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PC Gaming Era | December 2018 - We got 99 problems, but 76 ain't one

What are your plans for Christmas?

  • Family

    Votes: 572 49.6%

  • Games

    Votes: 681 59.0%

  • Beer

    Votes: 273 23.7%

  • Anime

    Votes: 259 22.4%

  • Complaining on the internet

    Votes: 507 43.9%
  • Total voters
    1,154
  • Poll closed .
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Echo

Echo

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Left Alive's engine is either UE4 or Orochi. SE has built third-person shooters in Orochi before and still use the engine recently as in WoFF.

I guess it could also be Orochi's successor, Mizuchi, which at this moment is exclusive to PC and PS4 development which might explain Left Alive skipping other platforms...
 
Teeth

Teeth

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Fantastapotamus said:
Okay, interesting.


I'm just somewhat weirded out that there is this game from a huge publisher that's 3 months away and that apparently a lot of people really want to play and here I am hearing about it for the first time ever.

And also it looks really generic and boring to me.
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I'm pretty sure the only reason it's got hype is because Yoji Shinkawa is doing the character and mech designs (he did the character and mech designs for the MGS series). I mean, that's why i was even mildly interested.
 
Kvik

Kvik

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Oct 25, 2017
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Downunder.
zkylon said:
i really wish they just made front mission 6 instead...
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jon bones said:
word :/
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Thirded.

I would love to have the entire series on PC. Along with maybe plenty of other mech games which probably won't ever be released in the west. Coincidentally, the other night I tried to play Front Mission 1 on the Switch build of RetroArch for an hour and it seems to run full speed, although I was having heaps of audio crackles.
 
Rhaknar

Rhaknar

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afternoon delight said:
I humbly submit Jurassic Park Evolution- a PC game you can't even remap your mouse controls for in 2018 that says its a park simulator, but the economy has no effect whatsoever. Can't even change the color of the goddamn buildings.

Fuck that worthless tie in garbage, and fuck Frontier Games and all the people who said "hey, trust them! look how good Planet Coaster has turned out after years of padding!"
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Jawmuncher hold dat L
 
ArjanN

ArjanN

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afternoon delight said:
I humbly submit Jurassic Park Evolution- a PC game you can't even remap your mouse controls for in 2018 that says its a park simulator, but the economy has no effect whatsoever. Can't even change the color of the goddamn buildings.

Fuck that worthless tie in garbage, and fuck Frontier Games and all the people who said "hey, trust them! look how good Planet Coaster has turned out after years of padding!"
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What I saw of it seemed very basic for a park sim like that but it's at least a functional game, while F76 is a bad game and barely works. That's clearly going to win any worst game list easily.

PLASTICA-MAN said:
When is the Steam Winter sale?
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20th
 
zkylon

zkylon

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Kvik said:
Thirded.

I would love to have the entire series on PC. Along with maybe plenty of other mech games which probably won't ever be released in the west. Coincidentally, the other night I tried to play Front Mission 1 on the Switch build of RetroArch for an hour and it seems to run full speed, although I was having heaps of audio crackles.
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front mission 1 is so damn good, i want square to rerelease that ds version with the extra scenarios on some fucking platform

i pretty much have them all at this point -.-
 
Teggy

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I had no idea what left alive was but I saw the trailer the other day and all the stealth stuff looked fun. But all the comments in the thread said it looked terrible so 🤷‍♂️
 
ArjanN

ArjanN

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Teggy said:
I had no idea what left alive was but I saw the trailer the other day and all the stealth stuff looked fun. But all the comments in the thread said it looked terrible so 🤷‍♂️
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It looked pretty decent, but the stealth action and the Shinkawa artwork really draws the MGS comparison and that's hard to live up to, especially with a lower budget.
 
Echo

Echo

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Oct 29, 2017
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ArjanN said:
It looked pretty decent, but the stealth action and the Shinkawa artwork really draws the MGS comparison and that's hard to live up to, especially with a lower budget.
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I dunno. As long as the game feels complete story wise and doesn't get too repetitive, it'll be better than MGSV in my book.

And I say that as someone who put 180 hours into MGSV. Good game play, terrible unfinished story. :/
 
Teggy

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People who completed Mutant Year, what difficulty did you wind up going with? I need to get back to it and I'm trying to decide if I should start over on normal even though I've put a bunch of time in.
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

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Oct 25, 2017
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Juju is a curious little platformer.
It is easy for thr most part and i didnt find the main stages challenging tho boss fights are ok
I dont like the lengthy stages which average at 5 minutes ti beat and would prefer them being shorter
Despite that it is a good 'baby's first 2d platformer' and the visuals are nice.
 
Derrick01

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Oct 25, 2017
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Teggy said:
People who completed Mutant Year, what difficulty did you wind up going with? I need to get back to it and I'm trying to decide if I should start over on normal even though I've put a bunch of time in.
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Normal. Anything higher and the game is incredibly poorly balanced and feels like it's meant for a 4 person squad but you're capped at 3 unless I really missed something. Around halfway through it becomes insanely difficult to win any battle because stealth is no longer an option when the weakest enemies have 24 HP and your 3 stealth weapons do like 16-18 damage. That's not counting the other enemies which can get into the 30-40hp range AND have 2+ armor slots too.

All normal changes that I noticed was refilling your health and power use after every battle, which admittedly makes a huge difference. For example with powers recharging you can use the hog rush move every battle which will give you an extra turn to take something out in stealth.
 
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Tizoc

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Derrick01 said:
No one told me how well DQXI seems to run. I heard there were performance issues in the first city but that held at a pretty steady 60fps for me at 1440p/all settings turned up. A few hiccups here and there but nothing that noticeable.
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Dq11 runs fine on my gtx 970m.

What draconian challenges have u turned on? Stronger enemies really change up the game.
 
Teggy

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Derrick01 said:
Normal. Anything higher and the game is incredibly poorly balanced and feels like it's meant for a 4 person squad but you're capped at 3 unless I really missed something.

All normal changes that I noticed was refilling your health and power use after every battle, which admittedly makes a huge difference.
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Absolutely, having to hunt down scrap for health packs is a big deal on hard. I'm currently at
the second priest guy, after the one guarding the ship
and I've cleared the area of stragglers, visited all the other optional areas to gather whatever scrap and items I can without getting into combat (because they are all level 25 and level 20 is still plenty hard) and now I have to figure out the right way to beat it. But I'm worried about what happens after that.
 
Chance Hale

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I was going to start playing Mutant after Ashen, does normal get challenging later on as a lot of people we're saying it was an absolute cakewalk the first few hours which is no fun at all.

Someone buy Lucius 3 please

Edit: nvm derrick's post goes into detail
 
Tizoc

Tizoc

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Derrick01 said:
I only turned on the harder enemies. Everything else seemed like it would hurt enjoyment of the game.
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For a first time playthru yeah they can be intimidating. The no shops option is worth it on a replay once uve gotten the hang of the forge.
If u want some tips, max out knives for erik to learn duel wielding ans get the poison attack abiliry. This makes a certain boss more.manageable. for the hero i liked going with greatswords as he learns a useful attack early on
 
Kvik

Kvik

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Oct 25, 2017
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Downunder.
It's kind of a shame we can't get Erik to dual wield different weapons. His damage output with endgame sword/dagger weapon recipes could've been phenomenal.
 
zkylon

zkylon

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kind of undecided if i'll do ng+ with bloodborne. the game's pretty good but also all the bosses suck and this game locks you pretty hard to a single weapon so i think it'd probably be better to start over, but then i'd rather just play something else i guess. it's a real shame didn't keep the ability from dark souls 2 to revive bosses, that shit was the best, wouldn't have to go through the whole game to fight maria the only good boss again.

maybe i'll actually play ladykiller in a bind to completion this time
 
Hella

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Oct 27, 2017
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dex3108 said:
Wait we can see Top Wihslisted games on Steam?



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Kinda shocked to see Bannerlord on there with all of these other huge AAA games.

Though I suppose we're all hungry for Bannerlord, no matter how long it takes.
 
Chance Hale

Chance Hale

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Bloodborne and Dark Souls 3 stripping character diversity to nearly nil all while sporting significantly more linear areas in general is a real bummer. 2 had problems with bloat and inconsistent visuals but it did so much right with character builds, dual welding, and so on.

Bloodborne is at least visually appealing and full of incredible designs whereas half of Dark Souls 3 is rehashes of the first game. Remember quite liking the bosses too tho so can't speak on that.
 
Jadax

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I mean, I actually enjoyed DS3 the most, then DS1, and DS2 was just a mess for me - only started liking it during the last 3rd.

Bloodborne the world is amazing imo, and that is important for me.
 
zkylon

zkylon

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my order would be dark 1 > demons > dark 2 > bloodborne > dark 3

i don't dislike dark 3 or bloodborne, i just find them both to be a lot less creative. the bloodborne universe is really intriguing and transforming weapons never get old but they don't do anything interesting with the npcs, or the covenants, or the beast mechanic they hint at and turns out to be nothing. you can't even be invaded in bloodborne and insight is cool in theory but also has very little importance in the end. like even if it departs quite a bit from the formula it feels like it's following some sort of script that i'm pretty tired of at this point

that's why i like dark souls 2 so much regardless of how rough it is, it just tried so many different things, had a billion different areas and bosses and while little about it really lands it just dared to try shit out and surprise you

it's also more rpg-y which i prefer compared to bloodborne's more action gameplay. i like more weapons and customization and i want magic and whatnot
 
Grief.exe

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Oct 26, 2017
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What is everyone playing for Christmas? I'm doing a playthrough of The Long Dark right now, which sets the mood perfectly.
 
cyba89

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Decided to skip on Below for now and got Return of the Obra Dinn instead.
I'm three hours in and it's pretty fantastic so far. The game feels really fresh and unique, has lots of surprises, some true WTF-moments and a great soundtrack. It's also beautiful in motion. The game is structured really clever with all the deductions you can make based on dialogue, nationality, name, clothing and so on.
Although at first I felt kinda overwhelmed after the first tutorial bit when it opens up. But when you stick to it and further play through the next chapters you will make progress.

The core gameplay feels a bit like a more elaborate Ghost Trick and that's one of my alltime favorites.
 
dex3108

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I am still playing RDR2 slowly. And I will probably play just that for the rest of the year. I just roam around and enjoy looking at beautiful world and meeting interesting characters.







 
XR.

XR.

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Nov 22, 2018
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This is honestly the first time I'm seeing any material from RDR2. I guess it looks all right!

When is it releasing on PC? Can't Epic moneyhat them for a quicker release?
 
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InquisitorAles

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Hey guys, I recently slightly upgraded my pc with new CPU and DDR4, so for those who might be curious to see if there any significant difference in performance on the same GPU, here I come with some of my examples.

Before: i5-3570k, 8gb DDR3 1600mhz
After: i5-8600k, 16gb DDR4 3200mhz

Baseline - 4K resolution, no overclock and just a GTX 1080ti as GPU.

In the first example, we can see that CPU is actually making a huge difference, AC Odyssey on everything at high except volumetric clouds on medium:
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So yeah, it's just confirmed statement that CPU and faster RAM is really important in open-world games. But in the second example, we can see that not all games will fully utilize CPU advantage and mostly GPU bound, Shadow of the Tomb Raider with everything on highest and SMAA T2x:
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So I can confirm it really depends on the game. If you are not going to play openworld games and have decent enough CPU, it might be worth to just upgrade GPU and wait as long as you could tolerate frame drops before upgrading the rest. Problem is, most of the modern AAA junk is openworld now, so if you are still rocking 2000-4000 intel gen it will be hard to ignore the upgrade for longer. I honestly wanted to wait for whatever next after 9000 series in intel pockets, but I had to get new PC ASAP so I've upgraded now instead.
 
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