What are you playing?

[lexluthermiester]

Wow, Starfield looks frigging awesome.
Makes me wonder how much drive it will take up.

Likely 140 GB download and then 200 GB on disk after updates,

Good grief, I hope not.

 

[Chomiq]

damn

i just hope this isn't another case of over ambition and under delivery

They've got one of the best optimized engines for AAA games available to them and yet here they stick to the damn creation engine.

 

[LifeOnMars]

250Gb after mods needed to fix all the bugs.... Nah, hopefully it will be a classic and set the standard.

 

[Calmmo]

Playing the quarry, pretty solid almost as entertaining as Untill Dawn.

 

[Chomiq]

Oooh snap:

Xbox and PC!

 

[Bomby569]

just coming back to starfield, this feels like a point that has to be mentioned :

There's no way all 1,000 explorable planets in Starfield are actually interesting

I'd rather play a Starfield with 10 planets than 1,000.

www.pcgamer.com

i wrote about AC Valhalla and it's this thing now that bigger is better, but no it isn't. It's best to have a small interesting world filled with interesting unique locations than a gigantic boring world with no distinctive landmarks and it all kind of fells the same. Focus people, focus. Anyway my rant is over.

 

[Ruru]

Forza Horizon 5 as I've been a Forza nut since Motorsport 2. Its fun but I want Motorsport 8. Quick go on Battlefield 5 too. Just don't get into games like I used to. On Xbox series S as no PSU or monitor for my PC yet.

Have you played the first Motorsport? Remember playing it with my stepbrother on the OG Xbox

Oooh snap:

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Xbox and PC!

I just know that P3P has a god-like OST.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

just coming back to starfield, this feels like a point that has to be mentioned :

There's no way all 1,000 explorable planets in Starfield are actually interesting

I'd rather play a Starfield with 10 planets than 1,000.

www.pcgamer.com

i wrote about AC Valhalla and it's this thing now that bigger is better, but no it isn't. It's best to have a small interesting world filled with interesting unique locations than a gigantic boring world with no distinctive landmarks and it all kind of fells the same. Focus people, focus. Anyway my rant is over.

On the whole, I agree, but the boring bit really depends on personal preferences. A good example might be No Mans Sky, many worlds are copy and pasted with very light amount of distinguishable features, computer generated with out any real QA on them.

Have you played the first Motorsport? Remember playing it with my stepbrother on the OG Xbox


I just know that P3P has a god-like OST.

Its a shame Road Rash never made to PS/Xbox

 

[Blaeza]

Have you played the first Motorsport? Remember playing it with my stepbrother on the OG Xbox


I just know that P3P has a god-like OST.

I have played the original, but not in the same way as I got into Forza Motorsport 2. Forza Motorsport 4 was the peak of the series for me and I don't mind the Horizon games, but I just want to race on my beloved Tsukuba Circuit again. 60 laps just tuning a car were almost normal. Ah, the good old days...

 

[Ruru]

I have played the original, but not in the same way as I got into Forza Motorsport 2. Forza Motorsport 4 was the peak of the series for me and I don't mind the Horizon games, but I just want to race on my beloved Tsukuba Circuit again. 60 laps just tuning a car were almost normal. Ah, the good old days...

I need moar storage, I want to play Horizon5 too as I get money and I'll renew my Game Pass ultimate, but seriously, I'm out of SSD space :/

 

[Frick]

just coming back to starfield, this feels like a point that has to be mentioned :

There's no way all 1,000 explorable planets in Starfield are actually interesting

I'd rather play a Starfield with 10 planets than 1,000.

www.pcgamer.com

i wrote about AC Valhalla and it's this thing now that bigger is better, but no it isn't. It's best to have a small interesting world filled with interesting unique locations than a gigantic boring world with no distinctive landmarks and it all kind of fells the same. Focus people, focus. Anyway my rant is over.

It's Bethsoft, it wouldn't be interesting even if it was just a small slice of Massachuttes. It'll be incredibly shallow and probably quite dumb, but it will likely also be very entertaining.

 

[The red spirit]

I have played the original, but not in the same way as I got into Forza Motorsport 2. Forza Motorsport 4 was the peak of the series for me and I don't mind the Horizon games, but I just want to race on my beloved Tsukuba Circuit again. 60 laps just tuning a car were almost normal. Ah, the good old days...

I only remember doing maximum of 25 laps in short Maple Valley for my most intense tunes. There's nothing much to tune. Basically a few laps for alignment, pressure and most laps for sway bars. LeMans track for tranny and downforce is enough. Suspension tuning in Forza games is mostly a waste of time, since none of X360 era Forza are accurate/realistic enough for tuning that makes sense and it's so easy to make it worse than just stock. I only sometimes changed stiffness and height, but I wasn't touching bump and rebound.

I need moar storage, I want to play Horizon5 too as I get money and I'll renew my Game Pass ultimate, but seriously, I'm out of SSD space :/

Fun fact, Horizon 5 was the game that made me get a new hard drive. Games are really becoming ridiculously huge.

 

[Ruru]

Fun fact, Horizon 5 was the game that made me get a new hard drive. Games are really becoming ridiculously huge.

And I remember as a teen that 2x 40GB felt like a large storage

 

[Blaeza]

I need moar storage, I want to play Horizon5 too as I get money and I'll renew my Game Pass ultimate, but seriously, I'm out of SSD space :/

Time for a 2TB, they just announced the NEW Forza Motorsport! Win for me, not so much for the Mrs. But she does like peace to watch what she likes.

I only remember doing maximum of 25 laps in short Maple Valley for my most intense tunes. There's nothing much to tune. Basically a few laps for alignment, pressure and most laps for sway bars. LeMans track for tranny and downforce is enough. Suspension tuning in Forza games is mostly a waste of time, since none of X360 era Forza are accurate/realistic enough for tuning that makes sense and it's so easy to make it worse than just stock. I only sometimes changed stiffness and height, but I wasn't touching bump and rebound.


Fun fact, Horizon 5 was the game that made me get a new hard drive. Games are really becoming ridiculously huge.

I remember that it was softer the better for suspension and harder for rebound and damping. My 52.986 on Tsukuba in A class took thousands of laps. I played pad too.

 

[The red spirit]

And I remember as a teen that 2x 40GB felt like a large storage

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And before Horizon 5 I was SSD only. I ran 512GB main SSD and 240GB SSD for random files. I really didn't want to go back to spinning rust after years of SSDs, but games today make SSDs extremely uneconomical to buy. Basically if you need an SSD bigger than 1TB, you just can't ignore their prices anymore and hard drive becomes the only feasible option. Not even DRAMless QLC e-waste tier SSDs are feasible. That's how I ended up with spinning rust again. BTW it's Toshiba X300, so maybe it's a bit quicker than pedestrian P300, but it still is as sad as you would expect from hard drive. The only remarkable thing about it is that it's faster than my ancient WD Raptor HDD from 2004, which is 10k rpm drive and this Toshiba completely stomps it at sequential RW, while also matching it in random RW too. HDD progress is really slow. Just for lolz I benched my cheap USB drive, which I bought for less than 10 EUR in like 2017 or 2018 and yeah it beats X300 in random RW by 5 times.

 

[Ruru]

And before Horizon 5 I was SSD only. I ran 512GB main SSD and 240GB SSD for random files. I really didn't want to go back to spinning rust after years of SSDs, but games today make SSDs extremely uneconomical to buy. Basically if you need an SSD bigger than 1TB, you just can't ignore their prices anymore and hard drive becomes the only feasible option. Not even DRAMless QLC e-waste tier SSDs are feasible. That's how I ended up with spinning rust again. BTW it's Toshiba X300, so maybe it's a bit quicker than pedestrian P300, but it still is as sad as you would expect from hard drive. The only remarkable thing about it is that it's faster than my ancient WD Raptor HDD from 2004, which is 10k rpm drive and this Toshiba completely stomps it at sequential RW, while also matching it in random RW too. HDD progress is really slow. Just for lolz I benched my cheap USB drive, which I bought for less than 10 EUR in like 2017 or 2018 and yeah it beats X300 in random RW by 5 times.

SSD only internally, I bought an enclosure for the HDD last year so it's sitting on my desk and connected via USB3.0.

 

[Splinterdog]

damn

i just hope this isn't another case of over ambition and under delivery

The way the spaceman mined the iron from the rocks is just like No Man's Sky, a game I gave up on because it was too big and sprawling.
Don't mention Star Citizen. I mentioned it once and I think I got away with it

 

[GreiverBlade]

alright ... one Paragon 1... one!
finished storyline ... well yeah it's a Diablo and you can have fun without paying premium, just, don't go E-peen competition and do not worry about min/maxing, it's pointless to want to max a char or want to be the best on the server (also my Clan is neutral, the Immortal are arrogant prick, ok they fend of the demons but still, and the Shadows, albeit more likeable, are not better imho )
neat assorted look aside the breeches and the boots (but still look damn, pun intended, good)

6 legendary all socketed 3 2* gems oriented into "Skellrush" using command skeletons (modifier: helmet, skeletal champion with "blender function" added for "demonic smoothie" result )
basically : one big skeleton perma, one bone golem (enhanced via gems and some equipment/charm) with a short CD imho and homing corpse explosions for fun and mayhem.

current one: (4hrs in that one)

(tm) name ode to one of my favorite epic music band (obvious is obvious)
edit: yeah ... i did find a lot of helmets for her ... but since no "hide helmet" options, let see for how long i can do without one ... well, when i get a legendary i will probably use it for the gem and remove it when i am not in a dungeon or on a hard zone/quest

also Crusader is waiting (still need lvl 30 on him for adding to clan, Hammerfall was already taken, oh well, i can go with another song from them to go along Crimson Thunder theme )

(rofl ... just, wait, i should have nammed him... FreddieMercury ahahahahha )

in short, don't spend money (or just a bit, ~20, like i did ) enjoy have fun and there is plenty mean in game to gain platinum, even tho i have a few eternal orbs i could use (500plat/50orbs) that i got ingame from the BP and other rewards i can't fully remember, it's a fun time killer and there is plenty daily activities (a bit repetitive, but what mmo is not repetitive once you reach endgame)
not a hardcore farmer but i manage to get result and have fun in the process hehehe.

ok ... not so short ... i sucks at "in short"

 

[Vayra86]

damn

i just hope this isn't another case of over ambition and under delivery

Looks impressive...but the framerate is at or under 30, or at least, inconsistent when there is action on screen and even when the viewport shifts dramatically. It feels ultra sluggish, even to look at. Console first, clearly.

I'm also seeing some distinctively Fallout-ey gunplay underneath all that polish. Engine? I think I know. Todd' dun did it again...

They've got one of the best optimized engines for AAA games available to them and yet here they stick to the damn creation engine.

Yep and you can see it too.

Definitely not spending full price on this, but will certainly take a look
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Meanwhile, in Immortals... Ares is a chicken.

 

[Splinterdog]

Giving Halo Infinite another chance on GamePass. Not sure what's going on but it's lots of fun

 

[Space Lynx]

I am really in the mood to play Warcraft 3 RTS right now... but Blizzard made it really annoying to do so... I miss the stand alone installers they used to have... I don't want battle net bloat and all that "new paint" in the UI, etc.

Really annoying. Can't believe one of my favorite games of all time can't be played simply because I didn't keep it backed up. Horrible business practices, Blizzard annoys crap out of me these days honestly.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

name ode to one of my favorite epic music band (obvious is obvious)

My eyes are bad enough, is that TwoLiveCrew?

(rofl ... just, wait, i should have nammed him... FreddieMercury ahahahahha )

he doesnt have that checker board leotard?

 

[GreiverBlade]

My eyes are bad enough, is that TwoLiveCrew?

no it's obviously TwoShellsFromHell, wait that's my world of tank/warship screenname ... TwochéFromHell oh no that one was my CS 1.6 name ...

oh hell! perfect for Diablo and his boss fight since 2011! (playing Diablo since longer tho ... )

he doesnt have that checker board leotard?

i hope there is some breech that match that

also 6hrs total, that one is purely f2p (although the battle pass enhancement is shared it's progression is not, which is neat ) not that the other one is not f2p tho
wait, no, Battle Pass ok ok ... i am a filthy subs player

tho, i hate that the name is in full caps here

 

[Hyderz]

I have been playing hearthstone for a while i didnt notice they added frame rate option.
If you have high refresh rates monitor, the game should feel considerably smoother...
Works on tablet and mobile phones too... even at 60fps the game feels buttery smooth

 

[Vayra86]

I am really in the mood to play Warcraft 3 RTS right now... but Blizzard made it really annoying to do so... I miss the stand alone installers they used to have... I don't want battle net bloat and all that "new paint" in the UI, etc.

Really annoying. Can't believe one of my favorite games of all time can't be played simply because I didn't keep it backed up. Horrible business practices, Blizzard annoys crap out of me these days honestly.

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