You mean the second graphics card you’ll need.

I think it’s a fair comparison.

“Hey gamers, look what your GPU can do!” winking at the film/tv execs

I don’t think it’s really aimed at gamers though. It’s a tech demo for what their hardware can do. They say that it was run on a dedicated 5090 which means that to get the same result, you have to be running the game on a 5090 and have a second 5090 just for DLSS5.

This isn’t meant for consumers. It’s aimed at sectors of the market that want realtime gen AI processing of realtime footage, whether 3D generated or live action.

I think they’re purposely taking the backlash from the gaming community, which they obviously don’t care about anymore, to showcase the tech to a different market.

Doom looks shockingly good for a Switch 1 port. Not perfect, a little too fuzzy IMO, but still better than most Switch games.

That wasn’t really recent. I think it’s been well over a year

It legitimately earned all those awards. Obviously it won’t be liked by everyone, but I think it was a clear winner for just about every award it was nominated for.

It’s a fantastic original game that has had a ton of care and love put into it, and it shows.

People have built fully functional processors out of redstone. Stuff CAN run on it, just not at a usable speed.

Consumers are not the problem. Advertising and marketing are VERY effective at convincing people to do things that go against their own interests. You can try your best to be sceptical of everything, but someone’s gonna convince you to spend money where you don’t really want to.

DS feels slow and a bit clunky compared to Elden Ring, but it plays in the same way, except it’s more linear, and it’s not open world.

The weapon upgrade system is more tedious, as there are several types of upgrade materials and branching upgrade paths.

But overall, it’s still a solid game almost 15 years later.

Dark Souls 8gb Raft 10gb Blasphemous 1 & 2 4gb each TMNT Splintered Fate 5gb it’s a weaker Hades, but still pretty fun. Megabonk 500mb Ball x Pit 600mb

Didn’t the PS5 also have a price increase at some point this year though?

Yes, they’ve been buying up smaller studios for decades and shutting them down.

There’s an entire wikipedia page about it.

Nestle is arguably the worst company in the world. EA sucks, but it isn’t even close.

I’m getting to the point where I’m not afraid of most robots, but I haven’t been part of any PVP yet that wasn’t just me dying before I knew who killed me. I want to explore the new map, but it’s heavily PVP-oriented, so going in with a full squad is going to be more interesting.

I posted because I’m looking for adults to play games with. Most of the games I play are single player, but there are a few that are multiplayer that I’d like to play with other people, and most randoms you find in lobbies or in related Discords are children or just too young for me to personally relate to, so I don’t really want to play with them.

I started playing ARC Raiders recently , and I only have one friend to play with, so I’ve been mostly playing solo.

Looks promising

It doesn’t appear to exist?

I haven’t played Outer Worlds 2, but the other two, while both great, just didn’t have what it takes to beat it IMO.

That’s not to say my opinion is objectively right, it’s really a subjective question to begin with.

That’s a fair assessment for the most part. I think a lot of the time it’s all just hype for one title, but this game is actually fantastic, and I think it deserves everything it won. I can’t think of anything else this year that would surpass Clair Obscur in any of those categories.

With AAA game graphics, 4K is kind of silly.

It kind of makes sense on consoles with fixed hardware when the devs design specifically to hit that target.

On a PC, I think high framerate 1440p is a much more reasonable goal, but frame generation and upscaling are sold to consumers like some magical solution to poor performance instead.

I never played Tarkov, but it always seemed a little too heavy for me. And the cheating issues everyone seems to be complaining about, and the issues people have been having with the devs, it all put me off from playing it.

The reviews I’ve seen for ARC Raiders said that the game was doing a lot of things right, but everything could be a little better. One of them called it something like “pleasantly mediocre” which isn’t awful, but also doesm’t sound like a resounding endorsement.

If I find some people to play with, I may pick it up. It’s not the kind of game I want to grind solo or play with randos, but it looks like a good time.

Has anyone played this yet? I watched a stream of it, and it looked decent, but reviews have described it as quite mediocre.

Woman: My child! Please save my child!
Geralt: Care for a game of Gwent?
Woman: nod

And often comes with a focus on long-term company health rather than short term stock performance.

Cashing out with a 25% bonus on your stock, well above it’s highest point ever, sounds like a pretty significant sway.

Generally speaking, a privately-owned company doesn’t have the same incentives to maximize profits at all costs since there are no public shareholders to benefit. However, one doesn’t buy a company significantly above its current valuation to lower its profits.

Also what’s important here is who’s going to own it, and it’s a pretty controversial group.

8bitdo have an official presence on Aliexpress, and they make solid controllers

You can get map markers very early into the game. Basically from the first time you meet the mapmaker some 30 minutes into the game.

Patent laws in Japan don’t work the same way as they do in most of the world. And they can only enforce their patent on companies operating in Japan.

The whole Palworld situation was based on patents that Nintendo only applied for after Palworld was already released.

Milk doesn’t become cheese on its own. It just turns sour and then moldy.

The OS is 160 GB? That seems unrealistic. Windows 11 is bloated AF and is less than 30 GB.

What could an OS running on fixed hardware have that requires 160 GB?

What I do recall was one guy asking very specific questions about how much we would be able to customize genitals, and whether sex would be fully interactive with visuals of full penetration.

And while none of those things are wrong per se, the general vibe of asking about all of those things was very weird and pervy.

Their engine? It was built on Unity.

Why? If it does the job, why is an upgrade required? There are tons of games to be played on it, and as long as it keeps working, there’s no reason one can’t still have fun with it.

I’m sad that more people aren’t voting with their wallets

They are. They’re saying they’re ok with it. Every purchase is a vote with your wallet.

I thought the original Prey was boring as hell. It’s not like it didn’t have any interesting features, but the lack of penalty for dying meant that failure is impossible.

Prey isn’t really a franchise at all, just two completely unrelated games with the same name.

The newer one was supposed to be a sequel when it was being made by the original devs, but in the end it’s a completely separate game with no connection to the first.

Clogging the pipes. Taking up resources. Costing them money and time.

Meh, not really though. The employees are paid whether or not you call. They’re not going to hire more people just to deal with complaints, they’ll just make the wait times longer.

The number of complaints they receive is going to have a bigger impact than a few people wasting time on the phone.

I watched a stream of this last night. Some of the mechanics seemed neat, but there was nothing there that made me want to play it. It seemed a little too easy to be any real fun. We’re talking boss fights that are over in 15 seconds. You can just mash the punch button and tank any hits coming at you, and basically can’t lose.

The destructible environments are an interesting concept, but it looked ike a patchwork of testing levels that were ok’ed and slightly upgraded visually.

The chat kept calling it a baby game over and over, and I pretty much agreed with the assessment. From what I saw, it definitely wouldn’t be a game for me, but a 7 year old would probably have fun.

Steam doesn’t have non-Linux games enabled by default. In the settings, you’ll find a compatibility tab. From there, enable the setting “Enable Steam Play for all other titles”

That’s what lets it use Proton for everything by default.

People do vote with their wallets. They say it’s ok.