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.

TIL these games are based on 3E and 3.5E. Neat. I might have to give a remaster a go just for that.

Eh. Well, opinions.

I thought so too after that first trailer, looked really rough. The combat looked absolutely terrible.

They released another trailer awhile ago that seemed drastically improved so I’m moderately interested in the game. I’m not on the edge of my seat and preordering or anything, but I’ll look into it when it releases.

Yeah, I always viewed it as more of a city builder except on Mars. More akin to Cities Skylines than Rimworld. I haven’t played it to be clear, but that’s why- I liked Rimworld, but do not particularly enjoy city builders.

Brighter Shores is interesting, but I think it was too early to really grab me. I think it just needs more time to cook.

Parry and riposte mechanics make me happy. Idk why exactly, but something about timing a parry and making the enemy entirely helpless for the followup is just great.

Yeah sounds about right.

Meh, I could see it if Microsoft is willing to basically just give Obsidian the IP for a game. Bethesda realistically wouldn’t really have a say in that I don’t think.

This is the first I’ve heard of this- did Veilguard do badly? I thought it was reasonably popular.

We’re apparently getting Skyblivion this year, too. That sounds like it’ll be fun.

It’s the kind of thing you just learn over time as you play. It can be pretty brutal early on tho.

It could be worse- first MOBA I really got into was Smite and there’s ~130 characters in that game.

Why not do both? Keep GTA VI Online’s price low, and the main campaign at like $80.

It’s exactly what they did with Red Dead Redemption 2. RDR2 is $60, Red Dead Online is $20.

Endgame is basically non-existent, it’s literally just grinding the same exact bosses infinitely to fill out collection log or get a specific pet. That’s the entire end game.

A lot of people absolutely love collection logging and pet hunting.

It ain’t for me either, to be clear, but what exactly do you want out of OSRS end game? I can’t really come up with what I’d actually want it to look like.

Yeah. At least OSRS, I’m not as certain about RS3.

Google RSPS- Runescape Private Servers.

I have no idea how much effort it would be, but it’s clearly possible.