Anyone got some good relaxing games suggestions? I think I need something to calm down my nerves with!
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I usually stick on an open world or sandbox game, pop on a podcast and just go exploring. Skyrim, No Man's Sky, Minecraft, BOTW for example.
Or a game i know really, really well and can just pootle around in or open a console, stick on some cheats and go crazy with it. Like Half Life 2 with infy ammo.
Puzzle games like Hidden-Object type games are usually relaxing for me too. Play on Easy to lose the timer and just zone out looking for stuff.
The Forza Horizon games always looked like they had a lot of relaxation potential. Get in a car and just drive. Truck Sim? House Flipper? The Sims? City Builder type game?
Or a game i know really, really well and can just pootle around in or open a console, stick on some cheats and go crazy with it. Like Half Life 2 with infy ammo.
Puzzle games like Hidden-Object type games are usually relaxing for me too. Play on Easy to lose the timer and just zone out looking for stuff.
The Forza Horizon games always looked like they had a lot of relaxation potential. Get in a car and just drive. Truck Sim? House Flipper? The Sims? City Builder type game?
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Try farming sims like Harvest Moon or Story of Seasons. I especially like the Doraemon one a lot, soothing visuals and music with cute characters.
Or if you have access to it, Animal Crossing.
Would Daemon x Machina count as a relaxing game?
I found it pretty relaxing. But that's just me.There's the The Touryst but it's only available on Game Pass/Windows store.
Firewatch
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Terraria (You can relax if you focus on only building stuff. Use the Journey Mode)
Ace Combat 7 (I find the flying aspects of it relaxing. There's a free flight mode.)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (same reason as above, but expensive AF)
Starbound
My Time At Portia (never played it, but it's similar to Stardew Valley)
Mirror's Edge
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (I recently played through the Mirror's Edge games, and they're both pretty relaxing. The second one more so in particular because of its art direction/visuals. Some amazingly serene moments in there.)
And like Edward mentioned, the Forza games. Just driving around in them is pretty relaxing.
If you're using SpecialK, try enabling Nvidia reflex (low latency) + boost and see what happens to the GPU usage. I've heard it helps somehow? I don't own Nier Replicant yet, so I can't confirm if it's true.
Reason: Added Mirror's Edge
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Try farming sims like Harvest Moon or Story of Seasons. I especially like the Doraemon one a lot, soothing visuals and music with cute characters.
Or if you have access to it, Animal Crossing.
Thank you for all the suggestions!Would Daemon x Machina count as a relaxing game?
There's the The Touryst but it's only available on Game Pass/Windows store.
Firewatch
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
Terraria (You can relax if you focus on only building stuff. Use the Journey Mode)
Ace Combat 7 (I find the flying aspects of it relaxing. There's a free flight mode.)
Microsoft Flight Simulator (same reason as above, but expensive AF)
Starbound
My Time At Portia (never played it, but it's similar to Stardew Valley)
Mirror's Edge
Mirror's Edge Catalyst (I recently played through the Mirror's Edge games, and they're both pretty relaxing. The second one more so in particular because of its art direction/visuals. Some amazingly serene moments in there.)
And like Edward mentioned, the Forza games. Just driving around in them is pretty relaxing.
I wasn't even aware Story of Seasons was on Steam, is that one any good?
No, but I own it so that's definitely something to consider. How.... short is it?
It's pretty good. It's a spin off with Doraemon theme, but it has all the chracteristics and core farming mechanics of the main games besides more in-depth ones. Like you can befriend the townfolks but there's no marriage, MC is still a kid after all. It's also focused on the story and it's very close to what you usually get from Doraemon adventure/movies. It's focused on a huge mystery surrounding the island and Nobita c.s.
If we treat it like we did L4D1 and 2, it'd be a campaign/part of a campaign a week until we finish or whatever we can fit into 2ish hours
I tried the mod, and while it seems to work (great job!) the game is very bad at maintaining much more than 60 FPS for me (i.e. I get much worse GPU utilization trying to go for high framerates at lower resolution than when I play at 60 FPS with high resolution like I did so far). I'll stick with 60 for now.
I'm confused about the system requirements for Nier Replicant. The recommended CPU is a i5-6400 and the GPU a GTX 1660 to play at 60fps @ 1920x1080.
But apparently there are many people with better configurations who have low fps problems with the game.
I still have a i5-6500 / GTX 1070 (corona made upgrading impossible ) and now i'm unsure about buying the game. I want to buy it on GMG because it is cheaper than on Steam and so i can not refund it if it runs badly.
But apparently there are many people with better configurations who have low fps problems with the game.
I still have a i5-6500 / GTX 1070 (corona made upgrading impossible
) and now i'm unsure about buying the game. I want to buy it on GMG because it is cheaper than on Steam and so i can not refund it if it runs badly. 
Finished NieR Replicant yesteday night <3
Tried Rising Storm 2 Vietnam on EGS (free) yesterday and bought it today on Steam.
Maybe that was Timmys plan.
Maybe that was Timmys plan.
All i want is a mod that auto-hides the mouse in Nier Replicant.
I was using NVidia Control Panel to cap at 60 but had to start using the SpecialK mod and turn off screenshots etc just for mouse auto-hide. I'd like to disable everything in SpecialK apart from Frame limit and Mouse auto-hide but i'm sure i'd end up turning off the wrong thing and wreck my performance.
I also turned off Steam Input for the game and my 8bit-do Plus controller is working fine.
I was using NVidia Control Panel to cap at 60 but had to start using the SpecialK mod and turn off screenshots etc just for mouse auto-hide. I'd like to disable everything in SpecialK apart from Frame limit and Mouse auto-hide but i'm sure i'd end up turning off the wrong thing and wreck my performance.
I also turned off Steam Input for the game and my 8bit-do Plus controller is working fine.
I dunno about the CPU, but at the very least the GPU is enough for 1080p 60fps if you use LOD on high instead of max (I have a 1660 Ti, similar performance to the 1070).I'm confused about the system requirements for Nier Replicant. The recommended CPU is a i5-6400 and the GPU a GTX 1660 to play at 60fps @ 1920x1080.
But apparently there are many people with better configurations who have low fps problems with the game.
I still have a i5-6500 / GTX 1070 (corona made upgrading impossible
Yeah, based on the pic I saw, I'm terrified of having to configure SpecialK.
It's dead easy to configure SpecialK to disable screenshot hooks, cap to 60 fps and maybe disable input if your controller is playing up.
Just avoid the other setting panels. I don't go anywhere near them.
Just avoid the other setting panels. I don't go anywhere near them.
I won't be installing any mod for Nier Replicant, so far 4 hours in and it's running well, a 60fps cap sure is a bit EH in 2021 but it's not a problem to enjoy the experience (I mean, I will enjoy SMT 3 at 30fps hehe) and as the rest of the port is running smoothly (visuals, performance, etc...) I will stay like this.
NVidia Frame Rate cap was simple and working perfectly for me but everytime i took a screenshot i had to move the mouse to the edge of the screen which got annoying enough for me to drop SpecialK in the folder just for mouse auto-hide. A solid 60 is fine for me with this game.
It's been years since i played it but it's all coming back to me as i advance the story. Someone said it's like meeting an old friend and i agree.
I've still forgotten enough details that it's interesting to me and playing as Bro Nier is new to me so there's that too.
Yonah is till great though.
It's been years since i played it but it's all coming back to me as i advance the story. Someone said it's like meeting an old friend and i agree.
I've still forgotten enough details that it's interesting to me and playing as Bro Nier is new to me so there's that too.
Yonah is till great though.
Are you experiencing some kind of ghosting in 60 fps compared to higher framerates?
Not that I've noticed. That said, I'm playing with 4x DSR, so that might hide something like that.
wow, nice
, i've played 8-9h so far and that's probably less than 1 hour of gameplay, 4 hours of listening to the music and 4 hours of killing a wild boar 
Crashes, disconnects, nerfs, inventory wipes, and now this.
www.eurogamer.net
The game will never reach positive user reviews if this keeps up.
Outriders griefers are kicking players out of endgame missions before they can get their loot
Outriders griefers are kicking co-op players out of endgame missions before they can get their loot.
www.eurogamer.net
The game will never reach positive user reviews if this keeps up.
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I'm just wondering if this will still be up for sale after the event ends, or if it's just available for a short time.
Despite some frustrating enemy encounters, Ghostrunner is pretty good.
One step forward, a comical fall down a flight of stairs backwards it seems. That kind of thing doesn't seem like it'd be hard to fix so long as PCF are actually attentive to their community's needsCrashes, disconnects, nerfs, inventory wipes, and now this.
Outriders griefers are kicking players out of endgame missions before they can get their loot
Outriders griefers are kicking co-op players out of endgame missions before they can get their loot.
The game will never reach positive user reviews if this keeps up.
Looking around some gameplay videos it might just be how the game looks. Maybe it's the desaturated look, but even in videos () it doesn't seems "crisp" to me, like there's some blurriness
Nah, this is normal for looter-ARPG fans.Crashes, disconnects, nerfs, inventory wipes, and now this.
Outriders griefers are kicking players out of endgame missions before they can get their loot
Outriders griefers are kicking co-op players out of endgame missions before they can get their loot.
The game will never reach positive user reviews if this keeps up.
Is papa in this game at any point?
I was finally able to play Nier R and well. Asides from some issues that SE will very likely never fix and we will have to rely on mods for, I'm happy with what we got.
Playing this you realize how it sucks that Platinum games uses FMVs for their cutscenes when they could have been in realtime and looked a lot better. Compare the PC cutscenes of Nier A to the ones from Nier R, the Nier R ones look a lot nicer and smoother because they are in realtime, which makes me wonder if the reason for the FMV is that those scenes in particular were just too taxing so they opted for FMV to at least make them look consistent, otherwise you would get something like in Nier Gestalt were the slow down can be seen in the cutscenes (which up to this point was part of the experience, but that's no longer the game and maybe could have just always been a hardware limitation thing, oh what could have been if that game was released for PC all those years ago. Since that would have potential given that game a different feel altogether in some parts of the game). But In the future when we have better hardware those scenes in particular will look eve more jarring when all the other parts look and play more smoother because of the better hardware playing the game but the FMV will stuck the same as it was during launch.
This to me is one of the biggest difference between the original game and this game and thats blocking. In the original game, blocking is pretty much useless because of the way it works and how it takes up a skill command slot, and it didn't really help you with much and just rolling around everywhere to dodge and avoid enemies attacks was a much better idea. But here you can parry enemy attacks. Maybe you always could in the original game but it just felt so sluggish and didn't really have a point to it but here it just feels so good and satisfying to be able to do something like that.
Their is no VA for the NPC, before I think they would only make a noise and say hello when you talked? Because I don't remember them fully talking in the game. The VA doesn't always match the characters, so you will have young sounding voice from much older people.
There are some of two parts of the game that are fighting themselves the new and the older stuff of the game. If you have never played Nier then you will not notice it. It's not a major thing but it is something that you notice if you have before and some may even welcome it (some parts I myself welcome) and other parts just feel off. And that is "speed", in the original everything is slow (I'm not sure if that was a hardware limitation thing or a creative choice type of thing). Two examples of slow down because of the previous version is the opening cutscene (the opening that you get at the beginning of the game when you don't touch anything,( I'm guessing that the opening was just to loud so they changed it because before you would get the opening first and then the menu, in the new version you get the menu and then the opening.) If you notice, Nier Is just walking he is not running at super speeds like he can now. Most people will not pay much attention. Then you have indoor stuff for the 2.5D stuff you will just walk when in reality you should be able to move around a lot faster then you are in reality.
I know that people pointed out the Nier score of 60-something to the 80-something that the new game has as a metascore and to that I will say that the 60 was way to low a score but even with the original I would not give it a 80 (by which I mean I myself would give it a high score, but when you think about how other would feel about the game and how well the would respond to it and therefore lower the overall score). 70-something would have been an ideal score for the game since it does have it's issues and those issues were likely big enough that some people may have actually never finished the story. This new version does deserve a higher score since it's way easier for more people to get into the game and be able to enjoy the game.
Ghostrunner made me realize that I'm an old man with pretty shitty reflexes.
Amazing game tho'.
Amazing game tho'.
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I blamed my bad experience on the game instead of owning up to my old man status (35 years old) ...
I'm probably addicted to Dragon Quest Builders 2
Week without the analysis (coming later today-early tomorrow)
EA made a really good decision to come back to Steam.
Wait until Ubisoft comes back too, they will take over the charts once again.
It took EA 9 years to come back. I'll await Ubisoft's return in 2028.Wait until Ubisoft comes back too, they will take over the charts once again.
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