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Very weird, I had no idea about this! I guess I’ll keep it in mind if I ever find myself in Japan!

About fucking time, eh?

This thread was talking about Human Revolution, which is the third Deus Ex game and a prequel.

@Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com is our resident DX expert, I have nothing much to add other than: listen to his advice.

I think that’s fair, Alan Wake 1 is quite clunky and is also getting on in years by now. The gameplay is much more polished in the sequel, you can tell both that it’s significantly newer and also that Remedy has learned and improved. I think the survival horror and shooting gameplay in AW2 is quite smooth and enjoyable.

It is certainly very demanding on your PC though, but also one of the best looking games out there.

You’ll have a ball with Alan Wake, especially the second one which has turned out to be one of my all time favorite games. I love what Remedy are cooking (at least on their single player games). I feel like we all knew Firebreak was going to be bad and collectively just wished Remedy focused on Control 2 and Alan Wake 3 instead.

Desert Combat was so good man. So much time spent as a kid trying to master flying helicopters in it.

It’s crazy that this mod is kind of the foundation of the entire modern Battlefield landscape seeing as its devs got hired by DICE for Battlefield 2.

I’ll play Infinite for the first time this year (maybe… it keeps getting pushed back in my backlog) and I am so curious about it. Some people say it’s one of the best games of all time and some that it’s overrated and meh.

I love this from GOG. I already liked them because of their game conservation efforts, but now I like them even more.

Control and Alan Wake 2 also, Remedy flying the AAA banner while holding their artistic head high still.

I haven’t played them but I from what I hear the Batman Arkham games and Insomniac Spider-Man games also count as worthwhile and well-made AAA games.

Good, fuck 'em.

I have no idea what you’re trying to say here. For budget cards especially the modern reality is that upscaling will likely be a necessary evil, so looking at upscaling performance is looking at actual performance. But even beyond that, the video includes performance comparisons between native and the various upscaling modes to show what you can expect and whether those gains from DLSS/FSR are worth it.

Indie is kind of a fraught term in whatever genre it’s used I feel like. It has too many connotations and too few clear definitions. How much big label backed mass produced “indie rock/pop” did we not get back in the early 00s music scene, for example. Same with gaming: see the whole Dave the Diver being nominated for best Indie Game despite being backed by NEXON debacle.

Baldur’s Gate 3 is tricky because while Hasbro was involved it was still self-published by Larian. It doesn’t feel right to me to call it an indie game, but… how exactly should we define them then? Is there a budget cutoff where a game is no longer allowed to be called an indie? If Sandfall uses their huge budget from the success of Expedition 33 to make a blockbuster sequel but stayed with Kepler as publisher would we refuse to call it an indie game?

I like the environments and all, combat looks okay. I dunno, you have to be something truly special as an MMO to entice me these days.

A Relic, Restored: Everything you loved about Neverwinter Nights 2 has been preserved. Enjoy smoother gameplay with refined camera controls, polished mechanics, enhanced textures, and full controller support with a newly designed controller-specific UI.

I wonder what specifically was changed for “smoother gameplay” and “polished mechanics”. I definitely do want to play this eventually - for the first expansion if nothing else - but I bought too many games on the summer sales as is. And I am just about to add Limbo and Inside to the list before they get delisted.

That’s brilliant. It’s a shame it will have no impact and the copyright mafia will continue their relentless assault until we are all microchipped at birth with neural inhibitors that physically prevents us from consuming digital material we haven’t purchased. Brain-implant DRM is the end goal.

Hey now let’s not get bogged down with facts when we’ve already made up our minds!

Bill Hicks evergreen marketing bit is as relevant now as it was in the 80s.

On a related note I wish we had a c/madlads around these parts.

I’ll see if I can hold out for a sale. I’m interested in the Mask of the Betrayer expansion but not as much in the main game.