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derExperte

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POLYBIUS got a hefty price cut today.


That one too.
 
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Arsene

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Me: Nioh isn't so ba-
First Boss: :02dead:
I found that the further you go into the game and the more it opens up the easier it gets (Until the fucking DLC). It never gets "easy" per say and its always pretty challenging but its difficulty definitely balances out and becomes less of a chore.

Its definitely one of my favorite games released in the past few years and i'm really looking forward to Nioh 2 when it eventually comes to PC but the beginning is a bit frustrating.
 
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Kvik

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Downunder.
Play Scarlet Grace, folks.
My Christmas break begins today, so I'll be putting serious hours into it.

... right after I've done my last-minute Christmas shopping. :02dead:
I've been playing more Yakuza 0 lately, and I'm impressed how good the story, characters, dialogs and humor are. I wish I discovered this franchise sooner!
You forgot the music.



 
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POLYBIUS got a hefty price cut today.


That one too.
Thanks for the heads-up, derExperte. :highfiveblob:
 
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Álvaro de Campos

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So what is a real game? Is A Short Hike not a real game? Gone Home not a real game?
I've never even heard of A Short Hike but I don't consider Gone Home to be a real game. Much like Dear Esther the lack of obstacles stopping you from reaching your goal(s) define it as an interactive experience.
That said, a meme game is a different thing.
 

Durante

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I'm playing Ys VIII right now, and after installing Special K to get proper AF (because that's a totally normally thing to do in 2019, god I hate NISA), and disabling the ingame "FXAA" (which is literally just a fucking blur effect, who the hell did they gave this port to?)
Yeah, I think that's the first time I ever saw something called "FXAA" in-game and actually be much worse than even the lowest-quality FXAA profile. (I happen to think that HQ FXAA profiles are actually pretty decent, especially combined with high resolution rendering)
 

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Polybius in PSVR or PCVR is quite a ... thing. Like Tetris Effect it's great on a screen too and when you get in the zone you can just flow through them and they're amazing but then i fall out of it and suck again for a while. If you've played a Llamasoft game then you know what to expect. A pure arcade experience with maaaaad visual efects and great music.

Don't play or go near it if you are photosensitive though, it'll mess you up.
 

Kvik

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Downunder.
I'm playing Ys VIII right now, and after installing Special K to get proper AF (because that's a totally normally thing to do in 2019, god I hate NISA), and disabling the ingame "FXAA" (which is literally just a fucking blur effect, who the hell did they gave this port to?) and replacing it with proper FXAA from Nvidia, I still got a blurry screen. And I finally figured out why: It's their shitty SSAO effect. It probably runs at half-res by default and is terribly unstable under any kind of movement. And of course the game gives me zero options to change it. And disabling SSAO isn't much of an option, since the game's geometry is super low-res and without some ambience occlusion, it looks super flat.

But at least I don't need to worry about crashes anymore, since a fan patched that out (did I already say fuck NISA?)!
Looking forward to playing Cold Steel III, ported by this same company :disapproval-blob:
And at this point I'm just feeling to cynical to believe they hired Durante
I also have the displeasure of experiencing Ys VIII first-hand from its Free Weekend a few months back. It was bad.

Imagine the pleasure of playing Trails of Cold Steel 2, at 5120x2880 downsampled to 2560x1440, locked at 120fps without any framerate spikes (check out the graph, top right)



And then compare it with trying to get Ys VIII to run properly without crashing in 2560x1440, 60fps, but with uneven frame pacing (check the graph, bottom right), even in cutscenes.



:02facepalm:
 

TioChuck

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Man Warframe Empyrean is so damn fun, I just completed my ship and I´m having a blast, anyone here plays?
 

Theswweet

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I also have the displeasure of experiencing Ys VIII first-hand from its Free Weekend a few months back. It was bad.

Imagine the pleasure of playing Trails of Cold Steel 2, at 5120x2880 downsampled to 2560x1440, locked at 120fps without any framerate spikes (check out the graph, top right)



And then compare it with trying to get Ys VIII to run properly without crashing in 2560x1440, 60fps, but with uneven frame pacing (check the graph, bottom right), even in cutscenes.



:02facepalm:
It's weird - I had no issues running the game at 1440p/144FPS on my OC'd Vega 56 during the free weekend.
 

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I also have the displeasure of experiencing Ys VIII first-hand from its Free Weekend a few months back. It was bad.

Imagine the pleasure of playing Trails of Cold Steel 2, at 5120x2880 downsampled to 2560x1440, locked at 120fps without any framerate spikes (check out the graph, top right)



And then compare it with trying to get Ys VIII to run properly without crashing in 2560x1440, 60fps, but with uneven frame pacing (check the graph, bottom right), even in cutscenes.



:02facepalm:
Woah, that looks wild.
Luckily much more stable for me in terms of framerate, though no where near super smooth either. Did you check out Special K back then? It helps with framerate too, from what I gather. There's a default-on option to stop needless copies of the framebuffer
 

Kvik

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Downunder.
It's weird - I had no issues running the game at 1440p/144FPS on my OC'd Vega 56 during the free weekend.
Yeah, I reckon it could be a driver issue. I remember there was some major issue in the NV driver released during that time

Woah, that looks wild.
Luckily much more stable for me in terms of framerate, though no where near super smooth either. Did you check out Special K back then? It helps with framerate too, from what I gather. There's a default-on option to stop needless copies of the framebuffer
Yea I used SpecialK for both games. Although I didn't look into installing the mod floating around in Steam Community forum.
 

freshVeggie

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Hm, guess Quantic Dreams has a 12 month deal for their PlayStation ports on EGS, like others.
Detroit just absorbed me for three hours. Really enjoy the world, characters and game design. Been a long time since I last played a full adventure game.
 
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Planned to play RDR2 epilogue today and then a bit of DMC5 but my ear is hurting so fucking much. Tomorrow morning I'll visit a medic and hopefully I can get back to my games before the year ends :tired-face:
 
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Planned to play RDR2 prologue today and then a bit of DMC5 but my ear is hurting so fucking much. Tomorrow morning I'll visit a medic and hopefully I can get back to my games before the year ends :tired-face:
I had an ear infection a couple of months ago (A week after I started swimming again to not die an early death in front of a monitor). Not a good time.

Get well soon.
 

low-G

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Polybius in VR is basically:

I really think it's Minter's magnum opus. There is a ton of depth, a ton of mechanics, and it is visually spectacular, technically impressive (at least for running on PSVR at 120Hz with tons of AA on a vanilla PS4, but it's also so vividly colorful on OLED) with an amazing OST.
 

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Is "Ape Out" worth downloading?
Planned to play RDR2 prologue today and then a bit of DMC5 but my ear is hurting so fucking much. Tomorrow morning I'll visit a medic and hopefully I can get back to my games before the year ends :tired-face:
I feel your pain. Dont fuck with ear infections. Got myself screwed by one 13 years ago :(

Just play sans sound while your getting better! RD2 has great subtitles and visual indicators and DMC5 is mostly visual.
 
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High fps stuff in games can be relll
It's weird - I had no issues running the game at 1440p/144FPS on my OC'd Vega 56 during the free weekend.
I had issue with it but then I switched to border less window mode and then GSync kicked in. Because it does have issues if you don't have VRR it would seem?


Yakuza 0 is the best game of the decade.
But didn't Nier G also count since it was released in 2009 or something like that?


Is "Ape Out" worth downloading?


I feel your pain. Dont fuck with ear infections. Got myself screwed by one 13 years ago :(

Just play sans sound while your getting better! RD2 has great subtitles and visual indicators and DMC5 is mostly visual.
What happened?
 

Trisolarian

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High fps stuff in games can be relll

I had issue with it but then I switched to border less window mode and then GSync kicked in. Because it does have issues if you don't have VRR it would seem?




But didn't Nier G also count since it was released in 2009 or something like that?



What happened?
Tinnitus, some hearing loss and sensitivity to sound. I was borne with some hearing loss but this infection sealed the deal from mild to moderate loss.
 

Cordelia

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So something that I noticed is that if you google either Jedi Fallen Order or Red Dead Redemption 2, the first thing that you will see for the game are ads by EPIC to get you to buy the game (the ad even mentions the $10 coupon), well at least they are trying to advertise the game and spend money on something sort of meaningful? So when looking at the google result you also see the official websites for the games, but for both of them in the top 5 search result you see a Steam page. Funny enough I don't think I even see Stadia mention on the RDR2 google result (from a incognito search result)

oh Gaben why don't you advertise games more? But I also did notice that along with the Google ads that on Youtube Epic also has paid for ads for these two games as well, for Jedi you either get an Xbox or Epic ad.


On to another topic I wonder just how profitable Openrec.tv is, basically it's Twitch for Japan. Or at least from my understanding that is how it is. But the thing is that unlike twitch it does not have a bunch of users? and even then it mainly seems to be focused on Japanese creators. And well that would potentially lead to a small group of people that could tune in and understand what is happening. Compared to say a Stream that is done in English where thousands of people can understand the streamer. People like Shroud do have some form of recognition in Japan from what I recall (or at least you have people that go out of their way to translate some of his streams and upload them on Youtube. )


also that one 2B tweet from Saki...... Merry Christmas
Say what you want about EGS, but they are the clear winner of this sale. People just love big price cuts for their purchase.
A game I've started up for the first time is "compiling shaders".
Can't say I've seen such a message on any other game before. Only emulators.
Of coursr, I could very well be very wrong in that assumption and most games do that just without telling me.
It takes ages tho, just like in emulators, haha.
I see that every time I use emulator lol.
 

Li Kao

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Say what you want about EGS, but they are the clear winner of this sale. People just love big price cuts for their purchase.
Define 'winner'. I mean, the EGS has the vastly superior offer, and I don't doubt they are moving copies, but by how much remains to be seen.
And at the end of the day, personally, even with my love for cheaper things, I just don't trust Epic with my money. It would feel like being back in time and buying Fables 3 on Games for Windows.
Uh, a... friend did that.
 

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Don't forget we also have After Eight, Merci, Guliyan seashells etc!
Chocolate for days! 😀
About one week ago I tried some After Eight chocolate for the first time in my life. Who thought that toothpaste-filled chocolate would be a great idea?

Here's my proposal for a re-branding.



...I actually dislike chocolate in general...
 

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Ooooh, if you buy games with steam funds you get cards, but if you use other means then you get tokens but no cards.

Edit: nevermind, forgot my mind somewhere.
 
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By the way how do boxes of chocolates work? That has confused me because it always felt to me that they have a small selection of chocolates that you can try but what if you only want 1 particular type of chocolate, where can you get more of that one chocolate?


Tinnitus, some hearing loss and sensitivity to sound. I was borne with some hearing loss but this infection sealed the deal from mild to moderate loss.

I think I have had some form of Tinnitus since I was younger (it didn't happen often but once every few years this thing would happen where everything would get quite all of a sudden and I would hear this ringing sound. I didn't think much of it. Now I do have some very minor hearing loss in my right ear (the only time I notice this is when making phone calls and I have to use my left ear to listen to calls.

But I have had this bad (re occuring ear infection that I did not take care of for over a year or something like that), the doctor told me that it was swimmers ear or something like that. So I no longer have an infection but I do have sensitivity to loud noises (sort of)

I still plan to use stuff like headphones but this time around I ended up getting the kind that dampen outside noise and listen to music at a lower volume.


I still need to see a ear doctor since it seems that I have white stuff in my eardrums.
 
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So, I gifted a friend (in my same region) a Steam key and they say they activated it but I can still see the game in their wishlist and when I try to redeem the key (which is a game I own) it obviously says that I own the game but when it tries to install it, it goes "installation failed, connection time out". What could be wrong? I got the key from a legit website (DLGamer).
 
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Ooooh, if you buy games with steam funds you get cards, but if you use other means then you get tokens but no cards.
No? I got cards from my purchase the other day. it was only the one card since i spent some $10ish dollars.


Some preorders are not eligible for cards tho like sf5 ce dlc
 

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So, I gifted a friend (in my same region) a Steam key and they say they activated it but I can still see the game in their wishlist and when I try to redeem the key (which is a game I own) it obviously says that I own the game but when it tries to install it, it goes "installation failed, connection time out". What could be wrong? I got the key from a legit website (DLGamer).
External key redemption is pretty grumpy atm. Some take ages to show up in your library for reasons and the only way to play them is to start them from their respective store pages.
 
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