Performance felt a bit choppy at times (need to activate an FPS overlay again to check for drops), but otherwise no bugs as far as I could tell. It’s just that I think the first boss is terribly designed, and I don’t know if stuff like that would get fixed in a patch.

Started the Lies of P: Overture DLC. Rough beginning, getting back into the groove, some bad enemies, that culminated in an absolutely terrible boss fight. Just complete garbage.

You’re stuck in a tiny arena, with a big ass monster, and a terrible camera. You constantly get shoved around, into the walls, clipping halfway into the boss, because of terrible hitboxes, just living life. Half the time I died and couldn’t even see my character, so I had no idea what my mistake was. Did I mistime my block? Or maybe the last block sent me reeling, and I couldn’t react in time? Or maybe I was just on the ground because the hit before that knocked me down? Nobody knows, not even the boss, because his face is inside the wall.

It’s been getting better since then, the next two bosses weren’t as bad, the second one might even be fun with a few tweaks, and the fourth (which I just beat last night) was actually pretty good. I hope it continues like this, and doesn’t go back to the atrocious start.

I’m shocked. Shocked! Well, not that shocked.

Everything’s got this shit green tint.

Unless you’re making some Nvidia = green joke, that’s some setting on your side. The crashes might be as well, some unstable overclock or PSU issue.

The main things that’s been plaguing the Nvidia drivers is black screens, which are seemingly finally getting under control for the last two driver releases, along with Windows Updates.

Value of the 50-series is definitely shit though.

Any change to the site = shit. The next time a mod gets removed, people are going to scream again, that this would never have happened with the old owner.

BTW this is about UNIX, not Windows. Also, only about driver optimizations, security updates would still get released for a few years, if the past is anything to go by.

I’ve always wondered, and guessed it comes from consoles or maybe a Japanese thing, why is it called Title Update? What other kinds of updates do games get?

Although not in this case, often it would also be clarified that it was a free update. Do people pay for game updates? For me an update is the same as a patch, mainly fixes, sometimes new stuff. Then you have expansions/add-ons or DLC that are mostly paid.

I tried it in the training mode, but switched back to first-person and forgot it even exists most of the time.

Microsoft needs to make it so i never need to go into the steam app or the GOG app

That’s never going to happen with any store. Not Microsoft, not Steam, not Epic, not GOG. GOG games could be added anywhere, since they’re not tied to a launcher.

Either start pirating everything or “hope” one store on PC gets a real monopoly, so it’s the only one to buy from.

Dead Cells

Never really agreed with the Metroidvania label, same with Skul: The Hero Slayer. You unlock different biomes (and side rooms), but the items to do so are more like keys. Just my thoughts on that.

Hollow Knight
Tunic
Ori
Animal Well
Axiom Verge

Most of this sites post are blogspam “articles”, where you might as well just link to the original. But I think the posts here are just automated, with no real filter for what’s useful and what isn’t.

#teamred

Temu Nvidia is so much better, true. Please support the “underdog” billion dollar company.

BTW, the game can’t be bought in Germany for some reason, but you can activate third-party keys with no problem. No VPN needed.

I bought it on Nuuvem years ago and everything worked. Dunno if region-locked keys are sold, but the store should tell you if it’s only Russian, Japanese or whatever.

There are.

The game has multiple cosmetic(?) DLC, like the Nier and Nikke crossovers, but for some reason they aren’t on the Steam Store page like for every other game. They’re included in the Complete Edition, and if you click on that bundle you can select and potentially buy each one separately.

I think when it was announced, there were some leaks that said these Game Key Cards would be the Switch 1 version of the game, along with a code to upgrade to the Switch 2 version. This would basically prevent you from selling it again. This was quickly refuted, but people still like to shit on Nintendo, so they don’t care.

Then you also have people complaining that games on other consoles don’t come with the game (not even pre-patch version or something) anymore, like Doom: The Dark Ages, just a few MB of data for authentication or something and the rest you have to download. Switch now does basically the same, and it “only” has 256GB storage, plus the microSD Express card. But the games are also smaller, so I don’t know if it’s like you can only fit a few big titles on there (or one Call of Duty), and then you’re outta space.

You should do what you think is best, since you’re making these threads.

I remember back when OpenCritic launched, the dev made a Reddit post to gauge interest. MetaCritic used some weird formula to weight specific outlets of their choosing higher, and apparently people didn’t like that. OpenCritic was supposed to “fix” that. I never really followed that stuff, so I don’t know if that’s still the case, if MetaCritic changed or whatever.

I don’t care one way or another, and don’t really use these threads or even most of the reviews to decide if I buy a game or not. Looking them over, and maybe see some people freak out because of “too much water” is entertaining though.

The video from LTT made it look like when you launch this game mode or Xbox mode or whatever (like on the Deck, where you can still exit to the desktop), and lots of non-essential processes just get stopped automatically. After you’re done, those processes would start again. So nothing is really removed, just put on hold while you’re gaming, and there’s no separate OS version.

I’m not a Nintendo gamer, but I’ve been watching a streamer play the game, and whenever I see the Knockout Tour it reminds me of the opening set pieces of the Forza Horizon games, where you’re going through all the different biomes, to introduce you to the game. And afterward you’re let loose on the Mario Horizon festival (aka the empty open world).

The game itself doesn’t look fun at all for me, but who cares, if people enjoy it.

Also it’s Z2 Extreme, not Zen 2 Extreme

um akshually 🤓

It’s the AI Z2 Extreme in the Xbox Ally X. There is a non-AI variant, which is the same, except of course the AI hardware, but that’s not used for these.

Couldn’t be AMD without dogshit mobile processor names.