What about all those games you've idled for cards in?
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STEAM | January 2016 - Out of cash, out of cache
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What about all those games you've idled for cards in?
InfiniteNine
Rolling Girl
Going off the first game this seems like the proper reaction.
You got max payne'd bro
My laptop is an ~$800 ASUS-branded piece of poo with an emphasis on battery life, but my PC is as follows:
- 2600K @ 4.5GHz
- 16GB DDR3-2400 that runs at 2133 because of some oversight on ASRock's part
- GTX 980
- 960GB Crucial M500 SSD; ~100GB for Windows and the rest for games
- A billion HDDs
I bought an ex-demo Gigabyte WindForce 980 Ti yesterday, though, for around $150 less than a new one would have set me back, so in all likelihood I'll be able to make that money back and my upgrade to Pascal may very well cost me nothing. As I've explained in the Rise of the Tomb Raider PC Per. thread, however, 4GB VRAM is, in my experience (I wouldn't say I'm far into the game), enough for "max settings" (AA aside, which I've set to SMAA) as far as general gameplay is concerned; the only brief pauses I experience are during some gameplay -> cutscene transitions or vice-versa. I'm currently getting around 30fps throughout the Soviet logging camp but there's definitely no intermittent framerate/performance issues that you'd associate with VRAM swapping.
After months of hemming and hawing, I finally bit the bullet the Ti not only because it was relatively cheap but also due to VRAM requirements slowly pushing past 4GB at 1080p (R6 Siege with the HD texture pack, The Division, and to a lesser extent Rise of the Tomb Raider) and current rumours placing Pascal's launch at some point in the back half of the year. The upwards of a ~40% framerate difference in RotTR also played a part, I admit.
Edit: I should note that my laptop handles Steam's IHS quite well. I mucked around with the feature a bit back when I was playing through AssCreed Unity and although image quality suffers at 1368x768, I had no streaming-related issues despite using WiFi rather than Ethernet.
PetriP-TNT
Member
This was pretty funny:
Tizoc
Member
That sounds better than my rig hah.
I hate newfoundland mission the most, the base defense was pretty tame compared to that for me.
I lost 2 of my best soldiers on the newfoundland mission while I only lost one on the base defense.
I feel like you've failed to realise it was mostly a joke, right up until you started getting into me for not knowing what the game is. So I'm going to clarify, one last time:
Niche game.
Some people care.
Most don't.
I definitely don't.
Let it go, now.
Endruen
Member
I feel like you've failed to realise it was mostly a joke, right up until you started getting into me for not knowing what the game is. So I'm going to clarify, one last time:
Niche game.
Some people care.
Most don't.
I definitely don't.
Let it go, now.
Some jokes aren't easy to catch being written.
Also, I'm not a Disgaea fan XD.
I accidently put one of my soldiers outside the evac point, he ded.
I stopped idling when Styx released, because warts and all it's the best stealth game in yonks and everyone should play it, and simply forgot to get back in the groove.
There's no point now. I had less than 100 drops remaining at the time, too, which is what annoys me in retrospect.
I'm hyped as all hell for Styx 2. The potential is there for something truly special.
I'm still unable to continue. I don't feel ready at all to do Newfoundland.
Well, when people did similar stuff on Xbox they killed accounts.
How can this be when 99% of PC users are pirates?
Didn't you know? A pirate is a lost PS4 sale too. Basically every seeder on a torrent is two lost sales if you release on two platforms. Common logic.
Atraveller
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AHA-Lambda
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Have finished RotTR, The Division Beta and had my fill of Sunless Sea.
XCOM 2 ain't out for another 5 days and anything left in my backlog that I want to play is way too big to bother starting within that time...
XCOM 2 ain't out for another 5 days and anything left in my backlog that I want to play is way too big to bother starting within that time...
Because every PC owner owns the game now, sales will stagnate
Nah, I just Googled a bit, and seems that some people are being able to do it on the Xbox One without issues.
It's not "3 days and then the numbers are perfect", it's a lag of ~3 days.
As such, when a game is still selling, it will be at a higher number than reported. When it starts stagnating for 3 days is when you can say that it's getting close (within the statistical error range of course).
That was only with free games and the exploit was a bit more complicated than just choosing another store.
People have been buying from the cheapest region store with Xbone for a while and nobody was banned for it just yet.
Not to distract from what Durante has said, but since The Witness hasn't had the section_type = ownersonly flag since December, so SteamSpy has actually been tracking the game since pre-orders went up.
Large Professor
Member
Enter The Gungeon looks so awesome. I want it now.
If you look at text that floats around when you go to the campfire in RotTR you can see excerpt from Poor Man's James Bond Vol. 3. Then i looked up what is that
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poor_Man's_James_Bond
And something about author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Saxon
If this was one of the things that inspired TR devs it is not strange that Lara is so violent XD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Poor_Man's_James_Bond
And something about author
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Saxon
If this was one of the things that inspired TR devs it is not strange that Lara is so violent XD
but will you shout out to league too
i made a tokyo ghoul:re thread
i'm sure someone here reads it
shit man don't let my thread die
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1177932
i'm sure someone here reads it
shit man don't let my thread die
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1177932
I really liked most of the story missions the first few playthroughs, but I've got to admit they get old real fast on consequent playthroughs. Hope XCOM2 spices them up a bit.
i made a tokyo ghoul:re thread
i'm sure someone here reads it
shit man don't let my thread die
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1177932
The Dear Leader
Banned
i made a tokyo ghoul:re thread
i'm sure someone here reads it
shit man don't let my thread die
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1177932
I can post a gif of a tumbleweed if you want?
PandaPedinte
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I just read the about Stardew Valley releasing on 26th February, I'm hyped for it since I've been following the game development for quite some time. I was hoping to it release earlier but I'll still have one week left on my job vacation to enjoy it.
Stallion Free
Cock Encumbered
Violent murderer Lara Croft is the best. I hope they continue with this version of the character in the next game. She's basically predator hunting the mercs in Rise.
AHA-Lambda
Member
Styx is a bloody awesome game
Like if Thief was made today in 3rd person and took some parkour kews from AC
I really dislike it. It's like they did it to fulfill a check for added audience.
Tizoc
Member
I'll admit I enjoy flinging arrows in people's faces, but gimme the adventure platforming of the OG TR games.
AHA-Lambda
Member
This.
I've said it before, but to me the new TR is some of the most cynically designed-by-committee AAA productions I've seen.
"What's popular? Cover based shooting? Check. Scripted action sequences? Check. QTEs? Check. Crafting? Check. Open World? Check. Collectibles? Check. Actual tombs? Fine put in a couple to shut up the lot who kept joking no tombs in tomb raider
Good writing? Quick get the writer of Mirror's Edge on the phone!"
Backlogger
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What is odd to me about the TotTR complaints is they aren't that different at the core from the last version's complaints.
Is it just a minority that don't like the new formula and it's selling well enough that they don't care?
Seems like they put out a slightly more polished version of the last game without trying to fix what it seems like people didn't like about the last one.
I'm actually enjoying it for the most part except for the painted climbable objects but I never played the originals so I have no point of reference to the old ones.
Is it just a minority that don't like the new formula and it's selling well enough that they don't care?
Seems like they put out a slightly more polished version of the last game without trying to fix what it seems like people didn't like about the last one.
I'm actually enjoying it for the most part except for the painted climbable objects but I never played the originals so I have no point of reference to the old ones.
Nostalgia is likely part of it. I could never get into the old TR games (though I did play like half of Underworld). Didn't care for the movement, but I've read you can control Lara pretty consistently once you learn to compensate.
New TR is alright things considered. Interestingly enough, my personal complaint with Uncharted is that the series is too linear, just pushing you from set piece to set piece, where as RoTR tries to abuse non-linearity (somewhat) by having you collect so much stuff. (That can't really be ignored unless you want to forego new weapons and upgrades- one of the aspects TR improves over Uncharted is how weapons are utilized).
For the record- I do enjoy both series more than not.
New TR is alright things considered. Interestingly enough, my personal complaint with Uncharted is that the series is too linear, just pushing you from set piece to set piece, where as RoTR tries to abuse non-linearity (somewhat) by having you collect so much stuff. (That can't really be ignored unless you want to forego new weapons and upgrades- one of the aspects TR improves over Uncharted is how weapons are utilized).
For the record- I do enjoy both series more than not.
Hero Prinny
Member
Tokyo ghoul is my jam. I need my amon though, WHERE THE FUCK IS MY FUCKING AMON!?i made a tokyo ghoul:re thread
i'm sure someone here reads it
shit man don't let my thread die
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1177932
Ahem... With that out of the way, i shall read your thread now.
Wow it does look awesome. When the dev listed his inspirations, I liked every single one of them. Looking forward to trying it out.
Tizoc
Member
Nostalgia? The Old TR games put emphasis on platforming and exploration. Furthermore isolationism, much of the old games had Lara alone exploring and progressing through the stages with the average enemy animal or human soldiers appearing uncommonly after a few segments.
They had a gameplay concept that made it stand out, and looking at TR Ann. you can see how well those elements and concepts are.
The current series is more of an Uncharted clone (all the extra fluff is merely padding, you can go through the main game without ever doing them, the only reasonwe are doing them is becase due to previous games released over the past decade we've become conditioned to do them), with the one thing making it stand out is flinging arrows into peoples faces.
Really it's Uncharted for those that don't own a PS4.
I wanted to make a thread to talk about the newest chapters, since the manga thread is really slow in the community and people just talk about random stuff they've read
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