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[Stevey]

Is youtube not working for anyone else?

just a spinning circle on any video

 

[Dragon1893]

Only giving you the option to buy a bundle, especially when the games have a staggered release, is shitty now that I think about it. Would be much more easier for me to pay $20 every few months, haven't paid $60 for a game for years, I just can't afford it.

 

[fantomena]

Red Dead Redemption 2

A game where all the other characters in the game are a bunch of lazy bastards that want you to do all their chores and work for them.

 

[Tizoc]

The trailer looks so bad though, lastgen-bad. Is there any reason to have faith in this?

Eh I run on blind faith myself from time to time.

 

[Ge0force]

After what happened with their last game, the time exclusive deals make a lot of sense.

True. I obviously won't buy OMD3, but I understand their decision.

 

[Amzin]

Would you say that No Man's Sky is worth it for someone who likes exploration but not survival? Is there enough direction to the game to keep someone like me interested?

Good question. Would like to hear the answer to this as well.

I am not entirely sure what you mean by "direction" - do you like exploring for the sake of exploring? I would say creative mode would be excellent then. There's really not much point to the exploration beyond itself, though, aside from the "quest" thingy they have. I personally just explore to explore though.

 

[Tizoc]

Really need Greedfall reviews to come out so I can finalize whether to get it day 1 or not. What I've seen has tempted me in the game and I really wouldn't mind eurojanking with my 2 lady companions.
I think I'll go Tech. route since I can get stealth skills that way.

 

[Ascheroth]

I have been too lazy to create a writing OT, but since I just finished this section and quite like it, I'll dump it here

You need to react to this post in order to see this content.

 

[Echoes]

GTFO Square, 20€ for owners of the same game. Their capacity to mud any interesting launch is astonishing. It's one of the worst companies taking care of their classic ip's in my opinion.

 

[Hektor]

I have been too lazy to create a writing OT, but since I just finished this section and quite like it, I'll dump it here

[Hidden content]

Isn't it ironic, that you want to create an OT about writing, yet have a writers block in writing the OT?

Maybe you should finish it tho, i'd might post some of my own in there

 

[FunnyJay]

I am not entirely sure what you mean by "direction" - do you like exploring for the sake of exploring? I would say creative mode would be excellent then. There's really not much point to the exploration beyond itself, though, aside from the "quest" thingy they have. I personally just explore to explore though.

How much of a bother is the survival aspect? Is it "eat every 5 minutes or die" or is it more lenient? Is the creative mode toggleable during gameplay or do you have to permanently choose between survival and creative?

 

[PC-tan]

Red Dead Redemption 2

A game where all the other characters in the game are a bunch of lazy bastards that want you to do all their chores and work for them.

Give Uncle a break his been through a lot.

Also I still think OT means Originally Thread

 

[fsdood]

The trailer looks so bad though, lastgen-bad. Is there any reason to have faith in this?

not him, but a lot of people said the same thing about Bloodstained and it's one of my favorite games in a while. It also boasts a long time contra developer working on it, so hopefully impressions are good

 

[Blu]

If anyone was wondering what the pre order shirts were.

 

[lashman]

If anyone was wondering what the pre order shirts were.

reminding people of (probably) MUCH better games ... brave

 

[Kyougar]

Wishing all the best for the Orcs must die devs. I'm guessing they need the cash they get from exclusivity deals just to steay afloat.

This isn't what the CEO said.
They downsized and had other projects (that were probably correctly budgeted) and they talked with Google about bringing those projects to Stadia. While Google said something like "Dude, why aren't you making OMD3? What? You don't have the budget for it? We are big fans, how much money would it take to make OMD3 viable?" And with that money they hired extra people to make OMD3.

So the OMD devs are one of the few Exclusive-takers who are NOT financial-imbeciles who can't correctly budget their games. (That's what I take from all the "we wouldn't be able to make the game without Epic" PR)

If the devs can't properly budget their studios and their games, they just push their insolvency for a year or two. And it feeds a bubble that will kill more Studios than the number of Studios who Epic apparently saved when the bubble bursts. Devs who hope for an EGS deal trying to beauty up their game beyond their financial means, devs who burn their bridges with their audience to suck up to epic, devs who don't want to commit to a Steam release hoping to get a deal and inadvertently killing the hype about their game or not getting it funded on Kickstarter.
And the biggest risk is feature- and graphic creep in the indy scene. The money that epic is flinging around will raise the bars higher (if the money is really used to make those exclusives better and not to make the pockets of CEO's bigger)

 

[Alextended]

I feel like much of the "we couldn't make the game without epic" or how it wouldn't be as good etc stuff is just to make it look like Epic matters in the project more rather than swoop in at the last stretch and pay them to not get on Steam. Yet we still don't see them fund risky projects way earlier in development...

 

[crimsonheadGCN]

I just bought Destiny 2: Forsaken Legendary Edition on CDKeys and activated it on Battle.net. Do I have to start up the game before I do the transfer? Forsaken isn't showing up on my Bungie Account.

 

[lashman]

 

[Mivey]

This isn't what the CEO said.
They downsized and had other projects (that were probably correctly budgeted) and they talked with Google about bringing those projects to Stadia. While Google said something like "Dude, why aren't you making OMD3? What? You don't have the budget for it? We are big fans, how much money would it take to make OMD3 viable?" And with that money they hired extra people to make OMD3.

So the OMD devs are one of the few Exclusive-takers who are NOT financial-imbeciles who can't correctly budget their games. (That's what I take from all the "we wouldn't be able to make the game without Epic" PR)

If the devs can't properly budget their studios and their games, they just push their insolvency for a year or two. And it feeds a bubble that will kill more Studios than the number of Studios who Epic apparently saved when the bubble bursts. Devs who hope for an EGS deal trying to beauty up their game beyond their financial means, devs who burn their bridges with their audience to suck up to epic, devs who don't want to commit to a Steam release hoping to get a deal and inadvertently killing the hype about their game or not getting it funded on Kickstarter.
And the biggest risk is feature- and graphic creep in the indy scene. The money that epic is flinging around will raise the bars higher (if the money is really used to make those exclusives better and not to make the pockets of CEO's bigger)

Didn't read the interview in detail. So it seems this is actually the "good" kind of exclusivity, where it literally wouldn't exist without the platform holder having funded the project.

 

[prudis]

new prototype gameplay by Escape Doodland dev

The first gameplay from our new game.
It's a co-op roguelite survival game for up to two players. You'll play as a castaways who manage to survive trash tsunami and find yourself on raft in the middle of flooded world. Looking for a place to live you'll have to collect garbage and recycle it to resources needed to keep the raft going. During the journey you'll meet lot of strange creatures, odd dangers and surprises.

 

[Bonney]

reminding people of (probably) MUCH better games ... brave

Yeah. Just do yourselves a favor and play Nex Machina (or any other
Housemarque game) instead.

 

[lashman]

Yeah. Just do yourselves a favor and play Nex Machina (or any other
Housemarque game) instead.

... or that, yeah, absolutely

 

[Firewithin]

so will the F2P destiny even be worth it if I dont feel like buying the expansions or whatever will still cost money?

 

[Nabs]

Supraland is ~$10 on Humble with the Monthly discount.
Puyo Champions is $3.99

Puzzle Sale

If you don't have the discount, you can either ask someone for theirs, or search twitter for a link like me

 

[「Echo」]

Integer scaling locked to Turing.

wait, integer scaling is locked to 2xxx series? WTF?

Been gaming on a 4K TV since 2015, and this lockout is ruining my night.

Current turing cards from a 1080ti are a rip-off, the jump in power I'm looking for is much greater....

 

[texhnolyze]

so will the F2P destiny even be worth it if I dont feel like buying the expansions or whatever will still cost money?

Yeah, it will. Even the vanilla version packs quite a lot of content. Having to play the first year expansion for free is amazing.

 

[MJunioR]

Finished Final Fantasy XIII and I enjoyed it a lot. Thank God the game kept improving as the story developed because it starts cold. The cast, especially, improved a lot over the course of the game, and this made a ton of difference.

 

[Blu]

Contra: Rogue Corps 4v4 PVP mode

 

[Cordelia]

Reading Spiderman games thread during lunch is truly enjoyable

 

[Kvik]

Anyone here familiar with NV driver hacking? We need this feature enabled for all NV cards and not just RTX.

Using Integer Scaling:

• Requires a Turing GPU (GeForce RTX 20 series/GeForce GTX 16 series) and Windows 10 April 2018 Update and above
• Integer Scaling is not supported in Surround mode, on tiled displays, with custom resolutions or when DSR is enabled
• Pixel formats supprted: RGB/YUV444/YUV422
• When the display has a different aspect ratio from the game, you will see black borders on the display.
• Integer Scaling is not supported In MSHybrid notebooks where the integrated graphics are managing the display properties

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/1002/feature-request-nonblurry-upscaling-at-integer-rat/2244798/

 

[Deku]

Supraland is ~$10 on Humble with the Monthly discount.
Puyo Champions is $3.99

Puzzle Sale

If you don't have the discount, you can either ask someone for theirs, or search twitter for a link like me

How is Puyo Champions? Is it good?

 

[didamangi]

Anyone here familiar with NV driver hacking? We need this feature enabled for all NV cards and not just RTX.

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/forums/game-ready-drivers/13/1002/feature-request-nonblurry-upscaling-at-integer-rat/2244798/

Don't see how it's possible if they're using "a hardware-accelerated programmable scaling filter available in Turing," to do that

You can try IntegerScaler for some games though. IntegerScaler — nonblurry upscaling of games

Tested it with ftl and it works great.

 

[Rosenkrantz]

Shame Humble prices are all over the place here, Big In Japan sale has a few games I would've picked if they had proper regional pricing.

 

[Le Pertti]

Ugh just saw that my bank add one euro fee EVEN when buying something in euros, thought it was only when I bought something in dollars. So anything I buy at humble gets a one euro fee slapped on it.

Need to change bank damn.

 

[Hektor]

Trying to figure out which of these games i want to play and which of these i want to buy (Of course i am talking about gamepass, what do you think? )

August 27th Ancestors Humankind Odyssey (EGS), Control (EGS)
August 30th Astral Chain (Switch), Blair Witch (Gamepass), Man of Medan (Steam)
September 3rd: Catherine Fully Body (PS4), Spyro Reignited (Steam)
September 10th: Gears 5 (Gamepass), Greedfall (Steam)
September 13th: Daemon x Machina (Switch), Borderlands 3 (EGS)
September 17th: Ai: The Somnium Files (Steam)
September 20th: Ni No Kuni Remastered (Steam)
September 24th: The Surge 2 (Steam)
September 27th: Code Vein (Steam)

Them's a lotta games @_@

 

[Mivey]

Are there any chances of Gears 2, 3 or Judgement hitting PC? It just seems strange they only ever bothered to remaster Gears 1. Even if they don't change engines, it shouldn't be that hard to get Unreal Engine games running on PC. Even a small team at The Coalition should be able to do some decent controls for a TPS, I'm sure UE3 itself has decent templates to start with.

 

[Eferis]

Ugh just saw that my bank add one euro fee EVEN when buying something in euros, thought it was only when I bought something in dollars. So anything I buy at humble gets a one euro fee slapped on it.

Need to change bank damn.

"Why do you need a cart, anyway?"

That's stupid though, I've had my bank charging me for anything but never for something like that.

August 27th Ancestors Humankind Odyssey (EGS), Control (EGS)

These are two games I have a million doubts on but I would have purchased at launch out of pure curiosity.

Well, too bad.

 

[yuraya]

Are there any chances of Gears 2, 3 or Judgement hitting PC? It just seems strange they only ever bothered to remaster Gears 1. Even if they don't change engines, it shouldn't be that hard to get Unreal Engine games running on PC. Even a small team at The Coalition should be able to do some decent controls for a TPS, I'm sure UE3 itself has decent templates to start with.

I bet MS does a giant MCC style remaster collection with everything from 1-5 included next gen for their new console and pc.

Probably announce it whenever they wind up announcing Gears 6.

 

[prudis]

Wild Shiren: The Wanderer appears

 

[Arsene]

Trying to figure out which of these games i want to play and which of these i want to buy (Of course i am talking about gamepass, what do you think? )

August 27th Ancestors Humankind Odyssey (EGS), Control (EGS)
August 30th Astral Chain (Switch), Blair Witch (Gamepass), Man of Medan (Steam)
September 3rd: Catherine Fully Body (PS4), Spyro Reignited (Steam)
September 10th: Gears 5 (Gamepass), Greedfall (Steam)
September 13th: Daemon x Machina (Switch), Borderlands 3 (EGS)
September 17th: Ai: The Somnium Files (Steam)
September 20th: Ni No Kuni Remastered (Steam)
September 24th: The Surge 2 (Steam)
September 27th: Code Vein (Steam)

Them's a lotta games @_@

Astral Chain
Catherine Full Body
Daemon x Machina
Ai: The Somnium Files
Ni No Kuni Remastered
Code Vein

Its weeb time baby

Wild Shiren: The Wanderer appears

BASED SPIKE CHUNSOFT. DAY ONE BABY.

But In all seriousness maybe we'll get a proper announcement later today?

 

[Eferis]

OK I just watched the Astral Chain gamescom gameplay video.

 

[Le Pertti]

Aaah it was super smooth to bootcamp windows 10 onto my mac! So now I can finally play all those windows only games I've missed out on and they are MANY. Feels little unnecessary now that I bought a Switch haha.

But wow Windows 10 feels little akward to use after being used to MacOS:.

"Why do you need a cart, anyway?"

That's stupid though, I've had my bank charging me for anything but never for something like that.

Haha yeah I should have used the cart. But between monthly, bundles and store those extra fees still stack up. Weirdly, it's only Humble that I get those extra fees.

 

[Tizoc]

Trying to figure out which of these games i want to play and which of these i want to buy (Of course i am talking about gamepass, what do you think? )

August 27th Ancestors Humankind Odyssey (EGS), Control (EGS)
August 30th Astral Chain (Switch), Blair Witch (Gamepass), Man of Medan (Steam)
September 3rd: Catherine Fully Body (PS4), Spyro Reignited (Steam)
September 10th: Gears 5 (Gamepass), Greedfall (Steam)
September 13th: Daemon x Machina (Switch), Borderlands 3 (EGS)
September 17th: Ai: The Somnium Files (Steam)
September 20th: Ni No Kuni Remastered (Steam)
September 24th: The Surge 2 (Steam)
September 27th: Code Vein (Steam)

Them's a lotta games @_@

Yikes i did not know about some of these.

 

[Kvik]

Don't see how it's possible if they're using "a hardware-accelerated programmable scaling filter available in Turing," to do that

You can try IntegerScaler for some games though. IntegerScaler — nonblurry upscaling of games

Tested it with ftl and it works great.

For all we know NV could be just bullshitting us since they are trying to get everybody to buy RTX cards thus the requirement is merely a marketing strategy and not a tech limitation.

Thanks for the tip though, I'm already using the latest dgVoodoo2 to upscale some of my games. This may be a good alternative if dgVoodoo fails.

 

[Wok]

Haha yeah I should have used the cart. But between monthly, bundles and store those extra fees still stack up. Weirdly, it's only Humble that I get those extra fees.

How do you know the fee is for Humble purchases, and not any other reason the bank could have invented to charge you a bit more extra fees?

 

[Le Pertti]

How do you know the fee is for Humble purchases, and not any other reason the bank could have invented to charge you a bit more extra fees?

I only had two transactions on my account at the time and both were humble and there were two fees taken, It can't be anything else.

 

[Kvik]

List of games.

I'm getting these.

August 28th Crystar (Steam)
August 30th Astral Chain (Switch) -- 30fps WARNING!
September 10th: Greedfall (Steam)
September 13th: Daemon x Machina (Switch)
September 17th: Ai: The Somnium Files (Steam)
September 20th: Ni No Kuni Remastered (Steam)
September 27th: Code Vein (Steam)

I want to get Grandia HD as well but I wasn't impressed by its horrendous filtering. I'll wait until a more thorough review is out and whether it's removable or not. Chances are we're going to have another Chrono Trigger PC situation.

 

[MJunioR]

Trying to figure out which of these games i want to play and which of these i want to buy (Of course i am talking about gamepass, what do you think? )

August 27th Ancestors Humankind Odyssey (EGS), Control (EGS)
August 30th Astral Chain (Switch), Blair Witch (Gamepass), Man of Medan (Steam)
September 3rd: Catherine Fully Body (PS4), Spyro Reignited (Steam)
September 10th: Gears 5 (Gamepass), Greedfall (Steam)
September 13th: Daemon x Machina (Switch), Borderlands 3 (EGS)
September 17th: Ai: The Somnium Files (Steam)
September 20th: Ni No Kuni Remastered (Steam)
September 24th: The Surge 2 (Steam)
September 27th: Code Vein (Steam)

Them's a lotta games @_@

Buy Control, Borderlands 3 and Ancestors to help Tim please

 

[prudis]

Mudrunner 2 by Saber - renamed and egged

SnowRunner will be available in 2020 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC through the Epic Games store.