Interested in games, tech, and sports. Soft spot for open source projects.
Make a backup, but yes. The new DynamicFPS mod from Chucksfeedandseed is a game changer, allows resolution to be scaled natively as opposed to using the Yuzu scaler. Way, way better image quality and fixes issues like the Sky Islands being weird.
Ornstein and Smough on the 1.0 version of Dark Souls in 2011 when I was very bad at Dark Souls and video games in general. In the DLC Hawkeye Gough has some line about how hunting the dragons teased out his dearest emotions and that’s truly how I felt about my O&S experience. They kicked the ever loving shit out of me so many times. I remember finally scoring the kill in spite of the controller nearly falling out of my hands due to sweat at like 4 AM. Reacted a bit too loud, woke up my girlfriend (now wife haha). Just one of those moments that I will always remember.
Besides that, mostly all the Destiny raids haha. The Day 1 raiding experience in Destiny is just such a unique and awesome thing. Nothing quite like problem solving with a group of friends. Deep Stone Crypt is probably the most memorable of such experienced to me, first time the group I play with tried a Day 1 raid and completing it just gave me such a crazy high.
It’s quite good. Definitely referential, but it has enough wiggle with some of the thematic stuff that it can get away with it. Will be cool to see where the stuff with “feeling springs reacting” leads to.
Gameplay felt more than serviceable but not quite on the level of a From Software title in the slice we played. More than good enough though. Excited for the full release.
Tons of great ones this year
Resident Evil 4 Remake was a real highlight for me, just a stellar way to revisit what I consider to be one of the best games of all time.
Haven’t finished it, but Tears of the Kingdom seems like it’s on its way to be a historically significant game and deserves the praise.
Jedi Survivor is a favorite for me. Really good review scores, but it ticks a lot of the right boxes for my personal taste and elevates it even higher. Technical issues aside, thought it was a far better game than Fallen Order.
Diablo 4 is also a lot of fun but I’m undecided as to how I feel about the endgame. As a campaign experience right up there though.
…soo much to play right now haha.
Really vivid memories of going Christmas shopping with my mother and getting Final Fantasy X with the strategy guide as an early gift when I was young. I think it had just released and it was all over the magazines I was subscribed to (shoutout Gamepro haha). Was super engrossed with it during that break. I always interested in RPGs, but I was at just the right age to really start enjoying them a lot more when that game came out. Was a really awesome, memorable winter break.
…on a more duderbo note, my high school friends and I would stay up ungodly hours and drink waaaaay too many Five Hour energy shots playing Halo 3 and later Reach. Undoubtably unhealthy, but very good times.
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lot of attrition at Arkane Austin per this thread
They seem entirely content with burning it down and seeing what they’re left with after. Not even pretending to play nice anymore.
Yeah even as someone who loves those types of games it’s definitely a thing that’s beginning to impose itself on the space a bit too much at this point. This looks fresh compared to how most third person RPGs are these days.
Super Metroid and Chrono Trigger are the first two I think of personally. Just historically great games with legacies that are still felt today.
See through plastic is still cool and I will fight anyone that says otherwise.
The KOTOR series is the easy answer here for me, just wonderful games. BioWare was truly on top of their game for the first KOTOR and I really appreciated a lot about what KOTOR II was trying to do. One day I’ll do a play through with all the cut content, that’s been on my list for a good bit.
I’m big on the Souls games and Metroidvania type titles, so the Fallen Order games really hit a wonderful sweet spot for me. Really enjoyed Jedi Survivor recently.
This is shaping up so well by the looks of it. The pace of play looks exactly what I would want out of a modern mech game. Very excited about this one. From Software does not miss.
There’s a comfy niche for Intel selling $200-350 GPUs. Glad to hear things have turned around for them some. Remember hearing that Intel was canning these things before they even launched/directly after launch and that would have been such a tragedy.
Appreciate the work you are doing and it’s been cool watching kbin develop so rapidly! Uptime has been impressive given the circumstances.
No hate at all there, Pascal was truly the buy it for life GPU haha. I still have a machine with a 1080 and it performs surprisingly well for most of the things I would actually want to play.
ayyy 3080 gang.
Yeah, it’s holding up pretty well for me too. I’ll likely buy a new card next gen though, I have the 10 GB version and the VRAM stuff is getting crazy and seems like it will get worse before it gets better.
Strider is great. Assassin is just so powerful and fun to play when you get it though, really best of all worlds IMO.
…honestly every class in Dragon’s Dogma is super fun haha. Some really unique stuff too like Magic Archer. They’re masterworks all. You can’t go wrong.
Feels like just enough to strike while the Diablo 4 hype is high. Very interested to see what happens at Exilecon though!
I’m a longtime POE player but for whatever reason I’ve found it harder and harder to get excited about new seasons. Hopefully POE 2 is a shot in the arm for me. Willing to bet it will be :) When POE is hitting, there’s really nothing like it.
the bad ending :(
Making some serious progress in Tears of the Kingdom and finishing up Final Fantasy XVI.
Trying to get things squared away, Remnant 2 come out soon and I’m excited about that.