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I think the second one. Assuming the middle bit is a nose, fewer details make for better deadpan toaster expression

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Could halo be helped if it was split between the bungie and the bad ones?

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Something along the lines of hiring an expert on gambling. There’s a lot of game mechanics in games like Destiny 2 which lock you in through little feedback loops.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIuAeFu84kY

It’s a good looking game with decent movement and gunplay, but it fully disrespects your time. RIP if you ended up buying the game in 2017 with the first few expansions because that shit gone now.

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And they didn’t retroactively unlock impacted gear. I had a couple god rolled blast furnaces relgated to casual PvP despite the absurd amount of time I had to put into that bullshit forge activity.

Anyone else notice the extent of bungies creativity as far as destiny is concerned:

• Stand on plates
• Shoot targets
• 3 damage phases
• Juggle balls

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Yup. The gaming industry got lucrative enough for the bean counters to swoop in and bastardise.

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It’s funny is how gorgeous the endgame content looks. Sure it plays out very much in the same way, but it’s kinda crazy how hard they go in visuals on parts of the game that very few players can reach. I’m not opposed to this in principle, mind you.

But yeah the raids and dungeons didn’t really grip me in the end. Pretty as they are, there’s a lot of arbitrary systems at play which kill my engagement.

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yes

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I think it’d be safe to expect a very well crafted depiction of Florida. A lively sandbox just brimming with weird shit.

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For sure. It’ll leave the likes of 2077 and Starfield in the dust, and it’ll be performant without the need of TAA or other patchwork bullshit.

I’d be curious if they stick to Vulkan on PC since RDR2 later defaulted to it.

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Starfield isn’t a game regardless of the dlc

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You know I’m kind of amazed that Starfield has a 10k (24hr peak) playerbase according to SteamDB. Comparatively speaking, it’s doing better than other dumpster fires like halo infinite

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I’m inclined to disagree but perhaps I’m just jaded by prior entries built against that engine. With that said, it’s pretty unique to starfield that curiosity is never rewarded in this supposedly vast universe.

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I found some of the side stories to be a bit more compelling than the main one. the movement and action felt a little bit better than fo4.

The settlements thing is wild. How could they have you sink any time into that when the game pushes you repeatedly towards NG+?!

And I love how the highest difficulty just makes everything into a bullet sponge. Nothing besides that feels more difficult; enemies aren’t more cunning, aggressive or accurate. Stealth and speech checks felt pretty much unchanged.

I think the ship combat and boarding could be spun off into a standalone mini-game. NMS is a clunky, goofy time but it’s funny how it managed to get interplanetary travel down on day one.

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If you intend to keep this platform for a while longer then for sure grab a Vermeer x3d. I think you’ll feel a pretty decent improvement in 1% and .1% lows

With that said, I’m not sure if cyberpunk in particular will benefit too much from this. If that’s your primary motivator for upgrading, then maybe hold off until you want to move on to a DDR5 (or later) platform?

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For phantom liberty? I don’t really see how it would be. Seems to have run fine on my 5800x3d + nv21 at 1440p

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Fast forward to today, it’s kind of terrifying that the proprietors of DirectX effectively own the poster-child Vulkan game engine for both performance & visual fidelity.

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Gotta love how they keep referring to it as an arena shooter despite these classes or factions.

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Does the latest iteration of Skyrim still require a community patch? 😅

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shattered pixel dungeon is a good time. It’s FOSS and you can also find it in fdroid.

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ML appears to be a fork with improved multi language support

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I didn’t expect to see hulshult up in here along with floating door.

The strafe soundtrack by toytree is also really nice

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this game looks horrendous. I’m entirely unsurprised that i haven’t heard of it until now

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how many times will Raven incorrectly claim that “Heihachi Mishima is dead”

😞

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Reina has a pretty distinct style despite the inherited moves. The way she can roll for example maker her play like a more agile character then hei hei.

The mishimas are an archetpe but they don’t necessarily eclipse each other

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Let’s just pretend this fever dream never happened

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just another live service fps churnfest

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I gather it’s a super thirsty game, but didn’t larian reduce the thirstiness somewhat with an update?

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Kind of sad how the proprietor of DirectX owns one of the best Vulkan API game engine implementations in the industry.

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It’d be telling if later iterations of idtech (should it continue to develop) switch away from Vulkan on desktops.

Would be a difficult move considering how ruthlessly performant it is at present.

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Appreciate the insight

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big fan of Hulshult’s work on IDKFA, DUSK and Prodeus. Would love to see them directly involved with DOOM.

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God damn I didn’t expect to ever see that again. Brill

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They’re thinking of something that can work unteathered to a PC, like the rumoured valve deckard system

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I get you but that’s not what the commenter above is looking for.

I know the Index is fantastic and I’m truly happy for you, but I can appreciate other people being in the market for high fidelity VR with a substantially lower asking price (along with a lower total cost of ownership as a standalone system).

We can’t let meta pull ahead in this industry unchecked, and I really hope Valve (or literally anybody else) can step up to this segment in the near future.

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I think there’s mention of it in the release notes for 1.2?

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I suppose they wrote battlefield in the headline since it’s an EA franchise, but I totally see where you’re coming from. At least they mention halo directly after.

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Yeah, you’re not wrong

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wait, you play apex?

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I would guess people who play destiny 2?

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To be fair, “it takes one to know one” kind of applies here. I played a whole heap of D2, right from the launch.

I was one of the dumbasses who paid for the base game, and the two abysmal DLCs to follow, and then for forsaken.

Forked out only for all of the content to be either made free to play / taken away and ‘vaulted’ (not that anyone would really miss it).

Friends would keep telling me to hop back in after every expansion and I genuinely wonder how their rotten formula can still keep such a wide audience invested.

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Agreed, its a typo as well. Company appears to be named ‘Byowave’

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starfield on the best list is sus asf too

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Agreed

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have a lovely time