The more I see the Tomb Raider remasters and their pricing the more FUCK KONAMI
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I've tried this late last year on Atelier Ayesha, seems to work well, and (probably) a better alternative to Lily's Atelier Graphics Tweak.
Atelier Graphics Tweak :: Atelier Ayesha: The Alchemist of Dusk DX General Discussions
Here is a resolution adjustment + SMAA injection tweak for Ayesha. Features: SMAA injection before the UI is drawn. Disable by removing HLSL files. Resolution lock removed. 4x (2Wx2H) supersampling, now fixed (and forced on). Experimental "text rendering stutter" removal hack, which removes the...
Sadly, none of these two solutions seems to work with SpecialK, so no HDR injection for Atelier games for the immediate future, I'm afraid.
All you need to do is finish the Dondoko Island minigame (that you will want to do anyway, because its sooooo addictive. Harvest Goon, baby!). Its in... Chapter 5 i think?
Finishing all five "star levels" of that minigame gives you roughly 500K USD, and sets you up with the structure to earn even more money by playing a couple of "days" every once in a while.
You can turn that 500K USD into a bunch of good armor and relatively OP weapons, pay off the upgrades for the forge, pay the tuition for all the entrance exams, unlock all the jobs, etc. Very useful!
Been wanting to play more Helldivers 2 but it's crashing a lot for me 
GTA 3 box ordered from UK for 10$, GTA San Andreas box ordered from US for 18$ xD Now to find Vice City. GTA 1,2 London will be bit tougher to find.
There's a chance there may be another solution for HDR in the future for NVidia RTX cards users, a recent driver included a yet not released HDR feature, and users made a mod to be able to use that feature, seems to work better than Windows auto HDR:
NvTrueHDR NVIDIA RTX HDR mod can convert SDR games to HDR - VideoCardz.com
NvTrueHDR mod enables HDR in SDR games for GeForce RTX GPUs NVIDIA has supposedly been working on enabling High Dynamic Range (HDR) automatically to all games using Standard Definition Range (SDR). This was discovered by modding community has already been released as a software enabling this...
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They're giving away an old Dead Island game to drum up interest for DI2.
Didn't Left 4 Dead have similar restrictions in Germany? The matchmaking restrictions are weird, but I assume it's a technical restriction.
(Dead Island 2)
Might day 1 Dead Island 2 on Steam. Tried a Captain Sparrow version and it was quite fun.
Lol TIL Dead Island 2 actually came out last year. EGS still working its marketing magic, I see.
Yeah and the funny thing is that everybody expected it to be horrible and it wasn't half bad (allegedly)
I'm very excited the TR remasters, TR2 and TR3 were games that I played a lot back in the day.
yeah, me too! I played TR1 and TR3 a lot. Never really played TR2 so Im looking forward to playing all of them with modern controls; and the graphic updates they did are really nice, too
"Except story that we vaulted, we don't talk about that though".
Aw yeah! Managed to order Banishers for like 5 euro for Xbox. It was on sale at my grocery store already and I had store credit saved up.
It was on sale at my grocery store already and I had store credit saved up.
I'm so glad I waited with Cold Steel 3 until the Crossbell games were officially out. Knowing these characters really adds a lot to my enjoyment, even though that knowledge isn't "necessary" to follow the story.
Hell, I even recognize NPCs from way back from Sky, lol (Orvid from the mushroom sidequest in Sky was just casually around at one point - completely inconsequental, but it made me happy).
Hell, I even recognize NPCs from way back from Sky, lol (Orvid from the mushroom sidequest in Sky was just casually around at one point - completely inconsequental, but it made me happy).
Was also my experience, except I played the fan translations from Geofront. Having played the previous games just adds another level to these games and it's great that at this point any fan can play the entirety of the Trails series in release order.
I had a dream last week where I owned a Steam Deck. Maybe it’s time.
Ever since Street Fighter 6 came out, I've been getting real sick of tuesday night maintenance. Every week like clockwork I'll forget it's tuesday, hop on immediately after work and get booted out of the game about an hour later. Why can't they do this shit in the middle of the night on the week-end like normal people?!
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Probably because no one that runs the Steam infrastructure wants to be up once a week in the middle of the night so they do it during their normal hours when they're in the office and since Valve isn't run like a normal business there's no one to tell that team no.Ever since Street Fighter 6 came out, I've been getting real sick of tuesday night maintenance. Ever week like clockwork I'll forget it's tuesday, hop on immediately after work and get booted out of the game about an hour later. Why can't they do this shit in the middle of the night on the week-end like normal people?!
IMHO this is something that could and should be fixed by a better technical solution. There's no fundamental reason the whole thing needs to be down each week (or ever). But of course, re-engineering the entire system to make that possible would probably be far from trivial.
On a more positive note regarding Steam and networking, I just installed a relatively large game on the Steam Deck that I already have on my PC and again automagically hit 950+ MBit/s via local transfer. That still feels great every time.
On a more positive note regarding Steam and networking, I just installed a relatively large game on the Steam Deck that I already have on my PC and again automagically hit 950+ MBit/s via local transfer. That still feels great every time.
What gets me is that they do it near the end of the day (around 3PM Seattle time). Normally any maintenance would be done outside of business hours but in Steam's case, it actually makes more sense to do it while people are at work and are less likely to be gaming.
I mean, with Steam's global user base, they're obviously always going to hit some regions at a time that sucks but there's no reason for them not to do it first thing in the morning or something like that. There's no way that 3PM on a tuesday is a time that they've determined to have the least impact on their user base lol.
The update should just delete the game and reinstall then lmao
From the Nexusmods page:
Not really keen on upgrading to Win11. I guess it's going to be years before I can have a go at it.
TR Remaster has no graphics options that I could see...like, none.
and the action button for grabbing onto ledges seem broken in modern controls....which is a big issue for some jumps. It works for picking up things, and Lara does hang onto ledges automatically when you just vault up to something, but jump+cling doesnt work as far as I could try it so far
Maybe Im missing something – I hope I am; otherwise I hope they fix it asap
nevermind; I did miss something; she will grab ledges with left mouse click instead of E. bit weird, but okay
and the action button for grabbing onto ledges seem broken in modern controls....which is a big issue for some jumps. It works for picking up things, and Lara does hang onto ledges automatically when you just vault up to something, but jump+cling doesnt work as far as I could try it so far
Maybe Im missing something – I hope I am; otherwise I hope they fix it asap
nevermind; I did miss something; she will grab ledges with left mouse click instead of E. bit weird, but okay
Xbox will save the PS5 from having no games.
PC will save PS5 from not selling enough games.
Nintendo will save PS5 from having any competition.
PS5 this gen is basically..
PC will save PS5 from not selling enough games.
Nintendo will save PS5 from having any competition.
PS5 this gen is basically..
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Pretty much, alongside smaller releases like remasters, director's cut, etc...
Yeah, 2024/25 would be the year to dip into that back catalogue.
Crank out those PS1/2 emulated releases (on PC too please) and prepare those PC/PS5 ports of PS3/PS4 games.
Crank out those PS1/2 emulated releases (on PC too please) and prepare those PC/PS5 ports of PS3/PS4 games.
Tomb Raider remastered looks lots of fun on the deck. But I want to play Helldivers 2 as well as soon as the crashes are solved. And I have a huge backlog + several Switch games for Ryujinx. Oh and I'm watching all 10 seasons of Stargate SG1 again as well.
Tldr; I need 48 hours in a day instead of 24.
Tldr; I need 48 hours in a day instead of 24.
I don't know if I said it here before but Sony will hit same roadblock that MS did. Issue with MS wasn't amount of consoles sold, they would need to make same decision if there are 100M Xbox consoles there. They are simply selling game to same limited market since PS2 era and gamendev costs went significantly up. That is unsustainable, and that is what Sony is now facing. Developing 1st party AAA game costs at minimum $500M. To break even you need to sell 8-9M copies at 70$ without sharing cut. To make $500M investment make sense you need roughly $700-800M in return and that is 13-14M sold copies. How many games sell that amount of copies at full price?
Can’t argue there. For their market to be sustainable they need to scale back budgets or expand audience.
But part of the first party allure is they’re prestige games. It used to be that said prestige games did not need to be profitable because they were hardware differentiators, but I think those days are past given the size of the budgets.
And if they do scale back budgets, the fans will cry foul. So releasing outside the captive audience is the next step. Alas, the fans will also cry foul at that too.
But I just don’t see a way that this stuff is sustainable in the long term otherwise. And even then it’s quite dicey.
I think fanboys need to ask themselves a question. Do they love the plastic black box, or the games?
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