It really doesn't seem like a big deal to me, certainly not enough to actually need to reset the giveaway and just seems to be people overthinking things but that's my take.
Cool.... Well I just saved a bunch of money to play a single player game lol
Yeah, like said earlier they usually come out a few days before release too. They're the ultimate version of the games.
Giving away nothing isn't allowed and locks people out of other giveaways for no reason. Sure, they should have read the info but clearly four people either didn't believe it was actually empty (because it's a thing to pretend something cool is nothing, and when people mess up for real they usually repost the giveaway properly) or didn't read it.
I entered for the nothing option for a laugh. It isn't that big a deal.
A yellow lightsaber. The first Sith I encounter is going to die laughing. :|
As a big strategy fan, it's a shame there aren't many SW themed ones. I went down the Steam rabbit hole and found this little gem though.
STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack on Steam
Command or corrupt an entire galaxy in the definitive Star Wars strategy collection. It is a time of galactic civil war. Will you take up the reins of the Rebellion, assume control of the Empire, or rule the Star Wars Underworld?store.steampowered.com
Yo, don't knock a yellow lightsaber. Canonically, those only went to Jedi Sentinels - those equally powerful in combat and scholar pursuits.
Wandersong is really pretty but I wish it had a faster movement option. Hopefully they give me one later or something as a dance
I entered because I actually want to win nothing.
My new goal in life is to get SteveWinwood banned for their giveaway.
They don't but you do get a lot of fun dances
Nvidia Inspector was abandoned and then later picked up by another coder called Orbmu2k. It's open source so it can be forked by anyone but Orbmu2k's version is the only one I've personally used.
Specific game profiles are added via driver updates from Nvidia though and not through Inspector, so I wouldn't worry too much if things are working as intended. Inspector is just that, an inspector. ;) It simply lets you alter existing parameters within the driver.
If you're interested in updating to Orbmu2k's version, you can find their releases on Github here: https://github.com/Orbmu2k/nvidiaProfileInspector/releases
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Just posted a review for Disc Creatures. It's an RPG designed in the spirit of classic pokemon games.
I highly recommend checking the game out.
I highly recommend checking the game out.
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