Interesting thanks for the info, it looks pretty intense/fast paced for what I’m into right now, but I may give it a try in the future.

Yea I agree, exploring some of the densely populated areas of the game feel hollow (like you say “surface-deep”). But, when doing the main story line it felt very inclusive and full. I still remember the parade in the main story with Takemura, absolutely beautiful, a bit chaotic and massive feeling. OP talks about Bioshock 1&2 being what they’re talking about, but I could easily argue that both of those games were very linear and didn’t allow for much exploration outside of the main quest line.

People are coping so hard with starfield. There have been several major red flags already and I have really low expectations. I’m going to wait a week for reviews and real gameplay, and then make a decision.

Cyberpunk 2077

Actual quotes from Shuji Utsumi: “The action in play-to-earn games is boring,” Utsumi told Bloomberg News. “What’s the point if games are no fun?” “We’re looking into whether this technology is really going to take off in this industry, after all,” he added.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-06/sega-joins-blockchain-games-pullback-as-crypto-winter-persists

To add from the article: “Sega does plan to let external partners use its lesser-known Three Kingdoms and Virtua Fighter characters for non-fungible tokens, a sort of certificate that confirms ownership of a digital asset.”

“Sega will still offer its lesser franchises to several blockchain games to be announced later this year, and will continue to invest in related projects — to the tune of hundreds of millions of yen in each case, Utsumi said. The technology remains useful, for instance by making it possible to move characters and items between different games, he said. Longer-term, Sega remains open to getting more involved as the technology matures.”

I guess no one reads articles and just wants to bash new technology, makes sense. Next time use a non-editorialized title and use actual quotes.

https://kotaku.com/gta-online-update-removed-cars-full-list-paywall-gta-1850535019

This has been a trend for a lot of tech related things in this economy. Higher prices, less features, worse user experience.

CS:GO ban wave results in over $2 million worth of skins and other items becoming being lost more rare. 😀 👍

It’s great to see the Steam Deck actively improving handheld gaming.

“art assets generated by artificial intelligence that appears to be relying on copyrighted material owned by third parties.”

It makes absolutely no difference how the copyrighted material came to be, if you generate a shitty image of a copyrighted character to put in your game it doesn’t matter if it was generated or hand drawn it’s still copyrighted. People just like focusing on AI generated images because it gets more attention for clickbait headlines.

Gaben will provide, have faith.

They can fix the relationship with their players by releasing a great free overhaul update like they say they will alongside the huge expansion DLC. I hope it’s good, I’m definitely going to be doing another playthrough once it’s live.

The last time I played Fallout 4 was in 2018, absolutely worth it. I mostly just did the main story line and nothing else though, I didn’t really get deep into the crafting and base building.

Good news, I hope Intel continues to push into and compete in the GPU market. 11% faster is pretty significant for a video game’s performance due to a driver update, very promising.

You love to see it. Great game, I’m taking a bit of a break, but will definitely be back soon to unlock more equipment.

Seems like it’s being overshadowed by the success of The Game Awards. Conventions exist because there is interest, if there is little interest, then the convention will no longer exist, simple. E3 has been stagnant and COVID wasn’t helpful for it at all.

I played the demo, it was worth it, but it feels a bit slow and awkward and there were minor performance issues.

I don’t own a playstation

30 FPS lock on xbox

This is factually true

India has been heading in the wrong direction, potentially such a powerful country being limited in their feedoms by their own government.

All those gambling addict’s losses going straight into the multi-millionaire’s pocket, fuck yea I love capitalism, let’s race to the end faster with AI late stage buddies.

Definitely a bit hyped about it, but I’m going to wait a bit to watch some gameplay and see what the reviews say.

This article has a graph of GPU total power (Watts) https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

I would be interesting to see a ratio of Frames/Watts for power efficiency.

Just because something they reference is out of date, does not mean the article is less relevant.

Yes it does.

lol giving blizzard money

Sounds unfair to criticize an article from 2021 for not being up to date

An article from 2021 which hasn’t been updated is by definition not up to date. Neither of the articles you posted even have the 3060ti on the list. Nothing you wrote actually debunks my refutation.

I don’t trust anyone saying userbenchmark is biased without their own set of information to back up their claim. Using reddit drama as an excuse to not use a tool is weak.

The article you posted claims this:

“However, consider this: UserBenchmark mentions the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Super in their GPU section as faster than the Radeon RX 5600 XT.”

This claim in the article is factually incorrect at the current time.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-1660S-Super-vs-AMD-RX-5600-XT/4056vs4062

Glad to see more competition in the GPU market, but the Arc cards are still not cheap enough to really take away much market share.

Userbenchmark still has the 3060ti +16% over the a770 and on the market currently the 3060ti is cheaper than the a770.

https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Arc-A770-vs-Nvidia-RTX-3060-Ti/m1850973vs4090