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Potatos_are_not_friends, do games w Japanese PC gaming saw another year of explosive growth

Proud of these numbers.

The more PC gamers in Japan, the more likely we will get PC releases.

woelkchen, do games w GeForce Now is shutting down in Russia
@woelkchen@lemmy.world avatar

Everyone knows NVidia are the fastest in the business…

Ertebolle, do gaming w Elon Musk appearance at Valorant Champions tournament met with boos, crowd chanting 'bring back Twitter'

"I was saying Boo-lon"

Call_Me_Maple, do games w 'A triumph': Brian Fargo, Mike Laidlaw, and other RPG architects weigh in on Baldur's Gate 3
@Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world avatar

Look, I was enjoying the game a lot, but these articles are getting a little out of hand. I don’t think this game is as huge a triumph as journalists might have you believe.

Yes the gaming landscape is filled with MTX heavy live-services but as much as BG3 is a complete product it’s not as if we don’t still get games like that just look at the other releases in 2023 it started off with freakin’ Hi-Fi Rush.

And for all it’s successes BG3 still has major faults. It preforms terribly after only a few hours of play to what I can only imagine is a memory leak issue but performance issues aside there are mechanical problems that are baked into the core of the game so…

I dunno, I’m glad that the game is finding success and I’m glad that people are enjoying it but it’s just a bit much, I mean Bombrush Cyberfunk just came out and I’ve heard nothing on that game from these outlets.

PenguinTD,

not to defend them, but I regularly play around 3~4 hours and I didn’t notice my frames dip during play. It usually dip around enter/exit conversation, or when you faster travel, frame then comes back to normal range. (about 120 fps for me, during hotter days I just manually keep it at 60 so I trade some screen tear but cooler room.) If it’s memory leak it will usually lead to crash since you have less and less ram you can allocate. So there might be something that eats your resource.

Mechanical side I just don’t like hunting and gather stuff the scatter around the world, but is kinda of important for early game economics.(especially for a hoarder like me, I want to get all the magical items from vendors, trying to do it as legit as I can, all the sell for 1 coin adds up. opening all the crates etc does took a long time in storage area. )

Call_Me_Maple,
@Call_Me_Maple@lemmy.world avatar

Your experience is valid but for someone like me who works most days, I gotta take my game time when I can so I usually play for 6-8 hours a day a few times a week and towards the end of my sessions there is a pretty noticeable drop in frames I got from a solid 60 to about 30-40 frames, some days it’s really unplayable.

Metal_Zealot, (edited ) do games w The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained
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  • Zuberi,
    @Zuberi@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

    :(

    banana_meccanica, do gaming w Baldur's Gate 3 is a 122GB download and you can't preload any of it

    Well then i hope phisical games come back to be a thing because i will never downlaod a 100gb+ game. They should make game in USB or Hardrive format that an user can buy at store like was with CD and DVD.

    discodoubloon,
    @discodoubloon@kbin.social avatar

    I could see that happening if SSDs of that size drop below the $10 mark

    QHC,
    @QHC@kbin.social avatar

    Flash drives are already at that price point for consumers, let alone at manufacturing/bulk prices.

    CIWS-30,

    Honestly, things like this were why I thought that Blu-Ray drives would take off. It's why I bought a Blu-ray RW drive in 2014 for my PC build because I thought it would be the future as game and media sizes would only get bigger and more of a pain to download.

    I was wrong, but I wish I hadn't been. At least I can rip my PS3 Blu-rays to play them on emulators now. It's hard to go back and play them at 720p on a big screen without all the features that emulators give me. Rendering at 1440p (minimum) just being the start.

    banana_meccanica,

    Soon or later the progress will gonna need to going back as new generation of physical disk-like. Also this depency on the net is simple unsafe, service can go offline anytime and hundred of dollars in game just become nothing. We should relearning the value of owning something really in our hands and not in virtual libraries.

    ampersandrew,
    @ampersandrew@kbin.social avatar

    Never? There's that infamous quote about how people will never need more than 64KB of RAM that comes to mind. SSD prices are falling rapidly, and internet bandwidth is only increasing. I understand if you don't have the means right this moment, but 100+ GB games are here and will only happen more often.

    foggenbooty,

    I don’t have a problem with large games if I get the option of what I want to download. Most often these large sizes are because it forces you to get full 4K textures and multiple copies of the audio files for languages you don’t speak.

    I would bet half the size of this game is unnecessary for the average player. We really need the ability to download the core game and then these add-ons separately.

    LoafyLemon,

    This would create excessive waste, and the EU would never approve of it.

    Vanilla_PuddinFudge, do games w Randy Pitchford asks fans if they'd swallow future Borderlands exclusivity deals, almost 10,000 people say just put your damn games on Steam
    @Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub avatar

    Borderlands games aren’t good enough for exclusivity deals. Nintendo’s aren’t, either but in their defense, you don’t have to try very hard to entertain an 8 year old.

    Gerudo,

    Gatekeeping gaming brands, are we?

    How dare I, a middle-aged person, enjoy Zelda, Mario, Splatoon, Donkey Kong etc.

    Vanilla_PuddinFudge,
    @Vanilla_PuddinFudge@infosec.pub avatar

    If I were gatekeeping, I would’ve mentioned companies that don’t use shotty business practices and their profits for frivolous lawsuits as alternatives.

    I was calling out dumb, impulsive consumers. You here for the convention?

    unconsciousvoidling, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

    Why would anyone want to waste their life working for any of these exploitive cunts. I’d much rather play video games.

    Drbreen, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman

    As an Aussie who has always enjoyed playing (and making) games, I’ve had free healthcare all my life and have only worked my arse off… Like most people I know.

    ms_lane,

    *Used to get free healthcare.

    Dunno how it is where you are, but bulk billing GPs just don’t exist anymore in SA.

    Drbreen,

    It’s getting harder but they are there. But hey, if I break my leg and go to ER at a public hospital, even though I have to wait a shit load of hours, I won’t pay anything when I walk out.

    rayquetzalcoatl, do games w Young men are 'playing videogames all day' instead of getting jobs because they can mooch off of free healthcare, claims congressman
    @rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world avatar

    Is this the one who gets his son to monitor whether he’s masturbating or not? Or is that some other guy?

    firipu, do games w The 'Stop Killing Games' initiative is close to its final deadline, and after that, its leader is understandably done: 'Either the frog hops out of the pot, or it's dead'

    Signed it. Can’t believe I completely missed this petition.

    the_q, do gaming w The Switch 2's super sluggish LCD screen is 10 times slower than a typical gaming monitor and 100 times slower than an OLED panel according to independent testing

    Nintendo thinks consumers are stupid… And they are so…

    SunshineJogger,

    It’s a question of use-case and target group.

    Pvp enthusiasts will see this refresh rate as a horror.

    Singleplayer gamers and casuals and families won’t ever notice. And that’s far more nintendo’s target group.

    mycodesucks, do games w One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons
    @mycodesucks@lemmy.world avatar

    Now do Half-life 3.

    tonytins,
    @tonytins@pawb.social avatar
    Exusia, do games w Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital
    @Exusia@lemmy.world avatar

    Currently downloading everything to MO2 and setting to not check for updates huehuehue

    People gonna see torrents for a “preset packages” of Skyrim mods

    LiveLM,

    As an outsider to Bethesda modding, given how difficult it looks, I’m surprised to hear this isn’t already a thing.

    Gonzako, (edited )

    well wabbajack works with nexus (You just buy one month for autodownloads) but I guess that’ll have to change

    Exusia,
    @Exusia@lemmy.world avatar

    I found a couple recommendation lists to “make the game look good” because I dont need all the fancy extras like body mods and weapons and grouped them together in load order, because I knew at some stage I could just package them nicely into a ZIP if I need to uninstall Skyrim for some reason. Glad to see I was ahead of the game

    tal,
    @tal@lemmy.today avatar

    It really depends on how one is applyng mods. Bethesda does have their own mod site and in-game support for modding, and that’s pretty straightforward (and the only option on consoles). That will limit what mods are available.

    I do kind of wish that there were one cross-platform open-source universal “game mod” program that could support multiple online services. Would like to have Wabbajack-like functionality (apply a whole set of curated, tested-together mods) as a base too, as that’d lower the bar.

    ms_lane,

    Modding community will never allow it, when Nexus allowed people to keep downloading old mods a bunch of authors decried it since they wanted the ability to remove a mod from the internet forever. It was ‘theirs’ (even though it’s just modified Bethesda data)

    WaitThisIsntReddit, do games w Former Dragon Age writer says Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and Baldur's Gate 3 prove 'what's possible when a game is given time to cook'

    Duke nukem forever would like a word.

    SapphironZA,

    Taking the pot off the stove, throwing away and starting again, then repeating it many times is not giving it time to cook

    captainlezbian,

    Yeah, and given this is coming from a dragon age writer that’s pretty explicit.

    A cancelation is a full stop and needs to be treated as such with any resources from it that can be carried forward needing scrutiny before being brought in, with them understood as a fortuitous situation. None of this 'we’ve spent 10 cumulative years on it" when this round is just one year

    nfreak,
    @nfreak@lemmy.ml avatar

    What’s actually so funny about that one is it’s actually kind of a fun game? Like don’t get me wrong it’s dogshit, but it’s fun dogshit

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