Because you have diehard fans coming from games like Skyrim and Fallout 4 that defend Bethesda and then you have more objective people who can call what it is, a mediocre and behind-the-times restrictive RPG with a semi-new coat of paint.
I'd choose PS1 as my first choice due to the amount of RPGs that were groundbreaking and still hold up well. PS2, SNES, PS4, NES and Switch are the next entries.
I own a PS5, but have not bought a single PS5 game on it, bought it to play my PS4 catalogue with it, but unfortunately the patches are far and in between. At least the sound quality is better than on the PS4 and PS4P, menus and loading faster, and it is silent and the controller is good.
There has been four open world games I enjoyed: Elden Ring, Days Gone, Horizon Zero Dawn and Breath of the Wild. Red Dead, GTA, Witcher, Skyrim and Oblivion etc. were all extremely tedious fetch fests or set piece style games.
Elden Ring was awesome for just being Dark Souls open world game, Days Gone had such a great set up, tense atmosphere and the Hordes were incredible, and Horizon ZD was absolutely great at storytelling in its locations and is absolutely stunning to l...
You are right, it really does come down to understanding what your Steam Deck can play and how. And that to me, is a bit of a pain to deal with. For a portable, I have zero interest in tuning anything, and just want to pick up and play. To do so in the PC space, you are correct, there needs to be a real next gen APU available.
That being said, I really appreciate there are these devices and can see how people like using them. To me the Steam Deck or any PC handheld should ...
The ideal FPS would be for Steam Deck 45fps which is boosted to match the 90hz screen. However, today's new games are not on that level even on the OLED version, so the successor to Phoenix Point needs to come out fast. The 2nd Gen Steam Deck needs a VRR screen as well to make this doable. 2025 should be the year for such a device.
Regardless, it is still a smaller upgrade than PS4 --> PS4 Pro. I'm not really sure we need a PS5 Pro, but I guess if you want to run UE5 titles at 30 fps you would need it. 60fps could work, not sure if the CPU is up for the task when RT effects are running etc.
I thought Steam Deck OLED is Linux based SteamOS and not PC (=Windows) ?
I'd say Disco Elysium is even better written and has a very unique twist to it. I liked Planescape Torment, but sometimes the most simple tasks had an excessive amount of text. In DE The Final Cut, the 100% voiced dialogue is a big plus and makes the game more immersive.
Love those games! Populous 2, Cannon Fodder, Syndicate and Sensible Soccer. Had some great time with those games in the 90s. Also loved games such as Pool of Radiance, Ultima IV and V, Death Knights of Krynn, Awesome and Paradroid etc. There were so many cool C64 classics such as Way of the Exploding Fist and Last Ninja II, and Dragon Skulle.
It is a solid list, many of them I agree with, but I'd very much replace something like Morrowind with Baldur's Gate 3, and put Divinity Original Sin II up there as well.
This is a personal opinion, but in my mind Grand Theft Auto III and V do not need to be there either, nor Outer Wilds, The Witness, Doom, Fortnite, Tomb Raider, The Sims, Fallout 3, Street Fighter IV or Minecraft.
I'd replace them and select the top games out of the likes of ...
I was initially interested in this as it looked externally closer to Diablo 2 than 3, but it does seem like the game is not a great single player action rpg I was hoping for. If you take all the press and whatnot hype out of it, is this really any good, for example compared to Diablo 2 or Grim Dawn? The latter has not been as addictive and interesting for me as Diablo 2, but maybe it will get better as I progress. I'm looking for a 100% single-player side of this.
@Lightning77 You are spot on.
@VersusDMC
Exactly. Tim Sweeney's ego got him involved in the Apple lawsuit. He took a great risk, gambled and lost. Now the company, namely people, are suffering from it. That Fortnite one billion USD would have kept the engine going (no pun intended).
This goes to show you cooperate and work together with large companies instead of take them on legally. This is a good morality and reality check to Tim and his leadership team, and hopefully he makes decisions ...
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5800X3D + 4090, latter OC'd and former UV'd by CO for better results. Can't hold 120fps with Vsync despite without it going to 170fps in same scene.
But what are these numbers? If the majority wants a certain thing, even if it is GaaS, and a minority, which I am possibly part of, wants great single-player AAA game experiences, should he select us over what the "numbers" (=majority) says?
If you were in that position, and you had 12700 people in your organization, shareholders, and finally the fans who say (=numbers) they want a certain thing, would you go against it because a certain minority likes single play...
Yeah you go Fox, show them how the 27 billion USD business is led. You know what is a loss for every single Playstation user and have all the insights to roadmaps and investments, I'm sure you sat in those meetings the respected and well-known leader you are, and would have made all the right calls. I'd like to thank you for speaking for all of us.
Meanwhile, in the world of reality, PS5 was launched amid global pandemic and is SIE's fastest selling console yet ...
For me it was Crack In Time. I played the PS4 R&C and enjoyed it, but it was a step down in complexity and length. Worse yet, the first 30fps R&C game. Now, the game is great on PS5, and enjoy it over the new one on PC, because it doesn’t stutter.
Loved Up Your Arsenal as well. There’s has not been a better title for a game ever since!
Ratchet & Clank port was and still is a microstutter fest and has plenty of bugs. On my high end PC it cannot hold any Vsynced FPS.
Learned my lesson both with Spiderman and R&C and will give this around 4-5 months before buying on PC. Same rule applies to Sony PC releases: give it 5-6 months minimum, and if you can wait longer, buy it at 20%-30% discount. These ports do not deserve a full price. Nixxes is overrated.
Embracer really did not know how to manage these companies. This is what happens with too fast expansion in business.
The laws are simple, make profit margin of 10-15% from the get go from each of your companies/studios, or you have to fire people and projects will be delayed or cancelled. Their salary and other operational costs were too high. I can't believe they didn't crunch the numbers well enough. I was always thinking where does the money come from.
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Be careful with your generalisation and jumping to conclusion mindset.
If you read the wording carefully, it says "has concluded that violent video games may relieve stress in some players". Keywords: "may" and "some".
Also, you say "stressed people" instead of "some male players" - there's a significant difference between those categories. One is pretty much every adult in the world who has high corti...