Sunday, October 8th 2023

This Week in Gaming (Week 41)

As autumn continues, we have another week of big game releases to look forward to, hopefully with something that'll suit most gamers here. This week's AAA title involves a lot of sand, wars and monuments. As for the rest of this week's new games, you can be a tycoon, a driver of very expensive motor vehicles, craft your own stick, pretend to be a starship captain or you could be a monster slayer. Let us know if any of these tickle your fancy in the poll.

Total War: Pharaoh / This week's AAA title / Wednesday 11 October
In Total War: Pharaoh, the newest entry in the award-winning grand strategy series, immerse yourself in ancient Egypt at the zenith of its power and experience the dramatic events that threaten its destruction. With dynamic real-time battles and incredible turn-based empire management, can you rise above your adversaries to become Egypt's last great Pharaoh and stand against the collapse of an iconic civilisation?
Install Fee Tycoon / Monday 9 October
Chaos3D, The popular game engine, has started charging developers each time their games are installed in a bid to increase their stock price. They have also reached out to you, a notorious software pirate. Why? So that they can pay you to re-install those same games, of course! Scam unwitting developers: get rich, and destroy the video game industry in the process!
Forza Motorsport / Tuesday 10 October
Race over 500 real-world cars including modern race cars and more than 100 cars new to Forza Motorsport. Make every lap count across 20 living tracks with fan-favorite locations and multiple track layouts to master, each featuring live on-track scoring, fully dynamic time-of-day with weather and unique driving conditions where no two laps feel the same.
The Front / Wednesday 11 October
The Front takes place in a post-apocalyptic sandbox world populated by mutants and hostile factions. On this war-torn land, players will engage tyrannical imperial forces, exiles, thugs, and rebels in an epic battle that will determine the fate of humanity. Team up with your friends, explore ruins and enemy areas, craft weapons and equipment, build bases and defend them with tower defense-style traps, upgrade tech, pilot tanks and helicopters, battle the elements, and contend with fearsome foes!
Star Trek: Infinite / Thursday 12 October
Star Trek: Infinite is a grand strategy experience that lets you play your own Star Trek story as the leader of one of four major factions in the galaxy. Follow the specially crafted story or blaze your own trail in the first Star Trek grand strategy game.
Lords of the Fallen / Friday 13 October
After an age of the cruellest tyranny, the demon God, Adyr, was finally defeated. But Gods… do not fall forever. Now, aeons later, Adyr's resurrection draws nigh. As one of the fabled Dark Crusaders, journey through both the realms of the living and the dead in this expansive RPG experience, featuring colossal boss battles, fast challenging combat, thrilling character encounters, and deep, immersive storytelling. Will your legend be one of light… or one of darkness?





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29 Comments on This Week in Gaming (Week 41)

#26
colossusrageblack
Total War I can hold off on for now, but will definitely check it out at some point. Forza I want to check out soon if it supports triple monitors. Lords of the Fallen is one I want to try first.
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W1zzardI've been testing the headstart version and it's terrible from a technology perspective. Very confusing settings menu, some sort of hidden upscaling that makes everything blurry that can't be turned off. Multiplayer is supposedly locked at 60 FPS, but it isn't.
Curious if we will get a deep dive? :)

I've been hearing a lot of this, but so far there haven't been many reviews which actually address the performance issues going on.
Can't say I'm shocked though, FH7 had serious demons when it came out for PC...
#28
Kapone33
With the lack of Content and pay for cars system I think I will only be getting Forza on Gamepass. It sucks that MS expects you to pay over $129 CAD to get more cars but the base price of $89 CAD is also a slap in the face for a Game that promotes itself as a Simulation with 20 tracks and how could they leave out the track that defines Forza in Sebring. I will and have been playing 7 for the past month and enjoy it as a Racing game but 60 FPS limit on my 144hz monitor does create some issues. The thing is the controls for Forza are butter smooth on a Gamepad but you are not getting that high speed feeling like Grid or Project Cars. So I guess FPS makes a difference after all. The videos I have seen so far only have 60-70 FPS as the limits I have seen but it does look good. It's a holiday and I am into some Craft beer that delivers on a holiday so I will go on. they need to make sure that they add Mosport Park for the Canadian users. We are in a new generation of racing in the Endurance space. Games like Forza are the foundation of the change so how in the hell do they do not the BMW, Porsche, Toyota (Latest), Ferrari, Acura or Puegeot Hypercars in their latest iteration? Thanks for the Cadillac and 787B among others but only 1 new Hypercar is a travesty in a Game released in exactly this time. There is so much excitement (among Racing fans) about 2024 and beyond in the Endurance space this Game should give me instant gratifiaction in that quest but I will not give you money for less content than 7.
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#29
W1zzard
Double-ClickCurious if we will get a deep dive? :)
Right now it doesn't look like it, maybe if they fix those blur and settings issues. I already wasted too much time on it
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