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This. And that's the problem. They frankly have no personality beyond chasing the Uncharted trend of the time.
its definiitely different than the previous games. luckily i enjoyed botht the old-school style games and the uncharted-esque games as well. I would argue Rise took a step toward more puzzling, but there was still a lot of combat as well. Shadow shouldve been fine but something was off about that game, Im just not sure what exactly.
either way, I would certainly welcome a return to the old style TR games.
Hypnospace Outlaw sequel in the works!
Best reveal I've heard in AGES!!!
I just checked my YouTube notifications and it seems like at least 3 musicians had their accounts hacked. The Weeknd, Ariana Grande, and Taylor Swifts' accounts were all hacked to promote someones Twitter account.
Suzerain has been on my backburner forever. Chicken Police is supposed to be rad. Destroy All Humans was received well as a nostalgic revisit.Humble Choice for April 2022
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That might be enough for me to dive in.
Another easy pause decision. nothing that really interests me besides Ghostrunner
Wow I've been waiting for that Boruto game forever - No one ever
The last choice I grabbed was December 2021 and even that was only because of the high-profile stuff I knew I could use to offset the cost. They are really missing me with these things now. Like, the past few months haven't even been close to something I would pay for.
I want Monster Sanctuary, and if Chicken Police were like an "extra" I would try it, but 1.5 out of 8 games (none of which I own) is really bad. And I'm normally into the less popular months because I play such a broad range of game genres.
I want Monster Sanctuary, and if Chicken Police were like an "extra" I would try it, but 1.5 out of 8 games (none of which I own) is really bad. And I'm normally into the less popular months because I play such a broad range of game genres.
Never heard of it. Which obviously has nothing to do with its quality, but it's certainly not going to sway me one way or another.
Lego Star Wars at over 50k ccu now. Damn. It's more than all other Lego titles combined and then multiplied many times.
New LEGO game for Steam collection:
nice ^^.
The next one should be Bricktales
nice ^^.
The next one should be Bricktales
I feel out of touch (again) I didn't realise anyone gave a shit about lego star wars anymore to such a degree
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God, I want another LG C1 but to use as my main display on my desk
oh no
oh no
I knew that lego star wars would sell well (was in the top seller) but +70k ccu and counting, wow.
I thought it would peak at like 40k. I also thought Elden Ring would peak at like 300k so I'm not very good at this whole predicting thing.
80k ccu is really big for a game and it shows Steams growth.
Like, a few years ago, 80k ccu would be hard to get and was mainly for trible a blockbuster titles. Steams audience is no doubt really important for pubs and indies.
They mostly for everyone tbhI always thought the lego games were for kids
How are the vehicle sections in this lego star wars? Meaty/fun or minor distractions for variety's sake?
Rise is probably the best of the reboot trilogy overall. I enjoyed TR 2013, but it's undeniable that it cynically jettisoned basically everything that had previously defined the series in favor of aping trends from other AAA franchises.
Shadow at least attempted to bring things a bit closer to the older TR games with more of an emphasis on puzzles and platforming, which was welcome in theory, but I agree that something felt a bit off about it in execution. Still enjoyable, but probably the weakest game in the trilogy, IMO.
Spent an hour or two on Lego Star Wars. Enjoying it so far. Only reached Mos Eisley so far though.
It looks surprisingly pretty at times as well. Maybe it's because of all the characters being simple textures to match their Minifigs it just looks great at times.
Their seems to be 2 types of levels. Linear missions and the more open missions. By that I mean the game opens on A New Hope during the attack on the rebel ship. This is mainly a run down corridors with the odd branching section ie choose to go down corridor A or B and so on. Then there are the open sections. These are more freeform. You can follow the story or wander off and explore, ride vehicles and so on. There are plenty of hidden objects to go look for as well. I spent far too long just wandering around trying to find studs and Kaiber Crystals.
Kaiber crystals are a new addition to the game, although they mainly just replace the special studs you would find in a level. However there are around 1100 of these to collect, so completionists will have plenty to sink their teeth into.
The humour is still the same as always. That slapstick that TT seem to love so much. I personally still enjoy it. However I still hold that some of the charm disappeared when they started using voices. Not enough to put me off, but just enough to be noticeable. But personally I still enjoy it.
Options seem good, while they won't win any awards for the most tweakable there is still a few graphical settings to play with. Also there are a lot of accessability options in this game. To me this is always a win, for people interested you can invert the axis of the game (independantly as well), change damage recharge rates, whether you do recharge damage or not and plenty of tweaks to things like how the targeting system works for shooting.
Technically it seems fine. There is a bit of judder on a level first loading but it doesn't seem to have any effect after that. However I will say that I am not particularly sensitive to frame drops or judder and only tend to notice when it is really bad.
It looks surprisingly pretty at times as well. Maybe it's because of all the characters being simple textures to match their Minifigs it just looks great at times.
Their seems to be 2 types of levels. Linear missions and the more open missions. By that I mean the game opens on A New Hope during the attack on the rebel ship. This is mainly a run down corridors with the odd branching section ie choose to go down corridor A or B and so on. Then there are the open sections. These are more freeform. You can follow the story or wander off and explore, ride vehicles and so on. There are plenty of hidden objects to go look for as well. I spent far too long just wandering around trying to find studs and Kaiber Crystals.
Kaiber crystals are a new addition to the game, although they mainly just replace the special studs you would find in a level. However there are around 1100 of these to collect, so completionists will have plenty to sink their teeth into.
The humour is still the same as always. That slapstick that TT seem to love so much. I personally still enjoy it. However I still hold that some of the charm disappeared when they started using voices. Not enough to put me off, but just enough to be noticeable. But personally I still enjoy it.
Options seem good, while they won't win any awards for the most tweakable there is still a few graphical settings to play with. Also there are a lot of accessability options in this game. To me this is always a win, for people interested you can invert the axis of the game (independantly as well), change damage recharge rates, whether you do recharge damage or not and plenty of tweaks to things like how the targeting system works for shooting.
Technically it seems fine. There is a bit of judder on a level first loading but it doesn't seem to have any effect after that. However I will say that I am not particularly sensitive to frame drops or judder and only tend to notice when it is really bad.
I actually do like Shadow of the Tomb Raider the best of the recent reboot. I've often gotten the feeling that I'm in the minority.
Rise I find probably the worst. It just leans so so much into the shooty bang side, so many encounters that your are just forced to shoot your way out of.
Shadow felt like they designed it in a way that allowed for more stealthy approach to more things, and with the individual difficulty options for exploration, puzzle and combat, I could tailor it to my liking. I can't tell you how happy I was to be able to remove all the suspiciously placed white paint from the world.
Rise I find probably the worst. It just leans so so much into the shooty bang side, so many encounters that your are just forced to shoot your way out of.
Shadow felt like they designed it in a way that allowed for more stealthy approach to more things, and with the individual difficulty options for exploration, puzzle and combat, I could tailor it to my liking. I can't tell you how happy I was to be able to remove all the suspiciously placed white paint from the world.
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Seems like history repeating.
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Starting to get buyer's remorse from my $20 purchase. Yet another Squeenix game relegated to sunk cost. Hopefully modding will still salvage what's left of it.
Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition (PS4) Review - Iconic Yet Underserved
Unfortunately, we aren't in the timeline where Square Enix gave Chrono Cross the treatment it deserves for a full remaster.
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Starting to get buyer's remorse from my $20 purchase. Yet another Squeenix game relegated to sunk cost. Hopefully modding will still salvage what's left of it.
The backgrounds will probably take the most time, requiring careful upscaling via AI methods. Not sure much can be done on the framerate, if the game is just poorly coded and doing crazy stuff then that's what it is, without doing some pretty involved low-level modding/hacking.Seems like history repeating.
Chrono Cross: The Radical Dreamers Edition (PS4) Review - Iconic Yet Underserved
Unfortunately, we aren't in the timeline where Square Enix gave Chrono Cross the treatment it deserves for a full remaster.
TL;DR
Starting to get buyer's remorse from my $20 purchase. Yet another Squeenix game relegated to sunk cost. Hopefully modding will still salvage what's left of it.
FMV upscaling via AI methods should also work reasonably well, but bit of a shame Square couldn't find higher resolution versions in the first place.
All in all, I expect modding on PC to get this into a decent shape eventually, especially as it's a bit of a cult classic.
I'm very thankful most SE games are cult classics (or universally loved) because at least this increases the chances their games will have a good modding scene
Would be nice if one day SE wakes up and decides to put a bit more effort in their releases though
Would be nice if one day SE wakes up and decides to put a bit more effort in their releases though
Yeah, the rapid production workflow and poor upper management decisions resulted in a lot of lost assets for a lot of Squaresoft's games during that period. Not only source code, but they definitely lost a lot of pre-rendered background for FF series, CC and Parasite Eve, just to name a few.
What I wouldn't give to have the original background scenes to be rendered again in modern resolutions for remasters of these games. I can't help wondering what could've been, considering Square spent millions of yen on SGI workstations to render those during that era.
Does anyone use a KVM switch for a single monitor that supports DisplayPort? I'm having problems finding one for anything resembling a decent price for the most part, especially one that could possibly support my 144hz Gsync monitor that isn't insanly expensive (like in the hundreds of dollars).
I did see this one on Amazon that supports up to 120hz@1440p:
https://www.amazon.com/DisplayPort-Computers-Sharing-2560X1440-Extended/dp/B09MM7BSVM/ref=sr_1_30?crid=1XPTZFM6TPZ67
I did see this one on Amazon that supports up to 120hz@1440p:
https://www.amazon.com/DisplayPort-Computers-Sharing-2560X1440-Extended/dp/B09MM7BSVM/ref=sr_1_30?crid=1XPTZFM6TPZ67
Lego Star Wars looks great but it has some performance issues, it drops frames for no reason at all.
I pre-ordered Lego Star Wars...
But because of work and school I was not able to download it right away. My goal was to play it day one but I guess that will not do.
Also here is my history with Lego Star Wars and Star Wars in general.
For most people Star Wars starts with the movies (IE, Episode 4-6). Growing up I didn't even know what Star Wars was, Episode 1 the phantom Menace had already been released and I remember my elementary teacher showing us what I think was an edited version of the Phantom Menace. But I didn't really know what I was watching.
For the most part the only thing I knew about Star Wars was "Luke I am your father" but that was pretty much it.
Lego Star Wars was pretty important for me and was a part of my life. I remember playing a demo for the first game but it was only the first level from what I remember. My Friend who was really Into Star Wars let me borrow his copy of the game that was for GBA, that was how I played the game but because I hadn't watched the movies I had no idea what was going on since there was no VA in those games.
I don't think the first game released for GameCube did, but the second one did and I played it that way. When the complete Saga released I got that for DS. I was going to get Lego Star Wars 3 Clone Wars but I didn't really have money to buy it.
It was not that long that I was now starting to buy and collect Lego Star Wars sets. I would do it for a number of years, but I eventually stopped because some times we would have little kids visit us and they would play and destroy the sets and that just took away my will to build more. And then I just stopped.
I have in the last 2 years gotten back into Lego Star Wars and they are fun to build.
Anyway I hope that those that do pick it up also try to let a younger relative also play the game since the games are fun to play and can also be enjoyable to play them with others.
But because of work and school I was not able to download it right away. My goal was to play it day one but I guess that will not do.
Also here is my history with Lego Star Wars and Star Wars in general.
For most people Star Wars starts with the movies (IE, Episode 4-6). Growing up I didn't even know what Star Wars was, Episode 1 the phantom Menace had already been released and I remember my elementary teacher showing us what I think was an edited version of the Phantom Menace. But I didn't really know what I was watching.
For the most part the only thing I knew about Star Wars was "Luke I am your father" but that was pretty much it.
Lego Star Wars was pretty important for me and was a part of my life. I remember playing a demo for the first game but it was only the first level from what I remember. My Friend who was really Into Star Wars let me borrow his copy of the game that was for GBA, that was how I played the game but because I hadn't watched the movies I had no idea what was going on since there was no VA in those games.
I don't think the first game released for GameCube did, but the second one did and I played it that way. When the complete Saga released I got that for DS. I was going to get Lego Star Wars 3 Clone Wars but I didn't really have money to buy it.
It was not that long that I was now starting to buy and collect Lego Star Wars sets. I would do it for a number of years, but I eventually stopped because some times we would have little kids visit us and they would play and destroy the sets and that just took away my will to build more. And then I just stopped.
I have in the last 2 years gotten back into Lego Star Wars and they are fun to build.
Anyway I hope that those that do pick it up also try to let a younger relative also play the game since the games are fun to play and can also be enjoyable to play them with others.
As always, a grain of salt. Or 300 kg. Whichever's best.
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