General Chat

[neon scroll]

Oh that's why you can be excited without prejudice. Blessed soul.

[placid otter]

they removed the 1$ sale, but idk if it is also the case with new accounts

[dry gale]

Don't scare me with bugs from previous Bethesda games

[smoky imp]

https://tenor.com/view/laggy-gif-23456063

[dry gale]

They still have it in my country lol

[placid otter]

i only put in like 3 hours into skyrim and besides that never played any bethesda either

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/HazzadorGamin/status/1695073382629560483?s=19

RIP

[placid otter]

ah he stole copies and sold them. no wonder then

[smoky imp]

Lol

[dry gale]

Yes he did sold them for $200-$770

[neon scroll]

That's not even the fun kind of leak

[dry gale]

I still have the leaked video

I watched myself the gameplay

So I'm confident in Starfield

[placid otter]

if lirik plays ill watch his stream, but doubt he is going to finish it as he always changes games

[neon scroll]

As long as people don't preorder I don't even mind if they are excited about playing it. It is a massive game, that much at least is certain.

And you're doing gp, so that's fine

[warm pumice]

I’m into putting mods but the size of the game and vast of mods for it kinda puts me off for it

Especially since I like to do vanilla run first but knowing the hours vanilla game has plus having to replay it with mods got me iffy

[placid otter]

i didn't care for mods. only added the bug fixing one

just didn't enjoy it

[warm pumice]

Understandable,it’s a hit or miss for some

[dry gale]

Let's say we have FSR 2.1 or 2.2 during the launch of this game and it helps 1650 users get atleast 30 fps out of their PCs

[warm pumice]

Is 30fps on high settings?

[placid otter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd1VNMu0878

accurate

wonder if he ever finished playing elden ring

[dry gale]

low settings I'm talking about lol

[dry gale]

the minimum is already 1070ti and u r expecting high on 1650 dam

[warm pumice]

Damn,we bout to be like

https://tenor.com/view/kaboom-boom-nuke-nuclear-bomb-gif-20734003

[dry gale]

But my 1650 is doing good with FSR 2.0 Quality on low settings with medium textures in The Last of Us where it uses 4.5 GB Vram and 16 GB Ram completely

30-60 FPS

I even turned on some light effects

but we can't do FSR 2 Quality on Starfield but FSR 2 Ultra Performance

[warm pumice]

Hmm I c

Oh well,time to see it in first person

If it works well,then it works well

If not,then wait for a mod to fix it

Nothing new in the industry

The starfield edition wrap for the Xbox is really nice

[dry gale]

it's not a bug tho because we playin in a 1650

[dry gale]

The Jedi survivor also needs the same GTX 1070 as the minimum system requirements as Starfield and look at the gameplay in medium settings

btw this is without FSR 2, Medium settings

30 fps

Bro I honestly played this game at 60 FPS, no way I expected it wud drop like this in medium settings without FSR

We still have hopes for 1650 as it runs games at 30 fps in medium settings without FSR

[warm pumice]

Sheesh

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/tomwarren/status/1695097808380924015?s=20

imagine if this game doesn't support DLSS

that wud be a huge backlash from the PC RTX gaming community

https://fxtwitter.com/KJovian/status/1694878847575941335?s=20 oh look a secret easter egg

[dry gale]

Can I have that Wallpaper? it's looking cool

[neon scroll]

"Do you have any idea how much work that would be?" - Bethesda, probably

A triple A game in 2023 not supporting both AMD and Nvidia standards would be a huge joke btw. Like, this isn't the early 2000s

[valid lava]

difference is that games in early 2000s were real bangers

[neon scroll]

kek

True, but point was back then the whole Nvidia vs. AMD thing was essentially like Playstation vs. Xbox for consoles, but that went away eventually because it was really, really dumb, even dumber than console wars

[scarlet cape]

oof sammie looks like you're gonna have to work hard for that nitro

[dry gale]

wait u guys giving nitro fr?

[glass knot]

I feel absolutely nothing about starfield tbh lol
Doesn't help that the game's being released in two weeks and all i see about it is sammy posting random tweets from people trying to entice console wars

Not really interested on the game, never really been interested or played any Bethesda game 🤷
I do wanna play Prey eventually tho but idk if that's just published by Bethesda or what

[fallow vessel]

yeah feels like the game has no marketing

or at least I didn't hear about this game for like a year until last week

[glass knot]

Their presentation earlier on the year was pretty good honestly

But after that i didn't see anything about the game

[fallow vessel]

I don't really pay attention to Bethesda presentation to begin with

"16 times the detail"

[glass knot]

The starfield one was pretty good imo but idk

The vibe for this feels the same as when people didn't stop talking about how good cyberpunk was, without showing any gameplay

[dry gale]

it was a long break until the hype started

[dry gale]

atleast we saw a leaked gameplay this time

[glass knot]

I didn't see shit But if it ran well there that's neat

[rustic peak]

What even is starfield

Is it gonna be just tes/fallout in space?

[placid otter]

if your curious would suggest watching the xbox starfield showcase from earlier this year. shows all u need to know

[rustic peak]

Well im curious but not that curious

Never really got into Bethesda games so not really that intrigued, probably gonna check out some reviews tho

[placid otter]

fair, we don't know how the gameplay experience is going to play out yet. nda ends 31st this month so waiting on that

[rustic peak]

Thats uh

Kinda concerning no?

[placid otter]

no?

[jovial wolf]

not really

[rustic peak]

I mean at least a gameplay trailer or smth

[placid otter]

they showed alot. system, areas, etc... but hands on experience always very different

there is plenty of it

[rustic peak]

Ah ok, think I just misunderstood what you meant then

[placid otter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYEiTdsyas

[jovial wolf]

the showcase was pretty thorough

[placid otter]

nah, i can understand how u can misunderstand

and yeah, showcase really does show you everything

[glass knot]

Yea I think the showcase was really good in general

[rustic peak]

Well that looks like its either great or a no mans sky x cyberpunk 2077 level desaster

[placid otter]

combining the 2 is a good comparison i'd say.

[glass knot]

And with Bethesda's track record, people expecting it to be the latter is understandable

[rustic peak]

What I wonder is

[glass knot]

Hopefully it's good

[placid otter]

lets just say that, if there arent a million technical problems it is well worth getting excited for

[glass knot]

Good games coming out is always good

[rustic peak]

Did they actually focus on this and just threw out that tes 6 announcement for PR or did they actually split dev time

[placid otter]

different teams

these big studios never work on 1 game at a time

tes6 team also has to start small and slowly scale up

alot of the starfield team like design, writers etc who have finished their side will go and support another project

[rustic peak]

Makes sense

[neon scroll]

That is essentially what they call it themselves

And it's not the recommendation they seem to think it is

[jovial wolf]

For plenty of people it is

Honestly, at this point if you are not a zoomer, you should know if you enjoy the bethesda rpg style

And after that it is about how broken it will be

[placid otter]

just reading this line is funny

sad hard truth

[neon scroll]

It just works

[jovial wolf]

At that scale there is not escaping some level of jank

If it is the funny stuff that people meme on yt, great

[neon scroll]

See, this is sort of the issue if you lie to people too often, Todd. Eventually only people unexperienced with your bs will give a fuck.

[jovial wolf]

Fair point

Ideal gamepass game

[neon scroll]

Actually accurate

like Redfall

[rustic peak]

If nintendo can do it, surely so can bethesda

[placid otter]

redfall should not have existed. that is different

hopefully*

[scarlet cape]

i played a lot of tes growing up and seldom experienced all the broken stuff people like to use as ammo
maybe i was lucky over my few hundred hours of playtime idk

but like some of it has to be down to players doing shit that breaks the game right

[rustic peak]

https://youtu.be/T6HdBplLmuU?si=PywlzmQCN3HoJ0ou

[jovial wolf]

You may have to specify which TES

[rustic peak]

Some of it for sure

[placid otter]

if only that was the case, but no. if it is people wouldn't be complaining so much

[neon scroll]

I've had 3 different playthroughs of Oblivion ruined by game breaking bugs that save files could not remedy, that's how my journey into Bethesda jank started

And no, I have never seen the end of that game

[jovial wolf]

And if there is some country that is expert on janky rpgs, it's germany ( /wave Piranha Bytes)

[scarlet cape]

morrowind/oblivion/skyrim never had major issues

through multiple platforms

[neon scroll]

That is just a flatout lie

[jovial wolf]

Yeah, that is kinda lucky in Oblivion's case

[smoky imp]

i love that vid

[scarlet cape]

nope, my files never got wankered

[neon scroll]

Ah, that sounded like you were generally speaking

[rustic peak]

If only the guy wasnt tied up in his witcher Review for like 10 years

I wanna see a totk review

[smoky imp]

bruh Skyrim on PS3 was a nightmare and could kill your file

[neon scroll]

Well ok, you personally were just lucky then

Skyrim was equally broken on all platforms for that matter, the only reason it worked was the patches on PC

And I don't mean official patches

(obviously)

But I played Oblivion on console and... you know

[smoky imp]

💀

[placid otter]

anyone know to what extend fallout76 was improved too? i know it has gotten better, but since no one plays it because of launch and after that. got no clue lol

[smoky imp]

fixed some bugs and glitches more or less

[neon scroll]

It still is a barren wasteland with nothing to do, no relevant NPCs and an effectively mandatory cash shop to make it playable

But you can just go and try if you have gamepass

[placid otter]

so it is now less a technical problem and mostly a content one now cool

[rustic peak]

Didnt it get a battle royal Mode?

[smoky imp]

F76 still seems to be played if it doesn't die yet

[neon scroll]

I mean.... you just said "better than before"

[placid otter]

nty, bethesda games are def not for me. although starfield does look fun if they didn't ignore having a proper story experience (first 30 hours)

[neon scroll]

But you gotta understand that is a very low bar

[scarlet cape]

it outlasted the expected lifespan

[smoky imp]

i do have fun with the older fallout games and skyrim

but well i am not that much into bethesda

[neon scroll]

The best Fallout games are the CRPGs (1+2), fight me

[smoky imp]

i will

[scarlet cape]

sure but it's my turn first

because thats how good combat is made

[smoky imp]

bcs that's not how to spell New Vegas

[neon scroll]

Fair, but no plasma cannons

[dry gale]

eww that shit game

[smoky imp]

i almost said Prey was one of the better Bethesda games but that was made by Arkane Studios

[neon scroll]

New Vegas is a valid choice, but basically only because it wasn't made by Bethesda

[smoky imp]

think Bethesda was the publisher

[scarlet cape]

arkane are lit when they make stealth games

[smoky imp]

I still need to beat Dishonored

[scarlet cape]

dishonored remains one of the best

[neon scroll]

But there is stealth in Redfall

[placid otter]

yeah prey and deathloop arkane

[smoky imp]

i went full murder route on dishonored

[placid otter]

so is redfall apparantly

[smoky imp]

was deathloop good?

looked nice actually

[neon scroll]

Dishonored probably peak Arkane though, arguably

[scarlet cape]

good lesson in letting devs stick to what they're good at

[dry gale]

first of all there are no enemies while u roam freely... what's the point of that game then

[placid otter]

deathloop was very well received yes

[smoky imp]

nice

[placid otter]

AI in that game is one of the worst though

[smoky imp]

concept sounded cool

[placid otter]

but besides that people enjoyed it

[neon scroll]

From what I've watched and read Deathloop was flawed, but it did have a really interesting concept

Didn't play that one myself though

[jovial wolf]

It is pretty much just Redfall, Arx Fatalis and DMoMaM were both great too

[scarlet cape]

i could never get behind the spell system in arx

[jovial wolf]

I could see that, it was unique

[scarlet cape]

neat in concept but i could never get the spells i needed to work

[dry gale]

DLSS 3.5 is here

[neon scroll]

I don't recall, was Arx fatalis the ego shooter but with spells game?

[placid otter]

next month*

[jovial wolf]

You draw the spells

[dry gale]

not for me

GTX 1650 oof

shud have waited another 1 year before buying this laptop

[placid otter]

https://twitter.com/amdradeon/status/1695098935734387135?s=20

AMD Radeon (@amdradeon)

Today, we're excited to share that we've been working hard on our next generation upscaling technology, FSR 3.

🧵(1/3) Read more: https://t.co/fkKesf9GpJ

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Twitter · Aug 25, 2023, 3:40 PM

[dry gale]

cud have got RTX 3050

[dry gale]

I was thinking when FSR 3 gonna come

[placid otter]

going to have similar results to dlss3 i believe

[dry gale]

wait

[dry gale]

where GTX 16 series?

[placid otter]

10 and above

[dry gale]

so it's considered 10 and above

but

[placid otter]

this going to have biggest impact on ps5 as it uses amd. did xbox also use amd? i dont remember

[dry gale]

Starfield is sponsored by AMD, so where tf is FSR 3?

[jovial wolf]

it did

[placid otter]

okay yeah, biggest impact on current gen consoles

[placid otter]

in due time it will be added. seems like forspoken and immortals aveum are the first 2 and only ones announced to receive it this Fall

[dry gale]

Custom AMD RDNA 2 GPU 52 CUs @ 1.825GHz

[dry gale]

ahh need to wait ig

[placid otter]

driver updates etc takes time

[dry gale]

is it possible to manually add them?

[placid otter]

jeez, each time i refresh twitter keep finding more intresting stuff
https://twitter.com/MrTLexify/status/1695158228265603252?s=20

Lex 🇺🇦 (@MrTLexify)

Black Ops 3 is getting a New Open World Mode and it looks better than MW3 (for free btw).

Shoutout to @CodLoreFacts and everybody else involved on the project for Vae Victis!

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Twitter · Aug 25, 2023, 7:36 PM

[placid otter]

like any other driver update... amd/nvidia/gamedev needs to make it, and then u just update

[scarlet cape]

wtf even is cod anymore

[jovial wolf]

fish

[scarlet cape]

[dry gale]

this will take long

[smoky imp]

now we need fortnite dances

[placid otter]

considering starfield is not only new, but also big and sponsored i doubt they will delay it too much.

[placid otter]

oh shit, it looks like outbreak, but using all the old zombie maps. looks fun

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/shinobi602/status/1695132384515989798?s=20

Another one

[smoky imp]

that game still exists?

damn

[scarlet cape]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3JEEhNEXHc

[smoky imp]

ooohhh granblue

[dry gale]

where is grumpy... pls let him play starfield so I can win a month of nitro

[scarlet cape]

i'm struggling to describe granblue relink
character driven party based monster hunter doesn't feel right

[dry gale]

so these games receives FSR 3

[scarlet cape]

forspoken

https://tenor.com/view/john-jonah-jameson-lol-laughing-hysterically-laughing-out-loud-funny-gif-17710543

[placid otter]

huh, no starfield in there

and wukong not coming out till next summer

watching armored core 6 whole evening and it is shit too watch, but does look fun to play it yourself

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/tomwarren/status/1695097907815289160?s=20

in future I might build a PC mostly with AMD CPU+GPU

[rustic peak]

Wait frostpunk 2 is a thing?

[dry gale]

AMD GPUs look cheap

[placid otter]

yeah, hasn't released yet though

[dry gale]

Halo Infinite still doesn't have DLSS or AMD FSR

It uses Bilinear resolution scaling

And you can still play at over 100 fps in medium settings and it won't lag

Due to the weird resolution upscaling that prefers fps

Image quality remains the same

[glass knot]

Classic joe vid

Love this guy

[valid lava]

i have amd and its a banger

[dry gale]

Yes better

[dry gale]

In another timeline

We are waiting for the PlayStation exclusive release of Starfield

Xbox fanboys are slowly selling their Xbox and moving to PS5s

PlayStation releasing the game on both PS5 and PC but not on Xbox

[bitter portal]

cool af game

[stable stratus]

ALL YOU HAD TO DO WAS SLICE THE TRAIN CJ
https://fxtwitter.com/manfightdragon/status/1695089911077150871

[pearl cobalt]

against Balteus:
"ah shit, here we go again"

[fallow vessel]

It's kinda funny seeing some streamers being stuck on certain parts for 3 hours

and then seeing Bahroo just going full speed double shotgun double laser cannon and beating everything on 1st or 2nd try

[pearl cobalt]

Bahroo completed the "literally impossible" nightmare mode of Remenant. he just does max difficulty with every game, which boggles my mind

[fallow vessel]

yeah he is both incredibily stupid and amazing at very difficult games

he did those impossible ironman challenges with long war in xcoms he did those 900% or whatever runs in They are Billions

he beat the AC6 yesterday he is gonna continue with NG+ today apparently

and also there is TennoCon today if anyone is interested

[pearl cobalt]

I'm surprised how many stopped at the tutorial boss. never played an AC before and took me 2-3 tries. and I'm pretty below average on high difficulty games

I still think it was pretty crazy that the devs made the Ring of the Admiral in Remenant with "Literally Impossible" engraved because of Bahroo

[fallow vessel]

he is now doing PvP with his shotgun wheelchair build

and he is struggling with finding someone that can beat him

[dry gale]

Weekend Moment

No, I don't have a PS4 or PS5, It's my PC

my controller got dehydrated... need to recharge it

[smoky imp]

Great game

[fallow vessel]

ok quadlegs hover with mid/long range is the counter to shotgun wheelchair

[fallow vessel]

TennoCon in 10 minutes btw

or Tenno Live from TennoCon in 10 minutes rather

[stable stratus]

https://fxtwitter.com/JakeSucky/status/1695564768168530235?t=FmhDoiquJ-ZMZ4xvIuwwQg&s=19

Gamers move indeed

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/TheRealDfea/status/1695414296912576964?s=19 guy was just testing out something in tutorial

And the PS fans come and started spreading misinformation

Ohh the misery

[minor bolt]

you're really gonna pull this when you routinely post xbox fanboys doing the same about playstation?

[dry gale]

I only see Xbox fanboy posts because they are mostly Halo players and then their fellow Xbox friends and then it goes on

I don't see any PS Fanboys in my Twitter because well I only check their for PlayStation PC releases

[minor bolt]

upscaling is a blight

series S at 768x436 and it looks like a smudgy mess

[bitter portal]

i defeated balteus

took me 2 days and multiple tries and never once expected to resort to a pulse blade of all things.

nice game

[dry gale]

Someone said the 30 fps in Starfield is not good enough with Series X (someone who got a review copy)

There are many loading screens

Gunplay similar to Fallout 4

And they haven't seen too many bugs yet

[minor bolt]

30fps isnt good enough in 2023 in general

[dry gale]

FSR3 will fix that soon in Xbox

Don't know about PS

Frame generation, what a good concept

Sadly GTX users like me won't be getting that feature but FSR3 Upscaling only

[minor bolt]

fsr is shithouse though

[dry gale]

Ohh btw I'm playing my games at 30-60 FPS, it's not much noticeable until you hit below 30 FPS

[minor bolt]

ive been playing at 144hz for like 8 years, 240hz for the last 3

[dry gale]

It's good that it exists for people like me

[minor bolt]

i can notice when something drops from 144 to 100

let alone 60 to 40

[dry gale]

I can notice something different but my eyes can't tell

And I turned on vsync on a 60 Hz display

[minor bolt]

gross

at least figure out what amd's equivalent of fast sync is

[dry gale]

Well there is screen tearing so I had to

[minor bolt]

if youre gonna do that

[dry gale]

Freesync you mean

[minor bolt]

no, fast sync

its a version of vsync that doesnt have the input lag penalty

vrr is also good

[dry gale]

Ohh there's no input lag here

[dry gale]

My TV doesn't have

5 years old Sony TV with a fake HDR certificate

[minor bolt]

vsync does have input lag, you probably just dont notice it lol

triple buffered is way worse

i think fast sync is just an nvidia thing, at least it used to be years ago

[dry gale]

Ooo let's check this

[dry gale]

There is Adaptive as well

[minor bolt]

adaptive isnt the same

iirc if youre vsynced at 60hz and you drop, adaptive temporarily drops you to 30hz until you go back up to 60

or something like that, there used to be half a dozen different vsync options

[dry gale]

Good now?

[minor bolt]

yea give that a go

it should feel a lot better

[dry gale]

Oh there's a bunch of setting here set to default

Why is power management mode in Optimal Power

Lol

[minor bolt]

you dont need to mess with those since its at the driver level

rather than per game

using fast sync make sure vsync is off ingame

[dry gale]

Ok let's test this out

[errant star]

haven't played anything to test it out yet

[minor bolt]

Not as good as the hype made it out to be

[errant star]

from just desktop usage I can't tell the difference between 144

[minor bolt]

I could go back to 144hz no issue, give me oled motion clarity instead

[dry gale]

Fk it, I am stuck here

I press Y but nothing happens

[minor bolt]

Is that the university chapter

[valid lava]

isnt that very late game
or u mean the school with bill

[dry gale]

yes

but now I finished it

Lighting effects decrease my FPS dam bro

[placid otter]

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1695809585389740466?s=19 i guess they had brought it back

[neon scroll]

You should see what fog effects will do

[dry gale]

oo

https://streamable.com/pvgzaj oo u can't land on ocean

[placid otter]

iguess no flooring has been laid down

[dry gale]

There are background NPCs in Starfield

[neon scroll]

I should hope so, lol

[dry gale]

stealth in space

btw WTF Bro? why tf it happened and how? hooman beings destroyed everything RIP

oh this sucks... shet

[neon scroll]

It really is Fallout in space, huh

[dry gale]

It is Fallout in space

confirmed

Peeps who haven't played Fallout here pls go and play that game first before coming into this game

I myself have not played it yet so...

[dry gale]

there is no NMS kinda planet exploration , engine is limited , planet is loaded as levels

[warm pumice]

Oh it’s out now?

[neon scroll]

No.

[glass knot]

I'm waiting on the NDA to be over to check anything about this game lol

Cause then people can actually post vids and talk about it

[minor bolt]

its quite funny seeing people coping over the boundary thing

just saw a video of ||someone running 10 minutes in one line just to run into an invisible wall and get turned away||

[smoky imp]

https://twitter.com/GamerTrader1/status/1693521016222330953?s=20

Gamer&Trader (@GamerTrader1)

Vampire: The Masquerade Bloodlines 2 has been teasing a big reveal at PAX West starting in 2 weeks. I guess the game will get a release date which is the 27th of October. The image below is from Plaions online shop which is the physical distributor of the game in some regions.

Twitter · Aug 21, 2023, 7:10 AM

[stable stratus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kw1sEuHjyFA

ah yes it's that time again for rage compilations

[glass knot]

LMAO

epic gaming experience

[stable stratus]

same

saw that too

[minor bolt]

guy was doing a big ama about the game a couple hours ago here if you want to read https://www.reddit.com/r/GamingLeaksAndRumours/comments/163cmjl/starfield_questionnaire_im_the_leak/

[glass knot]

idc enough about it to check
will just watch reviews when it comes out

[dry gale]

Well it's engine limitation, you can't promise running everywhere with that engine unlike No Man's Sky

[slate thorn]

Just get a better engine then :v

[dry gale]

Creation engine good for mods tho

[minor bolt]

blaming faults on a notoriously jank engine is a bit of a cop out

starfield was always marketed like a go anywhere do anything sandbox

[dry gale]

It will destroy Series S then lmao

Every game has a limitation

Also the planets are loaded as levels so you gonna see a loading screen each time you land on a planet

[slate thorn]

Series s being a limiting factor for so many new games is 😔

[minor bolt]

horizon forbidden west has you fast traveling from one side of the map to the other in like 2s

no load screens if you walk/fly it

[dry gale]

Not anymore with Baldur's gate

[minor bolt]

its possible, just devs dont want to put the effort into their own engines

[dry gale]

Same here if you have an SSD

Done

[minor bolt]

that guys ama shows that he was hitting invisible walls just from normal exploration

[slate thorn]

Yes it still is. They had to cut splitscreen for the series s just to make the game work on it

Xbox even sent over people to help getting splitscreen to run on series s, but, it just wont

[dry gale]

Now we will see other developers asking Microsoft for compromises

[slate thorn]

Which they will only get if the game is big enough, aka, probably never again

[dry gale]

It can't, bro it's a potato console c'mon

You saw the graphics in it? Grass doesn't even exist in every game this console plays

[slate thorn]

I mean, it's an insane console for the price. But the fact that it has to share games with systems that are a million times faster is just a deathblow for it

[minor bolt]

ms been giving themselves L after L with series S

cant believe they tried to market it as a 1440p machine

[dry gale]

Series X being a lot better tho

[minor bolt]

when UE5 games run at less than ps2 resolution

[dry gale]

FSR3 on the way so Phil don't need to quit Series S

But why Xbox is doing this since Xbox One S?

[slate thorn]

I mean, when it released it was very much a capable 1440p machine

But ?5? Years later now, yeah...

[minor bolt]

? both consoles have been using upscaling since the pro refresh

[slate thorn]

Ah 3 years

[minor bolt]

on crossgen titles yea

[slate thorn]

Hm, I thought they were older already

[minor bolt]

not really the "next gen 1440p" machine it was made out to be

its not like the X/ps5 running at 720p internal is much better but at least the upscaling doesn't look completely like someone smeared vaseline all over your display

[slate thorn]

Yeah, that's the problem with releasing hardware that is basically just good enough for what you market it for at release. Within months it won't be what you made it for anymore 😔

[minor bolt]

this time i don't actually think the hardware is that bad

[dusty imp]

yeah, be like nintendo

release outdated hardware at launch

[minor bolt]

in this case its the software pushing too hard

[slate thorn]

Isn't is basically a 1060 equivalent in there?

[minor bolt]

ps5 and sx are roughly equivalent to a 3700x cpu and rtx 2060/2070 gpu

iirc

[slate thorn]

I thought xsx was 3060?

[minor bolt]

no, i dont even think 30 series was out by the time the consoles were

[slate thorn]

I mean in terms of equivalent performance :P

[dusty imp]

all the consoles have rdna2 cards i think

[minor bolt]

sx is like 5-10% faster than ps5 on gpu since it has like 6 or so extra gpu cores but its a negligible difference for the avg user

ehhh its hard to compare across gens

[slate thorn]

But yeah, when you develop a game for basically like, a """3060""". Except you have to take into account that it needs to run very well on a """1060""" as well is just kinda silly in 2023

[dusty imp]

the xsx i think was designed for a future where xbox cloud gaming was successful

not an idea that aged well

[slate thorn]

Series S seems like the ultimate cloud gaming machine yeah

[minor bolt]

if anything the s is overkill for streaming

they were meant to be working on a small chromecast like box

that looked like a tiny series s

idk what happened to that

[slate thorn]

Probably shelved because cloud gaming hasn't kicked off yet

[dusty imp]

i guess if you want to stream 4k a good decoder would be useful

but then they went amd instead of nvidia so that wasnt it

[slate thorn]

I guess the best purpose of the series s is being a "ultra mainstream" console for all the guys out there who only play like, fifa, fortnite, and cod :P

[minor bolt]

yea which is fine and all but the marketing for it was just lol

"its just a seriesX but 1440p!!!"

when in reality it struggled to get 1080p on a lot of things

[slate thorn]

Yeah, the budget 1440p monster. Like, sure, for the titles at release I guess it could run that playable at 1440p. But any new games after that... yeah

[minor bolt]

im just hoping the trend of having both 30fps and 60fps modes continue

instead of cutting 60fps in pursuit of fidelity

upscaling 1440p to 4k to get 60fps is so much better than 30fps at native 4k

[slate thorn]

For me it depends on the game I guess

Anything fast paced, high fps for sure. Slow games I'm fine with low fps if in return it also looks insane :P

Me running skyrim at 30 fps with 8k texture mods

[dry gale]

Me playing the last of us at 30-60 FPS

[slate thorn]

I wonder if I can manage to finish one BG3 playthrough before Starfield releases

[bitter portal]

i am speed

[dry gale]

How to tell them both are different?

For clear understand, No Man's Sky is a Space Sim but Starfield is a RPG game like Fallout but on space...

[minor bolt]

nms isnt a sim

[neon scroll]

That doesn't invalidate their point

[minor bolt]

theyre rather close, its just that starfield has a narrative whereas nms doesnt

at least last i played it didnt

[neon scroll]

Also Bethesda advertised the whole "There are THOUSANDS OF PLANETS that you can visit!!!!111" thing pretty heavily, so....

Pretty fair to compare the two in space exploration

[fair elbow]

KSP best

https://tenor.com/view/soyuz-ksp-gif-26523879

[minor bolt]

not the same but astroneer was fun for a bit

[smoky imp]

https://tenor.com/view/nms-fly-no-mans-sky-gif-24412785

[slate thorn]

See that mountain?

[neon scroll]

[slate thorn]

https://youtu.be/NdYuFaXYRAk?si=hNi99YST2h3ahwVj

[slate thorn]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CwXyBjIJVY8/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

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[minor bolt]

pretty sure he did an ateez one when walking out vs loud

so i blame boy groups for fnatic losing there

[placid otter]

https://twitter.com/Okami13_/status/1696179416622133636?s=20 haven't heard of this, but seemed rated highly

[fair elbow]

Oh the original voice actress for Harley Quinn passed away

She was my favorite Harley too

[dry gale]

https://youtu.be/iYO4RJHf7QU?si=3uZyCOL9BvR6jJ8t

AMD destroying Nvidia like this wud be iconic

[neon scroll]

AMD has tried that for literal decades and they've usually lost the fight

So good luck with that

[scarlet cape]

is this the fabled pcmr civil war

[neon scroll]

Of the olden days, ye

[glass knot]

Them making the tech available for all graphics cards is pretty neat tho even if fsr hasn't really been that great

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/IdleSloth84_/status/1696238646305628605?s=19

Day One Patch update

It reduced the size of the game in Xbox Series X tho damn

Don't be disappointed later

DLC already confirmed

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/PeterOvo5/status/1696200694565421359?s=19 This guy has a point

[glass knot]

sounded like a lot of coping to me

[minor bolt]

no mans sky gets panned for its planets not being as diverse as promised
starfield does it and suddenly its okay because it's bethesda
bethesda fanboys are cringe

[glass knot]

if you're a game company and you're making a space game and your main selling point is exploration

[minor bolt]

xbox fanboys coping that it isn't 100% what bethesda made it out to be is cringe too

[glass knot]

these kinda technical hurdles are something you're supposed to overcome on like the first steps of development

lol

also kinda funny to ask why would someone want to walk around the planet on the game supposedly about exploring

[minor bolt]

the reddit ama guy confirmed that ||world tiles don't connect to each other, so when you land next to a city for example, you can't actually see the city at all, and when you leave a tile, you cant return to the same one as the same spot will regen a new tile||

[glass knot]

sounds pretty bad

Guess outer wilds will keep the spot as the only space exploration game that matters

[minor bolt]

a bit immersion breaking but i dont think itll bother me too much

i do think its just a little funny that nms does procgen better

[glass knot]

if the game's good and runs well i think the limitations won't be as big of an issue

[minor bolt]

someone posted leakers pc specs too

Leaker reports they are running 3800x/2080ti @ 1440p on the above high settings.
He gets 45-60 fps most of the time, 60-70 fps in dungeons and space.

which ngl is a little concerning

[glass knot]

damn

[minor bolt]

game is cpu bound meaning that my 5600x/3070 at 1080p probably wont get much more than 60-80

and even if dlss gets ported, upscaling to 1080p looks bad

[fallow vessel]

Spore in Space Age still best Space Exploration game

[glass knot]

Outer Wilds my beloved

Don't think any space game can come even close to that for me

[scarlet cape]

ratchet and clank is better than all of the space games mentioned in this channel

[valid lava]

going commando was my shit back in the days

[minor bolt]

most real shit ever said in this channel

[fleet wave]

TRUE

[dry gale]

Mm yes it's time to shitpost

[neon scroll]

That's not even a shitpost tbh

[minor bolt]

its just facts

reminds me i still need to platinum the ps3 spinoffs

[dry gale]

Somebody pls teach him some space science that those are gas giants and there's literally no surface is present?

I can accept even the boundary controversy

[dry gale]

but don't be this guy, he doesn't even know about space science and haven't studied those planets in irl

[placid otter]

can't blame someone if they simply dont know. does that really look like gas to you without prior knowledge

[dry gale]

it doesn't but blindly claiming that u can land on them before u know what they are, atleast u shud have learned something

[placid otter]

looks like planet must be a planet simply as

[dry gale]

idk how many people will try to land on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune without knowing they are completely gas giants

idk if landing on mercury will melt u tho

[placid otter]

the power of video games. it can literally teach you like i believe what outer worlds also does iirc

[dry gale]

he going to learn and regret posting that tweet later

[smoky imp]

Not space but Assassins Creed makes every history fan explode

It's me I'm history fan

[dry gale]

btw who's going to walk on the planets until u see the boundary warning?

[placid otter]

learning new things always good and fun in the middle of playing

[dry gale]

I want modders to add space vehicles in starfield

becoz starfield doesn't have it

[placid otter]

u mean just like cars and such? starfield only has the planes?

[smoky imp]

I learned so much about the Borgia
Afterwards I wish I didn't but I did

[dry gale]

Space vehicles

like Halo's alien vehicles

[placid otter]

i haven't played halo

played it once many years ago on the 360 at my cousins place and halo infinite release first 2 days a bit. thats my entire halo experience

[dry gale]

vehicles doesn't have wheels but they will hover around

[placid otter]

ohh those vehicles

[neon scroll]

This implied "No one's gonna do that anyway" doesn't exactly work as an argument when someone has already done it. And people who love exploration would've definitely done it as well.

[placid otter]

to actually add on it. a reviewer mentioned they hit the boundary simply by cassualy walking around. so not even while they were out exploring

[neon scroll]

I honestly don't get why they have to limit the on-planet space either with invisible walls when tiles get randomlygenerated anyway

[placid otter]

game barely hits 30fps, let alone what it would be without the limit

[neon scroll]

What is that logic man

You don't see all of the planet

None of this would impede on your fps

[placid otter]

it is still loaded in

[fleet wave]

just unload it

this was solved ages ago by Minecraft

[neon scroll]

You can 10000% load stuff in in a way that doesn't tank your fricking fps

Countless games do that shit

[placid otter]

well, tell them to go and further optimize it

[neon scroll]

You know the answer to that already

"Modders will do it for us :)"

And they will

[placid otter]

[glass knot]

lmao

"planets"

it'd be funny if you could bonk the core tho

gas giants are pretty cool

[neon scroll]

Some are

Others are pretty hot

[scarlet cape]

not a shitpost, r&c is godly

even the movie tie-in/reboot was good

[dry gale]

remember, the planets are levels. So whenever u land ur surrounding area is loaded as levels as in tiles... when u reached the boundary, u need to reload and that's not gonna be good for consoles

[dry gale]

I can agree, I liked Ratchet and Clank from it's trailer itself so downloaded the game today

After finishing The Last of Us

[celest haven]

The OG games were a huge part of my childhood, and i just picked up the new one for PC the other day aswell

Tons of fun so far

Incredible visuals, too

[dry gale]

basically it's console limitation (Series S oof) or engine limitation

[neon scroll]

Consoles do that just fine in... lets see.... every open world game ever (well, not the ones released in broken state, but on principle, you know) and each planet is gonna be far less intricate than your average open world

In fact most planets are just hunks of rock

[scarlet cape]

we're all but cosmic dust

ready to return to the universe

[neon scroll]

Far out, man

[valid lava]

hd189733b my beloved

[dry gale]

Review soon

[slate thorn]

In this case it seems likely to be an engine limitation, but who knows. Modders can probably solve this

[cinder rivet]

hows path of exile for casual gamer that just want to play on 1 character?

[fair elbow]

The assassin order aren't in the history books because they were too good at being assassins

Cesar Borgia's death was a cover-up

[dusty vale]

lmao wth

Those planets are gas giants

That is most dumbest tweet I ever seen

Gaming community become weird

[fair elbow]

If we want further realism, then we shouldn't be able to land humans on planets like Venus cause that shit is hot af and we don't want an Indiana Jones Crystal Skull moment

[dusty vale]

I agree with you

[fair elbow]

Considering the longest anything we've built that lasted in the Venusian surface is 110 minutes and that's all metal, imagine soft squishy humans

[dusty vale]

Imagine going to land jupiter you would die instantly

[fair elbow]

Well not instantly, just slowly building up pressure until your spaceship pulls a...

[dusty vale]

Tornadoes roam around the jupiter

[fair elbow]

Just aim for the big red dot

[dusty vale]

Dumb ways to die

[fair elbow]

https://youtu.be/apmSXL43Xao?si=MK2HcYMYWHIOFImT

Good infographic separating parts of Jupiter's atmosphere and what it would look like

[dusty vale]

I watched it rn

It's nightmare

[fair elbow]

Just play KSP1

[smoky imp]

Wait that's better

https://twitter.com/TiredMemeClown/status/1696517191385154005?t=-ZqV_dNnXej6FTQ3EggmZw&s=19

Tired Meme Clown (@TiredMemeClown)

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Twitter · Aug 29, 2023, 1:36 PM

[slate thorn]

Lmao

WT so silly man

[scarlet cape]

just another day

[dry gale]

https://www.reddit.com/r/Starfield/comments/164rexq/fanboy_thought_real_nasa_photos_of_mars_were/

Lmfaooo

Nasa needs to bring out a graphics update to their system

Or else these guys will lose their shet

[stable stratus]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0m_uNaSres

[placid otter]

something is not right

[pearl cobalt]

random thought:
with the way Armored Core was done and it's reception, makes me wish Harmony Gold was no more and at the same time, Fromsoft (or anyone) could do a really good Macross game

[placid otter]

the power of music!

[pearl cobalt]

"You've got touch! You've got the power! YEAH!!!"
(yes I know it's Transformers related but still)

Robotech: Battlecry was the only Macross game that I know of and could see a much better, crazier more modern Macross could be.

Macross Plus favorite, especially because of Yoko Kanno soundtrack

[placid otter]

ive only watched delta and frontier. delta my personal fav

[placid otter]

https://twitter.com/Wario64/status/1696908844440408419?s=20

Wario64 (@Wario64)

PlayStation Plus price has increased

12-months:

Essential - $79.99
Extra - $134.99
Premium - $159.99

https://t.co/1Q6cKJbCTA

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Twitter · Aug 30, 2023, 3:32 PM

did not expect this

[valid lava]

lol so glad i got rid of console gaming
fuck outa here playstation

[neon scroll]

I mean, this was expected

Basically always when one of the big online services of whichever kind increases their prices the other ones follow suit a bit later

And Gamepass did indeed increase theirs not too long ago

[placid otter]

development cost increase, game price increase, then services too

https://twitter.com/Okami13_/status/1696857508596572568?s=20

Okami Games (@Okami13_)

The Elder Scrolls 6 has officially left pre-production and is now in the early stages of development.

https://t.co/ueXPHRWbhv

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Twitter · Aug 30, 2023, 12:08 PM

still years away

spiderman 2 going to be 98gb

imagine dragons is doing gaming music againg, but for starfield this time

[dry gale]

My guy is getting shitted on by the whole Twitter

L

[stable stratus]

big L

[fresh bridge]

Well just bought an xbox

[neon scroll]

Here's hope you bought it on sale

Cause that thing ain't worth it full price. (neither is the PS5 or Switch for that matter, always buy em on sales)

[fresh bridge]

Yeah the guy gave me a discount

10% not much but hey 30 dollars saved

always owned a play station but ps5 is not worth it if you dont have a 4k tv

[neon scroll]

Fair enough. I mostly got my PS5 because of my 4k TV. But then again, isn't that the same for the Xbox? The 4k argument that is?

[slate thorn]

You're telling me you don't even have an 88" 8k oled tv????

[neon scroll]

Really now, 4k TVs nowadays aren't even that expensive any more

Unless you wanna cover your whole damn wall or something

[slate thorn]

I bought my 4k tv a few years ago for like... 275 I think? A Xiaomi one

I don't have it anymore though since I moved back in with my dad so I have access to a 4k oled instead

[fresh bridge]

same for xbox series x but it’s different for the series s

[fresh bridge]

Insane I wouldn’t even know where to look

[fresh bridge]

Yeah haha

I just don’t understand why upgrading my ssd will cost literally 150 dollars

[slate thorn]

Because haha, we want more money

[slate thorn]

With ps you can at least like, plop in your own m.2 ssd as long as it's fast enough and has a heatsink and such. Instead of some weird proprietary ssd thing that xbox uses 😔

[minor bolt]

true, been meaning to pick one up now m.2s are getting cheaper

[minor bolt]

starfield EA in like 16 hours

but $185 for that is just criminal

[fleet wave]

what the fuck 💀

$185

and here im thinking $60 is way too much for a game

[minor bolt]

well nzd

standard is 130 or some shit

when ill just pay $1 for the 14 day trial and finish it

[fleet wave]

oh nzd has a very different value it seems

[minor bolt]

its in shambles rn

[fleet wave]

it's so confusing that all of these currencies use same symbol

[dry gale]

get gamepass and u will get a discount

[dry gale]

btw Microsoft removed that 14 day trial

[minor bolt]

works on my machine

[slate thorn]

Probably varies by region

[dry gale]

wait lemme check in mine

also why tf it's $12

meanwhile here it's just $0.8

oof not anymore

[dry gale]

kek

my frnd got Premium edition upgrade in his XGP version... I am confused

[minor bolt]

review embargo drops in 15 min i think?

[placid otter]

no idea what the time is, but should be today whatever timezone they decided to go with

[pearl cobalt]

you're correct, few more minutes

[placid otter]

streamers have started playing the game it seems

[minor bolt]

streamers

[pearl cobalt]

yeah, they are allowed to play the same as the review embargo

[placid otter]

7 score from ign

[dry gale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nMMNkfSQuiU

[placid otter]

just waiting for the tweet with all the scores listed

[minor bolt]

oof

gamespot gave it a 7 too

those reviewers gonna want to lock their twitter for a while

[dry gale]

good

[placid otter]

fanboys might be angry, but 7 overall not bad

[dry gale]

why

[placid otter]

because it is not atleast an 8

[minor bolt]

because fanboys lose their shit when hyped up games arent 9+

but at the same time review sites only have themselves to blame for that

[dry gale]

7 is big enough

[minor bolt]

7 shouldnt be "good", its very good

reviewers use a 5 as if its awful when it should just be average

[placid otter]

VGC giving it 5 stars

[minor bolt]

not sure if i should just snipe the $1 trial now in case ms removes it before now and wednesday

[placid otter]

they already did

[minor bolt]

not for me

its $1 for 14 days

[placid otter]

weird, not available for me

ah 14, new account im assuming then

[minor bolt]

nah ive done the $1 thing like 5 times by now over the years

[placid otter]

https://twitter.com/Okami13_/status/1697280716537532505?s=20

Okami Games (@Okami13_)

Starfield - Reviews

10 - Destructoid
10 - Infinite Start
5/5 - VGC
9.7 - XboxEra
9.5 - Gaming Nexus
9 - MP1st
8.5 - Game Informer
8 - Tech Raptor
4/5 - GamesHub
4/5 - Comicbook
7 - PCgamesN
7 - Gamespot
7 - IGN

Metacritic - 88

OpenCritic - 86 (61 reviews)

#Starfield

Twitter · Aug 31, 2023, 4:10 PM

looks good

but now we wait for all these streamers to give us their less subjective reviews

was i supposed to use the word objective?

[dry gale]

looking good

[placid otter]

character creation ui reminds me how the menu looks in Nier automata

[dry gale]

@neon scroll Cmon, how about u give it a chance now

[jovial wolf]

"A huge game with excellent performance and very few bugs" that's not something you expect to read about bethesda release

[pearl cobalt]

I personally don't have anything current to try it, much less a next gen console.
gamepass or watching a streamer play it is a safe bet.

[pearl cobalt]

guess being part of Microsoft has higher standards they needed to follow

[jovial wolf]

there was some noise about them helping heavily with QA

[minor bolt]

more like ms will throw more resources at something if they deem it worthy

[pearl cobalt]

well, if you look at their backwards compatability team, it's a good idea of what they're capable of

[dry gale]

Halo 3 back then

[pearl cobalt]

343 was in the opposite direction unfortunately

[jovial wolf]

watching cohh, some of those traits are hilarious

[pearl cobalt]

well, it's a mix of FO/Elder Scrolls in the backend. guessing traits are more Fallout like?

[dry gale]

Welcome back, baby

[jovial wolf]

yeah, they seem like mixture of bonuses and flavour, not just number stuff

[dry gale]

oh my

[pearl cobalt]

flying to planets and landing on planets are fast travel points

Shroud currently killing random wildlife

[dry gale]

Starfield deflected the Cyberpunk situation

but it got into TLOU situation

game sucking out a lot of resources

https://youtu.be/zTnYtbMPrxw?si=Zq-dV0W4FEsDkzMg

the Halo Infinite moment

Dam

[fair elbow]

The Xbox Series S doesn't have the dude

[minor bolt]

literally unplayable

[dry gale]

playable unless if u care for the quality

30 fps

[dusty imp]

wait starfield only came out today?

tf were people talking about for the last few weeks then

[minor bolt]

premium edition early access is in 11 hours

everyone else it comes out on the 6th

[dry gale]

oo

[placid otter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LlStOHRI56o

[celest haven]

"Uninspired main story with weak writing", "Underwhelming vision of space exploration", "Shallow RPG mechanics with regard to dialogue, quest solutions, and influencing outcomes", "Terrible map system that makes key locations tough to navigate", says IGN about an open world space RPG game, and gives it a 7

Makes sense to me!

[placid otter]

her hair

[dry gale]

wow sudden hair colour change

only possible with creation engine

[smoky imp]

And clothes

[placid otter]

ngl, like the clothes better in S

[smoky imp]

Beauty Gurus Hate Her

[placid otter]

performance seems to be mostly good on both systems nice

[pearl cobalt]

is looking very much like Fallout in space with a cleaner engine so far. but no flying in/out of planets like a space sim (that I've seen)

[dry gale]

No DLSS in Starfield is confirmed

[neon scroll]

IGN having the worst review score is not something you see often. Did someone over there suddenly grow a spine

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/PlayStation/status/1697293332647436432?s=20

who's gonna buy?

November 15 release

[neon scroll]

It be like that. Fanbois gonna rage at anything below a 9.5/10 anyway. And scores below a 5 just don't exist at all, really.

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/KJovian/status/1697286985637867630?s=20

[dry gale]

they already doing

look at this tweet

now they compare it with IGN themselves lol

[placid otter]

mhmm we know how to have fun

[jovial wolf]

my thoughts are that I don't speak stroopwafel

[placid otter]

i honestly thought ign reviews were just translated to diff languages instead of them actually being different

never used dutch one as it always is much more empty

[fair elbow]

Bethesda didn't send a check

[celest haven]

I remember when IGN America gave GoW: Ragnarok a 10 and IGN Korea gave it a 6

Fun times

[placid otter]

oh yeah that happend lmao

[placid otter]

https://twitter.com/BenjiSales/status/1697290206406172997?s=20

btw, saints row reboot i think it was is free to claim if u have ps plus

[smoky imp]

Holy shit they closed???

I had fun memories of Saints Row 4...

[placid otter]

didn't realize it didn't embed

but yeah, after 30 years they closed down. (creators of saints row)

[placid otter]

had alot of fun with both 3 and 4

[smoky imp]

Well the reboot wasn't really good from what I heard

[placid otter]

anything after 4 really

[smoky imp]

I didn't go beyond 4 lol

But it was stupid and fun

[dry gale]

https://youtu.be/-vDwN0HDDqw?t=689 lol

[smoky imp]

Dw I won't

[dry gale]

the character suddenly vanished out of camera and is standing next to you very closely

nice bug

ngl

[placid otter]

game seems to have been mostly bug free, so some minor ones can be excused

yay got another mount

[jovial wolf]

argus, damn, the only times I went there past few years was when someone wanted me to make them portal to the rare

[placid otter]

also got a fel spotted egg today, so maybe can get another manta ray mount if lucky enough

will take 5 days to hatch. just simple collecting in WoW is always fun

[scarlet cape]

its funny how a 7 is seen as bad when that's still above an average score

maybe its because reviewers are just too scared or being paid too much to ever give a game anything below that

but 7 is absolutely a good number for your game to be

[neon scroll]

In theory of how it should be yes, practically no

[dusty imp]

basically everything below a 5 isnt worth writing a review about

[pearl cobalt]

if you like Fallout/ Elder Scrolls, it's looks pretty good. if you're expecting more space sim elements, it's not looking like it. but it looks to be Bethesda's best rpg.

[neon scroll]

idk about that one, chief

given that the RPG elements are apparently rather lackluster

[pearl cobalt]

as in it's their best Fallout/Elder Scrolls RPG that isn't buggy. compared to most RPGs, of course it is pretty lackluster.

BG3 is tops for RPG

[rustic peak]

Slightly earlier access for premium edition has to be the worst recent trend in gaming monetization

[neon scroll]

The worst thing about that is the apologists for it

[rustic peak]

But its always funny to see some Studio come up with some new way to farm money

And then slowly all the big Studios start copying it lmfao

[neon scroll]

I blame Blizzard

[placid otter]

fortnite save the world already had early access pre-order aswel

[pearl cobalt]

that's been going on for awhile too. "here, you can play the beta if you preorder"
to
"here you can play early if you preorder/ get ultimate super edition"

[neon scroll]

Fortnite is free though, you don't pay 30+ bucks extra

[placid otter]

fortnite save the world
no it is not, this is the zombie gamemode that came out way before the battle royal

[neon scroll]

In that caseit definitely didn't popularize this trend, which is what we're talking about rather than "someone did it ages ago and no one noticed"

[rustic peak]

The one they abandoned cause the battle royale blew up?

[placid otter]

pretty much yeah. was very fun game too loved playing it

damn, skillup also didn't get review code for starfield

[neon scroll]

wdym, the more critical outlets won't get review codes? shocking.

[placid otter]

too much honesty for them

[rustic peak]

I mean they also gave eurogamer a review code but asked them to only put up a digital foundry review 💀

[placid otter]

they gave eurogamer a code, after the tweet saying they did not get one

[rustic peak]

Ah missed that update

Still weird from them

[placid otter]

many outlets didn't get one

[rustic peak]

Yea of course

Im just saying its even weirder to give a Code to an outlet but effectively limit what they will review about it

Maybe reviewers relying on the good will of the studios is secretly bad for the industry

[slate thorn]

Sounds like a Bethesda game alright :^)

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/KJovian/status/1697287384503603399?s=19

K that's sus

Why every IGN from other countries giving Starfield 9/10 to 10/10 and IGN giving them only 7/10

Is IGN biased towards PlayStation or what?

[neon scroll]

... how does that logic make sense

IGN JP would be the most biased towards Playstation

And yet they are the ones giving the "WILL NEVER BE ON PS5!!!!111" game a 10

Honestly, the 7/10 is the most realistic out of all those scores given the stuff they stated

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/Mr_Rebs_/status/1697405313014521985?s=19 I wanna know what happened

[neon scroll]

Go travel to some museum to read a text blurb

Truly riveting storytelling

[dry gale]

Atleast no need to collect some lost audio clips and pics and writings to know what happened

Just museum

[neon scroll]

I mean... at least with audio clips someone put in some effort

[dry gale]

Why waste time with audio clips when you can put it all in one place

Save money from voice actors

[dry gale]

https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/111/

Starfield mod to replace FSR with DLSS2/XeSS

The mods started fixing stuff

Understandable have a nice day

They don't have 3050 in default global graphics settings file

[valid lava]

3050

[dry gale]

My friend says he's getting 60 fps in Starfield with a RTX 3050 at full power

Waiting for combat results

[dry gale]

It goes from 30-60 fps in GTX 1650 which is good ig

I have got a trick to play Starfield early without buying premium edition

[minor bolt]

https://twitter.com/EvilGeniuses/status/1697352355917029519

Evil Geniuses (@EvilGeniuses)

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Twitter · Aug 31, 2023, 8:55 PM

we cheered

[slate thorn]

It adds more atmosphere I guess

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/HazzadorGamin/status/1697291226024915272?s=19 even this guy is questioning the decision of IGN

[jovial wolf]

"decision" it's a subjective review...
so that ign person did not like it that much, big whoop, there really is no reason to dwell on it

[smoky imp]

I swear everyone is overreacting over these reviews

[jovial wolf]

"different people enjoy different things" more breaking news at 10

[slate thorn]

People acting as if IGN's word is like, a factual objective final verdict of what something is like

[minor bolt]

ign: "7/10 has its flaws"
so biased!!!
welovexbox123: "10/10 masterpiece"
so true!!!

reviews for hyped games like this should mostly just be ignored

[smoky imp]

Mfs when one IGN gives Starfield a 7/10

[glass knot]

mf really hit them with the "whateveer...... i dont care....."

[dry gale]

Can even edit teeth lmfaoo

Bro we got a whole make up kit here

[dry gale]

The 3rd person looks better than 1st person

[slate thorn]

4th person when

[dry gale]

Fun moment

FK this shet, it suddenly attacked me

Wait WTF

Vasco called me Captain Sammie

Bro I entered the name Sammie

But how it's in the voice files?

AI voice built in or what?

[dry gale]

Oh wait

There are Audio Logs

[dry gale]

Ok so

The space exploration is not a real space exploration

You are just stuck in a skybox, it might look like you are moving in space but no you are stuck in a skybox, it goes on... even if you try to approach a planet closer, the planet will be still far away from you

In order to land on the planet, you need to open the universe map and select a landing spot and hold X (I played in controller) to land on the planet

It's not like no man's sky where you directly land on a planet, just a loading screen in between and then you see yourself a cutscene of landing on that planet

Same for taking off

[placid otter]

ppl should really stop acting like 7 is bad

[placid otter]

yeah, that really takes away the space exploration sadly. the game has an insane amount of loading screens for today

[dry gale]

Me who played for 4 hours, I saw a bunch of loading screens

[placid otter]

was watching a stream in the background yesterday and each time i tabbed it was either them in the menu or in loading screen half the time

https://twitter.com/NextGenPlayer/status/1697367297856344269?s=20

Hunter 🎮 (@NextGenPlayer)

PlayStation State of Play is coming in September according to new rumors

Will focus on Asian developed games and happen around Tokyo Game Show time 👀🔥 #PS5

See more: https://t.co/P1un6aH2rq

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Twitter · Aug 31, 2023, 9:54 PM

pre-orders for ff7 rebirth are also up on amazon and a few others. so more info soon to be expected

[smoky imp]

persona 6

[random field]

[stable stratus]

Persona 6

[dry gale]

Bro I need more health, I often die in Starfield

Enemies are bullet spongy

Human beings destroyed Earth WTF, it looks lifeless now

[slate thorn]

Persona 7

[smoky imp]

eh seems pretty realistic to me

[slate thorn]

We're almost there already

[dry gale]

It's a rock

[dry gale]

No way you guys destroying earth

This ain't good

[smoky imp]

yep

realistic outcome

[dry gale]

No atmosphere, but hey there's a civilian outpost on Earth's moon

People started living in moon now

[stable stratus]

https://fxtwitter.com/Akfamilyhome/status/1697274233746075796?s=20

[fair elbow]

It's the same with the anime community and it's a massive pepega

People see a 7/10 and assume it's bad. Like what?

How can 7/10 be bad when on/under 3/10 exists

Mfs be like "Yeah the show was mid 7/10" 💀

[slate thorn]

I mean, anything below 6 means it's bad

Like, if my grades are below 6 I have a problem

So even though 7 is basically just good, it's not too far away from being kinda.....

[fair elbow]

5/10 is literally the definition of mid

[jovial wolf]

yes, if you ignore the context of most reviewers not using the whole scale

[slate thorn]

If I would get a 5/10 it would be the definition of you fucked up for me

[placid otter]

considering u need a 5,5 here to pass, you really did fuck up

[fair elbow]

6/10 is above average and 7 is good

[jovial wolf]

again, the scale is not being used that way

what is so hard to understand about that

[slate thorn]

On a scale of 1-10 you never aim for like, anything below 10 really

So the average is not 5

The average is going to be like 7.5

Because you're only really looking at 5-10, because you only aim to get a positive grade

Now in practice the average ofc won't be 7.5

That would be more of a technical average

[fair elbow]

What I do find funny is that people get worked up over a variable number as if it'll affect their enjoyment of a game like it would wildly change if was a 10 or a 7

[slate thorn]

Getting a 6 on a scale of 1-10 is basically sub-par

[jovial wolf]

yeah, that is silly

[fair elbow]

"I really enjoy and love this game but I can't because some gamers rated it really low"

[placid otter]

think 7-10 is less a entertainment problem and more of the quality of the product at that point

[fair elbow]

If a game is a 10/10 for you then hooray

[placid otter]

one can have just as much fun even with lower overall product quality

[slate thorn]

Oh yeah for sure. Like, always take grades reviewers take with a bag of salt. Look at the review / gameplay / whatever itself and based on that form your own view of the game rather than having it and the grade determine your opinion

[fair elbow]

Why are we still using IGN ratings as a end all basis anyway? Same company that deducted points for having "too much water"

[jovial wolf]

I mean we are not, it's just sammie that kept bringing them up here

[fair elbow]

Subnautica gets a 0/10 for me, there's literally too much water

[slate thorn]

I don't think I've ever really looked at ign reviews before, I mostly just check like, metacritic and watch some gameplay stuff and such

Or nintendolife for switch games

[fair elbow]

I don't check review scores anymore, they're mostly skewered anyways

I watch gameplay

[jovial wolf]

I checked the reviews to learn about technical stuff and then went for opinions to those people that I know view these games similar way to me

[slate thorn]

Yeah, I tend to not really pay attention to the score and more to what is written in reviews

[placid otter]

ign score and other reporters are more just out of curiousity for me. skillup and audience score at metacritic only 2 i pay attention too seriously. oh and digital foundry

[fair elbow]

And whether my potato PC can run it

[placid otter]

considering cyberpunk unless it is digital foundry def not a good idea

[jovial wolf]

Cyberpunk ran fine for me

[slate thorn]

I played cyberpunk day 1 and it ran perfectly for me with zero bugs at all

Used up all my luck that year on cyberpunk :^)

[fair elbow]

I "played" () Cyberpunk too but my PC said nah fam

[placid otter]

my cyberpunk experience:
day 1 played2 hours
day 2 nty
day 3 50 minutes
day 60+ refunded
Present - bought it on sale for 25 many months ago and still not touched it.

[slate thorn]

I have like, 140 hours in the game I think?

I'm not sure

I would have to download gog to check so cant be bothered rn

[fair elbow]

Can't you just check via website?

Or is that only a Steam thing?

[slate thorn]

dunno

[jovial wolf]

it's there

just have to go to Activity feed -> Games

[smoky imp]

I played it on PS4 🙂

Base PS4

[fair elbow]

Base? Base on what

[placid otter]

base ps4 (not pro version)

[fair elbow]

[smoky imp]

Base on my lack of money

[fair elbow]

The most money I've spent on a non-gacha game is ATS

[dry gale]

I can understand IGN giving Starfield 7/10 because it's how the game it is and giving 7/10 is already fair enough

[fresh bridge]

its also like 150 dollars so like wth

[slate thorn]

ssd's for a ps5 aren't 150

Like, a 2TB ssd that's suitable for ps5 costs $100

Or a 1TB ons $50

[strong olive]

Long time I didn't updated my acc 🥸

[dry gale]

https://fxtwitter.com/Mr_Rebs_/status/1697673680661127636?s=20 watch me paying warranty for my ships

https://fxtwitter.com/ValorantUpdated/status/1697593262674936257?s=20

Arcane Season 2

Let's go

[placid otter]

how is this acceptable and i need 2 of them too

[celest haven]

https://x.com/discussingfilm/status/1697737809715413173?s=46&t=YZsYm1kHG9Y_lCaHfM2d6A

DiscussingFilm (@DiscussingFilm)

SAG-AFTRA plans to send a strike authorization vote for the video game industry after they failed to meet the needs of video game actors.

Companies facing a possible strike include Activision, EA, Epic Games, Insomniac Games, Take 2 and WB.

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Twitter · Sep 1, 2023, 10:26 PM

DAMN

Holy fuck

[glass knot]

jesus

Nice

That's great

[celest haven]

About time