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Can I ask you why you are so much "about" Ubisoft? I see you make a lot of threads about Ubisoft on ERA and posts about the company here too a lot. Just curious. Personally, I don't care much about Ubi nowadays, Im planning to get 1 month of Ubi+ after PoP has released next year to play PoP, Avatar, The Crew Motorfest and AC Mirrage in one swoop, unless some releases on Steam first.
 
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Can I ask you why you are so much "about" Ubisoft? I see you make a lot of threads about Ubisoft on ERA and posts about the company here too a lot. Just curious. Personally, I don't care much about Ubi nowadays, Im planning to get 1 month of Ubi+ after PoP has released next year to play PoP, Avatar, The Crew Motorfest and AC Mirrage in one swoop, unless some releases on Steam first.
Laughing at Ubisoft's bad decisions is quality entertainment.
 

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Falcom games have a really good OST.

I can't remember if it is true or not but was there an issue regarding some of the members that make up the Falcom sound team?
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By the way is Scarface worth a watch? I might watch it in theaters tomorrow but I am just not sure. It is part of it's 40th anniversary screening.

I am also going to go watch Ghost in the Shell tomorrow in theaters as part of Anime Expo movie nights
 
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Falcom games have a really good OST.

I can't remember if it is true or not but was there an issue regarding some of the members that make up the Falcom sound team?
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By the way is Scarface worth a watch? I might watch it in theaters tomorrow but I am just not sure. It is part of it's 40th anniversary screening.

I am also going to go watch Ghost in the Shell tomorrow in theaters as part of Anime Expo movie nights
Scarface is absolutely worth a watch. Its overrated in some fan takes that miss the point of the movie, but I think it holds up.

Original animated film Ghost in the Shell? There is a showing near me tomorrow too, but I have no plans to see it. It would be cool to watch at a theater.
 

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Scarface is absolutely worth a watch. Its overrated in some fan takes that miss the point of the movie, but I think it holds up.

Original animated film Ghost in the Shell? There is a showing near me tomorrow too, but I have no plans to see it. It would be cool to watch at a theater.
yeah the original animation. I have the 4K blue ray steelbook for it, but have not watch it yet. So this will be my first time see both of these movies.

Looking at the bookings, only 4 people so far are watching Scarface. I am the only one watching Ghost in the Shell tomorrow.

I also have plans to watch Tokyo Godfathers (I watched a bit of it years ago and just couldn't get into it), Cowboy Bepop movie and Paprika
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I'm also planning to go and watch the boy and the Heron still in Imax, luckily I was able to find a place playing it in IMAX only 2 hours away from were I live and I also have a free ticket that I can use to watch it.
 
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To this day San Andreas is the only GTA I have played for any significant amount of time, didn't finish it.

Also Blizzard needs to bring that Arcade Collection to Steam, I need my Rock n Roll Racing and Lost Vikings plz.
 

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I've been playing for the first time at 144Hz (monitor can be displayed at 240Hz but my GPU doesn't bring more than 144Hz) is absolutely astonishing. No words, for me it's like a gamechanger, like when I played a HDR game for the first time, some years ago.
wow games are very clear and f.e. Forza Horizon 5 compared with Series X (at 120Hz) it removes that annoying blur effect when you rotate the camera around the car.
gotta go fast.
i saw problems with audio in yuzu, in ryujinx some weird crash in cinematics and stuttering.
Last version of Ryujinx works kind of decent (maybe some metallic sound and few sluttering) but there're background sound at least what I've played inside the castle.
If anybody cannot see the game on ryujinx gamelist try nsp version instead of xci.
But well let's give some hours, those are constantly updating.
 
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I've been playing for the first time at 144Hz (monitor can be displayed at 240Hz but my GPU doesn't bring more than 144Hz) is absolutely astonishing. No words, for me it's like a gamechanger, like when I played a HDR game for the first time, some years ago.
wow games are very clear and f.e. Forza Horizon 5 compared with Series X (at 120Hz) it removes that annoying blur effect when you rotate the camera around the car.
gotta go fast.

Last version of Ryujinx works kind of decent (maybe some metallic sound and few sluttering) but there're background sound at least what I've played inside the castle.
If anybody cannot see the game on ryujinx gamelist try nsp version instead of xci.
But well let's give some hours, those are constantly updating.
Yeah, it ruined 60 fps for me

Now every console game feels awful, even if it's a locked 60 :(
 
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Typical fake site trick. Hint in this case look carefully at the url (hint there are extra "m" and "n"). This and the CSGO voting one seem to still be the most popular hacking methods
Damn, I like to think I spot them, but this totally flew me by.
 
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Can I ask you why you are so much "about" Ubisoft? I see you make a lot of threads about Ubisoft on ERA and posts about the company here too a lot. Just curious. Personally, I don't care much about Ubi nowadays, Im planning to get 1 month of Ubi+ after PoP has released next year to play PoP, Avatar, The Crew Motorfest and AC Mirrage in one swoop, unless some releases on Steam first.
I don't focus that much on Ubisoft. Issue is that they are making a lot of stupid decisions so I post more about them than about other publishers XD

While we are at Ubisoft I finished my Sands of Time Trilogy playthrough on Deck. It was bit frustrating experience due to bad controls (both from game related issues and Deck related issues due to not so great gamepad support). But I still like those games and they are fun experience (even though you really can see some bad gameplay design decisions when you compare it to games released since then XD)
 

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I've been playing for the first time at 144Hz (monitor can be displayed at 240Hz but my GPU doesn't bring more than 144Hz) is absolutely astonishing. No words, for me it's like a gamechanger, like when I played a HDR game for the first time, some years ago.
wow games are very clear and f.e. Forza Horizon 5 compared with Series X (at 120Hz) it removes that annoying blur effect when you rotate the camera around the car.
gotta go fast.
Yeah me too! I got a rog oled which does 120hz with g sync and its lovely. Such a vibrant picture and silky smooth.
 
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My monitors go to 165hz, but I under-clocked them to 144. I didn't honestly expect the jump from 60hz to 144 to be that great, but it actually blew my mind in motion.

Sometimes i do miss gaming on a big 4K TV. But I'm also really really happy at 1440p and 120-144hz. I can't decide if my next display move should be a big curved monitor, or if i should stick with dual monitor in the 27inch range...

Honestly I'd like to get a 43" - 55" TV again with PIP, but OLED is scary for PC... too many static desktop elements. I'm waiting for MicroLED to gain traction but... Seems so far off. :face-with-open-mouth-and-cold-sweat:
 
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Honestly I'd like to get a 43" - 55" TV again with PIP, but OLED is scary for PC... too many static desktop elements. I'm waiting for MicroLED to gain traction but... Seems so far off. :face-with-open-mouth-and-cold-sweat:
I think modern OLEDs are pretty great in that regard, if you use it for gaming primarily. You could also do a dual monitor setup where you get a second, cheap LCD to use for technical stuff, browsing, etc. and reserve the OLED for videos and games.
Waiting for microLED is nonsense, that stuff is a decade or more out before it hits consumer devices.
 

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Im so happy there's no sign of any retailer taking in the OLED yet otherwise I would be in big trouble.
 
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I'm at that awkward phase where I just finished a large game, and I am desperately trying to figure out what to spend the majority of my gaming time on. You know, throwing whatever at the wall to see what sticks, and believe me, a lot doesn't stick.

I finished The Division 1 yesterday, but feel that I should probably play something else before going into The Division 2.

And nothing I try manages to catch my attention.
 

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So apparently software lumen is the reason why RoboCop is so heavy on the GPU. Thanks to this excellent guide, replacing lumen reflection with standard SSR the game even works quite well on Steam Deck.
When playing the demo, the noise in the reflections and GI are bugging me. Good to know they can be fixed with a little tinkering.
 

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Action RPG is another one of those genres that desperately needs to be used less generically and be split into more genres. Diablo 3, Dark Souls, and Cyberpunk 2077 all are technically action RPGs and aren't even remotely the same genre.
 

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I'm looking back the the Switch OLED and what Nintendo did at the time. For the most part it looks like the main difference really were the display (I think the battery life is the same between the Switch OLED and the revised Switch despite the OLED needed less power?), the kickstand on the back being bigger and stronger, more storage (64 vs 32GB of internal storage) better audio and the dock now having a LAN port. All while making the Switch OLED more heavier and making it $50USD more expensive.

This explains why people are happy with the changes that Valve made with the Steam Deck OLED since there were a lot of changes that they made while only increasing the price at $20USD at most.
 

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So apparently software lumen is the reason why RoboCop is so heavy on the GPU. Thanks to this excellent guide, replacing lumen reflection with standard SSR the game even works quite well on Steam Deck.

Oh, thank you for posting this!

I was 2/3rds of the way through Robocop when it suddenly made my PC's fans spin into overdrive. I dont use that temp monitor stuff so I just stopped playing the game to be safe. Now I can finish the rest of it, lol :grinning-face-with-smiling-eyes:
 

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While we are at Ubisoft I finished my Sands of Time Trilogy playthrough on Deck. It was bit frustrating experience due to bad controls (both from game related issues and Deck related issues due to not so great gamepad support). But I still like those games and they are fun experience (even though you really can see some bad gameplay design decisions when you compare it to games released since then XD)
Maybe I have rose-tinted glasses on, but I don't recall anything really bad about the first one, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time -- 2003. The second was a different story and I never cared to seriously attempt the third.

What design issues do you see in the 2003 game?
 
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