PunchingWood

I personally loved Avatar and Outlaws.

They're not groundbreaking games, but they're both very immersive and for fans of both franchises it's a lot more fun to explore in these games.

Well, had to give it another try. Before, my 3070 could barely even handle the game at decent settings and higher framerates, now my 4080 Super shouldn't be an issue at all.

After some testing I had hoped it'd be in a better state now, only shortly tried to load my save from a long time ago but it doesn't look very promising, was at least hoping 100+ FPS at this point, but I face one side I get 70 FPS, and I turn to a misty valley and it burns down to like 20. Also initially had issues to even get the game running again, it would just freeze when the game window was active, I could hear my buttons having effect, but nothing would show until I took the focus off the game.

After rebooting it a couple of times and fiddling with some settings it seems to now work (still strangely the same settings as I started with), and sometimes it performs well and sometimes it struggles. Very inconsistent. If I turn off my MSI Afterburner undervolt config it feels like the game will melt my rig, the fans go absolutely crazy.

Also there seems to be quite some pop-in textures, terrain, trees and foliage. I don't really recall this from before, at least not this noticable.

Hope it's a driver thing or perhaps still more optimisation, because the game seems fun. Combat is still super basic and easy though, but being able to build a lively village makes up for it for me.

We have a F1 press?

I feel like US has a store chain with every conceivable name at this point.

And hearing about chains called like Five Guys just sounds weird to be honest.

Pretty much this.

I will likely get downvoted into oblivion for saying this (as usual), and I will prelude by saying that I generally never care if there are gay, trans or whatever stuff in games. But transgenders and pronouns were never ever a thing in the Dragon Age franchise, and now they suddenly feature these so prominently. They just handled this very badly.

The fact that writing is generally just plain bad for this game, these inclusive options also seems to affect the rest of the game as well. And it indeed makes it look like they focused on the wrong narrative so much. The way Skill Up reviewed the game was perfect, his best summary was "it's as if HR is standing in every room" or something along those lines. Like nobody is allowed to insult, or be insulted, in this franchise that used to be pretty dark and grim.

I haven't read much into GTA 6 so far, only seen the trailer basically.

I do hope the singleplayer will still be as good as previous games, although I definitely would expect them to try and cash in on online even more.

T2 and Rockstar definitely fucked up with GTA 5 too. Originally there were supposed to be singleplayer expansions. Which they of course dropped in favor of how popular online got. And then they even proceeded to ban mods that took multiplayer-only cars to singleplayer, fucking disgusting move.

I'll wait and see how the singleplayer is. I never bought GTA5 for its multiplayer, it only got less appealing the more they added to it too. The only part that interested me much later on were the RP servers, it genuinely looked fun on some of the moderated ones, so maybe Rockstar will try to get into that, but if online is just a carbon copy of GTA5 I won't even bother.

Leave it to religions to get insanely mad about characters and beliefs they made up. It's such a dumb fucking thing. Then blame everything on "demons". Big talk for someone coming from the one country that literally committed warcrimes with nuclear technology.

People who don't have a gaming PC but still want to game would be the next target audience in line, since they wouldn't have another machine to play third-party games on anyway, so the exclusive would just be a bonus on top.

But I don't think they're even interested in paying so much extra for features they don't even care about. Perhaps a smooth high framerate in casual shooters would be something they'd care for, but that can easily be achieved on base PS5 with at least 60+ FPS. I don't think they're the ones that care about true 4K, 120Hz/FPS or slightly better textures.

The only thing I can think of that people are hyped up for is GTA6. I fear that Rockstar might sell out to Sony and deliver a shitty 30FPS locked, low resolution and texture version of the game on older PS5 models on purpose, just to "push the hardware" of the newest model. But then again, they also couldn't even be arsed to unlock framerate for RDR2 on PS5, not even after so many years.

That's interesting and all, but I still don't see a reason to upgrade my PS5 to a Pro, and frankly it wouldn't even be that interesting for the price as a new player either.

Are there like any games that will really make use of the new hardware? Other than perhaps upgraded framerates and better 4K support. The average console player probably isn't going to care that much, not for the giant price increase over minimal gains.

I feel like all games on this generation will still be limited to the base PS5 anyway, can't imagine hardware matters much until the next generation consoles.

Read what I said.

Yeah because if lightning strikes, and strikes in the same place again, and again, and again, then how much more obvious does it need to get?

It stops being a coincidence.