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END ME SCOOB posted:"The Atronach"? anilEhilated fucked around with this message at 12:44 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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DatonKallandor posted:I much prefer to actually own a game rather than renting it, so Humble Choice has been great. Humble Choice is great if you like two things 1. owning games 2. games that might not be wholly successful at what they do but are still interesting. The humble trove is great for the latter. It's where Getting Over It with Bennet Foddy first came from. I probably would never buy Vampyr even though I have it wishlisted (Don't Nod are interesting devs) but for the price of a Humble Choice, I'm pleased to own it. Plus there's a Korean horror game and K-games are hot at the moment.
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Aug 8, 2020 13:07
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END ME SCOOB posted:I am only dropping this here because the Morrowind superfans in my life start bleeding from the eyes discussing this with me: apparently, for my first crack at this game ever, I built a character that makes everyone go "delete this, start over, play literally anything else" I mean, there’s a million ways to exploit the game and your birth sign is one of them, so it won’t be a terrible experience. Thing is, you get levels when you use your major/minor skills. So you’re gonna level real goddamn quick because half the game is running, jumping and getting hit while wearing armour. Those skills affect your stats, so you’re also gonna be incredibly quick and hard to kill but totally poo poo at magic and hitting things. Fruits of the sea fucked around with this message at 13:30 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 13:14
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gently caress almighty, just caught up on the thread a little after deciding to go with HZD as my game purchase of the month instead of Hellpoint. I guess I'll check and see how it runs for me, crossing my fingers.Fruits of the sea posted:I mean, there’s a million ways to exploit the game and your birth sign is one of them, so it won’t be a terrible experience. At least Morrowind doesn't have the same dynamic difficulty scaling as Oblivion (man I hated that, just let me eventually overpower things). There might be some sort of inflection point where the hard to kill becomes outweighed by the inability to kill things fast though.
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Aug 8, 2020 14:12
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Pyrolocutus posted:At least Morrowind doesn't have the same dynamic difficulty scaling as Oblivion (man I hated that, just let me eventually overpower things). There might be some sort of inflection point where the hard to kill becomes outweighed by the inability to kill things fast though.
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Aug 8, 2020 14:13
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Cardiovorax posted:It does to a degree. There are stronger types of enemies that will not spawn unless you are at least a certain level.
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Aug 8, 2020 14:35
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Ripper Swarm posted:Maybe, but tbh the tactical game is very secondary to the fashion game   We’re being a little less poo poo now but I’ve also been dicking off building supply and let the advent project bar get half full. I assume that’s bad!
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Aug 8, 2020 14:38
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Cardiovorax posted:It does to a degree. There are stronger types of enemies that will not spawn unless you are at least a certain level. Ah fair. Though I don't think I've played Morrowind since the mid-2000s and the overall dynamic scaling was such a big part of Oblivion, so that might explain why I remember it like that 
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Aug 8, 2020 14:43
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HerpicleOmnicron5 posted:That’s all part of its selling points. It’s a clunky slow and painful journey through the Russian countryside, delivering goods and collecting vehicles. Mudrunner and Snowrunner do better jobs with the metagame. Definitely doesn’t seem your cup of tea. explosivo posted:Yeah I'll shut up about it but it's a 6 year old game at this point and the systems are definitely way clunkier there than they are now after a few iterations. They give you a drat quest log in Snowrunner so you have things to do while getting unstuck and unstuck along the way and lots of upgrades for your trucks that generally make getting around less of a hassle while giving you tangible goals to work for. It was only $3 or w/e from a reseller, and I don't refund games, but I wish I could refund this one. If Mudrunner and Snowrunner are so inherently tedious and frustrating, I won't like those either. I guess I would like it more if it was clearer what you had to do, wasn't like driving through soup every 6 inches (instead like, you get to a rough patch and then get unstuck), and when you do get sort of stuck you didn't move at like an inch a minute. It reminds me why I hate driving through the snow and would prefer to sleep through Winter to avoid dealing with that poo poo. On a separate topic: Genesis Alpha One Deluxe Edition is pretty interesting! Except the part where I think an alien blew up a power node, which caused a chain reaction of all of my ship parts blowing up because none of my clones stopped what they were doing to repair the ship and I was doing it on my own, and I couldn't do it fast enough so now suddenly I've lost half the ship.
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Aug 8, 2020 14:54
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Pyrolocutus posted:Ah fair. Though I don't think I've played Morrowind since the mid-2000s and the overall dynamic scaling was such a big part of Oblivion, so that might explain why I remember it like that
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Aug 8, 2020 14:55
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Fifteen of Many posted:
The doom tracker filling up actually doesn’t immediately end the game so it isn’t (initially) terrible to let it build in favor of other things. What happens when it gets full is it starts another timer that counts down in game time - I think it’s 20 days or something. So traveling, scanning, or just looking at the map will lose you time. Any activity that would delay the avatar project will stop the countdown and bring back the doom tracker. However the catch is that whatever time you let countdown after the doom tracker gets full is gone forever. So if you let the bar fill, lose 10 days of time out of 20, and then stop the timer, the next time the bar fills it will start at 10 days, not 20.
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Aug 8, 2020 15:14
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despite enjoying Dragon Quest Builders 2 for many hours I must regretfully declare it a Failed Game, as it does not let you rename a great sabercub to ~* GOODEST BOI *~
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Aug 8, 2020 16:20
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So, my dad has decided that he likes to golf again and this inevitably lead to him askin me if I can find a golf video game for him. The last one he played was Tiger Woods '08, which might be a bit dated at this point. What is the concensus best/good golf game or series going on at the moment? The requirements are... - Single player, preferably so you can play against pros either in head to head or a tournament. - Possibility of local two player (probably not incredibly important) - Bonus points for running on a clunker, as I have no clue what my dads rig is but doubt it can run anything that doesn't allow you to tune graphics way way down.
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Aug 8, 2020 16:36
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Ripper Swarm posted:Maybe, but tbh the tactical game is very secondary to the fashion game Yesssssssss! I have spent so much time making characters for the game Don't have many pics on this particular comp but here's one  Ignore the bio I'm lazyyyy
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Aug 8, 2020 16:57
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:So, my dad has decided that he likes to golf again and this inevitably lead to him askin me if I can find a golf video game for him. The last one he played was Tiger Woods '08, which might be a bit dated at this point. Yakuza 3. The story of a guy who has to take care of a bunch of orphanage children and he goes out to play golf. A lot. In Okinawa. Very dad friendly game. It's currently only available on PS4, though. On PC, there's 2K Games PGA Tour titles. They can run on old computers if they aren't older than 8 years or so.
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Aug 8, 2020 17:12
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:So, my dad has decided that he likes to golf again and this inevitably lead to him askin me if I can find a golf video game for him. The last one he played was Tiger Woods '08, which might be a bit dated at this point. There’s a 2K golf game coming out in a few weeks, you may want to see how that pans out.
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Aug 8, 2020 17:21
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Horizon Zero Dawn: success at last, but only after some more stupid stuff. - to skip the super long opening cutscene so you can actually reach the main menu, press alt-f4 and then say "no" when it asks if you want to quit. there is no other way to skip this. - I set the settings to the lowest, closed chrome, and started a new game.... ....and it worked? Smooth cutscenes, smooth gameplay. I'm now deeply invested in Aloy and hunting robo-dinosaurs. I just finished a sidequest, I'm trying to find Blaze for the main quest, and it's a good time. And even at the lowest settings the game looks great. I'm just so relieved, because now I can play the game and - more importantly - not pester the friend who gifted this to me for a refund. It works and I'm happy.  That all said I am really interested in seeing the devs release patches so I can play at better settings. Also closing chrome is mandatory, the game will stutter if it's open.
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Aug 8, 2020 20:10
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StrixNebulosa posted:I'm trying to find Blaze for the main quest, and it's a good time You can reliably get blaze by shooting the canister off the back of Striders. 
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Aug 8, 2020 20:36
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Does anybody know if I can claim older games if I pause my humble choice subscription?
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Aug 8, 2020 21:18
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lunar detritus posted:Does anybody know if I can claim older games if I pause my humble choice subscription? Yes, for any month you've already paid for, you should be able to claim them even if you're not currently subscribed.
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Aug 8, 2020 21:31
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Kuule hain nussivan posted:So, my dad has decided that he likes to golf again and this inevitably lead to him askin me if I can find a golf video game for him. The last one he played was Tiger Woods '08, which might be a bit dated at this point. Mario Golf. I'm completely serious here, and I wish there would be a new one.
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Aug 8, 2020 21:40
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StrixNebulosa posted:Horizon Zero Dawn: success at last, but only after some more stupid stuff. All you had to do to skip the cutscene was to start a new game and wait until it saves. The next time you start the game you don't have the cutscene at the beginning.
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Aug 8, 2020 21:41
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So with HZD currently making GBS threads the bed for me, I also decided to pick up Hellpoint while I wait to see if HZD gets fixed or if it's refund time. So far I've beaten the first boss and decided to explore the Arcology over the Port from the Observatory, but there's two questions that popped up: 1) When I went outside for the E.V.A. suit I noticed my max hp started dropping. I assume that was radiation? Any way to fix it besides dying or what seems to be a healing station in the Observatory? 2) Is the load stat return as dire as it seems? Just picked up the Warrior suit from the Observatory but it takes me to 61% load. Wondering if the load stat returns are any good for what you get to wear, or if I should plan on going almost-naked except for weapons.
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Aug 8, 2020 21:51
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If you ever want to feel good about yourself, play Helltaker and then watch people on youtube do the same. You'll feel like BigBrain Mc. Einstein Hawking*. Incidentally, if you want a good porn game play Helltaker then look at all the porn people made out of it. *You might instead despair at how much people struggle with even the easiest puzzles
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Aug 8, 2020 21:51
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The duality of man: Smug and Horny
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Aug 8, 2020 22:01
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Pyrolocutus posted:So with HZD currently making GBS threads the bed for me, I also decided to pick up Hellpoint while I wait to see if HZD gets fixed or if it's refund time. I'm not too far in myself, so take these with a grain of salt: 1) If your talking about the Arcology Underside, then it's radiation and a lack of oxygen (there are other locations that lack oxygen but don't have a radiation problem). Healing won't be enough, you'll need an item (and you'll know it when you get it). It's an EVA Suit. 2) The full mobility threshold seems to be 50% load and there's a linear drop-off to 50% mobility at 100% load. That means that using the [spoiler]warrior set[/url] (weight 23) without putting anything into the default load of 40 is going to be a big hit to mobility. I've put 10 levels into load and that gets me to 90% mobility with the set + 10 weight on my weapon/offhand. There's a load-reducing module you can find, but it's apparently bugged right now. Stickman fucked around with this message at 22:47 on Aug 8, 2020 |
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Aug 8, 2020 22:30
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Stokes posted:All you had to do to skip the cutscene was to start a new game and wait until it saves. The next time you start the game you don't have the cutscene at the beginning. At that point yesterday I was desperate to get out of the game because it was stuttering like CRAZY, with the audio in the menu skipping and it was just an all around shitshow.
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Aug 8, 2020 22:33
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Yeah, putting the opening cutscene before the menu was a weird choice, especially with how terribly the cutscenes run with high-refresh monitors + vsync. Once I got into the game it’s been playing pretty smoothly. It’s been crashing every 20-30 minutes, though, and that’s a huge pain in the rear end in an open-world game with manual save points. I haven’t tried the memory cleaner yet - maybe that will help.
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Aug 8, 2020 22:45
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Memory management seems to be the major issue with the game right now and ISLC has definitely improved my experiences with stutter and hitching. Not sure if it will solve any problems with crashing but it’s worth a shot!
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Aug 8, 2020 22:48
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Stickman posted:Yeah, putting the opening cutscene before the menu was a weird choice, especially with how terribly the cutscenes run with high-refresh monitors + vsync. It's a decision that worked well on the PS4 when it's guaranteed to run fine, but less so on a PC.
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Aug 8, 2020 22:54
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My friend wants me to play Doki Doki Literature Club. Should I?
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Aug 8, 2020 22:56
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Sininu posted:My friend wants me to play Doki Doki Literature Club. Should I? As long as nothing in the opening disclaimer sounds like too much for you.
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Aug 8, 2020 22:57
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Sininu posted:My friend wants me to play Doki Doki Literature Club. Should I? Yes. It's short and interesting. e: I read it in two hours. StrixNebulosa fucked around with this message at 01:10 on Aug 9, 2020 |
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Aug 9, 2020 00:56
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Stickman posted:Yeah, putting the opening cutscene before the menu was a weird choice, especially with how terribly the cutscenes run with high-refresh monitors + vsync. I’ve averaged a crash an hour (4) so far, but fortunately it auto saved a minute or two prior each time. Even with that huge annoyance, I am enjoying the hell out of this. I am super invested in Aloy already.
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Aug 9, 2020 01:07
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I just played an hour of HZD and it used substantially less RAM than it did yesterday- system memory usage was at 12GB overall. What the poo poo?  It wasn’t patched, so the fact it used less resources makes no loving sense.
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Aug 9, 2020 02:21
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I just played an hour of HZD and it used substantially less RAM than it did yesterday- system memory usage was at 12GB overall. What the poo poo? Are you running ISLC? Making the game use less RAM is literally what it does.
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Aug 9, 2020 02:22
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I read on Reddit that the first time you run it it uses way more RAM, I think something related to that 10 minute first boot up "benchmark / optimizing" tool doesn't get cleared out or something.
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Aug 9, 2020 02:24
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exquisite tea posted:Are you running ISLC? Making the game use less RAM is literally what it does. Nope, haven’t tried it with that yet. Sab669 posted:I read on Reddit that the first time you run it it uses way more RAM, I think something related to that 10 minute first boot up "benchmark / optimizing" tool doesn't get cleared out or something. That makes sense, the CTDs people are having with extended play suggests it’s really bad at letting go of memory.
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Aug 9, 2020 02:25
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Sab669 posted:I read on Reddit that the first time you run it it uses way more RAM, I think something related to that 10 minute first boot up "benchmark / optimizing" tool doesn't get cleared out or something. .... that makes a LOT of sense as to why it's behaving today, thank you!
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I 100% get why they don't, but I wish more developers would do post-mortems on major bugs and the like The programmer part of me is dying for details of what exactly they hosed up with HZD here (and i bet there's a loving void*** miscast or equivalent at the bottom of it somewhere mark my words)
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