What are you playing right now?

[baseline bum]

the way this game is made, literally every armor set scales up just fine for endgame, depending on whether you like its effects. even the first armor sets you are offered. at first you are basically offered a strength vs vitality set. if you level the strength set (vidars set or something) all the way up to level 9 it has the best strength stat in the game so you can still go off on people and annihilate bosses if you know what you're doing.

lunda's set is good, but personally the fist/shield combat is ass in this game. had its own full skill tree in the first game. it still poisons people pretty quickly so its a solid set regardless.

i ended up loving builds based on gaining permafrost/immolation, etc. i think that armor set was calling undying pyres or something. built those meters up very quickly. combined that with the grips/handles/pommels that were called "nine realms" which trigger a realm shift anytime you use the L1 + Triangle thing. had a ton of fun with that build until getting the super hard hitting armor from berserkers

IDK so far I'm loving Lunda's set with shield and barehand for boss fights. Playing on Give Me No Mercy and am waxing every berserker that doesn't have a skull next to their name. So I guess, every berserker that's not 3+ levels above me, even the ones with purple health bars I'm beating soundly as long as they don't have the skull. Though get destroyed in any berserker fight where they do have the skulls next to their names, guess I gotta level up for them. The 40% damage bonus though is huge when I have a boss poisoned. Agree that shield attack is pretty ass for non boss fights though when you've got five or six enemies attacking you at once and don't have the time to pummel motherfuckers you just poisoned and you need to snipe hits. The axe or the spear are so much better then.

Also love that Spartan Rage can be remapped to Circle + Square now. Shit was driving me insane when I'd trigger it accidentally with L3 + R3 all the time in the Sigrun fight in GOW2018.

[baseline bum]

Been playing Like A Dragon: Ishin! lately myself. Great stuff as always.

Can't wait for Wo Long tomorrow though. :hungry:

So is it any good or does it live up to its terrible Steam reviews? Doesn't look like it runs too bad in this bench, though I know PC Master Race hates 60 fps frame caps and games needing controllers.

https://gamegpu.com/rpg/%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%B2%D1%8B%D0%B5/wo-long-fallen-dynasty-test-gpu-cpu

[koriwhat]

When trying to look cool goes wrong. :lol calfcuck

Put your dress back on puto!

[baseline bum]

Valor is by far the worst imho except maybe very specific encounters.

So were you talking about the Heimdall fight? That one was really cool, kind of wish I had been playing on Give Me God of War for that one since I was probably overleveled after taking out a bunch of bersekers. Speaking of berserkers, that one fight against Hvitserkr The Bold where he keeps summoning scrub enemies is cheap as hell. Only berserker fight I haven't enjoyed so far, that one really sucks and I'm just going to put it off until I'm massively overleveled for it.

[spurraider21]

So were you talking about the Heimdall fight? That one was really cool, kind of wish I had been playing on Give Me God of War for that one since I was probably overleveled after taking out a bunch of bersekers. Speaking of berserkers, that one fight against Hvitserkr The Bold where he keeps summoning scrub enemies is cheap as hell. Only berserker fight I haven't enjoyed so far, that one really sucks and I'm just going to put it off until I'm massively overleveled for it.
heimdall and garm were the ones that came to mind as fights where rage wasnt really that good, so valor was useful

i dont remember berserkers by name, but i found most of the solo ones to be fairly easy. there are some gank ones (including the summoner) that were very frustrating. there's one in particular that i found to be much more challenging than even the berserker king

[Xevious]

That one with three Berserkers was the hardest imo.

[baseline bum]

That one with three Berserkers was the hardest imo.

I think I tried that fight three times and then decided I'd save it for when I had better gear since all three have purple health bars for me right now. Though I ain't doing Hvitserkr until he has a green bar, fuck him and his cheap summons.

[baseline bum]

Fucking Starfield got delayed until September 6th.

[spurraider21]

That one with three Berserkers was the hardest imo.
i basically just learned to flawless it for the most part. once i took out the main guy, i played it incredibly boring and safe. first 3 minutes should be instructive tho. best tip would be to not use the camera lock so you can keep all 3 in your view at all times. i also did this before i had the spear i think, so i didnt have all the equipment/weapons i'd want necessarily. chucking spears at them from a safe distance probably would have made it easier. could be misremembering how far along i was though, tbh


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9x4hBbD6ZE

[Xevious]

i basically just learned to flawless it for the most part. once i took out the main guy, i played it incredibly boring and safe. first 3 minutes should be instructive tho. best tip would be to not use the camera lock so you can keep all 3 in your view at all times. i also did this before i had the spear i think, so i didnt have all the equipment/weapons i'd want necessarily. chucking spears at them from a safe distance probably would have made it easier. could be misremembering how far along i was though, tbh


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9x4hBbD6ZE
I basically did the same thing, kill the main guy first. Every time I tried it in reverse I got smoked.

[spurraider21]

I basically did the same thing, kill the main guy first. Every time I tried it in reverse I got smoked.
yeah looking back i must have done this before the spear and definitely before fighting heimdall, since i didnt have the realm shift relic

[Reck]

Yo baseline bum I see what you were saying about Control. It's a fun game but I have a few problems with it. The checkpoints for one are atrocious. They really said we'll backtrack you half the fucking way. Ugh

The difficulty scaling is also kind of a joke. For the most part I do fine until I have to fight a boss. The spike in difficulty goes through the roof with the boss itself and the enemies thrown at you. Dead in 2 or 3 hits on top of having to keep up with a million things going on at once. I spent and hour and a half trying to figure out that fat fuck boss Salvador. Whose great idea was it to make the whole room so red you can barely see yourself?

And how about the horrific map? lol

[baseline bum]

Yo baseline bum I see what you were saying about Control. It's a fun game but I have a few problems with it. The checkpoints for one are atrocious. They really said we'll backtrack you half the fucking way. Ugh

The difficulty scaling is also kind of a joke. For the most part I do fine until I have to fight a boss. The spike in difficulty goes through the roof with the boss itself and the enemies thrown at you. Dead in 2 or 3 hits on top of having to keep up with a million things going on at once. I spent and hour and a half trying to figure out that fat fuck boss Salvador. Whose great idea was it to make the whole room so red you can barely see yourself?

And how about the horrific map? lol

Haha I was about to complain about how useless the map is.

[spurraider21]

Death taxes and reck complaining games are too hard

[Reck]

Death taxes and reck complaining games are too hard

I wouldn’t be complaining if I was playing on easy would I, genius?

Forgive me for venting on a gaming thread O’ blessed one. Ignore functions works last time I checked.

[baseline bum]

Hvitserkr The Bold really is about the shittiest boss fight I can remember in a game I have played the last few years. Throwing a bunch of scrubs around a boss to make up for them not giving it an interesting moveset is such lame design. The complete opposite of awesome difficult bossfights like Sigrun in the last game or Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne that still felt fair; every death to Hvitserkr just feels cheap.

[spurraider21]

Hvitserkr The Bold really is about the shittiest boss fight I can remember in a game I have played the last few years. Throwing a bunch of scrubs around a boss to make up for them not giving it an interesting moveset is such lame design. The complete opposite of awesome difficult bossfights like Sigrun in the last game or Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne that still felt fair; every death to Hvitserkr just feels cheap.
one thing that helps to know is that you get iframes if you do your blade/chain pull thing on the flying nightmares. as soon as he summons minions, switch to blades, find a nightmare, use the L2+R1 i think, and slam him into another enemy. then use rage to finish off the rest and turn rage back off

[baseline bum]

one thing that helps to know is that you get iframes if you do your blade/chain pull thing on the flying nightmares. as soon as he summons minions, switch to blades, find a nightmare, use the L2+R1 i think, and slam him into another enemy. then use rage to finish off the rest and turn rage back off

I just ended up fighting him really conservatively and chipping away health with the blades. I didn't even bother with the trash mob since he keeps summoning new ones when you kill them. My method was

1. Charge the axe before starting the fight and do a running R2 attack into the spinning ice light runic attack, at which point he'd run away and call the trash mob
2. Then do the heavy runic attack that makes a big circle of ice to get him while also stunning the trash mob
3. Switch to blades and to the heavy runic attack that looks like you kind of clap the blades together and then send out widely to get another couple of hits while also stunning the trash mob a little
4. Switch to the spear and when he charges me after I parry that yellow circle poison attack do the light runic attack where you charge him and keep jagging him with the spear. Saved the heavy runic attack where I send a big AOE of a bunch of spears from the sky for when I want to stun the trash mob for a second.
5. Switch to blades and fight super defensively, saving the light runic attack where I jam both blades into him and do the spinning blade attack after for after parrying his poison attack after charging you.

By super defensively I mean
1. Always keeping my shield up and every enemy in view
2. Only attacking the berserker either when he charges me and I block the two attacks or I parry the poison attack and then snipe 2-3 hits if I don't have poison coming at me from the nightmare -or- when he rises up to do the five explosions on the ground attack I'll circle the arena and charge him to snipe 2-3 hits when he returns to the ground and then quickly circle around so I could see all the enemies again.

And saving the Spartan Rage for when I drop to half health to gain some health back and take 1/2 to 1 bars of his health.

There's no point to even bothering with parrying his poison throws since they just deflect into the trash mob that he replaces anyways if you do kill any of them.

Was ugly but escaped by the skin of my nuts after about 15 tries. First time the poison build was useless in a boss fight for me. Well, not counting those ice and fire springs, those I always use the axe.

[Reck]

Hvitserkr The Bold really is about the shittiest boss fight I can remember in a game I have played the last few years. Throwing a bunch of scrubs around a boss to make up for them not giving it an interesting moveset is such lame design. The complete opposite of awesome difficult bossfights like Sigrun in the last game or Orphan of Kos in Bloodborne that still felt fair; every death to Hvitserkr just feels cheap.

I tried not to worry about the berserkers till after post game. I gave each a few tried on the main campaign but if they were giving me a tough time I'd just move on. The armor sets you get near the end are OP so it became a matter of knowing which ones to use and stack them with enchantments.

Personally went with a lot of cooldown enchantments that made most bosses a joke. I forget which armor buffs realm shift but there is one that you can have that essentially helps you keep realm shift activated for a long time when used back to back.

[baseline bum]

I tried not to worry about the berserkers till after post game. I gave each a few tried on the main campaign but if they were giving me a tough time I'd just move on. The armor sets you get near the end are OP so it became a matter of knowing which ones to use and stack them with enchantments.

Personally went with a lot of cooldown enchantments that made most bosses a joke. I forget which armor buffs realm shift but there is one that you can have that essentially helps you keep realm shift activated for a long time when used back to back.

Nah the berserkers are my favorite part of the game, like the valkyries were in the previous game. I do them as soon as they're reasonably beatable. Eg for the one on ones I'd fight them as long as they didn't have skulls next to their names and took out a couple with purple health bars. For the 2 on 1 I waited until I leveled up enough they both had orange health bars. Might save the three on one until they're yellow though. The only berserker I didn't like was the one that calls all those enemies. Fought him with a yellow health bar so same level.

[spurraider21]

Nah the berserkers are my favorite part of the game, like the valkyries were in the previous game. I do them as soon as they're reasonably beatable. Eg for the one on ones I'd fight them as long as they didn't have skulls next to their names and took out a couple with purple health bars. For the 2 on 1 I waited until I leveled up enough they both had orange health bars. Might save the three on one until they're yellow though. The only berserker I didn't like was the one that calls all those enemies. Fought him with a yellow health bar so same level.
the 2 on 1 guys were pretty high leveled, but it was an easy fight since they almost never attacked you at the same time. usually you just duel one while the other deals with your companion. and then they swap like a wrestling tag team. i ended up beating them with red skull health bars :lol

[baseline bum]

the 2 on 1 guys were pretty high leveled, but it was an easy fight since they almost never attacked you at the same time. usually you just duel one while the other deals with your companion. and then they swap like a wrestling tag team. i ended up beating them with red skull health bars :lol

Ah blow me with your red skull bar two on ones

[spurraider21]

Ah blow me with your red skull bar two on ones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuAtO7TsNGY

[baseline bum]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuAtO7TsNGY

WTF you can resurrect?

[spurraider21]

WTF you can resurrect?
LOL go visit the dwarves and buy a resurrection stone

[Leetonidas]

LOL go visit the dwarves and buy a resurrection stone

:lol I'm seriously gonna lol if bb didn't know about resurrection stones

[baseline bum]

:lol I'm seriously gonna lol if bb didn't know about resurrection stones

Then fucking laugh :lol

Were they in the first game?

[spurraider21]

Then fucking laugh :lol

Were they in the first game?
yes lmaoooo

in both games there were 3 versions. early game you only have access to what i think was called the "simple" resurrection stone, which brings you back with minimal health. then you get the "superior" resurrection stone which brings you back with something like 50% health, which is what i tend to run, especially in ragnarok. and then later in the game you get access to the berserker resurrection stone which brings you back with minimal health but full spartan rage

if you use one, you have to go buy another one from the dwarves. theyre pretty cheap too. this game is basically sekiro tbh :lol

[baseline bum]

yes lmaoooo

in both games there were 3 versions. early game you only have access to what i think was called the "simple" resurrection stone, which brings you back with minimal health. then you get the "superior" resurrection stone which brings you back with something like 50% health, which is what i tend to run, especially in ragnarok. and then later in the game you get access to the berserker resurrection stone which brings you back with minimal health but full spartan rage

if you use one, you have to go buy another one from the dwarves. theyre pretty cheap too. this game is basically sekiro tbh :lol

God damnit that would have made my fight against Sigrun in the first game about 10x easier :pctoss

[baseline bum]

So I have to do all six combinations in Muspelheim to get all 15 crucible challenges... ugh. Think I might wait for the post game to get that shit done.

[Xevious]

So I have to do all six combinations in Muspelheim to get all 15 crucible challenges... ugh. Think I might wait for the post game to get that shit done.
That's what I did. Those challenges were annoying as shit if you're too low of a level imo. Much less painful just to wait until they become easy since you're going to be repeating the same fights over and over again. I really didn't like the timed challenges in the first game either.

Also... :lol resurrection stones.

[baseline bum]

That one with three Berserkers was the hardest imo.

So was that the hardest boss fight period in the game for you? Still getting wrecked by that one.

[spurraider21]

So was that the hardest boss fight period in the game for you? Still getting wrecked by that one.
That and Valkyrie queen

[baseline bum]

That and Valkyrie queen

Is the Valkyrie Queen a missable fight or can I fight her in the post game if I don't do it while I'm still going through the story?

[Reck]

Is the Valkyrie Queen a missable fight or can I fight her in the post game if I don't do it while I'm still going through the story?

You can only fight her post game, IIRC.

[spurraider21]

Is the Valkyrie Queen a missable fight or can I fight her in the post game if I don't do it while I'm still going through the story?
Post game only, not missable

[Xevious]

So was that the hardest boss fight period in the game for you? Still getting wrecked by that one.


That and Valkyrie queen
Ditto

The Berserker King is actually pretty easy once you beat the rest. You should have all the moves memorized by then and he fights on his own.

[spurraider21]

Ditto

The Berserker King is actually pretty easy once you beat the rest. You should have all the moves memorized by then and he fights on his own.
Yeah i didn’t kill him first try or anything but i found him significantly easier than Gna

[baseline bum]

Lunda's armor is trash in that triple berserker fight. Think I'm going to have to go grind out a build based around realm shifts since that seems like it could be an easier way to exploit Svipdagr's aggression jumping at you.

[baseline bum]

Holy fuck that triple berserker fight was a nightmare, but ended up getting it by using Lunda's armor + shield attack + poison by taking down the ice sister and then the red fucker is pretty easy when he's on his own if you have much health left after that.

[spurraider21]

Holy fuck that triple berserker fight was a nightmare, but ended up getting it by using Lunda's armor + shield attack + poison by taking down the ice sister and then the red fucker is pretty easy when he's on his own if you have much health left after that.
yeah some peoples strat was a realm shift build where you just defend/parry against the main guy, and then when you get a realm shift, use that window to chip away at the sisters' health first. i never found success going after the sisters first but to each their own. to me that was the 2nd hardest fight in the game. even having already beaten it on Give Me No Mercy it was the fight i dreaded the most in by GMGOW run

[baseline bum]

yeah some peoples strat was a realm shift build where you just defend/parry against the main guy, and then when you get a realm shift, use that window to chip away at the sisters' health first. i never found success going after the sisters first but to each their own. to me that was the 2nd hardest fight in the game. even having already beaten it on Give Me No Mercy it was the fight i dreaded the most in by GMGOW run

So I take it the valkyrie fight is the hardest? Berserker king doesn't look too bad. The one thing I have problems with him on is that multiple bomb the ground attack with the red circles on the ground because he seems to shoot it off a lot faster than the other berserkers do so haven't beaten him yet.

I know one sister fights Atreus/Freya, but the other one still attacks enough that it was too much for me to try to kill the main guy first, especially when his attacks are so predictable.

[spurraider21]

So I take it the valkyrie fight is the hardest? Berserker king doesn't look too bad. The one thing I have problems with him on is that multiple bomb the ground attack with the red circles on the ground because he seems to shoot it off a lot faster than the other berserkers do so haven't beaten him yet.

I know one sister fights Atreus/Freya, but the other one still attacks enough that it was too much for me to try to kill the main guy first, especially when his attacks are so predictable.
yeah i think triple berserker and valkyrie were the 2 hardest fights for me. some people say berserking king was harder for them, but i didnt see it

sleeper for hardest fight was that damn ormstunga or whatever his name is. that little gremlin miniboss

[baseline bum]

yeah i think triple berserker and valkyrie were the 2 hardest fights for me. some people say berserking king was harder for them, but i didnt see it

sleeper for hardest fight was that damn ormstunga or whatever his name is. that little gremlin miniboss

Weird, I wrecked Ormstunga quick as hell. Don't even remember if I had the Lunda armor back then. Hardest not supposed to be hard fight for me was the draugr hole when Kratos got pissed and sent Atreus to his room and I was left with Freya in that worthless bird form.

Only hard thing about Berserker King is him gaining those two extra health bars, one at 50% and the other at 25%. That big health pool means you make a couple of errors and you're fucked even though there is nothing difficult in itself that he does. Might turn off the locking since that fucks me when he shoots fire into the red circles on the ground.

Also feels like they really nerfed Spartan Rage in this game. Wonder if I should go Wrath instead for the Berserker King fight.

[Xevious]

yeah i think triple berserker and valkyrie were the 2 hardest fights for me. some people say berserking king was harder for them, but i didnt see it

sleeper for hardest fight was that damn ormstunga or whatever his name is. that little gremlin miniboss

:lol wtf was that guy? He looked like a normal mob in just a normal location, but kept wrecking me. Trying to fight at a distance didn't work at all. I basically had to stay on top of him, parry everything I could, and just smother him in a corner.

[spurraider21]

:lol wtf was that guy? He looked like a normal mob in just a normal location, but kept wrecking me. Trying to fight at a distance didn't work at all. I basically had to stay on top of him, parry everything I could, and just smother him in a corner.
could cheese him by staying reaaaaaally far back and just throwing spears at him

[spurraider21]

Weird, I wrecked Ormstunga quick as hell. Don't even remember if I had the Lunda armor back then. Hardest not supposed to be hard fight for me was the draugr hole when Kratos got pissed and sent Atreus to his room and I was left with Freya in that worthless bird form.

Only hard thing about Berserker King is him gaining those two extra health bars, one at 50% and the other at 25%. That big health pool means you make a couple of errors and you're fucked even though there is nothing difficult in itself that he does. Might turn off the locking since that fucks me when he shoots fire into the red circles on the ground.

Also feels like they really nerfed Spartan Rage in this game. Wonder if I should go Wrath instead for the Berserker King fight.
i found draugr holes to be hard at first, but once i realized that the main guy has the same attack pattern every time and a very limited set of combos, became incredibly predictable and trivial. only issue was when other mobs distract you, but i basically would try to bait them out, quickly eliminate them with rage, and then fight main guy 1v1 and it was cake

i think Fury is still very useful because if you just proc it and immediately turn it off, its a very easy "oh shit" button to avoid imminent damage and stagger everyone. you can still basically do that with Wrath + get some useful damage in, but i feel like with Fury you could probably do that quite a few times without refilling your rage meter, whereas with Wrath you are capped at 4 unless you refill your rage. though truth be told, in my big fights against berserkers/gna, etc, i didnt really have to use it more than 3-4 times anyway, so wrath is probably better

fury also still lets you heal up some if you just burn through all of it, so its the most versatile as far as spammabilty + auto stagger enemies + heal + damage output

[spurraider21]

kinda bummed there's been no news about NG+ dropping for Ragnarok. it was a couple of months ago they just said "spring 2023", so we'll see

[baseline bum]

Took down the Berserker King and while he was pretty hard for me, not anywhere close to the triple berserker fight nor the gank mob berserker fight.

[baseline bum]

yeah some peoples strat was a realm shift build where you just defend/parry against the main guy, and then when you get a realm shift, use that window to chip away at the sisters' health first. i never found success going after the sisters first but to each their own. to me that was the 2nd hardest fight in the game. even having already beaten it on Give Me No Mercy it was the fight i dreaded the most in by GMGOW run

It's funny when doing the realm shift build I still hated how little damage I was doing and found out I could still usually sneak hits in on the sisters even without triggering the realm shift, so dumped the realm shift wrist and waist armor and went back to the full Lunda set. Even managed to take the triple berserkers out without equipping my Vanaheim amulet set that added extra damage onto status affected enemies; still had my realm shift relics equipped that were useless without realm shift armor. :lol

Lunda's chest piece with the Vanaheim amulets and the dragon wrist and waist armor is really good in the game though. Instead of getting +40% melee attack onto poisoned enemies you get +50% shield attack without needing the poison plus whatever you inflict on the enemy with poison from your shield. Really eager to see how this build holds up to the Valkyrie Queen once I get there.

[spurraider21]

It's funny when doing the realm shift build I still hated how little damage I was doing and found out I could still usually sneak hits in on the sisters even without triggering the realm shift, so dumped the realm shift wrist and waist armor and went back to the full Lunda set. Even managed to take the triple berserkers out without equipping my Vanaheim amulet set that added extra damage onto status affected enemies; still had my realm shift relics equipped that were useless without realm shift armor. :lol

Lunda's chest piece with the Vanaheim amulets and the dragon wrist and waist armor is really good in the game though. Instead of getting +40% melee attack onto poisoned enemies you get +50% shield attack without needing the poison plus whatever you inflict on the enemy with poison from your shield. Really eager to see how this build holds up to the Valkyrie Queen once I get there.
i know there was some amulet piece that let you do more damage during realm shift, that was nice. when you unlock the berserker chest armor (ironically i think you get that from the triple berserker fight), it gives you that ability that increases your damage dealt (and taken) when triggering a relic. so you combine the realm shift relic with that (in addition to the realm shift damage amulet) and you can really start doing some crazy things

in my GMGOW run it was hilarious how fast i was able to dispatch the late game story bosses (since i went ahead and did all the berserker fights as soon as they were available) by using realm shift that way.

i would build permafrost with my axe, use the L1 + triangle thing to charge it (and used grip of nine realms which automatically triggers realm shift while doing that), got in the full R1 + R1 + R1 + R2 combo, trigger the realm shift relic, and while axe is still charged, do that full combo but with the triple R2 finisher. basically ate through any health the story bosses had like it was nothing

[baseline bum]

Think I have played enough of Ragnarok to rate it a 10/10, better than I rated the 2018 game (9.5/10). The berserker fights are more interesting than the valkyrie fights were in 2018 and overall I think I liked the story better too. Still not really close to taking down Gna, can get her to two health bars but still haven't gotten the timing on her For Asgard stomp when she does the bifrost first down yet, but it's a pretty awesome bossfight. Aside from that one really shitty berserker fight where he calls in trash mobs constantly I think the only thing I haven't liked in the game with the first half of the Jotunheim level you play as Atreus, that was a fucking snore. Bossfight in the second half was good though and made up for it. Really didn't expect they'd be able to recreate the same quality of GOW2018 again, but honestly think they comfortably surpassed it here.

Can't believe people called 2022 a weak year in gaming when we got two games I think were rock solid 10/10 in Elden Ring and Ragnarok. And I can only think of 12 or 13 games ever made I'd rate 10/10, and the previous year I can think of that had two of them was 1998 (Half Life 1 and Fallout 2).

[spurraider21]

Think I have played enough of Ragnarok to rate it a 10/10, better than I rated the 2018 game (9.5/10). The berserker fights are more interesting than the valkyrie fights were in 2018 and overall I think I liked the story better too. Still not really close to taking down Gna, can get her to two health bars but still haven't gotten the timing on her For Asgard stomp when she does the bifrost first down yet, but it's a pretty awesome bossfight. Aside from that one really shitty berserker fight where he calls in trash mobs constantly I think the only thing I haven't liked in the game with the first half of the Jotunheim level you play as Atreus, that was a fucking snore. Bossfight in the second half was good though and made up for it. Really didn't expect they'd be able to recreate the same quality of GOW2018 again, but honestly think they comfortably surpassed it here.

Can't believe people called 2022 a weak year in gaming when we got two games I think were rock solid 10/10 in Elden Ring and Ragnarok. And I can only think of 12 or 13 games ever made I'd rate 10/10, and the previous year I can think of that had two of them was 1998 (Half Life 1 and Fallout 2).
yeah i mean ragnarok was clearly just a technical improvement in every way over 2018. better combat, better enemy variety, more places to explore, a new weapon, shield variety. quality of life improvements like easier traversal with the blades. only place i think the gameplay took a step back was the barehanded/shield combat was toned down a lot. had its own skill tree and everything in 2018

but this game definitely still stands on the shoulders of 2018. i dont think i got the same sense of awe/amazement as i did then. the narrative was tighter in the first game, and i found the pacing of the story to be better. i also felt that for all the buildup, ragnarok itself was kinda rushed.

but i give both games 10/10 personally, both among the top 5 games ive ever played

[Reck]

Took down the Berserker King and while he was pretty hard for me, not anywhere close to the triple berserker fight nor the gank mob berserker fight.

Shift realm build + the hilt you get for defeating the King makes the Valkyrie queen fight a show to behold. For future reference.

[baseline bum]

Fuck me, got Gna to 1/3 of a health bar and choked. Makes me want to chuck my PS5 into fucking traffic.

[lefty]

:lol finally dumped SW Battlefront 2 , got Fallen Order for dirt cheap

No regret so far

[baseline bum]

Wow WTF I just changed Freya's accessories to the one that buffs your attack when she's out of arrows and the one that fires three arrows every third sigil arrow as well as keeping the one that buffs your attack when the enemy is hexed and I massacred Gna like it was nothing, think I took one hit the entire fight and that was only running up on Gna to do a relic attack at the very beginning of the fight. Can't believe changing out two of Freya's accessories took the fight from a drawn out war of attrition I'd always lose to just complete domination. Think I took her out in maybe a minute and a half with that build. Namely:

CHEST ARMOR: Lunda's cuirass (for the poison application)
WRIST AND WAIST ARMOR: The scaled dragon set (for the +50% melee attacks)
SHIELD: Stone Wall Shield with Rond of Affliction (to do big damage on shield bash when enemy is poisoned)
RELIC: Forgot what it's called, the one with a bunch of swords you get from the berserker king
FREYA SWORD: Mardoll (for the bifrost)
FREYA ACCESSORIES: See above
FREYA RUNIC: The one where she throws two swords at the enemy

And then using barehand attacks the whole way and trying to keep as close to Gna as possible. Didn't expect her to be so easily beatable on Give Me No Mercy. Guess I just have the Muspellheim trials left to get the plat.

[spurraider21]

Wow WTF I just changed Freya's accessories to the one that buffs your attack when she's out of arrows and the one that fires three arrows every third sigil arrow as well as keeping the one that buffs your attack when the enemy is hexed and I massacred Gna like it was nothing, think I took one hit the entire fight and that was only running up on Gna to do a relic attack at the very beginning of the fight. Can't believe changing out two of Freya's accessories took the fight from a drawn out war of attrition I'd always lose to just complete domination. Think I took her out in maybe a minute and a half with that build. Namely:

CHEST ARMOR: Lunda's cuirass (for the poison application)
WRIST AND WAIST ARMOR: The scaled dragon set (for the +50% melee attacks)
SHIELD: Stone Wall Shield with Rond of Affliction (to do big damage on shield bash when enemy is poisoned)
RELIC: Forgot what it's called, the one with a bunch of swords you get from the berserker king
FREYA SWORD: Mardoll (for the bifrost)
FREYA ACCESSORIES: See above
FREYA RUNIC: The one where she throws two swords at the enemy

And then using barehand attacks the whole way and trying to keep as close to Gna as possible. Didn't expect her to be so easily beatable on Give Me No Mercy. Guess I just have the Muspellheim trials left to get the plat.
LOL stone wall shield

git gud bro

[baseline bum]

LOL stone wall shield

git gud bro

Meh poison barehand build is better with Stone Wall than Dauntless IMO since in boss fights I'm doing shield bash right before the poison wears off to create an explosion so doesn't matter if my shield gets too heated from blocking. Definitely don't feel the risk vs reward is worth it trying to parry poison projectiles from the gank mob in that one berserker fight, since I'm putting poison on the boss anyways with every strike. And risk vs reward for the projectiles in the 3 on 1 isn't worth it either IMO since I have to keep really close tabs on the red motherfucker when I'm taking the sisters out. Dauntless does have a really nice parry window though. Never even bothered trying the other shields. Anything worth using besides Stone Wall and Dauntless? Might go back and play again with a build based on realm shift like I did in the first game for a second playthrough.

[spurraider21]

Meh poison barehand build is better with Stone Wall than Dauntless IMO since in boss fights I'm doing shield bash right before the poison wears off to create an explosion so doesn't matter if my shield gets too heated from blocking. Definitely don't feel the risk vs reward is worth it trying to parry poison projectiles from the gank mob in that one berserker fight, since I'm putting poison on the boss anyways with every strike. And risk vs reward for the projectiles in the 3 on 1 isn't worth it either IMO since I have to keep really close tabs on the red motherfucker when I'm taking the sisters out. Dauntless does have a really nice parry window though. Never even bothered trying the other shields. Anything worth using besides Stone Wall and Dauntless?
only other one i like is guardian shield.

if im not mistaken, guardian and dauntless are the only ones capable of redirecting projectiles (dauntless does is automatically with the parry, guardian shield requires you to press R1 after the parry).

the benefit of the guardian shield is that the R1 follow up to a parry is insanely quick and basically guarantees that you can interrupt/stagger an enemy even if they are mid combo, whereas with the dauntless shield, if an enemy is doing like a 3 hit combo, you probably dont have time to shield bash after a parry, you have to wait out their combo (or if skilled enough, for maximum stun buildup, parry each attack of their combo), and only then follow up with the shield bash. think thats visible in some of my clips in the 3v1 fight using the dauntless, where i have to parry 3-4 straight swings from the main guy, whereas with guardian you can almost certainly pull off the R1 attack at any point in that combo.

but i like the dauntless because the stun damage is huge and that makes for an easy way to take chunks off bosses HP by building the stun all the way. the auto projectile redirect is nice, and like you said, the shield bash range and quickness is quite good on it. the shield bash range for the guardian shield is actually quite short, so when switching to that after dauntless to try it out, that got me punished a few times

[baseline bum]

Already having Ragnarok withdrawals and really don't want to play anything right now despite a massive backlog. :lol

[spurraider21]

Already having Ragnarok withdrawals and really don't want to play anything right now despite a massive backlog. :lol
thats how i felt after the game. after maybe a few days off, i ended up just starting a second playthrough on GMGOW. was worth it. though by the end i started getting annoyed at not being able to skip some of the cutscenes which were somewhat long. that and the Ironwood part of the game... yeesh

i know in the 2018 game, you were able to skip cutscenes on NG+

[baseline bum]

thats how i felt after the game. after maybe a few days off, i ended up just starting a second playthrough on GMGOW. was worth it. though by the end i started getting annoyed at not being able to skip some of the cutscenes which were somewhat long. that and the Ironwood part of the game... yeesh

i know in the 2018 game, you were able to skip cutscenes on NG+

Probably time for a twelfth playthrough of Persona 4 Golden

[spurraider21]

Probably time for a twelfth playthrough of Persona 4 Golden Remasterd Revisited: Complete Edition

[baseline bum]

Persona's got some real bangers in its soundtracks though. Like this one, killer lyrics, 川村ゆみ killed shit here:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xb4PX3rPg6o

Live with violent manly
Spear inside of consciousness
I'm just one player
Cleveland other coat rack
Hey Greg, fools just don't stop
I see three-way from death
The world is all I sent you

All my righties begged you ring me for
溶けでゆく
Both of my, red or white
Ready for a bridge to nowhere

All my righties begged you ring me for
安らいだ
My loves play with no one
My love's limpy pillar

[baseline bum]

Seriously, prob will jump on Yakuza 7 for a real change of pace after playing Elden Ring and then Ragnarok (with a turn at Control for a few hours in between, but I got bored with it and stopped playing the game).

[Reck]

Been playing Ace combat 7 and Control. Beat Control a few days ago and have been on clean up trophy duty. Got the plat last night and working on the Ace Combat one now.

Did all the multiplayer trophy first (ugh, why must they include these for 100%? :dramaquee) and now working on getting S rank on every mission on Ace diffculty.

https://www.linkpicture.com/q/image_533.png

Collection looking good.

[Leetonidas]

:lol finally dumped SW Battlefront 2 , got Fallen Order for dirt cheap

No regret so far

I really enjoyed Fallen Order. Looking forward to Survivor next month tbh

[baseline bum]

Just started up Yakuza Like a Dragon and rofl that Ichiban talks about all his experience in Dragon Quest games being his training for being a Yakuza loan collector since the turn based combat in the game is basically Dragon Quest's.

[Joseph Kony]

waiting for RE4 to come out. Been kinda bored with the recent newer games i've played. Went back to AC: Odyssey for a bit to kill time

[spurraider21]

waiting for RE4 to come out. Been kinda bored with the recent newer games i've played. Went back to AC: Odyssey for a bit to kill time
i was pretty lukewarm about that game. story got boring/exhaustive. combat was reasonably good though. didnt really feel like assassins creed to me. really hated the enemy/weapon/armor scaling system. but yeah good time killer for sure

[baseline bum]

waiting for RE4 to come out. Been kinda bored with the recent newer games i've played. Went back to AC: Odyssey for a bit to kill time

Surprised you're not jumping on TLOU Part 1 coming to Steam on Tuesday. I'll probably check it out to see if the remake looks that much better than the PS4 version.

[Leetonidas]

Hogwarts got boring pretty quickly. Hoping RE4 lives up to the hype. RE2 remake was amazing but RE3 was awful in comparison. I don't want to buy it until it's on sale but man i don't know what else to play right now :lol

[lefty]

I really enjoyed Fallen Order. Looking forward to Survivor next month tbh
Yeah the sequel looks awesome tbh

I've paused playing JFA until next winter, the weather is getting nicer, I don't wait to stay inside playing games lol

[Joseph Kony]

Surprised you're not jumping on TLOU Part 1 coming to Steam on Tuesday. I'll probably check it out to see if the remake looks that much better than the PS4 version.
if i hadnt got it when it came out on PS5 i would have :lol don't see the point in getting it on PC tbh

[Xevious]

Since I got my PS5 I haven't played anything except Ragnarok. I played about halfway through Miles Morales before getting bored. I have Forbidden West still unopened, just not feeling it. The only shit I have the urge to play are things I've already beat multiple times for whatever reason.

[baseline bum]

if i hadnt got it when it came out on PS5 i would have :lol don't see the point in getting it on PC tbh

No Denuvo so you can get it free tbh

[spurraider21]

Hogwarts got boring pretty quickly. Hoping RE4 lives up to the hype. RE2 remake was amazing but RE3 was awful in comparison. I don't want to buy it until it's on sale but man i don't know what else to play right now :lol
i was never a RE fan, but my god the RE2 remake was a hell of a game

[baseline bum]

Hogwarts got boring pretty quickly. Hoping RE4 lives up to the hype. RE2 remake was amazing but RE3 was awful in comparison. I don't want to buy it until it's on sale but man i don't know what else to play right now :lol

Persona 4 Golden tbh

[baseline bum]

if i hadnt got it when it came out on PS5 i would have :lol don't see the point in getting it on PC tbh

System requirements just came out: i7-9700k/Ryzen 5 5600X + RX 6750 XT / RTX 2080 Ti for 1440p60. I should be right at that range with an i5-12400F + RX 6700 XT. Hope it's a good port.

[baseline bum]

i was never a RE fan, but my god the RE2 remake was a hell of a game

The last game I played on my GTX 970 before it crapped out in 2019. That card was from the last time PC gaming was decent value.

[Leetonidas]

i was never a RE fan, but my god the RE2 remake was a hell of a game
Me either. But yeah that was an awesome remake which made the RE3 remake so disappointing. But 4 is getting rave reviews so far so hoping its at least as good as RE2

[baseline bum]

Oh man I'm dying laughing playing Yakuza Like a Dragon. In one mission you're trying to plant a phone so you can listen in on a conversation in a completely full coffee shop with no seats available and a doorman blocking anyone from entering so your teammate hatches up a plan to say he needs to use the restroom. The way you're supposed to ask to use the bathroom in Japan is お手洗いに行きたいんですが・・・ as in "I want to go the bathroom but..." and the other person is supposed to finish your sentence for you by telling you where. Instead your teammate says クソ漏れそうだよ！ which is something along the lines of "Looks like my shit's leaking!" literally, or figuratively "Looks like I'm shitting my pants!" Holy fuck that line killed me, I can't imagine hearing a Japanese person say that to an employee of some place he's asking to use the bathroom at. :rollin

[ElNono]

Hogwarts got boring pretty quickly. Hoping RE4 lives up to the hype. RE2 remake was amazing but RE3 was awful in comparison. I don't want to buy it until it's on sale but man i don't know what else to play right now :lol

It's actually pretty good after you get some stuff like the broom. Way too chatty early on, but if you can survive that it does pick up somewhat.

[resistanze]

Finally going through TLOU2. Still have Control, Deathloop in queue.

[chunticakes]

RE4 is legit. I never played the OG so I'm not too keen on the differences. But I'm enjoying it so far

[baseline bum]

PC port of The Last of Us Part 1 seems to have real problems on 8GB cards, ouch. Glad I got a 12GB 6700 XT.

[baseline bum]

So using an i5-12400F, 16GB of DDR4-3200, and an RX 6700 XT The Last of Us Part 1 has taken ten minutes to get 9% of the shader cache built. WTF this is so slow, is this the new norm for PoorC gaming? Still better than compiling shader cache as the game goes and getting stutters like you get in Elden Ring I guess.

[baseline bum]

if i hadnt got it when it came out on PS5 i would have :lol don't see the point in getting it on PC tbh

JFC this port makes Arkham Knight look good. I was fucking pissed I was getting mid 50s framerate at 1440p high so for shits changed the resolution to 1080p and reloaded the same section and now see I dropped 10-15 fps by going from 1440p down to 1080p what the fuck? Also the port was done by the same fuckheads Iron Galaxy who screwed up the Arkham Knight port so badly Steam had to start allowing refunds on games. LOL the Steam reviews are "Mostly Negative".

[baseline bum]

This fucking port :lmao

Starting at the 3:04 mark :rollin


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWfTypsVQ04&t=185s

[baseline bum]

Looking good, Joel

https://i.redd.it/2y9twptw6qqa1.jpg

[spurraider21]

:lol poorc

just play on console like god intended

[Joseph Kony]

JFC this port makes Arkham Knight look good. I was fucking pissed I was getting mid 50s framerate at 1440p high so for shits changed the resolution to 1080p and reloaded the same section and now see I dropped 10-15 fps by going from 1440p down to 1080p what the fuck? Also the port was done by the same fuckheads Iron Galaxy who screwed up the Arkham Knight port so badly Steam had to start allowing refunds on games. LOL the Steam reviews are "Mostly Negative".

Holy shit :lol thats fucking bullshit. Why would ND and Sony trust that shit studio to port this to PC? Everything else has been amazing, they really dropped the ball

[baseline bum]

Holy shit :lol thats fucking bullshit. Why would ND and Sony trust that shit studio to port this to PC? Everything else has been amazing, they really dropped the ball

It's so bad control stops working for a second or two every 30 seconds despite me having a pretty modern system that tears though hard to run games like Cyberpunk at 1440p.

[Xevious]

Looking good, Joel

https://i.redd.it/2y9twptw6qqa1.jpg

Looks like it was ported by Telltale tbh.

[lefty]

Looking good, Joel

https://i.redd.it/2y9twptw6qqa1.jpg



:lol Is this oil painting?

Freaking woke libtards

[ElNono]

:lmao damn what a shit port... shoulda used Jetpack like GOAT of War

[baseline bum]

What's funny is TLOU Part 1 plays pretty cleanly if I plug my DualSense in via USB. Except for the fucking stick drift. But control is completely broken if I use my XBox game pad which works great with every other PC game I have ever tried.

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/Jt08Bz2/Screenshot-20230405-175820-Chrome.png

[spurraider21]

Ragnarok NG+ is out
baseline bum get in here

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/04/05/god-of-war-ragnarok-new-game-plus-is-available-now/

[baseline bum]

Ragnarok NG+ is out
baseline bum get in here

https://blog.playstation.com/2023/04/05/god-of-war-ragnarok-new-game-plus-is-available-now/

Nice, but deep into Yakuza Like a Dragon right now and no way I'm stopping that game. I gotta solder a new stick into my DualSense to play Ragnarok again anyways.

[Joseph Kony]

Fucking RE4 save file got corrupted somehow so I had to start over :pctoss I wasnt too far in (just beaten the lake monster) though so getting back there wasnt too difficult the 2nd time. still annoying though. but aside from that it's been great. I never played the original so cant compare it to that but it's just been the best "new" game i've played in awhile

[spurraider21]

started NG+ yesterday. played until i you first get to sindri's house. so far it feels a lot like NG+ from 2018 (even on GMGOW) in that regular enemies just seem significantly easier to deal with even with them being leveled up, but bosses definitely pack more punch so you can get dropped pretty quick if not careful.

havent messed around much yet with new armor/enchantments yet. but part im most looking forward to in NG+, just like 2018, is the boss fights. particularly stuff like the berserkers and valkyrie queen, tho really not looking forward to the 3v1 berserker fight

[baseline bum]

havent messed around much yet with new armor/enchantments yet. but part im most looking forward to in NG+, just like 2018, is the boss fights. particularly stuff like the berserkers and valkyrie queen, tho really not looking forward to the 3v1 berserker fight

The 3 on 1 is at least still a pretty fun fight. The berserker who summons never ending trash mobs is the annoying one. Curious who you think was harder between Gna and Sigrun. I thought Gna was really hard on Give Me No Mercy with my shield + poison build until I saw there was an upgrade I could do to Freya to buff my attack when out of arrows, which made the fight way easier since my attacks were already crazy buffed from the poison and I beat Gna on my first attempt after unlocking that buff on Freya. But when I fought Sigrun I had a build that depended a lot on gaining health back in rage mode and I was always accidentally going into it at the wrong time vs Sigrun (thank god you could change rage mode to circle plus cross on Ragnarok), and I think I didn't know you could use resurrection stones in the first game. Shit I don't think I learned about resurrection stones until fighting the 3 on 1 in Ragnarok. :lol

[spurraider21]

The 3 on 1 is at least still a pretty fun fight. The berserker who summons never ending trash mobs is the annoying one. Curious who you think was harder between Gna and Sigrun. I thought Gna was really hard on Give Me No Mercy with my shield + poison build until I saw there was an upgrade I could do to Freya to buff my attack when out of arrows, which made the fight way easier since my attacks were already crazy buffed from the poison and I beat Gna on my first attempt after unlocking that buff on Freya. But when I fought Sigrun I had a build that depended a lot on gaining health back in rage mode and I was always accidentally going into it at the wrong time vs Sigrun (thank god you could change rage mode to circle plus cross on Ragnarok), and I think I didn't know you could use resurrection stones in the first game. Shit I don't think I learned about resurrection stones until fighting the 3 on 1 in Ragnarok. :lol
i think sigrun took me more attempts than gna. but i was better at gow combat by the time i played ragnarok.

i remember even having beaten sigrun once, beating her on GMGOW+ was still brutally difficult and took a ton of tries as well. im hopeful that its the same with Gna in NG+

[scott]

So NG+ is just a harder version of the game? Man, fuck that - I'm too much of a bot for that shit. :lol

[baseline bum]

i think sigrun took me more attempts than gna. but i was better at gow combat by the time i played ragnarok.

i remember even having beaten sigrun once, beating her on GMGOW+ was still brutally difficult and took a ton of tries as well. im hopeful that its the same with Gna in NG+

So the boy is going to learn how to cuss out the TV like daddy?

[baseline bum]

Wow looks like the Persona 3 remake rumor might actually be true. Persona 3 in Persona 5's engine would be unreal. Much better than the PSP port just released a few months ago.

1644990912328798208

[baseline bum]

Bunch of Persona 5 Royal for PS4 DLC is free now

https://store.playstation.com/en-us/product/UP0177-CUSA17416_00-PERSONA5RDLCPACK

[daboom1]

Empire of Sin is like XCOM 2 but with 1920's mobsters. Pretty cool :tu

[scott]

Anyone play Warzone 2 on PC? Having issues where my VRAM usage is like 80% during game play, even though in the settings it only calculates out to being like 25% at most. I have a 3090, so it’s pretty frustrating to say the least.

[baseline bum]

Anyone play Warzone 2 on PC? Having issues where my VRAM usage is like 80% during game play, even though in the settings it only calculates out to being like 25% at most. I have a 3090, so it’s pretty frustrating to say the least.

Is it stuttering or something? Lots of games you'll see most of your VRAM being allocated but it'll still only need the amount the settings menu tells you.

[scott]

Yeah, the performance definitely is not up to top shape and I see stuttering from time to time. On WZ my VRAM usuage was typically always under 30%, so seeing it up around 80% alarmed me. In the settings menu (unfortunately I’m traveling now so can’t take a pic) it even shows that game usage + other apps should still only be around 30% VRAM usage.

However, I will also note that my latency is high (> 100 ms) because I’m in Hawaii.

[baseline bum]

Yeah, the performance definitely is not up to top shape and I see stuttering from time to time. On WZ my VRAM usuage was typically always under 30%, so seeing it up around 80% alarmed me. In the settings menu (unfortunately I’m traveling now so can’t take a pic) it even shows that game usage + other apps should still only be around 30% VRAM usage.

However, I will also note that my latency is high (> 100 ms) because I’m in Hawaii.

Is your cpu old or something? Always thought cpu should be the first culprit in online games.

[scott]

Same age as the GPU, Ryzen 9. I built a pretty sick machine during the pandemic, that definitely should not be encountering issues like these already.

[baseline bum]

Same age as the GPU, Ryzen 9. I built a pretty sick machine during the pandemic, that definitely should not be encountering issues like these already.

Which Ryzen 9? Is it a 5950x? Or say a 3950x? 3000 series is a little weak these days. 5000 series though is still really strong.

[scott]

I went balls out on the build, so I’m pretty sure it’s a 5950.

[baseline bum]

I went balls out on the build, so I’m pretty sure it’s a 5950.

Just wondering since the RTX 3090 came out a couple of months before the Ryzen 5000 series. Are you perhaps only using one stick of RAM or say three sticks of RAM so it's not in dual channel? If your RAM isn't in dual channel it can really slow the hell out of an awesome system. Or maybe you have dust built up in the fans of your cpu, gpu, etc? I had a friend who I had built a pretty nice gaming PC who wanted to replace it with some crap off Best Buy's shelf a couple years later because he said it was running really slow, I opened it up and it was caked in dirt so told him to buy a couple of cans of air and we cleaned that fucker out and it was running like brand new again. :lol

[Joseph Kony]

This is why i always play shooters on PS5 vs PC :lol that and chinese hackers

[scott]

I’ll open her up and dust her off when I get home and also check the specs, make sure all the RAM is seated, etc. Good call on all of these.

[scott]

This is why i always play shooters on PS5 vs PC :lol that and chinese hackers

Shit, with cross play, you’re gonna get the hackers one way or another! Lol Ricochet anti-cheat

[baseline bum]

This is why i always play shooters on PS5 vs PC :lol that and chinese hackers

IDK online shooters are usually very cpu bound and consoles tend to have lower end cpus in them. Was majorly the case last gen when all versions of PS4 and XBox One had cpus far far weaker than even the scrubby Faildozer AMD FX-6100 while typical gaming systems had at least the far far superior i5-2500k. Not as drastic this gen but the cpus in the PS5 and Series X/S are basically slightly underclocked Ryzen 7 2700X. Which is still a fine cpu for running games 60 fps but quite a bit weaker than a Ryzen 5 5600 or up or i5-12400F or up. Hell the i3-12100F will usually destroy the Ryzen 7 2700X in gaming.

[baseline bum]

I’ll open her up and dust her off when I get home and also check the specs, make sure all the RAM is seated, etc. Good call on all of these.

Another thing is if you're running two sticks of RAM, they have to be in certain slots to get dual channel. Your motherboard manual will tell you where, though in every board I have ever built on you'll want to put them in slot 1 and slot 3 or slot 2 and slot 4. If you put your RAM in slot 1 and slot 2 for example it'll run single channel instead of dual channel I think.

[scott]

I’ve got 4 sticks in there

[scott]

System had a little bit of dust, but definitely wouldn't say it was bad at all. Turns out is is a 3900x 12-core in there. Gonna mess around with some driver updates and see if that helps. Might even uninstall and reinstall for the hell of it.

[baseline bum]

System had a little bit of dust, but definitely wouldn't say it was bad at all. Turns out is is a 3900x 12-core in there. Gonna mess around with some driver updates and see if that helps. Might even uninstall and reinstall for the hell of it.

Are you targeting 144 fps / 165 fps or something high like that? And what resolution? Shooters tend to be pretty cpu bound and a 3900x isn't a great fit with a 3090 when it comes to gaming these days if you're trying to push high framerate instead of high resolution. Even the Ryzen 5 5600 that can be found new on amazon for $140 beats the 3900x in gaming when cpu bound by like 20% in this testsuite from Techpowerup done at 720p to force a cpu bound:

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-5-5600/14.html

https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-5-5600/images/relative-performance-games-1280-720.png

With a BIOS update you could likely upgrade your cpu up to a Ryzen 7 5800x3D on your board and the 5800x3D is by far the best gaming cpu on AM4. It's only 8 cores but it has the benefit of much better IPC from the newer Zen architecture of the 5000 series plus a big bump in cache per core, both of which make it really well suited for high refresh rate gaming.

Of course I would run a program like MSI Afterburner with RTSS stats turned on to test your gameplay. If your gpu usage isn't 95%+ when you're seeing stutters it's not the gpu's fault, and is likely the cpu and/or RAM's fault.

Ryzen 9 3900x is actually pretty close to the gaming performance the current gen consoles have in their cpus. PS5 and XBox Series S/X have what's equivalent to slightly underclocked Ryzen 7 3700x and core count above 6 isn't really showing much benefit these days. It's one of the reasons on youtube you'll see ridiculous videos from PC Master Race complaining that the PS5 and Series X are like an i3 and a GTX 1070 because they'll test shooters in 120 Hz mode and the Ryzen 7 3700x equivalents in the consoles don't hold up as well as say an i3-12100F when you're cpu bound.

[baseline bum]

Though the king of the hill for gaming right now is the Ryzen 7 7800x3D, but you'd need a new board and DDR5 RAM for it. The x3D chips have extra cache vs the standard Ryzen chips and target gaming performance.

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d/18.html

https://tpucdn.com/review/amd-ryzen-7-7800x3d/images/relative-performance-games-1280-720.png

[baseline bum]

Another problem could be are you running your RAM full speed? Especially when cpu bound if you're running your RAM at the DDR4-2133 speed that your BIOS would probably default to you could be leaving a lot of performance on the table. Especially for times when your framerate dips, as RAM speed can have a noticeable effect on the minimum framerates you see. I remember when I upgraded my RAM from DDR3-1600 to DDR3-2400 I went from having one area in GTA V that would drop into the low 50s fps every time to it staying above 60 fps. Fallout 4 was another cpu bound game that I improved my minimum framerates by about 15% just from the faster system RAM. You'll definitely want to run your RAM at its rated XMP profile. On AMD it seems to be called DOCP or EOCP, depending on who made your board, while it's called XMP on Intel.

[scott]

Thanks amigo. I'll try some of this stuff, as soon as I actually figured out how to do any of it :lol

I built this PC, but I'm definitely not a computer guy. I picked out all the specs by walking into Microcenter after my 2070 went on the fritz, and said I wanted to build a monster machine (it was the pandemic, and we were all spending a lot of time at home working, and then playing Warzone after the kids went to bed). The little nerdy dude pointed me at all the shit, and I bought it.

Will work on figuring out more sheet - really appreciate you responding.

[scott]

. duplicate post

[baseline bum]

Thanks amigo. I'll try some of this stuff, as soon as I actually figured out how to do any of it :lol

I built this PC, but I'm definitely not a computer guy. I picked out all the specs by walking into Microcenter after my 2070 went on the fritz, and said I wanted to build a monster machine (it was the pandemic, and we were all spending a lot of time at home working, and then playing Warzone after the kids went to bed). The little nerdy dude pointed me at all the shit, and I bought it.

Will work on figuring out more sheet - really appreciate you responding.

Here is how to setup a MSI Afterburner to show your stats


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPOQ77219fE

[Reck]

Dead Island 2 looks fucking sexy and fun.

It’s looking to be what Dying Light 2 didn’t live up to. I’m getting the itch to play a zombie game after a few years of burn out on the genre.

[baseline bum]

Dead Island 2 looks fucking sexy and fun.

It’s looking to be what Dying Light 2 didn’t live up to. I’m getting the itch to play a zombie game after a few years of burn out on the genre.

I hope it's good because I have a free copy coming at launch that I got with my gpu, but this game has been in development like 10-12 years and kept getting delayed and changed studios multiple times, so I'd say not to get your hopes too high with this one. Same dev team that did Homefront The Revolution, so if this is good it'll be their first.

[Joseph Kony]

I hope it's good because I have a free copy coming at launch that I got with my gpu, but this game has been in development like 10-12 years and kept getting delayed and changed studios multiple times, so I'd say not to get your hopes too high with this one. Same dev team that did Homefront The Revolution, so if this is good it'll be their first.

Homefront might be the worst game i've ever played :lol not gonna hold my breath on this. I absolutely loved Dying Light but Dead Island was trash imo

speaking of DL - since it was free the other day on Epic (even though i already owned it on Steam :lol) ive been playing through it again. GOAT zombie game (if you dont consider LoU infected to be zombies)

[baseline bum]

LOL one of the moves you can do in battle in Yakuza like a Dragon is pull out a magic wand and massage yourself :lmao


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_XaAfwywqs

(sorry, that was the best video I could find of it)

[Reck]

I hope it's good because I have a free copy coming at launch that I got with my gpu, but this game has been in development like 10-12 years and kept getting delayed and changed studios multiple times, so I'd say not to get your hopes too high with this one. Same dev team that did Homefront The Revolution, so if this is good it'll be their first.

Oh yeah there’s no way I’m buying this game day 1. I’ll see what the reviews say.

I’m currently on my platinum play through of P5 Royal.

Thought about picking it up from my old save with the base game since I have roughly 30 or so trophies already but Royal has more content and I needed a refresh on gameplay anyway.

[baseline bum]

Oh yeah there’s no way I’m buying this game day 1. I’ll see what the reviews say.

I’m currently on my platinum play through of P5 Royal.

Thought about picking it up from my old save with the base game since I have roughly 30 or so trophies already but Royal has more content and I needed a refresh on gameplay anyway.

Nice. If there is a good sale on it in Golden Week next month I highly recommend Persona 4 Golden too.

[Reck]

I hope it's good because I have a free copy coming at launch that I got with my gpu, but this game has been in development like 10-12 years and kept getting delayed and changed studios multiple times, so I'd say not to get your hopes too high with this one. Same dev team that did Homefront The Revolution, so if this is good it'll be their first.

You’ve been playing?

it’s gotten good reviews across the board thus far so that’s good.

[baseline bum]

You’ve been playing?

it’s gotten good reviews across the board thus far so that’s good.

Looks like fun but I have so many heavy hitters in my backlog right now and I'm not going to put it ahead of Horizon Forbidden West, Demon's Souls, Miles Morales, Shin Megami Tensei V, Judgment, Like a Dragon Ishin, or Cyberpunk and I'm playing Yakuza Like a Dragon right now, will probably play Zelda at launch when it comes out next month, and maybe FFXVI in June. Dead Island 2 is probably going pretty deep in my backlog, especially with Spiderman 2, Like a Dragon 8, Like a Dragon Gaiden, Starfield, and Final Fantasy VII Remake Part 2 slated for release this year. Ugh I gotta stop buying games. :lol

And forgot TLOU Part 1 now that the PC port has become less shitty and my hardware can finally brute force it into acceptable 1440p performance.

[spurraider21]

Finally got to a berserker fight in NG+… just the basic one from Midgard. And man, the difficulty increase in the fight was noticeable. Most of the game, as is typically the case, is easier in NG+ because your character is broken by then. But they definitely tuned up the berserkers. Definitely dreading the gank fights now

[spurraider21]

in addition to the berserkers having some new movesets, just seems they do insane damage on GMGOW+. most berserker fights ive been getting killed in one hit. and they have hyperarmor out the gate so you usually cant open fights with significant runic spam.

and baseline bum (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=131), in that fight you hated where the berserker kept spawning more minions, those guys spawn in WITH hyperarmor so you cant just quickly dispose of them the way i used to. and those guys would kill me in 2 hits or so.

ive found the best way to engage these fights is just the busted endgame set... use the full berserker armor set and the hilt you got from berserker king. just use the relic at every opportunity and let it do the damage for you, then just survive until it refreshes. the armor set helps refresh your relic either by landing attacks or blocking/parrying.

but fuck this fight in particular. i dont mind difficult fights, but these fights with multiple enemies lead to such bullshit deaths where i feel like theres no ability to respond. the one on one fights are still challenging and very fun to engage head on. very much looking forward to hrolf and gna later. i'd probably make a more realm shift build for those. but these gank fights force me to fight this way instead. i went berserker hunting as soon as i was able to access them, so i think i have one left in the crater area of vanaheim and then its just the endgame ones in niflheim and hrolf


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1x1qLQubWNo

[baseline bum]

So Jedi Survivor looks to be dogshit on PC. I saw a German stream where they got an advance copy and were pulling 35 fps at 1440p with a Ryzen 5 5900X and an RTX 4090. ROFL using 18GB of VRAM at 1440p.

[Leetonidas]

Dead island 2 is solid. I honestly am enjoying it more than Dying Light 2

[baseline bum]

Dead island 2 is solid. I honestly am enjoying it more than Dying Light 2

It definitely looks way better than Dying Light 2. Dying Light 2 somehow had the ability to look like shit and run like shit together, and the game was so broken on PS5.

[Leetonidas]

It definitely looks way better than Dying Light 2. Dying Light 2 somehow had the ability to look like shit and run like shit together, and the game was so broken on PS5.

Glad I played it on series x then :lol I had a couple audio bugs but nothing major. It just was not up to the standards of the first game. No guns, shitty grappling hook, weak story, a bunch of stuff that was fun about part 1 was missing from part 2. Just a disappointing game overall

[baseline bum]

Glad I played it on series x then :lol I had a couple audio bugs but nothing major. It just was not up to the standards of the first game. No guns, shitty grappling hook, weak story, a bunch of stuff that was fun about part 1 was missing from part 2. Just a disappointing game overall

I played it on PS5 about three months after launch and literally 1/3 of story missions would bug out and require me to reload a save. Like someone I needed to interact with to do the mission wouldn't spawn or I'd spawn stuck in a room with the doors locked. Even without the bugs I would have thought it was a shitty game though. Biggest disappointment was how boring combat was. The first game you'd be slicing zombies heads off constantly, cutting their arms off, all sorts of fun violent shit. But in DL2 most of the combat felt like the first hour of DL1 when you were just smacking zombies with table legs and pipes and you'd get none of the satisfying gore that you'd get once you had swords and sickles and stuff.

[koriwhat]

Anyone of yall "play" The Quarry? My lady is into zombies and we have my XB1 at her pad so I got her that game and she loves it, because it's not much gaming at all and mainly just a movie of sorts, but she's wanting me to get her Dying Light on my PS4.

I've been pretty blown away though by how real at times The Quarry looks on the XB1 and can't even imagine what it might look like on a new gen console.

I see Dyling Light got great reviews so I guess I'll be getting it soon for my lady. I'm glad she's been wanting to game recently so I can do my hobbies in peace while at her place. :lol

[baseline bum]

Anyone of yall "play" The Quarry? My lady is into zombies and we have my XB1 at her pad so I got her that game and she loves it, because it's not much gaming at all and mainly just a movie of sorts, but she's wanting me to get her Dying Light on my PS4.

I've been pretty blown away though by how real at times The Quarry looks on the XB1 and can't even imagine what it might look like on a new gen console.

I see Dyling Light got great reviews so I guess I'll be getting it soon for my lady. I'm glad she's been wanting to game recently so I can do my hobbies in peace while at her place. :lol

Never played The Quarry, but Dying Light 1 is such violent fun. It's made to look like a bad zombie B-movie and has the ominous music down and I love the art style, especially the way the lighting is done just gives the area a creepy vibe. The combat feels slow and clunky at first but once you're like 2-3 hours into it and can start equipping swords and sickles it really becomes a ton of violent fun. Story is nothing special but action is awesome and it's so addictive. I think I played through it four times and I don't usually give games second playthroughs. Dying Light 2 sucks though, such a disappointing game. Like half the people who post in the Tech forum were addicted to Dying Light 1 back in 2015 when it came out. And I think it still holds up great today.

[koriwhat]

Never played The Quarry, but Dying Light 1 is such violent fun. It's made to look like a bad zombie B-movie and has the ominous music down and I love the art style, especially the way the lighting is done just gives the area a creepy vibe. The combat feels slow and clunky at first but once you're like 2-3 hours into it and can start equipping swords and sickles it really becomes a ton of violent fun. Story is nothing special but action is awesome and it's so addictive. I think I played through it four times and I don't usually give games second playthroughs. Dying Light 2 sucks though, such a disappointing game. Like half the people who post in the Tech forum were addicted to Dying Light 1 back in 2015 when it came out. And I think it still holds up great today.

Thanks for the analysis bro! :tu

Yeah my lady seems to be excited over DL1's trailer and reviews so I guess it's a foregone conclusion that I'll end up buying it for her this week. Glad I got the consoles and she's getting into games so I can have some more time doing my computer shit and whatnot while she's gaming.

[Reck]

So Jedi Survivor looks to be dogshit on PC. I saw a German stream where they got an advance copy and were pulling 35 fps at 1440p with a Ryzen 5 5900X and an RTX 4090. ROFL using 18GB of VRAM at 1440p.

:lol EA

All these studios expecting people to pay 75 bucks for broken games. Lmao

Deep discount like I did with the first. I bought Fallen Order for like 10 dollars. Lol

[baseline bum]

:lol EA

All these studios expecting people to pay 75 bucks for broken games. Lmao

Deep discount like I did with the first. I bought Fallen Orders for like 10 dollars. Lol

I played it on XBox Game Pass for $1. And fucking hated the game so quit after two hours. :lol

You check the Golden Week Sale? Persona 4 Golden for $15 on PSN.

[baseline bum]

I'm pretty close to finishing Yakuza Like a Dragon and Zelda Tears of the Kingdom will probably leak late next week so prob won't play shit for a few days after finishing Yakuza.

[Reck]

I played it on XBox Game Pass for $1. And fucking hated the game so quit after two hours. :lol

You check the Golden Week Sale? Persona 4 Golden for $15 on PSN.

Yeah I saw that. I’m thinking about it.

I kinda want to buy the Dishonored+Prey collection pack that’s going for 24 too. Got wayyyy too many games on the backlog though.

[ElNono]

Anyone of yall "play" The Quarry? My lady is into zombies and we have my XB1 at her pad so I got her that game and she loves it, because it's not much gaming at all and mainly just a movie of sorts, but she's wanting me to get her Dying Light on my PS4.

I've been pretty blown away though by how real at times The Quarry looks on the XB1 and can't even imagine what it might look like on a new gen console.

I see Dyling Light got great reviews so I guess I'll be getting it soon for my lady. I'm glad she's been wanting to game recently so I can do my hobbies in peace while at her place. :lol

I played it when it came out. It was ok, definitely lots of production value in it, but you have to like that kind of games.

[baseline bum]

Looks like Zelda Tears of the Kingdom has leaked 11 days early

[spurraider21]

cleaning up the last of NG+ of ragnarok... i believe all i have left are the valkyire queen, berserker king, and the final muspelheim trials.

i would usually save queen for last since imo shes the toughest fight in the game (cant imagine how much tougher shes gonna be on NG+)... but i would get the last piece of the Zeus armor by beating her. want to have at least a little bit of fun with that set lol. end of this week im flying out to LA for about a month, so gonna be a while before i can play again

[Reck]

Shocking..another major release, another major fuck up.

This time it was Arkane’s time to shit the bed. Redfall is beyond broken.

[baseline bum]

Shocking..another major release, another major fuck up.

This time it was Arkane’s time to shit the bed. Redfall is beyond broken.

Starting to wonder if everything Microsoft touches turns to shit. Was not at all expecting Arkane of all studios to drop such a turd given their stellar reputation the last 10+ years. With Halo Infinite and Redfall both being lousy Microsoft is off to one dogshit start this console gen. God if Starfield is a dud too. Isn't their only good exclusive this gen Forza Horizon 5?

[spurraider21]

baseline bum


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUYUp6UEN5M

[Reck]

Interesting move by Sony. They just released a standalone Spider Man remastered version for the PS5. I already own the GOTY edition so upgrade is only 10.

Spider Man 2 must really be close to getting a release date.

[baseline bum]

Interesting move by Sony. They just released a standalone Spider Man remastered version for the PS5. I already own the GOTY edition so upgrade is only 10.

Spider Man 2 must really be close to getting a release date.

I'd spend the $10 for it if you haven't played the first game yet. The 60 fps and the raytraced reflections are both awesome.

[ElNono]

The Redfall reviews :lmao:lmao:lmao

Phil Spencer having to come out and bend the knee :lol

[spurraider21]

it is done

Gna and Hrolf fights on GMGOW+ were freakin amazing. they definitely have some different moves from the regular NG versions. i made the fuckup of not creating save states before the fights to replay them tho

fought Gna with just the full max leveled berserker armor. build probably wasnt optimal, since all my grips/handles were the ones that realm shift when you activate the L1 + triangle thing. which are great attachments imo but have no synergy with the rest of my build.

basically just used spartan rage as a bailout for when i whiffed on a parry or somethin. could have used Fury, but Wrath is nice since you can at least mix that in with a nice chunk of damage while only using 1/4 of your rage


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djdmt_0x8dI

overall NG+ is meh as usual but the boss fights were outstanding compared to NG. even Odin was giving me issues and im not sure i died more than once to him in my NG playthroughs

[baseline bum]

OK Tears of the Kingdom is pretty damn good. Not too deep in the game yet but a really cool world to explore. Guessing this is going to clean up on GOTY awards again.

[Joseph Kony]

Jedi Survivor, shitty performance and screen tearing issues on the PS5 aside, is damn good so far

[Cry Havoc]

Apex, Dirt Rally 2.0/AMS2 in VR, TLOU on PC, Witcher 3 again, bit of Rocket League, etc.

My backlog is a mile long.

[baseline bum]

Apex, Dirt Rally 2.0/AMS2 in VR, TLOU on PC, Witcher 3 again, bit of Rocket League, etc.

My backlog is a mile long.

Did that come with your 7900 XT? I got Callisto Protocol and Dead Island 2 with my 6700 XT, might have to jump into the latter in late summer when there isn't shit coming out.

[Cry Havoc]

Did that come with your 7900 XT? I got Callisto Protocol and Dead Island 2 with my 6700 XT, might have to jump into the latter in late summer when there isn't shit coming out.

Yep. Got that with my gpu and the new star wars game with my cpu.

Tlou ran like absolute garbage on my 3070, was choking on medium settings at 40fps with dips to 20. Refunded that shit and ended up getting it for free anyway.

Patches have obviously helped but the 7900 runs it maxed out locked at 80fps and could probably go up to 90 as I still have some headroom.

[baseline bum]

Yep. Got that with my gpu and the new star wars game with my cpu.

Tlou ran like absolute garbage on my 3070, was choking on medium settings at 40fps with dips to 20. Refunded that shit and ended up getting it for free anyway.

Patches have obviously helped but the 7900 runs it maxed out locked at 80fps and could probably go up to 90 as I still have some headroom.

Was that at 1440p that the 3070 was choking? My 6700 XT was getting like 35 fps on 1440p high with 35-65% gpu usage until I turned off resizeable BAR in the BIOS and then I immediately jumped to 50-80 fps at 1440p high with 99% gpu usage constantly.

[Cry Havoc]

Was that at 1440p that the 3070 was choking? My 6700 XT was getting like 35 fps on 1440p high with 35-65% gpu usage until I turned off resizeable BAR in the BIOS and then I immediately jumped to 50-80 fps at 1440p high with 99% gpu usage constantly.

3440x1440, yeah. Even dlss didn't help much. Amd is a far better option right now both cpu and gpu wise.

[baseline bum]

Tlou ran like absolute garbage on my 3070, was choking on medium settings at 40fps with dips to 20. Refunded that shit and ended up getting it for free anyway.


Though what cpu are you running? Another factor could be how shitty Nvidia's DX12 drivers are. They have huge overhead compared to AMD's DX12 drivers, which is why Jedi Survivor was running like total crap on Nvidia cards but pretty decent on AMD at launch. Glad I made the jump, AMD offers so much more this last couple of gens unless you're willing to spend $1600 on a 4090.

[baseline bum]

3440x1440, yeah. Even dlss didn't help much. Amd is a far better option right now both cpu and gpu wise.

The upscaling is dogshit in TLOU. I usually run games with FSR or RSR from 1440p/1600p/1800p render resolution upscaled to 4k but FSR is so broken in the game it barely runs any better than doing native 4k so I just play native 1440p on it. Still, very glad I chose the 6700 XT over the 3060 Ti. The 8GB Nvidia cards have been getting massacred at 1440p ever since Callisto Protocol came out.

[Cry Havoc]

Though what cpu are you running? Another factor could be how shitty Nvidia's DX12 drivers are. They have huge overhead compared to AMD's DX12 drivers, which is why Jedi Survivor was running like total crap on Nvidia cards but pretty decent on AMD at launch. Glad I made the jump, AMD offers so much more this last couple of gens unless you're willing to spend $1600 on a 4090.

AMD Ryzen 7 7700 (non X)

[Cry Havoc]

https://i.imgur.com/2NMcnks.jpg

[Cry Havoc]

NZXT H9 Flow case

[baseline bum]

NZXT H9 Flow case

Nice. I'm still rocking my Phanteks Enthoo Pro from 2014 but it's such a well made and easy to build in case I probably won't change it until I'm ready to ditch mechanical drives and go mini ITX.

[Cry Havoc]

Nice. I'm still rocking my Phanteks Enthoo Pro from 2014 but it's such a well made and easy to build in case I probably won't change it until I'm ready to ditch mechanical drives and go mini ITX.

The build in this case was an absolute cakewalk, there are ports everywhere to route cables and aside from the point where they stick out of the mobo there are none visible.

That said, the RGB fans and controller I installed were a nightmare to understand what needed to be connected.

1 cable for each fan to the controller (4)

1 cable for each fan to daisy chain to the power strip (4 more)

1 cable for the controller to run to the PSU

1 cable for the controller to run to the mobo

10 cables for 4 freakin' fans. And the instructions were opaque.

That said they work flawlessly and move a crazy amount of air. My GPU never hits 70c.

[resistanze]

it is done

Gna and Hrolf fights on GMGOW+ were freakin amazing. they definitely have some different moves from the regular NG versions. i made the fuckup of not creating save states before the fights to replay them tho

fought Gna with just the full max leveled berserker armor. build probably wasnt optimal, since all my grips/handles were the ones that realm shift when you activate the L1 + triangle thing. which are great attachments imo but have no synergy with the rest of my build.

basically just used spartan rage as a bailout for when i whiffed on a parry or somethin. could have used Fury, but Wrath is nice since you can at least mix that in with a nice chunk of damage while only using 1/4 of your rage


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Djdmt_0x8dI

overall NG+ is meh as usual but the boss fights were outstanding compared to NG. even Odin was giving me issues and im not sure i died more than once to him in my NG playthroughs
Nice

Gimme your setup tbh. In my advancing age I'm too impatient and noped out of this fight and the final beserker after 3-4 tries :lol

[spurraider21]

Nice

Gimme your setup tbh. In my advancing age I'm too impatient and noped out of this fight and the final beserker after 3-4 tries :lol
well this was NG+ so i had access to some different enchantments/amulet pieces

but in this case i didnt have a super optimized build or anything. i just threw on the full berserker armor set and all the amulet pieces that you get from the berserkers in NG+

i think i lay everything out in the post you're responding to tbh :lol

i think even in regular, none NG+ fight, i used a slightly different build. still used the berserker chest armor (great stats, and love the ability that gives you a lot more damage + damage intake after using a relic). and i think i used one more berserker piece for the relic refresh, but then i used one of the "undying pyres" armor pieces to help fill up the meter on your weapons faster. i dont remember which one i used the belt for and which one for the bracer, but effect is pretty similar however you divy that up.

and then i just used the realm shift relic. theres also a must-use enchantment piece for that build that specifically increases your melee damage in realm shift. idea of that build is your realm shift relic + all your realm shift handles gives you huge damage output for that short period.

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/CJ5kcLX/20230521-152840.jpg

[baseline bum]

NZXT H9 Flow case

JFC did you see the RTX 4060 Ti reviews? The piece of shit literally loses to the 3060 Ti even at 1080p in some memory heavy games thanks to its crappy 128 bit bus that used to be reserved for $150 50 series cards. $400 for a 1080p card, OMG Fuck Nvidia

https://i.ibb.co/nDmDP9R/hogwarts.png

https://i.ibb.co/K5Twvkm/tlou.png

[Cry Havoc]

JFC did you see the RTX 4060 Ti reviews? The piece of shit literally loses to the 3060 Ti even at 1080p in some memory heavy games thanks to its crappy 128 bit bus that used to be reserved for $150 50 series cards. $400 for a 1080p card, OMG Fuck Nvidia

Oh yeah, GamerNexus and a couple of other youtube channels I routinely use like HardwareUnboxed have been commenting about how bad it looked from just the specs that were supplied by Nvidia... and it's even worse than that.

I have had exactly 0 issues with my 7900xt and the AMD software ALONE is so much nicer to use. It's hard to believe Nvidia's control panel still looks like this:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.wp.com%2Fwindowsloop.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F10%2Fnvidia-control-panel-store-app-featured.jpg%3Ffit%3D1500%252C844%26ssl%3D1&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=60ea6e46c8753ed73bb33761ee4be2b4e9a9f3e45b0fe6 c4f857fdb64dd72a7b&ipo=images

vs AMD's

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.rockpapershotgun.com%2Fima ges%2F2019%2F12%2FAMD-Adrenalin-2020-Home-Capture-Context.png&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=44f797dede5cb5c071879d8cea1d689ef90236d1ebc861 308780eb92b5982257&ipo=images

Nvidia is a garbage tier company at this point and I would recommend staying away from every single product they have a hand in making. There's a reason EVGA, which was the gold standard for GPU manufacturers, bailed on them even though they were their entire business operation. To do that it has to be impossibly awful behind the scenes.

[baseline bum]

Oh yeah, GamerNexus and a couple of other youtube channels I routinely use like HardwareUnboxed have been commenting about how bad it looked from just the specs that were supplied by Nvidia... and it's even worse than that.

I have had exactly 0 issues with my 7900xt and the AMD software ALONE is so much nicer to use. It's hard to believe Nvidia's control panel still looks like this:

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fi1.wp.com%2Fwindowsloop.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2018%2F10%2Fnvidia-control-panel-store-app-featured.jpg%3Ffit%3D1500%252C844%26ssl%3D1&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=60ea6e46c8753ed73bb33761ee4be2b4e9a9f3e45b0fe6 c4f857fdb64dd72a7b&ipo=images

vs AMD's

https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.rockpapershotgun.com%2Fima ges%2F2019%2F12%2FAMD-Adrenalin-2020-Home-Capture-Context.png&f=1&nofb=1&ipt=44f797dede5cb5c071879d8cea1d689ef90236d1ebc861 308780eb92b5982257&ipo=images

Nvidia is a garbage tier company at this point and I would recommend staying away from every single product they have a hand in making. There's a reason EVGA, which was the gold standard for GPU manufacturers, bailed on them even though they were their entire business operation. To do that it has to be impossibly awful behind the scenes.

Yeah Adrenaline is awesome. Not just for the better UI, but also for providing overclocking and stats server support out of the box so I don't have to bother with MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner Stats Server for instance. Too bad the RX 7600 is stillborn. A freaking 6650 XT for $20 more, another sick joke.

[Cry Havoc]

Yeah Adrenaline is awesome. Not just for the better UI, but also for providing overclocking and stats server support out of the box so I don't have to bother with MSI Afterburner and RivaTuner Stats Server for instance. Too bad the RX 7600 is stillborn. A freaking 6650 XT for $20 more, another sick joke.

Right now the only value to be found in the gaming market is in very select older chipsets (6700/6800xt) or in the very high end. People are complaining about the 7900xt but it's gotten a pretty significant performance boost since launch, is more efficient than the 6950xt, and just chews through games. It'd be nice if it's cheaper but really, what's a few bucks in savings it'll take to wait 6+ months for prices to come down a bit?

[baseline bum]

Right now the only value to be found in the gaming market is in very select older chipsets (6700/6800xt) or in the very high end. People are complaining about the 7900xt but it's gotten a pretty significant performance boost since launch, is more efficient than the 6950xt, and just chews through games. It'd be nice if it's cheaper but really, what's a few bucks in savings it'll take to wait 6+ months for prices to come down a bit?

7900XT was poorly priced at launch which is where most of the hate came from. At $900 it was ridiculous when you could get the 7900 XTX for $100 more. At the $780 or so it sells for now though with its 20GB and 320 bit bus it's so much better than the $800 RTX 4070 Ti with only 12GB on a 192 bit bus. 7900 XT is built to last while the 4070 Ti is probably going to start struggling once UE5 takes over.

[Cry Havoc]

7900XT was poorly priced at launch which is where most of the hate came from. At $900 it was ridiculous when you could get the 7900 XTX for $100 more. At the $780 or so it sells for now though with its 20GB and 320 bit bus it's so much better than the $800 RTX 4070 Ti with only 12GB on a 192 bit bus. 7900 XT is built to last while the 4070 Ti is probably going to start struggling once UE5 takes over.

The best news for AMD fans and one of the reasons I didn't hesitate to invest in AMD architecture is that UE5 has it's own in-house raytracing which dramatically shrinks and even reverses the raytracing performance gap.

Take away the raytracing advantage and the only reasons to even consider Nvidia GPUs are for professional applications and if you live somewhere that electricity is stupidly expensive.

[baseline bum]

The best news for AMD fans and one of the reasons I didn't hesitate to invest in AMD architecture is that UE5 has it's own in-house raytracing which dramatically shrinks and even reverses the raytracing performance gap.

Take away the raytracing advantage and the only reasons to even consider Nvidia GPUs are for professional applications and if you live somewhere that electricity is stupidly expensive.

As we saw with the 3070 you can take away Nvidia's raytracing advantage just because of the lack of VRAM. Embarrassing how many times you'd see games run better on 3060 12GB than 3070 8GB once you turned RT on. :lmao

[daboom1]

Just pre-ordered Final Fantasy 16. The only difference between the deluxe version is a digital art book and a digital soundtrack. Definitely not worth the extra $20.

Texas Chainsaw Massacre is looking damned good on the test play. :tu

Alone in the Dark is also looking like a buy at launch game. Check out the Angry Joe review on YouTube.

[daboom1]

https://i.ibb.co/CJ5kcLX/20230521-152840.jpg

Let me know if it's worth the $$$

[baseline bum]

Just pre-ordered Final Fantasy 16. The only difference between the deluxe version is a digital art book and a digital soundtrack. Definitely not worth the extra $20.


I'll probably end up getting it too as soon as I finish Tears of the Kingdom. Has looked amazing in every preview so far and have like $60 sitting in my PSN right now waiting for it.

[daboom1]

I'll probably end up getting it too as soon as I finish Tears of the Kingdom. Has looked amazing in every preview so far and have like $60 sitting in my PSN right now waiting for it.

It was $75 with tax. They have 4 trailers up right now on the PS Store fwiw.

[Joseph Kony]

i got a free $150 amazon gift card, i was thinking of preordering FFXVI myself tbh. but man i just dont trust these companies to put out a working game at launch anymore, not sure if i want to just wait and see or not yet

[FrostKing]

Let me know if it's worth the $$$
Did you enjoy Civ 5? It was really my only in the franchise and became my favorite game the past 5 years

[daboom1]

Did you enjoy Civ 5? It was really my only in the franchise and became my favorite game the past 5 years

Last one I played was Civ 3, but I'm looking to jump into a RTS.

[FrostKing]

Last one I played was Civ 3, but I'm looking to jump into a RTS.
Wow. Well Civ5 is considered the best.

CIV 7 is coming in this calendar year, they say.

Civ6 has a more cartoonish setup and the personalities are not bias. Meaning they are random. Civ leaders are also no longer as well known as Civ6.


Bottomline: you must play Civ5. By far the computer game I've logged the most time

[FrostKing]

Civ5 is $6 right now on Steam. Buy

Arguably the greatest game ever designed.


https://youtu.be/UcQeS2lAHps

[daboom1]

Civ5 is $6 right now on Steam. Buy

Arguably the greatest game ever designed.


https://youtu.be/UcQeS2lAHps

Sounds good I will probably play that one and if I like it I will wait for the new one. I have thousands of hours on the Total War games.

[baseline bum]

Is Payday 2 any good? Shit's free on Epic Game Store right now.

[baseline bum]

Reck man, did you see the Persona 3 Reload trailer? Looks like a total remake of Persona 3 in Persona 5's graphical style like we had seen teased in the video a few months back. Apparently Atlus posted this on their Instagram and then immediately pulled it, probably wasn't supposed to be posted until the XBox presentation. Of the three modern Personas this one has by far the best story IMO. Love seeing a new song from Lotus Juice too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVtpsOHGF7o

[Leetonidas]

Diablo IV :tu :tu

[baseline bum]

God this is going to be a long five months waiting for Like a Dragon Gaiden to release. Thankfully it'll be on Steam Day 1 so I won't have to buy it twice like I did so much of the rest of the series (once on Playstation at launch, then once on Steam when the PC port dropped to get the game in Japanese).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5uq1i7vt9k

[DJR210]

Is Payday 2 any good? Shit's free on Epic Game Store right now.

Yep. If you have friends to play with it's a ton of fun plotting your heist and executing it

[Xevious]

So I'm playing Forbidden West on PS5. Is there some way to play it on performance mode without screen tearing out the ass? I have to change it to balanced mode, which runs fine but I'd rather have the higher FPS with performance. Not sure if that's a known problem or if it's something to do with my settings or tv.

[baseline bum]

Ugh XBox showcase with more live service Fallout 76 and Elder Scrolls Online crap instead of having a real Fallout and a real Elder Scrolls. Though nice to see Persona 3 Reload official now and to see Like a Dragon 8 with an early 2024 release date and with a section in Hawaii. Hellblade 2 looked pretty meh.

[baseline bum]

Starfield's gameplay looks kind of bland. No wonder the trailer was mostly crap cutscenes. Maybe it'll look more interesting in the Starfield Direct after the XBox presentation.

[baseline bum]

Capcom's Path of the Goddess looks like it could be pretty interesting though

[baseline bum]

What a fucking joke! They're releasing a Series S with a 1TB SSD for $350. Fucking $100 for extra 500GB. What kind of idiot wouldn't get the Series X for $150 more when it has a gpu 3x as strong as the Series S?

[baseline bum]

OK Starfield looks pretty fucking good now that they're showing gameplay instead of crap cinematic trailers

[ElNono]

OK Starfield looks pretty fucking good now that they're showing gameplay instead of crap cinematic trailers

Looks like a completed Star Citizen, rofl

[baseline bum]

i got a free $150 amazon gift card, i was thinking of preordering FFXVI myself tbh. but man i just dont trust these companies to put out a working game at launch anymore, not sure if i want to just wait and see or not yet

Performance mode not only can't hit 60 fps, it can't even stay in the HDMI 2.1 VRR window at 48 fps. I'd only buy this on PS5 if you're ok playing the 30 fps mode. Looks like I'll be waiting for it to come to PC in a couple of years since I have hardware a little stronger than PS5 and I actually get perfect sync down to 40 fps on my PC, plus I can use FSR or RSR upscaling. Damn and was really excited for this game and was completely sold on getting at launch until seeing this. I hope they don't fuck Final Fantasy VII Rebirth up like this too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNARZrNjgPY

[Reck]

Reck (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=14412) man, did you see the Persona 3 Reload trailer? Looks like a total remake of Persona 3 in Persona 5's graphical style like we had seen teased in the video a few months back. Apparently Atlus posted this on their Instagram and then immediately pulled it, probably wasn't supposed to be posted until the XBox presentation. Of the three modern Personas this one has by far the best story IMO. Love seeing a new song from Lotus Juice too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVtpsOHGF7o

I’ll keep an eye out.

but supposedly they’re removing the female protagonist for the remake? Starting with the usual Microsoft L.

Dont get it, if you’re remaking a game, why aren’t you giving it the full experience? Looks like a half assed job.

[baseline bum]

I’ll keep an eye out.

but supposedly they’re removing the female protagonist for the remake? Starting with the usual Microsoft L.

Dont get it, if you’re remaking a game, why aren’t you giving it the full experience? Looks like a half assed job.

The female protagonist was an add-on for the PSP version of the game. It was never in the PS2 version of the game which this is a remake of.

[Joseph Kony]

Performance mode not only can't hit 60 fps, it can't even stay in the HDMI 2.1 VRR window at 48 fps. I'd only buy this on PS5 if you're ok playing the 30 fps mode. Looks like I'll be waiting for it to come to PC in a couple of years since I have hardware a little stronger than PS5 and I actually get perfect sync down to 40 fps on my PC, plus I can use FSR or RSR upscaling. Damn and was really excited for this game and was completely sold on getting at launch until seeing this. I hope they don't fuck Final Fantasy VII Rebirth up like this too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNARZrNjgPY

:pctoss fuck me. i need to stop preordering shit

[baseline bum]

:pctoss fuck me. i need to stop preordering shit

Pretty sure I'm just going to put my $60 in PSN credit to Spiderman 2 unless it turns out the performance was actually decent and Square Enix just pushed out a trash old build or something for the demo. They're claiming there will be no Day 1 patch which I don't fucking get at all if the game is going to have the same shit performance of the demo.

[daboom1]

FF16 Demo is out. Looks like an easy GotY :tu

[Reck]

baseline bum (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=131) why you always a hater bro?

FF16 looks dope as fuck. I’m not really a Final Fantasy fan by any means but this one really does stick out. I mighttttt buy it day 1. I’m craving a long term project and haven’t played a true RPG game since Witcher 3 (Mass Effect Legendary edition doesn’t count) so this game looks prime.

[baseline bum]

baseline bum (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=131) why you always a hater bro?

FF16 looks dope as fuck. I’m not really a Final Fantasy fan by any means but this one really does stick out. I mighttttt buy it day 1. I’m craving a long term project and haven’t played a true RPG game since Witcher 3 (Mass Effect Legendary edition doesn’t count) so this game looks prime.

Performance mode looks shitty in the demo

[baseline bum]

Apparently a well known leaker has leaked that Shin Megami Tensei V will get a multiplatform announcement in early July. Thank fucking god, I really want to play it but not on Switch after we have kept hearing rumors of it coming to PC and PS5.

[playblair]

:makemyday

[daboom1]

About to dive in to FF16 it's over 90 gigs :tu

[daboom1]

Crap gotta wait until midnight :lol

[baseline bum]

About to dive in to FF16 it's over 90 gigs :tu

Tell me if it plays like FFVII Remake. Had a blast using Tifa as my party leader in that one.

[daboom1]

Tell me if it plays like FFVII Remake. Had a blast using Tifa as my party leader in that one.

Apparently the combat is similar to Devil May Cry which I have not played. You can counter, parry, or block any kind of attack and use magic and a teleport dash quite easily. Check out the free demo :tu

[baseline bum]

Apparently the combat is similar to Devil May Cry which I have not played. You can counter, parry, or block any kind of attack and use magic and a teleport dash quite easily. Check out the free demo :tu

Nah I can't touch demos. If I stop playing a game I'll almost never pick it up again, so if I played it and liked it but didn't think it was worth spending $70 yet I'd end up never playing the full game. Besides, still playing through the late game of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

[daboom1]

Nah I can't touch demos. If I stop playing a game I'll almost never pick it up again, so if I played it and liked it but didn't think it was worth spending $70 yet I'd end up never playing the full game. Besides, still playing through the late game of Zelda Tears of the Kingdom.

Yeah I would finish Zelda first if I were you. I have been playing Final Fantasy since Nintendo so I am obviously bias, but this game looks like a can't miss next gen masterpiece.

[Joseph Kony]

Apparently the combat is similar to Devil May Cry which I have not played. You can counter, parry, or block any kind of attack and use magic and a teleport dash quite easily. Check out the free demo :tu

if you enjoyed FF Strangers of Paradise you'd probably like Devil May Cry tbh, very similar gameplay

[Joseph Kony]

installing FF16 now. it's been getting pretty good reviews so i'm pretty stoked for this one. hopefully i can actually play this one all the way through with getting bored halfway through like i do with most games nowadays :lol

[daboom1]

if you enjoyed FF Strangers of Paradise you'd probably like Devil May Cry tbh, very similar gameplay

I loved Strangers of Paradise aside from the awful dialog. The Playstation catalog has all the classics but I might start with DMC 5 Special Edition because it is made for the PS5.

[baseline bum]

Yeah I would finish Zelda first if I were you. I have been playing Final Fantasy since Nintendo so I am obviously bias, but this game looks like a can't miss next gen masterpiece.

Yeah my first Final Fantasy was IV on the SNES, back when it was called II in the US. I really want to play the real FFII at some point and WonderSwan Color (was a competitor to the Game Boy Color in Japan, made by Bandai) has a port that looks straight SNES level which I want to emulate on my hacked Switch at some point. I think it looks and sounds so much better than the pixel remasters that are too clean and just a bit dirtier (in a good way) than the GBA version.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL0-NpFv-Do

Really sad the FF3 WonderSwan Color port got axed.

[daboom1]

Yeah my first Final Fantasy was IV on the SNES, back when it was called II in the US. I really want to play the real FFII at some point and WonderSwan Color (was a competitor to the Game Boy Color in Japan, made by Bandai) has a port that looks straight SNES level which I want to emulate on my hacked Switch at some point. I think it looks and sounds so much better than the pixel remasters that are too clean and just a bit dirtier (in a good way) than the GBA version.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HL0-NpFv-Do

Really sad the FF3 WonderSwan Color port got axed.

Never got to play 4,5, or 6 because Japan but those were just remastered and released a few months ago on the PS Store.

[baseline bum]

Never got to play 4,5, or 6 because Japan but those were just remastered and released a few months ago on the PS Store.

4 and 6 came out in the US on the SNES. Most people seem to consider 6 the best of the 2D games but I personally like 4 better. I still occasionally play through them on my hacked SNES Classic. Hearing that FF IV battle theme on a real stereo I have my TV hooked up to instead of the 13" mono TV I played it on in 1992 is really something. This and Chrono Trigger were the two games that got me into RPGs, though I have in the last couple of years become a big fan of the Dragon Quest series too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nh5QcbYvGM

Highly recommend firing up FFIV on the bsnes emulator sometime if you haven't played it.

[Arcadian]

Tomorrow is a great day to be a Spurs fan and PS5 owner, with the release of FF16 and NBA Draft!

[daboom1]

4 and 6 came out in the US on the SNES. Most people seem to consider 6 the best of the 2D games but I personally like 4 better. I still occasionally play through them on my hacked SNES Classic. Hearing that FF IV battle theme on a real stereo I have my TV hooked up to instead of the 13" mono TV I played it on in 1992 is really something. This and Chrono Trigger were the two games that got me into RPGs, though I have in the last couple of years become a big fan of the Dragon Quest series too.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nh5QcbYvGM

Highly recommend firing up FFIV on the bsnes emulator sometime if you haven't played it.

Dude I beat this game like 20 times on my SNES. Great soundtrack :tu I know it's technically 4 but it was 2 for me back then.

[playblair]

how do u like my new lineup..........
https://i.redd.it/how-my-lineup-look-v0-hz9gyqotjm7b1.jpg?a95cf33e

[Leetonidas]

Man they really did not skimp on the cutscenes in FF16

[baseline bum]

Man they really did not skimp on the cutscenes in FF16

They made up for it by skimping on the framerate and resolution tho

[baseline bum]

installing FF16 now. it's been getting pretty good reviews so i'm pretty stoked for this one. hopefully i can actually play this one all the way through with getting bored halfway through like i do with most games nowadays :lol

What games haven't made the grade for you lately? Of the stuff I have played this year (Elden Ring, Control, Yakuza Like a Dragon, and Zelda TOTK) the only one I didn't want to finish was Control. The RT looked really cool but I got super bored with the combat, story, and setting. Don't think Control was anywhere near as fun as Quantum Break was.

[daboom1]

They made up for it by skimping on the framerate and resolution tho

?

FF16 runs flawlessly with max graphic settings.

[baseline bum]

?

FF16 runs flawlessly with max graphic settings.

I heard the 30 fps mode is solid but I was talking about the unlocked fps mode.

[FrostKing]

Sounds good I will probably play that one and if I like it I will wait for the new one. I have thousands of hours on the Total War games.
It's grown on me. The map smoke it re-hides

Generating the most won't necessarily Win

[Leetonidas]

They made up for it by skimping on the framerate and resolution tho

While i would not say it runs flawlessly because it definitely does not hit a consistent 60fps, it's still pretty good and not particularly immersion breaking. Not at all like Jedi Survivor.

[Joseph Kony]

What games haven't made the grade for you lately? Of the stuff I have played this year (Elden Ring, Control, Yakuza Like a Dragon, and Zelda TOTK) the only one I didn't want to finish was Control. The RT looked really cool but I got super bored with the combat, story, and setting. Don't think Control was anywhere near as fun as Quantum Break was.

I wouldn't say the problem is they havent made the grade per se, but idk man, the older i get the harder it is for me to get through some of this shit especially with maybe 4-5 hours max per week i have to game. of the recent games i've played (like in the last year or so) that didnt cut it, i'd say Arkham knights, Callisto, Far Cry 6, deathloop, Godfall, Hogwarts, and Valkyrie elysium were all meh to bad. I've played a handful of other games that were decent but i could never bring myself to finish before i got bored and moved on to something else - RE8, RE4 remake, Ragnarok, Plague Tale Requiem, returnal, Elden Ring, Horizon, Spiderman, Jedi Survivor, Forbidden West - these are all good games that i liked but just for whatever reason started to feel like a chore. But i intend to eventually play and beat them all at some point.

Honestly since 2020, the only games ive played to completion are probably FF7, Ghost of Tsushima, LoU Pt 1 and 2, CP2077, Fallen Order, Halo Infinite, and Dying Light 2. I am playing Diablo IV right now which is solid but also gets repetitive in the end game. FF16 has been pretty enjoyable for me thus far though, and i intend to actually play this all the way through before moving onto something else

edit: add the first plague tale and GOTG to the list of games i actually finished, forgot about those.

[baseline bum]

RDR1 finally getting a remaster it looks like, as the game was just rated in Korea

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/06/red-dead-redemption-rated-in-korea-in-2023

[Xevious]

RDR1 finally getting a remaster it looks like, as the game was just rated in Korea

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/06/red-dead-redemption-rated-in-korea-in-2023
Fucking Rockstar/Take 2 man. I've been waiting for some type of next gen 60fps patch for RDR2 like nearly every other AAA game has received. I'm sure they're just going to do a full re-release eventually for a $70 price tag like they have with GTA V every console generation.

[baseline bum]

Fucking Rockstar/Take 2 man. I've been waiting for some type of next gen 60fps patch for RDR2 like nearly every other AAA game has received. I'm sure they're just going to do a full re-release eventually for a $70 price tag like they have with GTA V every console generation.

Could always get it on PC. I was able to play 1080p60 on a pretty modest system: Xeon E3-1231v3 (like an i7 from 2014), 16GB DDR3-2400, and a GTX 1660 Super.

[Reck]

RDR1 finally getting a remaster it looks like, as the game was just rated in Korea

https://www.gematsu.com/2023/06/red-dead-redemption-rated-in-korea-in-2023

If they let their money making machine to some third rate trash bin company to "remaster" the first 3 GTAs, just think what they will do with a Red Dead if it even happens.

I have zero trust or faith in Rockstar anymore. 10+ years milking GTA5 and they cant release a proper game anymore. Faggots

[daboom1]

Rockstar gets a pass from me for making the greatest game of all time, Red Dead Redemption 2. Anything after that is icing on the cake.

[chunticakes]

Rockstar gets a pass from me for making the greatest game of all time, Red Dead Redemption 2. Anything after that is icing on the cake.

100%

My favorite game of all time as well

[resistanze]

Really? The last 1/3 of RDR2 was a fucking chore for me and I turned it off on the epilogue.

Like Kony said I don't have the patience anymore for most games tbh. The only games I've finished were Gow, Ragnarok, Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, and the Spider-Man games. Still have GT7, Control, THPS, LoU2, and Deathloop queued or partially done.

[Xevious]

Really? The last 1/3 of RDR2 was a fucking chore for me and I turned it off on the epilogue.

Like Kony said I don't have the patience anymore for most games tbh. The only games I've finished were Gow, Ragnarok, Ratchet and Clank, Uncharted, and the Spider-Man games. Still have GT7, Control, THPS, LoU2, and Deathloop queued or partially done.
While I don't agree with you on RDR2, I definitely have a harder time finishing games now. TV shows are much the same. I assume that's just because of my age, my kids' ages, etc. At the end of the day I just want to put something on TV that I don't have to put much thought into so it isn't a big deal when I fall asleep to it.