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ShovelKnight, do games w The Simple Act of Buying a Graphics Card Is the Defining Misery of PC Gaming in 2025

I am not really interested in modern gaming, but I needed a 16GB NVidia GPU for the AI/ML course I’m currently doing. I wanted to get a 16GB 4060Ti, but they were out of stock literally everywhere. In the end I gave up and got a 12GB 3060. It’s not as good as what I wanted, but at least it was cheap and readily available.

turnip, do games w Baldur's Gate 3 and Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 show that the future of RPGs is in games way more ambitious, weird and unexpected than anything Bethesda and Bioware have to offer

Should I buy Baldurs Gate 3, its extremely expensive still.

lostbit,

Its a regular price these days. Tho if your not in a hurry just wait for a pricr drop (can wishlist it on deals.gg to get notifed)

drunkpostdisaster,

Depends. How badly do you want to play the game bioware wishes it could put out?

turnip,

Is it insanely good, like Factorio level polish, or was it just hyped due to recency bias?

castlebravo404,

Worth the hype IMHO.

drunkpostdisaster,

Worth it. Absolutely, it’s got both great game play and story and more so then any other rpg of its type it feels like your character and the choices you make are actually pretty major. It let’s you be more evil then in almost any other game if you are into that.

Damage,

70% good, 30% hype

snugglesthefalse,

It’s not bad but I personally couldn’t get into it, too much dnd.

CaptPretentious, (edited )

I will always recommend the game. But holding to a budget is more important.

brucethemoose,

It’s polished and undoubtedly one of the best games of all time.

My only gripe is that I find the pause-based combat lengthy, though not bad.

chicken, do games w Epic sues Fortnite cheater, donates his winnings to charity, forces him to publicly apologise, bans him for life, and all but sends him to his room without dinner

That seems kind of shitty, if he only cheated to qualify but otherwise won the prize without cheating

Sylvartas,

Cheating to qualify makes his participation invalid imo. Someone else could have taken his place and changed the entire thing

Varyag, do games w Manor Lords, the best city builder of 2024, hits 3 million sales as players continue to fill its maps with muddy medieval towns

It looks real good, but I’m still playing Aginst thr Storm, and will probably give Farthest Frontier a try before goong into this one. Still, it’s on my list!

JohnnyMac,

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  • Varyag,

    I honestly loved it almost instantly, especially with the aspect that each settlement is a short time investment of a gaming session with semi randomized goals and build orders to get to those. While there are still overarching goals for the game as a whole.

    tabris, do gaming w The Witcher 3's director says he has designed his new vampire RPG to explore 'something in pop culture that nobody yet has done' in videogames: 'We will see how people like it'

    I mean, this isn’t that dissimilar to a Persona game: normal school kid by day, with requirements on time; superhero badass at night delving into the digital world to fight bad guys.

    Baggie,

    Reminds me of how Castle super best was saying how some find it refreshing to see metaphor tackle rascism, but it’s not uncommon to see it in western gaming. They just never played games from that end of the pond.

    rimjob_rainer, do games w After the catastrophe of Concord Sony is reportedly cancelling other projects including a God of War live service game

    Why did they make an expensive game like Concord which nobody wanted? Don’t they have market analysts or something like that? Everyone was able to tell them beforehand that it will flop.

    GenosseFlosse,

    Afaik they started development when overwatch was already successful. By the time development finished the hype was over and players had moved to other genres, and had very little interest in an overwatch clone.

    vladmech,

    Until Marvel Rivals showed it could still be done but you needed a very specific game for it.

    p03locke,
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    No, you need Marvel, like real Marvel, not GotG-lite.

    4am,

    They probably started it at a time when analysis suggested it was what people wanted more of, and then during the probably what; 4 or 5 years it took to develop, interest waned?

    I don’t think it was weird that they started on this; it was pretty weird that they didn’t pivot or cancel earlier.

    bookmeat, do gaming w Razer has released a backseat gaming AI bot called Ava, and I'm not sure whether using it should be considered cheating or not

    This may be good for adding accessibility options to players who need them.

    RightHandOfIkaros,

    I definitely see this being useful for accessibility options for gamers with disabilities. Hopefully more progress is made in this field.

    Death_Equity,

    AI has a legitimate use in helping people of various disabilities and I truly hope AI allows anyone with a disability to benefit, but I don’t want to have to endure AI being shoehorned into every aspect of my life without consent for the disabled to see those benefits.

    JudahBenHur, do gaming w Finally someone turned Doom into an enriching cultural experience for art snobs

    cute

    Vodulas, do gaming w After years of holding out hope, 2024 was the year I finally gave up on BioWare

    I can’t say this for the author since they seemed to have finished the game, but Veilguard starts real rough, but got really fun to play. The story isn’t anything to write home about, but it suits the more action oriented combat well. I get it is not the DA CRPG everyone seemed to want, but it is a damn fun 3rd person action game. Besides, we still have Baldurs Gate 3.

    UnpledgedCatnapTipper,

    Agreed on all points. I decided to do a full series playthrough after I finished, and aside from how action oriented the combat is, it really reminds me of DA2. It feels more like you’re playing the character of Rook, just like how you’re playing the character of Hawke. You don’t really have “evil” options, and are more railroaded because why the fuck would Varric recruit someone to be his number 2 that has evil tendencies? You’re not a blank slate nobody like your character in 1 and 3.

    My biggest complaint is it feels like a lot of your companions don’t really talk to you that much. You get to know 1 part about them and that’s it, we needed more dialogue with them!

    Vodulas,

    I have not quite finished the game, but I did go through and do as many companion quests as possible, and they felt kinda drip fed. Probably just less developed than the main quest, which is a shame.

    UnpledgedCatnapTipper,

    Yes exactly! I did every available side/companion quest that was available before progressing the main story, and when I ran out I’d do one main story quest and then back to side quests.

    Previous games it felt like you got to do more things with each companion. This one there’s like one story each, and they’ll barely talk to you about anything else on the rare occasions you can talk to them.

    Feathercrown, do games w Helldivers 2 players rip into Arrowhead for 'straight-up ridiculous' Killzone crossover prices, CEO defends the choice

    Helldivers players have no idea how good they have it. What a bunch of whiny entitled losers lmao

    Atomic,

    Just because others have it worse, doesn’t mean you should settle for slightly better than terrible.

    Feathercrown,

    Your dev team and management cares about the players, that’s much better than terrible already

    Atomic,

    let’s make sure we keep them to that standard then.

    Grangle1, do games w Vice Undercover imagines an alternate past where '80s drug lords had the internet, so obviously you've gotta hack 'em

    Sounds a lot like Hypnospace Outlaw, which came out a few years ago and had you exploring a fictional Internet from the mid/late-90s era on an OS designed to mimic Windows 95/98 (with an upgrade to an XP-like desktop later in the game). You were basically a mod/censor who went around and busted people for copyright infringement and stuff. Also a real nostalgia trip if you miss that kind of aesthetic.

    meant2live218,

    I was on the younger end of the target demographic, but I got big Geocities vibes from a lot of those pages. Such a neat game.

    YoFrodo, do games w Vice Undercover imagines an alternate past where '80s drug lords had the internet, so obviously you've gotta hack 'em

    The music in the demo is amazing. They clearly use AI to generate the people but it seems inoffensive to me. I like what I played

    nobody158, do games w 'I want to acknowledge that we messed up': NZXT addresses concerns about its controversial Flex gaming PC rental program and commits to taking action

    Too late.

    catloaf, do games w Critical Role's plans to make a videogame have become an 'active pursuit', says CEO Travis Willingham, after almost 10 years of growing a D&D campaign into a full-on franchise

    A great D&D video game just came out recently, and will be the biggest player for a while. How do they plan to outshine BG3?

    CookieOfFortune,

    Are they projecting a release in like two years? Could be viable.

    caseofthematts,

    It’s an “active pursuit” which sounds like they have nothing yet. So I doubt it will even be 2 years.

    CookieOfFortune,

    Yeah it sounds like the success of BG3 probably spurred this endeavor. I was giving it two years to be optimistic but yeah most likely longer.

    Valencia,

    Do they need to outshine bg3? Releasing a crpg based on their characters and world I’m sure would do well enough with their audience. I’m imagining just pillars of eternity 2 with a critical role skin.

    deadcream,

    Any RPG will be compared to BG3.

    ivanafterall, do gaming w Elon Musk says too many game studios are owned by giant corporations so his giant corporation is going to start a studio to 'make games great again'
    @ivanafterall@lemmy.world avatar

    Star Citizen to the power of Musk.

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