which is 1.5x more powerful than a 5090

…are you sure? I think you’re mistaken.

I’d be shocked if it was your GPU causing long load times, that’s not usually the culprit for that kind of thing unless you don’t have enough VRAM. It’s probably another part of your system the game arbitrarily dislikes, or it’s just generally being shit.

Honestly, if we’re talking modern games I think games that don’t utilize multithreading to at least some degree would be a significantly shorter list.

I too despise the obsession with making videogames look like they were filmed for some inexplicable reason lol.

GAMMA has faction questlines. I’m not sure how good of an experience they are because that is very much not why I play GAMMA, but they definitely exist.

Also: if you install GAMMA and are initially utterly disgusted by the depth of field, don’t panic you can turn it off lol.

TIL. I didn’t realize it started in the browser originally.

Warframe can be super overwhelming, though. There’s a billion things to do and it’s hard to know where to start. I had issues with that when I was getting back into the game awhile back, and I’d already completed a ton of the content. If you actually want tips on how to manage it: set short term goals and long term goals, and just go for those. Shut out anything that isn’t relevant and focus on specifically on whatever you decided was your goals. My long term goal, for example, was to complete all the story quests. My short term goals were basically a checklist of things I needed to do to start the next quest lol.

Plus, the game being almost entirely PVE means that in my experience the community is great. If you have questions or need help just ask, and someone will probably be willing to help. There’s an excellent Warframe community over on the dormi.zone instance. It’s reasonably active and they’re helpful over there. Plus Q&A chat is just in the game.

Fair enough- I find leveling stuff is fine if I either do it passively via either just equipping a weapon I don’t intend to use or just specifically focus farming leveling. But Warframe is very firmly not for everyone.

Web Fishing is just outright paid, is it not? The game is $5 on steam.

There’s a few examples of F2P games with good monetization. Warframe comes to mind immediately. I’ve heard Path Of Exile is also a solid example of F2P done right, but don’t have personal experience with that one.

I think ‘premium’ in this case is synonymous with ‘not free to play’.

A (rumored) $40 live service battle-royale… outlook bad for this game.

‘Retro’ in a gaming sense is often used interchangeably with ‘Vintage’, as far as I can tell.

The subreddit r/Retrogaming even has this gem on their sidebar:

Retro Gaming: Reddit’s home of vintage gaming

… yeah, I’m aware AI isn’t a person. I’m not sure why that’s a question? Maybe I phrased things badly, but I’m not- nor have I ever- been really mad about AI usage. It’s mostly just disappointment.

It’s just a technology. I largely dislike the way it’s being used, partly because I feel like it has a lot of potential.

Why? AI doing one good thing doesn’t erase the dozens of bad ways it’s utilized.

I’m interested to see AI used on a larger scale in really specific ways, but the industry seems more interested in using it to take giant shortcuts and replace staff. That is going to piss people off, and it’s going to really piss people off when it also delivers a shit product.

I’m fine with DLSS, because I want to see AI enhance games. I want it to make them better. So far, all I can see is that it’s making them worse with one single upside that I can just… toggle off on my end if I don’t like it.

There are dozens of us! DOZENS!

Also some genres lend themselves better to one or the other. I prefer controller for platformers and fighters, but prefer TB + KB for almost everything else

Yeah, I agree. I use a controller for platformers, fighting games and racing games. Also sometimes action RPGs- I’ve played Dark Souls with both input methods.

My only absolutely hard line is using a controller for any kind of shooter. I just can’t, and trying is a very frustrating experience.

There are a lot of different preferred styles, as an example: eSports tends to higher DPI (dots per ich) since every millisecond counts but the precision falls behind which can be trained.

This is accurate, yeah. Sometimes pros use 400 DPI, some use 1000 DPI. There’s probably at least a few madlads using 2000+ dpi or some shit.

Personally, I use 1600. I don’t have a particular reason for that- I might actually try turning it down- it’s just what feels comfortable.

Frankly I’m shocked a CPU that old could run the game anyways.

Outlook bad.

It might turn out to be a good game even, but I highly doubt it lives up to the first game in any way.

Honestly, I don’t think it would be all that difficult. From my understanding, under the hood the Xbox Series X/S are basically just a normal x86 PC. They even say the OS is ‘Windows 10 Core’, and some stuff is already fully cross-platform.

I’d highly recommend modding that OUT for sanity/time sink reasons.

No mods needed anymore! That’s just a slider now in ‘world modifiers’. It’s quite nice.

… I don’t know, is that why they tried to remove him? Are all the other skaters in the Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater games notable in some way that he isn’t?

I’m not trying to argue some point, I just know basically nothing about this and I’m curious.

Why would they not include him? Is he controversial for some reason?

I needed to hear that, actually. Thanks lol.

I intended to look pretty hard at swapping to Linux this year since they’re stopping security updates for Win10. I guess now I know exactly what flavor of Linux to grab.

I can confirm both of those things lol.

I recently tried playing Daggerfall Unity, which is basically a ground up remake of Daggerfall in a modern engine. So it’s not quite as clunky and hard to get running as the original.

I still bounced, even as a major Morrowind fan.

I didn’t personally take any notes, but I did use a map with all the places already marked. Because without one finding things is absolutely awful lol

Morrowind best game imo. OpenMW is a great experience.

You can install a mod that removes the need for saviour’s schnapps. I considered it but I only learned about it when I was basically done lol

You can ignore/mitigate most of the survival mechanics in KCD. For food, I highly suggest grabbing the human dustbin perk, which lets you eat spoiled food without any downsides. Once you have that keeping fed is so easy it’s basically an afterthought. For health, there’s a healing potion that is incredibly plentiful. It doesn’t have proper health regen aside from sleeping, but I had ~30 of the healing potions by the end of the game having crafted none of them. Keep a bunch of bandages on hand as well in case you get a bleed. I only had a handful across my entire playthrough but bleeds can be annoying if you can’t just fix them with bandages. As for sleep, I encountered a need to sleep a total of like three times across a 60hr playthrough.

The combat can be difficult, but it’s far from being a soulslike.

You might like it. You also might not idk.

And choose the melee class, don’t remember it’s name right now.

…there’s a melee class?

Do you mean Vanguard? Because it’s not so much a melee class as a shotgun class lol

Yeah, exactly.

Reminds me the ol “if all your friends jumped off a bridge would you do it too?”

Some parents these days seem to think the solution is that you shouldn’t be able to jump off the bridge in the first place.

Ellie Gibson - from the Scummy Mummies podcast - said Mr Baszucki’s message risked sounding “a bit of a get out”.

“It’s much easier said than done, especially when all their friends are playing it,” she told the BBC.

That’s wild to me. “Your platform isn’t safe.” “So don’t let your kids use it.” “But all their friends are on it!”

Battlefield Hardline’s campaign was actually good, though. It felt like a cop movie, which I thought was a neat change for the series.

It is way more of an enjoyable experience now than it was on launch. I just still find it sort of flawed on a core level. The exploration is clearly supposed to be a primary focus of the game, but I just find it incredibly bland after a bit. After I finished with that, I don’t really know what to do with the game aside from… keep flying around trying to find something worth finding.

I put 40hrs into it. I don’t regret that, but I also have zero interest in continuing to play it past that.

Yep. I wish I liked the side-on games. I’m not sure what it is about them exactly that doesn’t click like the rest.

Not even vaguely!

Like I said, it’s a RTS/Tower defense.

Me too lmao. Turns out it’s a mobile game, that’s definitely why I missed it.

The entire Creeper World series is on sale- Creeper World 1 and 2 are $2.49, Creeper World 3 is $4.94, and Creeper World 4 is $9.99. Personally, I don’t like Creeper World 2 so I would suggest any of them but that one. CW2 is side on and I’m not a fan. CW1 and 3 are top down, and CW4 is properly 3D.

The first couple of Creeper World games used to be flash games you could play in browser, but after the age of Java games they ported them to Steam and kept making more and better games.

The basic concept is that it’s a cross between a very simplified RTS and a tower defense game, with the added curveball that the enemy is just a liquid that won’t stop showing up everywhere.

I wasn’t really playing KotOR for the mechanics originally, but having recently replayed it… yeah not the best rules. I’d probably still play it lol.

There’s still a market for that. People liked the Nvidia Shield and that’s more or less what it is afaik.

Source? The link in the OP says a ~3060 or 6600XT for recommended settings. No clue what the ‘recommended’ settings are, though.

Anyone that is on 10 still isn’t going to go to Linux

Eh, there’s a few of us. I intend to at least give Linux a solid try before I swap to Win11.

My thoughts are that at that point I realistically have to swap anyways. It’s just a question of whether I’m going to Win11- which I’ll have to customize to my preferences and generally figure out, or Linux- which I’ll have to customize to my preferences and generally figure out.

I’m on the tech savvy side of things, and I still find Linux intimidating so I don’t think this will be a mass migration to Linux or anything.

I’ve considered Linux a couple times in the past, but generally stayed away because my PC is primarily used for gaming which didn’t have the best support then. Things are kinda different now- support is generally better.