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I guess that's why the first game is in the Choice right now. Huh.
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Valve is running out of money and is now rounding game prices up to round numbers rather than x.99.
Getting that 0.3 cents per game extra is gonna save Valve.
Thanks Epic!
Probably a bug
Getting that 0.3 cents per game extra is gonna save Valve.
Thanks Epic!
Probably a bug
ISee AC Origins, 1080p with default settings that look like a mix of high and ultra :
Peak 73.1c
Avg 60.3c
And the case closed !
How does it look to you ? I would say it's very good, no ?
And btw, at what temp should I begin to worry ?
Peak 73.1c
Avg 60.3c
And the case closed !
How does it look to you ? I would say it's very good, no ?
And btw, at what temp should I begin to worry ?
Alas:
RAM is good, ran a memtest through the night, 0 errors in 4 passes.
Temps are... decent to mediocre, but the computer restarts while idling, where the CPU sits at 45C, so it doesn't look like a thermal issue.
Had no issues with the computer ever since I built it in 2014, the BSODs started when I updated to Win 10 2004. Only other change that happened at the time is that I started using sleep/hibernation, instead of letting it idle/shut down.
Nothing regarding Xbox App/Windows Store updates, basically just about how they choose what game will appear on PC game pass and questions like that.
Also:
Fable is not an MMO and Halo Infinite's multiplayer is not being delayed
Rumors have spread over the last day that Fable from Playground Games is an MMO and that Halo Infinite would ship without multiplayer. Both rumors are untrue.
www.windowscentral.com
The concern trolling for Xbox has been off the charts. I guess people don't like the competition they love to bang their drums about.
Nothing regarding Xbox App/Windows Store updates, basically just about how they choose what game will appear on PC game pass and questions like that.
Also:
Fable is not an MMO and Halo Infinite's multiplayer is not being delayed
Rumors have spread over the last day that Fable from Playground Games is an MMO and that Halo Infinite would ship without multiplayer. Both rumors are untrue.
So, last oct I rented Control for the PS4 from my library. I completed the game and some of the sidequests. Now, I absolutely loved this game to pieces. All the way through.
Control for PS4 is one sale. This is my dilemma; spend the $36 for both the base game and DLC or just buy the DLC and wait until I get can rent the base game again at my library?
The $20 question is how good the DLC for Control is. If the first DLC packs are excellent, I'm in for the full $36. If the current DLC is only ok with the promise of the A.W.E coming at some point this year, I might be in for the DLC only.
Any halp? HALP HALP HALP
Also Xbox is a great platform overall, I'm 100% sold. M$ knocked it out of the park by dragging it away from being tied down to a plastic game adapter. It doesn't make an xbox series X a good buy on release but it makes access to the Xbox ecosystem pretty esstential IMO.
Control for PS4 is one sale. This is my dilemma; spend the $36 for both the base game and DLC or just buy the DLC and wait until I get can rent the base game again at my library?
The $20 question is how good the DLC for Control is. If the first DLC packs are excellent, I'm in for the full $36. If the current DLC is only ok with the promise of the A.W.E coming at some point this year, I might be in for the DLC only.
Any halp? HALP HALP HALP
Also Xbox is a great platform overall, I'm 100% sold. M$ knocked it out of the park by dragging it away from being tied down to a plastic game adapter. It doesn't make an xbox series X a good buy on release but it makes access to the Xbox ecosystem pretty esstential IMO.
Control is coming to Steam late next month with what I assume will be 50% off (it's that currently on EGS). So if you are able to wait, it's not that long.
Not willing to play through the main story again, as my save is on my PS4. Also, may be without my PC some days starting in sept.
Then you should go for it. I wasn't particularly fond of the the first expansion, it's more of the same, the second expansion is seemingly about Alan Wake, so hopefully it's meatier.
More of the same.... Which IS good... Thnx.
Off topic but adjacent, I've heard that some people are receiving PSN $$ from Sony today in celebration of "10 years of PSN".
Personally I'd say DLC #1 is really more of the same ultimately. It's got some really interesting plot elements it teases for the future and a couple of neat new powers but at the end of the day really just more of the same for a few more hours. I'd go with the rental option imo
The following tweet statement is exactly what I think about the game's potential on its kickstarter.
Couple quick shots.
Necrobarista has been on my Wishlist forever and it finally dropped this week. It's an animated VN and so far it appears to have been worth the wait.
It's a supernatural game set in a post-death limbo that also happens to be a coffee shop. The recently-departed have 24 hours to come to grips with their situation before moving on to the next plane. But the shop owners are in a bind as they keep building debt (in hours) by granting travelers more time beyond their allotted 24 hrs.
There's several things in play that make the game attractive & interesting. First off the presentation is pretty damn incredible. It's got that whole Giant Bomb "styyyle" think on lockdown. For starters it's pretty unique to have a VN in a fully 3D engine that animates both subtly and not so subtly (there's free-roam interludes between chapters). But the real star of the show is the cinematography. It's just jaw-dropping. I wish I'd been hammering the F12 screenshot button so many times in my opening hours of the game, it's legit inspired. Soundtrack is super strong as well. Fits the hipster by way of somber setting vibe really well.
Backing this up is a story that feels quite smart so far. It's dealing with weighty subjects and feels like there's a sense of confidence with the material. Like it's not dancing around topics of death & loss, nor is it kowtowed with typical surface-level platitudes on the subject. Instead daring to look the subject straight in the eye with surprising directness & wit. Even manages to be funny at times with impressive comedic timing.
Great game so far.
It's Paper Mario for PC. The color saturation will blow your eyeballs out in the best kind of way. Reminds me of a Newgrounds production, but it doesn't skimp on any of the depth along the way. It has everything you'd expect in the Paper-rpg subgenre. TBC with unique controller inputs to pull off reg./supercharged moves. Badges to collect & equip offering unique buffs in and out of combat. Tons of lore to collect. NPC fetch quests. Unique environmental traversal puzzles that combine unique party member skills like those old Lost Viking games.
Set in an insect kingdom it's a pretty novel & fun environment to roll around in. You're tasked with finding an ancient artifact for your Queen Ant that's supposed to offer eternal youth & strength. It's a MacGuffin hunt that's interesting enough, but the real star is the variety of locals and colorful cast of NPCs you meet along the way. The dialogue is well written & funny, kinda like the Paper Mario games where the "main quest" is whatever, but just tooling around is the meat of the game. Party banter in-group & with NPCs is hilarious.
Presentation is colorful, chuncky & clean. It's reads incredibly clean visually. Music is nice, varying from stop to stop and the combat theme is great. Looks like the campaign is pretty beefy as well with the forums saying it's 30-40 hrs. worth of content depending on your play style.
All and all it's been a super-pleasant balm for our current 2020 hellscape. Great bit of escapism that combines incredible charm with impressive depth to back it up. Feels like the dev is successfully punching above their weight. Good times.
Necrobarista has been on my Wishlist forever and it finally dropped this week. It's an animated VN and so far it appears to have been worth the wait.
It's a supernatural game set in a post-death limbo that also happens to be a coffee shop. The recently-departed have 24 hours to come to grips with their situation before moving on to the next plane. But the shop owners are in a bind as they keep building debt (in hours) by granting travelers more time beyond their allotted 24 hrs.
There's several things in play that make the game attractive & interesting. First off the presentation is pretty damn incredible. It's got that whole Giant Bomb "styyyle" think on lockdown. For starters it's pretty unique to have a VN in a fully 3D engine that animates both subtly and not so subtly (there's free-roam interludes between chapters). But the real star of the show is the cinematography. It's just jaw-dropping. I wish I'd been hammering the F12 screenshot button so many times in my opening hours of the game, it's legit inspired. Soundtrack is super strong as well. Fits the hipster by way of somber setting vibe really well.
Backing this up is a story that feels quite smart so far. It's dealing with weighty subjects and feels like there's a sense of confidence with the material. Like it's not dancing around topics of death & loss, nor is it kowtowed with typical surface-level platitudes on the subject. Instead daring to look the subject straight in the eye with surprising directness & wit. Even manages to be funny at times with impressive comedic timing.
Great game so far.
It's Paper Mario for PC. The color saturation will blow your eyeballs out in the best kind of way. Reminds me of a Newgrounds production, but it doesn't skimp on any of the depth along the way. It has everything you'd expect in the Paper-rpg subgenre. TBC with unique controller inputs to pull off reg./supercharged moves. Badges to collect & equip offering unique buffs in and out of combat. Tons of lore to collect. NPC fetch quests. Unique environmental traversal puzzles that combine unique party member skills like those old Lost Viking games.
Set in an insect kingdom it's a pretty novel & fun environment to roll around in. You're tasked with finding an ancient artifact for your Queen Ant that's supposed to offer eternal youth & strength. It's a MacGuffin hunt that's interesting enough, but the real star is the variety of locals and colorful cast of NPCs you meet along the way. The dialogue is well written & funny, kinda like the Paper Mario games where the "main quest" is whatever, but just tooling around is the meat of the game. Party banter in-group & with NPCs is hilarious.
Presentation is colorful, chuncky & clean. It's reads incredibly clean visually. Music is nice, varying from stop to stop and the combat theme is great. Looks like the campaign is pretty beefy as well with the forums saying it's 30-40 hrs. worth of content depending on your play style.
All and all it's been a super-pleasant balm for our current 2020 hellscape. Great bit of escapism that combines incredible charm with impressive depth to back it up. Feels like the dev is successfully punching above their weight. Good times.
Im very interested in Bug Fables. Getting it one day...
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Thanks very much for the info and exposure given in your sentences. The moment I read Paper Mario it went to my wishlist. This is the kind of exposure/awareness that certainly makes a change for the better.
Bug Fables looks great but Dangen can go fuck themselves.
I got into the closed beta, but didnt have any one to play with. I see it's now open for everyone this weekend, so maybe I'll give it a try.
That's most likely just a target render and not actual gameplay
yep had it in the cart so many times but always removed it in the end because of that
I'll take a target render over CG and a working title logo any day.
wtf is up with this broken ass paradox launcher!
Besides the original not being purchaseable on steam the def edition has actual extra content.
even though the gameplay reveal was meh
I'm sort of amazed that the new halo game is releasing day and date to PC
I'm sort of amazed that the new halo game is releasing day and date to PC
The only games I'm interested in from the Xbox showcase are not-PSO3, Stalker 2, and Darktide aka Vermintide but 4ok this time.
Oh, the innefable pleasure of drinking your morning coffee at 7am and sweating bullets because it's already hot as hell.
:team mid-september:
OK, here's my current game plan; Finish up
The Surge
Orcs Must Die 1
Dandara
Blands 2 Season 1 DLC
The Surge
Orcs Must Die 1
Dandara
Blands 2 Season 1 DLC
Yeah it's already hot here too. Been up for three hours and can already take another shower.
But we need to go shopping with the kids because they need new clothes and shoes. What a pleasure, lol. Wife promised it's not going to take long, because of the pandemic. Whatever that means. Last time "won't take long" was six hours.
I swear, once there is a vaccination I'm taking my family, the whole bunch, to my favorite electronics store and let them watch me "shopping" for two hours and all I gonna do is look at TVs, keyboards, GPUs, soldering irons and make fun of overly expansive or badly put together prebuilds.. And then in the end I'm going to buy a pack of batteries.
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Li Kao sorry for the double post, but thinking back about your new temperatures:
With those you could easily forgo the case upgrade and get a new CPU instead. A 3700x should run about as hot as the 2600x.
Would pair nicely with a 2060s btw, but also a 3600x will do fine.
Not saying that you have to upgrade your CPU! Just that you now have more options.
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20% discount is disabled until you resub again, not sure if you can pause immediately after the first pause
You can ask someone for a discount link, which btw I am looking for. Anyone wanna share the discount link with me?
Bah, it's for SAO RE Hollow Fragment, to lower it from 4.99 to 3 something, not the end of the world for a game I probably won't ever play. I mean, some part of me want a pseudo MMO, but I have so many other games to play than a PSP remaster.
Yeah, it crossed my mind yesterday that the case change wasn't that urgent anymore. I have some leeway on what to upgrade. Another SSD would certainly do good, a shiny new CPU too...
But weren't people saying that even with updated bios, Ryzen 3000 support on B450 Tomahawk was spotty ? Because if I have to change the board, I will wait for Ryzen 4000.
I've been using it since 2014 and have almost $100USD from it. It seems like you can get more by doing stuff like taking pictures of your receipts but I don't know about that.... I didn't know you could use it for Steam stuff. I mainly use my funds to buy stuff off the Google play store. I read webtoons so I use my points for that and I'm normally able to get something like $4USD over the course maybe 3 months or so.I've used that google rewards thing for little over a year now and they've paid out 31€ to me and I've put everything into steam. Not bad! I mostly just see that as funding me crafting badges, so with that and selling high and buying low when it comes to cards. I pretty much get my badges for freeee!
Who were the guest?Pre-show has been really great, except for the guests but content has been
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There are two versions of the B450 Tomahawk; the MAX and the normal, non max.
The main difference is that the MAX version has a bigger, 32mb bios chip that is able to hold more information. So the BIOS for Ryzen 3000 is a bit cut down on the visual stuff and it looks more dated because of it, but features and options are the same.
I would not recommend buying the non max over the max version, especially as the price is the same. But if you are already on the non max, because the max wasn't available originally. It doesn't matter, unless you need the better looking bios for the 10 seconds that you'll spend in it.
All BIOSES on all mainboards were spotty for Ryzen 3000, and even months after launch btw.
Things should be okay now, just make sure you are on the newest bios version before changing CPUs.
Late to the discussion here...
Remember when the X360 generation started?
You could choose between two levels of Xbox. Core or Premium.
Core didn't have a hard drive, it had some kind of game card instead, and it didn't have wireless controllers.
Premium had the wireless controllers and a whopping 20 GB hard drive.
Now I didn't buy my 360 Premium at launch, more like half a year in. And it was still too early.
A couple of years later I had a console that was large as a brick house, sounded like a nuclear reactor and had a too small hard drive.
Never buy too early into a new generation!
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good it got leaked
in my opinion every source code for every game ever made should be public ... but that's just me
What happened?
But then anyone can steal the code and use it for their own games. Dunno if it's good. I wouldn't want source code for my stuff to be openly availablegood it got leaked
in my opinion every source code for every game ever made should be public ... but that's just me
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