HDR in PC gaming is still in shambles, Windows 11 didn't change anything. PS5 and Xbox are not that much better either, albeit PS4 started out well with Horizon Zero Dawn.
Every single game takes a lot of tuning to get it right because there is no standard on how to do it well, and each and every panel has very different presets to begin with. Plus, the HDR implementation itself can vary a lot. In some cases, the image quality becomes worse than SDR. For example, a game...
What an idiot.
If this was 99 USD, might purchase it. Or if it was 300 USD and had 120hz OLED screen and this could be used with Steam as well as PS5, I'd buy it.
And how much was that phone again?
I wonder if it is worth starting over. I played maybe 8hrs on 6900xt 5600x PC 1.5 years ago, and now have 4090 and 5800X3D, and could go the path tracing route with this new patch. I don't remember much of the story, except there were two interesting story sequences, but they are kind of hazy in my mind even after 18 months. Maybe it's worth it to start all over and with a new rig as well.
Oh come on! If you had only one eye open and were half-asleep reading gaming news of PC launches and Console launches in the last 24 months, you'd still know exactly which games. There have been so many news, youtube videos and analysis about bugs and bad launches and the state of launching games buggy and unfinished.
Going to be a tough competition between BG3 and Zelda this year. Was not sure if Zelda would be as good as it is, but just having played it a bit past the first area, I think it is a very, very solid game. BGIII feels like OSIII but in BG and D&D form, which makes it more refreshing. Many great games left to be experience this year, the backlog is building up!
I agree, Alan Wake 2 is coming out at a very tough time when the time and money of players will be divided between this juggernaut games. They should find a better spot and put some money into advertisement as well and smash it out of the park when there's a quiet month in the next 6-9 months. That will give them time to do extra polish which will also benefit the game reception and sales.
It's also on PS4, so a stable 30fps on low/medium settings experience can be achieved at 1080p using FSR/DLSS Quality modes on GTX1060/2060. It is a From Software game, so I would expect a choppy experience and a patch of two within 2 months and then they won't touch it and move on to new projects.
Bloodborne is the medicine to Bloodborne, not a lower quality copy cat alternative.
That's an easy question to answer: ACVI and ER Expansion! A full new game? Spellbound!
It's a complete package. Instead, I'd love to dive back in the world of Original Sin in six years.
The games were always really bad in my book. They are such a surreal mix of trying to be realistic and then at the same time murdering dozens if not hundreds of people. I just didn't like a system where you just get forgotten for what you did just like that, no matter what you did nobody would chase you if you stay a couple of minutes under a bridge where nobody can find you. I know I know it's not supposed to be realistic, but it's the realistic parts that irk me. Sure, some of t...
Have never bought any games that have microtransactions. I only buy complete games such as Elden Ring, Baldur's Gate III or Ratchet & Clank Rift Apart (albeit all of them were buggy, but at least they were complete).
Basically, I never buy anything from EA, Ubisoft or Activision Blizzard.
To me, gaming is as far as it can be from any predatory practises there can be. It's about delving into a world where I can relax, have fun or be excited aft...
Yup, and what you described means that it really is a mess still. Hope they fix it, there's a fantastic game under all that technical hurdle!
It is a buggy mess. Can't get solid frame-times with a 5800X3D, RTX 4090, Nvme drive, 32GB RAM. It has audio problems as well, plenty of bugs, crashing and overall it's just a mess. The more you play, the more you encounter these problems and the more unbearable the tinkering becomes. I played around 8hrs and stopped as I could not get the audio balance right, and the frame-times are a uneven. The amount of tinkering you need to get it working each time you launch it, is just unbearab...
Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls II were the best RPGs on PS3 made by Japanese developers. Everything else just fell short always. Ni No Kuni was a full package, an okayish game as well. Nier and Drakengard III had superb writing, setting and voice acting, however, the performance was a real drag on the gameplay. Traditional RPG-wise I'd actually say 360 had better JRPGs, and think that Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon were the best traditional JRPGs of the era. PS3 Valkyria Chron...
You are a professional complainer.
I liked both the show and game, they are different things and can be appreciated in different ways. I'm also pretty sure the showrunners (including game director) know the best what makes sense for a TV audience. After all, the show stands at 96/100 at Rotten Tomatoes based on 153 reviews, pretty much a perfect score.
Played a few hours already and didn't see any bugs. Ratchet & Clank still is much buggier (reflex, audio, fps, directstorage, clipping, falling bugs and problems still persist with that one.) BGIII feels like the real deal, the Enhanced Edition on launch day. Dunno how the later chapters will be, though! Maybe they can fix them before I reach there, the game is massive and long.
I don't need a loud steamdeck with an inferior and smaller LCD panel and local hardware that can't play Baldur's Gate III at steady 40hz. I just want a large OLED for streaming with playstation grade controllers, and use 5G on the go and at home wifi 6. Something that looks good and can stream and display 1080p 120hz.
Local hardware could be doable if there's Strix Point at the very least in it, but the battery life of for example Rog Ally is 50 minutes when...