Are you playing in 4k?
Yep, 4K
Star Shitizen?
Dwarf Fortress.
Second Cyberpunk 2077 with all the ray tracing / DLSS turned on. That melts my PC.
I’m really enjoying Stalker 2, after finishing Veilguard I sort of floundered for a couple days not really being satisfied with anything, but this seems to be hitting the spot.
Except for one thing- holy shit the camera shake during cutscenes gets egregious. I generally don’t get motion sick from games, not even VR games, but there have been a couple times I needed to look away until the cutscene ended.
Dwarf Fortress.
The true test of any new PC.
Especially now cats can open doors.
Star Shitizen?
Serious early-00's slashdot 'Micro$oft' energy here.
Drug dealer simulator 2
I never played a sequel which so misunderstood the design and appeal of the original. The first game took place in a small but densely packed and cool map. Where you snuck around cops and stealth was super important. Basically living in a hostile occupied territory. While you ran a drug business.
The sequel gets rid of all of that. The map is huge with multiple islands with no cops for most of them. With a sunny setting. Even the parkour seems worse. It has some improvements but it's missing it's core appeal.
I had this game wishlisted for a while. Really disappointing.
Veloxi wrote:Star Shitizen?
Serious early-00's slashdot 'Micro$oft' energy here.
....you're welcome?
I didn't know if I should start a separate topic for this, but...
MS Flight Sim 2024
Do MS 2020. MS FS2024 is actually more optimized and it streams so much content, that I'm not sure its as good a benchmark.
Also, Black Myth Wukong. This is the best looking game out there right now.
Not a game but an open source integrated games library & launcher a la GOG Galaxy: https://playnite.link/
Started using this last week. It's lean, fast and does all the integrations you'd expect it to do very well. Using it for now. Time will tell if I stick with it.
Badken if you have Games Pass there's Cities Skylines 2 on max settings.
I know it's not true anymore but in my head I always think of the original unpatched Crysis as the game that looks amazing and no computer can run smoothly....
I know it's not true anymore but in my head I always think of the original unpatched Crysis as the game that looks amazing and no computer can run smoothly....
Cyberpunk 2077 is my current version of this.
My PC isn’t cutting edge but it’s no slouch either - I have to drop everything to ‘medium’ and turn off DLSS to get it run above 30fps.
Is Ghosts of Tsushima still in this category? I only know it as a beautiful screenshot generator.
Not a game but an open source integrated games library & launcher a la GOG Galaxy: https://playnite.link/
Started using this last week. It's lean, fast and does all the integrations you'd expect it to do very well. Using it for now. Time will tell if I stick with it.
I also started using this fairly recently. It has better (i.e., working) integrations than GoG. A downside is that it's not cloud based, so data as to be exported/imported when moving between PCs. Another is that it creates duplicates if we have the game in multiple services.
I'm using GOG Galaxy after finding a post that explains how to get the integrations working.
The problem with GOG Galaxy is that they only officially support a couple of integrations. The rest (Steam, EA, Ubisoft, Rockstar, etc.) are user-created and user-supported. So naturally some schmuck comes up with an integration plugin, makes it work once, then forgets about it. A couple years pass, and then it stops working.
This post on the GOG forum explains how to get Steam, EA and Ubisoft working. Xbox and Epic are supported by GOG, so they're not broken. However, as soon as one of those providers tweaks their API even a little bit, it'll probably break again. For now it's working great and I like it.
Right, I remember doing those kind of fixes for some of the integrations but they don't last long.
The good thing about Playnite is that the integrations are constantly being updated.
Picked up Prince of Persia The Lost Crown last week on sale for $14 and just finished it. I thought it was really well done and enjoyed all of it... Definitely scratched my metroidvania itch. And this afternoon I learned that Ubisoft disbanded the group that was responsible for the making the game... but of course... 
Picked up Prince of Persia The Lost Crown last week on sale for $14 and just finished it. I thought it was really well done and enjoyed all of it... Definitely scratched my metroidvania itch. And this afternoon I learned that Ubisoft disbanded the group that was responsible for the making the game... but of course... :(
Yeah, super depressing. I would have loved another!
En Garde! is a gem of a Three Musketeers/Puss in Boots/Princess Bride-inspired rollicking fencing game with a surprisingly fun and innovative combat system which is currently on sale for $8.
It's very big on using your environment to mess with your many opponents, but the difference between it here and other games is that all the environmental stuff is easy to pull off. The game auto-targets things you kick/throw very aggressively, so it's really easy to chain super fun combos and cause a ton of chaos as you dart in and out with lightning strikes of your rapier before whirling away on a handy monkey bar to swing up to a chandelier and bring it crashing down on everyone. The combat is absolutely exuberant once you get into the wild spirit of things and steer into the madness of sprinting around making crazy stuff happen.
If that's all there was to it, it'd still be worth your time, but what tips it over into being great is that the humor is absolutely on point and the voice acting is wonderful. The lines the enemies say while you're thrashing them are just fantastic, and there are lots of giggle-inducing mini scripted dialogue sequences.
There are 3 difficulty settings, and Medium feels right for a first playthrough. Challenging enough that you sometimes have to reattempt a section when you fumble things, but never frustrating. Plus, it sticks you right back where you lost, so there's no replaying of stuff you've already cleared.
Only downside is that it's quite short—just 4 sub-hour acts in the campaign—though there is also a brawling mode I haven't tried. I understand why it isn't longer, as it's a lot of work to keep up this level of snappy writing and level quality for a small team, but hopefully it'll sell well enough that they'll kick out another few scenarios in a DLC later.
At the full price of $20 it's a bit harder to recommend given the short length, but at eight bucks it's a no-brainer.
En Garde! is a gem of a Three Musketeers/Puss in Boots/Princess Bride-inspired rollicking fencing game with a surprisingly fun and innovative combat system which is currently on sale for $8.
Took your suggestion. Only made it through the introduction but I can see I'm going to have fun with it.
Mr Crinkle wrote:En Garde! is a gem of a Three Musketeers/Puss in Boots/Princess Bride-inspired rollicking fencing game with a surprisingly fun and innovative combat system which is currently on sale for $8.
Took your suggestion. Only made it through the introduction but I can see I'm going to have fun with it.
I picked this up while it was on sale a few months ago and I agree that it is a hoot once you get the hang of it. It will be in my top 10 for this year.
Oh, not long to wait.
Oh, very cool!
Well today got to play two big games.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle: Ended up getting the premium edition on Greenman Gaming as I was able to add an additional 3% off an already 20% discount when they offered it before black friday. So that gives a 3-day head start from release.
Yeah I think this game is going to be good. Was only able to put in an hour so far but a pretty fantastic experience for initial impressions.
The initial tutorial area is the beginning of Raiders from the Lost Ark. Graphics are phenomenal. And the fact you get to explore a bit more of that whole area in the movie is really neat. Then it's off to Marshal College and wow the level of detail is pretty crazy. Just all the knickknacks you can look at is a bit mind boggling. I spent a lot of my time just wandering around the halls, rooms, and museum just looking at everything.
And hey is that the late Tony Todd in this? Nice!
Game runs and looks fantastic on medium settings (4070 ti) getting about 80 fps with DLSS Quality at 1440p. Over 140 with frame gen on. But looks like frame gen has issues right now as was starting to get some artifacting. It turned out to be too much of a distraction so turned that off until they fix it.
But yeah initial impressions very positive.
Skydance's Behemoth: This is the VR fantasy game where you take down giants so large you have to climb them.
Game is pretty incredible so far. There's a lot of swordplay against human NPCs and they got that down pat. You can sword and board it, use two weapons at once, use range with arrows or throwing daggers, or just use your superpowers and push enemies into spikes, or smash them with trees you yank out of the ground. There's just so many ways to kill enemies and so many weapon choices.
Killing them is a bit gruesome. An axe to the head will cause it to sink into the skull. Then you gotta yank it out. And when you land those head shots the look of surprise in the enemies eyes is just something. If you use your superpowers while attacking you'll be hacking off limbs or even splitting them from head to toe. Yikes.
There was an early scene where you come across a behemoth and that was pretty jaw dropping to see in VR at just how large that thing was. I'm going to be climbing that thing? But as of yet I haven't gotten to that point. Hoping I'm close as I just picked up a weapon that's supposed to be used to kill them.
There looks to be a whole upgrade system for new abilities and upgrading your behemoth killing weapon. So looking forward to exploring that.
Game looks great as well. I bought it on the Quest 3 and thankfully its cross-buy like their other games. So also got the PCVR versions on the Rift store. I've played a fair chunk of both versions today and am impressed with the native Quest 3 version. They're using higher res textures than Metro Awaking and I don't notice the lack of anti-aliasing Metro had. But of course, the PCVR version looks amazing with higher resolution, draw distance and the lighting effects. I also noticed there was a small scene that happened during the initial behemoth encounter on PCVR that was missing from the Quest 3 version. Not a huge deal but they obviously had to make some cuts for Quest 3.
That said I'll likely be playing this through on Quest 3 first then PCVR on second playthrough.
Tried Delta Force out after it was released to open beta. As a Battlefield player, I was curious to see how this is. Played 1/2 hour..not my jam. The maps I played were too linear, funneling players which I just do not like. Reminds me of Breakthrough mode in BF and the linear maps they created to appease those crowds. I prefer the larger more open maps that allow flanking, not grenade spam paths.
Playing a bit of Marvel Rivals and its fun so far. A large stable of characters to choose from, 3rd person that was smart because one can see the skins they buy, lots of different playstyles with the characters and its MARVEL!
Wow, that new Delta Force sounds like the opposite of the original Delta Forces with their wide open levels.
Wow, that new Delta Force sounds like the opposite of the original Delta Forces with their wide open levels.
Yeah the voxel one right? Now, the caveat is that I didn't play ALL the maps but between beta and now this open beta...pass.
Yeah the voxel one right?
Yeah, exactly.
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