Community MetaSteam | January 2025 - Remember cloud, a great remake comes with great responsibility, kuppo.

[fantomena]

Just sitting here waiting for the RTX 5080/5090 to be announced and released. Im gonna get one of them, haven't decided which one yet. Time for my GTX 1080 to retire. Still thinking both will be overkill for my 108p monitor, even a 2160p if I get one in the future. But I want it to last long, so overkill is great for me.

Other upgrades I will be doing compared to my current PC:

32 gb RAM 2666 mhz -> 64 gb RAM 6000 mhz
Intel Core 5820k 4 ghz oc'd -> Ryzen 9800X3D
HDDs to nvme SSD (Im still gaming on HDD)

Still also not sure if Im building it myself or buying a prebuilt.

Regardless, this will be the biggest PC upgrade I've ever done, so feels good.

 

[Mivey]

Just sitting here waiting for the RTX 5080/5090 to be announced and released. Im gonna get one of them, haven't decided which one yet. Time for my GTX 1080 to retire. Still thinking both will be overkill for my 108p monitor, even a 2160p if I get one in the future. But I want it to last long, so overkill is great for me.

Other upgrades I will be doing compared to my current PC:

32 gb RAM 2666 mhz -> 64 gb RAM 6000 mhz
Intel Core 5820k 4 ghz oc'd -> Ryzen 9800X3D
HDDs to nvme SSD (Im still gaming on HDD)

Still also not sure if Im building it myself or buying a prebuilt.

Regardless, this will be the biggest PC upgrade I've ever done, so feels good.

When you say "gaming on HDD", you mean that use a secondary HDD to store games in? Because running your OS off of an HDD is so early 2000s, dude.

 

[lashman]

When you say "gaming on HDD", you mean that use a secondary HDD to store games in? Because running your OS off of an HDD is so early 2000s, dude.

 

[gabbo]

When you say "gaming on HDD", you mean that use a secondary HDD to store games in? Because running your OS off of an HDD is so early 2000s, dude.

some people prefer storage capacity over load times.

 

[fantomena]

When you say "gaming on HDD", you mean that use a secondary HDD to store games in? Because running your OS off of an HDD is so early 2000s, dude.

Yes. My OS is stored on an 100 gb ssd. Everything else is on a HDD.

100 GB for OS is still very little as I often find myself having 10 gb of space left.

 

[Stevey]

I have Windows on a 250GB SSD, Blizzard on a 500GB SSD, STEAM on a 1TB M.2, and all other stuff on a 500GB SSD.

 

[Knurek]

I have Windows on a 250GB SSD, Blizzard on a 500GB SSD, STEAM on a 1TB M.2, and all other stuff on a 500GB SSD.

 

[Lashley]

He stated that if adding diversity to the game doesn't make the game better in some form, then you should not add diversity. I don't see how that is being a chud. Adding diversity for the sake of diversity is not a good thing. However, if it is well implemented and is supported by the game design, no problem.

Quick example for me personally: the Life is Strange games, especiallty the first one would not be good if they removed the diversity of the game, diversity was not only just part of that game's design, it was a very important part.

Again, I don't follow the guy so no idea if he has right-ish views/follows/likes, nor do I care enough to check, sorry. Context matters for parsing things correctly, I just can't be arsed to spend my time checking it.
But I understood the tweet as saying he thinks enforcing adding diversity on a work of art is a not necessarily a good thing and I agree with that.
Are his games just works of art or commercial products (or both!) is another thing entirely.

He could've kept silent, instead he deliberately chose to respond to that specific tweet and fanned the flames for the chud gamer types who feed off that shit.

So my elite controller for xbox has sticky buttons, because I spilled a FEW DROPS of tea, no milk no sugar.T_T what's the best and easiest way to fix that? I occasionally add water and that fixes it for awhile but it seems it always goes back to being sticky.

Suffer for the sins of drinking a cuppa with no milk and tea

This is your penance

 

[Durante]

 

[PC-tan]

Mivey I have not played Wukong and as far as story goes, how well is it adapted? You mentioned Shakespeare and stuff can adapt it but you also have bad adaptations as well. So the fact that something is an adaptation of Shakespeare does that mean that the story is worth praising? Or is no bad adaptation a thing? Just like how you hear, oh the book was way better than the movie. They left so much out and they took creative liberties with characters and plot lines type of stuff. Did that happen with this game? That I don't know.

There was still the last award that was for the game that you suck at the most. Which goes back to split player base by country.

But the main thing being that I still find it dumb how people take Wukong willing multiple things as a "I told you so" to games that they don't agree with.

 

[Derrick01]

With FF7 Rebirth PC approaching I decided to write up some tips on the game that might help your enjoyment of it. I know we're still 3 weeks away so bookmark this if you have to.

First you should keep this video about settings saved, I assume the settings will be the exact same on PC. Some of these are personal preference things but a few I would consider essential like changing combo targeting to free and the terrain action setting (lets you know when you reach a surface that can be climbed on)



Some other tips that are crucial

- I strongly advise not going into this game with the intent to 100% it. Even I don't have the platinum for this game because it's just too much, especially the end game combat challenges. I did do most everything else though and don't regret it.

- If you are someone who stresses about moving on and missing content then don't worry there is nothing truly missable in the game. At worst you will temporarily leave a place but you can come back later. If you feel yourself burning out on a minigame or a card battle or some other open world content (these are called world intel btw) then just don't do it and move on. The game gives the player too much rope and most people will hang themselves with it by thinking they need to do everything and as soon as they see it.

- If you do choose to skip some things I would recommend still doing the protorelic stuff in each region as it has its own overarching storyline and it's quite good and worth seeing all the way through. The other world intel stuff can largely be skipped, only other thing you may want to do is some of the summon shrines in each region so you can get that region's summon materia (each shrine lowers the difficulty of the fight to obtain the summon, so you don't even have to do every shrine).

That's all I can think of at the moment. I hope you all enjoy it, it's truly a special game and feels like how AAA games would be in a world where suits aren't worried about money as much as they are.

 

[dex3108]

With FF7 Rebirth PC approaching I decided to write up some tips on the game that might help your enjoyment of it. I know we're still 3 weeks away so bookmark this if you have to.

First you should keep this video about settings saved, I assume the settings will be the exact same on PC. Some of these are personal preference things but a few I would consider essential like changing combo targeting to free and the terrain action setting (lets you know when you reach a surface that can be climbed on)



Some other tips that are crucial

- I strongly advise not going into this game with the intent to 100% it. Even I don't have the platinum for this game because it's just too much, especially the end game combat challenges. I did do most everything else though and don't regret it.

- If you are someone who stresses about moving on and missing content then don't worry there is nothing truly missable in the game. At worst you will temporarily leave a place but you can come back later. If you feel yourself burning out on a minigame or a card battle or some other open world content (these are called world intel btw) then just don't do it and move on. The game gives the player too much rope and most people will hang themselves with it by thinking they need to do everything and as soon as they see it.

- If you do choose to skip some things I would recommend still doing the protorelic stuff in each region as it has its own overarching storyline and it's quite good and worth seeing all the way through. The other world intel stuff can largely be skipped, only other thing you may want to do is some of the summon shrines in each region so you can get that region's summon materia (each shrine lowers the difficulty of the fight to obtain the summon, so you don't even have to do every shrine).

That's all I can think of at the moment. I hope you all enjoy it, it's truly a special game and feels like how AAA games would be in a world where suits aren't worried about money as much as they are.

I finished AC Odyssey and DLCs 100% (and i mean 100%, i did everything that could be done in that game and its DLCs outside those daily/weekly quests). So i can handle Rebirth XD

 

[Sobatronix]

I finished AC Odyssey and DLCs 100% (and i mean 100%, i did everything that could be done in that game and its DLCs outside those daily/weekly quests). So i can handle Rebirth XD

This is literally impossible, the legend tells that you need at least 10,000 hours to finish AC Odyssey's main missions

 

[dex3108]

This is literally impossible, the legend tells that you need at least 10,000 hours to finish AC Odyssey's main missions

I did it, i cleared that map fully. That is why i got burned out so much that i just finished Valhalla main story and dropped the game even though i own DLCs XD

 

[Knurek]

A QVO? Come on, you're better than that...
Also, come on, how can you even call yourself a data hoarder without all the drives in the red?

 

[Mivey]

Mivey I have not played Wukong and as far as story goes, how well is it adapted? You mentioned Shakespeare and stuff can adapt it but you also have bad adaptations as well. So the fact that something is an adaptation of Shakespeare does that mean that the story is worth praising? Or is no bad adaptation a thing? Just like how you hear, oh the book was way better than the movie. They left so much out and they took creative liberties with characters and plot lines type of stuff. Did that happen with this game? That I don't know.

There was still the last award that was for the game that you suck at the most. Which goes back to split player base by country.

But the main thing being that I still find it dumb how people take Wukong willing multiple things as a "I told you so" to games that they don't agree with.

I guess a large part of the Chinese audience is happy with how Wukong is dealing with the source material, whether this means it is very faithful or not (after all, even a very liberal adaptation could still be fairly popular exactly for what new elements it brings to the ancient source material).
I really can't speak about that, though. As I said, have never read any translation of The Journey to the West.

The game becoming part of all this culture war nonsense is, overall, unsurprising, as it seems that all major games "must" fall into one camp or the other according to the weirdos that care about this.

 

[Madventure]

goty 2025 got its storepage

 

[Derrick01]

I finished AC Odyssey and DLCs 100% (and i mean 100%, i did everything that could be done in that game and its DLCs outside those daily/weekly quests). So i can handle Rebirth XD

That's pretty brutal and tbf I did that too. Only thing that stopped me from completing rebirth was the end game combat challenges which are insanely brutal and most people's roadblock. You have to do long gauntlets and if you die you restart the entire chain and they are the hardest fights in the game on top of that. I also have to replay the game in hard mode (which is basically NG+, if you played 7R it's the same thing) but that's not hard just a little time consuming.

Oh that reminds me of another tip. You'll probably want to play in Dynamic difficulty. It's the closest thing to a challenge that you'll get on first playthrough. Normal is way too easy.

 

[yuraya]

goty 2025 got its storepage

How is this series? I never heard of it.

I'm always in the mood for some deep and good tower defense games.

Is it better than the Gemcraft games?

 

[Madventure]

How is this series? I never heard of it.

I'm always in the mood for some deep and good tower defense games.

Is it better than the Gemcraft games?

I could never really get into the gemcraft games (or I am misremembering something) but I like tower defense games a lot and I like dungeon warfare a lot


this one is great too, but it can sort of be considered relatively short

If you've never played Orcs must die 2 it's great and they went a long way to make Orcs Must die 3 not as horrible with their moba always online misstep (When everyone did their our game must be a moba phase)

 

[dummmyy]

data hoarder without all the drives in the red

Knurek this and the photo made me laugh so fucking hard lmao

 

[Cacher]

Discussion - What are you currently playing? (Week 2 of 2025)

New week, new thread! What are you playing? I am flabbergasted by Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout. During the last 5 years I have seen countless fan arts and discussions of this game's protagonist Ryza due to her "gifted" appearance, but being a cynical gamer I am indifferent...

metacouncil.com

 

[fantomena]

Now that we are going into the week of the RTX 5000 series announcement, Im just gonna say, what a goddamn best the GTX 1080 and the 5820k has been. Btw, it was Durante that recommended me the 5820k almost 9 years ago as he told me it was best for future proofing and he was right.

 

[dex3108]

I am tired of opening chests in video games...

 

[Mivey]

I am tired of opening chests in video games...

Dragon Age Veilguard devs seems to tackle this problem of opening chest feeling like a chore. You still open a lot of them, but each time there's some kind of fancy animation, like an explosion of sparks, or your hero basically smashing the chest open. That also gets old, but it is usually quite fast,compared to drawn out chest opening animations

 

[Hektor]

I am tired of opening chests in video games...

I LOVE OPENING CHESTS!!

Big Demon, Small demon, CHEST IS CHEST AND THEY ARE MEANT TO BE OPENED

 

[Dragon1893]

With FF7 Rebirth PC approaching I decided to write up some tips on the game that might help your enjoyment of it. I know we're still 3 weeks away so bookmark this if you have to.

First you should keep this video about settings saved, I assume the settings will be the exact same on PC. Some of these are personal preference things but a few I would consider essential like changing combo targeting to free and the terrain action setting (lets you know when you reach a surface that can be climbed on)



Some other tips that are crucial

- I strongly advise not going into this game with the intent to 100% it. Even I don't have the platinum for this game because it's just too much, especially the end game combat challenges. I did do most everything else though and don't regret it.

- If you are someone who stresses about moving on and missing content then don't worry there is nothing truly missable in the game. At worst you will temporarily leave a place but you can come back later. If you feel yourself burning out on a minigame or a card battle or some other open world content (these are called world intel btw) then just don't do it and move on. The game gives the player too much rope and most people will hang themselves with it by thinking they need to do everything and as soon as they see it.

- If you do choose to skip some things I would recommend still doing the protorelic stuff in each region as it has its own overarching storyline and it's quite good and worth seeing all the way through. The other world intel stuff can largely be skipped, only other thing you may want to do is some of the summon shrines in each region so you can get that region's summon materia (each shrine lowers the difficulty of the fight to obtain the summon, so you don't even have to do every shrine).

That's all I can think of at the moment. I hope you all enjoy it, it's truly a special game and feels like how AAA games would be in a world where suits aren't worried about money as much as they are.

Thanks.
Sometimes small tips can make a huge difference.
For example, I'm cleaning up the sidequests in Metaphor before going into the endgame.
There are these hard optional bosses and when I tried the first one it was obvious that I was under levelled despite having already done everything else.
Turns out, the story quest I'm about to do isn't the point of no return yet, so I can do it first, gaining several levels in the process.

Now that we are going into the week of the RTX 5000 series announcement, Im just gonna say, what a goddamn best the GTX 1080 and the 5820k has been. Btw, it was Durante that recommended me the 5820k almost 9 years ago as he told me it was best for future proofing and he was right.

When I got a new PC for The Witcher 2 I decided to put more money into future proofing the CPU, so I got a 2600k which had just released. That thing lasted me a very long time.

 

[MegaApple]

Also, come on, how can you even call yourself a data hoarder without all the drives in the red?

For real, what data are you hoarding?

 

[Mivey]

For real, what data are you hoarding?

Man is not meant to know such horrors

 

[Le Pertti]

I have 100 hours in pathfinder kingmaker... and im not sure I like the game.XD Its just too obtuse, like it stresses too much with time, like now it forced me to go into the last battle, but I have so much else I was doing but cant because it keeps sending shit to my kingdom. Feels like the only reason I kept going was to get achievements lol, might as well just bounce off it now. The second game is better right? I have the second one and Rogue Trader both installed already...

 

[Derrick01]

Thanks.
Sometimes small tips can make a huge difference.

Some of the combat and camera settings in that video were baffling choices by SE and can really affect how the combat feels. Like not changing combo targeting to free means that when you do an attack chain with a character you're stuck on whatever enemy you're hitting, you can't switch to another enemy mid swing. IMO that makes the combat worse. Whenever I see someone criticize the combat I wonder if they changed any of these settings.

I have 100 hours in pathfinder kingmaker... and im not sure I like the game.XD Its just too obtuse, like it stresses too much with time, like now it forced me to go into the last battle, but I have so much else I was doing but cant because it keeps sending shit to my kingdom. Feels like the only reason I kept going was to get achievements lol, might as well just bounce off it now. The second game is better right? I have the second one and Rogue Trader both installed already...

WAY better, and less buggy too. I think they even added options to avoid the army battles on the map which annoyed a lot of people at launch.

 

[Le Pertti]

WAY better, and less buggy too. I think they even added options to avoid the army battles on the map which annoyed a lot of people at launch.

Oh that's great to hear! Im now still going through with the last mission... but it decided to just kill all my favorite companions. And not even in a way that has an impact, I walked in a room, short NPC talks and they just died.

 

[Kyougar]

I LOVE OPENING CHESTS!!

Big Demon, Small demon, CHEST IS CHEST AND THEY ARE MEANT TO BE OPENED

I love big chests

 

[Knurek]

For real, what data are you hoarding?

Linux install isos, obviously

 

[Derrick01]

Dragon Age Veilguard devs seems to tackle this problem of opening chest feeling like a chore. You still open a lot of them, but each time there's some kind of fancy animation, like an explosion of sparks, or your hero basically smashing the chest open. That also gets old, but it is usually quite fast,compared to drawn out chest opening animations

The thing about veilguard that made me laugh so hard is there's still chests in the end game mission where you're past the point of no return (also junk on the ground like resources and gold). It makes no sense at all lol.

 

[Parsnip]

For real, what data are you hoarding?

Everything.
It's everything.

 

[Cacher]

 

[Gamall Wednesday Ida]

I have 100 hours in pathfinder kingmaker... and im not sure I like the game

That's nothing. I have 162h.

All on one single character (solo party).

Still didn't finish it

 

[Mivey]

The thing about veilguard that made me laugh so hard is there's still chests in the end game mission where you're past the point of no return (also junk on the ground like resources and gold). It makes no sense at all lol.

yeah, had the same thought. Feels kinda pointless even from a level design perspective. Those items aren't placing themselves, and it is all completely wasted since you pick up pretty unimportant nonsense. It would make sense Dragon Age used classic health potions and the final chests and loot was just full of those.

 

[Dragon1893]

A QVO? Come on, you're better than that...
Also, come on, how can you even call yourself a data hoarder without all the drives in the red?

Fuck, that's a lot of porn.

 

[yuraya]

Watching AGDQ with the Astro Bot run and indeed looks like a very fun game. Would be great on Deck too.

I wonder how long Sony takes to port it. The game awards sales boost is probably over and no reason to gate keep a platformer for so long.

They really should port it this summer assuming no new content is coming.

 

[Kvik]

Fuck, that's a lot of porn.

And not just any porn, mind you.

It's tentacle porn.

 

[QFNS]

Watching AGDQ with the Astro Bot run and indeed looks like a very fun game. Would be great on Deck too.

I wonder how long Sony takes to port it. The game awards sales boost is probably over and no reason to gate keep a platformer for so long.

They really should port it this summer assuming no new content is coming.

I'm not sure they do port it though. There are a ton of PS5 controller specific features just like the Astro's playroom game that came with the system. Obviously they could require a PS5 controller but I think that would negate the extra reach of the PC/Steam.

 

[Dinjoralo]

My storage situation is weird since my stuff is split between OS's... I had a 256 GB SSD for my Windows install, then a 2 TB game SSD and later a 1 TB NVME to potentially use with that newfangled DirectStorage shit that's never going to be fully made. Then I got another 2 TB NVME at a discount to install Linux on and have reclaimed the other NVME for that. I might split the other SSD into two partitions if I ever need more space.

I completely forgot about AGDQ... Damn.

 

[edin]

I'm not sure they do port it though. There are a ton of PS5 controller specific features just like the Astro's playroom game that came with the system. Obviously they could require a PS5 controller but I think that would negate the extra reach of the PC/Steam.

I could be wrong since I haven't tested them recently, but even the first-party games on PC with DualSense support don't have it exactly as good as it is on PS5. I noticed when playing Spider-Man Miles Morales and Ratchet side by side on Steam (wired) and PS5 to compare.

Ran into a super weird issue with Dynasty Warriors 9 (yes I know) where I own the game and all season passes (yes I bought all don't ask how many KT games I bought on Steam ), but the game still thinks I only own the trial. Found some other folks on Steam with the same issue. It won't even let me buy the base game now on Steam. Annoying. I emailed KT to see if they can help with the issue since it isn't just happening to me.

 

[Ge0force]

I gave up on Death Stranding after 5 chapters and almost 30 hours of fetch quests and building roads. The story and setting are amazing, but I'm so f*cking tired of bringing cargo from one building to an exact copy of that building on the other side of the map. Also f*ck those invisible enemies (BT's). How did this game sell 20 million copies?

Also tried some Ghostrunner last night. Awesome concept, but for some reason I keep dying by enemy bullets. Not sure what the problem is, but I can't get the timing right, and often I get shot by enemy B while focusing on enemy A.

Perhaps I'm getting too old for these kinds of games. I'm gonna play some more Picross tonight...

 

[edin]

I have Windows

Sorry to hear that. Hope you feel better soon.

 

[Alexandros]

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-introduces-ryzen-z2-series-confirms-valve-steam-deck-update

I strongly doubt that Z2 will be used for a Steam Deck, I would assume that Valve will want a custom chip for that one.

 

[yuraya]

I gave up on Death Stranding after 5 chapters and almost 30 hours of fetch quests and building roads. The story and setting are amazing, but I'm so f*cking tired of bringing cargo from one building to an exact copy of that building on the other side of the map. Also f*ck those invisible enemies (BT's). How did this game sell 20 million copies?

You should just stick to the main story path and not do the side fetch building content. It gets very repetitive. The main story path is also repetitive but at least you are rewarded with cutscenes, story and boss fights. A little more variety goes a long way. Those have always been the best things about Kojima games.

But yea DS can get very exhausting if you are trying to do too much. It is a very long game no matter how you try to play it. There are some chapters later on like 7 (or maybe it was 8) that are very long lol. Its one of the things Kojima needs to fix with the sequel but I have a feeling he will double down and make it even more ridiculous. The trailers for the sequel showed so many different settings too

 

[Parsnip]

No reason to trust videocardz on anything if they don't link a direct source, which they don't for any of those recent AMD articles.
AMD has their CES thing in... 13 hours? They'll blow their load there.

I'm not sure they do port it though. There are a ton of PS5 controller specific features just like the Astro's playroom game that came with the system. Obviously they could require a PS5 controller but I think that would negate the extra reach of the PC/Steam.

I am under the impression that you can actually turn most (all?) of the special controller stuff off in the new Astro on PS5 already, so I don't think that specifically would stop them from porting it.