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Ready or Not feels like I'm playing a SWAT4 remake and runs surprisingly good on my aging PC (3770K, GTX1080). It does suffer from old school style textures loading in for seconds after getting in a map and what not but I didn't try putting it on SSD to see if it helps with that. It looks pretty good, I can maintain 60fps at high settings so far in the first couple of missions. I've checked it out maxed too and performance is OK but it doesn't look that much better, there's some clutter object pop in here and there if the map allows for such distant views like outside the store in the first mission even when that setting it maxed. The game feels pretty good, I guess we will see if mission/game design holds up throughout and as I delve into the mechanics in more depth. Teammate AI at least can do more things than in SWAT4, they automatically handcuff and report civs/vics/tangos/evidence etc. if nearby and there are more detailed contextual orders.
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We have Pentiment at home. Also our art director is blind.
Sucks to be us.
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Who unironically voted fifa for gotyThe Steam Awards
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My new PC parts just arrived and it only took me like 2 hours to install them all way better than my first build lol. The 7800x3d is amazing 
GOTY 2024 that is not named Trails through Daybreak incoming.
Looks like Kawazu made some sort of new mechanics too. Can't wait.
Steam already has parental controls. They're pretty basic, but the behaviour described in the patch notes is plausible with the currently available features, so I don't think there's been a leak in this instance.
So far (7 hours in), Lies of P is the best non-FromSoft soulslike I have played and even rivals FromSoft themselves.
Personally right n0w Bloodborne > Elden Ring > Dark Souls 3 > Dark Souls > Lies of P = Demon's Souls > Dark Souls 2
Personally right n0w Bloodborne > Elden Ring > Dark Souls 3 > Dark Souls > Lies of P = Demon's Souls > Dark Souls 2
Maybe the worst list of nominations I've ever seen for a game related thing. Fifa and the latest twitch game of the month for goty? A resident evil game in best story? Starfield for innovative gameplay???? It's literally 10+ years behind the industry but I guess that's the "joke" here.The Steam Awards
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An FMV dating sim was nominated in that category. I wouldn't take the definition of "best plot" literally
I had no idea what that was so I didn't want to say anything about it. For all I knew it could have been the planescape torment of dating games lol
Starfield was the perfect candidate for Sit Back and Relax (as are all Bethesda games) but instead it gets it for innovative gameplay hehe.
I guess jumping around with all the different gravity was kind of innovative. If Bethesda added in some type of hardcore mode that made use of the fuel, food and oxygen mechanics it would have been a much more innovative/clutch game.
I guess jumping around with all the different gravity was kind of innovative. If Bethesda added in some type of hardcore mode that made use of the fuel, food and oxygen mechanics it would have been a much more innovative/clutch game.
And let’s not forget how it will make me shit pointy bricks to have to vote for Dredge as best Deck game. The fuck is this selection. Diablo, Harry Potter, yeah so many games I associate with the Deck.
They are community chosen so obviously it's a simple popularity test,. that said, the award isn't "Best Story" but "Outstanding Story-Rich Game Award" so "Best Cinematic Game" in other words
If anyone want a cultured 
bullet heaven game. check out Wings of Seduction demo. seems neat.
bullet heaven game. check out Wings of Seduction demo. seems neat.
I've had quite the opposite feeling but I'm about 4-5 missions in and it honestly feels like you're a SWAT team against 10+ John Wicks. SWAT4 had more "realistic" since breaching had that surprise factor and you would be able to make suspects surrender without a fight but in RON it feels like you breach and half the time you better be ready for a shootout. I'm playing less than lethal though so it does make it more difficult than lethal gameplay.
At least their latest devblog mentions that they are going to look into suspect AI. SWAT AI does feel pretty good though that it's honestly probably better to let them do everything while you just sit back and give out commands.
What's up with the broken tweets today? Every forum and webpage i visit that embeds a tweet, it just doesn't load.
I account for 7 of those sales.
Elon doing Elon things.What's up with the broken tweets today? Every forum and webpage i visit that embeds a tweet, it just doesn't load.
do the Twitter embeds work for you guys? Since yesterday I only get a "tweet unavailable" but when I click on it, I see the normal tweet on Twitter
They do not here and on any other site with embeds I visit. Musk broke something most likely
Idk, for the level of noise I was making I liked the AI kept me on my toes even with like 4-5 or whatever enemies alone in the first mission as they at times made their way to me from areas I had previously cleared opening doors etc., I don't think it'd be more realistic if they waited for me to exterminate them room by room. Now if there was no stunned reaction to things like breaching within their range and flash grenades and non lethal stuff that'd certainly be bad.
Me and gf had our personal Christmas today since we are traveling to Finland/Sweden next week. She got me some fancy headphones and I got my self a fancy DAC. Think I reached my audiophile endgame.
I also recently removed over 50 games -- basically I looked at every entry and considered whether I'd ever get around to actually playing it even if I got it for free.
this game looks very nice
Godshard Chronicles
Godshard Chronicles
Those are some very beautiful tilesets. The closest comparison that comes to my mind is Seiken Densetsu 3.
It's interesting how amateurish the Steam logo and art look compared to the screenshots.
It's interesting how amateurish the Steam logo and art look compared to the screenshots.
Yep, totally xD
if anybody is interested this is dev twitter account:
and there're some nice reposts from other indie devs to discover.
Discussion - What are you currently playing? (Week 51 of 2023)
Week 51, we are closing in! What are you playing? I haven't been having the urge to play videogames much lately, so I am only playing Marvel's Midnight Suns during weekends. Not much to say, it continues to be a fun game.
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MGS2 is so smooth on Deck.
The game did need an audio fix but it was a very quick drag n drop fix. But once it was running fuck what a technical marvel. The textures and framerate just look perfect. The controls are so responsive too. Getting well over 3.5hrs battery life at 6ofps and fairly low TDP. Its really ridiculous the game is 22 years old. All these years and it still has that MGSV feel of KojiPro designing a game around high framerate. Such a shame so many console game devs still don't do that.
PS2 era games are such a perfect fit for the Deck. Since the native resolution of those games were a bit lower you can just see how its all perfectly magnified on the 720p/800p display. Feels like you are playing the games the way they were meant to be played but now in handheld form and instant loading. It feels like a next gen experience if you went back in time lol. Makes me sad at Sony for letting so many games from that era just die off. Imagine if they released a Deck like device and had all those old games properly remastered for it. It really does make them look terrible when it comes to game preservation. Even Nintendo has done a decent job of bringing back old games from dead and making tons of $$$ off them. Sony puts so little effort into it its sad asf.
The game did need an audio fix but it was a very quick drag n drop fix. But once it was running fuck what a technical marvel. The textures and framerate just look perfect. The controls are so responsive too. Getting well over 3.5hrs battery life at 6ofps and fairly low TDP. Its really ridiculous the game is 22 years old. All these years and it still has that MGSV feel of KojiPro designing a game around high framerate. Such a shame so many console game devs still don't do that.
PS2 era games are such a perfect fit for the Deck. Since the native resolution of those games were a bit lower you can just see how its all perfectly magnified on the 720p/800p display. Feels like you are playing the games the way they were meant to be played but now in handheld form and instant loading. It feels like a next gen experience if you went back in time lol. Makes me sad at Sony for letting so many games from that era just die off. Imagine if they released a Deck like device and had all those old games properly remastered for it. It really does make them look terrible when it comes to game preservation. Even Nintendo has done a decent job of bringing back old games from dead and making tons of $$$ off them. Sony puts so little effort into it its sad asf.
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Finished Talos 2 today (i still have Golden puzzles to do) and i really liked it but in a way it is on the same level as first game for me. some things improved like visuals and having companions but puzzles while still interesting were kinda to easy. Huge maps were stupid in my opinion because they didn't used them at all. Star puzzles big disappointment (who the f thought that chasing spark across the map is good idea for a puzzle game?). Labs were such a good opportunity to put prototype puzzles in them like they did with DLC for the first game but nope. i liked story and philosophy. Overall i really can't complain that much because for the price you are getting a lot, but they could do some things better. i will get DLC for sure.
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